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Neil Armstrong Explains Why Transformers 3’s Lunar Stroll Wasn’t Possible By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2010 7:00 am EST The first teaser trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon hit earlier this week (if you haven’t seen it yet, watch it here — it’s actually pretty awesome). The trailer reveals “a secret hidden for 40 years” — that the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was actually a cover-up for NASA’s investigation into a possible alien landing on the dark side of the moon....

Sequel Bits: Martin Starr Says “There’s Nothing Official” For ‘Party Down’, Plus: ‘Star Trek 2’, ‘Bridesmaids 2’ By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2012 2:00 pm EST Today’s Sequel Bits is a low-key one, with just a smattering of minor updates on things we’ve talked about before. But if you’re a big fan of Star Trek, Bridesmaids, and/or Party Down, we figured you might want to know anyway. After the jump: Martin Starr says “there’s nothing official” on the Party Down movie quite yet An insider reveals the real reason Kristen Wiig turned down Bridesmaids 2 Roberto Orci offers some small tidbits about the production of Star Trek 2...

Spider-Man’s Role In ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, Miles Morales Is In The MCU, & More Spidey News By Ben Pearson/June 26, 2017 3:00 pm EST With Spider-Man: Homecoming less than two weeks from its release, the film’s press tour is in full swing (yes, pun intended). That means a steady stream of revelations about the future of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, the level of the character’s involvement in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War, and much more....

Superhero Bits: Age Of Ultron, Spider-Man, Jessica Jones, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Inhumans By Germain Lussier/April 14, 2015 4:59 pm EST I don’t usually brag, but this might be the best edition of Superhero Bits yet. There is so, so much good stuff in here. For example, want to see the first looks at David Tennant and Mike Colter in AKA Jessica Jones? How about a featurette on Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron?...

The ‘Leatherface’ Trailer And Why This ‘Texas Chain Saw’ Massacre Prequel Should Be On Your Radar By Jacob Hall/July 17, 2017 2:30 pm EST 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is so singular that even original director Tobe Hooper didn’t try to replicate it. His 1986 sequel deliberately veered toward splatter comedy, eschewing scares in favor of guffaws. Why try to top what is already perfect? Why recreate pure cinematic alchemy, a movie that feels like it only works because it was made by the right people at the right time in the right place?...

The Best Movie Animal Performances Of 2014 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2015 8:45 pm EST I was watching Gone Girl for the fourth time and admiring how David Fincher (and his cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth) majestically shot Ben Affleck’s character Nick Dunne’s cat and I began to wonder about the cat’s true role in the story. The cat is featured too prominently to be just a background prop. What did the cat mean?...

The Best Movies Leaving Netflix In May 2016 By Jacob Hall/April 25, 2016 9:30 am EST It’s that time again. You know, the time where we gather around the list of movies leaving Netflix next month and start making desperate lists of what we need to see before it vanishes. With more and more movies leaving the world’s most popular streaming service than ever before, this ritual has become an imperative....

The Explosive “First Blood” Promises To Change Everything In ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 24, 2018 6:30 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly The Handmaid’s Tale review by answering one simple question: Who suffered the most?) This season of The Handmaid’s Tale has been an exercise in dangling hope in front of our eyes, only to wrench it away immediately. But in the explosive “First Blood,” that hope may finally stick around....

This Week In Trailers: Resurface, The Florida Project, 30 Years Of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story, Polina, The Work By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 19, 2017 10:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

‘Black Panther’ Is Not Merely A Moment – It’s Here To Stay By Candice Frederick/Feb. 14, 2018 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Black Panther is a film that celebrates blackness…and that should become the new normal.) For some, the Black Panther movie may be a new phenomenon, a perhaps radical showcase of black talent in which both the men and the women are centered equally — and where they stand tall like royalty as accolades continue to pour in far and wide....

‘Damsel’ Review: An Old West Comedy That’s Almost Too Strait-Laced To Be Believed [Sundance] By Steven Prokopy/Jan. 28, 2018 1:00 pm EST One of the earliest images we’re given in Damsel, the latest from filmmakers David & Nathan Zellner (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter), is of our presumed protagonists sharing a dance. Samuel (Robert Pattinson in full good-guy mode) and Penelope (Mia Wasikowska) are smiling and skipping along in a kind of line dance and just generally giving the appearance of young love....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Character Descriptions Revealed By Jacob Hall/Aug. 19, 2016 12:00 pm EST The days of Game of Thrones book readers being able to lord their knowledge over show watchers came to an end with season six of HBO’s (still spectacular) fantasy series. After all, the plot of the show official outpaced the novels of George R.R. Martin, taking us beyond the cliffhanger ending of A Dance With Dragons and into uncharted territory....

‘Hamilton’ Might Be Headed To The Big Screen By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2018 10:30 am EST Alexander Hamilton, movie audiences are waiting in the wings for you. Hamilton is a worldwide phenomenon, and people have been wondering when the inevitable movie adaptation would be announced. Well, you might be able to see Hamilton on the big screen very soon, but not as an adaptation. Instead, a recorded version of the hit musical with the original Broadway cast is currently being fought over in Hollywood....

‘Legion’ Season Finale: All Of Your Questions Answered By Jacob Hall/March 31, 2017 9:30 am EST The first season of FX’s Legion ended with a bang this week, delivering yet another stunning hour of television. And since it concluded with a number of cliffhangers, it’s a good thing that the series has already been renewed for a second season. The story of the troubled psychic time bomb David Haller will continue....

‘Lost In Space’ Review: Netflix’s Space Adventure Is ‘Lost,’ In Space By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2018 7:00 am EST Netflix updates the classic series Lost In Space for a whole new generation, creating a formulaic yet entertaining saga enriched by complex characters. Our spoiler-free Lost In Space review is below. The Space Family Robinson Irwin Allen’s somewhat cheesy 1960s sci-fi program gets a cinematic upgrade for the Netflix age with Lost In Space....

‘Outcast’ Trailer: Patrick Fugit Battles Demons Of The Literal And Metaphorical Variety By Jacob Hall/Oct. 12, 2015 2:00 pm EST The new Outcast trailer has answers for all of your burning questions. What show will Cinemax add to its line-up to actually make you tune in when The Knick isn’t airing? When will The Walking Dead mastermind Robert Kirkman take advantage of his TV clout and bring another series based on his work to the small screen?...

‘Sorry To Bother You’ Review: A Stellar Cast Grounds This Mind-Bending Social Satire [Sundance] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 23, 2018 12:00 pm EST Writer/director Boots Riley has dropped a bomb on Sundance with Sorry To Bother You, a searing social satire and the most eccentric directorial debut in years. Mark it down now: no other movie in 2018 will come close to this one in terms of balancing far-out weirdness with a compelling, meaningful story....

‘The Hero’ Review: Sam Elliott Shines In An Otherwise Middling Drama By Ben Pearson/June 9, 2017 1:00 pm EST The Hero centers on an aging movie star who’s best remembered for his performance in a beloved western forty years earlier. It’s a vehicle written specifically for actor Sam Elliott, who, of course, has his own storied history in that genre and has embraced that vibe as a key part of his acting persona, even in films as divergent as Ghost Rider and The Big Lebowski....

A Brief History Of Shazam, One Of The Strangest Characters In The DC Universe By Donna Dickens/July 27, 2018 9:00 am EST Whether or you loved it or hated it or had no strong feelings about it one way or the other, the first trailer for Warner Bros.’ Shazam certainly got everyone’s attention at San Diego Comic-Con. The film, starring Zachary Levi as the title character, came out swinging when it comes to proving the DC films are shedding their grimdark past....

Cannes: ‘The Tree Of Life’ Takes Palme d’Or; ‘Melancholia,’ ‘The Artist’ And ‘Drive’ Win Big Prizes By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2011 5:42 pm EST The Cannes jury, headed by Robert De Niro, has selected the winners of this year’s competition slate, and the results are slightly surprising. In the early days of the fest two films quickly emerged as seeming front-runners for the top prize, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and Michel Hazanavicius’ silent black and white film The Artist, but the Palme d’Or went instead to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life....