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Weekend Weirdness: Flooding With Love For The Kid, The One-Man Recreation Of Rambo: First Blood Set In An NYC Apartment. Interview And Clip. By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 17, 2010 4:00 pm EST It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, sans The Tooth Fairy, that offer proof. Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review, or this…...

What If ‘Westworld’ Is A Sequel To ‘Westworld’? [Peter’s Crackpot Theory] By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2016 8:00 am EST Before HBO began airing Westworld, rumor had it that it might somehow be a sequel to the 1973 film Westworld written and directed by Michael Crichton. As the series geared up, it seemed pretty obvious that the show, created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, was its own thing. But what if it isn’t?...

/Film Interview: Rich Moore, Director Of ‘Wreck-It Ralph,’ Talks Sequels, Cameos, And A Game Deleted From The Film By Germain Lussier/Sept. 12, 2012 3:06 pm EST Hopefully the release of the latest trailer for Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph has left you looking for more information, because we’re happy to oblige. Earlier this summer, /Film was invited to Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, CA to talk about the November 2 release and we learned a lot....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Review: Arya Stark Wages War In A Captivating Season Premiere By Jacob Hall/July 17, 2017 10:00 am EST (In our coverage of Game of Thrones season 7, we’ll be examining each episode with one simple question in mind – which character is winning the game of thrones this week?)Game of Thrones season premieres are always about table setting. Where is everyone right now? What are they doing? Where are they going?...

‘Gravity’, ‘12 Years A Slave’ Are Big Winners At 2014 BAFTA Awards By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2014 6:45 am EST The British Academy of Film and Television Arts unveiled the winners of their 2014 awards this weekend, just two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards. The biggest winner of the night was Gravity, which took home six awards, but Best Film remained out of Alfonso Cuarón’s grasp. That prize went instead to 12 Years a Slave, which secured only one other win last night, for lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor....

‘Last Jedi’ Concept Art Reveals Luke And Yoda’s Reunion; Plus, Watch The Yoda Scene By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2018 2:30 pm EST There was one genuinely surprising cameo in Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Yoda. Early marketing for the film did a great job keeping the late Jedi master out of sight, making his big reveal all the more delightful. Now, as The Last Jedi heads to Blu-ray, the cat’s out of the bag....

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Reshoots Planned After Disney Reportedly Unhappy With First Cut By Ethan Anderton/May 31, 2016 7:30 am EST I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Well, at least a worried feeling. Most fans were riveted by the first teaser trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first spin-off film that takes place outside of the traditional trilogy narrative. However, if a new rumor is to be believed, now that Disney has seen the first cut of the movie, they’re not very happy with the what director Gareth Edwards has done....

‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Trailer: ‘Cloverfield 3’ Is Available On Netflix Right Now [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 4, 2018 7:29 pm EST Update: A second trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox has arrived online, boasting that the surprise sequel is currently available to stream on Netflix. Watch the new trailer below. Our original article continues. After rumors and delays, the trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox, the new Cloverfield sequel, is here. A Super Bowl trailer for the film just arrived to give us a fresh glimpse into J....

2011 Sundance Film Festival Competition Films Announced By Germain Lussier/Dec. 1, 2010 1:57 pm EST The announcement of the movies playing the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is like looking into our film futures. It’s December and most movie fans are looking back at the last 12 months, picking out award winners, writing top ten lists, and chances are we haven’t even heard of the Sundance films. They’re just titles, people, words on a computer screen....

30 Years Later, ‘Beetlejuice’ Remains Peak Michael Keaton By Josh Spiegel/March 30, 2018 11:00 am EST It’s been too long, painfully so, since Michael Keaton got to be even remotely as funny and wild on screen as he is as the title character of Beetlejuice. Keaton has mercifully had a bit of a career revival in the last handful of years, having starred in two of the last four Best Picture winners (remember Birdman and Spotlight?...

Aquaman Villain Revealed: The King Of Atlantis Will Battle His Archenemy By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2016 1:30 pm EST Between Suicide Squad currently in theaters, Wonder Woman in post production and Justice League still filming, we haven’t heard much about James Wann’s Aquaman. But today we finally learn who Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry will be battling in the DC comic adaptation. TheWrap has learned that the Aquaman villain at the center of James Wann’s Summer 2018 tentpole will be none other than Black Manta....

Avengers Must Kill: Exploring Death In The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Siddhant Adlakha/Sept. 6, 2018 12:00 pm EST It would hardly be considered a spoiler at this point given the scale and cultural impact, but if you aren’t caught up on the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, consider this your only warning. Avengers: Infinity War ended on a rather enormous cliffhanger, with half the Marvel heroes (along with half of all sentient life) dissipating into dust....

Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 6 “Sunset” Traps Jesse And Walt In A Thrilling Corner By Hunter Stephenson/April 29, 2010 6:00 pm EST /Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. This is my own private domicile. I will not be harassed, bitch!...

Christopher Stipp’s Top 10 Trailers Of 2017 By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 7, 2018 9:00 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? This week, let’s rank the best best trailers of 2017....

Disney Reveals Playmation, But What Is It? By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2015 12:27 pm EST Disney Consumer Products invited me to a top secret event this morning at MILK Studios in Hollywood to announce what they were promising to be “the future of PLAY”. The subject of the secret announcement could be the hottest toy of Christmas 2015 – Playmation “powered by Disney”. We posted the Disney Playmation teaser trailer this morning, but that probably left a lot of you wondering exactly what this new product is....

Early Buzz: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Is Funny, Surprising & Emotional By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2017 11:20 pm EST The first press screenings of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 were held on Monday night in Los Angeles and New York. While full reviews are embargoed until April 24, the first spoiler-free reactions have been posted online. Read on to find out what the critics think about James Gunn’s Marvel sequel....

How Unprecedented New Technology Made It Harder To Produce ‘Finding Dory’ By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2016 8:00 am EST Each new Pixar film employs newer and better technology, but Finding Dory introduces an unprecedented amount of new software to their production pipeline. The company’s chief technology officer Steve May, who worked on Finding Nemo as the supervisor of the shark sequence, says that the process of how they make films has changed a lot since then, but “mainly computers are way faster and algorithms are way better....

Interview: Screenwriter Jon Spaihts Discusses The Long Road To ‘Passengers,’ Rooting Exposition In Character, And More By Jack Giroux/Dec. 22, 2016 9:00 am EST Passengers was partially born out of a movie that was never made. The first script screenwriter Jon Spaihts sold was called Shadow 19, originally a Warner Bros. project that made Keanu Reeves and his producing partner, Stephen Hamel, want to continue working with Spaihts — which ultimately led to Passengers....

Mike Myers Is Not So Secretly Hosting ‘The Gong Show’ Remake As A Fake British Comedian By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2017 2:30 pm EST In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a remake of the classic 1970s amateur talent contest TV series The Gong Show coming to ABC in June. The show featured contestants displaying odd, questionable talents in front of a panel of celebrity judges who had the power to hit a gong that would end the performance before it was even over, indicating that they had seen enough....

New ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Clips Show Off Eddie Redmayne’s Quirkiness, A New Creature & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 7, 2016 3:00 pm EST Some early buzz on the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them arrived over the weekend, and we rounded up what we could to let fans know what the first reactions were saying. But there are probably still some fans who aren’t aren’t quite excited about the movie yet....