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Weinstens Assemble Legal Team To Challenge ‘Blue Valentine’ And ‘The Kings Speech’ Ratings By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2010 12:59 pm EST The Weinstein Company is moving ahead with an attempt to appeal the ratings given to Blue Valentine (a commercial prospect-dampening NC-17) and Oscar fave The King’s Speech. The irony is that appealing the NC-17 for Blue Valentine means accepting it; otherwise there’s no rating to appeal, and the choice would be to release the film unrated....

Which ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Deleted Scenes Could Be Used For Carrie Fisher’s Return In ‘Episode 9’? By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2018 8:30 am EST When the official press release announcing the cast of Star Wars: Episode 9 was revealed on Friday, fans were happy to hear that Mark Hamill would be returning as Luke Skywalker (likely in a Force ghost capacity) and Billy Dee Williams would finally reprise his role of Lando Calrissian....

Why Does Sci-Fi Love Asian Culture But Not Asian Characters? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 12, 2017 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Blade Runner 2049 joins a sci-fi trend of using East Asian imagery to communicate globalization. But where are the Asian characters?) The first thing you notice about Blade Runner 2049 is how stark it is....

You Can Buy Mondo’s First ‘Pulp Fiction’ Poster On Black Friday By Germain Lussier/Nov. 25, 2014 11:04 am EST Oh I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? Mondo is finally releasing a poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and I guarantee you can buy one. On Black Friday, Mondo will release Pulp Fiction by Laurent Durieux as a timed edition. That means they’ll make as many as they sell. You have from Friday November 28 through Monday December 1 to purchase the poster, with 10% of the proceeds from the sale going to the Sally Menke Fellowship....

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Tops The Box Office While ‘Billionaire Boys Club’ Has An Embarrassing Debut By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 2018 10:00 am EST Last week The Meg overperformed at the box office, but this weekend, it’s time for another title to shine as it swims past the prehistoric shark action thriller. Warner Bros. Pictures’ much buzzed about romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians surpassed expectations by raking in $25.3 million at the box office from 3,384....

‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Star Emily Blunt On Taking Over A Practically Perfect In Every Way Character [Set Visit Interview] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 17, 2018 10:00 am EST Any actress who dares take over the role of Mary Poppins from the great Julie Andrews is asking for trouble. Few characters are so iconic, so tied to a single performer. But not every actress is Emily Blunt, the phenomenally talented performer who can play everything from English royalty to badass alien killers....

‘The Signal’ Is An Ambitious Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller [Sundance Review] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2014 1:30 pm EST The Signal is the kind of science fiction movie that I love — intense, mysterious, original and extremely ambitious. What is The Signal? It’s a puzzle that keeps you guessing and working to figure it out. From the start, The Signal is unusual; you’re not really sure what you’re watching. At first, it seems to be an indie road trip movie about three MIT freshmen driving across the country....

‘The Walking Dead’ And ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ Will Crossover – But How Is That Possible? By Jacob Hall/Oct. 9, 2017 1:00 pm EST At San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, The Walking Dead creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman played coy on the subject of a crossover episode between AMC’s flagship horror series and its spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead. “We know the fans would love it,” he said. But then he noted that it was “complicated” because the shows take place in different times and places, albeit in the same zombie-ravaged world....

‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ Review: The Best Scene In Part 6 By Ben Pearson/June 12, 2017 12:00 pm EST (Each week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Twin Peaks: The Return by answering one question: what was the best scene of the episode?) Twin Peaks is a mercurial show by nature, but one thing’s for sure about last night’s part 6: it wasn’t quite as taxing as last week’s. That’s damning with faint praise, considering part 5 was one of the low points of the series for me....

2012 Emmy Nominations Announced By Angie Han/July 19, 2012 7:15 am EST Every year, we wonder what surprises Emmy voters have in store for us this time, and most years we’re disappointed to find it’s the same exact shows and people who got nominated last year. Yes, Modern Family, I’m looking at you. Four out of six names in one category? Again? Now that’s just greedy. Still, the usual suspects managed to make room for some newly dominant names as well....

2015 Academy Awards Nominations By Angie Han/Jan. 15, 2015 5:29 am EST The wait is over. Early this morning, Chris Pine, J.J. Abrams, Alfonso Cuarón, and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs gathered to announce the nominees for the 87th Oscars. Get the full list of 2015 Academy Awards nominations after the jump. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel led the nominations with 9 each, followed closely by The Theory of Everything with 8....

Ben Stiller’s ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ Dreams Of Being A Better Movie [NYFF] By Angie Han/Oct. 6, 2013 10:45 am EST What separates the people we are from the people we wish we were? Is it courage? Money? Charisma? Imagination? The Secret Life of Walter Mitty poses that eternal question, and then glosses over it entirely so it can go live out its wildest fantasies. [Ed: Of course, not everyone feels that way – Peter’s very different response can be found in spoiler-free video form at the end of this post....

Colin Jost No Longer Head Writer On ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2015 4:00 pm EST We’re three episodes into the 41st season of Saturday Night Live, and the most recent episode hosted by Tracy Morgan (check out my review of the whole episode over here) shows that the writers and cast finally getting comfortable and delivering a solid episode with a veteran cast member. It may have taken a couple episodes to get there, but they did it....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Star Wars: The Force Awakens 1/6th Scale Figures By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2015 10:30 am EST With all the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys being revealed today in the lead to Force Friday tomorrow, we are also getting a look at some of the more expensive collectibles. Hot Toys has revealed the first Force Awakens figures in their 1/6 scale line of collectibles: Kylo Ren, the First Order Stormtrooper and the First Order Heavy Gunner Stormtrooper....

Every Best Cinematography Winner Video Showcases A Beautiful Evolution Of Cinema By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2017 1:00 pm EST Burger Fiction has put together a beautiful video compiling clips from every film to have won best cinematography at the Academy Awards, from 1927 to 2015. It’s not only great to see clips from these films but to watch how cinematography has evolved over the course of these 88 years of cinema (which included a time when there were two awards handed out to both films in color and black & white....

Movie Review: Crank 2: High Voltage By Brendon Connelly/April 17, 2009 2:50 am EST I’m afraid that telling you “If you liked Crank, you’ll like Crank 2” just wouldn’t be good enough. It also wouldn’t necessarily be true. Most of all, it would be somewhat rude – discounting an entire film as nothing more than an echo, or an indulgence for the cult of its predecessor. The end of the first film seemed to quite clearly rule out any possibility of a sequel and one of the most telling characteristics of Crank: High Voltage is simply that it exists....

MTV Is Rebooting ‘Total Request Live,’ But How And Why? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2017 4:00 pm EST Do you remember Total Request Live on MTV? The result of a mash-up of the live program MTV Live and the fan-controlled countdown aspect of Total Request, the program would become one of the most popular programs on the music-based network in the late 90s and through the late 2000s. Hosted by Carson Daly before The Voice was a thing and airing weekday afternoons, the series had fans voting by internet, phone and text for which music videos from their favorite artists would make a Top 10 countdown....

Netflix SXSW Trailers: Joe Swanberg’s ‘Win It All’, ‘Small Crimes’, ‘The Most Hated Woman In America’ By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2017 2:00 pm EST Netflix has released trailers for three original films in advance of their premieres at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival, which begins tomorrow in Austin Texas. Those films include: Joe Swanberg’s new comedy Win It All starring Keegan-Michael Key, Jake Johnson and Joe Lo Truglio, Tommy O’Haver’s true-crime biopic drama The Most Hated Woman in America starring Melissa Leo, Adam Scott and Juno Temple, and E....

Patrick Stewart Will Play Captain Picard Once More In New ‘Star Trek’ Series For CBS All Access By Jacob Hall/Aug. 4, 2018 2:25 pm EST It is time to boldly go. Once more. With an old friend. CBS has officially announced that Patrick Stewart will reprise his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in an upcoming Star Trek series coming to CBS All Access. Plot details remain unknown, but that doesn’t matter – this the kind of news that can fill our souls for weeks and months ahead....

Paul Feig, Mike Birbiglia, David Lowery & More Directors Pick Their Favorite Films Of 2016 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2016 12:00 pm EST We’ve already started posting our own retrospective lists of the Top 10 Movies of 2016, each one different from the next (Jacob Hall and David Chen have posted their lists so far), and next week will bring our cumulative list of /Film’s Top 15 Movies of 2016. In the meantime, why not find out which movies some of the most buzzed about directors loved this year?...