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New ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Photos & Details Reveal More About Kylo Ren And Rey By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2017 12:00 pm EST It’s about that time for Star Wars fans to start figuring out just how much they want to know about the next chapter of the sci-fi saga. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is less than a month away, and new details are being revealed everyday. For the most part, spoilers are being kept under tight wraps, but that doesn’t there aren’t tidbits of information being revealed that people would just as soon leave undiscovered until they see the movie next month....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘Ready Player One’, ‘In The Mouth Of Madness’, ‘Rampage’, ‘Breaking In’, ‘Pyewacket’, ‘Dark Crimes’ By Chris Evangelista/July 31, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Not Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to new Blu-ray releases and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) This week’s physical media round-up brings you Steven Spielberg’s latest, a John Carpenter horror classic, Dwayne Johnson battling CGI monsters, Gabrielle Union kicking ass, an indie horror film worth your attention, and Jim Carrey’s return to acting....

Quentin Tarantino Keeps A Classic Movie Theater Open; Who’ll Save The Rest Of The Country’s Indie Theaters? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 19, 2010 11:20 am EST The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is a great place to see a movie. Not because it is the most comfortable theater or the most state of the art, but because it is operated and attended by people who really love movies. I’ve only been there a few times, but the experiences have been great: seeing Wet Hot American Summer with David Wain in attendance, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 with Frank Darabont and Chuck Russell, and catching a marathon of three Friday the 13th flicks....

Sequel Bits: ‘Iron Sky’, ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’, ‘The Purge 2’, ‘Magic Mike 2’ By Angie Han/Feb. 12, 2014 7:00 am EST Could John Travolta join the Bond villain ranks? He hopes so. Also after the jump: Matt Bomer is working on new looks for Magic Mike 2 Gary Oldman dishes lots of details about his Apes role Iron Sky: The Coming Race gets a writer and a logo Hong Kong’s Monkey King is getting a sequel, of course How to Train Your Dragon 2 gets a cute Korean poster In the meantime, he admitted, he’s been “brainstorming” new looks for his character....

Star Wars Bits: A New Han Solo Comic Series, Disney’s Star Wars Land, And What The Original Star Wars Script Says About Han Shooting First By Jacob Hall/March 7, 2016 6:30 am EST In today’s jam-packed edition of Star Wars Bits: Marvel reveals a new Han Solo comic series. Peter Mayhew’s Star Wars screenplay answers a big, big question… Pablo Hidalgo shares a very interesting style guide. A new book series will introduce new Star Wars characters....

Star Wars Bits: George Lucas Has Seen ‘Force Awakens’ Trailer,’ Mark Hamill Talks Millennium Falcon, ‘Star Wars #1’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 19, 2015 12:00 pm EST Comic book, TV shows and of course The Force Awakens are all covered in this edition of Star Wars Bits. Below, read about the following: Mark Hamill reveals he boards the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. A UK reporter uncovers several young actors reportedly cast in The Force Awakens....

Star Wars Bits: Mark Hamill Vs. Fan Theories, Gary The Dog Watches ‘The Last Jedi,’ And Is Darth Revan Canon? By Allyson Gronowitz/Dec. 21, 2017 3:00 pm EST In this (spoiler-filled) edition of Star Wars bits: Carrie Fisher’s dog reacts to Star Wars: The Last Jedi Critics and audiences are divided over The Last Jedi Mark Hamill takes on your fan theories Rian Johnson addresses the truth about Rey’s parents Is Darth Revan part of the new canon?...

Sundance 2014 Competition Films Announced: Which Will Be The Big Standouts? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2013 1:45 pm EST We’re in the middle of a conversation about the best films of 2013, with several of those movies yet to go before wide audiences, and now it’s time to start thinking about what some of the best of 2014 might be. The competition films for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, scheduled for January 16-26 2014, have just been announced....

Sundance Film Festival 2015 Midnight Slate Features Eli Roth, Rodney Ascher, And ‘It Follows’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2014 3:00 pm EST This time, we’ve got the Spotlight program, which is a set of films that have played other festivals that Sundance wants to give more time to, including ‘71, The Tribe, and White God. Then there’s the Midnight program, which features Knock Knock, from director Eli Roth and star Keanu Reeves, and Room 237 director Rodney Ascher’s new film Nightmare, about sleep paralysis....

The /Filmcast Interview: James Cameron, Director Of Avatar By David Chen/Dec. 18, 2009 1:05 pm EST The /Filmcast Interview is a series of conversations with actors, directors, and other key figures from the entertainment industry. In this episode, David Chen speaks with legendary director James Cameron about his attitude towards technology, the theme of environmentalism in his films, the acting benefits of performance-capture equipment, and the potential of movies to create social change....

The ‘It’ Remake Gets Stephen King’s Stamp Of Approval [Updated] By Jacob Hall/March 7, 2017 11:00 am EST UPDATED: Stephen King has shared his thoughts on the movie on Twitter. You can find that below. There’s a chance that Stephen King’s It may be the finest horror novel ever written, the work of a legitimate genius spending 1,000-plus pages working through the kind of stuff we don’t like to talk about....

The Joker And Harley Quinn Getting Their Own Movie From ‘Crazy Stupid Love’ Filmmakers By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2017 7:01 pm EST Hot on the heels of yesterday’s surprising news that Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment were developing an origin movie for The Joker that would be directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover) and produced by Martin Scorsese, yet another project featuring The Clown Prince of Crime has been revealed, and this time he’s bringing his Clown Princess with him....

The Unpopular Opinion: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Is Better Than Season 1 By Dalin Rowell/Nov. 7, 2017 9:30 am EST (Welcome to The Unpopular Opinion, a series where a writer goes to the defense of a much-maligned film or show or sets their sights on something seemingly beloved by all. In this edition: an argument that Stranger Things season 2 is a vast improvement over season 1.) To say Netflix’s Stranger Things has become the love of my TV life might be the understatement of the decade....

The Water Cooler: ‘Breaking Bad 101,’ Madden On The PlayStation 4, And Getting Into The Halloween Spirit By /Film Staff/Oct. 25, 2017 12:00 pm EST Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Jacob Hall reads a new book about Breaking Bad, Ben Pearson dives into next-generation sports games, Peter Sciretta plays an incredible board game, Hoai-Tran Bui checks out the His Dark Materials prequel, and Chris Evangelista gets into the melancholy Halloween spirit....

This Week In Trailers: Film Socialisme, Scalene, The Artist, Xu Xia, Magic Trip By Christopher Stipp/May 27, 2011 5:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Last Men In Aleppo, Another Evil, STEP, Flames, Violet By Christopher Stipp/April 15, 2017 8:00 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?...

A Powerhouse Team Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon) and St. Cloud police officer, Winnie Lopez (Olivia Sandoval), are the only characters who appear capable of taking down V.M. Varga (David Thewlis). Billy Bob Thornton narrating Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” implies a showdown between Burgle and Varga is coming, but how much the narration foreshadows future collisions, we’ll have to wait and see. It’s definitely used for a reason, though....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Star Bryce Dallas Howard On Michael Crichton’s Philosophy And Sexy Ian Malcolm [Set Visit Interview] By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2018 9:00 am EST In June 2017, I traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii to visit the set of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. This week, we have been running a ton of coverage from this visit. It began with an interview with producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley, and continued with an interview with director J....

‘Murder On The Orient Express’ Remake First Look: Meet The Fancy, Star-Studded Suspects By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2017 10:30 am EST Crime stories have been all the rage lately, ranging from the documentary series Making a Murderer to the podcast Serial and the dramatization of one of the most publicized trials ever in The People vs O.J. Simpson. This fall we’ll get another one, but it’ll be a classic that millions have either read or seen before....

‘Phantasm: Ravager’ Trailer: Don Coscarelli’s Long-Running Horror Series Reaches Its Explosive Conclusion By Jacob Hall/Sept. 22, 2016 7:30 am EST Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm is one of my favorite horror movies, a dreamy, surreal, intentionally obtuse and beautifully frustrating gem that has developed a passionate cult following over the decades since its 1979 release. The first three sequels (which arrived in 1988, 1994, and 1998) are a more of a mixed bag, ranging wildly in quality even as they maintain the original’s lunatic ambition and imagination....