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/Response: Your Favorite Female Badasses In The Movies By Jacob Hall/June 2, 2017 10:00 am EST (Welcome to /Response, the companion piece to our /Answers series and a space where /Film readers can chime in and offer their two cents on a particular question.) Earlier this week, the /Film team wrote about our favorite female badasses in the movies. We then opened the floor to our readers: who is your favorite kick-ass lady to appear in a film?...

‘Shazam’ Trailer Breakdown: Bringing Some Magic, Comedy And Life To The DC Extended Universe By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2018 11:30 am EST If you told me before San Diego Comic-Con started that the first trailer for Shazam! was going to impress the hell out of me, I would have said you were crazy. But here we are after the sneak peek debuted in Hall H and spread across the web like wildfire, and even after seeing the trailer a few times now, I can still say that Shazam!...

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Is The ‘Star Trek’ Show 2017 Demands By Amy Giardiniere/Oct. 24, 2017 1:30 pm EST Star Trek is highly regarded as one of the most influential shows in television history. Creator Gene Roddenberry’s groundbreaking (and sometimes controversial) series addressed moral and social dilemmas, the pursuit of knowledge, understanding and accepting different cultures, the importance of exploration, and hope for a better future. For over 50 years, the phenomenal sci-fi franchise has kept the dream of going boldly where no man has gone before alive and kicking....

‘The Current War’ Release Date Dropped Following Harvey Weinstein Scandal By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 15, 2017 11:00 am EST The Current War, once expected to be a 2017 Oscar hopeful from the Weinstein Company, has been pulled from its 2017 release date following the on-going sexual assault revelations involving the recently-fired Harvey Weinstein. Read the news about The Current War release date below. Hollywood is still reeling from the recently-revealed sexual assault allegations against former Weinstein Company co-owner Harvey Weinstein....

‘The Fate Of The Furious’ Review: The Family Is Running On Fumes By Josh Spiegel/April 14, 2017 7:00 am EST The Fate of the Furious, like one of its heroes, wants to live life a quarter mile at a time. On a moment-to-moment basis, the eighth entry in the Fast and the Furious franchise offers visceral thrills that come close to rivaling some of the series’ standout chases. But as the film rides its way to an ice-bound conclusion that requires our heroes to literally stop World War III from happening, it becomes all-but-impossible to accept some of the leaps of logic Fate takes in how its characters treat each other and the fabled family....

‘Twin Peaks’ 2017 Episodes Run Over 60 Minutes Or Release Different Streaming Versions [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 11, 2016 3:00 pm EST Near the beginning of his introduction to the Television Critics Association, Showtime Networks Inc. President and CEO David Nevins was discussing episode counts for his original series. Of the upcoming Twin Peaks, he said, “We don’t even know for sure how many episodes there will be.” Showtime had a little bit to share with the TCA from 2017’s Twin Peaks return....

AMC To Run ‘Breaking Bad’ Series Marathon Before Finale By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2013 3:00 pm EST AMC has announced that they will be running every single episode of Breaking Bad in a marathon leading up to the series finale on September 29th. The event, titled “Countdown To Finale,” will begin on September 25th at 8pm with the first episode of the show from Season 1. The marathon will go non-stop until it hits the end of Season 4 late on Friday September 27th....

Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 8 “I See You” Sharpens The Public Facade Of Walter White Inside A Hospital By Hunter Stephenson/May 13, 2010 6:03 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. In movies, when bank robbers and gangsters grumble, “I’m never going back to jail, they’ll have to kill me,” the statement does not uniformly rule out visiting peers who are incarcerated....

Composer Hans Zimmer On The Questions That Drive Him [Interview] By Jack Giroux/March 30, 2017 12:30 pm EST If you want to learn about composing movie music, why not go to one of the masters? The opportunity to take a class from Hans Zimmer is now only a few clicks away. The man behind the scores for The Thin Red Line, Inception, Thelma & Louse, and other favorites is now available to teach movie fans a thing or two about his job, as he’s now another one of MasterClass’ great teachers....

Did Tommy Wiseau Actually Direct ‘The Room?’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 12, 2011 9:32 am EST When discussing the merits, or demerits, of the The Room, only one name comes to mind: Tommy Wiseau. The mysterious mad man is credited with starring, writing, producing and directing the 2003 film that’s so bad it’s become a midnight pop culture phenomenon. However, in the February 18 issue of Entertainment Weekly, some new facts have come to light that question if Wiseau actually directed his movie....

Exclusive ‘John Wick’ Clip: Keanu Reeves And Adrianne Palicki Work Out A Fight Scene By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2015 5:30 pm EST There’s some killer action in the Keanu Reeves film John Wick, in which Reeves plays a former assassin who gets back into his old mode after everything else in his life is torn away. At one point, the character ends up in a sort of safe haven for killers, where he runs across a killer named Perkins....

Final Wave Of ‘Fantastic Fest’ Films Include ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ And ‘The Zero Theorem’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2013 11:30 am EST The first wave of films for Fantastic Fest 2013 was good. The second wave looked great. And now the third one proves why this little film festival in Austin is truly one of the best in the country. Escape From Tomorrow (above), The Zero Theorem, Metallica Through The Never, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Gatchaman and Jodorowsky’s Dune are just a few of the new films announced for the festival, which takes place September 19 – 26 at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline in Austin, Texas....

How Brian De Palma Subverted the Blockbuster With ‘Mission: Impossible’ By Jacob Knight/July 23, 2018 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Team Leaders, a series where we explore how the directors of the Mission: Impossible movies used this franchise as a canvas to explore their pet themes and show off their unique sensibilities. In this edition: Brian De Palma makes the most fascinating Hollywood blockbuster since Jaws.) Mission: Impossible was the first movie Tom Cruise ever produced....

Interview: Never Let Me Go Director Mark Romanek [Part 1] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2010 8:00 am EST After the Telluride Film Festival premiere of his latest film, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview director Mark Romanek for a long-form interview. It was a collaboration between Alex from FirstShowing and myself, which explains how we were able to get so much time with the filmmaker. Mark Romanek is one of the best music video directors to come out of the 1990’s....

Kurt Russell On His Approach To Ego In ‘Guardians Vol. 2’ And The Most Surprising Thing About ‘Tombstone’ [Interview] By Ben Pearson/May 5, 2017 10:30 am EST Marvel Studios has gone on a near-miraculous run of making perfect choices when it comes to casting their leading roles. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch…the list goes on. But from the very beginning, when they cast Jeff Bridges in the first Iron Man, they’ve also been terrific at luring A-list talent to fill out the supporting roles in their movies....

Magnet To Distribute ‘Tucker & Dale Versus Evil’ By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2011 2:56 pm EST Tucker & Dale Vs Evil premiered at Sundance 2010, and despite earning a lot of fans with the performances of Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine and the comedy and horror mix that writer/director Eli Craig offered up, the film has been in distribution limbo ever since. That changes now, as Magnet has announced that it will distribute the film at the end of this summer, with an August 26 VOD bow and a September 30 theatrical opening....

The Lost City of Z Tampopo Now Streaming on FilmStruck Juzo Itami’s utterly delightful Tampopo is now on FilmStruck, and if you’ve never experienced this 1985 Japanese film, rectify that at once. Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) is a widow who runs a ramen noodle shop yet unfortunately can’t make ramen to save her life. Her luck changes when truck driver Gor? (Tsutomu Yamazaki) enters her life and sets about turning her into one of the best ramen makers around....

Page 2: Disney, Looper, Point Break, Zombies, Doctor Who, Howl’s Moving Castle, Brian K Vaughn, Boardwalk Empire, Walt Disney, Ghostbusters, Rick Baker, Breaking Bad, Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2012 8:00 am EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Page 2: Totoro, RoboCop, Ebert, Hobbit, Bill Murray, Flintstones, Star Wars, Pixar By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2014 1:00 pm EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Peter Berg’s Long-Awaited Rihanna Documentary Is Coming Soon By Jack Giroux/Aug. 20, 2018 7:30 am EST Rihanna fans have more to look forward to this year than maybe another album. Director Peter Berg’s (Mile 22) documentary about the musician, which he’s been working on for three years, will finally come out before the end of 2018. The filmmaker recently told us a bit about the untitled Rihanna documentary, which he calls a “pretty comprehensive profile....