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The Unpopular Opinion: ‘Blade Runner’ And ‘Alien’ Are The Only Good Ridley Scott Movies By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 10, 2017 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Unpopular Opinion, a series where a writer goes to the defense of a much-maligned film or sets their sights on a movie seemingly beloved by all. In this edition: Ridley Scott has only made two good movies…and the reason why they’re good explains the rest of his weaker filmography....

TV Bits: ‘Cursed’, ‘Archer’, ‘Unfortunate Events’, ‘Westworld’, ‘Star Trek: Discovery’, ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ By Chris Evangelista/March 31, 2018 11:00 am EST In this edition of TV bits: The legend of King Arthur is getting yet another re-imagining A trailer for Archer season 9 A new Series of Unfortunate Events clip That amazing instrumental cover of “Heart-Shaped Box” from the Westworld trailer is now available Alex Kurtzman will direct Star Trek: Discovery season 2 premiere A new teaser for Fear the Walking Dead...

TV Spot Round-Up: ‘Tomb Raider,’ ‘Red Sparrow,’ ‘Game Night’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 23, 2018 4:00 pm EST Movies, now more than ever! Here’s a round-up of some recent TV spots for some big movies coming your way very, very soon. There are two spots for the new Tomb Raider, a spot for the Jennifer Lawrence spy-thrilled Red Sparrow, and a spot for the comedy Game Night. Sometimes a simple trailer just won’t do....

Vin Diesel Wants Rob Cohen For ‘Furious 8’ Director; Studio Eyes Louis Leterrier By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2015 2:30 pm EST Last week we heard Furious 8 was having a bit of trouble kicking into gear. One of the biggest sticking points was the question of who would steer the film, since scheduling conflicts put previous franchise directors Justin Lin and James Wan out of the running. Now Vin Diesel’s latest Facebook posts suggest two possibilities: Rob Cohen, who helmed the original The Fast and the Furious, and Diesel himself....

VOTD: Star Wars Currys TV Advertisement By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 6:00 am EST A couple weeks ago it was announced that Anthony Daniels reprised his role as C-3PO alongside his Star Wars droid partner R2-D2 in a LucasFilm licensed television advertisement filmed for the UK electronics megastore chain Currys. The advert sees C-3PO and R2-D2 land on planet earth in a Megastore carpark late at night, with R2-D2 boldly breaking into the store, closely followed by C-3PO....

‘Furious 7:’ James Wan Talks Paul Walker’s Role, Plus Box Office Record, Tribute Video, Fast 8 Rumor By Germain Lussier/April 6, 2015 8:30 am EST It’s a Fast and Furious world, we’re just living in it. This past weekend Furious 7, the seventh film in the franchise, set the all-time April U.S. opening weekend box office record with a haul of $143.6 million. That also happens to be the 9th highest opening weekend of all time....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Review: Uneasy Alliances And Major Casualties Rock ‘Stormborn’ By Jacob Hall/July 25, 2017 12:00 pm 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?) If last week’s season premiere was all about establishing the parameters of the Game of Thrones endgame, “Stormborn” was all about letting us see where the final players stand....

‘Kidding’ Director Michel Gondry On Moving To Television And Telling Jim Carrey When He’s Overacting [Interview] By Fred Topel/Sept. 10, 2018 2:00 pm EST Showtime’s new dramedy Kidding stars Jim Carrey in a dramatic role. He plays children’s television host Jeff Pickles, star of Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time, who sings songs to teach kids about life lessons, but inside he’s dealing with real pain. His son died in an automobile accident a year before, and he’s now estranged from his wife (Judy Greer) and surviving son....

‘Never Goin’ Back’ Is A Sweet And Raunchy Tale Of Glorious Idiocy [SXSW] By Jacob Hall/March 12, 2018 3:30 pm EST Cinematic comedy has a long history of men being idiots. Of men making mistakes. Of men getting in over their heads. Of men being deadbeat losers who make a series of increasingly poor decisions and whose lives spiral into chaotic, raunchy anarchy. Of men, despite giving us every reason to disregard them, ultimately winning our affection....

‘Peter Rabbit’ Causes Controversy With Food Allergy Joke By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2018 5:30 am EST Peter Rabbit may seem like a harmless children’s movie full of CGI creatures making pop culture jokes, but some audiences are hopping mad over one specific scene. In the scene in question, Peter Rabbit and his furry friends exploit a food allergy of their human nemesis, Mr. McGregor. When Sony set about adapting Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s book Peter Rabbit into a big CGI-laden feature, I doubt they expected to run into any controversy....

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Finally Get The Movie Action Figures You Always Wanted [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 31, 2018 6:00 am EST UPDATE: If you missed out on these figures from San Diego Comic-Con, you now have another opportunity to get them. Get all the details on how you can pre-order them below.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all the rage when I was a kid. Not only was there the live-action film adaptation from 1990 that I could rewatch on VHS every day, but there was an animated series that I could watch when there were still cartoons playing all over the place every Saturday morning....

‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Star Wars’ And More Make BBC’s List Of 100 Greatest American Films By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2015 11:00 am EST Everyone now and then, someone takes the time to round up a new list of 100 of the greatest films of all time, and it always stirs up some debate, even though probably 75% of the list is the same as any other. A new list from BBC Culture, however, is a little different, because the news organization from across the pond has rounded up a list of the 100 Greatest American Films, as voted on by an international assembly of film critics....

‘The Night Comes For Us’ Review: A Bloody, Action-Packed, Punch-A-Minute Thriller [Fantastic Fest] By Matt Donato/Sept. 25, 2018 3:30 pm EST When writer/director Timo Tjahjanto introduced The Night Comes For Us to an eager Fantastic Fest crowd, he promised “a truckload” of dead bodies would stack tall in his “Asian-on-Asian” Triad brutalizer. Carcasses maimed, mangled, and beaten to pulpy piles of mush by a cast of The Raid and Headshot veterans....

‘Travelers And Magicians’ Tells The Struggle For Spiritual Identity In The Modern World By Siddhant Adlakha/Aug. 2, 2018 9:00 am EST (Welcome to A Passage to India, a new series where we explore great works from all over South Asia for unacquainted viewers, all of them available to stream.) To cinema, he’s Khyenste Norbu, New York Film Academy alumnus, consultant to Bertolucci on Little Buddha and Bhutan’s premier director. His second feature, Travelers and Magicians, was the first to be shot entirely in the Kingdom; his third, Vara: A Blessing, was the first Bhutanese film in the English language....

8 Pockets Of The Stephen King Multiverse To Explore After ‘Castle Rock’, From Netflix And Hulu To Books And More By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 24, 2018 10:00 am EST Stephen King recently celebrated his 71st birthday and if you tuned into Castle Rock — Hulu’s streaming television series based on characters and settings from the world of King — you might have been going through withdrawals since the show’s finale. For fans eager to get caught up in the mania of another mystery-driven show like Lost or Twin Peaks, Castle Rock scratched a very specific itch, getting its hooks into Redditors and inspiring articles likening King to the Charles Dickens of the 21st century....

Addressing The Four Biggest ‘The Last Jedi’ Fan Complaints By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 19, 2017 9:30 am EST Critically and commercially, Star Wars: The Last Jedi has been an unqualified success. In that respect, writer-director Rian Johnson’s prayers have been answered. Yet over its opening weekend, a narrative of swift backlash built up around the film. Usually, it’s fans who have to defend a big blockbuster against critics; this time it’s the other way around....

Arnold Schwarzenegger/Darren Aronofsky Revenge Thriller Sparks International Sales At AFM By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2015 1:00 pm EST Update From Editor Peter Sciretta: Auteur filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan) and action superstar/former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are two names I never expected to share a movie project together. But the movie 478 seems to be moving forward with the project closing 19 international territories at the American Film Market....

DirecTV Launches ShortsHD, A Full Time Short Film Channel By Germain Lussier/May 4, 2011 11:00 pm EST Whether it’s at film school or in their backyards growing up, many filmmakers get their start making short films. In the past though, with no real outlet for those films to be seen, they were largely regarded as a minor stepping stone towards eventually making features. Things have changed. Technology has gotten better, cheaper and knocking out a 15 minute movie seems infinitely more manageable than a longer one....

Get A Fresh Look At The New Iron Man Armor, A New ‘Infinity War’ Photo, And Other Details By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 8, 2018 8:30 am EST It all began 10 years ago when Tony Stark built a suit of high-tech armor out of scraps in a cave, launching an entire cinematic universe that has taken over the world. And in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, Robert Downey Jr.‘s Iron Man will be at the center one again....

Hack ‘N Slash: 20 Horror Movies That Should Be Video Games By /Film Staff/May 26, 2017 10:00 am EST A video game based on the Friday the 13th movie series hits Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC today, offering gamers the chance to step into the boots of everyone’s favorite hockey-masked, redneck, undead serial killer with mommy issues. Or you can play as one of his victims. It just depends on whether you want to be the stalker or the stalkee....