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Superhero Bits: The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Chronicle, Man Of Steel, TMNT By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2012 1:00 pm EST Cobie Smulders looks great in The Avengers, want to see more? What food product is teaming with the massive Marvel team up? Where in real life have the shows Breaking Bad and Comic Book Men crossed paths? Care to see an unused credit treatment for The Amazing Spider-Man? Why is it stupid for the title of The Avengers to change to Avengers Assemble?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers 2, Iron Man 3, Secret Service, Hulk, The Goon, Ninja Turtles, Silver Surfer By Germain Lussier/Nov. 1, 2012 11:30 am EST What superheroes did Dwayne Johnson and Patton Oswalt dress up as for Halloween? Has one of the Phase 2 villains already been confirmed for The Avengers 2? Which Star Wars actor will appear in Mark Millar’s The Secret Service? Who is on set for the final day of shooting on Iron Man 3?...

The 2011 Summer Movie Season Begins Friday, March 4th By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2011 6:30 pm EST We thought global warming was heating up the planet, but really it’s Hollywood. They’re making it summer all year long. The first weekend of May is generally considered the beginning of the summer movie season but, as those three months got more and more crowded, that date slowly crept into late April. Now, 2011 changes that like never before....

The Best Reviewed Movies Of 2014: From Wild To The LEGO Movie By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2014 7:00 pm EST So we’ve looked at the best and worst movies of the year as rated by the largest sampling of moviegoers available publicly (IMDB). And as you know, the public opinion sometimes differs from that of professional film critics. As it should, film critics often see hundreds of new movies a year (a larger sampling of content) and have thus have a more discerning taste....

The Best Shows And Movies Coming To Netflix In December 2015 By Jacob Hall/Nov. 25, 2015 3:00 pm EST This December, Netflix is gifting its subscribers with a whole bunch of cool movies and TV shows. Just in time for the holidays: Sam Raimi’s first superhero movie, one of the most critically acclaimed independent films of 2015, a Christmas variety special starring Bill Murray, and another dose of the darkest science fiction show to ever emerge from England....

The New Blu-Ray Releases You Should Check Out This Week: ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Mother!’, ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’, And More By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2017 1:30 pm EST (Welcome to Not Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to what’s new on Blu-ray and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) We’re almost there, folks! 2017 is almost at an end, and as we burn through the holiday season, it’s time to kick back and catch up on some new films you might’ve missed in theaters....

This Week In Trailers: The Face Of An Angel, Altman, SCORE: A Film Music Documentary, Tangerines, Sunshine Superman By Christopher Stipp/March 22, 2015 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?...

TV Bits: ‘Doctor Who’ Announces A New Companion, Plus: ‘Portlandia’, ‘30 Rock’, ‘The Carrie Diaries’, ‘Mad Men’, Olivia Wilde, Wes Anderson By Angie Han/March 22, 2012 5:00 am EST I don’t even know where to begin with today’s extra-packed edition of TV Bits, so let’s just… begin. After the jump: Olivia Wilde will return for the House finale IFC renews Portlandia for a third season Doctor Who casts its new companion 30 Rock plans to do another live episode Wes Anderson teases a new TV commercial January Jones’ pregnancy means less Betty A first look at the Sex and the City prequel Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein will be putting birds on things for at least another year, as IFC has renewed Portlandia for a third season....

Watch David Fincher, Gillian Flynn And The Cast Talk About Making ‘Gone Girl’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2014 4:30 pm EST David Fincher, author/screenwriter Gillian Flynn and the cast of Gone Girl have been all over the place in the past couple weeks to promote the film. They did a big panel at the New York Film Festival, and Fincher just did a Film Indepenent event in LA, and they’ve done various television press to get word out for the film....

‘American Made’ Director Doug Liman Talks The Adventure Of The Unknown, Working With Tom Cruise, And More [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Sept. 29, 2017 9:30 am EST As Barry Seal, Cruise plays a happy-go-lucky, adventure-seeking pilot who doesn’t give much thought to consequences. The actor makes the character an enigmatic, empathetic, and highly-skilled goof, someone who’s easy to root for even when he’s making a lot of bad decisions. Seal has a surprising amount of charm – something Cruise can deliver in spades....

‘Annihilation’ Director Alex Garland Opens Up About Creative Clashes Behind The Scenes By Ben Pearson/Dec. 14, 2017 11:30 am EST Annihilation, the upcoming film from Ex Machina director Alex Garland, is one of my most anticipated movies of 2018 – but audiences came close to not seeing it in its intended form. We recently learned about some behind the scenes disagreements that nearly resulted in the movie being recut and reshaped in post-production in order to appeal to a broader audience, but it sounds like Garland’s vision has remained largely intact in the final product....

/Film UK - Scotland’s Most Expensive Film, Richard Williams And Aardman, Youth In Revolt And Lots More By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 28, 2010 6:57 pm EST Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK....

‘Phantom Thread’ Spoiler Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Has Made Another Masterpiece By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 22, 2018 12:00 pm EST At any given moment within Phantom Thread, the newest film from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, it’s amazing to consider how far the filmmaker has come in the past 20 years. Earlier this fall, I wrote about Anderson’s masterful, sprawling tragicomic epic Boogie Nights upon its 20th anniversary and how so many of his films focus on the creation of a makeshift family when biological family members simply won’t do....

‘The Happytime Murders’ Director Brian Henson On Bringing Puppets To R-Rated Territory [Set Visit Interview] By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2018 7:00 am EST Last October, I traveled to Santa Clarita to visit the set of The Happytime Murders, the new film from Brian Henson. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge Muppets fan, and I’ve been singing the praises of Brian’s “Battleground” episode of Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King since that premiered over a decade ago....

‘X-Men’ Spinoff ‘New Mutants’ Will Be A ‘Full-Fledged Horror Movie’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 25, 2017 11:00 am EST Every time a comic book movie director claims that his movie will be “very different” from other superhero movies, an angel loses its wings and gains heat vision. But New Mutants director Josh Boone swears that his X-Men spin-off will forego all those costumes and supervillains, and go “full-fledged horror movie” instead — because horror is the new trend now....

Comic Con 2014 Saturday Schedule Features Marvel Studio, Warner Bros., Legendary And ‘Fight Club’ By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2014 1:29 pm EST In previous years, Saturday is the biggest at San Diego Comic-Con. That’s because while many people have 4-day passes, lots work during the week and can only come down for one day. Saturday. So that’s the day studios generally fight over to show their latest films. When the biggest stars sign autographs and the coolest collectibles are released....

Early Buzz: Neveldine/Taylor’s Game By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2008 2:05 am EST Lakeshore Entertainment held a test screening of Game last week in Southern California. Game is the latest film from Neveldine/Taylor, the mad men behind Crank. It stars Gerard Butler, as a prisoner who is implanted with nano-technology which allows a video gamer to control him in a first-person shooter-like game called Slayers. A bunch of reviews have leaked out across the interwebs....

Easter Eggs: Robin And More Hidden In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer, Pixar Nods In ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2011 7:00 am EST Chances are you saw the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and didn’t catch Robin the boy wonder or a reference back to the very beginning of the trilogy: Batman Begins. And you probably also saw Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in IMAX but somehow missed the hidden Pixar easter eggs that Ratatouille/The Incredibles director Brad Bird hid within the film....

John Goodman: Human Cartoon “What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt the institution no longer had anything to offer us.” The moment John Goodman’s on the lam prison escapee Gale delivered that line in the Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona, this writer fell in love with the colorful character actor. For three decades, Goodman has been the very best part of just about any movie he appears in – from huckster film promoter Lawrence Woolsey in Matinee, to the dangerous, paranoid shelter shut in from 10 Cloverfield Lane – Goodman’s entire resume is peppered with some of the best comedic and dramatic mixtures the screen has ever seen....

James Nesbitt And Adam Brown Join ‘The Hobbit’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 6:50 pm EST Warner Bros has just officially confirmed that James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday, Millions, Waking Ned Devine) and newcomer Adam Brown have joined the cast of Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of The Hobbit. Nesbitt will play Bofur, “a disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave Dwarf.” Brown will play Ori, “another of the Dwarf Company which sets out to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the infamous dragon, Smaug....