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Star Wars Bits: Longtime Lucasfilm Producer Rick McCallum Retires, Plus Jon Favreau, Derek Jacobi, Carrie Fisher By Angie Han/Nov. 26, 2012 1:30 pm EST Not even a long, tryptophan-fueled weekend can slow down the Star Wars talk. After the jump: Jon Favreau raises eyebrows by tweeting about Stormtroopers Sir Derek Jacobi wants in on the new Star Wars trilogy Carrie Fisher was kidding about being cast in Star Wars VII Longtime producer Rick McCallum has retired from Lucasfilm A screenwriter says timing will be tricky on Star Wars VII Jon Favreau’s name has come up a few times in the ongoing fan discussion about who should direct the next Star Wars, and the filmmaker himself doesn’t exactly seem to be avoiding the rumors....

Star Wars Bits: Sad Porgs, An Unexpected Superman Connection, And Ewan McGregor’s Beard By Rosie Knight/Jan. 9, 2018 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Disney pays homage to that very cute porg Some insider knowledge about Luke’s fave green beverage The Last Jedi struggles to hit lightspeed in China Ewan McGregor’s facial hair inspires some wacky fan theorizing And much more! TFW it’s time to go #backtowork…#TheLastJedi https://t....

Superhero Bits: New Logan Trailer Soon, Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite Release Date & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 28, 2016 4:00 pm EST When can you expect a new Logan trailer? Who will play young George Lucas on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? Which other DC Comics characters deserve their own shows on The CW? Which villains are returning to Supergirl later in the second season? When will Marvel vs Capcom Infinite be available?...

The Online Film Community’s Top 100 Movies Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2007 11:36 am EST When AFI released their list of the Top 100 Movies of All Time, many people were up in arms over the selections. Over 50 members of the Online Film Journalist Community decided to join together and create a list of their own. A list that might better reflect the views of everyone else who didn’t agree with the AFI list....

This Week In Trailers: Little Boxes, Homesick New Orleans, Generation Iron 2, The Student, Burden By Christopher Stipp/March 18, 2017 9:00 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?...

Why The Matrix Should (Or Shouldn’t) Be Rebooted By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2017 11:35 am EST Yesterday, a shocking piece of news was unleashed upon the world: Donald Trump’s 2005 income tax papers finally proved that rich people pay much less percentage-wise than you and me and that tax changes he’s trying to get approved will allow people like him to pay even less! And then, Hollywood responded with some shocking news of its own....

‘Castlevania’ Spoiler Review: A Terrible TV Series, A Good Video Game Movie By Alex Riviello/July 10, 2017 12:00 pm EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: the Netflix Original Series Castlevania.) While the world waits in vain (vein?) for a proper 2D Castlevania sequel, the long-awaited Netflix TV show has finally been released....

‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Review: Netflix’s Best Marvel Show Is Back By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 27, 2018 8:00 am EST Jessica Jones returns for an entertaining, if slightly muddled, second season. Krysten Ritter’s droll, damaged private eye remains the best character Netflix has in their Marvel line-up, and while Ritter’s work is enough to make season 2 worthwhile, things get off to a shaky start. Read our spoiler-free Jessica Jones season 2 review below (and look for our spoiler-review a little down the road)....

‘Lady Bird’ Just Became The Best-Reviewed Movie On Rotten Tomatoes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 27, 2017 11:00 am EST Lady Bird has just done something that’s never been done before. Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut is officially the best reviewed movie on Rotten Tomatoes, edging out Toy Story 2 for the movie with the most reviews to hold a 100% score. With 169 “Fresh” reviews and 0 “Rotten” reviews, Lady Bird has officially broken the review aggregator website’s record for the best-reviewed movie....

‘Melancholia’ And ‘The Day’ Mini-Reviews [Fantastic Fest 2011] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2011 8:00 am EST When Lars von Trier’s last film, Antichrist, played at Fantastic Fest, it unknowingly birthed the festival’s unofficial mantra: “Chaos Reigns.” Chaos reigns again in von Trier’s latest film, Melancholia, which is about two deeply depressed sisters and their personal trials during the end of the world. It stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as the sisters as well as supporting roles by Kiefer Sutherland, Stellan Skarsgard, Alexander Skarsgard, John Hurt, Charlotte Rampling and more....

‘Snowpiercer’ On Track For TV; ‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Creator Josh Friedman To Write By Angie Han/Nov. 11, 2015 2:30 pm EST Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer has criss-crossed the globe and come all the way back around to Hollywood. A Snowpiercer TV series is now in the works, with Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles creator Josh Friedman set to write. Bong and Oldboy director Chan-wook Park, who produced Snowpiercer, will executive produce the show....

15-Second Reviews Of All The Movies We Saw At The 2017 Sundance Film Festival By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2017 9:30 am EST The /Film team of Angie Han, Ethan Anderton, and myself have returned from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Over the six days we were in Park City, we screened over 36 movies (with only one movie having been watched by all three of us). Here are 15-second capsule reviews of all the movies we saw at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival....

2018 WGA Award Winners Keep The Love Going For ‘Get Out’ And ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2018 6:30 am EST Last night saw the Writers Guild of America hand out their awards for achievement in writing for film and television from 2017. This is one of the key preceding awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screenplay....

25 Independent Movies We’re Excited To See In Fall 2015 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2015 10:00 am EST We’ve already presented our list of big studio movies we’re excited about for fall and winter of 2015, but there’s a lot more than that set of 30 movies coming to theaters. This fall sees the release of some of our favorite Sundance films, such as Finders Keepers, and a few great retrospective roadshows including the films of Wim Wenders and the Quay Brothers....

Breaking: Warner Bros Absorbs New Line Cinema By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2008 2:26 pm EST Update: WB/New Line – What Does it Mean? You’ve heard the rumors, and it now looks to be true. This afternoon Time Warner has announced that New Line Cinema will become part of Warner Bros. This is the expected result of the companies string of recent box office failures, topped with the mega failure of The Golden Compass....

Chris Columbus Wants To Direct Another Harry Potter Movie By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2015 1:30 pm EST Before the Harry Potter franchise grew up to be the darker fantasy franchise that became a global box office sensation, right along the bestselling books, it started out a little light and more whimsical in the hands of director Chris Columbus. Much like the first two books in the series, Columbus’ first two films help set the stage for what would mature into a much more serious fantasy adventure....

Cool Stuff: Max Dalton’s Unique Pop Culture Art Comes To San Francisco By Germain Lussier/March 31, 2015 7:30 am EST Max Dalton is an artist we’ve featured on /Film numerous times. He’s done incredible work based on the films of Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, The Coen Brothers and many others. His style is deceptively simple, but by somehow perfectly evokes a quirky tone that’s either perfectly in line with filmmakers like those, or delightfully polarized from others....

Could ‘Smash,’ The Best TV Series You Didn’t Watch, Make A Comeback On Stage? By Ethan Anderton/March 21, 2018 2:30 pm EST In the next couple years, Steven Spielberg is hoping to get a remake of the classic musical West Wide Story off the ground. But let’s not forget that the filmmaker already dabbled in the Broadway world as an executive producer on the musical drama series Smash, a series that far too many people slept on, resulting in the show only getting only two seasons....

Early Buzz: Ang Lee’s 120 FPS Footage From ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Wows At NAB By Angie Han/April 19, 2016 4:26 pm EST A few years ago, James Cameron started touting higher frame rates — 48 or 60 frames per second instead of the industry-standard 24 — as the future of cinema. “If watching a 3D movie is like looking through a window, then [with this] we’ve taken the glass out of the window and we’re staring at reality,” he boasted at ShoWest 2011....

Early Buzz And New Clip: The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus By Brendon Connelly/May 22, 2009 12:13 pm EST Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus has finally premiered in Cannes. Reviews have been surfacing all day and most of them, unsurprisingly, focus on two key factors – that this film contains Heath Ledger’s final performance and that a Gilliam film is somehow difficult or appeals only to a few. I can’t argue with the first part, but the second doesn’t add up....