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Universal Orlando Looks To Reinvent The Waterpark With Volcano Bay By Jacob Hall/Nov. 4, 2016 12:00 pm EST The Universal Studios theme parks built their reputation on allowing guests to “ride the movies” and that continues to be its main appeal. Only now, five-minute rides through your favorite films in the Universal catalog have given way to immersive experiences that allow you to wander through lands that transport you into fantastical worlds like J....

Wolverine Doesn’t Wear His Signature Yellow Suit In ‘Logan’ And Here’s Why By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2017 11:00 am EST Ever since the X-Men first appeared on the big screen back in 2000, longtime fans of Marvel’s mutants have wanted to see some kind of incarnation of the unique, colorful suits that each member of the team has word in the comics. X-Men: Apocalypse is the closest we’ve come to seeing the X-Men in their signature duds, but that scene didn’t allow Wolverine to suit up in his signature yellow suit....

‘American Horror Story: Cult’ Review: ‘Holes’ Exposes The Man Behind The Mask By Aaron Pruner/Oct. 4, 2017 7:30 am EST (Every week, we’re going to get the discussion going about American Horror Story: Cult by answering one important question: who is the main villain of the episode?)American Horror Story: Cult hit its halfway mark in Tuesday’s episode, titled “Holes,” spilling, even more blood while dropping a few predictable story twists along the way....

‘Black Mirror’ Keeps Up The Good Work In Season 3’s “San Junipero” And “Nosedive” [TIFF Review] By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2016 8:00 am EST It’s been nearly two years since the last episode of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s tech dystopia anthology series, and over three years since the last proper full season aired. Naturally, then, news that Netflix had commissioned 12 more episodes was met with a combination of excitement and trepidation....

‘Mr. Robot’ Composer On Creating The Moody And Masterful Music Of The USA Hacker Series [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 29, 2017 12:30 pm EST Mr. Robot is arguably the most distinctive series on television — a moody and haunting techno-opera that floods viewers with a crushing sense of isolation. Much of the credit can be given to showrunner Sam Esmail’s cinematic eye, maintaining a house style of low lighting and negative space that lend to the oppressive environment — along with a stylistic gimmick every now and then in the form of a long-take episode or a sentient emoji....

‘The OA’ Ending: Creators Brit Marling And Zal Batmanglij On That Controversial Finale By Angie Han/Dec. 29, 2016 8:45 am EST It’s been almost two weeks since Netflix dropped The OA, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s sci-fi thriller oddity. Which means a bunch of you have probably finished it by now. And if you’ve come to the end, you likely have some questions, starting with “Wait, what?” In a series of recent interviews, Marling and Batmanglij have offered their thoughts and their defenses of that shocking season finale — and to reassure you that it’s okay to laugh at it a bit....

Casting ‘It: Chapter 2’ – Here’s Who Should Play The Adult Losers’ Club In The ‘It’ Sequel By /Film Staff/Sept. 12, 2017 7:30 am EST Even before director Andy Muschietti’s It hit theaters and made the kind of money usually reserved for superhero movies, there was talk of a sequel. And how could there not be? The film adapts only half of Stephen King’s massive 1,200 page novel, eschewing the storyline that follows the grown-up “Losers’ Club” as they reassemble 27 years later to finish Pennywise (or rather, It) off once and for all....

Interview: Garrett Hedlund Talks ‘Tron Legacy’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2010 10:00 am EST On November 19th, I had the opportunity to participate in a day of roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of Tron Legacy. I also conducted a couple of one-on-one discussions with the filmmakers and screenwriters (but that will come later). The plan is to post one of the interviews every day up until release. Yesterday we posted an interview with Olivia Wilde....

New ‘Transformers: Live’ Attraction Is Heading To China By Jacob Hall/Jan. 27, 2016 12:30 pm EST If you ever watched the Transformers movies and thought “You know, this would be better if all of this mayhem was actually happening right in front of me in real life,” you may be in luck. A live Transformers show, appropriately titled Transformers Live is in the works. There’s only one hitch that will render it a little inaccessible for a certain portion of the franchise’s fandom – this show is putting down roots in China....

New Service Called Tugg, Helps Audiences Demand And Book Their Own Movie Screenings By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2012 4:00 pm EST Do you ever get frustrated that certain movies don’t make it to your local theater or that you can’t see old favorites on the big screen? There is a new service that might let you change that. It’s called Tugg and it’s a social network that allows users to request, promote and eventually screen a film they want (current, classic, mainstream or independent movies) shown in a local theater....

The Best Movies Streaming Right Now Lawrence of Arabia Now Streaming on FilmStruck Release Date: 1962Genre: Historical epicDirector: David LeanCast: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif Let’s get this out of the way: watching Lawrence of Arabia on a TV will never compare to seeing it on the biggest screen possible. That said, David Lean’s historical epic is so masterful that even if you do stream it via FilmStruck, you’ll still be getting a great experience....

Ranked: All Of The ‘Saturday Night Live’ Movies By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2015 10:00 am EST Since a new season of Saturday Night Live is kicking off this weekend with host Miley Cyrus on October 3rd, and yours truly will be reviewing every new episode, there’s no better time to take a look back at all the movies that have been spawned from the iconic late-night sketch series and rank them from worst to best....

SXSW Announces Midnight And Short Programming; ‘S-VHS,’ ‘The Lords Of Salem,’ And ‘You’re Next’ Scheduled By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2013 1:45 pm EST Austin’s biggest media festival, SXSW, is coming up in about five weeks, and the film portion of the fest has unveiled a list of films that will play in the midnight and shorts categories. Running March 8-16, the film portion of SXSW has been growing into one of the country’s premiere film festivals....

The 10 Best ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Episodes By Chris Evangelista/April 12, 2017 10:30 am EST In the not-too-distant future (this Friday, April 14, to be exact), Mystery Science Theater 3000 will return, bringing terrible movies and endless riffing along with it. The original iteration of the show ran for a whopping 10 seasons, spanning 197 episodes and a feature film, building a devoted cult following in the process. “Keep circulating the tapes!...

The New Blu-Ray Releases You Should Check Out This Week: Ghost Stories, Zombies, And David Lynch By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 31, 2017 2:00 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.) Happy Halloween! Open your goodie bags and/or plastic pumpkin buckets and I’ll drop some fine physical media in there....

The Overlook Film Festival: Four Days Of Horror (And Horror Movies) At The Hotel From ‘The Shining’ By Alex Riviello/May 3, 2017 10:00 am EST When you host a film festival at the actual location that served as the outside of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, you don’t need to do a whole lot to provide atmosphere. But the snowstorm sure didn’t hurt. That’s what travelers to the inaugural Overlook Film Festival were greeted by last Thursday as they made their way up the treacherous mountain pass to the iconic lodge....

Tron Legacy Viral: Flynn Lives Group Invades Encom Press Conference In San Francisco By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2010 12:53 pm EST On Friday night, fictional software company ENCOM held their first public press conference in years (possibly ever) in San Francisco, CA. A renegade group who believes that revolutionary programer Kevin Flynn is still alive (despite having disappeared from the public eye two decades ago), infiltrated the event and took over the press conference....

TV Bits: ‘Freaks & Geeks’, ‘Mad Men’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Girls’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Enlightened’, ‘Californication’, Mike Judge, Sean Bean, Beyonce By Angie Han/Dec. 7, 2012 3:00 pm EST Today’s TV bits is stuffed to the brim with new project announcements, casting notices, trailers, and much more. After the jump: Mike Judge and Scott Rudin team for Silicon Valley at HBO FX is adapting J. Michael Feldman’s show Fairy Tale Theater Goonies co-stars Sean Astin and Corey Feldman reunite on TMNT The Newsroom casts someone to play a Romney campaign staffer Sean Bean replaces Brendan Fraser in TNT’s spy drama Legends The CW gives freshman drama series Cult a February premiere date Jon Hamm and John Slattery direct more episodes of Mad Men Is Doctor Who uniting all 11 Doctors for an anniversary special?...

Who Is That ‘Star Wars 7’ Alien Creature In JJ Abrams’ UNICEF Video? By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2014 10:00 am EST Yesterday morning we ran a piece on how Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is not involved in Star Wars: Episode VII. Rumors of possible Henson involvement began when JJ Abrams posted a video from the Abu Dhabi set featuring an awesome-looking practical, puppeteered alien creature. We used the opportunity to take a trip through history and explore Jim Henson’s involvement (or non-involvement) in the Star Wars films....

‘Better Call Saul’ Season Premiere Review: Who Came Out On Top In “Mabel”? By Karen Han/April 11, 2017 10:30 am EST (Every week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Better Call Saul season 3 by answering one simple question: who came out on top when the credits rolled?) In the world of Better Call Saul, happiness tends to come with strings attached, if not completely hand-in-hand with misfortune. The third season’s premiere proves no exception to the rule, as little fragments of joy are outweighed by the consequences of what led to them....