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Superhero Bits: Hulk, The Avengers, Catwoman, X-Men, Walking Dead By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2011 12:00 pm EST Which character is Guillermo Del Toro thinking will make a good villain for his Hulk TV show? What have we learned about the bad guys in The Avengers? Is there a cooler looking X-Men: First Class Blu-ray case out there? Who made the best comic book arcade game of all time? What are the most ridiculous comic book movie moments of all time?...

The Best & Worst Sketches From Donald Trump’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 8, 2015 2:00 pm EST Last night, protesters gathered outside 30 Rock in New York City to protest presidential candidate Donald Trump hosting Saturday Night Live, and earlier this week there was an offer on the table from a website called DeportRacism.com offering $5,000 to any audience member in attendance to yell “Deport Trump” or “Trump is racist” during the live broadcast of the show....

This Week In Trailers: Balls + Heart: Director Stephen Reedy In One Minute Or Your Money Back, Booked Out, Chasing Madoff, Hell And Back Again, Life In Movement By Christopher Stipp/July 8, 2011 6:00 pm EST If nothing else, it’s worth it to see Shia LaBeouf drop a little profanity. I’ve got zero pull to get anyone employment in my life outside of movie marketing criticism much less within the entertainment industry but, for the love of all that’s holy in this world, someone needs to give this man some work....

This Week In Trailers: Shadow Dancer, Kotoko, After The World Ended, Nostalgia, Canicula, Step Up To The Plate (Entre Les Bras), The Will By Christopher Stipp/June 9, 2012 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Universal Hollywood’s Wizarding World Is Now Open, Learn The Differences From Orlando By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2016 10:30 am EST The grand opening of Universal Hollywood’s version of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter happened last night at the Los Angeles theme park. It was an incredible night, filled with magic and wizardry. Hit the jump to hear more about the opening celebration and also learn about the new Wizarding World now open for everyone to enjoy in Universal Hollywood....

Why ‘Hack/Slash’ Should Be The Next Huge Horror Movie Series By Matt Donato/June 23, 2017 12:00 pm EST As horror’s gender pendulum slowly swings back towards XX chromosomes, I’m ready to make a plea. “For more female leading characters?” In a way, but frankly, horror’s the one genre that empowers women more than most. “For more female filmmakers?” Hopefully, but creators, Film Twitter, and the general cinema public are already voicing this angle with appropriate fury....

/Film Interview: Evan Daugherty, Screenwriter Of ‘Snow White And The Huntsman,’ Talks About The Film’s Evolution And More By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2012 11:00 am EST Also, for anyone who struggles with collaboration, criticism and change, Daugherty’s story is even more enlightening. Since its first draft, Snow White and the Huntsman has gone though some radical changes. Multiple structures, tones, different characters living, dying, etc. In our interview with the screenwriter, he took us through the entire time line and detailed who changed what, when, how casting forced script changes and much more....

‘Frequency’ Producer Explains Gender Swap, New Timeline [Comic-Con 2016] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2016 6:30 am EST Frequency was a modestly successful movie in 2000. Jim Caviezel played a cop whose ham radio allowed him to talk with his father 30 years earlier. Now The CW has turned Frequency into a TV show and there are a few differences. Peyton List plays the cop, making it a father/daughter relationship. And now that she’s in the present day, the past is 1996, not 1970....

‘Ghostbusters’ Jillian Holtzmann And The Not-Quite-Gay Characters Of Summer 2016 By Angie Han/July 15, 2016 7:00 am EST This summer has served up all sorts of expensive, extravagant spectacles. We’ve traveled to far-flung fantasy realms, battled ghouls and ghosts of every stripe, witnessed multiple animals endangering human lives by driving trucks, and cheered on more superhero-on-superhero pileups than you can shake a supernaturally powered scepter at. One thing we haven’t gotten a lot of, though?...

‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Spoiler Review: An Ambitious Second Season That Doesn’t Stick The Landing By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 12, 2018 9:00 am 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: Netflix’s Jessica Jones season 2.)Jessica Jones season 2 has a monumental task ahead of it....

‘Monster’ Director And Star On Bringing The Classic Novel To Life [Sundance Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Jan. 30, 2018 2:00 pm EST Originally published in 1999, Walter Dean Myers’s novel Monster has been a favorite among young-adult readers, using both a third-person screenplay device and first-person diary format to tell the story of honors student Steve Harmon, a black teenager with dreams of becoming a filmmaker, who is arrested and tried for felony murder in New York City after a bodega robbery goes wrong and the owner is killed....

‘The Finest Hours’ Set Visit: Disney Crafts A Good Old-Fashioned Tale Of Real-Life Heroism By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2016 9:00 am EST At a time when our big-screen heroes typically come packaged with extraordinary abilities or cutting-edge gadgets or mystical prophecies, Craig Gillespie’s The Finest Hours looks like a throwback. It’s a no-frills tale of heroism, made all the more remarkable by the fact that these incredible events actually too place....

‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Review: Wes Anderson Delights With Smart, Self-Referential Romp By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2014 4:00 pm EST Wes Anderson’s movies have always felt like kindred spirits to one another. They’re films made with similar visual styles and tonalities; stories that could very easily share one universe. His latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, feels that way too, but for the first time Anderson has made a movie about that very concept....

‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ Review Round-Up: An Astonishing, Absorbing Sequel By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2017 9:30 am EST We’ve assembled some excerpts of War for the Planet of the Apes reviews to give you a wider scope of how the sequel is being perceived. The reactions so far are extremely positive, though there are some who were not quite as impressed as the rest. Find out more in our War for the Planet of the Apes reviews round-up below....

10 Things We Learned From The ‘Breaking Bad’ 10 Year Reunion [Comic-Con 2018] By Chris Evangelista/July 20, 2018 8:30 am EST The cast and creator of Breaking Bad came together at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 to celebrate the ten year anniversary of one of the most iconic shows in TV history. Here are 10 things we learned from the Hall H panel. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Anna Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Giancarlo Esposito, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte and creator Vince Gilligan gathered in Hall H to mark the 10-year-anniversary of Breaking Bad....

2009 Frightfest Films Unveiled, New Images And Details By Brendon Connelly/July 3, 2009 6:16 pm EST The line-up for this year’s August Bank Holiday Film 4 Frightfest has been unveiled and it looks like a bumper crop for the gorehounds of London. After the break I’ll post the full list of what’s planned, point out my top five picks and share some new images from a couple of the most keenly anticipated horror pictures of the year....

2010 Toronto Film Festival Documentaries Announced By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2010 12:00 pm EST A couple weeks ago, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their line-up of Galas and Special Presentations (aka the major films premiering at the festival). The list of films included Robert Redford’s The Conspirator; George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack, The Bang Bang Club, starring Ryan Phillippe, Barney’s Version, starring Paul Giamatti, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Ben Affleck’s The Town, Alejandro Gonzalez Innarittu’s Biutiful, Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist, Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw the Devil and Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip....

30 Movies That Sound Awesome Premiering At The 2015 Sundance Film Festival By Germain Lussier/Jan. 19, 2015 9:00 am EST Even if you aren’t going to the Sundance Film Festival, reading through the movies that are playing there is indescribably exciting. There are films about any subject you can imagine, in every genre you can imagine, featuring new filmmakers, young filmmakers, A-list actors, rising stars and so much more. The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicks off later this week and /Film will be on the scene, attempting to see as many movies as possible to tell you what you should be on your radar later this year....

50 Things You Didn’t Know About Disney Animation’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph;’ Plus New Images By Germain Lussier/Aug. 2, 2012 12:00 pm EST When Disney first unveiled Wreck-It Ralph to the world, it almost seemed too good to be true. The most storied animation studio in the world was making a wholly original, video game inspired film, chock full of your favorite characters. Directed by Rich Moore and featuring the voices of John C....

A Ten-Minute Alec Baldwin Sequence Was Cut From ‘Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation’ By Angie Han/July 29, 2015 10:00 am EST As it stands, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has no shortage of crowdpleasing stunts, twists, and turns. But as happens with every movie, there were some bits that just couldn’t make it in the final cut. During a recent interview in New York City, director Chris McQuarrie dished some details on a big moment for Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) that sadly didn’t make the cut....