Exclusive Clip From Fascinating Documentary ‘The Imposter’ By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2012 10:00 am EST If one of your family members disappeared for almost four years and then came back into your life, would you recognize them? How could you be sure this person, who you once thought you knew so well, was actually who they said they were? You’re probably thinking that you’d just know the person, no questions asked....
Help Upgrade A Unique Movie House: Contribute To The Brattle Theatre Kickstarter Campaign By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2013 5:08 pm EST We don’t think much about the expense incurred when theaters have to upgrade or change their equipment to stay current with new exhibition technology. It’s one thing to assume that upgrading is simply a matter of course for chains like Regal and AMC, but for operators of single theaters, making the move to digital is no easy task....
How The New ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Compares To The Animated Classic By Josh Spiegel/March 20, 2017 7:00 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: Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast.) Once Walt Disney Pictures began adapting its animated classics for live-action, starting with Tim Burton’s 2010 take on Alice in Wonderland and moving into villain-centered fairy tales like Maleficent, it was a safe bet that a new version of Beauty and the Beast wouldn’t be too far behind....
Joseph Kosinski Says The ‘Tron 3’ Idea Is Akin To The Series’ Own ‘Empire Strikes Back’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2012 4:30 pm EST If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times. “If the idea is good enough, we’ll do it.” It’s the tried and true response from Hollywood filmmakers when asked about a potential sequel to a popular film and the implications are two fold. First, it implies the first film was made without an idea for a sequel, which is probably why it was good in the first place....
Kevin Feige Reveals Marvel’s 10-Year Anniversary Plans, ‘Doctor Strange 2’, And More By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 20, 2017 9:00 am EST Thor: Ragnarok is very close to release, which means Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is everywhere, talking about the film and the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and more! This Feige fellow is unstoppable, let me tell you. He’s probably somewhere, right now, as I type this, talking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe....
Kurt Russell Supports ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Director James Gunn, Dave Bautista Calls Disney’s Actions “Nauseating” [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 6, 2018 11:00 am EST Update: Dave Bautista has doubled down on his stance in a new interview. You can read his quotes below. Following the abrupt firing of writer/director James Gunn from the third Guardians of the Galaxy film, the series cast banded together in support of the filmmaker with an open letter addressed to the Walt Disney Company....
Marvel Is “Committing” To A Black Widow Movie, Says Kevin Feige By Angie Han/May 6, 2016 3:00 pm EST With Captain America: Civil War in theaters this weekend, Marvel is deep in the middle of another press tour — which means it’s time for more questions about that Black Widow movie they keep not making, which means it’s time for more hopefully somedays and that would be greats and we would love tos....
MondoCon 2016 In Review: Beautiful Art, An Interview With Mondo’s Justin Brookhart, And The 5 Best Posters From The Con By Jacob Hall/Oct. 25, 2016 8:00 am EST One of the first things you notice at MondoCon is that there are people who take this collectible movie poster thing far more seriously than you do. I’m there because the subject matter at hand appeals to my interests. I like pop culture art....
Pete Docter To Direct Pixar Movie Set Inside The Mind [D23 Expo] By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2011 3:45 pm EST Today at the Walt Disney Studios presentation at the D23 Expo, Disney announced two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios. Both films, yet to be officially titled, will be released in the slots following the announced Monsters Inc prequel Monsters University, which hits theaters on June 21st 2013. We just posted about the first of the projects, which involves dinosaurs — read that here....
Puppets And People, Living Together – Mass Hysteria! A Brief History Of Humans Interacting With Puppets On The Big Screen By Rob Hunter/Aug. 22, 2018 12:00 pm EST Puppets have been around as long as people have, and while I have no proof to back up that claim, I think it’s safe to say that our ancestors were playing with puppets from the very first time one of them shoved their hand into a mammoth’s recently slurped duodenum....
Sam Claflin Joins Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2010 1:12 pm EST Disney has issued a press release announcing that British actor Sam Claflin has officially joined the cast of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall ’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. According to the release, Cladlin will “star in the key role of Philip, a youthful missionary.” Claflin is currently working on British television series The Pillars of the Earth in Budapest....
Star Wars Bits: The Han Solo Movie, A Fan Petition For Peter Mayhew, And The Return Of Ian McDiarmid? By Jacob Hall/May 12, 2017 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Han Solo spin-off star Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks about the movie. A fan petition wants Peter Mayhew to cameo in the Han Solo movie. Could Ian McDiarmid play Emperor Palpatine on Star Wars Rebels? Ewan McGregor is still not opposed to an Obi-Wan Kenobi spin-off....
Stop Complaining, ‘Jurassic World’ Almost Featured Dinosaur-Human Hybrids; Filmmaker Defends Genetically Modified Dino Concept By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2014 9:00 am EST Universal released the Jurassic World trailer yesterday (click here if you havent seen it yet) and while I enjoyed it it seems like some people were up in arms over the storyline reveal that the park owners had created a bigger, badder, and genetically-modified dinosaur. In May we exclusively talked to Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow about the genetically modified dinosaur and he explained himself quite nicely....
The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen Featuring Human Hybrids By Rob Hunter/Aug. 10, 2018 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition, we mix it up with a look at movies featuring people who cross their DNA streams with non-people, with typically unfortunate results.) I’m always eyeballs deep in genre movies, but with The Meg opening this weekend I’ve been digging into animal-related horror films a bit more....
The Post-‘Avengers 4’ MCU Is A Lot Like ‘Lost’, According To Evangeline Lilly By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 29, 2017 8:00 am EST Ant-Man and Avengers: Infinity War co-star Evangeline Lilly is currently filming the still-untitled Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel Avengers 4, and the actress has shed some light on the future of the MCU. As it turns out, the different direction the MCU is headed towards in the post-Avengers 4 era is a lot like Lilly’s old TV series Lost....
The Unpopular Opinion: ‘Dead Silence’ Is One Of James Wan’s Best Movies By Matt Donato/Aug. 31, 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 TV show, or sets their sights on something seemingly beloved by all. In this edition: Dead Silence is the first true James Wan movie and an unfairly maligned gem.) It’s impossible to ignore James Wan’s impact on the horror genre over the last decade and change....
What’s The Word On Synecdoche, New York? How About “Obscuritanist”? By Hunter Stephenson/May 23, 2008 7:27 pm EST “Think.” Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York aka If You Can’t Pronounce My Title, You’re an Effin’ Plebe!!! showed at Cannes and the reviews are hitting the Web like steaming intellectual veg patties. We’ll include the plot synopsis at the bottom, but for now just imagine it’s about a former disgruntled employee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of Rockstar Games who spirals into an existential crisis and rebuilds New York City in pixels as a set, and you should be okay....
‘Green Room’ Clip: Get A Taste Of ‘Blue Ruin’ Director’s Punk Rock Thriller By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2015 4:30 pm EST The new film from Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier is called Green Room, and knowledge of the premise and cast was enough to place the film as number two on my “most anticipated of 2015” list, right behind Mad Max: Fury Road. The story features a punk band trapped in a backwater venue after playing an ill-advised gig, and essentially under siege from a racist gang....
‘Loving’ Poster And Early Buzz: Jeff Nichols Hits Cannes With A Historical Romance By Angie Han/May 16, 2016 7:30 am EST Jeff Nichols’ last movie, Midnight Special, has only just left theaters, but he’s already got another one on the way. The filmmaker hit Cannes this week to unveil Loving, his new drama about the 1967 Supreme Court case that struck down anti-miscegenation laws across the country. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga play Richard and Mildred Loving, the mixed-race couple whose marriage is literally on trial, and they take center stage in the very first Loving poster....
‘Mr. Robot’ Review: ‘Kill Process’ Flips The Switch In A Jarring And Explosive Mid-Season Climax By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 16, 2017 8:30 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of USA’s Mr. Robot season 3 by answering one simple question: who had the biggest mental breakdown in this week’s episode?) Just when you thought Mr. Robot couldn’t amp up the tension any more after last week’s single-take episode, Sam Esmail’s ambitious hacker show delivers once again with the visual and auditory cacophony of “Kill Process....
