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This Week In Trailers: Bending Steel, Tales From The Organ Trade, Citizen Hearst, The Happy House, The English Teacher By Christopher Stipp/April 6, 2013 10:00 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Closet Monster, Home, Notes On Blindness, I, Daniel Blake, Gleason By Christopher Stipp/June 18, 2016 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?...

TV Bits: ‘South Park’ Documentary Details, Boardwalk Empire’ Season 2 And ‘Person Of Interest’ Posters, ‘American Horror Story’ Teaser By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2011 7:00 am EST Last week, we reported on an as-yet-untitled documentary about South Park that would be airing on Comedy Central October 2, days ahead of the show’s October 5 return. We now have a bit more detail on what, exactly, the special will be about. According to Playbill (via Collider), the documentary will be:...

‘American Horror Story: Cult’ Review: ‘Valerie Solanas Died For Your Sins: Scumbag’ Sets Up A Bloody Battle Of The Sexes By Aaron Pruner/Oct. 18, 2017 2:30 pm 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?) Everything changed in episode 7 of American Horror Story: Cult. Presenting its overarching story in three acts: Ally’s crumbling sanity, a closer look at Kai Anderson’s (Evan Peters) inner circle, and now, Anderson’s climb to the top....

‘Battlestar Galactica’ Star Richard Hatch Dead At 71 By Jacob Hall/Feb. 8, 2017 10:30 am EST Richard Hatch, the prolific television actor best known for his work in the original Battlestar Galactica as well as the 2003 remake series, has passed away at the age of 71. While never a household name, Hatch holds a special place in the hearts of millions of science fiction fans all over the world as a convention regular and a charismatic ambassador for the genre....

/Film Does The #FilmStruck4: Here Are The Four Movies That Define Us By /Film Staff/April 20, 2018 7:00 am EST If you follow filmmakers and film critics on social media, you’ve probably already encountered the #FilmStruck4. Initiated by Filmstruck, the streaming service dedicated to classic and arthouse films, the hashtag challenges you to pick the four films that “define” you. And now everyone is chiming in. So the /Film staff decided to participate as well, but do so on a slightly larger scale....

/Film Interview: Chris Weitz Talks Adapting ‘Cinderella,’ Changing Directors, And ‘Star Wars’ By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2015 7:00 am EST “Write Cinderella.” On the surface it sounds like a pretty easy task. It’s a well-known story, all the characters are pre-packaged and every major story beat is already locked in. But then you break it down. The original Disney film is about 75 minutes long, the Prince hardly speaks, the mice talk, and we learn very little about the the characters themselves....

‘Godzilla’ Review: Massive Monster Mayhem With A Real Human Point Of View By Germain Lussier/May 16, 2014 5:45 pm EST Note: We’re bumping this review as the film is now in theaters.Godzilla, the remake directed by Gareth Edwards, gives you everything you could want in a big summer monster movie. It just takes its sweet time getting there. A reboot of the classic franchise, Godzilla was constructed with a clear eye cast back to similar monster movies, such as Jaws and Jurassic Park....

‘Just Like Being There:’ A Gig Poster Documentary, Now In Production By Germain Lussier/July 31, 2011 8:00 am EST /Film is proud to exclusively announce that a previously untitled, currently in production documentary on the world of gig posters has officially been dubbed Just Like Being There. The crew, lead by director by Scout Shannon and producer by Johanna Goldstein, has been traveling the country documenting some of the best poster artists in the business and they plan on releasing a movie about this world....

‘Mr. Robot’ - The 4 Hidden Quests In “Python Part 1” By Corey Atad/Sept. 15, 2016 10:15 am EST “You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.” So begins one of the most important, influential video games ever made. Infocom’s Zork was birthed in an MIT lab in the late 1970s. It was released to the public as a series of text-based adventure games in the early ’80s, and went on to shape much of the structure present in modern adventure and exploration games....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Producer Amy Pascal Explains How Spider-Man Came Home To The MCU [Interview] By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2017 9:40 am EST Amy Pascal is one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. The former head of Sony Pictures was instrumental in making the deal that returned Peter Parker to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When I was on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming, it seemed clear that her producer credit was not just a title – she was on set behind the monitor, playing a very active role in the creative decisions of the reboot....

‘The Making Of Star Wars’ Is The Silly, Dated, Behind-The-Scenes Documentary That Changed My Life By Andrew Todd/May 25, 2018 10:00 am EST The phrase “The Making of Star Wars” could refer to three things. First, and most obviously, there’s the actual process of making George Lucas’ 1977 film. Second, the comprehensive and excellent nonfiction tome by J.W. Rinzler, published in 2007. But to me, the most significant is The Making of Star Wars, a 1977 made-for-TV documentary special that, if anything, says more in hindsight than it did upon its original airing....

‘To Dust’ Review: A Uniquely Humorous Hasidic Jewish Story Of Death And Life [Tribeca] By Marshall Shaffer/April 26, 2018 11:00 am EST Death makes fools of us all because it exposes the limitations of human knowledge. We may have strong beliefs about what happens after our final breath, but none among us truly knows what happens. That uncertainty can gnaw away at those left behind with little more than the memory and the body of the recently departed....

14 Transformers Movies In Development, Here Are The Ones We Know About By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2017 10:00 am EST Michael Bay has revealed that Paramount is currently developing 14 Transformers movies. We’ve rounded up what we know about the Transformers movies revealed to be in development so far. The filmmaker mentioned during promotion for Transformers: The Last Knight at CinemaCon that the Transformers writers room has outlined 14 more stories set in the Transformers universe....

85th Academy Award Nominations: ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild,’ ‘Lincoln,’ And ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Earn Major Recognition By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2013 6:14 am EST Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to announce the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards. Academy members nominated nine contenders for Best Picture, with Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty all in the mix....

Christopher Nolan Explains ‘Dunkirk’s PG-13 Rating: “It’s Not A War Film” Wait… What? By Ben Pearson/April 4, 2017 12:00 pm EST Well, I feel a little foolish. Ever since Inception director Christopher Nolan announced, he’d be making a film called Dunkirk that centers on one of the turning points in World War II, I assumed he’d be making a traditional war movie. But in a new interview, Nolan defends the film’s PG-13 rating and specifically says that despite its setting, Dunkirk “is not a war film....

Comic-Con: JJ Abrams And Joss Whedon [Part 2] (With Full Video) By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2010 9:00 am EST On Thursday, July 23rd 2010, Entertainment Weekly held a panel at Comic-Con entitled “The Visionaries”, which was basically a “discussion with geek gods J. J. Abrams (Star Trek) and Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on the future of pop culture” conducted by EW’s Jeff “Doc” Jensen. “EW presents an in-depth conversation with these two creative geniuses about how technology, gaming, and global culture are reshaping how we tell and consume stories on television, film and the web....

A Brief History of Casino Royale ‘67 I’m still not quite sure if my Bond education was an unusual one, but I grew up understanding that the 1967 Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again were asterisks in James Bond history: films that weren’t officially “canon” as it were, as they, formally, diverted from the conventions and tropes that had become an established part of the franchise. More logistically, they weren’t produced by EON Productions, the company, started by producers Albert R....

Everything We Learned From The ‘Rogue One’ Press Conference By Jacob Hall/Dec. 7, 2016 8:00 am EST The morning after watching 28 minutes of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I joined the rest of the gathered press as we reconvened at Lucasfilm for a full day of interviews (which you can read right over here). But before that, we assembled for the group press conference, moderated by StarWars.com’s Andi Gutierrez....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Black & White ‘Silver’ Sounds Completely Bonkers By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2015 1:00 pm EST After having the first iteration of The Hobbit and the adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness fall through his fingers, director Guillermo del Toro focused his time on the big sci-fi action adventure Pacific Rim and then moved back into horror territory for the forthcoming Crimson Peak (in theaters later this week)....