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Bride of Frankenstein Now Streaming on Shudder Shudder, the good eggs that they are, went ahead and put a whole plethora of classic Universal monster movies on their service this week. Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, they’re all there, and more! Sadly, Tom Cruise’s Mummy movie doesn’t make an appearance, so if you’re hoping for something like that, might I advise sticking your face into a bag of garbage? While the majority of the Universal classics Shudder has made available are all worth watching, the best of the bunch is James Whale’s 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein....

Richard Taylor And Weta Workshop Built On ‘The Hobbit’ Tech To Create ‘Warcraft’ Weapons By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2015 9:30 am EST One of the best things about Comic Con is getting up close and personal with objects and costumes designed for many films. Weta Workshop is here with artifacts from Duncan Jones’s film Warcraft, for example. While waiting to speak to Jones at Legendary’s preview night event, I got a few minutes of private conversation with Richard Taylor, the Weta Workshop founder and creative director whose work with armor and weapons gave such weight to the Lord of the Rings movies....

Sequel Bits: ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’, ‘Riddick’, ‘Bond 24’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘The World’s End’ By Angie Han/Aug. 29, 2013 10:00 am EST How can you get “The Ultimate Insidious Experience”? Find out after the jump. Also: Daniel Craig wants more “irony” in Bond 24 How did Shaun of the Dead inspire The World’s End? The Scorpion King 4 is a thing that is happening The new Transformers 4 logo has claw marks Toys R Us is ready for the influx of Dinobots toys Vin Diesel flirts and fights in new clips from Riddick If a mere 100 minutes of horror aren’t enough to spook you, you can get twice the the scares with “The Ultimate Insidious Experience” double feature next month....

Sequel Bits: Bill Murray Sets ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Rumor Mill Churning Again, Plus: ‘Expendables 2’, ‘Men In Black 3’, ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’, ‘Taken 2’, ‘Star Trek 2’ By Angie Han/April 16, 2012 3:00 pm EST Every time I think the whole back-and-forth about Bill Murray and Ghostbusters 3 is finally drawing to a close, somehow it comes roaring back again. This time, Murray is the one who’s not ruling out the possibility, however small, of his involvement....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Robin Hood, The Secret In Their Eyes, Community (Season 1), Modern Family (Season 1), And More By Adam Quigley/Sept. 21, 2010 6:40 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s been asserted more than once that Community didn’t start becoming good until well into its first season, and while I’d agree that the series became more assured as it went on, I’d disagree that its early episodes are any less worth watching than its later ones....

This Week In Trailers: Risk, Whose Streets?, The Recall, Naples ‘44 By Christopher Stipp/May 6, 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?...

This Week In Trailers: The Woods, Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats), Shut Up Little Man, Uncle Kent, The Chaperone By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 28, 2011 7:00 pm 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?...

TV Bits: ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘New Girl’, ‘Homeland’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, Larry David, Ricky Gervais By Angie Han/May 22, 2013 4:30 pm EST AMC’s keeping their fingers crossed that The Walking Dead will never, ever end. Also after the jump: Ricky Gervais’ Derek comes to Netflix this fall ABC reveals plans to finish 666 Park Ave and Apt. 23 Will Damon Wayans Jr. return to New Girl? Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain adds a Twilight star Emma Roberts boards American Horror Story Homeland gets some fresh faces First pics from Bonnie & Clyde revealed See teasers for Newsroom, Boardwalk Empire, and Clear History...

Uma Thurman’s Motherhood Opens To $131 In The UK By David Chen/March 29, 2010 12:03 pm EST Motherhood, the 2009 film written by Katherine Dieckmann and starring Uma Thurman, recently opened in the U.K. in one theater. Theoretically, the exclusivity was supposed to drive buzz for the film, which has Thurman playing a harried New Yorker juggling the CRAZY responsibilities of motherhood, marriage, and work during the course of one day....

‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Will Be A Dark Take On A Classic Monster Movie Brawl By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2017 10:30 am EST Godzilla vs. Kong will be the monster movie fight of the century. And director Adam Wingard promises that it will be different from last century’s fight between the two beasts. The culmination of the Warner Bros. shared MonsterVerse that began with 2014’s Godzilla, as well as more than 50 years of the two classic movie monsters’ pop culture iconography, Godzilla vs....

‘Nocturnal Animals’ Posters, Photos And Early Buzz: ‘A Single Man’ Director’s Romantic Crime Thriller By Jack Giroux/Sept. 9, 2016 3:00 pm EST Fashion extraordinaire Tom Ford’s second feature film is finally coming out. Ford made his directorial debut six years ago with A Single Man, a beautiful and often painful film about love and loss, and now he’s back with a very different type of movie. His latest, Nocturnal Animals, sounds like a real trip, almost like two films in one that, according to critics, calls to mind the works of Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sam Peckinpah....

‘Overlord’ Review: Are You Ready For A Sensational, Bloodcurdling, Gnarly Nazi Zombie Flick? [Fantastic Fest] By Matt Donato/Sept. 23, 2018 10:30 am EST Julius Avery’s Overlord – fatigue-green pulp torn from Wolfenstein video games and sinister sci-fi abominations – delivers almost exactly what the words “WWII Nazi Zombie Movie” dare to suggest. Shades of The Thing, Re-Animator, and countless hardcore horror influences mystify sledgehammer-heavy “grunts and grit” military warfare. No sacrificing “one or the other” when it comes to Saving Private Ryan tactics vs....

‘The Witch In The Window’ Is Another Great 2018 Horror Movie About The Terrors Of Parenting [Fantasia Film Festival] By Matt Donato/July 27, 2018 12:00 pm EST Andy Mitton might be without frequent behind-the-scenes partner Jesse Holland (YellowBrickRoad/We Go On) for The Witch In The Window, but separation anxiety is handily staved. As sole writer and director, Mitton embraces parenthood paranoias of this very instant by furthering his obsession with heavyweight thematic manipulations in genre fare....

‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ Is One Of 2018’s Best Undistributed Films And A Journey Worth Every Tear You’ll Shed [Fantasia Film Festival] By Matt Donato/Aug. 1, 2018 10:00 am EST How Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid has played some fourteen film festivals and still doesn’t have distribution outside Mexico is astonishing. Her spectacularly moving childhood journey bursts with Guillermo del Toro parallels, corpse-risen terror and emotional hard-knocks that’ll both singe and chill your core....

Avengers Infinity War Trailer Breakdown: The Avengers Are Disassembled As Earth Comes Under Attack By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 29, 2017 10:30 am EST The first trailer for Avengers: Infinity War has been released, and it’s a doozy. A comic book movie 10 years in the making, the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe promises to be the epic showdown we were teased ever since Thanos appeared for 0.5 seconds at the end of 2012’s Avengers....

Edgar Wright Predicted ‘Baby Driver’ Oscar Noms In 2014, Won Awards Bet With Kumail Nanjiani By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 24, 2018 9:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced earlier this week, and while Edgar Wright’s music-driven heist film Baby Driver didn’t end up with any nods in the major categories, the film did end up with a few technical awards, including Best Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Design....

Episode 8 Bits: A New Scene Described, Updates On Finn, And A Weird Day For Maz/Chewie Shippers By Jacob Hall/Oct. 11, 2016 3:00 pm EST In this edition of Episode 8 Bits: Details on an action scene in Star Wars: Episode 8. Notes on how Finn recovers from his The Force Awakens injuries. Lupita Nyong’o addresses the possibility of a Maz Kanta/Chewbacca relationship. Adam Driver clarifies his statement about Episode 8 being like The Empire Strikes Back....

Friday Box Office: Brave One With $4.8M, $15.1M 3-Day; Eastern Promises And Across The Universe Huge PTA! By Steve Mason/Sept. 14, 2007 11:47 pm EST Entering the weekend, Jodie Foster’s last 3 films had all debuted with more than $20M on opening weekend. Neil Jordan’s The Brave One (Warner Bros) will snap that streak, as the new street vengeance thriller opened to $4.8M Friday. That will translate to an estimated $15....

Interview: Michael Shannon On Getting Crazy For The Runaways, Images Of Bloodied Girls, And HBO’s Boardwalk Empire By Hunter Stephenson/March 19, 2010 2:00 pm EST In the new rock biopic, The Runaways, a glum Kristen Stewart sits poolside, suckling vodka from a water pistol before pushing it suggestively down the front of her stomach. In a separate scene, she coaches a bathing teenage band mate on how to get wet using a mental image of Farrah Fawcett and a shower head....

Interview: Producer Gale Anne Hurd On How Syfy’s ‘Hunters’ Makes Aliens Scary Again By Fred Topel/April 8, 2016 7:00 am EST Gale Anne Hurd has made movies about aliens. In fact, one of the greatest of all time, the sequel Aliens. She also produced one of my personal favorites, Alien Nation. So the news that Gale Anne Hurd is back in the alien game should mean a lot. She is producing the new show Hunters on Syfy....