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Jamie Bell And Margaret Qualley Are Going To Swing Time Into A Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers Biopic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 11, 2020 5:00 pm EST Astaire and Rogers are probably the most famous dancing partners in cinema, starring in a total of 10 films together, including classics like The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Swing Time, and Shall We Dance. Not all of those films are all-time greats, nor are the beloved classics imperfect either (each one is basically a rehash of The Gay Divorcee’s formula, in which Astaire’s character aggressively pursues Roger’s character, and they clash only to find a kinship through dance) but damn, did Astair and Rogers look good when they danced together....

Steven Spielberg Introduces American Film Institute’s New Movie Club, Which Kicks Off With ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ By Ben Pearson/March 31, 2020 3:00 pm EST While we’re all stuck inside for the immediate future, we could use a little dose of good news. Enter Steven Spielberg, who’s here with a video announcement to kick off the American Film Institute’s new movie club, “a daily virtual gathering to leverage our collective love of film on behalf of optimism in this time of global uncertainty....

Ted Danson Knows Everybody’s Name In Upcoming Virtual ‘Cheers,’ ‘The Good Place,’ And ‘Three Men And A Baby’ Reunion Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 18, 2020 5:30 pm EST Ted Danson knows better than anyone that making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got — especially in the year 2020. So the star of beloved sitcoms like Cheers, The Good Place, and comedy classic Three Men and a Baby is creating a space where he knows everybody’s name, in a virtual reunion for all three titles....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Heaven’s Gate: The Cult Of Cults’ Tries To Explain How People Succumb To Cognitive Dissonance By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 9, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series: Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of CultsWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: A docuseries that examines Heaven’s Gate, a UFO cult with 39 members who died by mass suicide in 1997....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Return Of The Living Dead’ Is Ready To Party By Chris Evangelista/July 22, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: The Return of the Living DeadWhere You Can Stream It: ShudderThe Pitch: Punks vs. Zombies!!Why It’s Essential Quarantine Viewing: The ultimate horror-comedy, The Return of the Living Dead introduced both brain-eating zombies and zombies who can talk to the undead lexicon....

This Year’s Emmys Will Not Have A Host, But Will Offer “Many Surprises” By Ben Pearson/Aug. 7, 2019 12:30 pm EST Entertainment Weekly was in the room when Collier announced that there would be no Emmys host this year, and he acknowledged that the Oscars’ increased ratings were a factor in their decision – but it wasn’t the defining factor. Instead, he pointed out that it’s “a pretty unique year for some of America’s favorite shows and it was the right thing to do....

‘Books Of Blood’ Trailer: The Work Of Clive Barker Inspires A New Hulu Horror Movie By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 23, 2020 3:00 pm EST Clive Barker’s series of short stories gathered in the Books of Blood collections have served as inspirations for several movies: The Midnight Meat Train, Rawhead Rex, Quicksilver Highway, Lord of Illusions, Dread, and, the best of the bunch, Candyman. There was also another movie called Book of Blood released in 2018....

‘Cobra Kai’ Creators Say Season 3 Will Be The Biggest Yet, Explain Why Netflix Is The Perfect New Home By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2020 9:30 am EST Netflix recently announced that the original series Cobra Kai, a sequel to the Karate Kid film franchise that YouTube supported for two seasons, would be arriving on the streaming service sometime in the future. YouTube has pulled back on how much they’re spending on original narrative programming, so Netflix is also picking up the show’s third season....

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Aiming To Resume Production In July, Set Will Be Taking More Extreme Health Measures By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2020 10:30 am EST With the United Kingdom resuming film and television production with extensive safety guidelines in place to avoid the spread of coronavirus, several Hollywood projects are planning to get back to work. Among them will be Jurassic World: Dominion, and even though Universal Pictures is happy to follow the protocols that have been approved by the various UK and US production crew unions, the studio will actually be taking more extreme measures when they resume production next month....

‘Little Joe’ Review: A Disquieting And Precise Blend Of Sci-Fi, Horror, And Human Drama By Marshall Shaffer/Dec. 5, 2019 9:00 am EST Maybe it’s the success of TV’s Black Mirror, maybe it’s just the general state of the world, but it feels a bit like we need our high-concept science fiction delivered to us in purely dystopian form. Technological advances are inherently suspicious, the conventional wisdom seems to suggest. Our humanity alone might not be enough to save us....

‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels Won’t Send Tom Cruise To Space, But Will Make Christopher McQuarrie Puke In A Bucket By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 10, 2020 11:30 am EST The Mission: Impossible movies have become synonyms with crazy-ass stunts. Tom Cruise loves to risk his life for our entertainment, and while we know very little about the next two Mission: Impossible sequels, there’s one thing we can all bank on: Tommy Cruise will do some dangerous shit....

‘Possessor’ Director Brandon Cronenberg On Crafting The Most Nightmarish Film Of The 2020 Sundance Film Festival [Interview] By Jason Gorber/Feb. 11, 2020 8:00 am EST After an eight-year period of development, director Brandon Cronenberg returns with his sophomore feature Possessor, a seductive and macabre crime thriller that mixes body horror, near-future nihilism and noir elements to deliver a funky, freaky brew. In his Sundance review /Film’s Chris Evangelista called it “unrelentingly aggressive”, finding the film “special and exciting....

‘The Long Walk’ Stares Death In The Face And Refuses To Look Away [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Matt Donato/Sept. 29, 2019 11:00 am EST It’s no secret how collective audiences view cinema, any genre, as an escape. This leads to “Hollywoodized” representations of fantastical storybook livelihoods and blind eyes turned to inescapable hardships. Foreign filmmakers like Mattie Do aren’t beholden to such candy-coating at this year’s Fantastic Fest, which allows movies like The Long Walk to express more honesty and earnestness....

‘The New Mutants’ And ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Officially Receive PG-13 Ratings By Ben Pearson/March 4, 2020 2:00 pm EST The lords and ladies of the mysterious MPAA have emerged from their castle on high to peer down and toss a pair of ratings to two upcoming movies. (I’m pretty sure that’s how the rating system works. Don’t fact check that.) 20th Century Studios’ long-delayed X-Men film The New Mutants and Paramount’s horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II have now both officially received PG-13 ratings, so you scheming youngsters out there can breathe a sigh of relief and scrap your plans to sneak in after buying tickets to Onward....

‘The Secret Commonwealth’ Review: Can ‘His Dark Materials’ Grow Up? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 14, 2020 7:00 am EST But 25 years later, His Dark Materials is ready for adulthood. The author made a highly anticipated return to the world of His Dark Materials (after a brief sojourn in 2003 with the short story Lyra’s Oxford) with 2017’s La Belle Sauvage, the first installment in a new spin-off trilogy The Book of Dust....

‘The Skywalker Legacy’ Footage Goes Behind-The-Scenes Of ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Chris Evangelista/March 9, 2020 2:01 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker closed-out the Skywalker Saga, whether we like it or not (and that’s an argument we’ll be having for some time). Now that the dust has settled, it might be time to revisit the final entry when it arrives on digital and then Blu-ray this month....

‘The Thing’ Remake Based On Original Novel In The Works At Universal And Blumhouse By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 28, 2020 10:30 am EST Universal and Blumhouse may be teaming up to remake The Thing, with the new version based on the recently surfaced long-lost pages of the original novel by John W. Campbell Jr. Campbell Jr.’s short novella, Who Goes There? — which became the basis for three previous film adaptations — was originally published in the August 1938 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, but had been cut down for publication....

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Introduces The New Cadets And Their Call Signs By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 29, 2020 11:30 am EST Top Gun: Maverick soars into theaters this summer. Though the title would indicate that this movie is all about the return of Tom Cruise as one of the best aviators the Navy has ever seen, there are plenty of other up-and-coming cadets who will be getting screentime next to him. We already know Miles Teller is playing the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt....

‘Upstate’: Ryan Reynolds To Star In And Co-Write Netflix Comedy With John August By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 25, 2020 1:30 pm EST Ryan Reynolds is heading Upstate. The 6 Underground star has struck up his next project with Netflix, teaming with his The Nines director John August to co-write an original feature comedy called Upstate, which is being eyed as a starring vehicle for Reynolds. Deadline broke the news that Netflix has made a deal with Reynolds and August for the original feature comedy Upstate, which is being set up with the intention for Reynolds to star....

31 Days Of Streaming Horror: ‘Lake Mungo’ Is A Unique And Heart-Wrenching Ghost Story By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 1, 2019 7:00 am EST Welcome to 31 Days of Streaming Horror. Every day this October we’ll be highlighting a different streaming horror movie to help you get into the Halloween spirit. Today’s entry: Lake Mungo (2008). Lake Mungo 31 Days Of Streaming Horror: ‘Lake Mungo’ Is A Unique And Heart-Wrenching Ghost Story...