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Was Rey Ever Going To Be A “Real” Skywalker? The New ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Art Book Has A Potential Answer By Chris Evangelista/April 1, 2020 11:00 am EST When we first met Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there was plenty of mystery surrounding just who she was. Flashbacks showed her family deserting her on Jakku, and then there was the fact that she was able to yield the Force with great ability and strength....

By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 19, 2019 9:30 am EST The movie is officially described with this brief description: The press release also lists the official cast, which includes Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park, Owen Wilson and Bill Murray. That’s an impressive assembly of talent, but it appears to be missing some names that were reported to be involved previously....

Why ‘Happy Endings’ Continues To Endure, According To The Russo Brothers By Jack Giroux/Nov. 20, 2019 3:00 pm EST Have you ever experienced the simple pleasures of binge-watching the show Happy Endings? If not, you’re missing out, because in a word: it’s ah-mah-zing. The ABC series is a warm blanket of a comedy with its lovable characters and kind-hearted sense of humor. Even its opening credits create a warm feeling. Created by David Caspe (Black Monday), the comedy lasted for three seasons, two years, and 57 episodes, and while that is a lot of content and fun to be had, it was still canceled too soon....

‘1917’ Editor Lee Smith On Being The Film’s Invisible Secret Weapon [Interview] By Jack Giroux/April 3, 2020 9:00 am EST The “hidden man” is how editor Lee Smith sees himself in 1917. Not for a second did Smith want audiences paying attention to his cuts or tricks, but to instead immerse themselves in director Sam Mendes’ World War I story, which is constructed to take place in one seemingly unbroken take....

‘47 Meters Down: Uncaged’ Review: This Jump-Scare Shark Sequel Isn’t Worth Sea-Ing By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 14, 2019 7:00 am EST Ever since Steven Spielberg unleashed a great white off the shores of Amity, sharks have been chowing down on swimmers on the big and small screen. Much like sharks themselves, the sharksploitation subgenre has to continue to swim or it will die. Nothing will ever come close to Spielberg’s Jaws, but every now and then we get a nice surprise – like 2016’s The Shallows....

‘Akudama Drive’ Is The Cyberpunk Suicide Squad Anime You Never Knew You Wanted By Rafael Motamayor/Jan. 27, 2021 9:00 am EST It’s been nearly four decades since the cyberpunk genre began to take shape, and it’s been sadly strip-mined of its urgency and turned into a retro aesthetic that is served to audiences by the same multi-billion-dollar corporations that the genre was built to criticize. Sure, the neon lights shining in the rain, and the urban futurism still looks cool, but there’s rarely anything new or of value being said in most modern cyberpunk stories....

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Returning To Theaters This Month By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2020 1:00 pm EST Alita: Battle Angel, a movie that’s been on Blu-ray and digital since July 2019, is headed back to theaters in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Why? Who’s to say, really? But while the film was not a hit in the U.S., it did well overseas and it’s developed a steady fan following. This could all be a test: if Alita does well in re-release, perhaps a sequel will be greenlit....

‘Avatar 2’ Concept Art Takes You Back To Pandora By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 7, 2020 6:01 am EST The greatest box office phenomenon that barely made a dent in pop culture is coming back, and it’s trying to get you hyped for a return to Pandora. The lush alien planet of James Cameron’s Avatar was admittedly one of the biggest appeals of the sci-fi film, so the director is wisely putting the spotlight on the beautiful world in four new pieces of Avatar 2 concept art....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Is A “Feminist Film” That Offers “A Real Look” At Misogyny, Ewan McGregor Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 11, 2019 12:45 pm EST You can’t spell superhero girl gang movie without “feminist” — figuratively, of course. But it seems obvious that the Margot Robbie-led Birds of Prey would be a feminist film. It has a mostly female-cast, it is written and directed by women, and it is a movie about a comic book character stepping out from under the shadow of Batman’s most famous rogue....

‘El Camino’ Had Two Alternate Endings And The Original Cut Ran Three Hours By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 14, 2019 11:30 am EST When Aaron Paul’s long-suffering Jesse Pinkman crashed a stolen El Camino through the fences of the white supremacist compound where he had been kept enslaved in the explosive Breaking Bad finale in 2013, his fate was left on an ecstatic but ambiguous note. Six years later, we find out the aftermath of Jesse’s escape from the neo-Nazis who had tortured him in this weekend’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie....

‘Gretel And Hansel’ Review: A Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 31, 2020 7:00 am EST A brooding, beautiful, mystical bedtime story, Gretel and Hansel has been delegated to a release in the dead days of January, but deserves better. Oz Perkins’s mystical, occult-heavy take on the classic folktale from the Brothers Grimm has so much style, and so many bold ideas, that it seems destined to become a cult classic someday – the type of film people find years from now and ask, “Why the hell haven’t I heard of this before?...

‘Jungle Cruise’ Trailer: Dwayne Johnson And Emily Blunt Go On An Adventure By Chris Evangelista/March 10, 2020 6:04 am EST It’s time yet again for Disney to turn one of their theme park rides into a big blockbuster. Jungle Cruise follows in the footsteps of the successful Pirates of the Caribbean series, taking the Jungle Cruise ride and adapting it into an action-packed, effects-filled adventure with some charismatic leads. Those leads are Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, who play a reluctantly paired duo searching for the Tree of Life....

‘Long Way Up’ Trailer: Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman Hit The Road By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 1, 2020 4:00 pm EST After riding their bikes for the British TV series Long Way Round and Long Way Down, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back in the saddle for Long Way Up, a new Apple TV+ series. The first three episodes of the show will drop on Apple TV+ on September 18, and ahead of that, we finally have a trailer that features McGregor and Boorman looking appropriately scruffy as they head out on their bikes....

‘Miss Americana’ Trailer: Taylor Swift Is Ready To Be Herself By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 22, 2020 10:30 am EST The Netflix doc Miss Americana wants to introduce you to a little known indie sensation. Her name is Taylor Swift – have you heard of her? Of course you have, I’m just being a smart-ass. Taylor Swift is a mega-star – a pop icon known worldwide. But according to Swift herself, she was never really free to be herself – until now....

‘No Time To Die’ Motorcycle Stunt Sprayed Street With 8,400 Gallons Of Coca-Cola, Presumably Shaken, Not Stirred By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2020 4:00 pm EST Even though Tom Cruise and the Mission: Impossible franchise have become known for their death-defying practical stunts, Daniel Craig and the James Bond franchise have staged their fair share of cinematic mayhem. In fact, one particular No Time to Die stunt during the film’s production in Matera, Italy required a city street to be sprayed with 8,400 gallons of Coca-Cola, and it’s not even an egregious piece of production placement where James Bond crashes into a Coca-Cola truck....

‘Tenet’ Featurette: How “The Plan” Came Together For Travis Scott To End The Movie With Style By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2020 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Christopher Nolan’s complex time inversion blockbuster Tenet is finally leaving theaters and coming to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD just in time for Christmas. To hype the forthcoming home video release, Warner Bros. Pictures released a featurette that showcases hip-hop artist Travis Scott’s original song “The Plan” and how it came to be in the movie....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Adds Michael Biehn As Another Bounty Hunter By Chris Evangelista/March 24, 2020 12:53 pm EST Michael Biehn is ready to suit-up for The Mandalorian season 2. The Aliens actor has joined the cast of the Disney+ series, playing a bounty hunter character from the Mandalorian’s past. Biehn is the latest new cast member to the show, joining the recently announced Rosario Dawson, who is playing fan-favorite character Ahsoka Tano....

‘The Simpsons’ Aspect Ratio Problem On Disney+ Will Finally Get Fixed On May 28 By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2020 10:30 am EST When Disney+ launched last fall, one of the more appealing pieces of the streaming service’s library of content was access to every single episode of The Simpsons (with one major exception). However, that ended up being a disappointment because a bunch of The Simpsons episodes that were originally broadcast in the 4:3 full screen aspect ratio (before high-definition, widescreen televisions came along), had been zoomed and cropped to fill a 16:19 widescreen format....

‘To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ First Look: Lara Jean And Her Boys Are As Adorable As Ever By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 12, 2019 3:30 pm EST Last year, the internet lost their collective minds over Peter Kavinsky, Noah Centineo’s dreamboat teen hunk who romances Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) in Netflix’s surprise rom-com mega-hit To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. But the upcoming sequel, To All The Boys: P....

‘Watchmen’ Showrunner Damon Lindelof Talks About The Giant Squid Attack, Plus: Watch A Trailer For The Next Episode By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 18, 2019 11:30 am EST The infamous giant alien squid made its onscreen debut during last night’s Watchmen, and it was quite a stunning reveal. During a flashback sequence to 1985, we see the aftermath of the squid being dropped onto the Big Apple, with its aftershocks rippling all the way to Hoboken, New Jersey....