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Watch ‘Joker’ Director Todd Phillips Break Down The Opening Scene By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 8, 2019 11:30 am EST Todd Phillips got together with the good folks at Vanity Fair to break down the opening scene of his movie Joker. The scene is our first introduction to the tormented Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), the man who will one day become Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime. Love or hate Phillips’ film, this is an interesting video and gives you a glimpse into what Phillips was going for with his ultra-dark comic book movie....

‘A Good Woman Is Hard To Find’ Review: A Lean, Mean And Brutal Crime Thriller [FrightFest 2019] By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 2, 2019 8:00 am EST Director Abner Pastoll made a great first impression with his 2015 debut feature Road Games, the bilingual, twisted tale set in France and starring Barbara Crampton. For his sophomore film, Pastoll trades the rural France setting and the Hitchcockian vibes for a Park Chan Wook-esque thriller and the gritty realism of urban Ireland in A Good Woman Is Hard To Find....

‘American Dream’ Trailer: Longtime Spielberg Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski Directs A Crime Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 10, 2020 3:00 pm EST A Dutch actor and an Australian actor play two American brothers fighting for the “American Dream” in a gritty crime thriller directed by Steven Spielberg’s longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. Fittingly, the movie is called…American Dream. But don’t let the irony of the lead actors’ countries of origin stop you from watching the newly released trailer for American Dream below....

‘Back To The Future’ Is Crossing Over With ‘Transformers’ With A New Toy And Comic Miniseries By Ethan Anderton/July 2, 2020 12:00 pm EST Just last year, Transformers crossed over with Ghostbusters in the form of a comic book miniseries from IDW. The mash-up of robots and paranormal exterminators also resulted in a new Transformers toy that turned the Ecto-1 into an Aubobot. Now another one of cinema’s most famous vehicles will be getting the same treatment as Back to the Future is getting a Transformers crossover comic miniseries that will see the DeLorean time machine turned into an Autobot too....

‘Dark Phoenix’ Was The Biggest Box Office Bomb Of 2019, Losing $133 Million By Chris Evangelista/April 29, 2020 12:00 pm EST The 2020 box office is currently paused, so let’s jump in the Wayback machine and look at the biggest failure of 2019, shall we? A new report reveals that the biggest box office bomb of 2019 was none other than X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the final nail in the coffin of Fox’s X-Men franchise....

‘Evil Eye’ First Look: Revenge, Reincarnation, And Indian Mythology Come To Blumhouse By Jacob Hall/Aug. 14, 2020 9:00 am EST Based on the Audible Original by Madhuri Shekar, Evil Eye tells the story of Pallavi (Sunita Mani, from Netflix’s GLOW), who has found the perfect man in New Orleans. But when she relays the news to her mother Usha (Sarita Choudhury, Mississippi Masala) back in Delhi, India, a terrifying family secret creeps to the surface....

‘First Cow’, One Of 2020’s Most Acclaimed Movies, Is Getting A Digital Release Next Week By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2020 5:30 pm EST Before the coronavirus changed everything, Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow was generating great buzz from film fans. After a successful festival run, A24 released the movie to theaters March 6, 2020. But by the end of March, movie theaters were shutting down, and A24 pulled First Cow, with promises to re-release it theatrically when things were back to normal....

‘Ford V Ferrari’ Review: James Mangold’s Racing Drama Thrills When On The Track, Slogs When Off [TIFF 2019] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 10, 2019 12:00 pm EST Ford v Ferrari is an old-school Hollywood drama – the type that is in short supply these days. It has movie stars! It has an uplifting, all-American message! It has timely needle-drops that make you perk-up and say, “Hey, I love that song!” We need more movies like this, especially these days – when multiplexes are overrun with franchises and superheroes....

‘Ghostbusters’ Answers The Call Of Independence Day Audiences, Topping Last Weekend’s Box Office Charts By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2020 3:30 pm EST Audiences made the call for more movies to bring them out of quarantine, and Ghostbusters answered. More than 35 years after the 1984 supernatural comedy classic hit theaters, Ghostbusters found itself at the top of the box office again, raking in $550,000 over the three-day Independence Day weekend and claiming the number one spot on the charts....

‘Indiana Jones’ Trilogy Honest Trailer: The Adventures Of A Terrible Professor And Archaeologist By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2020 6:00 am EST The adventures of Indiana Jones make up a near-perfect trilogy where the biggest problem is that they didn’t just come to an end. Instead, we got the disaster that is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which is why we’re getting an Honest Trailer of just the original Indiana Jones trilogy....

‘It: Chapter Two’: Guillermo Del Toro Almost Had A Cameo, Details About A Deleted Scene, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 27, 2019 10:00 am EST Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro nearly had a cameo in Andy Muschietti’s It: Chapter Two, the upcoming sequel to the 2017 mega-hit. We got the details about that near-cameo and much more at the film’s press conference, where Andy Muschietti, his producing partner (and sister) Barbara Muschietti, writer Gary Dauberman, star Bill Skarsgärd, and both the young and adult Losers Club cast members talked about bringing author Stephen King’s classic story to the big screen....

‘Mighty Ducks’ TV Series Details Revealed: Here’s What The Disney+ Series Is About By Ben Pearson/Nov. 6, 2019 3:00 pm EST Early last year, a report came out revealing that Disney planned to turn its beloved 1990s franchise The Mighty Ducks into a TV series. Last November, word arrived that the show was being configured for the new streaming service Disney+, but things have been quiet since then. Now we finally have some news about the upcoming show, including a logline which lays out how this story will be slightly different than the movies that ’90s kids grew up watching....

‘Standing Up, Falling Down’ Trailer: Ben Schwartz And Billy Crystal Pal Around In A Small Town By Ben Pearson/Jan. 12, 2020 1:00 pm EST If you put Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation) and Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally) in a room together, comedic magic will happen. A new film called Standing Up, Falling Down bets big on this basic idea, and according to our review from last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the film succeeds largely because of their standout performances....

‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Unveils A Brand New Lightsaber From A More “Civilized Age” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 24, 2020 7:30 am EST As Obi-Wan Kenobi says, lightsabers are “elegant weapons for a more civilized age” — so what exactly did they look like during that civilized age? That’s what the Lucasfilm creative team had to figure out while designing the new lightsaber for the Jedi Knights of the High Republic in the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia story....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Kicks Off Final Season Premiere With “Into The Unknown” By Caroline Cao/Oct. 6, 2019 5:00 pm EST From where we last left off in Star Wars Resistance, the Colossus is sailing into the cosmos. Kazuda Xiono (Christopher Sean) witnessed the Starkiller base’s annihilation of his homeworld, Hosnian Prime, and is unsure if his family survived the attack. Disgruntled by Kaz’s and Jared Yeager’s (Scott Lawrence) deceptions, Kaz’s fellow mechanic, Tam Ryvora (Suzie McGrath) has made the choice to jump aboard the First Order shuttle with the conniving Agent Tierny (Sumalee Montano), the former naïve to the First Order atrocities....

‘Tenet’ Trailer Breakdown: Has Christopher Nolan Made A Time Travel Movie? By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2019 11:30 am EST Christopher Nolan loves playing with time. Films like Inception and Dunkirk are both based around a ticking-clock timeline, and Memento runs in reverse order. And now he might be going all-in with a time travel movie. Maybe. After a theater-only teaser, the first Tenet trailer has arrived online, and as is usually the case with a Nolan movie, it’s mysterious as hell....

‘The Little Things’ First Look: Denzel Washington And Jared Leto Star In Mystery Thriller By Ben Pearson/Dec. 21, 2020 2:00 pm EST Director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, The Founder) is back with a new psychological thriller called The Little Things, which follows a pair of police officers (played by Oscar winners Denzel Washington and future Bond villain Rami Malek) as they try to solve a murder in Los Angeles....

‘The Mandalorian’ Goes Full ‘Seven Samurai’ With “Sanctuary” By Bryan Young/Nov. 29, 2019 1:40 pm EST Naturally, there are spoilers here.With every bounty hunter in the Guild gunning for both The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and the asset, this week’s episode, “Sanctuary,” sees the title character hitting the proverbial mattresses. The Mandalorian seeks out a small farming planet called Sorgan in order to lay low. It’s so small it doesn’t even have a spaceport....

‘The New Mutants’ Heads To Blu-Ray And Digital In November By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2020 10:30 am EST Remember The New Mutants? It’s the X-Men spin-off that originated at Fox, got its release date pushed around a bunch of times, became a Disney movie after the Fox-Disney merger, and then finally found its way to theaters in the midst of a deadly pandemic. And now…it’s coming home. The New Mutants Blu-ray and VOD release is set for November, coming packaged with deleted scenes and other special features for your viewing pleasure....

‘Venom 2’ Producer Offers An Update On The Sequel, Which Is Undergoing Remote Post-Production By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 3, 2020 5:00 pm EST Venom 2 doesn’t need to let there be carnage when the whole movie industry is already in disarray due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. With film productions temporarily shut down all around the world, Sony Pictures was also forced to push back the release date of its high-profile Venom sequel despite the film wrapping production....