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‘Books Of Blood’ Trailer: Clive Barker’s Classic Horror Collection Becomes A Hulu Movie By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2020 12:00 pm EST Clive Barker’s Books of Blood has inspired a few films already, and now Hulu is giving it a go with their own Books of Blood movie. If you’re hoping to see a bunch of the tales from Barker’s books present in this film, well…you shouldn’t. Instead, Books of Blood uses the framing device Barker used and then spirals off into its own original tales of terror....

‘Devs’ Ending Explained: “It’s Actually About Love” By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2020 9:00 am EST Alex Garland’s miniseries Devs follows in the footsteps of Garland’s films Ex Machina and Annihilation, in that its a weighty, mysterious, and often bleak sci-fi story with layers upon layers. And now that the series has come to an end, you might be wondering: what did it all mean? Don’t worry: there actually are answers. Garland isn’t just setting things up and walking away, leaving us to fend for ourselves....

‘French Exit’ Review: The Discreet Smarm Of The Bourgeoisie [NYFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Oct. 14, 2020 8:00 am EST Azazel Jacobs’ previous film, The Lovers, establishes its overarching and consistent tone from the time the opening studio logo appears. A self-consciously melodramatic piece of score cues the audience to recognize Jacobs’ perspective. He humorously heightens the stakes for an otherwise mundane story of aging lovers and their affairs. His follow-up feature, an adaptation of Patrick DeWitt’s novel French Exit, contains no less vibrant an expression of Jacobs’ directorial stamp....

‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Trailer: Someone Tries To Murder Reese Witherspoon By Ben Pearson/Jan. 17, 2020 5:00 pm EST Reese Witherspoon is quickly becoming a major player in the TV realm, and she’s following up her AppleTV+ series The Morning Show with another streaming series called Little Fires Everywhere. This one has some serious Big Little Lies energy to it, with Witherspoon playing the matriarch of a rich, seemingly idyllic family who finds herself at odds with a mysterious new neighbor, played by Kerry Washington....

‘Maniac Cop’ TV Series From Nicolas Winding Refn Headed To HBO By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 11, 2019 8:30 am EST John Hyams, who helmed several surprisingly good Universal Soldier sequels, was originally set to direct the movie remake, but now he’ll direct the entire season of the TV show, as well as serving as co-showrunner with Refn. “I’ve always been a devoted admirer of John Hyams,” said Refn. “We’ve been talking about a re-imagining of the Maniac Cop films for a number of years, but as we continued to work on the material, we found ourselves wanting to explore the world we were creating in greater depth....

‘Nobody’ Trailer: Bob Odenkirk Enacts Bloody Vengeance In A Thriller From The ‘John Wick’ Producers By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 10, 2020 8:30 am EST John Wick, meet…Nobody. Bob Odenkirk has completed his transformation into action hero with the upcoming R-rated thriller, Nobody, a film written by John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad and produced by David Leitch, director of Atomic Blonde (and the un-credited co-director of the first John Wick). And with the team behind John Wick to support him, it’s no wonder that Odenkirk feels legitimately like an heir to Keanu Reeves’ assassin, or at least like his older brother — who will mow down many Russian thugs to get back his daughter’s kitty cat bracelet....

‘Planet With’ Is A Wild, Uplifting Anime About Forgiveness And Robots By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 7, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)Now that Neon Genesis Evangelion is finally widely available for anyone to see and lose their minds to, newcomers will join in asking the question anime fans have asked since the ’90s: what will fill this Evangelion-sized hole in my heart?...

‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets December Hosts, Including The Return Of Kristen Wiig By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 29, 2020 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Saturday Night Live made an epic run of six episodes in a row when they came back for the 46th season at the height of the 2020 election season. Now that all of that nonsense is behind us, it’s time to look forward to December....

‘Star Wars’ Actress Naomi Ackie To Lead Whitney Houston Biopic ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2020 9:30 am EST The script for the Whitney Houston movie comes from Anthony McCarten, who previously wrote Bohemian Rhapsody. That’s not the only thing I Wanna Dance with Somebody will share with the Queen biopic, because just as Rami Malek didn’t actually sing any of tunes sung by Freddie Mercury, we won’t hear Naomi Ackie singing any of Whitney Houston’s signature songs either....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Will Have A Big “Really Smart” Twist, According To Richard E. Grant By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 10, 2019 12:30 pm EST The original Star Wars trilogy features one of the biggest cinematic plot twists of all time. And since then, Star Wars has become synonymous with those kind of sudden narrative turns and twists that fans breathlessly speculate about for months before the films hit theaters....

‘The Bourne Identity’ Director Doug Liman Still Doesn’t Know How To Feel About Bond Copying Bourne By Jack Giroux/Jan. 15, 2021 11:30 am EST To this day, Liman doesn’t know how to feel about it. The filmmaker is back with a new movie on HBO Max, Locked Down, which depicts life under lockdown and a heist at Harrods. While interviewing Liman for his latest, we asked about Bourne’s influence on Hollywood and more specifically, Bond....

‘The Prom’ Trailer: The Glitz And Glamor Of Broadway Fights Against Prejudice In Indiana By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 30, 2020 12:00 pm EST Even though the United States has made a lot of progress when it comes to giving members of the LGBTQ community the respect and equality they deserve, there are still plenty of places with small town mindsets who need a little push in the right direction. That’s exactly what happens in Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix movie The Prom when a teenage girl (newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman) wants to bring her girlfriend (Ariana DeBose) to the prom in her small Indiana town, but the PTA board votes against it....

‘Vader Immortal: Episode II’ VR Experience Gets Surprise Release; Watch The New Trailer By Ben Pearson/Sept. 25, 2019 11:30 am EST Ever wanted to learn the ways of the Force from a Sith Lord in person? The Vader Immortal VR experience may be the closest you get to that, and now the second installment in the game is available for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift platforms. This was a surprise release, with the announcement coming during the keynote presentation at an Oculus developer conference, and it came with a brand new trailer, which you can check out below....

American Nightmares: A Primer On The Work Of ‘Mindhunter’ Director Carl Franklin By Rob Hunter/Aug. 28, 2019 7:00 am EST The second season of Netflix’s Mindhunter may have taken two years to arrive, but those of us who’ve already burned through all nine episodes know that it was well worth the wait. Sure, the subplot involving Bill Tench’s (Holt McCallany) adopted hellspawn feels out of place, and yes, Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) gets shafted on screen time and relevance, but the series as a whole remains a mesmerizing watch....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘Gremlins’ Action Figure Line Adds The Trenchcoat Flasher With A Load Of Accessories By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2020 6:00 am EST NECA’s new line of Gremlins action figures has been a blessing for fans who want as many of the little monsters as possible with all the appropriate accessories. This past holiday season brought us two different sets of caroling Gremlins, and a new Ultimate Gremlin before that came with soda, beer, cigarettes, candy, and more....

Disney Delays ‘Mulan’ Indefinitely, Pushes ‘Avatar’ Sequels And New ‘Star Wars’ Films Back A Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2020 2:43 pm EST Disney has officially delayed Mulan and the Avatar sequels. Mulan has been delayed indefinitely, after being rescheduled several times from its original March release date due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, while all the Avatar sequels have been pushed back a year due to production delays from pandemic closures in Los Angeles....

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ Casts Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard As The Oscar-Winning Director Signs Overall Netflix Deal By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 19, 2020 9:30 am EST Guillermo del Toro fans have long known to temper their excitement for the filmmaker’s developing projects, as the filmmaker’s most ambitious films frequently fall apart before they reach the screen. But with streaming giant Netflix behind him, del Toro has been able to resurrect his long-gestating Pinocchio movie and turn it into a sure thing....

Jon Favreau Reveals The Advice George Lucas Gave Him While Shooting ‘The Mandalorian’ By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2019 12:00 pm EST When the new streaming service Disney+ arrives in November, it will bring the first episode of Lucasfilm’s first live-action Star Wars TV series with it. The Mandalorian follows Pedro Pascal (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) as the titular bounty hunter, a lone gunfighter taking on various dangerous missions and assignments in the outer reaches of the galaxy....

Kylo Ren Comic Provides Backstory Into Ben Solo’s Turn To The Dark Side By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2019 4:30 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is about to end the Skywalker Saga, and bring about a conclusion to the story of Kylo Ren. But what about the beginning of that story? A new Kylo Ren comic, Marvel’s Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren, is here to fill in those details....

Los Angeles Filming Put On Pause Amid Latest Coronavirus Case Surge By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 5, 2021 11:00 am EST The show won’t go on in Los Angeles, where film and TV productions have come to a standstill amid a massive surge in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and deaths. Film and TV productions have been exempt from coronavirus restrictions since the stay-at-home order was instituted in early December, but as cases in Los Angeles County surpassed 800,000 this past weekend, Hollywood productions have come to a screeching halt....