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El Camino Scene Breakdown Still here? Okay, good. In the scene above, Breaking Bad’s Todd (Jesse Plemons), the living embodiment of banal evil, forces Jesse Pinkman to help him bury a body. This is a flashback sequence that takes place during the time Jesse was being held prisoner by Todd’s neo-nazi gang and forced to cook meth. The dead body is that of Todd’s house cleaner, who had the misfortune of discovering where Todd stashed his drug dealer fortune....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ On Track For A $40 Million Opening Over Presidents Day Weekend By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2020 12:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures had to deal with a bit of a nightmare scenario when the reveal of their Sonic the Hedgehog movie was downright laughable. The reaction was so unfavorable that the studio chose to overhaul the design of the SEGA video game character and push the movie back from a November release last year to a February release this year....

‘Synchronic’ Trailer: Justin Benson And Aaron Moorhead Send Anthony Mackie On A Strange Trip By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 16, 2020 9:30 am EST Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the filmmakers behind Resolution, Spring, and The Endless, are back with Synchronic. Once again, the filmmakers are playing around with space and time, and it might be their most ambitious film yet. In the film, Anthony Mackie plays a paramedic in New Orleans who finds himself going on a series of very, very strange trips....

‘The Current War’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Leads A Visually Inventive Biopic That Burns Out [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2017 1:30 pm EST The last thing cinema needs right now is another movie about a brilliant man whose brilliance is expressed through being a stubborn jerk. We already have a wealth of these artist as needlessly mean, antisocial guy portraits, and to keep adding more at this point goes well beyond beating a dead horse....

‘The Mandalorian’ Character Posters Introduce The Newest Residents Of A Galaxy Far, Far Away By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 28, 2019 11:30 am EST Two weeks ahead of the highly anticipated debut of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, Disney has unveiled four new character posters for the newest residents of the galaxy far, far away. The Mandalorian character posters spotlight Pedro Pascal’s titular bounty hunter, as well as Gina Carano’s mercenary Cara Dune, Carl Weathers’ bounty hunter Greef Carga, and the droid IG-11 voiced by Taika Waititi....

By Ben Pearson/Oct. 20, 2020 12:00 pm EST HBO has given a series order to The Son, a limited series that will star and be executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal. Villeneuve is set to direct and executive produce, while writer Lenore Zion (Billions, Channel Zero, Ray Donovan) will showrun and executive produce. Nesbø is on board as an executive producer, while Kilter Films’ Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are behind HBO’s Westworld, will executive produce as well, adding to the overall pedigree of this limited series....

‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Will Feel Like A New ‘Avengers’ Sequel By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 20, 2020 2:49 pm EST It looks like Thor: Love and Thunder is going to have such a big cast of Marvel players that it might end up feeling like Avengers 5. The Taika Waititi sequel is of course bringing back key players Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, and Natalie Portman. But a new report points to a “sprawling cast” that suggests the film might follow in the footsteps of Captain America: Civil War – a movie that features multiple key Marvel characters without being a big Avengers sequel....

‘Tosh.0’ Is The Latest Cancellation At Comedy Central, Will End With Upcoming 12th Season By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2020 3:30 pm EST It hasn’t even been a full day since Drunk History was canceled, and Comedy Central is already cutting another one of their long-running, beloved comedy shows. Tosh.0, the viral video-mocking series hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh, will be coming to an end after the show’s upcoming 12th season. The show was originally intended to return this past March, but it was put on hiatus after the coronavirus pandemic shut down all film and TV production....

Another Surprising ‘Black Widow’ Cast Member May Have Just Been Revealed By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2019 8:30 am EST The primary cast of Black Widow has been completely revealed since the movie has been shooting for a few months now. However, it seems like there’s one piece of casting information that has been kept under wraps, but it surfaced amidst news of the 45th Saturn Awards winners over the weekend, where Avengers: Endgame took home six trophies....

BlumNews: More ‘Welcome To The Blumhouse’ On The Way; John Ridley Directing New Paranormal Movie By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2020 3:00 pm EST BlumNews! Today, during BlumFest, a Blumhouse-themed virtual experience, we got new info regarding upcoming Blumhouse projects. First: there are even more Welcome to the Blumhouse movies headed our way. Also: John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, is teaming up with Blumhouse for an Untitled Paranormal Project inspired by a true story....

Cool Stuff: The Wild ‘PG: Psycho Goreman’ Gets A Neon-Soaked Vinyl Soundtrack By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 2021 6:00 am EST With a mix of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Turbo Kid, the wild PG: Psycho Goreman (available on VOD now) finds writer/director Steven Kostanski combining the nostalgic sci-fi kid adventures of the 1980s and 1990s with a whole lot of violence and over-the-top gore and practical effects. The story of a young brother and sister who unwittingly resurrect an ancient extraterrestrial overlord is the kind of sci-fi horror insanity that we like to see, especially when it’s accompanied by a syth-fueled soundtrack that you can now get on vinyl from Waxwork Records....

Kevin Feige Responds To Scorsese: “We Killed Half Our Characters At The End Of A Movie” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 11, 2019 9:30 am EST Kevin Feige has broken his silence on Martin Scorsese’s superhero movie comments. A week after The Irishman director published a New York Times essay that in a better world would have put a stop to the discourse, Feige is responding to Scorsese’s arguments that Marvel movies aren’t “cinema....

Mahershala Ali To Star In AppleTV+ Original Movie ‘Swan Song’, A Genre-Bending Drama By Ben Pearson/Feb. 19, 2020 2:30 pm EST Before he sinks his teeth into the role of Blade the vampire hunter for Marvel Studios, two time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will star in Swan Song for AppleTV+. The “genre-bending drama” is an original feature film that will join the fledgling streaming service’s slate of movies and also receive a theatrical release....

New Stephen King Crime Novel ‘Later’ Arriving In March, Because Nothing Can Stop Stephen King By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 3, 2020 4:30 pm EST Stephen King remains the busiest writer in the biz, churning out one book after another without seemingly any downtime. To quote former Vice President Aaron Burr, the man is non-stop. King just published the short story collection If It Bleeds and now he already has something new on the horizon: Later, a new entry in the Hard Case Crime series, a line of pulpy, hardboiled crime tales from Titan Books....

New York Film Festival 2019 Week 1 Recap: ‘Synonyms,’ ‘The Irishman,’ ‘First Cow’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 7, 2019 9:00 am EST As we head into the second week of the 57th annual New York Film Festival, let’s look back at the best that week 1 of the festival had to offer us. The prestigious film festival kicked off on a strong note with Martin Scorsese’s latest mob masterpiece, The Irishman, and only kept it up from there....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘Volver,’ ‘A Whisker Away,’ ‘Alice,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 26, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) With businesses re-opening and the sun shining, it’s probably tempting to go out and enjoy the summer right now. And while I can’t tell you what you can or can’t do, I can encourage you to stay at home instead and continue to brush up on your quarantine viewing with some fantastic foreign-language films....

Steven Spielberg Turning ‘Smash’ Musical Series Into A Broadway Show By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2020 10:30 am EST Way back in 2012, Steven Spielberg brought the musical series Smash to NBC. The series followed the production of a hopeful Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe and all the drama that comes from putting a show together. On top of that, there’s also the melodrama from the lives of everyone working on it, from the actors and actresses vying for parts, to the producers behind the scenes, and the writers who created it ....

Theme Park Bits: Imagineering In A Box, Animal Kingdom At The Holidays, And More By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 10, 2019 10:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Learn how to be an Imagineer via YouTube. A new holiday experience is coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Hong Kong Disneyland’s castle is getting some new princess-themed towers. And more! Maybe you’ve always wanted to be an Imagineer, but you haven’t had the fortune to learn all the details....

Watch The First 10 Minutes Of ‘The Skywalker Legacy’ Documentary By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 18, 2020 7:30 am EST Disney has released a sneak peek of The Skywalker Legacy, a new behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and how it wrapped up a 40-year saga. The documentary will be available as bonus material on The Rise of Skywalker 4K Blu-ray and DVD when they drop on March 31....

‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Trailer: The Sequel To The 2018 Hit Certainly Looks Intense By Jacob Hall/Jan. 1, 2020 7:15 am EST A Quiet Place was one of 2018’s perfect cinematic storms. A crowd-pleasing horror adventure with a big, emotional heart. A box office smash, grossing $340 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. A critical darling that used its high concept to tremendous effect. A reminder that Emily Blunt is the profoundly talented leading lady we don’t deserve....