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‘Audrey’ Trailer: A Documentary That Hopes To Show The Real Audrey Hepburn By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 21, 2020 5:30 pm EST The new documentary Audrey wants to go beyond the famous image of Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn and show the real person underneath. To do so, a hybrid of rare footage and interviews mixes with scenes of three different dancers playing Hepburn at different points in her life. It’s an unconventional twist that might elevate Audrey above the standard talking-head documentary that has become so prevalent....

‘Charlie’s Angels’ Review: Empty But Endearingly Fun Female Empowerment By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 12, 2019 12:00 pm EST Whenever a reboot of a moderately successful property comes around, eyes will inevitably roll. Did we really need a new remake/reboot/reinvention of insert-movie-here? It’s a question that plenty of people will have going into Elizabeth Banks’ new Charlie’s Angels. Did we really need a new Charlie’s Angels? Not really. Does it justify its existence?...

‘Deadpool 3’ Will Be Part Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Confirms Kevin Feige By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 11, 2021 11:30 am EST In an interview with Collider ahead of the Disney+ debut of WandaVision, Feige confirmed that the R-rated Deadpool 3 will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — once it finally begins filming. Screenwriting duo Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin and Wendy Molyneux are currently hard at work on the script with Reynolds overseeing, but Deadpool 3 likely won’t begin production until 2022 at the earliest, Feige said:...

‘Death On The Nile’: Russell Brand May Board Kenneth Branagh’s Murder Mystery By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 15, 2019 12:30 pm EST There’s no word on who Brand is in talks to play, but for an idea, here are the characters from Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name (via the Agatha Christie wiki): It’s unclear whether all these characters will appear as they’re described in the movie, but as the cast grows, it’s likely we’ll see the majority of them....

‘Halloween Kills’ Was Screened For A Terminally Ill Fan, And Jamie Lee Curtis Officiated Their Wedding By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2020 2:30 pm EST The Halloween franchise has brought us plenty of horror over the years, but this year, it brought joy to a terminally ill super fan who was given a bittersweet blessing by director David Gordon Green and slasher icon Jamie Lee Curtis. Anthony Woodle is a horror super fan and aspiring director who was diagnosed with Stage IV esophageal cancer in 2019....

‘Parasite’ Trailer: Bong Joon-Ho’s Palme D’Or Winner Gets A Darkly Funny U.S. Trailer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 14, 2019 10:00 am EST Bong Joon-Ho’s Palme D’Or-winning film Parasite is already being hailed as one of the best films of the year. And finally, we can see it Stateside. Indie distributor NEON is bringing Parasite to the U.S. this fall, and have now just released the first U.S. Parasite trailer. Watch the trailer below....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Visual Effects Supervisor Roger Guyett On Marrying The Practical And The Digital [Interview] By Jason Gorber/April 7, 2020 12:00 pm EST There’s one particularly telling and effective moment in The Skywalker Legacy, the feature-lenght documentary that’s included on the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker home release that sums up much of the ambivalence and consternation that some had with J.J. Abrams’ return to the Star Wars universe....

‘The Tax Collector’ Trailer: Director David Ayer Returns To The Crime-Thriller Genre By Chris Evangelista/July 1, 2020 10:00 am EST David Ayer, director of Suicide Squad, Fury, and writer of Training Day, returns to the world of the crime thriller with The Tax Collector. This looks like Ayer treading familiar ground, and bringing his Fury actor Shia LaBeouf along for the ride. LaBeouf plays a “tax collector” in the criminal underworld, and he and his partner (Bobby Soto) are soon caught up in something dangerous....

‘Watchmen’ Episode 5 Promo: Through The Looking Glass By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 11, 2019 10:00 am EST We all get a little extra-dimensional anxiety. But it’s only in HBO’s Watchmen series that there are whole support groups for people suffering from this affliction. One such member of one of these extra-dimensional anxiety support groups is Tim Blake Nelson’s Looking Glass, who appears to take the spotlight in the Watchmen episode 5 promo for “Little Fear of Lightning....

2020 Directors Guild Awards Nominees: Tarantino, Scorsese, Bong Joon-Ho, And More (But No Greta Gerwig) By Ben Pearson/Jan. 7, 2020 11:30 am EST As awards season presses on, all eyes are turning to the Directors Guild of America, which has officially announced its list of nominees for its annual awards ceremony. Stalwarts like Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) are contending for the top prize alongside Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) and more, but despite earning a nod a couple of years ago for directing Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig was not recognized this time for her work on Little Women....

A24 Bringing ‘Moonbase 8’ Comedy Series Starring Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker And John C. Reilly To Showtime By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2020 1:30 pm EST Space Force arrived on Netflix earlier this year and faded away just as quickly. The reunion of NBC’s The Office creator Greg Daniels and star Steve Carell just didn’t have the magic to deliver a memorable series. But we’ll get another chance at some outer space hilarity later this year thanks to Showtime’s recent acquisition of A24’s comedy series Moonbase 8 starring Fred Armisen (Portlandia), Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!...

Academy Awards Delayed Until April 2021, Movies Released Up Until February 2021 Now Eligible For Nominations By Chris Evangelista/June 15, 2020 12:30 pm EST Well, that didn’t take very long. This morning we ran a story revealing that the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would be meeting today to discuss potentially postponing the date of the 2021 Oscars ceremony. Now, it’s official: the 93rd Oscars ceremony will now be held on April 25, 2021....

Brad Pitt To Star In David Leitch’s ‘Bullet Train’, About Assassins On A Train By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 6, 2020 12:30 pm EST Brad Pitt is boarding David Leitch’s Bullet Train. The Sony Pictures action thriller, which reunites Leitch and Pitt after the actor made a cameo in Deadpool 2, will be Leitch’s follow-up to Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and Pitt’s latest starring role after career-best performances in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Ad Astra....

Brie Larson Is Leaning Into Those ‘Star Wars’ Rumors, Probably Because She Likes Seeing Trolls’ Heads Explode By Jacob Hall/Sept. 27, 2019 11:00 am EST Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: we have no idea if Captain Marvel star Brie Larson is joining the Star Wars universe and the recent wave of speculation suggesting so is just another case of the internet jumping to conclusions over nothing. And yet! There’s something to be said about Larson taking to social media to fully embrace this non-story....

Exploring ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ And 2019’s Obsession With The Manson Family Murders By Meagan Navarro/Aug. 9, 2019 11:00 am EST On the night of August 8, 1969, four members of the Manson Family committed one of America’s most notorious crimes under the direction of their cult leader, Charles Manson. They’d brutally murdered actress Sharon Tate, her unborn baby, and the houseguests in her home that night; Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger....

M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Servant’ Gives A Chilling Spin On Parental Grief This Thanksgiving [New York Comic-Con 2019] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 4, 2019 9:30 am EST A fine mist had settled on the damp streets of New York City on the first night of 2019’s New York Comic-Con. It’s the kind of gloomy, rainy night that evokes the eerie mood of many a M. Night Shyamalan movie. It’s a fitting night to tease the Glass director’s newest project and his latest foray into television: Apple TV+‘s Servant....

M. Night Shyamalan’s Next Three Movies Will Be “Weird And Dark” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 4, 2019 3:30 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan was on the verge of an exciting new comeback after the 2015 sleeper hit The Visit and the well-received surprise Unbreakable sequel Split. But then came this year’s Glass, the highly anticipated third film in Shyamalan’s Unbreakable trilogy that was met with scorching reviews from critics. But while Shyamalan’s creative comeback is in a potentially fragile state, the director is already planning his next three films....

Netflix Developing ‘Cocaine Hippos’, A Movie About What Happened To Drug Kingpin Pablo Escobar’s Zoo Animals By Ben Pearson/Feb. 17, 2020 2:30 pm EST I don’t know about you, but when I see the words “cocaine” and “hippos” next to each other, I pay attention. And when the context is that a major company is developing a movie called Cocaine Hippos, I perk up even more. So Netflix certainly has my attention with its new upcoming comedy, which, oddly enough, is based on a true story....

Now Scream This: Gruesome And Gross Horror Movies To Indulge In This Thanksgiving By /Film Staff/Nov. 27, 2019 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: After indulging in Thanksgiving gluttony, who wants to leave the house? Let alone squeeze into pants that “fit?” This holiday season, Chris and I suggest you batten down the hatches for some streaming horror marathons instead of rushing to theaters....

Rian Johnson Gives His Thoughts On ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2020 3:45 pm EST In the Star Wars fandom, arguments will rage for years about whether or not Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker undid several of the key decisions made in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. But while fans dig into their respective battle stations and shout at those who oppose them, the directors of the two movies have largely been cordial to each other in public....