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‘The Matrix 4’ Style Has “Shifted” From The Original Trilogy, According To Neil Patrick Harris By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 17, 2020 11:30 am EST It can’t be overstated how wildly influential the style of the original The Matrix films were. From their revolutionary tech (bullet time!), to their pioneering of Hong Kong-style action in Hollywood, to those sleek leather jackets that everyone and their mother started wearing, the Matrix films’ visual identity defined a generation....

‘The Things They Carried’ Cast Will Feature Tom Hardy, Stephen James, Bill Skarsgard, Pete Davidson And More By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 2, 2020 12:00 pm EST The Rupert Sanders adaptation of Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War collection The Things They Carried has drafted an impressive cast. Tye Sheridan, Tom Hardy, Stephan James, Bill Skarsgard, Pete Davidson, Ashton Sanders, Martin Sensmeier, Moises Arias, and Angus Cloud will star in the film, which follows the story of the men of Alpha Company during the Vietnam War....

‘Toy Story 4’ Almost Had An Awful Alternate Ending By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 19, 2019 12:30 pm EST Toy Story 4 surprised us all earlier this summer by somehow providing an even more satisfying (possible) conclusion to the Pixar Animation franchise. The movie gave Woody (Tom Hanks) a proper send-off after following him for four adventures that significantly changed him along the way. But it almost gave Woody’s companion Bo Peep (Annie Potts) a much worse ending than what we saw, and it makes us wonder how it would have changed the rest of the film’s conclusion....

‘Trolls World Tour’ Review: Loud, Garish, Immediately Dated, And Not Quite As Bad As The First One By Josh Spiegel/April 13, 2020 9:00 am EST Because of the truly strange and incomprehensible moment we’re all battling through, the only major new release in the month of April 2020 is Trolls World Tour. It’s a weird sentence to type, just as Trolls World Tour is a weird film to watch. This sequel to the 2016 DreamWorks Animation film, based on the colorful dolls that have survived popular culture the way cockroaches survive a nuclear apocalypse, could be worse....

2020 Golden Globes Winners: ‘1917’ And Sam Mendes Are Surprise Victors, ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Gets Love Too By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 5, 2020 4:00 pm EST The 77th Golden Globes kicked the new year with plenty of glitz and glamor by honoring achievements in film and television. Chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press (which consists of roughly 90 members), the nominees and winners of the Golden Globes don’t offer as much insight into who might be in the running for Academy Awards, but it’s still a celebratory night for Hollywood that brings attention to movies and TV shows that deserve our praise....

A ‘Minions’ Holiday Special Is Set To Debut On NBC And Peacock For Your Kids To Watch Ad Nauseam; See The First Images By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 18, 2020 11:00 am EST Nothing screams Christmas like a group of yellow clone things whose vocabulary amounts to several variations on “Banana!” But Illumination is giving us what we want (or rather, what your kids want) this holiday season with a Minions Holiday Special, set to debut on NBC and Peacock late this November....

Adam Sandler And Jennifer Aniston Are Forcing Another ‘Murder Mystery’ On Us By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 13, 2019 1:00 pm EST How many more must die before Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are satisfied? Two? Ten? These bloodthirsty actors will only keep killing more with each Murder Mystery that we get, and yet Netflix has already greenlit a sequel. Netflix is already developing a Murder Mystery sequel shortly after the crime comedy debuted on the streaming platform this summer....

Andy Fairhurst’s New ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Prints Honor Arwen, Gandalf, And Boromir By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2019 8:38 am EST Arwen by Andy Fairhurst Fine art giclée 12 x 24 inches Hand-numbered edition of 150 $40 each / $115 per set Gandalf by Andy Fairhurst Boromir by Andy Fairhurst That last print with Borormir is pretty sad, because you can see the big arrows that have already stuck into his body, leading him to his unfortunate demise....

Charlize Theron Says Not Returning For The ‘Furiosa’ Movie Is “A Little Heartbreaking”; Confirms ‘Atomic Blonde 2’ Development By Chris Evangelista/July 7, 2020 1:30 pm EST In the midst of promoting her upcoming Netflix movie The Old Guard, Charlize Theron opened up about potential sequels for some of her previous films. First: Theron expresses some understandable disappointment at not being involved with the Mad Max: Fury Road spin-off devoted to Furiosa, a character she made famous....

Disney’s ‘Bob The Musical’ Lands Channing Tatum To Hear The Songs In Our Hearts By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2020 11:30 am EST Bob the Musical has been in the works at Disney since as far back as 2004. Directors like Adam Shankman (Rock of Ages), Mark Waters (Mean Girls), Phil Lord and Chris Miller (21 Jump Street), and even Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) have flirted with the project, but it just hasn’t gotten off the ground....

Gender-Swapped ‘Swimming With Sharks’ Remake Coming To Quibi, Starring Kiernan Shipka And Diane Kruger By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2020 12:30 pm EST In 1994, writer/director George Huang made a splash with Swimming with Sharks, his razor-sharp satire of Hollywood about a young, naive assistant (Frank Whaley) who gets a job working for the most powerful producer in the industry. That producer is an abusive piece of trash played by Kevin Spacey, which makes the original film a tough watch in 2020, but now a streamer is looking to remake it with women in the lead roles....

Get A First Look At Mickey And Minnie’s Runaway Railway, Coming To Disney World In March 2020 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 15, 2019 1:00 pm EST Next spring will give Walt Disney’s classic character Mickey Mouse a modern ride experience in the form of Micky and Minnie’s Runaway Railway. The attraction is slated to open in Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in Florida, and so far we’ve only gotten a look at some concept art and a couple of behind the scenes images of Disney’s Imagineers working on the ride....

A Shoplifting Family The film’s Japanese title, Manbiki kazoku, means “shoplifting family,” which accurately explains the premise without tipping its hand. None of its characters are related, by law or by blood, but they live under the same dilapidated roof. Lily Franky plays the family’s kindly male figurehead, an unnamed man in a perpetual state of midlife crisis, attempting to capture some “cool,” detached affect, even if it’s simply “cool dad....

How Sony Is Benefitting From The Warner Bros. HBO Max Deal By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 23, 2020 1:00 pm EST Warner Bros. made history – and a lot of people angry – when they announced they planned to release their upcoming 2021 theatrical slate directly to HBO Max. While the idea is appealing to those who want to view big new movies from the safety of their own home, cinephiles worry that this might signal the death of the theatrical experience....

Joaquin Phoenix Reveals The Surprising Inspiration For His ‘Joker’ Laugh By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2019 2:30 pm EST Joker won’t be your average comic book movie. The upcoming Todd Phillips film is taking a much different approach to the Batman character – aiming for an R-rating, playing the festival circuit, and already generating awards season buzz. Whether or not the movie will live up to this hype remains to be seen, but you can be confident in star Joaquin Phoenix’s abilities....

The Best Movies Streaming Right Now The Standoff at Sparrow Creek Now Streaming on Hulu Release Date: 2019Genre: ThrillerDirector: Henry DunhamCast: James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler, Happy Anderson, Robert Aramayo, Gene Jones, Chris Mulkey, Bret Porter, Cotter Smith Unrelentingly tense and consistently jolting, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek is proof positive that you can do so much with so little. Henry Dunham’s taught thriller utilizes one prime location and only a handful of actors – and yet it never feels cheap, or malnourished....

Revisiting ‘Fuzzbucket’, Disney’s Bizarre Attempt To Replicate ‘E.T.’ With An Invisible Possum Creature By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 5, 2019 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Back in 1986, ABC used to air a Disney movie every Sunday night as part of the, you guessed it, The Disney Sunday Movie programming block. It was hosted by none other than Michael Eisner, the recently hired CEO of The Walt Disney Company (who was still riding high and decades away from his bitter downfall)....

Superhero Bits: Josh Boone Throws Shade At ‘Dark Phoenix’, Free Comic Day Pushed To May & More By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2020 6:00 pm EST Will the Minutemen of Time Variance Authority be in the Loki series? How are the Infinity Stones returning in a new story arc for Marvel Comics? Which Marvel movies may play in Chinese theaters when they reopen later this month? How did New Mutants director Josh Boone throw shade at Dark Phoenix?...

The Wonderfully Weird World of Doom Patrol One of the biggest perks of having a series on a streaming service is the ability to get weird with it. In the case of Doom Patrol, showrunner Jeremy Carver was able to get really weird with it. Based on the long-running DC Comics series of the same name created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani, Doom Patrol is the story of a group of misfits rescued by a kindly genius in a wheelchair....

The 9 Pieces Of (Non-Movie) Entertainment That Kept Me Sane During 2020 By Ben Pearson/Dec. 28, 2020 10:00 am EST We’re going to be spending the next couple of weeks thinking and writing and podcasting about our favorite movies and movie moments of 2020, but I wanted to give a special shout-out to a handful of pieces of non-movie entertainment that kept me going through the hell-year that was 2020. For me, these podcasts and TV shows were like faint lights in a dense fog, guiding me forward and serving as brief oases before I lurched back into the swirling chaos of 2020....