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Mark Hamill Confirms Extra Roles In All ‘Star Wars’ Movies Except The Prequels By Ethan Anderton/June 22, 2020 7:30 am EST Mark Hamill is best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars saga, but he’s also a renowned voice actor. That’s why Hamill also lent his voice to some extra characters in the galaxy far, far away, but it turns out there’s even more that Mark Hamill did as a voice actor than previously known....

Marvel Celebrates Stan Lee In A Primetime TV Special Coming To ABC This Month By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 4, 2019 3:00 pm EST It’s been over a year since Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee left this world for that great multiverse in the sky. Even though we won’t see him popping up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe anymore, Marvel Studios isn’t done celebrating the man responsible for creating and co-creating some of the most popular characters in the ever-expanding roster of comic book movies....

Michael Shannon Suits Up As Los Angeles Lakers Owner Jerry Buss In New HBO Pilot By Ben Pearson/Aug. 23, 2019 4:30 pm EST After appearing on Boardwalk Empire, Waco, and The Little Drummer Girl, Oscar nominee Michael Shannon is heading back to television once again. He’ll play former Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss in a new HBO pilot which chronicles the high-flying “Showtime” era of the team during the 1980s....

MoviePass Changed Some Users’ Passwords On Purpose So They Couldn’t Use The Service By Ben Pearson/Aug. 8, 2019 9:30 am EST MoviePass, the movie ticket subscription service which was all the rage in 2018, experienced such an explosive rise and tumultuous fall that I would not be surprised if someone ended up making a movie about it one day. And thanks to a recent in-depth report on the company’s questionable business practices, here’s a scene that could be used during the “beginning of the end” portion of the eventual film: CEO Mitch Lowe ordering his employees to change the passwords of heavy MoviePass users so they would not be able to log on and use the service....

Patty Jenkins Suggests She Won’t Make ‘Wonder Woman 3’ Unless A Theatrical Model Exists By Ben Pearson/Dec. 22, 2020 11:00 am EST Wonder Woman 1984 finally arrives later this week, but what about Wonder Woman 3? Will director Patty Jenkins return to craft a trilogy? Jenkins, who recently revealed that she has put the development of a third Wonder Woman movie on pause, suggests in a new interview that she might not make Wonder Woman 3 unless a theatrical model exists – and presumably exists in such a way that’s more in line with the robust model of years past instead of the limp, scattershot, life-support existence of movie theaters as they’ve been during 2020....

Pop Culture Imports: 5 Essential Foreign Movies To Watch On The Criterion Channel By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 19, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.)The Criterion Channel launched earlier this month to the joy of cinephiles everywhere. Following the demise of FilmStruck, the Criterion Collection teamed up with Janus Films to launch a new streaming service that contains a vast library of more than 1,000 feature films, 350 shorts, and thousands of supplementary features....

Serial Killer Comedy Series Starring Krysten Ritter Sparks Bidding War By Ben Pearson/Feb. 13, 2020 3:00 pm EST Details on the new serial killer show are pretty slim at this point, but Deadline mentioned that it’s based on the upcoming book Serial Killer Anonymous by author Charles Warady. That book doesn’t appear to have an official release date yet, but the literary agency representing the author posted this lengthy synopsis:...

The Misogynists Director Onur Tukel’s latest feels like it could have come from playwright Neil LaBute. In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results, in the latest from indie provocateur Onur Tukel. As the night rages on, an ensemble of characters venture in and out of the room. Some match the two’s enthusiasm while others voice their terror at the prospect of the incoming President, but most struggle to find reasons to care less about the results causing the debauched celebration around them....

TV Bits: Undone, Shrill, Homeland’s Final Season Trailer, Zac Efron’s Quibi Show, Kevin Hart’s Netflix Series, And More By Ben Pearson/Dec. 8, 2019 8:00 am EST If by some miracle you managed to make it all the way through seven seasons of Homeland, Showtime has a reward for you: the trailer for the show’s final season, which finally brings the adventures of Claire Danes’ troubled CIA operative. Here’s the official synopsis:...

Universal Releasing An Updated Version Of ‘Cats’ With “Improved Visual Effects” By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2019 10:00 am EST The big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Cats is already a disaster for a number of reasons. Chief among them are the unsettling cat-human hybrids at the center of the story, brought to life thanks to digital fur technology and motion-capture performances. Director Tom Hooper and the rest of his crew were working 36-hours straight up until 8am the morning before the world premiere, but it sounds like they didn’t quite finish everything they needed to....

Why Did Matt Damon And Ben Affleck Wait So Long Before Writing Together Again With ‘The Last Duel’? By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 15, 2019 3:30 pm EST Matt Damon and Ben Affleck became Hollywood superstars after the success of Good Will Hunting. Not only did the longtime friends star in the movie, but they won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that year. But that was 22 years ago, and despite taking home one of the most prestigious awards Hollywood has to offer, they haven’t written together again....

‘13 Reasons Why’ Says Goodbye With A Teaser For Its Final Season By Chris Evangelista/May 11, 2020 3:00 pm EST Eventually, all things must come to an end, even 13 Reasons Why. The Netflix series will drop its fourth and final season next month, and to get fans ready, there’s a new teaser that goes behind-the-scenes with the cast and crew. If you’re a fan of this show, this is the type of video made to get you weepy and emotional, so jump on in below!...

‘30 Rock’ Reunion Special Won’t Be Broadcast On NBC Stations In More Than Half The Country By Ben Pearson/July 14, 2020 1:30 pm EST More than seven years after it went off the air, 30 Rock is returning to television this Thursday night. But a new report reveals that more than half of the country won’t be able to watch the reunion special because NBC’s largest local affiliate groups are refusing to broadcast it....

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ VFX Breakdown Reveals The Magic Behind Cyborg Enhanced Characters By Ethan Anderton/July 24, 2019 6:00 am EST It’s a shame that not enough people gave Alita: Battle Angel a shot when it hit theaters earlier this year. It’s a stunning spectacle with incredible visual effects, an intricately created sci-fi world, and some of the most impressive action sci-fi has seen outside of superhero movies. For those of you who have seen the movie, you can see how some of the cyborg-enhanced supporting characters were created with impeccable digital effects, as well as the thrilling rollerball sequence, an action-packed bar fight, and more....

‘Bill And Ted Face The Music’ Trailer: Keanu Reeves And Alex Winter Embark On Another Excellent Adventure By Chris Evangelista/June 9, 2020 6:21 am EST Some thought this day would never come…but here we are. It’s been almost 30 years since we last checked in with William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, but now the Wyld Stallyns are ready for an all-new time-bending adventure. Bill and Ted Face the Music finds Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) all grown-up, with kids of their own, but that doesn’t mean their party days are over....

‘Ghostbusters’ Returning To Theaters And Drive-Ins With A Special Message For Fans In July By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2020 12:00 pm EST The reopening of movie theaters next month is still somewhat of an uncertainty, especially with Christopher Nolan’s Tenet recently being pushed back another two weeks and Disney considering yet another delay for their live-action adaptation of Mulan. But that’s not stopping Sony Pictures from bringing Ghostbusters back to the big screen in July, not only for theaters open in areas that have mostly overcome the spread of COVID-19, but for the safer, thriving drive-ins around the United States....

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Trailer: Amy Adams And Glenn Close Deliver Appalachian Angst In Ron Howard’s Oscar Contender By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 14, 2020 9:30 am EST In the fallout of the 2016 election, J. D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy became a nationwide hit, as media pundits sought to understood President Trump’s victory and influence over the rust belt states. The notion of the “Real America” became a hot-button topic, and one that Vance’s memoir supposedly captured in all of its depictions of economic anxiety and white working class poverty....

‘Maxxx’ Trailer: O-T Fagbenle Is A Disgraced Former Boyband Member Staging His Comeback In This Hulu Comedy Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 29, 2020 5:30 pm EST The Handmaid’s Tale alum O-T Fagbenle is staging his comeback — or more like his grand debut as a rising actor who can do more than hang in the shadow of Elisabeth Moss’ tour-de-force performance. Fagbenle, who may be best known to U.S. viewers as the put-upon husband of Moss’ character in The Handmaid’s Tale, is starring in a new Hulu comedy series, Maxxx, which is part of the streamer’s “British Binge-cation” event, highlighting British exports like Brassic and Ladhood....

‘Saint Frances’ Review: A Breathtaking Look At The Weirdness Of Womanhood [Denver Film Festival] By Amelia Emberwing/Nov. 28, 2019 3:00 pm EST This review contains mild spoilers for Saint Frances. Thirty-four-year-old Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) is figuring it out as she goes. She’s single, stuck in a dead-end job, and not quite sure what she wants to do with her life. After listening to a creep at a party blather on about all the things he’s achieved by the same age, Bridget decides to take life by the horns....

‘Space Force’ Review: Netflix’s Comedy Series Shoots For The Moon, But Can’t Stay On Trajectory By Ethan Anderton/May 26, 2020 8:00 am EST The last time actor Steve Carell and writer/producer Greg Daniels teamed up, it resulted in The Office on NBC, a show that initially stumbled in the shadow of its British predecessor but became one of the greatest television comedies of the 21st century. Now Carell and Daniels have ventured out on their own with Space Force, an original workplace comedy coming to Netflix that takes a cue from the real life creation of a space warfare branch of the U....