‘Ad Astra’ Deleted Scene Features A New Epilogue By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 6, 2019 2:00 pm EST Ad Astra is now available on digital, and arrives on Blu-ray soon. The home media release of the James Gray-directed sci-fi film features two deleted scenes, one of which is an epilogue featuring Liv Tyler’s character. Tyler didn’t exactly have much screentime in the theatrical release, so if you were hoping for more of her, here’s your chance....
By Josh Spiegel/Sept. 16, 2019 11:00 am EST Two years ago, writer-director James Gray took the epic, true-life adventure story The Lost City of Z and turned it into a dark treatise of obsession and its engulfing dangers. His latest film, the big-budget science-fiction story Ad Astra, is as massive a canvas as he’s had to work on so far, with one of the biggest movie stars in the world as his lead....
‘Antebellum’ Villains Jena Malone And Jack Huston On Drawing Inspiration From ‘Gone With The Wind’ And The Alt-Right [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 17, 2020 10:00 am EST Before 2020, drawing a connection between Gone with the Wind and the alt-right would seem flimsy at best. But not only did that already happen in our headlines, it’s happening in Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s horror film Antebellum. The upcoming psychological horror thriller from the first-time feature directors imagines a world where the pre-Civil War South and the present are intertwined....
‘Body Cam’ Trailer: Mary J. Blige Stars In A Supernatural Cop Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2020 4:00 pm EST The trailer for Body Cam at first unfolds like the socially conscious thriller that you’d expect from a film with that title: Mary J. Blige’s veteran cop sees something unnerving from her partner’s body cam. But suddenly, there’s a supernatural twist and we’re in a full-fledged horror movie, where a superpowered individual is launching a war against the police....
‘Castle Rock’ Season 2 Review: Hulu’s Stephen King Series Mashes Together ‘Misery’ With ‘Salem’s Lot’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 15, 2019 8:00 am EST Castle Rock returns to Hulu with a whole new story set in the world of Stephen King. The show’s anthology format allows Castle Rock to focus on a different King-inspired tale, with all new characters, every season – and season 2 promises to dig even deeper into the prolific horror writer’s bibliography....
By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2020 8:00 am EST Chaos will reign for just one more season. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been canceled by Netflix ahead of its fourth season, which will act as its finale when it premieres on the streaming giant later this year. Kiernan Shipka’s teenage witch has cast her last magic spell. (Or in this case, would it be her last Satanic rite?) Netflix announced that Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will end with its Part Four on Netflix later this year, canceling the popular supernatural horror drama after two years, Variety reports....
‘Clarice’ TV Series Is Set In 1993, After Events Of ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ By Chris Evangelista/May 20, 2020 11:00 am EST Clarice, the Silence of the Lambs-inspired TV series that isn’t Hannibal, has landed itself a place on the CBS midseason lineup. Rebecca Breeds plays the FBI agent, leading a cast that includes Kal Penn, Nick Sandow, and Devyn A. Tyler. New details about the show come with this news, revealing the series is set after the events of Silence of the Lambs, making it a sequel series....
‘Friday The 13th’ Box Set Coming From Scream Factory [Update] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 2, 2020 9:04 am EST UPDATE: Even more special features have been announced. We’ve added them below. There have been Friday the 13th box sets before, but never this impressive. The good folks at Scream Factory will be releasing the Friday the 13th Collection (Deluxe Edition) on October 13. This 16-disc set includes new extras, a new collectible slipcover with newly commissioned art, a new 40-page essay booklet with archival photography, and new 4K transfers for films 1 through 4, with part 3 in its original 3D presentation....
‘Get Out’, ‘BlacKkKlansman’, ‘Straight Outta Compton’ & More Are Free To Rent This Week For AFI’s “Black Stories Matter” Initiative By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2020 11:00 am EST AFI Movie Club has expanded their partnership with Universal Pictures for an event called “Black Stories Matter,” featuring a week of celebrated movies from Black filmmakers. This week will have movies like BlacKkKlansman, Get Out, Straight Outta Compton and more available to rent for free through various channels, and they’ll be accompanied by special featurettes and conversations to provide even more insight....
‘Greenland’ Trailer: It’s Gerard Butler Vs. A Comet In New Sci-Fi Disaster Flick By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 25, 2020 9:00 am EST Gerard Butler has already established himself as the B-movie king, and now he’s coming for the disaster movie genre. The actor has battled Geostorms and will now be facing off against a planet-killing comet in Greenland, a sci-fi disaster thriller that reunites Butler with his Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh....
‘Hamilton’ Movie Hitting Disney+ This July, More Than A Year Earlier Than Originally Planned By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 12, 2020 7:00 am EST You won’t have to wait for the Hamilton movie as long as you thought. Disney is fast-tracking the streaming premiere of the filmed version of the original Broadway production of the Tony-winning musical, setting the Disney+ premiere for this July. That’s more than a year before its original intended theatrical release in October 2021....
‘His Dark Materials’ Season 2 Set November Premiere Date: See The Otherworldly New Poster By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 12, 2020 12:30 pm EST Strange new worlds are coming our way in His Dark Materials season 2, which has just set its premiere date for this November. HBO has announced the His Dark Materials season 2 premiere date alongside the release of an otherworldly new poster featuring the main cast and a lot of bird wings....
‘I Know This Much Is True’ Trailer: Mark Ruffalo Stars Opposite Himself In HBO Limited Series [Updated] By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 20, 2020 9:30 am EST Update: HBO has unveiled a new release date for the limited series, which we’ve added to the bottom of this article. Our original piece continues.Mark Ruffalo is the latest actor to pull double duty in a prestige television series — following the footsteps of James Franco in The Deuce and Ewan McGregor in Fargo — playing identical twins in HBO’s I Know This Much Is True....
‘Into The Dark’ Goes Back To The Slasher Basics With “School Spirit” By Matt Donato/Aug. 7, 2019 7:00 am EST (Blumhouse Television and Hulu have partnered for a monthly horror anthology series titled Into The Dark, set to release a full holiday-themed feature the first Friday of every month. Horror anthology expert Matt Donato will be tackling the series one-by-one, stacking up the entries as they become streamable.)After scoring exemplary marks with last month’s Culture Shock “episode,” Into The Dark returns to its less memorable form in School Spirit....
‘Love, Simon’ TV Series For Disney+ Announces Lead Role By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2019 12:00 pm EST The show also stars Ana Ortiz stars as Isabel, “Victor’s smart and warm mother who loves her husband and her family, but is under a lot of pressure as they move their family across the country.” Other cast members include James Martinez as Armando, “Victor’s regular blue collar ‘guy’s guy’ father who loves his family deeply and works hard for his family....
‘Lovecraft Country’ Confronts Lovecraftian Horrors And The Horrors Of Racism [Comic-Con 2020] By Chris Evangelista/July 25, 2020 4:44 pm EST Lovecraft Country looks like one of the year’s must-see shows – an HBO horror series that blends Lovecraftian horrors with the horrors of Jim Crow America. The main cast of the series came together virtually at Comic-Con 2020 today to talk about the highly-anticipated series, which hits HBO next month. While everyone was on guard to not give away spoilers, the thing that came up the most in the panel is how the show details events in the past that are still, unfortunately, relevant today....
‘Night Has Come’ Review: A Haunting Portrait Of End Times Told Through Stock Footage [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2019 1:30 pm EST If Terrence Malick and Franz Kafka decided to get married, and then adopted an old wooden crate full of reels of stock footage as their baby, that offspring would look something like Night Has Come. Director Peter Van Goethem has cut together a plethora of Royal Belgian Film Archive stock footage to tell the story of a dystopian society plagued with a memory-erasing virus....
‘No Time To Die’ Won’t Be Re-Edited During Its Release Delay, Director Calls It “Great As It Is” By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2020 2:30 pm EST No Time to Die was supposed to grace us with its presence this month, but then the coronavirus stepped in and threw a wrench into those plans. Now the latest James Bond film is set for a November release, which has lead some to wonder if director Cary Fukunaga would use this time to re-edit and perhaps polish the film more before its eventual release date....
‘Rick And Morty’ Will Stream On HBO Max By Jacob Hall/Oct. 29, 2019 4:14 pm EST If you’re smart enough to get the jokes on Rick and Morty (because only the most intelligent people out there can understand it’s scathing blend of high-minded science fiction and poop jokes), maybe you’ll be smart enough to sign up for HBO Max, which will be the new streaming home for the hit Cartoon Network show....
‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Video Game Will Have The ‘Into The Spider-Verse’ Suit By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2020 12:00 pm EST We’ve got over a year before we see Tom Holland back in action everyone’s favorite webslinger in Spider-Man 3 next year, and unfortunately we have to wait two years before Miles Morales suits up as the wallcrawler in a Spider-Verse sequel in the fall of 2022. But thankfully, you can still get your webhead fix this year with Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed and best-selling Spider-Man video game for PlayStation 4, and there will be a touch of the Spider-Verse to go along with it....
