Posts

Kicking off his career in the pornography industry (which feels weirdly appropriate), the late director Wes Craven would move on to a gradual and consistent slew of hits in commercial cinema. With early low-budget independent pictures that focused on vile creatures preying on suburban innocents, Craven was making stone-cold classics from all the way back to the early ’70s. A writer as well, Craven would coin so many of the tropes and clichés that horror movies now seem far too fond of reusing....

Anchor Bay Films has released the third clip from The Wicker Tree, which opens in theaters January 27. Click on the video player below to watch Christopher Lee return as “Old Man” in director Robin Hardy’s follow-up to The Wicker Man. When two young missionaries (Brittania Nicol, Henry Garrett) head to Scotland, they are initially charmed by their engaging baron Sir Lachlan Morrison (Graham McTavish) and agree to become the local Queen of the May and Laddie for the annual Tressock town festival....

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an interesting if ultimately unsatisfying look at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Made for no other reason, it seems, so that director Kirby Dick could make this movie and submit it to the ratings board, I felt that many issues were highlighted but nothing was really accomplished. In fact, it seemed like all this movie did was show us the system of ratings in place at the MPAA, but it didn’t go much beyond that....

This Is Us has been a massive hit for NBC and has gained fans worldwide over its run over the past five seasons. Now the sixth and final season is here, and the premiere is already making people grab a tissue. The season premiere marks the Big 3’s 41st birthday celebration. It was filled with flashbacks in how they marked the occasion in the pilot five years ago. So much has changed as they have grown up and gone on their different paths that brought them to this moment today....

The new sequel Top Gun: Maverick will soon finally land in theaters, and Tom Cruise has been speaking about what it was like to bring the movie to life while promoting its release. One aspect of the sequel that has many fans of the original excited is that it also brings back Val Kilmer’s Iceman alongside Cruise’s Maverick. It has been previously reported how Cruise was adamant about getting Kilmer involved in Top Gun 2 as such an important part of the first film....

Director Michael Bay gives the middle finger to critics and unleashes “Bayhem” on a scale never before seen on film. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a full on robot orgy of violence and destruction. It is a technical masterpiece, taking the IMAX and 3D formats soaring to a new standard. The plot is ludicrous, laughable actually, but who cares when you’re watching Chicago getting beaten to a pulp in the mother of all action scenes....

HBO’s hit series True Detective wraps up Season 1 on Sunday night with the eighth episode “Form and Void”. Series creator Nic Pizzolatto recently spoke about setting up the finale, his writing process for the first season and his love for Twin Peaks, while responding to various critiques of the show in a wide-ranging interview with Buzzfeed. There will be plenty of spoilers if you aren’t caught up, so read on at your own risk....

The Good A great film that manages to transcend the drama genre. The Bad There should have been a featurette on why this movie was ignored upon its release.Two Lovers tells the tale of Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) and the problems he has trying to find love. Having been brokenhearted over his most recent relationship, he has repaired to his childhood home as he tries to regroup and get himself together. His dad is selling the family dry cleaning business, and the hope is that Leonard will take over his family’s store....

The entire cast gathers for a Q&A session about Perry’s latest dramatic comedy I first came across Tyler Perry late one Sunday afternoon after a hard night of dominating the Gin cabinet. Two other friends and I were sitting on the coffee bean covered floor of a small bug-infested hovel in Long Beach, California. We were laughing hysterically at the staged antics coming in via a bent TV antennae wrapped around and supported by a coat hanger....

As part of his ongoing efforts to fight AIDS and poverty in Africa, U2’s Bono will participate in the Idol Gives Back fundraising special airing Wednesday, April 25 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. The two-night special begins airing Tuesday April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT). The Irish singer will meet with the six American Idol finalists to talk about the work of ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History (www....

More shows have been put to an end almost as quickly as they began, this time at NBCUniversal’s Peacock. On Friday, Deadline revealed that the new series Vampire Academy is one of the latest shows to get canceled. It comes to a swift end after just one season, premiering on Peacock in September. Reviews were largely positive and Peacock execs were reportedly happy with the show creatively, but viewership wasn’t high enough to justify ordering a second season....

The Apple TV+ series Swagger has just added Vinessa Shaw to its cast. Per Variety, Shaw comes into the show in the role of “Diane,” the Chairwoman of the Cedar Cove Prep School Board. She is also the mother of one of th school’s basketball players and is said to be “very invested in her son’s performance on the court.” In a previous statement, series creator Reggie Rock Bythewood teased the new characters that would be arriving in season 2....

The Walking Dead season 7 premiere, The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be, took twenty agonizing minutes to reveal which character got beaten to death by Lucille. The wait was as crushing as expected, opening a distinctly different chapter in television’s most watched show. Two beloved characters were dispatched mercilessly by Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) barbed-wire wrapped bat. Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) was the first to meet his grisly end. Then when Daryl (Norman Reedus) attacked him, Negan decided another lesson was due....

A Weeds sequel series is currently in development at Starz. The new series will see the return of Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin. The original show ran from 2005 - 2012 on Showtime and dealt with the underground dealing of marijuana, which went from suburban single mom drug dealer to some more outlandish things in later seasons. The new series will put the focus on the Botwin family once more, though the landscape has changed drastically....

Until recently, Michael Flatley’s name was not exactly on everyone’s lips in Hollywood. The dancer has had an extraordinary career on the stage, first coming to wider prominence outside his native Ireland after a jaw-dropping performance in his Riverdance routine at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. World tours, albums, and the amassing of a huge fortune followed. What did not follow was a film career, and nobody expected Flatley to have one – except for Flatley himself....

Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and Co-Chairman Donna Langley along with Jeff Gaspin, Chairman, NBC Universal Television Entertainment and Angela Bromstad, President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC & Universal Media Studios today announced that Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have acquired the rights to produce three films and a television series based on the seven epic novels, short stories and comic books from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Ron Howard will direct the first film and the first season of television, which will be written by Akiva Goldsman....

Since the 1970s, Steven Spielberg has enjoyed an unparalleled reign as Hollywood’s director king of box office smashes like the Jurassic Park films and critically-acclaimed art films like Schindler’s List. With the movie camera as his pen, he has rewritten the cinematic language as we know it and authored some of the greatest stories of our time along the way. But only now, nearly fifty years after Jaws (1975) altered Hollywood history, has the legendary filmmaker decided to tell his own coming-of-age story in his upcoming drama, The Fabelmans, which premiered at TIFF last month....

Animated cartoon movies are known throughout the world for being good for all ages. However, in the West, there seems to be a stigma of them being only for kids. Many big production companies are now working to break that by making family-friendly movies that are great for all ages, but there are also plenty of animated movies that aren’t for children at all, so let’s look at some of them....

We take a look at their recent Cormac McCarthy adaptation What’s the Fuss? No Country For Old Men. It could very well be the best film of the year. Based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name, it was directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Josh Brolin as Llewellyn Moss, a man that makes off with a stash of purloined cash. Javier Bardem plays the reclusive, unstoppable killer Anton Chigurh....

Actor Bradley Cooper recently appeared on BBC’s The Graham Norton Show to promote The Hangover Part II’s Blu-ray and DVD release, where he revealed new details about The Hangover Part III. Here’s what he had to say about the comedy sequel, which may start shooting as early as September. We reported in May that The Hangover Part II’s Craig Mazin is writing the script for The Hangover Part III. Bradley Cooper also revealed some new story details for the sequel....