Movies just don’t take place in the present day — you’ll find plenty that are either set in the past or in the future. Period pieces have the distinct advantage of a historical record, so they can better emulate the time in which the story takes place. But science fiction films that take place in … Read more
“De Humani Corporis Fabrica”—the Latin title means “On the Fabric of the Human Body”—is not as groundbreaking a picture. But it is a compelling and possibly important one. Not so much because of what it shows, although what it shows can rightly be described as shocking and galvanic. (By the same token, it occurred to … Read more
James Gunn continues to open up about how Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was made and marketed and now commented on not using Disney’s The Volume and the GOTG 3 final cut. The immersive LED soundstage known as The Volume has been used to film some larger-than-life sets for shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi and … Read more
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is looking to have a $72 Million second weekend, marking the best second weekend in Illumination history. Numbers have begun rolling in for the weekend and much to the surprise of no one, The Super Mario Bros. movie is coming in far ahead of the pack with what is looking … Read more
Sequels and remakes have terrible reputations. “They’re all Hollywood makes anymore!” “They’re creatively bankrupt!” “They’re awful!” You’ve surely heard these and other complaints many times before. They’re almost as old as movies themselves. (By the time movies had sound, they also had remakes and sequels.) In fairness, there are many good sequels, and arguably even … Read more
The crisis in “Everything Went Fine” begins in the first moment. Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau) sits at a table in her apartment, working. The phone rings. She listens to the caller, whom we don’t hear. She asks, “When? Where?” and then promptly races out the door. Her father has had a stroke, and the caller is … Read more
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is just under a week away from its April 19 launch, but Guerrilla Games has dropped the DLC’s launch trailer. It has more gameplay than anything else shown so far and even includes new characters. The trailer has Aloy flying into the area and quickly coming across Seyka, the new … Read more
Elijah Wood has a few thoughts and a little advice for the new Lord of the Rings movies in development at Warner Bros. It’s been twenty years since Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the movies still stand as some of the best around, but Warner Bros. is ready to head back to … Read more
Glen Powell has been on the acting scene for a while now, but after his recent breakout in Top Gun: Maverickhe’s been cast in Twistersthe long-in-development sequel to the ’90s blockbuster Twister starring Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton. We’re not entirely sure exactly what Powell’s role is going to look like, but we … Read more
“They were very violent, they were very witty, and they were very intelligent,” says Morrissey in an archival interview about The New York Dolls. That unpredictable blend of anarchy and wit has defined Johansen’s career as an artist, and it’s on display in all of the performances and excellent interviews in this project. Scorsese and … Read more