I never lost my love for Superman, but I was thrilled by this new world that felt deliciously subversive and somehow accessible. I won’t say our son Ben was named after the Fantastic Four’s Ben Grimm, but I won’t say he wasn’t. Fantastic Four. X-Men. Spiderman. Thor. Black Panther. Iron Man. The Hulk. They are … Read more
You always know when you’re watching a Wes Anderson picture. Even if you don’t know what movie you’re watching, if it has a symmetrical composition, a saturated color palette, and smooth camera movements, you’re watching a Wes Anderson movie. Asteroid City is him doing his thing. A sci-fi romantic drama about a Junior Stargazer convention … Read more
Is the movie world ready for another Batman? It’s already got Robert Pattinson playing the Batman of The Batman, which is getting a sequel in a few years. It’s also got Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton in The Flash, which is just out in theaters. And it’s about to get a new Batman and a … Read more
The human drama of the Asteroid City portion of the film, which finds Augie, his father-in-law Stanley (Tom Hanks), and the Steenback children, among others, negotiating with awful grievance, is interrupted by not one but two visitations by an alien spacecraft. The new knowledge of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe solves nobody’s problems—it just … Read more
The Flash director Andy Muschietti has found his next project as Warner Bros. announced that he will direct the upcoming Batman DC Universe movie called The Brave and the Bold. DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran both explained the choice and said that it was an easy decision to make. “We saw The … Read more
It’s official: The Flash director Andy Muschietti will direct DC’s forthcoming Batman movie The Brave and the Bold. Update: Well, it’s official. The Flash director Andy Muschietti will indeed be helming Batman: The Brave and the Bold. DC confirmed the news in a statement: It’s a magnificent film (The Flash) — funny, emotional, thrilling — … Read more
Following his appearance in a post-credits scene in Fast X, a movie starring Jason Momoa and Dwayne Johnson might be in the works. What is the working title for the Dwayne Johnson and Jason Momoa Fast & Furious movie? According to a recent report from noted industry insider Daniel Richtman (via World of Reel), the … Read more
Actor Tom Holland has revealed the movie scene he is most proud of. Holland received international recognition when he was cast as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. Since then, Holland has played the character in many films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including two Avengers films and three standalone Spider-Man films. He … Read more
Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett will team up for Is This Thing On?, with Cooper directing from a script co-written by Arnett. You learn something new every day. I had no idea that Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett were long-time friends, with Arnett even helping Cooper overcome an addiction to cocaine and alcohol twenty years … Read more
It’s been three years since Charlie Kaufman’s last film, I’m Thinking of Ending Thingswhich also marked the Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind writer’s first movie for Netflix. His next project is also headed to streaming, and it marks his first venture into digital animation. (He previously co-directed and wrote the stop-motion animated … Read more