Peacock’s “Fight Night” Largely Entertains But Pulls A Few Punches

We all enjoy a good heist flick, but stretching one into a limited television series is a gamble that is as risky as the heist our characters try to pull off. The eight-part Peacock miniseries “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” from showrunner Shaye Ogbonna and “Dolemite is My Name” director Craig Brewer spins a … Read more

Saturday Night gets rave reviews out of Telluride

Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night — which depicts the events leading up to the first episode of SNL — is earning raves out of Telluride. Live from Telluride, it’s Saturday Night! Appropriately enough, Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night debuted on, well, Saturday Night at the Telluride Film Festival. For fans of SNL, this is one of the … Read more

Alexander Ludwig, Dafne Keen, Samantha Lorraine in Night Comes

Alexander Ludwig has joined Dafne Keen and Samantha Lorraine in the survival horror thriller Night Comes, directed by Jay Hernandez Earlier this year, it was announced that actor Jay Hernandez, whose credits include Magnum P.I., Hostel, and Suicide Squad, would be making his feature directorial debut with with the survival horror thriller Night Comes, working … Read more

TIFF 2024 adds Saturday Night, Megalopolis and more to schedule

The famed North American film festival adds 20 more titles to their slate, which include big upcoming films from Jason Reitman and Francis Ford Coppola. Deadline has just unveiled that the Toronto International Film Festival has added twenty more titles to their schedule, which brings their lineup of official selections to a total of 278 … Read more

‘Saturday Night’ Trailer Reveals the Origin of ‘Saturday Night Li

Saturday Night Live is now a TV comedy institution. 50 years ago, it was just some weird experimental sketch show made by and starring a bunch of unknowns. Of course, those unknowns turned out to be John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and more — many of the funniest actors of their generation. How that group … Read more

The Texture of Night: How Collateral Revolutionized Movies | MZS

Did the look of “Collateral” seem like a step down for Mann, and for movies? I worried about that.   The actual movie, which came out 20 years ago this week and just came out on 4K Blu-ray for the first time, was a much richer experience. It didn’t look slick or solid like Mann’s shot-on-film projects. It … Read more

‘Saturday Night Live’ Movie Reveals Title and Release Date

Columbia Pictures announced Jason Reitman’s movie about the first episode of Saturday Night Live will be titled simply Saturday Night, and will appear in theaters on Oct. 11. The date matches the 49th anniversary of the variety show’s debut in 1975 under its original name NBC’s Saturday Night. Directed by Jason Reitman and co-written with … Read more