While Denis Villeneuve gears up for the release of his Dune sequel, he talks taking on a sequel from another filmmaker and how that affected him. Denis Villeneuve is currently the man of the hour. He’s got one of the most anticipated films of the year premiering this week with an overwhelmingly positive early response. … Read more
The Watchers has all the spooky atmopshere and twisty vibes of an M. Night Shyamalan project. And Shyamalan is involved — but it’s actually his daughter, Ishana Night Shyamalan, who serves as director. (M. Night Shyamalan is involved as a producer.) The younger Shyamalan is getting into the family business with a feature debut (that she directed … Read more
True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto shares harsh fan reviews of Night Country finale, which pegs the season as a “hot mess.” Now that True Detective: Night Country has wrapped up its six-episode run, Nic Pizzolatto is taking another jab at the anthology series he created. Following the season finale of True Detective: Night Country, Nic … Read more
“Stop Making Sense” (1984) In the late 1970s, Talking Heads were a brainy New York postpunk group playing CBGB. By the time they released their 1983 album “Speaking in Tongues,” they were practically pop stars, riding high on their hit single “Burning Down the House.” Directed by Jonathan Demme, who would go on to win … Read more
A promo has been unveiled for Late Night With the Devil, a 1977-set horror film starring David Dastmalchian, coming soon to theatres & Shudder Image Nation Abu Dhabi and Spooky Pictures recently teamed up to produce the horror film Late Night With the Devil, headed up by the Australian writing and directing duo of Colin and Cameron … Read more
It may seem like it but it’s not every day a living legend releases a movie at the local multiplex and it just sort of passes from discussion in a couple of days. On this site, Matt Zoller Seitz, a man who knows, gave John Woo’s “Silent Night” one of the few positive reviews I read, but … Read more
This Netflix doc examines the making of the charity single We Are the World, which united the biggest pop stars of the 80s. PLOT: In late 1984, inspired by the success of Band-Aid in the UK, legendary producer Quincy Jones decides to make a charity single including all of the biggest pop stars in the … Read more
In news that could have massive implications not just for the professional wrestling business but for the world of streaming as well, WWE announced their flagship TV show, Monday Night Raw, will be moving from cable, where it has been broadcast since the show’s inception in the early 1990s, to streaming on Netflix. The deal is … Read more
Norman Jewison, the Canadian director best known for In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck, and more, has died at the age of 97. Norman Jewison, one of Canada’s most acclaimed filmmakers, has died at the age of 97. Throughout his long career, Jewison really did it all, ranging from musicals to dramas to romantic … Read more
The main appreciation that anyone watching “The Greatest Night in Pop” will have is that Quincy Jones is a master. Yes, Lionel Richie (who is the main interview subject here) and Michael Jackson had a lot to do with the success of “We Are the World,” but it’s Quincy who somehow wrangled all those talented … Read more