Berlinale 2016: Jude Law Works the Good and Bad in Genius
Opening yesterday at the 66th Berlinale was Genius, a reflective tale of extreme talent and the monstrosity that can be wrought by it, based on the short creative life of early 20th century writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law). The movie is the directorial debut of British theater director Michael Grandage, who does an admirable job ...
Stephan James Trained Like Olympic Legend Jesse Owens for Race
The punishing training regimes that actors undergo to transform their bodies for roles is well-documented: think Hugh Jackman, Chris Pratt, Michael B. Jordan, Chris Hemsworth and Ryan Reynolds, who have all pumped up the volume on their muscles at various times to play heroes on the silver screen. Jordan, in particular, turned his body into a ...
This The Other Side of the Door Clip is Very Creepy
Director Johannes Roberts' The Other Side of the Door teases out two oft-used conceits in horror films; 1) people always disobey grave warnings, no matter how dire the promised consequences are, and 2) a mother will do anything, anything for her child. In this case, the mother (Sarah Wayne Callies) will do anything to bring her son (Jax Malcolm) back to life, which includes ...
10 Cloverfield Lane Hides Subliminal Images in New Trailer
For those of you who saw Deadpool over President's Day weekend, you also got a chance to see the new trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the horror/thriller/sci-fi romp by J.J. Abrams production company Bad Robot. Now the film was already shrouded in secrecy, so the news emerging from the latest trailer is, if not surprising, at least interesting. According ...
Idris Elba Makes a Strong Case in Bastille Day Trailer
Bastille Day has the opportunity to be two things; a potentially exciting original film in its' own right, and, a two hour test reel proving that there’s no one better suited to take over the role of James Bond than Idris Elba. Period. End of story. Now back to Bastille Day—the film follows a young American artist ...
Midnight Special Tests Information-Free Waters at the Berlinale
Science fiction, thriller, or family drama? Jeff Nichols’ latest film, Midnight Special, which opens this week after premiering at the Berlinale, absorbingly mixes all three genres. Lead actor and perpetual Nichols collaborator Michael Shannon is a valiant dad on the run, trying to save his eight-year-old son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), from both a religious cult ...
Watch the new Alice Through the Looking Glass TV Spot
Alice Through the Looking Glass opens in theaters on May 27, but Disney used last night's Grammy Awards as a prime spot to showcase this spot for their fantasy sequel. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is coming back to Wonderland, reuniting with The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), the Blue Caterpillar (the late, great Alan Rickman), ...
The Wild Hail, Caesar! Press Conference at the 66th Berlinale Film Festival
An unwitting, kidnapped communist. A gay (or so implied) tap dancing undercover agent. Very angry rival twin gossip columnists. These are George Clooney, Channing Tatum, and Tilda Swinton in Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest, Hail Caesar!, which doesn’t have quite the gravitas of, say, No Country For Old Men, or even A Serious Man, but more ...
Jesus Returns (Again) to the Big Screen in Risen
Another year, another dramatic Bible rendering. The latest in a pantheon of Jesus film depictions, the movie Risen opens on February 19, dramatizing Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection. The action is seen through the eyes of some of the bad guy Roman non-believers, Clavius (Ralph Fiennes) and his assistant, Lucius (Tom Felton), who are tasked with ...
Rebel Wilson Continues Her Hilarious Sidekick Reign of Terror in How to Be Single
For audiences revolted by romantic comedies and in equal measure, for those who love them, How to Be Single, which opens Friday, should attract them both thanks to Rebel Wilson, the comedic sidekick who really makes this girl-buddy comedy. The Australian actress plays the confident, sassy happily single foil to Dakota Johnson’s mousy Alice, a ...
Morena Baccarin on Not Playing the Good Girl in Deadpool
As the tough-talking prostitute/love-interest Vanessa in Deadpool, Morena Baccarin gets to shake off her good-girl persona. We chat with her about playing an unconventional character, how the comic book genre is creating some surprisingly complex roles for women, and why she won’t be signing up to star in an action movie any time soon. Compared to ...
How Deadpool’s Tight Budget Helped Create a New Kind of Marvel Film
To understand how we ended up with the wisecracking, dirty-talking, unapologetically murderous Deadpool we already know and love- thanks to an aggressive marketing campaign- we have to go back to the origin story of this origin story. The project had been kicking around at Fox for more than a decade when in July, 2014, two ...
Deadpool set to Crush President’s Day Weekend
With the reviews of Deadpool solid (it’s sitting at an 83% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes.com) and the full court press media blitz leading up to the film release on Friday, you will probably not be surprised to hear the film is going to do very well this weekend. The critical consensus about Deadpool is that ...
Charlize Theron May Go From Furiosa to Fast 8 Villain
All it took was a little axle grease mascara, a claw for an arm the ability to plausibly beat the snot out of Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road to make Charlize Theron’s Furiosa one of the most iconic characters of the past few years. Theron’s Furiosa immediately warrants mention with other deathless big screen ...
Jane Fonda Honored With The Coolidge Award for Excellence in Film
After a career spanning 1960 to the present, Jane Fonda may be entitled to be called an icon or Hollywood royalty. But when the two-time Oscar winner, author, heath and fitness entrepreneur, activist and humanitarian was in Boston recently to be feted by the independent, non-profit Coolidge Corner Theater, she was the opposite of regal. ...
Check Out the Full-Length Trailer for Fuller House
The first full-length trailer for Netflix’s Fuller House is here, transporting us back to the ‘90s – an era that seems so much more sane, even if at the time it surely didn't. Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber visited Ellen this morning and following a discussion with the talk show icon, shared ...
The Jungle Book Super Bowl Breakthrough Spot Now Online
Did you catch the cool "breakthrough" Super Bowl spot for The Jungle Book? If you missed it, Walt Disney Pictures has brought it online, and it does a great job of furthering interest in director Jon Favreau’s upcoming live-action take on Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale. It's a pretty nifty fit to create a 3D feel to a teaser that's actually ...
Super Bowl 50: X-Men: Apocalypse Spot
X-Men: Apocalypse got in on the Super Bowl ad extravaganza in a big, scary way. In what appears to be the biggest, boldest X-Men movie yet, director Bryan Singer and titular villain Oscar Isaac are bringing the pain in this appropriately apocalyptic Super Bowl spot. Pitting the ancient mutant Apocalypse against the younger versions of our favorite X-men, including Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, Tye Sheridan as ...
Super Bowl 50: Jason Bourne is Back
The team behind Bourne 5 has kept the film as mysterious as the skills the titular hero woke up having in the very first movie. The return of Matt Damon to the title role, along with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass, meant that whatever the film was going to be, people, like us, were going to be extremely interested. ...
Super Bowl 50: 10 Cloverfield Lane Spot
It was less than a month ago that J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot revealed the existence of a film no one was anticipating. Now, with a Super Bowl 50 spot that pours on the intrigue (without revealing a thing, really) 10 Cloverfield Lane is officially vexing. Starring John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr., 10 Cloverfield Lane's latest spot at ...
