Lets Talk About Justice League
Did you see Justice League this weekend? If so, great! Join us as we look at some questions we have after seeing the latest, largest addition to the DCEU. If not, you’re going to want to go ahead and skip this piece, as we’re going to be splattering spoilers all over the page. So, Zack ...
Paul Rudd Takes Your Ant-Man and the Wasp Questions During HBO’s Night of Too Many Stars
This Saturday night HBO aired Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism, a massive all-star benefit hosted by Jon Stewart that included stand-up performances, sketches and short films from some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Those names included Chris Rock, John Oliver, J.J. Abrams, Stephen Colbert, Abbi Jacobson, Edie Falco, Kumail Nanjiani, ...
Poe and Finn Lead new Star Wars: The Last Jedi “Heroes” Spot
We’re officially less than a month away from Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and while its unlikely we’ll get any major reveals between now and then, there are some new, shiny things for us to paw at while we await the December 15 premiere date. One of those things is this new TV spot, ...
Batman, Wonder Woman and the Flash may Join Forces Once Again in Flashpoint
Fresh off of Justice League’s theatrical release last night, DC Comics is already in talks for the Flash to, once again, zoom onto the big screen in an epic solo film, Flashpoint. At first, I couldn’t think of anything more thrilling than seeing the Justice League members all on the same screen: Batman, Wonder Woman, ...
This new Deadpool 2 Teaser is Gloriously Bonkers
What other film franchise would drop a teaser that was a meticulously crafted, utterly NSFW parody of those old Bob Ross painting tutorials that aired on public access television back in the ‘80s? None. Deadpool 2’s latest teaser is both a parody and a loving homage to Bob Ross’s The Joy of Painting, as well ...
Guillermo del Toro Shares Looks at Latest Revelatory Creature from The Shape of Water
There are few filmmakers working today who have delivered more revelatory creatures than Guillermo del Toro. The auteur behind Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone, Blade II, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, and Pacific Rim has proven time and time again he’s the king of complicated monsters. In his upcoming film, The Shape of Water, del Toro has taken ...
Taika Waititi Imagines a Hilarious Opening Scene Spin-off for a Potential Thor 4
Fresh off of Thor: Ragnarok’s hugely successful box-office weekend, director Taika Waititi has already begun dreaming of opening scene ideas for a potential fourth film (which we anxiously hope they do!). Caution Spoilers Ahead! Although the film is full of hilarious scenes, unarguably one the funniest moments happens at the start of the movie, when ...
Some Actual Good News: Rian Johnson is Creating an Entirely new Star Wars Trilogy
In the midst of a storm of insane news yesterday, none of it any good, a burst of pure light was released by Lucasfilm, courtesy of StarWars.com; The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson will be creating a brand-new Star Wars trilogy. Let that sink in for a moment. Johnson will be writing and directing the first film in the ...
R.I.P. Mjolnir: Say Goodbye to Thor’s Hammer With These 2 Video Memorials
Mjolnir is to Thor what the vibranium shield is to Captain America. It’s more than just a weapon, it’s a symbol, and in Thor’s case, he believed his hammer was the source of his power. Marvel made it clear from the very first teasers for Thor: Ragnarok that Mjolnir wasn’t going to survive the film. ...
How Blade Runner 2049 Used Miniatures to Build the Future
Blade Runner 2049 depicts a dark, ecologically devastated future (San Diego has been leveled and is now just a massive trash dump, for example), but the city of Los Angeles, long the center of Blade Runner mythology, is a glowing, holographic-choked megatropolis teeming with skyscrapers. It’s a dazzling setting, the city stretches out in all ...
Meet the Blade Runner 2049 Concept Artists Who Helped Create the Year’s Most Visually Stunning Film
Director Denis Villeneuve, cinematographer Roger Deakins, production designer Dennis Gassner, costume designer Renée April, the entire art department (really, the list is long) are all responsible for the neo-noir landscape of Blade Runner 2049 that managed to echo Ridley Scott’s dystopian vision in the original while taking it in their own, beautifully dark way. Blade Runner 2049 is the ...
Jeff Deutchman Thinks Everyone (Especially Liberals) Should Watch his Election Doc 11/8/16
In the fall of 2008, documentary producer Jeff Deutchman had a last-minute idea: an omnibus movie that would capture election day. He sent requests to his filmmaker friends, all of whom were Obama supporters, and ended up with an account that had a relatively narrow focus. Eight years later, he started planning sooner, and threw ...
10 Years (and Possibly More) Worth of Star Wars Films Being Planned
For those of you who might have been worried that J.J. Abrams’ Episode IX, due in theaters in December of 2019, would be the last new film in the Star Wars franchise for a while, rest assured that the galaxy’s expanding, not contracting, after the new trilogy wraps up. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy went on the Star Wars show to discuss ...
Immersed in the Scene: Next-Gen Filmmakers Bullish on VR Storytelling
Ever since the first works of film were shown to the public around the turn of the 20th century, the experience has been largely the same. People sit in a darkened theater facing a large screen, where projected two-dimensional, still images flit past their eyes at a rate fast enough to produce the illusion of ...
Ahead of Glorious Call Me By Your Name, Here are 9 LGBT Coming-of-Age Films From the ’90s
The LGBT coming-of-age film has come a long, long way. In 2016, the world watched in astonishment (and some initial confusion) as Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was an incredible moment in which African-Americans and LGBT people saw a story about their communities embraced by mainstream culture. A year and half ...
How They Pulled Off that Insane Airplane Fight in Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming featured some crazy stunts and effects that made it one of the most exciting films of the year. Last week, VFX Supervisor Theo Bilaik walked us through replicating Tom Holland’s movements to fill the stunt gaps with CGI. Now, Bialik is back with an inside look at that iconic show down between Spider-Man ...
Disembodied: From Her to Ghost in the Shell, Scarlett Johansson’s Astonishing Disappearing Act
She’s spent much of her early career playing idealized, beautiful ingenues: from Woody Allen’s neurotic and effortless Nola Rice in Match Point to Joseph Gordon Levitt’s hoop-earringed “dime” in Don Jon, but Scarlett Johansson has never been totally comfortable being typecast as the gorgeous leading lady: “I’ve been able to use [my looks] to my ...
Creature Feature: The Shape of Water‘s Guillermo del Toro is the King of Complicated Monsters
Director Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming film The Shape of Water, his most anticipated work since Pan’s Labyrinth, is a romantic horror fairy tale that won the Golden Lion at the 74th Venice Film Festival earlier this year. The story of lonely, mute janitor Elisa (Sally Hawkins), who befriends and then falls in love with “the ...
Hellboy Cast Grows with Some Huge Talent
The red-skinned demon investigator, Hellboy, is planned to head back to the big screen in 2018. The much-anticipated reboot of the Guillermo del Toro and Rob Perlman 2003 classic announced the addition of three new members to the Osiris Club, Deadline reports. The Dark comic’s inspired film will feature cast members Sophie Okonedo, Brian Gleeson ...
7 Mainstream Hollywood Films That Spoke to me as a Young Gay Man—and Still Do
Before the 1990s, movies with LGBT themes were rare. Oh, sure, LGBT characters had always been included in movies, but not as fully human beings. We held down all of the silly sissy and homicidal maniacs roles. (If you’ve never seen the highly entertaining documentary adaptation of Vito Russo’s book The Celluloid Closet, check it ...
