“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 Trailer Reveals Sauron in the Flesh
“An evil, ancient and power, has returned!” These words are how the first trailer for season 2 of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power begins, with our ragtag band of Middle-earth heroes facing the legendarily malevolent entity known as Sauron. This first look at season 2 reveals Sauron in the ...
Nicolas Cage set to Star in Live-Action Spider-Man Noir Series
Nicolas Cage is slipping on Spider-Man Noir’s trenchcoat in a live-action series at MGM+ and Amazon Prime called Noir. Cage is reprising his role from the Oscar-winning animated sensation Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, only this time he’ll get to literally flesh out his character. The announcement was made ahead of Amazon’s upfront presentation to advertisers on Tuesday ...
“Blade Runner 2099” Adds Michelle Yeoh to Cast in Leading Role
Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 just got a major talent upgrade. Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast in a lead role, adding a major star to one of TV’s most mysterious, exciting new projects. Yeoh joins a limited series that comes from showrunner Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) and is executive-produced by original Blade Runner director Ridley ...
Gael García Bernal on His Showstopping Performance in “Cassandro”
Gael García Bernal has played a political revolutionary, an eccentric symphony conductor, an animated trickster, and a victim of a beach that makes you age years in hours, but he’s never made as much noise in one film as he does in Cassandro, where Bernal had to rile up crowds of thousands as the eponymous ...
“Saltburn” Cinematographer Linus Sandgren on Creating a Fluid Painting for Emerald Fennell
The comic drama Saltburn from director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) is as beautiful as it is macabre. It’s 2006, and Oliver (Barry Keoghan), an awkward, lonely student at Oxford, finds his place within the scenic confines of his university by becoming friends with Felix (Jacob Elordi), who is everything Oliver is not — handsome, ...
Amazon’s “Spider-Man Noir” Series Taps “The Punisher” Showrunner Steve Lightfoot
Amazon’s Spider-Man Noir series is swinging into action. The upcoming series is bringing in The Punisher showrunner Steve Lightfoot to serve as co-showrunner, Variety reports. Spider-Man Noir was first revealed back in February, with Oren Uziel serving as head writer. Now, Uziel and Lightfoot will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers as the series begins to take shape. Spider-Man Noir will, as its ...
“Lessons in Chemistry” Makeup Department Head Miho Suzuki Captures the Pressure Cooker of Being a 1950s Woman
Chemical reactions can be calculated and quantified, but matters of the heart are far less predictable. When scientist Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) finds herself pressed toward domesticity from all sides, she realizes that the way to pursue her passions, empower women, and advocate for equality may be through the kitchen after all. Lessons in Chemistry ...
“The Consultant” Teaser Introduces Christoph Waltz’s as a Corporate Hatchet Man
If you’ve ever worked in corporate America, then perhaps you’ve been subject to one of the more unpleasant aspects of corporate governance; when a consultant is hired to “improve the business.” What “improve the business” often means is firing people after putting them through a review process, a dynamic that was explored, to hilarious effect, ...
Best of 2022: MPA Creator Award Recipient Writer/Director Nikyatu Jusu on her Stunning Debut Feature “Nanny”
It’s that time of year—we look back on a few of our favorite interviews from 2022 in our annual year-end list. Deploying West African folklore to interrogate the myth of the American dream, writer/director Nikyatu Jusu‘s debut feature Nanny is a remarkably assured genre-melding experience. Nanny also gives viewers something that’s sadly still quite rare—it evocatively places ...
“The Walking Dead” Showrunner Angela Kang to Lead Marvel’s “Silk: Spider Society” For Amazon & MGM+
Longtime Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang is leaving the land of zombies for the world of Marvel superheroes. Reports are in that Kang has moved her overall AMC deal to Amazon and will now oversee the upcoming Marvel’s Silk: Spider Society. This will be the first Marvel TV series that will be based on the Sony Pictures universe ...
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Early Reactions Call it a Beautiful, Joyous Return to Middle-earth
The early reactions to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power are in, and it sounds as if the return quest to Middle-earth has been worth the wait. The much discussed, hugely ambitious, massively expensive new series from Prime Video will be airing its first two episodes on the big screen in select theaters ...
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Official Trailer Announces TV’s Most Epic Production
The official trailer for Amazon’s massively ambitious The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is here at last. And what timing, coming on the heels of that other fantasy epic, the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, which just became HBO’s biggest premiere ever. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power comes from showrunners J.D. Payne and ...
“The Boys” Are Officially Coming Back With Season 4 Currently Filming
The Boys are back in town. That town is Toronto. This is good news. After concluding a wild, ambitious third season back in July, we’ve been waiting on word for what would happen next for showrunner Eric Kripke’s deeply NSFW superhero send-up. We assumed that season four was a sure thing considering how popular and consistently ...
A Sweeping Look Behind-the-Scenes of “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”
A new behind-the-scenes look at Amazon Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power gives us a sense of why this is the most ambitious series the studio has ever produced and, arguably, one of the most ambitious series of all time. “The second age is the great unfilmed story in Tolkien’s entire legendarium, ...
“The Boys” Season 3 Arrives on Amazon With Hype to Spare
In one narrative thread of season two of Amazon’s gleefully unhinged superhero sendup The Boys, Homelander (Antony Starr) pursued a very messy relationship with Stormfront (Aya Cash). Their budding romance became problematic when Stormfront was revealed to be a full-blown Nazi, a public relations nightmare for the slightly more subtly sadistic Homelander, and it ended, ...
“The Boys” Season 3 Trailer Reveals Billy Butcher’s Super Status & Newcomer Soldier Boy
The official trailer for The Boys season three opens with Homelander (Antony Starr) on an apology tour. “I feel in love with the wrong woman,” Homelander tells one interviewer after another, referring to his partner-in-fascism and love interest from season 2, Stormfront (Aya Cash). That relationship got…messy, especially after it was revealed that Stormfront was a full-blown ...
MPA Creator Award Recipient Writer/Director Nikyatu Jusu on her Stunning Debut Feature “Nanny”
Deploying West African folklore to interrogate the myth of the American dream, writer/director Nikyatu Jusu‘s debut feature Nanny is a remarkably assured genre-melding experience. Nanny also gives viewers something that’s sadly still quite rare—it evocatively places us inside the head, heart, and aching soul of Aisha (Anna Diop), an undocumented Senegalese immigrant trying to navigate the mystifying ...
“The Boys” Season 3 Redband Trailer is Monstrously Entertaining
Amazon Prime Video’s notoriously, gloriously raunchy The Boys has dropped a season 3 redband trailer that is so NSFW it’s arguably not safe for your home, either. The trailer reveals quite a bit about the upcoming season, giving us our first actual look at where all the damaged boys and girls are heading. The first and arguably ...
