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17 Apr

Onward: The RPG and Gaming Easter Eggs in Pixar’s Latest

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Pixar’s most recent release, Onward, is a celebration of brotherly love and family. It’s also a send-up of fantasy role playing games. In the story, brothers Ian and Barley (Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) must complete a quest in order to bring their late father back to life for a single day. While you don’t need to be a gamer to enjoy Onward, there are some delightful easter eggs inside the film for those of us familiar with tabletop role playing games, collectable card games, and specifically old school Dungeons & Dragons. Take a peek at what we noticed while…

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17 Apr

Best Family Movies on HBO to Watch With Kids

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The company image of HBO may not instantly bring to mind family films, but the streaming service has a really fun selection of movies to enjoy at home with your kids. While you’re spending more time in the house (stay home, stay safe!), you can check out these family-friendly features to stream on HBO. Alpha and Omega (2010) This animated tale of star-crossed lovers features two wolves taken from their national park by rangers to help repopulate another site. Alpha-daughter Kate is determined to get back home, where she’s supposed to marry another alpha; Humphrey, an omega wolf, puts aside…

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17 Apr

Valley Girl Remake Trailer Confirms New Digital Release Date

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In an alternate reality, MGM and Orion’s Valley Girl remake would have (maybe?) set hearts and theaters ablaze in June with its romantic, musical tale of new love discovered on the wrong side of town, but in this one, they’ve had to settle for a VOD release in the midst of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has forced cinema chains around world to shut up shop. Consequently, Valley Girl‘s debut has now moved up a month to May, and a first trailer has arrived online to publicize the shift in plans. Starring Happy Death Day‘s Jessica Rothe and Poldark‘s Josh…

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17 Apr

HBO Max Orders The Shining TV Series Spinoff, Overlook

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Still, in times of social distancing and quarantine, it’s nice to see some work is getting done behind the scenes at HBO Max. Indeed, the incoming streaming service from WarnerMedia announced Thursday a bonanza of new shows they’re developing with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions—with Overlook, a spinoff of Stephen King’s The Shining, at the top of the list. Apparently intended to be a similar dive into the horror-filled imaginings of King as Hulu and Warner Bros. Television’s two seasons of Castle Rock on Hulu, Overlook is described as a…

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16 Apr

Famed Character Actor Brian Dennehy Dead at 81

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Veteran character actor Brian Dennehy, known for a wide variety of roles in film, TV and on the stage, died Wednesday night (April 15) at the age of 81, according to Variety. The Golden Globe and Tony-winning star passed away in New Haven, Connecticut from natural causes. A statement posted on Twitter by his daughter, actress Elizabeth Dennehy, said, “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian, passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife…

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16 Apr

Capone Trailer Asks If Scarface ‘Faked’ Dementia

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Could Al Capone’s famed syphilitic dementia have all been an act? It would’ve been a brilliant ploy. Consider that mob boss Vincent Gigante walked the streets of the West Village in a bathrobe to put on a public performance of a mentally broken man. He kept up the act in court, during affidavits, tests, interviews and under more forceful questioning. But all the while, Gigante ruled the Genovese crime family from 1981 to 2005. The trailer for Capone promises to deliver an “untold final chapter” of his life by suggesting the original Scarface perfected a similar dog and pony show,…

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16 Apr

Star Wars: Rogue One Alternate Titles and Major Character Changes Revealed

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In this week’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story watch-along at IGN, screenwriters Chris Weitz and Gary Whitta had some trivia for fans who decided to revisit the downbeat standalone film along with them, including some alternate titles that didn’t make the cut, and more info on how some of the characters changed in both the initial writing stage and during production on Gareth Edwards’ Lucasfilm project, which was later heavily reshaped by co-writer Tony Gilroy. “There was one point at which we were kicking around titles for this, right?” Weitz said (via Comicbook). “Rogue One was a good choice…

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16 Apr

American Psycho Director Recalls Fighting Against Leonardo DiCaprio Casting

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It’s a very thin line to walk between comedy and horror. Yet filmmaker Mary Harron skipped over it so perfectly with American Psycho that, 20 years later, people are still talking about it. Indeed, we recently unpacked the subversive feminism Harron brought to Patrick Bateman, a yuppie serial killer in Armani suits as realized by author Bret Easton Ellis, and Harron herself is now making the press rounds to talk about the film—including how she almost didn’t make it when Lionsgate fired her and her early choice for Bateman: Christian Bale. As hard as it is to imagine now, there…

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15 Apr

Star Trek Streaming Guide: Where to Watch All the TV Shows and Movies

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Launched on September 8, 1966 — nearly 54 years ago — the NBC-TV series Star Trek was the beginning of a new age of science fiction on television and, eventually, the big screen. The first show to echo the sophistication and vision of sci-fi literature, Star Trek was only a cult hit at the time of its initial run but refused to die even after its cancellation, with the original 79 episodes running for years in syndication. More than five decades later, Star Trek encompasses eight TV series (a total of 764 episodes and counting) and 13 films, plus countless…

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15 Apr

Will a Mortal Kombat: Scorpion’s Revenge Sequel Happen?

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Now that Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge has been unleashed on viewers around the globe, fans everywhere have one question: Will we be getting another entry into the awesome R-rated animated franchise? The first animated Mortal Kombat movie establishes a vibrant and violent landscape that is not only true to the games that inspired it but also feels ripe for exploration. Writer Jeremy Adams says that although he doesn’t know whether the team will get another chance to revisit the brutal supernatural space he would love to, and that if they do he already has a plan for what would…

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15 Apr

Tom Hardy’s Fonzo Retitled ‘Capone’ and Set for VOD Release

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We’ve been excited to get a look at Josh Trank’s upcoming movie Fonzo for a while now. The film, Trank’s follow up to his disastrous Fantastic Four reboot, is set to portray notorious mob boss Al Capone (Tom Hardy) as the “ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist,” having earned a reputation as “the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore” but the story is to follow a less explored and potentially far weirder aspect of the gangster’s life, as the effects of syphilis turn past to present, and “harrowing memories of his violent and…

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15 Apr

Confirmed! Sam Raimi Directing Marvel’s Doctor Strange 2

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It seems like a million years ago already but it was only in February that reports surfaced about Marvel Studios possibly approaching legendary director Sam Raimi to take over Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Raimi — director of the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy and mastermind of the Evil Dead franchise — was said to be in talks to helm the Sorcerer Supreme’s second solo adventure following the departure of the first Doctor Strange’s director, Scott Derrickson, last year. There has been little news on the Doctor Strange 2 front since then, except for a release date shift and…

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15 Apr

Army of Shadows (Reissue)

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Highly Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and based on a novel by Josepeh Kessel, 1969's Army Of Darkness begins when a French man named Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) is hauled into an internment camp in the Nazi occupied France of 1942. Here he meets a few of his bunkmates and befriends a young communist who helps him plan an escape. Before that happens, however, he's released. He winds up back in Marseille where he reconnects with members of The French Resistance whose first order of the day is to execute a member of their own group…

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14 Apr

Dune: Denis Villeneuve on Updating a Classic for the 21st Century

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Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve knows a thing or two about stepping into deep waters with even deeper legacies. A versatile filmmaker who as of late has been working in science fiction, his last movie Blade Runner 2049 was the decades-later sequel to a 1980s cult classic lionized for its genre-defining imagery. For most filmmakers such a prospect would be intimidating, but for Villeneuve it might only be pretext since his next film is a new big screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Dune has technically been brought to the screen before, but in such an unfortunate and incomprehensible way by director…

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14 Apr

Mark Wahlberg Sci-fi Thriller Infinite Shifts Release Date to 2021

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Infinite, a sci-fi film from director Antoine Fuqua, made a major change with Mark Wahlberg as its new headliner, replacing Chris Evans. Indeed, while Avengers: Endgame was the expected, well, endgame of Evans’s tenure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Captain America (maybe?), the actor happens to have several starring roles on his docket. Consequently, with regards to Infinite, Chris Evans—unlike Cap—didn’t want to “do this all day.” Mark Wahlberg replaced Chris Evans as the headlining star of Infinite, as Variety reported back in June 2019. Evans, who had been attached to the project since that February, dropped out due…

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14 Apr

Bruce Lee to Get Definitive Criterion Collection Blu-ray Box Set

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Bruce Lee’s cinematic legacy may already be secure, but it’s about to be boosted by impressive Blu-ray releases, courtesy of The Criterion Collection, that will see his five legendary, genre-transformative Hong Kong action films in a way we’ve never before imagine, digitally restored in 4K resolution. The Criterion Collection has officially announced Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, which will be released on July 14. The 7-disc Blu-ray box set will showcase 4K digital restorations of fist-flying films, The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon. Additionally, Lee’s signature film and iconoclastic actioner, Enter…

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14 Apr

American Psycho: A Vital Satire of Fragile Masculinity

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Patrick Bateman is almost in tears during one of American Psycho’s most famous scenes. Bedecked in a trendy raincoat that he surely purchased at Barneys, and dancing to his favorite Huey Lewis and the News song off their “masterpiece” album, Fore!, the yuppie is at his wits’ end. No, it’s not because of the axe in his hand or the coworker whose skull he’s about to plant it in. It’s because nobody, especially that bastard Paul Allen, understands the depths of “Hip to Be Square.” “It’s a song so catchy people probably don’t listen to the lyrics,” Patrick says with…

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14 Apr

How Ben Schwartz Brought Sonic the Hedgehog to Life

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The success of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been a delightful surprise to everyone, from the fans, critics, and the movie industry at large. Following a disastrous first trailer the film quickly pivoted and now, after the film just recently hit digital, has become genuinely beloved by a segment of the fandom. A big part of that is Ben Schwartz’s turn as Sonic, bringing the character humor, warmth, and surprising depth. We interviewed Schwartz not long after the film dropped on digital and discussed the wild ride the entire process has been. We talk his reaction to the redesign,…

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13 Apr

Star Wars: Daisy Ridley Responds to Rise of Skywalker Backlash

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It’s strange times when a movie can cross $1 billion worldwide but many folks, including the talent that starred in it, are forced to speak of it in tones of disappointment or frustration. But here we are less than four full months out from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s debut and its star is fielding questions about fan division and a muted critical reception. As the ninth and allegedly final film in “the Skywalker Saga”—which includes nine of the 11 Star Wars movies—J.J. Abrams’ The Rise of Skywalker arrived with heavy expectations, particularly after Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi…

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13 Apr

James Gunn Says Suicide Squad 2 and Guardians 3 Both on Schedule

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James Gunn is writing and directing two of the most high-profile superhero films of the next few years — DC’s The Suicide Squad and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — and he says that neither one of them has been delayed so far by the current coronavirus pandemic. Gunn made his remarks while answering fans’ questions on Twitter, according to Variety, although he updated and clarified his remarks a short time later with an additional tweet. The onset of COVID-19 and the subsequent closing of all non-essential businesses, including theaters and movie studios, has wreaked havoc with both…

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