News broke at the start of June that John Boyega was abruptly exiting Jeremy Saulnier’s Netflix movie “Rebel Ridge” due to “family reasons.” The movie, Saulnier’s second Netflix original feature after “Hold the Dark,” was only a week into filming in Louisiana after being delayed for a year because of the pandemic. “Top Netflix executives, […]
“F9,” the ninth entry in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, is set up as the latest film tagged as the savior of theaters. Since the first film in 2001, the “Fast and Furious” franchise has grossed over $2 billion in the U.S. Though not usually elevated to the same social media attention as most films […]
With a screenplay co-written by Jordan Peele and directed by rising star Nia DaCosta, the bloodcurdling thriller digs into the salient contemporary themes in the myth’s origin story. “For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with […]
After going hybrid for last year’s 45th edition of the annual festival, the Toronto International Film Festival has today announced early plans for a festival that more closely resembles pre-pandemic festivities. Nevertheless, in a joint interview with IndieWire, TIFF co-heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente said that all films had been invited to premiere both […]
Meryl Streep celebrated her 72nd birthday this week, but it was Sharon Stone a lot of people were talking about on social media. The business was set up that we should all envy and admire Meryl because only Meryl got to be the good one. Meryl was not gonna be good in ‘Basic Instinct’ or […]
Kenya Barris wasn’t the first high-profile showrunner to strike up a multimillion dollar deal with Netflix , but he was the first notable creator to walk away. Barris’ Netflix run got off to a rocky start with the sitcom “#blackAF,” which became one of the streamer’s more controversial releases and ignited debates over the show’s […]
“The Suicide Squad,” like all of Warner Bros.’ 2021 titles, will debut day and date in whatever theaters are open later this summer and on HBO Max for 31 days. Filming on the supervillain epic managed to be completed before the lockdown shuttered most film and TV productions. …Read the full story
“It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs character,” Diesel said. However, Diesel maintained that he needed to step in to get the Hobbs performance he wanted out of The Rock. What exactly Diesel did to get the desired performance out of The Rock remains to be seen, but it clearly did not sit […]
And yet, despite a clever idea at its heart — a serial dater meets a guy who seems too good to be true, a concept Shlesinger mined from her own bad dating experiences — “Good on Paper” can’t quite find its footing, offering insight and sparkle in only fits and starts. Ideas aren’t the problem […]
Netflix released the trailer for the sophomore season of the comedy show on Tuesday morning, and it’s as filled with all the off-the-wall humor you’ve come to expect. The critically acclaimed and hilariously absurdist sketch comedy series, “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” returns for a second season. “Like all sketch series, not […]
Harper Perennial has debuted an official trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming novelization of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and it’s jam-packed with never-before-scene footage from the director’s ninth feature film. The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novelization trailer, which can be viewed exclusively on Entertainment Weekly , showcases footage Tarantino left on the […]
Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon celebrated 30 years of “Thelma & Louise” by reuniting at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre over the weekend for a discussion moderated by the film’s screenwriter, Callie Khouri . “There are going to be so many movies starring women, about women, female road pictures, whatever,” Davis said. Khouri said she was […]
Five years after breaking out on the international film circuit with her acclaimed horror film “Raw,” French filmmaker Julia Ducournau is back with a new thriller and her first Palme d’Or contender. Ducournau is one of four women directors selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2021 alongside Ildikó Enyedi with “The Story […]
“Kevin Can F Himself” is a clear-cut, incontestable, black-comic evisceration of toxic sitcoms. That much is clear within the first hour, if not the first 10 minutes. Starring recent Emmy-winner Annie Murphy , serve as wisecracking spectators. Multiple cameras cut from a wide look at the stage to medium shots of one or two characters. […]
Believing in anything can be messy, so it only makes sense that “Evil” would be, too. It would be easy to claim that Season 2 delivers more of the same, but that would undersell the extent to which these new episodes have a far greater dose of “more” than “the same.” After already building to […]
“Certainly this film and this story is a particular case for for Natasha,” Feige said, per SlashFilm. The upcoming “Black Widow” film takes place between the events of “Civil War” and “Infinity War” and will follow the character as she uncovers a dangerous conspiracy and mends her relationships with her adopted family. …Read the full […]
“Never Have I Ever,” Mindy Kaling’s coming-of-age comedy, is slated to return to Netflix with its sophomore season on July 15. Per Netflix, Season 2 of the coming-of-age comedy will follow Indian American teenager Devi as she continues to deal with the everyday pressures of high school and drama at home, while also navigating new […]
Tribeca may have been the first big in-person film event of 2021, but it wasn’t clear what it told us about the year ahead. Mostly, outdoor venues at The Battery and a reopened Pier 76 at the Hudson River Park were the main attractions during the festival, which offered 56 world premieres out of 66 […]
On the other side, it’s incredibly difficult and there’s a lot of pain and they kind of walk hand in hand. In the present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Horror […]
But what Weisman’s story does isn’t just examine the way women were spending a decade usually boiled down to big hair and cocaine — although that’s well-represented in the series. And that perfect body comes as the result of a devastating eating disorder that Sheila can’t keep at bay. “Physical” almost exists in the same […]