Movie News

In the spring of 2002, Tobey Maguire became one of Hollywood's biggest stars after taking on the lead role in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man." A rousing box office and critical triumph, "Spider-Man" ushered in a new wave of superhero films, setting the stage for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's reign. This success meant there would inevitably be a sequel, and plans for "Spider-Man 2" were quickly underway. 

In-between the "Spider-Man" films, Maguire had signed on to the biographical drama "Seabiscuit" from "Pleasantville" director Gary Ross about an undersized Depression-era racehorse who became one of the most successful thoroughbreds of all-time and inspired a struggling nation. The film was met...

The post How Seabiscuit Almost Cost Tobey Maguire His Spot As Spider-Man appeared first on /Film.

Director Michael Bay's love for pyrotechnics and movie explosions is a meme at this point. His films aren't just action films, they're pure "Bayhem." Everyone knows that if you're seeing one of his movies, be it a period piece romance like "Pearl Harbor" or sentient robots fighting in "Transformers," at the very least, the explosions are going to look good. "Robot Chicken" even had a bit where Michael Bay just puts out a film with no plot, just fireworks and big booms. Honestly, that might be kind of cathartic at this point, like Asmr relaxation videos for people who like to smash things to get their anxiety...

The post This is What Sparked Michael Bay's Obsession With Explosions appeared first on /Film.

The story of "How I Met Your Father" was a long one, even before Kim Cattrall's Sophie sat down in the year 2050 to tell it to her son. The idea of a "How I Met Your Mother" spin-off series was first announced in 2013, before the much-loved sitcom even ended, but didn't come to fruition until nearly a decade later. Now, "How I Met Your Father" is finally here, and it brings with it both the exhilaration of a brand new story, and the easy familiarity of one we already loved. It feels like sliding back into the well-worn bar booth, but...

The post How I Met Your Father Review: An Immediately Likable New Chapter appeared first on /Film.

New Zealander Jane Campion is one of Hollywood's true iconoclasts. From the beginning of her film career in the 1980s, her work has been critically and internationally acclaimed, receiving such laudable awards as the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or for "The Piano" (1993), which made her the first woman to ever win the prize. An undoubted trailblazer of cinema, Campion has a broad body of work including historical dramas, romances, adaptations, and thrillers. Yet all of her films tend to examine gender and power through a female perspective with a naturalistic style and feel, anchored by strong performances at the center. 

With the Netflix arrival of Campion's latest film "The...

The post Every Jane Campion Film, Ranked appeared first on /Film.

Is that you, Mr. Glass? Samuel L. Jackson is back with a grey afro in the first-look images from "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey," an Apple TV+ limited series based on Walter Mosley's novel of the same name. It's far from the first time Jackson has worked on the small screen (I'm old enough to remember when he played Jamal's dad on the original "Ghostwriter"), but it does give him his first major non-supporting role in the era of prestige TV. 

Jackson stars in "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey" as the eponymous character, a man in his early...

The post The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey First Look: Samuel Jackson Stars in an Apple TV+ Series appeared first on /Film.

It's the Bat-Family's world, and we're just living in it. This year alone will see Robert Pattinson suit up for the first time as the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves' Elseworlds-style DC film, "The Batman," before Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton reprise their respective versions of the Dark Knight in the fall's multiversal Dceu adventure, "The Flash." Keaton will also reportedly return as Bruce Wayne and his alter ego in Warner Bros. and DC Films' upcoming "Batgirl," with "In the Heights" breakout star Leslie Grace headlining as Barbara Gordon and J.K. Simmons reprising his role as her dad, Gotham City's Commissioner Jim...

The post Batgirl Movie Adds Rebecca Front, Corey Johnson, and Ethan Kai To the Cast appeared first on /Film.

A new YA franchise is making its way through Hollywood: Paramount Pictures just landed the rights to Tomi Adeyemi's epic fantasy series, "Children of Blood and Bone." Inspired by Nigerian culture, the series follows a heroine on a perilous journey to restore magic to her kingdom. The best-selling trilogy will be adapted and executive produced by the author herself, and Paramount is reportedly fast-tracking the project with producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, both known for work on the "Twilight" saga, the "Maze Runner" trilogy, and "Love Simon." Karen Rosenfelt also serves as a producer.

According to Deadline, Paramount's acquisition...

The post Children of Blood and Bone Adaptation Coming From Paramount appeared first on /Film.

We're two episodes into "Peacemaker," and absolutely nowhere closer to learning what a "butterfly" actually is or how the team's going to achieve peace. Thankfully, the third episode of James Gunn's rip-roaring superhero-adjacent series answers at least one of those questions. In the episode, titled "Better Goff Dead," Christopher Smith, Aka Peacemaker (John Cena), is faced with a foe he cannot defeat: his budding conscience. 

The first two episodes didn't take the crew anywhere crazier than an apartment complex or the local Fennel Fields restaurant for some dope mozzarella sticks, but now the members of Project Butterfly go on their first real mission to assassinate U.S. Senator...

The post Peacemaker Has a Crisis of Conscience in 'Better Goff Dead' appeared first on /Film.

Nearly 30 years after its release, 1992's "Unforgiven" remains the benchmark by which other revisionist westerns are judged. It's a movie that even its prolific director and star, Clint Eastwood, has never quite topped as a filmmaker, although his most recent offering, "Cry Macho," made for a surprisingly decent thematic epilogue to the brooding, melancholic tale of William Munny.

Munny, as played by Eastwood, is an aging former outlaw who's living as a humble Kansas hog farmer and raising two kids when "Unforgiven" begins in 1880. The meta nature of this casting has never been lost on anyone; Eastwood famously made his name playing morally flexible...

The post Unforgiven Ending Explained: Deserve's Got Nothing to Do With It appeared first on /Film.

No one understands "Dune" like Walmart does and it's high time we finally got that all straight. When Denis Villeneuve's bombastic adaption of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic hit the big screen way back in October 2022, we would have never guessed that Walmart would be selling a "Limited Edition Pain Box" in their special "Dune" DVD/Blu-ray set, but that's why, unlike Walmart, we're not God Emperors. Walmart's not afraid to walk the golden path, and if that path leads to the potent word cocktail that is "Limited Edition Pain Box," that's all the better. This is...

The post The Limited Edition Dune Pain Box Finally Ends The Tyranny Of Home Releases You Can't Put Your Hand Inside appeared first on /Film.

This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "The Book of Boba Fett."

Like any story told in the sprawling "Star Wars" universe, "The Book of Boba Fett" has left us with plenty of intriguing details and questions to ponder. Chief among them remains the fascinating tension at the core of this new spin-off series, particularly when it comes to depicting Boba Fett as the ruthless bounty hunter of the original trilogy versus this new "Man with a code" version who clearly has rules, a conscience, and a leadership style based on morals (as far as that can apply to crime...

The post How Calamari Ended Up on Tatooine in The Book of Boba Fett: An Investigation appeared first on /Film.

Hey, have you heard about this young up-and-comer Francis Ford Coppola? I think this kid has what it takes! But seriously, folks! "The Godfather," one of several films that could be declared as Coppola's masterpiece, is turning 50 this year. To celebrate, Paramount is re-releasing the film in select theaters. They're also releasing a brand-new 4K box set that features the entire "Godfather" trilogy, including the recently released "Godfather: Part III" re-cut "The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone." But before we get to that, let's watch a nifty new trailer for "The Godfather" theatrical re-release. 

Paramount has revealed that to mark...

The post The Godfather 50th Anniversary Trailer: Francis Ford Coppola's Masterpiece Gets a Limited Theatrical Release appeared first on /Film.

The Blu-ray for Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" is out, and one of the special features it has is "Designing the Sandworm." They were the most impressive thing in the Frank Herbert novels, and they're spectacular in the film. It's no wonder that Javier Bardem who plays Stilgar in the film wants to ride one. How could you not want to ride one? 

Bardem has just been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for playing Desi Arnaz opposite Nicole Kidman's Lucille Ball in Amazon's "Being the Ricardos." In honor of the nomination,...

The post Javier Bardem Just Wants to Ride a Sandworm in Dune 2, If It's Not Too Much to Ask appeared first on /Film.

(This article contains Spoilers for "Peacemaker" episodes 1-3. Proceed with caution.)

Whether you've been a long-time fan or you just recently found his work, you know that James Gunn is a master needle-dropper. His entire filmography touts incredible soundtracks that not only crawl into your ear and get stuck in your head for days, weeks, and months, but they basically act as another character in his stories. While most filmmakers will use music to simply set the tone for a scene, Gunn can deconstruct a song and inject its DNA into a scene. It's as if the chords and lyrics are another layer of dialogue that is just...

The post Every Song We Heard In Peacemaker Episodes 1-3 appeared first on /Film.

It's not hard to find all sorts of opinions from fans about how Marvel or DC run their movies. One quick trip through social media and you'll immediately be besieged with all sorts of grand proclamations and sweeping generalizations about how these major studios supposedly operate behind the scenes. Depending on who you talk to, Marvel is either holding all their directors at gunpoint and forcing them to follow the whim of every corporate higher-up or allowing complete and total free rein for any filmmaker to do whatever they want. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. once enjoyed the sterling reputation of...

The post James Gunn Says Marvel and DC Don't Push a Master Plan or Story Mandates for Their Movies appeared first on /Film.

The Warner Bros. Pictures film "Dune" is out right now on Blu-ray, and today there is a new featurette from Collider that goes into how director Denis Villeneuve created his version of the world of Frank Herbert's sci-fi book series. The film is the first half of the 1965 book "Dune," which is the first book in the series. 

In the video, Villeneuve says:

"Dune took years to be made because it was a challenge to respect the spirit of Frank Herbert´s book and bring it to the big screen ... maybe the most important thing of all, I wanted the design to be inspired by...

The post Dune Featurette: Denis Villeneuve Reveals the Challenges of Adapting Frank Herbert's World appeared first on /Film.

After becoming the biggest show in Netflix history, the South Korean survival thriller "Squid Game" has continued to break down barriers and rethink the way the American award show qualification process functions in an era where streaming reigns supreme. The SAG Awards nominations for 2022 were revealed yesterday, with "Squid Game" nabbing a nomination for Outstanding Cast in a Drama. The show is against "Succession," "Yellowstone," "The Morning Show," and "The Handmaid's Tale," so while the competition is stiff, they could very well bring home a win. The ensemble was also nominated for stunt work and Lee Jung-jae (Seong Gi-hun / Player 456)...

The post Squid Game is the First Foreign-Language Nominee at the SAG Awards appeared first on /Film.

The first episode of James Gunn's series "Peacemaker" helped set the stage in the wake of "The Suicide Squad" and introduced us to Peacemaker's new world-saving, crime-fighting team, but the second episode, "Best Friends, for Never," ignites the dangerous new plot that will be unfolding on HBO Max. After a rather eventful one-night stand, Peacemaker (John Cena) must rely on his newfound teammates to help him out of a seriously sticky situation. It appears that Peacemaker's really gone from the frying pan of Project Starfish to the fire of Project Butterfly, and he's still clueless as to what it all means. Meanwhile, we...

The post Peacemaker is a 'Best Friend, for Never' in the Middle of Sci-Fi Insanity appeared first on /Film.

We're only a few days away from the season finale of "Yellowjackets," Showtime's addictive new series that's "The Lord of the Flies" meets your favorite '90s teen girl coming-of-age movie. I've been providing episode recaps all season, coming up with theories to the great teenage cannibal mysteries that have been plaguing viewers. Well, Fellowjackets, I've got some good news and bad news. The bad news is that we're likely not going to get answers to all of our burning hypotheses in this week's season finale, but the good news is that it's because the show has a five-year plan. "Yellowjackets" was enthusiastically renewed for a second season,...

The post There is a Five-Season Plan For Yellowjackets appeared first on /Film.

Wes Anderson's newest project is picking up steam, and in usual Wes Anderson style, he's still mostly sticking with the actors he knows best. It's like a very talented little cult and he's their well-organized leader with a penchant for very specific aesthetics. 

Hot off the heels of his role in "The French Dispatch," Rupert Friend has just joined the cast "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More," Anderson's upcoming Roald Dahl adaptation which will be heading to Netflix before you know it. As a side note, doesn't "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar ..." sound like the direct opposite of...

The post Rupert Friend Joins Wes Anderson's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More appeared first on /Film.