A nuclear holocaust, an evil overlord, hordes of crazed War Boys, and a phalanx of high-speed death machines couldn’t stop Mad Max. But a bitter legal battle could.
How would you react if the creators of your favorite TV series offer to just tell you everything that will happen on the show?
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Have you noticed anything strange about the marketing for the upcoming horror film Truth or Dare?
Action star Jason Statham has taken on dictators, drug dealers, British security services, and whatever the people in the Fast and the Furious movies are. (Street racers? US government-contracted mercenaries? Who knows.) But he may have finally met his match in a 75-foot prehistoric shark named “Meg.”
Update (April 10): It turns out that Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan was, in fact, joking. When his post hit 1,000 upvotes, he released a “Rickroll” video of cast member Evan Rachel Wood (Dolores) singing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” followed by about 15 minutes of a dog sitting at a piano. He did not actually spoil the entire season of the show.
Some Game of Thrones fans were upset when HBO confirmed earlier this year what had long been rumored: The hit fantasy drama is taking 2018 off and won’t return for its final season until 2019. But few should actually have been surprised. After all, when you require nearly two months to film a single battle sequence, it makes sense that you’d need a full year to complete an entire season of the most logistically complex TV show in history.
At a packed screening of the horror movie A Quiet Place in Manhattan last week, you could have quite literally heard a pin drop. You could hear the person behind you breathing (or trying not to). You could hear the silence.
TV police procedurals often investigate a different mystery in each episode. This time, two TV shows are themselves the subjects of a perplexing crime.
A month after he won two Oscars, fantasy maestro Guillermo del Toro is making another big splash in Hollywood. The Mexican filmmaker is getting his own film label at Fox Searchlight, the studio where he directed this year’s best picture winner, The Shape of Water.
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 50 today. The film, considered a masterpiece of science fiction, has changed the genre in countless ways—its depiction of artificial intelligence most of all.
Baseball isn’t the most popular sport in America. Even many of its most ardent supporters would be hard-pressed to make the case that it’s the most exciting to watch. But you wouldn’t know that from the deep canon of beloved baseball films. Perhaps the most treasured of them all, The Sandlot, turns 25 this week, just as Major League Baseball begins another season.
HBO’s newest TV series Barry has been called a dark comedy, black comedy, crime comedy, tragicomedy, funny drama, dramedy, crime drama, hitman comedy, twisted comedy, and, just now, by me, a “darkly funny tragic thriller”—a genre I just made up.
After his 2016 post-election interview on 60 Minutes, US president Donald Trump reportedly called a producer of the CBS news program to ask if he had broken any TV ratings records. He had not. In fact, he had fallen well short of the mark set by the post-election interview of his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Here’s an idea: Plan a film festival comprised solely of films that have been banned or removed from Chinese cinemas. The slate would be pretty darn good.
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In an astounding feat of comedic versatility, the comedian Kate McKinnon brought Saturday Night Live back from the brink of irrelevance this weekend, with her brilliant impressions of US attorney general Jeff Sessions and education secretary Betsy DeVos.
“Unsane,” as far as I know, isn’t a real word. But after audiences see Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller of that name, it should probably become one, similar to another film-derived term, “gaslighting”:
A new film is being heralded by critics for capturing the crushing awkwardness of middle school, in all its marker-sniffing, eyelid-flipping glory.
Stephen Hawking died this morning, his family announced. He was 76.
In a prestige TV reenactment of Mean Girls, HBO executives bragged about why all the cool kids want to sit at their table and not at Netflix’s or Amazon’s.
Already equipped with its own Hollywood film studio, the Church of Scientology is furthering its media ambitions. The religious movement will launch a television channel, Scientology TV, tonight (March 12) at 8pm eastern time on DirecTV and several streaming platforms.
It’s well past due, but one of America’s biggest political and cultural icons is finally getting the Hollywood treatment she deserves. US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, known affectionately as “the Notorious RBG” in some internet circles, is the subject of both an acclaimed documentary and a highly anticipated biopic this year.
It’s kind of astounding that despite Netflix’s $8 billion annual content budget and its hundreds and hundreds of original TV shows and films, the streaming service hasn’t yet made a show set predominantly in space.
