'Star Trek' Star Anton Yelchin Dead In Car Crash

‘Star Trek’ Star Anton Yelchin Dead In Car Crash ActorAnton Yelchin, probably best known for his roles in theJ.J. Abrams-producedStar Trekmovies, was tragically killed early Sunday morning in a car crash. TMZbroke the news that 27-year-old Yelchin died after getting pinned by his own car. The actor was supposed to meet friends at a rehearsal and they became alarmed when he didn’t show up and wouldn’t answer his phone. When they arrived at his San Fernando Valley home at around 1:00 AM, they found the actor “pinned between his car and a brick mailbox, which was attached to a security gate” with the engine still running and the car in neutral....

July 12, 2025 · 3 min · 629 words · Kelly Williams

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Won't Answer Your Questions About Supreme Leader Snoke

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Won’t Answer Your Questions About Supreme Leader Snoke Now that the dust has settled on Force Friday II, it’s clear that we don’t know much Wars: The Last Jedithan we did before all the merchandise for the movie hit shelves (though we did learn a bit more about Benicio del Toro’s character). But the good news is we’re getting closer and closer to the release of the next chapter in the sci-fi saga, and more and more details are hitting the web every day....

July 12, 2025 · 4 min · 820 words · Samantha Stevens

'The ABCs Of Death' Review: 26 Ways To Die, Some Are Great, Some Are Not

‘The ABCs Of Death’ Review: 26 Ways To Die, Some Are Great, Some Are Not The ABCs of Deathis an anthology comprised of twenty-six vile, disgusting, hilarious, sometimes fantastic, and other times forgettable horror shorts. Individual directors each paired a letter of the alphabet with a way someone can die, and every possible option was on the table, no matter how offensive or gory. Predictably, the results are equal to the imaginations and skills of each director....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Melissa Rogers

'The Double' Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg Is His Own Worst Enemy

‘The Double’ Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg Is His Own Worst Enemy Richard Ayoadehas come a long way from the days when he was known primarily to Brit comedy nerds as ubergeek Maurice Moss fromThe IT Crowd. He wowed TIFF in 2010 with his feature directing debutSubmarine, and returned to the festival earlier this year to earn still more buzz with his sophomore effort,The Double. Based on the novella byFyodor Dostoevsky, the surreal comedy follows meek, overlooked office worker Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), whose life is complicated by the appearance of his doppelganger James Simon (also Eisenberg)....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Robert Woods

'The Wave' Trailer: A Disaster Movie Not Directed By Roland Emmerich

‘The Wave’ Trailer: A Disaster Movie Not Directed By Roland Emmerich Disaster movies are a tough subgenre. Sometimes it’s hard to enjoy watching thousands or millions of people get demolished in some of the worst ways imaginable, especially if there are zero emotional stakes, or if they’re simply treated as an afterthought in a major, CG-heavy summer blockbuster. WithThe Wave, directorRoar Uthaugattempts to ground the disaster movie scenario. After the jump, watchThe Wavetrailer....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Robert Ingram

'Twilight' Is Returning To Theaters For Its 10-Year Anniversary

‘Twilight’ Is Returning To Theaters For Its 10-Year Anniversary Twilightis coming back to life in theaters. The hugely popular teen vampire romance franchise celebrates the 10th anniversary of its first movie this year with a re-release in movie theaters nationwide. But unlike the immortal lives of Edward and the Cullens, the re-release has a short lifespan:Twilightwill only be screening for two days. It’s time to resurrect the fandom, Twihards. Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are returning to theaters for aTwilighttheatrical re-release in honor of the 2008 film’s 10th anniversary....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 392 words · Sandra Chan

/Film LA: Los Angeles Film School Sued For Misrepresenting Jobs At Apple Store; Trying To Move Hollywood Farmer's Market

/Film LA: Los Angeles Film School Sued For Misrepresenting Jobs At Apple Store; Trying To Move Hollywood Farmer’s Market For a student, cheating is probably the worst thing they can do at school. But what happens when the schools cheat their students? A big, fat lawsuit, that’s what. Reutersis reporting a class action lawsuit has been filed against theLos Angeles Film SchoolandLos Angeles Recording Schoolclaiming students were bribed into lying that jobs as sales clerks at both the Apple Store and Guitar Center were considered “creative positions” in order to keep the school’s academic accreditation....

July 12, 2025 · 4 min · 641 words · Samuel Parks

A Nightmare On Elm Street Review: More Dull Than Watching Blood Dry

A Nightmare On Elm Street Review: More Dull Than Watching Blood Dry There’s a joke at the center ofA Nightmare on Elm Street, a very simple one, that would be hilarious if it wasn’t so damning. The joke is that a film about kids desperately trying to stay awake is so incredibly good at putting me to sleep. A hybrid re-imagining and remake ofWes Craven’s 1984 original, thisNightmarefeels like it has been glued together out of ill-fitting parts....

July 12, 2025 · 5 min · 858 words · Chad Salinas

Angelina Jolie Not Doing Cuaron's Gravity After All? Meanwhile, Bret Easton Ellis Wrote The Golden Suicides With Her In Mind

Angelina Jolie Not Doing Cuaron’s Gravity After All? Meanwhile, Bret Easton Ellis Wrote The Golden Suicides With Her In Mind Earlier this weekit was reported thatAngelina Joliehad dropped out ofWanted 2, effectively killing that film (no great loss) and that she would instead star inAlfonso Cuarón’s upcoming ‘space thriller’Gravity. Cuarón doing a space thriller? Fantastic. Doing it with Jolie’s financial pull? Potentially incredible. But now it seems the report onGravitymay have been premature, and that Jolie isn’t doing the film after all....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 376 words · Alexander Golden

Bryan Fuller Leaves Yet Another Show, Will No Longer Run 'Amazing Stories'

Bryan Fuller Leaves Yet Another Show, Will No Longer Run ‘Amazing Stories’ Apple’sAmazing Storieshas found itself without a showrunner before the show has debuted.Bryan Fuller, the man behind shows likeHannibalandPushing Daisies, tried to get anAmazing Storiesreboot off the ground for years and succeeded when Apple came looking for original programming. But a new report says he’s now parted ways with the show. Read about the Bryan FullerAmazing Storiessplit below. The Hollywood Reportersays that Fuller, who was hired to serve as the showrunner of Apple’s new iteration of Steven Spielberg’sAmazing Storiesanthology series, has “exited the project citing creative differences....

July 12, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Jodi Hunt

CBS Wants 'The Big Bang Theory' To Run "Forever" [TCA 2016]

CBS Wants ‘The Big Bang Theory’ To Run “Forever” [TCA 2016] During his opening remarks to the Television Critics Association, CBS President of Entertainment addressed the upcoming 10th season of their hit sitcomThe Big Bang Theory. While no deals with cast members have been made beyond this year, Gellar indicated his intention to keep the show going, with the help of the show’s producers at Warner Brothers Television. “We are very confident that everyone involved wants moreBig Bangpast year 10,” Gellar said....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 360 words · Bonnie Smith

Censor Director On The Perverse Joke Of Building A Violent Horror Movie Around A Film Censor [Interview]

Censor Director On The Perverse Joke Of Building A Violent Horror Movie Around A Film Censor [Interview] “Censor” is a horror movie about a very specific time and place. That time: the 1980s. The place: the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It’s an era that has inspired all kinds of horror stories, and one that really had it out for, well, actual horror stories. Government censors worked overtime to edit, and often ban, violent horror movies, which were dubbed “video nasties....

July 12, 2025 · 11 min · 2144 words · Donald Liu

Cool Stuff: Indiana Jones Artist Sketch Cards

Cool Stuff: Indiana Jones Artist Sketch Cards When I was a kid, I collected baseball cards. When I became a young teen, this morphed into collecting comic book related card sets. Now I own a cardboard box full of cards which are nearly worthless. At various comic conventions I’ll see some of the sets I spent so much time trying to complete as a kid for sale for next to nothing....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 358 words · Travis Jimenez