VOTD: Reel Wisdom: Lessons From 40 Films In 7 Minutes /Film reader Derek Stettler has compiled a video titled “Reel Wisdom: Lessons from 40 Films in 7 Minutes,” which does just what it claims. Here is more from the editor: I made this video because I love films and I think there is great wisdom inherent in the film medium. This video represents some of the best wisdom from films, edited together as a single coherent piece of advice on everything from life, death, and purpose, to anger, regret, and destiny....

Watch An Hour-Long Roundtable Interview With 2011’s Award-Worthy Directors Every yearat award season,The Hollywood Reportersomehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress anddirectorof the year’s best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What’s even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For the 2011 Director’s Roundtable, they’ve brought togetherThe Descendants' Alexander Payne,Beginners' Mike Mills,Shame’s Steve McQueen,Young Adult’s Jason Reitman,Moneyball’s Bennett MillerandThe Artist’s Michel Hazanaviciusto discuss their own, and each other’s, movies, all of which have a good shot at multiple award nominations....

Wesley Snipes Confirms ‘Coming 2 America’ Plot Details, Teases His Character’s Voice Coming 2 Americahas already been filming for a couple weeks, butEddie MurphyandWesley Snipestook a break from production for the world premiere of the upcoming Netflix comedyDolemite Is My Name. During quick red carpet appearances, the two briefly discussed working on the movie, but it was Wesley Snipes who offered up intriguing details about his character and the film’s story....

Winning Time Super Bowl Trailer: A Legendary Basketball Story, Advertised During A Football Game While I may have been an honors student back in high school, I was lucky that gym class was more of a pass/fail scenario. If it wasn’t, there was a good chance that I might not have passed. However, Idoknow that the Super Bowl is a showcase for the NFL’s bestfootballteams of the year. That’s why it was so unusual to see a basketball bounce across our screens during Super Bowl LVI....

You Don’t Have To Be An Anime Fan To Enjoy Star Wars: Visions This week brings “Star Wars: Visions” to Disney+, taking the sci-fi saga in a completely new direction with a series of standalone stories presented in the style of Japanese anime. While the mere concept might immediately turn off those who couldn’t care less about anime, as both a longtime “Star Wars” fan and someone who doesn’t have a great appreciation for this particular animation style, I can tell you that"Star Wars: Visions" is still worth watchingfor the masterful visuals, the wild twists on “Star Wars” paraphernalia, and the compelling assembly of tales of heroes who stand up to the face of evil — no matter what the cost....

‘Borg Vs. McEnroe’ Trailer: Shia LaBeouf Serves Up An Ace Performance As A Volatile Tennis Star Shia LaBeoufslowly makes his Hollywood comeback with what promises to be another tour-de-force performance. In the sports dramaBorg vs. McEnroe, LaBeouf plays the real-life tennis player John McEnroe, known for his fiery temperament and court-side outbursts. He stars opposite Swedish starSverrir Gudnason, who plays McEnroe’s most famous rival, Björn Borg. Borg vs McEnroe Trailer It was the perfect real-life rivalry: the calm and collected Swedish player Björn Borg and the mercurial John McEnroe....

‘Cars 3’ Trailer: This Is Pixar’s Version Of ‘Rocky IV’ Sylvester Stallone turned the training montage into a staple of the sports movie genre with hisRockyfilms, but it looks like the people at Pixar are big fans ofRocky IVin particular. The brand newCars 3trailer that just debuted looks like this movie is essentially a remake of Stallone’s sequel, andCars 3even has its own version of Dolph Lundgren’s steroid-fueled Russian boxer Ivan Drago: a sleek new car named Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer)....

‘Creed II’ Director Steven Caple Jr. On Satisfying ‘Rocky’ And ‘Creed’ Fans Alike [Interview] Sylvester Stallone may have really thought he was saying goodbye to Rocky when he wrote, directed and starred inRocky Balboa. Then Ryan Coogler came along with the idea forCreed. It seemed to energize Stallone again and as soon asCreedcame out, he started teasing ideas for a sequel that would bring back Ivan Drago fromRocky IV. At one point, Stallone was going to directCreed II, but he ultimately turned directing duties over toSteven Caple Jr....

‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ – Even Crazier Than You Imagined [Sundance Review] The whole tongue-in-cheek, gory, B-movie grindhouse thing is so played out these days. How many ways can you film the explosion of the human head or the mutilation of a body part, really? BeforeHobo With A Shotgun, I would have said there was some sort of ceiling to that kind of carnage. But co-writer and directorJason Eisenerhas come up with so many new, creative ways to destroy the human body (and insane dialogue to go along with it) that, I dare say, he’s taken the tongue-in-cheek, gory, B-movie grindhouse thing to a whole new level....

‘Hotel Artemis’ Review: A Messy But Undeniably Enjoyable Debut For Drew Pearce Every character inHotel Artemisis operating on a different wavelength and, to quote an old Bethesda answer, it seems to be both a feature and a bug. Part of it has to do with the movie’s premise. The hotel is a hospital for criminals, and in exchange for keeping up with their membership fees and surrendering their weapons before coming in, they get patched up and left alone for the duration of their stay....

‘Krypton’ Stumbles Near The Finish Line With “Hope” We’re only one episode away from the end of the first season ofKrypton, and it feels like this episode,“Hope”, regressed mightily in its attempt to progress the story. Things happenedjust because. you’re able to clearly tell the writing team was ramping up all of their plotpoints faster than necessary just to get to the point where Brainiac finally shows his true form....

‘Life’ Red Band Trailer: You’ve Doomed Us All, Jake Gyllenhaal WithDaniel Espinosa’s science-fiction thriller,Life, only about a week away from hitting theaters, we’re starting to see more than we maybe need to see from the movie. The previous trailers haven’t revealed too much of the alien threat aboard the International Space Station, but a new red band trailer shows how much the life form grows throughout the movie, as it terrorizesJake Gyllenhaal,Ryan Reynolds, andRebecca Ferguson....

‘Lost’ Writer Brian K. Vaughan Tapped To Adapt Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome’ For Showtime Late this summer, it wasannouncedthatStephen King’s 2009 supernatural thrillerUnder the Domewould be hitting Showtime as a drama series, with a search for a writer already underway. Now, months later, formerLostscribe and acclaimed comic book writerBrian K. Vaughanhas been tapped to pen the show, about a town in Maine that suddenly finds itself sealed off from the rest of the world via a mysterious force field....