This Week In Trailers: The Problem With Apu, I Am Not A Witch, Bad Lucky Goat, A River Below, Sylvio Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Thomas Lennon On His Rare Leading Role In ‘Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich,’ Plus Updates On ‘Cannonball Run’ And The ‘Reno 911’ Sequel [Interview] Usually, whenThomas Lennonshows up in a movie, it’s to be the comic relief. He does have the comedic cred, coming fromThe Stateand creatingReno 911!, and you just know how Hollywood likes to put actors in a box. So it’s sort of a coup thatPuppet Master: The Littlest Reichcast him not only as the lead actor, but as a serious leading man....

Thor: Love And Thunder Trailer Breakdown: A Hero No More Fans have been clamoring for it for weeks, and Marvel decided to make everyone’s Monday morning just a bit more interesting by finally releasing the"Thor: Love and Thunder" teaser trailer. And, as Marvel Cinematic Universe movies go, this is very much a teaser, as it offers mere tastes of the madness coming our way in director Taika Waititi’s follow up to 2017’s beloved “Thor: Ragnarok....

Tom Arnold Still Says Next Cameron Film To Star Schwarzenegger And Tom Arnold The New York Timeshas a big profile piece onTom Arnoldin which he’s defended by no less than Judd Apatow, but the piece is getting attention for a little quote from Arnold that appears right at the end. Talking about a movie that the NYT admits has no plot or script, the actor says: “All I know isJim Cameron’s making it andArnold[Schwarzenegger] and I are going to be in it, and it starts shooting in 14 months, the day after Arnold stops being governor of California....

Top Gun Was A Lie Told With Style We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Tony Scott’s “Top Gun” is as spectacularly entertaining as it is terminally stupid. For a film glorifying the exploits of elite Navy fighter pilots, this is not necessarily a drawback. Released one year after “Rambo: First Blood Part II” ignited American audiences' ardor for jingoistic blockbusters, “Top Gun” reaffirmed Tom Cruise’s superstar status, turned bomber jackets into must-wear apparel and spurred a 500% spike in Navy recruitment....

Vin Diesel Wants Justin Lin To Direct The Final ‘Fast & Furious’ Film Justin Lin(Star Trek: Beyond) helped to reinvigorate theFast & Furiousbrand in a big way. Lin, who has directed four sequels in the franchise, took the series to the next level withFast Five, the most enjoyable sequel in the series up until that point. TheFast & Furiousmovies became more popular, more successful, and more enjoyable, in large part thanks to Lin, who established a new tone and broadened the franchise’s scope....

‘[REC] 3: Genesis’ Teaser Trailer - Here Comes The Bride. And Zombies. Of all the newish horror franchises that have been released in the past decade or so –Paranormal Activity, Saw, Hatchet,etc. – one that often gets overlooked is[REC]. The terrifying Spanish horror films actually give the found footage concept a grounding in reality as a news crew is stuck inside a building that houses a terrible zombie outbreak. In thegood sequel, helmet cameras on an elite squad of special forces agents called in to take care of the outbreak in the first film capture the terror....

‘Atlanta’ Season 2 Early Buzz: Donald Glover Has Done It Again When a brand new show wins two Emmys and two Golden Globes, it can be tough to top that level of early success. But it seems as ifDonald Glover’s occasionally surreal FX comedy/dramaAtlantahas managed to fly in the face of the dreaded sophomore slump. The reviews are in, and early buzz about the new season is strong – so strong, in fact, that as of the time of this writing, season 2 has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes....

‘Barry’ And ‘Silicon Valley’ Renewed By HBO HBO knows you want moreBarryandSilicon Valley, and they’re going to give it to you. The network has officially renewed the two comedy shows for another season. Barry Renewed For Season 2 Barry, HBO’s super-dark comedy that’s garnered glowing reviews, will be back for a second season. HBO announced theBarryrenewal today. The series starsBill Haderas a “depressed, low-rent hitman from the Midwest who finds himself drawn into a community of acting students while on a hit job in LA....

‘Better Call Saul’ Renewed For Sixth And Final Season [TCA 2020] AMC presented aBetter Call Saulseason five panel for the Television Critics Association yesterday. During the panel, creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould revealed that AMC has renewed them for a sixth season, which will be their final season. Throughout the panel, they elaborated more on the end of theBreaking Badspinoff.Season five sees Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) fully embrace his Saul Goodman persona, who becomes Walter White’s money laundering lawyer....

‘Detroit’ Re-Release Trailer Makes An Oscar Push DetroitwasKathryn Bigelow’s first feature film since 2012’s acclaimedZero Dark Thirty, but the harrowing historical drama didn’t seem to have nearly as big an impact as Annapurna Pictures had hoped. The film garnered middling box office and mixed reviews and seemed to have faded from everyone’s memory after it left theaters. Now, sensing that this year’s Oscar race is slightly underwhelming, Annapurna is giving Bigelow’s film another chance with a re-release, and a newDetroittrailer has arrived to signal the new awards season push....

‘Finding The Mother Tree’: Amy Adams To Play Scientist Who Discovered How Trees Communicate If you’re a casting director on the hunt for an actress to play a specialist who needs to crack a mysterious form of communication from an unexpected species,Amy Adamsis your gal. After playing that character type in Denis Villeneuve’s excellent 2016 filmArrival(and being unfortunately overlooked by the Academy), Adams is preparing to suit up for a similar type of code cracking role in a new film calledFinding the Mother Tree....

‘Ghostbusters’ Director Paul Feig Discusses The Channing Tatum Spin-Off And Backlash Ghostbustershas been the talk of the movie community for the past few weeks. It started with directorPaul Feigannouncing his all-female team for a film that’ll be released in Summer 2016. Then, things got taken up a notch when it was revealed Sony was doing a fullGhostbustersuniverse. Part of the news was a secondGhostbustersfilm directed by theRusso Brothersand potentially starringChanning TatumandChris Pratt....