What’s Different About The New ‘Outlaw King’ Cut? And Is It Better? After a less-than-stellar reception at TIFF, directorDavid Mackenziedecided to go back and cut close to 20 minutes out of his historical epicOutlaw King. Now at 137 minutes long, the film arrives on Netflix today in all its gory glory. How does this new cut hold up compared to the TIFF cut? Is an improvement at all? And does the infamous Pine peen remain?...
Will The Marvel Restructuring Lead To More Female Superheroes Onscreen? To put it mildly, the MCU has not had a great track record with female superheroes. Their idea of “diversity” seems to be offering countless variations on white, male superheroes, and based on the current schedule that won’t change until the release of 2018’sBlack PantherandCaptain Marvel.(Which are Marvel movies #19 and #20, respectively.) But now some of the roadblocks to highlighting female characters may have disappeared....
‘Aquaman’ Won’t Feature Other ‘Justice League’ Characters, Says Director James Wan Looks likeJason Momoa’s gonna have to yell phrases like “Yeah-uh!” and “My man!” at someone else in his upcomingAquamansolo movie, because directorJames Wansays that his film won’t include other members of theJustice League. Apologies to those of you who were breathlessly anticipating a Cyborg cameo – sounds like that might have to wait untilAquaman 2. In an interview withEntertainment Weekly, Wan said he didn’t want his film to get bogged down with figuring out what every other hero was up to:...
‘Black Mass’ Trailer: The FBI Lets Johnny Depp Become A Boston Crime Kingpin If you haven’t been impressed with the workJohnny Depphas been putting out over the past decade, with disappointments likeMortdecai, The Tourist, Dark Shadows, The Lone Ranger, Transcendence, and tiredPirates of the Caribbeansequels, it looks likeBlack Massmight restore your faith in the actor. A new trailer for the crime thriller fromCrazy HeartandOut of the FurnacedirectorScott Cooperhas just surfaced showing off more of what appears to be an Oscar-worthy performance from Johnny Depp as the infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, who was given free criminal reign thanks to his brother (Benedict Cumberbatch) being situated at the FBI....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Sets A Premiere Date, Watch A Teaser Trailer If HBO wants to be a big ‘ol showboat with how they reveal theGame of Thronesseason 7 premiere date, they have earned that right. The wildly popular fantasy series has become the cable network’s flagship series. It’s less of a show than a cultural event, the thing thateveryonewatches and the thing that inspires a dozen think pieces every week....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Trailer Breakdown: The Battle For Westeros Begins If you haven’t watchedthe latest trailer forGame of Thronesseason 7yet, put a pin in whatever you’re doing and check it out – but, fair warning, there’s a chance you might unconsciously pump your fist in celebration, so make sure you’re in a place where you won’t injure anyone in the process. I’m comfortable declaring this as the best trailer in the show’s history so far, and a trailer withthismuch going on deserves a closer look....
‘Into The Dark’ Review: Hulu’s Horror Anthology Series Kicks Things Off With “The Body” (Blumhouse Television and Hulu have partnered for a monthly horror anthology series titledInto The Dark, set to release a full holiday-themed feature the first Friday of every month. Horror anthology expert Matt Donato will be tackling the series one-by-one, stacking up the entries as they become streamable.) Paul Davis’The Bodykicks off Hulu and Blumhouse’sInto The Darkprogramming with an inaugural terror-tale of October’s Halloween fame....
‘Kings’ Review: Halle Berry And Daniel Craig Lead A Well-Intentioned Misfire [TIFF] Deniz Gamze Ergüven’sKingsis the latest, but almost assuredly not the last, cinematic response to the increased visibility and amplified intensity surrounding conversations on police brutality towards black Americans. The Turkish director claims to have been working on the project for over a decade since she attended film school in the United States, and it’s highly likely that a significant factor in getting the film greenlit (and attracting the talent it did) came from the continued prevalence of racially biased policing in the news....
‘Rumble’ Trailer: Wrestling Monsters Get Ready To — Well, You Know You’ve got wrestling movies and you’ve got monster movies, so why not put the two of them together for the best of both worlds? That’s the premise ofRumble, an upcoming animated film from Paramount Animation and WWE Studios, which starsWill Arnettas a monster trying to break into the pro-wrestling world. Watch theRumbletrailer below. Rumble Trailer WWE has been steadily making inroads into Hollywood lately, with last year’sFighting With My Familybecoming a sleeper hit....
‘Slice’ Trailer: Chance The Rapper Stars In A24’s Pizza-Themed Slasher Movie Chance the Rapperis set to hostSaturday Night Liveon November 18, but he’ll be making his big screen debut soon after that in a new pizza-themed slasher movie calledSlice. A24 is releasing the film, which also stars actressZazie Beetz(Atlanta,Deadpool 2),Joe Keery(Stranger Things), andPaul Scheer(The League,Fresh Off the Boat), and they debuted the firstSlicetrailer early on this spooky Halloween morning. Check it out below....
‘Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge’ Review: A Simple But Immersive VR Shooter With Lots Of Potential Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edgeis a new virtual reality video game experience from Lucasfilm, ILMxLAB, and Oculus that allows players to step into the world of Batuu, the planet where theStar Warstheme park expansions at Disneyland and Disney World exist in the franchise’s official canon. However, rather than creating an experience that just lets fans walk around a virtual version of Galaxy’s Edge, this is an action-packed video game shooter that allows you to explore areas surrounding Black Spire Outpost on Batuu, taking fans into more dangerous and wild territory where enemies are waiting at every turn and deadly creatures won’t hesitate to attack....
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Sizzle Reel Breakdown: A Close Look At All The New Details Over the weekend, Disney and Lucasfilm unveiled one of those beautiful behind the scenes sizzle reels forStar Wars: The Last Jediat the D23 Expo. It wasn’t quite as exciting as a brand new trailer would have been, but that doesn’t mean the video wasn’t full of a bunch of new details for fans to examine frame by frame....
‘The Craft’ Reboot Summons David Duchovny To Play A Character Who Is Probably Not A Teen Witch The Craftreboot has summoned up a new cast member:David Duchovny.Zoe Lister-Jonesis writing and directing the remake of the 1996 horror favorite about a coven of high school witches, with Blumhouse producing. No word on who Duchovny might be playing, but I’m guessing he’s not one of the teen witches, because that would be weird....
