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‘Jezebel’ Review: A Sexy And Strange Middle-Finger To Stereotypes And Tropes [SXSW] Sabrina is talking to someone on the phone in the first scene ofJezebel. She’s hard at work as a phone sex operator, moaning in her husky voice to really sell her performance. What makes the scene jarring is realizing her younger sister Tiffany is wide awake nearby, hearing everything.Thus begins a film that explores financial independence and sex work from the lens of a young Black woman to great effect....

‘Krypton’ Continues To Deliver Edgy Science Fiction Thrills With “Savage Night” This week’sKryptonepisode, “Savage Night”, is proving that even though the show started rough, it’s determined go out on top. I can definitively sayKryptonis miles better now than when it began. In this episode in particular, we got more of Adam being hated by everyone, a new forceful presence coming onto the scene, a cool team-up, retribution, and even a bit of salvation....

‘Manhunt’ Review: Back To The Basics For John Woo, But Not A Return To Form [TIFF] John Woomade a career creating operatic, ultra-violent crime films peppered with shoot-outs, stand-offs, morally ambiguous characters, and lots and lots of slow-motion doves. Woo eventually made the leap from Hong Kong cinema to Hollywood and created one of the greatest action movies of all time,Face/Off. But Woo’s Hollywood adventure was never truly able to rise above the joys ofthat film, and the filmmaker returned to Hong Kong....

‘Precious’ Director Lee Daniels Adapting ‘Valley Of The Dolls’ For NBC BetweenMad Men,Pan Am, andThe Playboy Club, you’d think television would have gotten its fill of glossy dramas about the 1960s, but it seems those shows may soon have to make room for one more.PreciousdirectorLee Danielsis set to developJacqueline Susann’s 1966 novelValley of the Dollsfor NBC. The book follows three women over two decades as they hit highs and lows and eventually self-destruct....

‘Red’ Director Robert Schwentke To Helm Disney’s ‘The Finest Hours’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After makingRedandR.I.P.D.,Robert Schwentkeis turning away from comic books and toward reality for his next directorial effort. Schwentke has entered talks to helm Disney’sThe Finest Hours, based on the U.S. Coast Guard’s heroic efforts to rescue two oil tankers during a blizzard in 1952. As concepts go, it’s not as cute as elderly assassins or undead cops, but it should provide plenty of drama all the same....

‘Star Trek Beyond’: A Worn Enterprise, Bigger Phasers & One Crew Member Has A Kid In case you haven’t heard, this year marks the 50th anniversary ofStar Trek. The original TV series premiered back in 1966, and that’s why Paramount Pictures wanted to make sure they gotStar Trek Beyondin theaters this year as a way of paying tribute to Gene Roddenberry’s iconic sci-fi creation. So far we don’t know much about the third film in the rebooted franchise, but some new details have come to light....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Locks In Official Release Date, Season 1 Will Air In Two Halves It’s been a bit of a bumpy road to the small screen for CBS’sStar Trek: Discovery, with original showrunner Bryan Fuller stepping away entirely and multiple delays pushing the show’s premiere from January to May andeventually until this fall. Now, finally,Trekfans can sleep soundly knowing that the show has an official release date that seems achievable....

‘Star Wars’ Standalone Testing Rooney & Kate Mara, Felicity Jones And ‘Orphan Black’s’ Tatiana Maslany [UPDATED] Gareth Edwardshas begun testing actresses for a lead role in his 2016Star Warsstandalone movie. There’s no word what the role is butThe Hollywood ReporterreportsOrphan BlackstarTatiana Maslany,Girl With the Dragon TattoostarRooney Mara, and recent Oscar nomineeFelicity Jonesare all testing for a part in the film.UPDATE:Varietyreports thatKate Maraalso read for the role.The Hollywood Reporterbroke the potential Tatiana Maslany Star Wars news....

‘Teen Spirit’ Review: Max Minghella’s Directorial Debut Lacks Pop [TIFF] IfA Star is Bornwas the folk song of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, a familiar tunebrilliantly rendered by cover artist Bradley Cooper, thenTeen Spiritwas its pop song. The film is derivative, calibrated to appeal to a lowest-common-denominator audience … and yet admittedly catchy, even if it’s immediately recognizable as an interchangeable work. Find out more in ourTeen Spiritreview below. Max Minghella, best known for his work in front of the camera as Divya Narendra fromThe Social Networkand Nick Blaine on TV’sThe Handmaid’s Tale, takes his first stab at directing withTeen Spirit....

‘The Flash’ Director Andy Muschietti Teases A “Different Version” Of The ‘Flashpoint’ Storyline When a standalone movie forThe Flashwas first announced by Warner Bros. Picturesat San Diego Comic-Con back in 2017, fans were psyched that it would be calledFlashpoint. But since then, after the disappointment ofJustice League, there have been some major fluctuations in the direction of the DCEU, not to mention cycling through several different directors who have come and gone fromThe Flashmovie itself....

‘Trollhunters Part 2’ Trailer: The Hunters Become The Hunted Trollhunters, the Netflix animated series fromGuillermo del Toro, is gearing up for a second season, and now there’s a trailer to get fans excited. The series is a tale of two worlds colliding – the normal world as we know it, and a secret underground world of trolls. And we’re talking the mythical monstrous trolls here, not the angry people who haunt message boards and comment sections....

‘We Are Your Friends’ Trailer: Zac Efron Takes On The Future As A DJ You can tell a lot about a generation by their coming of age movies.Rebel Without A Cause, American Graffiti, The Breakfast Club, Clueless, Mean Girls;films like these have become symbols of their respective times. This current decade already has a few contenders for that title (Boyhood, for example) but writer/directorMax Josephis definitely hoping to capture that magic withWe Are Your Friends....

Aaron Sorkin On The Steve Jobs Biopic: “It’s Like Writing About The Beatles” Now thatThe Social NetworkscribeAaron Sorkinisfirmly on boardto pen Sony’sSteve Jobsbiopic, the question is how exactly he plans to do it. And while Sorkin’s had plenty of experience writing about real-life people and events, there’s added pressure this time around because the late Apple co-founder has a far higher profile than did the Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane or Texas congressman Charlie Wilson, or even Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg when Sorkin wrote movies about them....