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‘Deadpool’ Celebrates 10 Years And Two Films Of Moderate Special Effects And Low-Level X-Men This year, Marvel Studios is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the creation of their Marvel Cinematic Universe that began withIron Manback in 2008.Avengers: Infinity Warhas created quite the pomp and circumstance for the milestone anniversary, and leading up to the release of the movie, Marvelunveiled several featuretteslooking back at the 10 years that led up to this major blockbuster event....

‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile’ Review: Zac Efron Gives The Best Performance Of His Career As Ted Bundy [Sundance] What if someone you loved, someone you thought you knew, someone who seemed so charming and caring, turned out to be an absolute monster? Would you immediately believe it – or would you deny the horrible truth with every fiber of your being? It’s hard to know the answer to that question if it’s never happened to you....

‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Coming To Broadway In 2018 Harry Potter and the Cursed Childdebuted this summer to a glowing reception from Potterheads. But chances are you haven’t had a chance to enjoy it in its proper form yet. The play only opened in London’s West End, so unless you live in the area or were able to travel there, you had to make do with the published script and the power of your imagination....

‘Houdini & Doyle’ Cast Conjures Up Michael Weston And Stephen Mangan The friendship and animosity between escapistHarry Houdiniand Sherlock Holmes creatorSir Arthur Conan Doyleis the stuff of modern legend. Houdini, the talented performer who aggressively campaigned against the junk mysticism of the Spiritualism movement that became particularly popular in the teens and ’20s, was at one point fast friends with Doyle, an initial skeptic who became a committed Spiritualist. Now Fox is making a show that uses the relationship between the two men as the spine of a period procedural, and we now know the key players in theHoudini & Doylecast....

‘Invisible Life’ Review: An Unabashed, Affecting Brazilian Melodrama There came a point early on in Karim Aïnouz’s drama of separated sisters,Invisible Life, where I wondered if the way he depicted a scene veered a little too sharply into the melodramatic and borderline hysterical. Then I remembered how the poster billed the film: a tropical melodrama. Once I reset my bearings a bit, I found the narrative quite engrossing and the story rather moving....

‘It Follows’ Trailer: A Terrifying New Vision Of Horror Maybe you’ve heard ofIt Follows. It’s a small horror movie by directorDavid Robert Mitchell. His previous film,The Myth of the American Sleepover, was a memorable look at teen life, and this film is in a similar vein. Similar in that it shows how some aspects of teen life – mainly sex – can become scary.It Followsplayed at Cannes, Fantastic Fest, AFI Fest and just got into the Sundance Film Festival....

‘John Wick’ Director Chad Stahelski Would Love To Make A James Bond Movie After seeingJohn Wick: Chapter 2twice, I’ve settled on the opinion that directorChad Stahelskishould be allowed to whatever hell we wants next (provided that he also find time forJohn Wick: Chapter 3, of course). BothJohn Wickmovies are among the freshest, funniest, and most unique American action films to come around in quite sometime – I’m pretty much in awe of them....

‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Trailer: Someone Tries To Murder Reese Witherspoon Reese Witherspoonis quickly becoming a major player in the TV realm, and she’s following up her AppleTV+ seriesThe Morning Showwith another streaming series calledLittle Fires Everywhere. This one has some seriousBig Little Liesenergy to it, with Witherspoon playing the matriarch of a rich, seemingly idyllic family who finds herself at odds with a mysterious new neighbor, played byKerry Washington. Check out the intense new trailer below, in which someone tries to burn Witherspoon’s character alive....

‘Man On The Moon’ Documentary Explores Jim Carrey’s “Psychotic” Turn As Andy Kaufman [Updated] Update:IfJim & Andy: The Great Beyond – The Story of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Cliftonsounds like something you want to see, you’re in luck. Netflix has officially picked up the film. No release date has been set. Our original article follows below. As a die-hard stand-up comedy nerd, one of my favorite movies isMan on the Moon....

‘Resident Evil’ Series Recap: Everything You Need To Remember Before ‘The Final Chapter’ Over the course of fiveResident Evilmovies, we still haven’t learned a whole lot about Alice (Milla Jovovich). She’s a character driven more by action, but her actions often don’t define her in any substantial or tangible ways. She’s often shooting her way through these movies — mostly surviving, rarely evolving. The character is always on the move. She’s nearly always driving the story, creating more action than waiting to react....

‘Smurfs’ Producer Will Now Also Turn ALF Into A CG/Live-Action Hybrid For Sony Around these parts, reactions to this spring’snewsthat puppeteerPaul Fuscowas looking to get anALFmovie off the ground ranged from mild eye-rolling to tentative curiosity. In executive offices around Hollywood, however, the responses were apparently rather more enthusiastic. Sony Pictures Animation has just finalized a deal for the movie rights to the classic sitcom, with the intention of developing it into a CG / live-action hybrid feature....

‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Under Attack By Original ‘Space Jam’ Director Space Jam: A New Legacyhas been called many things: crass commercialism on full display, a soul-sucking trek through Warner Bros.' stable of intellectual property, an underwhelming family film. But now a confusing new descriptor is being lobbied against the sequel: “notSpace Jam.“Joe Pytka, who directed the original 1996 movie, has been against the idea of a sequel for years, and now that he’s finally seen it, he has some harsh words for it....

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Super Bowl Spot: ‘Our World Will Fall’ - Plus Tickets On Sale For Early Screenings Kirk, Spock and the crew are back this Summer and Paramount has taken the occasion of the Super Bowl to remind the world of the film’s upcoming release. TheStar Trek Into DarknessSuper Bowl commercial is now online, featuring a new look atJ.J. Abrams' upcoming film, out May 17. The film once again starsChris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, John ChoandBruce Greenwoodalong with new additionsAlice EveandBenedict Cumberbatch....