Movie Picture When I first slipped this into my DVD player, I thought I’d finally gone completely over the edge. It looked like yet another Ulli Lommel shitheap, with its poor video quality and its heavy dependence on gratuitious violence and gore. Not to mention the necessity of text crawls to advance the plot–it’s standard Lommel to not even bother giving up the plot with things like exposition and character development....
Controversial comedian Ricky Gervais had a lot to say about the infamous Oscars incident, which saw Chris Rock getting smacked by Will Smith for a joke told about Jada Pinkett Smith. Many celebrities have been sharing their opinions about the situation, but one person many people wanted to hear from is Gervais. This is partly because Gervais ruffled a lot of feathers by poking fun at celebrities while hosting the Golden Globes, and people were interested to hear his take on an award presenter getting slapped at the Oscars over a joke....
Friends star Lisa Kudrow has said that she doesn’t believe there will ever be a revival of the hit comedy series, but she is all in support for seeing a reboot with a whole new cast of characters who could bring the show into the here and now. After almost two decades off-air, Friends is still a huge crowd-pleaser, with constant reruns bringing in viewers across streaming platforms worldwide, and the HBO Max reunion special last year proved that the Friends fan base is stronger than ever....
In the heart-pounding thriller Man on a Ledge, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) makes a desperate and life-threatening move to prove his innocence after he is framed for the theft of a rare, prized diamond. Recently escaped from prison and with nowhere else to go, Nick climbs onto the ledge of a towering skyscraper, inviting the eyes of New York City to anxiously watch as one wrong step could mean plunging to his death....
Masi Oka discusses playing the mysterious title character in Searching for Sonny, hitting limited theaters, Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD platforms August 28 In today’s landscape of independent film, it isn’t uncommon for a movie to be released in theaters and other platforms simultaneously. Searching for Sonny is the latest to take advantage of these multiple venues, arriving in limited theaters, Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD August 28. Fans can CLICK HERE to request a screening through Tugg....
With The Batman having faced serious delays due to the Covid pandemic, it is somewhat appropriate that director Matt Reeves was forced to miss out on the New York world premiere of the movie after testing positive for the virus. Having been vaccinated and boosted, Reeves doesn’t seem to be suffering greatly from the effects of the virus. However, as the pandemic is still very much a part of life, the director was sadly unable to turn up to the event in person and instead dropped in via video message....
Saturday Night Live alum and comedic genius, Maya Rudolph is laugh-out-loud funny whether she portrays Vice President Kamala Harris or saying “Bubble bath” as Connie on Big Mouth. In addition to her comedy roles on TV, of course, including her most recent role in the Apple TV+ series Loot as Molly Novak/Wells, Rudolph boasts a film career filmed with fine performances. Up next, in fact, she will appear in the Enchanted sequel Disenchanted, opposite Amy Adams....
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has drawn a lot of viewers on Netflix, but with its success has come plenty of controversies. The series has been criticized by some for its macabre content with some viewers unable to make it past the very first episode. Labeling the series as “LGBTQ” content had also gotten Netflix into some water, leading to the tag’s removal. Some family members of Dahmer victim Errol Lindsey have also expressed their disapproval of the Netflix hit....
Dreamworks may finally have made an animated film that rivals Pixar in its quality. I am not a Shrek fan, so let me state that right away. Their latest effort, “Monsters vs. Aliens”, is a side-splitting winner. The film is quite clever in its premise. Reese Witherspoon stars as Susan, a normal California woman who is hit by a glowing meteor on her wedding day. Instead of smashing her into a pulp, she absorbs the meteor’s power and mushrooms into a fifty foot version of herself with super strength....
Following the release of the haunting new trailer for Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series, Moon Knight, a poster has now been released, further teasing Oscar Isaac’s mummified vigilante. Wielding one of his signature weapons, the image, which was released via the official Twitter account, shows the unorthodox superhero’s hand covered in the blood of his enemies, hinting at the brutal beatdowns that will be unleashed on the street-level criminals who make the mistake of crossing the mysterious Moon Knight....
The cast of Universal Pictures’ Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall keeps growing every week, with new additions such as John Leguizamo and Donald Faison recently signing on. Today, actors Morris Chestnut and Robert Emms have finalized their deals to join the cast. Morris Chestnut will play the guardian of Chloe Moretz’s Hit Girl. Robert Emms is playing Insect Man, a costumed hero who claims to be a police officer, although he goes far above and beyond his duty while donning the mask....
Spike TV signed a major talent and production deal with multi-media impresario, Jesse James; it was announced today by Sharon Levy, senior vice president, development, Spike TV. The exclusive two-year deal includes multiple pilots and specials for the network. James, who gained international fame for the hit series, Monster Garage, is president of Payupsucker Productions and Payupsucker Publications. Over the two-year deal, James’ production company, Payupsucker Productions, will produce two specials and two primetime pilots that will air per year....
It is going to be watershed moment this week as Paramount, Universal, Sony, MGM, Warner Bros. and Fox begin selling “permanent” versions of their movies online the same day those movies are released on homevideo. Those five studios are doing it through their “jointly owned” online portal, Movielink. Accoording to Variety, Lionsgate and Sony also will sell movies via Movielink’s main competitor, CinemaNow, in which the former has a minority stake....
The Muppets are being rebooted yet again. Disney is getting ready to launch their own streaming service in 2019, which is going to be competing directly with Netflix. That has a lot to do with why the Mouse House is purchasing many of Fox’s assets, assuming the deal is approved by regulating bodies. But Disney has a wealth of properties at their disposal already and one of those properties will be made exclusively for the company’s upcoming, as-of-yet-unnamed streaming service with the new Muppets Streaming series....
Potential Black Panther 2 spoilers below!The thrilling first trailer for the upcoming Marvel sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, finally confirmed once and for all that Namor the Sub-Mariner will make his MCU debut. Portrayed by Narcos: Mexico star Tenoch Huerta, the newly released footage offers several glimpses of the character‘s live-action depiction revealing that, in line with recent rumors, Namor will lean heavily into the iconography of the Aztecs. 4 Images...
While at a press conference for Thor that recently took place in London, headlining star Chris Hemsworth confirmed that Natalie Portman will be reprising her role of Jane Foster in next summer’s epic Marvel superhero ensemble The Avengers. When asked point blank if she was going to be in The Avengers, Chris Hemsworth said this (translated from Italian). Director Kenneth Branagh continued by talking about the relationship between Thor and Jane Foster, and how that might play out between the three Thor movies and the three The Avengers that are currently planned....
On Tuesday, Netflix began releasing mysterious coordinates for a global event to promote the release of Stranger Things season 4. The post reads, “Something big is coming. Find your city, and that’s where we’ll be.” Well, now we finally know what those coordinates mean. Thanks to an exclusive report from IGN, we know that the coordinates are locations for rifts that will open to the Upside Down. Rifts are a portal to the Upside Down, once used by Eleven during an experiment in which she made contact with an inter-dimensional creature, the Demogorgon....
Sony Pictures’ Japanese wesbsite has posted a 1-minute trailer for Spider-Man 3, which contains new footage from the upcoming superhero movie. CLICK HERE to watch the trailer in various video formats!. A complex web of secrets, vengeance, love and forgiveness, Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man 3 is a riveting adventure that will transport worldwide audiences to thrilling new heights on May 4, 2007. In Spider-Man 3, based on the legendary Marvel Comics series, Peter Parker has finally managed to strike a balance between his devotion to M....
If you need a fix for more Bond pics, then you’ve come to the right place. Columbia Pictures have released 21 new photos from Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond film starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko and Judi Dench. Click below to access the entire collection of photos. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate Mr White (Jesper Christensen) who reveals the organisation which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined....
Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine have joined HBO’s limited series The Perfect Nanny, according to a recent report from Variety. The Oscar-winning actress returns to HBO after the Emmy-winning series The Undoing, starring Hugh Grant. The Big Little Lies star will lead and executive produce the HBO limited series based on the book of the same name. The Perfect Nanny series will be based on the novel by French writer Leïla Slimani, released in 2016....
