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Destroyer Review: Pulpy Cop Thriller Is Pure Nicole Kidman Unleashed

Nicole Kidman strips away every trace of star glamour to play Erin Bell, an LAPD detective and boozy burnout trying to close the books on the cold case that ruined her life 17 years ago. The star and…
Destroyer Review: Pulpy Cop Thriller Is Pure Nicole Kidman Unleashed

Parks and Rec Trailer Sounds an Ominous Note

A new trailer for the upcoming season of Parks and Recreation reimagines Pawnee as the scene for a horror movie.The video opens with dramatic strings and an aerial shot of the town and its citizens …
Parks and Rec Trailer Sounds an Ominous Note

Revisiting Hours: How Walk Hard Almost Destroyed the Musical Biopic

Every Friday, were recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. Were calling the series Revisiting Hours consider this R…
Revisiting Hours: How Walk Hard Almost Destroyed the Musical Biopic

A Bigger Splash

Watching the rich enjoying their privileges is one of the pleasures of going to the movies. Suffer if you must, beautiful people, but for Gods sake do it in luxury. A Bigger Splash, the title borrow…
A Bigger Splash

Gene Wilder: A Master of Hysteria

Gene Wilder made it impossible not to laugh. Sometimes its as simple as that a gift that keeps on giving. So even as we mourn Wilders death at 83 from complications of Alzheimers disease, we remembe…
Gene Wilder: A Master of Hysteria

Mile 22 Review: Mark Wahlberg Action Thriller Feels Like InfoWars: The Movie

John Silva (Mark Wahlberg) is intense. How intense, you ask? This C.I.A. operative, the leader of an eliter-than-elite unit known as Ground Branch, is the sort of gentleman who does the worlds hardes…
Mile 22 Review: Mark Wahlberg Action Thriller Feels Like InfoWars: The
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Michael Fassbender Battles Through Violent Assassins Creed Trailer

The body count piles up with startling speed in the latest trailer for Assassins Creed , the Michael Fassbender-starring film based on the popular video game. Fassbender plays Callum Lynch, a crimina…
Michael Fassbender Battles Through Violent Assassins Creed Trailer

Ashton Sanders After Moonlight: Its a Revolutionary Time for Black Cinema

25 UNDER 25 Its a revolutionary time for black art and black cinema, says Ashton Sanders, one of the breakout stars from Moonlight , the 2016 film that won (after a historic mixup) the Best Picture O…
Ashton Sanders After Moonlight: Its a Revolutionary Time for Black
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Michael Parks, Twin Peaks Actor and Tarantino Favorite, Dead at 77

Michael Parks, a character actor who enjoyed a career renaissance in recent decades thanks to high profile roles in films by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith, died Wednesday at the…
Michael Parks, Twin Peaks Actor and Tarantino Favorite, Dead at 77

Peter Sarsgaard on The Killing, Death Row and Woody Allen

I have to tell you coming up in a few episodes is some of the best acting I have ever done in my life, Peter Sarsgaard told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. He was talking about his role on the…
Peter Sarsgaard on The Killing, Death Row and Woody Allen

Venom: See Tom Hardy Battle Goons, Inner Alien Symbiote in New Trailer

Tom Hardy battles the evil alien symbiote within him in the gritty new trailer for Marvels Venom . The film is set to open October 5th. Set in San Francisco, Venom stars Hardy as Eddie Brock, a repor…
Venom: See Tom Hardy Battle Goons, Inner Alien Symbiote in New Trailer

Bryan Cranston Hints at Walter Whites Return

Felina, the acclaimed series finale of Breaking Bad ,ended the AMC drama in the most fitting way possible(SPOILER ALERT): with meth-mastermind Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in his final moments eye…
Bryan Cranston Hints at Walter Whites Return

How Taron Egerton Became Elton John for Rocketman

Portraying someone as iconic as Elton John on the big screen is a very difficult task, which is why everyone from Tom Hardy to Justin Timberlake was initially considered for the role in the upcoming …
How Taron Egerton Became Elton John for Rocketman

Werner Herzog on Revenge Porn, Adult Diapers and the Internets Future

Since 1969, Werner Herzog has chased mirages in the Sahara desert, examined the plight of Nicaraguan child soldiers and documented the harrowing lives of Antarctica scientists. But in his new film Lo…
Werner Herzog on Revenge Porn, Adult Diapers and the Internets Future

We Shall Overcome: Ava DuVernay on Making Selma

A s a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay, says director Ava DuVernay. You dont want to let people down; you dont want to embarrass yourself. Shes done much better …
We Shall Overcome: Ava DuVernay on Making Selma

White Helmets Cinematographer Blocked From Oscars Due to Travel Ban

One of the two members of the Syrian civil defense unit the White Helmets that planned on attending Sundays Academy Awards has been blocked from entering the U.S. Twenty-one-old cinematographer Khale…
White Helmets Cinematographer Blocked From Oscars Due to Travel Ban

Trailers of the Week: Ad Astra, Martin Scorseses New Dylan Doc

Finally an Ad Astra trailer! Weve been waiting to catch a glimpse of the James Gray/Brad Pitt sci-fi opus, and the first look at what these gentleman have in store for people who like space and hea…
Trailers of the Week: Ad Astra, Martin Scorseses New Dylan Doc

Life Itself Review: We Have Now Seen the Worst Movie of 2018

How do you rate a cinematic black hole that doesnt deserve a single star? Do you simply give it five eyerolls? Better question: How does a movie, with all the talent in the world going for it, become…
Life Itself Review: We Have Now Seen the Worst Movie of 2018

Why Harley Quinn Is the Best (and Worst) Thing About Suicide Squad

Shes introduced hanging from the top bars in her cell like some demented Cirque de Soleil acrobat, to the retro strains of Aussie singer Graces cover ofLesley Gores 1963 feminist declaration You Dont…
Why Harley Quinn Is the Best (and Worst) Thing About Suicide Squad

Watch the Foreboding Trailer for The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train s first trailer teaser has been released and it looks like its going to be a foreboding ride. Based on Paula Hawkins best-selling 2015 book, the film adaptation will hit theater…
Watch the Foreboding Trailer for The Girl on the Train
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