The Losers’ Club return to the town of Derry in the haunting new trailer for It Chapter 2, in theaters September 6th. The trailer opens with Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain) visiting her childhood home, hoping to find her estranged father. Instead, she’s greeted by an elderly woman, Mrs. Kersh, who …
Read More »'Chernobyl' Review: Revisiting Russia's Nuclear Disaster as a Season in Hell
In the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, just outside the Northern Ukraine city of Pripyat, something went wrong at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Thanks to a simulated power-failure exercise, human incompetence, design flaws and an inability to stop the domino effect as things began to spiral out …
Read More »Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro at Tribeca Film Fest: 10 Things We Learned
Film director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro have had one of the longest-lasting and critically renowned creative partnerships in all of American cinema. On Sunday, as part of the programming for the Tribeca Film Festival (which De Niro cofounded in 2002), the two of them sat down for …
Read More »'Better Things' Recap: Cold Readings
A review of “The Unknown,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I show you a copy of the Fiddler on the Roof cast album… For Season Three, Better Things dropped its original opening credits sequence scored to John Lennon’s “Mother,” opting for a shorter one where …
Read More »Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth Fight Intergalactic Evil in New 'Men in Black' Trailer
Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth suit up and do battle with shape-shifting aliens that have managed to infiltrate the MIB organization in the new trailer for Men in Black: International, out June 14th. The new clip introduces Thompson’s character, Agent M, a new recruit who spent 20 years trying to …
Read More »'Hail Satan?' Review: In the Dark Lord (and Religious Freedom) We Trust
The question mark may throw you at first: Wait, so are you asking us if we pledge fealty to the Prince of Darkness, or …. But as filmmaker Penny Lane’s documentary on the Satanic Temple makes clear early on, the innate sense of inquiry in the title is indeed there …
Read More »'Big Little Lies': HBO Drops First Trailer for Series' Season 2
Ahead of the season premiere of Game of Thrones, HBO dropped the first trailer for the second season of another of the network’s most anticipated series, Big Little Lies. The minute-long clip picks up where the lives of the now-infamous “Monterey Five” – played by Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene …
Read More »'Star Wars': See First Trailer for 'Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker'
The story of the Skywalker family ends December 20th, and in front of a cheering, lightsaber-waving crowd at Chicago’s Star Wars Celebration convention Friday morning, director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy finally announced the title of the final film in the saga: Star Wars: Episode IX – The …
Read More »'Long Day's Journey Into Night': Sex, Violence and the 3D Shot of the Century
Nope, it’s not a Chinese-language remake of Eugene O’Neill’s daunting masterpiece about the disintegration of a family over a 24-hours period. In his second feature after 2015’s rhapsodically received Kaili Blues, writer-director Bi Gan, 28, takes you on a rapturous ride through the night that will knock you for a …
Read More »Watch Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Respond to Fan Theories on 'Game of Thrones' Ending
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is doing his best to keep his mouth shut about the upcoming ending of Game of Thrones. The actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss his arc as Jamie Lannister on the HBO series and allowed Kimmel quiz him on a few fan theories. “I’m a terrible …
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