Like any newStar Warsmovie,Star Wars: The Last Jediwill have its fair share of new vehicles. Today onThe Star Wars Show(via Bleeding Cool) two of the new vehicles made their debut. First up, there’s the evolution of the AT-AT, the AT-M6. The “M6” stands for Megacaliber Six, which is the name of the cannon on its back. No word yet if the AT-M6 has solved the problem of speeders tying its legs up with tow cables....
Fall Movie Season is here, which means we’re about to get a flurry of hard-hitting dramas for the next three months. But this year’s season is special in that we get an extra special gift: a newAaron Sorkinmovie. He’s quite simply one of the best writers of our time, and while folks may debate the quality of some of his work, when he’s on, there’s no one better. And on he appears to be withSteve Jobs, the unique portrait of the Apple innovator starringMichael Fassbender....
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival announcements have begun! Today, the festival announced the line-ups for U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition, and NEXT, which Sundance describes as “Pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling populate this program. Digital technology paired with unfettered creativity promises that the films in this section will shape a “greater” next wave in American cinema....
Titanicis an epic movie, one that chronicles the final hours of the fateful ship in excruciating detail,deftly switching between fact and fictionto weave its narrative. Every moment is a testament to directorJames Cameron’s insistence upon complete accuracy, right up to how the stars looked in the sky that night. But what if you were told that, as good asTitanicis, there’s another film about a sinking ship that is arguably more engaging?...
Brace yourselves,The End of the F***ing Worldis back for another season of brutal emotional truths, sporadic fits of shocking violence, and absolutely killer needle drops, and against the odds, they’ve almost gone and lived up to the electric first season. Almost. The End of the Fing World’s first season did just fine when it debuted on Channel 4, but like so many imports, the UK series absolutely caught fire worldwide when it landed on Netflix....
Netflix has released the first trailer forThe Week Of, the latest collaboration between the streaming giant andAdam Sandler. The film marks the feature directorial debut ofRobert Smigel, best known as the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, but who also spearheaded the “TV Funhouse” segments onSNLand has writtena lotof things, fromSNLtoLate Night with Conan O’Briento the Sandler movieYou Don’t Mess with the Zohan. Smigel co-wroteThe Week Ofwith Sandler, which tells the story of two very different fathers who come together to celebrate the wedding of their children....
“It’s a beautiful day to save lives,” being one ofGrey’s Anatomy’s most famous quotes is ironic considering just how often the show tends to kill off its characters. It’s expected in a medical show for patients to sometimes meet a tragic end, especially with some of the absurd cases that come through the doors. But to kill off main characters? That’s a pretty risqué move. YetGrey’swent there, andhas continuously gone there throughout the series....
Neon has released the first trailer for the critically acclaimed documentaryThree Identical Strangers, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to rave reviews. Directed byTim Wardle, the film tells the story of three strangers who discovered in the early 1980s—as 19-year-olds—that they were actually triplets separated at birth. All three had been adopted into very different families, and thus the documentary becomes a fascinating chronicle of the nature vs....
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Space Cadet.] From writer/directorLiz W. Garcia(Purple Hearts,The Lifeguard), thePrime VideocomedySpace Cadetfollows Rex Simpson (Emma Roberts), a bartender and party girl with dreams of getting herself into NASA’s astronaut training program, even if she doesn’t quite have the necessary qualifications. Determined not to let her lack of scientific training hold her back, Rex goes all-in with her training, in order to become one of the top trainees and get herself sent to the International Space Station....
Get ready to “Roll out!” this October withTransformers: Battlegrounds, the new, tactical, real-time strategy game developed byCoatsinkand published byOutright Games. Based on the characters and designs from the ongoing animatedTransformers: Cyberverseseries, and featuring the said-same actors from the voice cast (!), this game finds Megatron and the Decepticons up to their old tricks. Only the Autobots – under your control – can stop them and save the world! I had a chance to play a hands-on demo ofTransformers:Battlegroundsthanks to Outright Games showing off their upcoming titles (includingZoids Wild: Blast Unleashed, which I wrote about last week....
Paramount has announced that its neo-Western seriesYellowstoneis coming back for a fifth season. The news is not exactly a surprise, as the saga of the Dutton family remains the most-watched original show on Paramount+, withSeason 4’s finale also breaking audience recordson cable television with over 15 million total viewers. Yellowstonefollows the struggles of the Dutton family, led by the patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner). The Duttons control the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States, a fact that sets a target on their back from everyone who wants to drive them away from the land and take control of their prosperous business....
Agatha All AlongEpisode 7is one of thehighest-rated installments Marvel televisionhas ever put out — and for good reason. The episode shines the spotlight onPatti LuPone’sLilia Calderu, a 450-year-old divination witch, and her journey from learning how to use her magic with herMaestra as a childup until herbeautiful, heartbreaking death as she sacrifices herself to defeat the Salem Sevenand allow the rest of the coven to escape with their lives. LuPone is a Broadway legend, having won three Tonys, two Oliviers, and two Grammys, but she’s no stranger to the screen, either....
The game has quickly begun onBig Brotheras all the grandeur that comes with the90-minute premiere episodehas quickly subsided. As we came to learn upon the houseguests’ arrivals quickly, this season is going to look a lot different from those prior due to the change of pace resulting from the multiverse twist announced byJulie Chenin the opener. With the house split up into four groups and a first episode that didn’t give us the usual Head of Household but instead set us up with five nominees, it left a lot of unanswered questions heading into the first full week of Season 25....
