As the young star of the Harry Potter movies, Daniel Radcliffe was thrown into some strange situations – including one where he encountered Donald Trump backstage before an interview on The Today Show. “It was my first time in New York,” Radcliffe said to Seth Meyers on Monday night. “I was really nervous,…
Remembering Anton Yelchin’s Greatest Film Roles
Anton Yelchin was extraordinary, starting right from his first days of life. Born to a pair of Jewish figure skaters in what was then still the USSR, his family withstood enough prejudicial treatment and political oppression to afford them refugee status from the United States, where the Yelchin clan moved…
Anton Yelchin on Acting, Power of Punk, ‘Absurdity of Existence’
After starring in the Star Trek franchise reboot and a Terminator sequel in 2009, Anton Yelchin could have transitioned to making blockbusters full-time. But the actor, who died yesterday in a freak automobile accident at the age of 27, went in the opposite direction, putting his franchise clout to work on…
Watch Beatles’ Early Concert Footage in Ron Howard’s New Doc
After last month’s announcement that Ron Howard’s Beatles documentary would launch Hulu Documentary Films, a release date and trailer have been revealed. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years will hit theaters on September 15th and the streaming service on September 17th. Howard first announced that he was…
Watch Seth Rogen Talk ‘First R-Rated, Pixar-Style’ Movie ‘Sausage Party’
Seth Rogen appeared on the pre-NBA Finals Game 7 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about his new animated movie Sausage Party, a demented film about sentient food. “It’s probably one of the craziest things we’ve ever done, and we almost started a war,” Rogen said, hearkening back to the…
Anton Yelchin, ‘Star Trek’ Actor, Dead at 27
Anton Yelchin, the actor who portrayed Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek series and star of films like Like Crazy and Green Room, died early Sunday morning in a fatal traffic collision, his publicist confirmed to The Associated Press. Yelchin was 27. According to TMZ, Yelchin was involved in a freak accident outside…
Actor Ron Lester, Billy Bob from ‘Varsity Blues,’ Dead at 45
Actor Ron Lester, who portrayed Billy Bob in the 1999 football film Varsity Blues, died Friday at a Dallas hospital following liver and kidney failure. He was 45. Lester “passed away peacefully” while surrounded by friends and family after being taken off life support around 8:30 p.m. CST, the actor’s agent wrote…
Tickled
It started as a quirky, can-you-believe-this? story, the sort of fringe-culture ephemera that David Farrier specialized in. A New Zealand TV reporter known for interviewing survivalists, cosplayers, a local named “the Donkey Lady” and Justin Bieber, Farrier had stumbled across a Web site promoting a sport called “Competitive Endurance Tickling”…
Watch Ricky Gervais Croon, Make Crude Jokes in ‘David Brent’ Trailer
“I’m currently a singer-songwriter – and a rep,” David Brent (Ricky Gervais) pseudo-boasts in the hilarious first trailer for David Brent: Life on the Road. The clip previews the former Office star’s attempts at rock star reinvention as he performs middling concerts with hodgepodge live band Foregone Conclusion. The story picks…
Beyond Bonnie and Clyde: 10 Infamous Crime Spree Couples
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow weren’t the first criminal couple, and Blake Fitzgerald and Brittany Harper certainly won’t be the last – from bank robbery and kidnapping to rape, murder and even cannibalism, some of the most shocking crime sprees have been pulled off by outlaw lovers. Whether motivated by a mundane…
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
It is, of course, a time-honored tradition of French cinema to feature nude, nubile young bodies in the name of oh-la-la sensationalism (see Bardot, Brigitte). So let’s say it’s not entirely surprising that, within the first 30 seconds of writer-director Eva Husson’s drama about high school sex parties in Southern…
‘Wicked’ Film to Hit Theaters December 2019
After years of development, the film adaptation of Broadway’s long-running smash Wicked will officially hit theaters in December 2019. The musical premiered in San Francisco in 1998. Director Stephen Daldry has been attached to the project for at least four years and will helm the film adaptation. Winnie Holzman, who wrote…
Central Intelligence
Smart title for a stupid comedy that surprises only by being less awful then you expect. It’s bad, but not painfully so — and in a bummer summer like this one that’s high praise. The long and short of Central Intelligence is that the joke is all in the central…
Watch Tupac Shakur, King of West Coast Hip-Hop, in ‘All Eyez on Me’ Biopic Trailer
The upcoming Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me traces the cold reality of the fallen hip-hop forebear, and his rise from poverty to the highest echelon of fame. The film will be released on November 11th, just a couple months after the 20-year anniversary of the icon’s assassination on the corner of East Flamingo and Koval…
‘Raiders!’: How Two Kids Made the Greatest Fan Film Ever
While other 11-year-olds in Biloxi, Mississippi might have spent their 1980s summer vacations playing endless hours of Space Invaders at the local arcade or tricking dimwits into painting picket fences, Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala, the subjects of the new documentary Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever…
Watch Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Return in ‘Ghostbusters’ Teaser
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man became the iconic symbol of 1984’s Ghosbusters, and the towering destructor makes a return cameo in the upcoming remake, terrorizing the streets of New York City. “The symbol that defined a generation is getting an upgrade,” promises a new teaser for the Paul Feig-directed remake,…
25 Best Pixar Movie Characters
Ever since Toy Story introduced audiences to the joys of bickering action figures over 20 years ago, Pixar has continually set the standard for how to do animated characters right: give them humanity, a sense of humor, and a lot of heart; get some top-notch talent to voice them; and…
How ‘The Rock’ Turned Back into Dwayne Johnson
In 2007, director Richard Kelly released a follow-up to his metaphysical head-scratcher/late-bloomer cult classic Donnie Darko — a paranoid satire titled Southland Tales that was so weird and staggeringly dense that it made his previous film look like a sitcom. The plot, if you can call it that, involved an energy…
The Fits
Remember the name Anna Rose Holmer, who makes her feature directing debut with this unique and unforgettable mesmerizer. And while you’re at it, keep an eye on Royalty Hightower, the 11-year-old dynamo doing a radiant star-is-born turn as the quietly observant protagonist of The Fits. Holmer, who wrote the screenplay…
Finding Dory
It was instant-classic time when Pixar released Finding Nemo in 2003. The sequel, Finding Dory, puts heat on Andrew Stanton (and co-director Angus MacLane) to hit the same sweet spot. Stanton wisely eases into it, reuniting us with Nemo (Hayden Rolence) and his clown-fish dad, Marlin (an anxiously comic Albert…
Rolling Stones Film ‘Exile on Main Street’ Headed for Big Screen
A new feature film about the Rolling Stones is in the works. Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones will be directed by Andy Goddard, who has helmed several episodes of PBS’s Downton Abbey. The film is currently looking to cast actors in the roles of Mick Jagger and…
Genius
Maybe it’s when Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), Southern-lit savant and future bestselling novelist, stands stomping his foot on a rainy, slate-gray street, staring up at the Scribner and Sons building. It might be when Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth), wielding his red pen over a manuscript in a conspicuously shadowy office,…
How ‘The Fits’ Became the Girl Power Movie of 2016
Anna Rose Holmer was browsing through a book on medieval history when she stumbled upon a passage involving seizures. It wasn’t just one or two isolated individuals; entire townships were apparently gripped by these convulsive fits. The former NYU film student suddenly found herself wondering: Do these sort of mass…
Watch a Young Barack Obama Woo Michelle in ‘Southside With You’ Trailer
First dates are simply the worst, a nightmare of polite small-talk about siblings and hometowns, held-in flatulence and desperate hopes that the person eating dinner across the table isn’t a serial killer. Not so for Barack and Michelle Obama, or at least, not according to the Sundance breakout Southside With…
Bill Murray on ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot: ‘I Feel Like a Stepfather to It’
The Ghostbusters of past and present united on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday. The new cast discussed the first time they saw the 1984 hit, and the original cast expressed their exuberance about the tough-to-pull-off remake. Joining Jimmy Kimmel was the entire 2016 crew — Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon — and…
15 Things We Learned From the ‘De Palma’ Documentary
The setup to De Palma, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s engrossing new documentary about the life and career of controversial filmmaker Brian De Palma (opening in theaters on June 10th), couldn’t be simpler: The 75-year-old director dissects most of his films and shares analyses and behind-the-scenes anecdotes in between clips….
How ‘Ghostbusters’ Gave Birth to the Modern Blockbuster
How time flies when you’re getting slimed. Ghostbusters turns 32 today, and the titanic influence of this nostalgia totem was obvious even before the upcoming all-female reboot prompted mass fanboy conniptions and the gnashing of Cheetos-stained teeth. To some fans, the attachment is so strong that any discussion of fandom’s golden…
Now You See Me 2
If you fell for the 2013 original — and surprisingly, many did — then Now You See Me 2 has got your number. For the rest of us, however, this longer, louder sequel adds up to what one character calls “a sack of nada.” Returning are the Horseman, magicians played…
Warcraft
What happens when a true talent royally screws up an ambitious movie he’s staking his reputation on? It’ll look something like this massively expensive ($160 million) and mostly worthless film version of a role-playing video game that’s been losing steam for half a decade. And yet there is not a…
De Palma
How much do I love this movie? Let me count the ways. De Palma is not much more than a conversation with polarizing director Brian De Palma accompanied by brilliantly chosen clips from the films that make up the rollercoaster of his remarkable career. Oh, but what a conversation —…
The Conjuring 2
Is the haunted house genre played out? It is until a goodie comes along that fries your nerves to a frazzle. The Conjuring did it in 2013; now The Conjuring 2 does it again. The sequel overstays its welcome at a punishing 133 minutes, but that’s the only fly in…
Michael J. Fox on Muhammad Ali: ‘He Made No Apologies, But Understood Kindness’
Emmy-winning actor Michael J. Fox received a life-altering diagnosis for Parkinson’s disease in 1991 at the age of 29. Doctors predicted he had less than 10 years of work left in his career. But Fox, who turns 55 this week, remains active in both the industry and his nonprofit work. The actor credits his perseverance and remarkable optimism to Muhammad…
‘Idiocracy’ Team Ready Anti-Donald Trump Campaign Ads
Mike Judge and Etan Cohen, the director and writer behind the 2006 cult comedy Idiocracy, have reteamed to pen a series of anti-Donald Trump campaign ads starring the film’s wrestler-turned-president, played by Terry Crews. The ads were fueled by a tweet Cohen sent as Trump began dominating the GOP ticket. “I never expected #idiocracy to become…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Cowabunga, the vigilante demi-gods on a half shell are back, and more inane and irritating than ever. Their antics make the 112 minutes it takes to watch this frenetic followup to 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a torturous mindfuck for any sentient being over the age of infancy. Produced by…
‘Popstar’: Behind the Lonely Island’s Hilarious Music Mockumentary
He was drumming like Buddy Rich when he was a baby. In his teens, he’d formed a Beasties-meets-Backstreet boy band called the Style Boyz (you remember their hit dance, the “Donkey Roll,” right?). By the time he was in his twenties, he was a solo pop juggernaut who sold out…
Watch Kobe Bryant Suit Up for ‘Ghostbusters’ Ad
Kobe Bryant may be retired, but he’ll still be playing a role in the NBA finals – starring in a new ad for the championship series between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers, and the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot. The former Los Angeles Lakers star shared a behind-the-scenes clip of him preparing for promo via…
‘O.J.: Made in America’: Inside ESPN’s Definitive Simpson Doc
On June 17, 1994, following a televised reading of a supposed suicide note by Kim Kardashian’s dad and a slow-speed car chase up the 405 freeway that interrupted the NBA Finals, O.J. Simpson surrendered to police outside a Brentwood home. He was charged with the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole…
Me Before You
In movie weepies, from last century’s Love Story to the millennial likes of The Fault in Our Stars and anything by Nicholas Sparks, death is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Just get a load of Me Before You. I watched the film version of Jojo Moyes’ 2012 bestseller surrounded by women who…
Watch Lonely Island Goofily Play ‘The Newlywed Game’
Before audiences can levy judgment on the new music mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the members of the Lonely Island have already treated them to a delightful appetizer. The press tour for Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone’s latest feature (the early buzz is “Spinal Tap for the 21st…
10 Signs That You Have Superhero-Movie Fatigue
We’ve just about hit the halfway mark for 2016, and already Deadpool, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War and X-Men: Apocalypse have taken cineplexes by storm. August will see the much-hyped Suicide Squad premiere (at which point Jared Leto will presumably quit tormenting his former costars) and November brings Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton…
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
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