“You gotta listen to the way people talk,” the teenage John Connor instructs the futuristic murder robot sent to protect him. Rejecting words like “affirmative,” this Connor kid instead points the T-800 to “no problemo” and “hasta la vista, baby.” But with its heavy use of Britney Spears’ “Oops!… I Did It Again,” the M3GAN 2.0 trailer insists that its very own killer robot needs no such teaching. The flashy teaser is all verve and attitude, turning the dance sequence from the first movie that became a viral sensation into the dominant tone. Nonetheless, M3GAN 2.0 appears to follow Terminator…

A Minecraft Movie has arrived bringing the Overworld to the moviegoing masses. The family friendly romp follows siblings Henry (Sebastian Hansen) and Natalie (Emma Myers) and their animal-loving realtor Dawn (Danielle Brooks). and the video-game-obsessive Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa) as they’re sucked into the magical mines of the Overworld and into an adventure that they’ll never forget. For here they will meet the legend they call… Steve (Jack Black). We chatted to the cast and creators of the film at an awesome event in Los Angeles that threw us directly into the mines, the vegetable gardens, and the…

We’ve seen the MCU Spider-Man have his One More Day. Now it’s time for his Brand New Day. If those phrases mean nothing to you, it’s probably because you know Spidey mostly from the movies, particularly of the MCU variety and starring Tom Holland. Most of the time, that’s totally fine. The MCU is its own universe with its own history and characters, divorced from the comics. The Spider-Man movies demonstrate this, as they exist in a world in which Peter Parker’s primary love interest is Michelle Jones instead of Mary Jane Watson, his best friend is Ned Leeds (a…

Before he was an Oscar winner, and long before he dreamed of being an “Asian girl” on The White Lotus, Sam Rockwell introduced himself to millions by pushing cigarettes on children. … Or at least that is how only his second speaking role in a feature film went during Gen X and Millennial touchstone, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In a sequence which would live rent-free in the imagination of millions of arcade and karate-loving ‘90s kids, Rockwell acts as grand ambassador for the Foot Clan, a literal army of faceless, fumbling ninjas who work at the behest of the Shredder,…

You say you want a revolution? Well, at a Cinema Con event that featured multiple Spider-Men, Prowlers, and superheroes of various mediums, it was striking that the mic drop moment came not from a webslinger or one of his countless variants; it arrived by way of the cast reveal of a “four-film cinematic event;” it came from the Beatles. “Together, all four films will tell the story of the greatest band in history,” director Sam Mendes said at the Las Vegas event (via EW). Meanwhile Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman added that this would be “the first bingeable theatrical experience.”…

Tommy Callahan sucks as a salesman. So much so that midway through 1995’s Tommy Boy, Tommy and his unwilling sales partner Richard take a break at a diner to drown their miseries in terrible food. Richard orders a shrimp cocktail, but when Tommy requests chicken wings, the waitress shuts him down because the kitchen is closed. What follows is an incredible combination of self-loathing and obnoxious ranting. Comparing himself to a circus boy who inadvertently smothers his beloved pet, and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Tommy picks up a bread roll that he initially strokes, but soon enough is…

Every good stuntman knows that getting knocked down is part of the job. Every time you hit the dirt, you’ve just got to get back up and keep going. With that in mind, it’s not too surprising that stuntman Cliff Booth would return for a sequel to Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. What is surprising, however, is how the sequel will come to be. According to Deadline, the makeshift sequel—which initially began as a screenplay for Tarantino’s self-proclaimed final film, which at the time was titled The Film Critic—is alive once more after the Pulp Fiction director…

After the massive success of their supernatural teen Talk to Me, it was no surprise when YouTube powerhouses RackaRacka, also known as Danny and Micheal Philippou, were picked up to direct a new Street Fighter movie. Rising to prominence with their gory and gratuitous action and horror videos before moving into studio filmmaking, it seemed like a perfect creative fit, so it was with disappointment that fans learned last year that they were no longer connected to the video game adaptation. Now after a recent event promoting the twins’ newest film, Bring Her Back in LA, Micheal and Danny spoke…

Danny and Michael Philippou were already well known in the YouTube community when they took Hollywood by storm with their A24 horror hit, Talk to Me. That haunting supernatural horror explored grief and loss through the lens of a wild party game, which saw teens take turns being possessed by a strange artifact.  During the trailer launch for and sneak peak of their follow-up, Bring Her Back—a film that follows foster kids Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) as they are taken in by an eccentric and possibly dangerous woman (Sally Hawkins)—the pair shared that just like their massively…

Sony‘s presentation at Cinema Con came with good news and bad news. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third entry in the incredible animated trilogy, will not hit theaters until June 4, 2027, which is bad news (unless you’re one of the overworked animators). However, the good news is that we’ve got our first looks at the movie, and they are amazing. It appears that Beyond the Spider-Verse will continue the standard set by the first two films, creating dazzling worlds unlike anything seen in comics or movies. The even better news is for fans of the Prowler, a minor villain…

Marvel made waves yesterday with their five-and-a-half-hour-long announcement video where they very, very slowly revealed the actors involved in 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday. They listed 27 performers, which crazily enough doesn’t compare to the near-40 actors who were announced ahead of Avengers: Infinity War. Still, there are some interesting surprises there with the names. We see for example which characters survive Thunderbolts*, including Lewis Pullman, who many believe is playing Sentry. Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, aka the current load-bearing god of the multiverse, will also be there. Even Channing Tatum’s Gambit is going to return and finally make a name for himself.…

This article contains Death of a Unicorn spoilers. “You know what? We really must put more stock in art history.” This is a moral truth that should be repeated. It also, perhaps, is a thought that flashed through the mind of Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant) right before a unicorn’s horn also smashed into that soft, squishy gray matter. It might have similarly been in the back recesses of Belinda Leopold’s (Téa Leoni) head while another unicorn opened her belly. They were both warned earlier in their movie by art history student Ridley Kintner (Jenna Ortega) that ancient masterworks tell…

Someone once said the waiting of a thing makes for such sweet sorrow. Sure, but it can also be the source of all anxiety, horror, and unrelenting dread, as proven in Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s Warfare. That is until the titular fire and thunder, shock and awe, descends. Then comes the high-pitched screaming and a different type of waiting. Such is Mendoza’s brutal estimation of his time in Iraq during a film with its face so buried in the dirt that you might feel the bullet casings singe your hair. But that comes later, after a deep breath and…

“Armageddon.” That word, spoken by political officer Putin in the 1990 adaptation of Tom Clancy‘s The Hunt for Red October, is weighted with meaning. It’s not just that The Hunt for Red October is a Cold War thriller about the Russian and American Navies racing to find the titular nuclear sub, a conflict that might set off World War III. It’s that the delivery of the word completely changes the movie. Up until that point, Putin (Peter Firth) and the other Russian characters—most notably, Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) and his second officer Vasily Borodin (Sam Neill)—have been speaking Russian.…

To me! My… folding chairs?! Marvel raised a lot of questions yesterday when they chose to announce the cast of its much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday via a five and a half hour video posted to social media, in which the camera moves every 12 minutes or so to reveal a new chair with a star’s name on the back. But the biggest questions might be around names such as Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, and James Marsden. These names all belong to stars of the Fox X-Men movies from the 2000s, films made outside of Disney’s influence and before the…

Forget “What’s your favorite scary movie?” Forget “I’ll be right back.” The defining line of the Scream franchise in this humble writer’s opinion is the one that Jennifer Jolie delivers as she gets stabbed by Ghostface: “You can’t kill me!” she shouts in disbelief. “I’m the killer in Stab 3! I’m the killer!” Yes, that line does show up in Scream 3, easily the least loved entry in the series. Which might be why you don’t remember it. Indeed, while Scream 3 brought back director Wes Craven, it replaced screenwriter Kevin Williamson, whose snappy and self-aware dialogue was central to…

“In another time, in another place… the world has been poisoned.” So opines the introductory wall of text in O’Dessa. Marketed ahead of its release as writer-director Geremy Jasper’s new rock opera fantasia starring Sadie Sink and Kelvin Harrison Jr., from the outside the film looks of its current moment with the stars of Stranger Things and Waves marqueeing a streaming release. But inside its own head, there burns a fever dream that is something much more hallucinatory… and retro. Just take that opening insert text and the visions of post-apocalyptic ruins which accompany it. The message is superimposed on…

Being a James Bond fan is never easy. Not only is the franchise seemingly always teetering on the brink of social irrelevance, but the behind-the-scenes drama to even make these movies seems never-ending. At the start of this year, 007 loyalists and casual movie fans alike were shocked to learn that Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson—representatives of Eon Productions and the producing family that has stewarded the Bond films since 1962—were closing up shop and selling to Amazon. Immediately pundits and fans the world over, myself included, lost our minds. The thing that made James Bond special and truly…

Marvel shocked everyone at San Diego Comic-Con last year when Doctor Doom strode onto the stage and pulled off his mask to reveal himself as Robert Downey Jr., returning for Avengers: Doomsday. And now Marvel’s doing something just as audacious to reveal the rest of the Avengers: Doomsday cast. On their main Twitter feed, Marvel Studios is revealing… chairs. Okay, yeah, they’re chairs with names on them! But they’re still chairs. At intervals of 10-15 minutes, we see a new chair and a new cast member’s name on it. Which is kinda annoying if you’re a regular person who doesn’t…

It’s broad daylight. A towering woman dressed in all black, her face covered in an ominous black veil, stands in the yard of a farmhouse. Acres upon acres of land sit empty in the distance. This is the first clip we are shown on the studio’s monitors of Blumhouse Productions’ new horror The Woman in the Yard when we visited the Athens, Georgia set last year.  Those chilling few seconds of footage set the tone for the tour. It was also, intriguingly, the closest we came to meeting the titular character of the movie (at least in costume). While the…