Rhys Thomas is Quietly Becoming TV’s Most Interesting Director

By Cooper Peltz All hail the king of high concept comedy. No, Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s next project is not a Guys and Dolls remake. It’s something even more ambitious. Comrade Detective spoofs the police procedural. The comedy series is presented...

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The Nuts and Bolts of Rising Icon Tyler, The Creator

By Jasmine Ballew One of the most innovative minds in rap comes back around to television.  We’ve come a long way since the whole Yonkers bug-eating fiasco with Tyler, The Creator, and since then he’s only elevated his status as an icon, slowly and skillfully....

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The Academy Prioritizes Diversity for a Second Year Running

By Sheryl Oh The organization continues to push for an industry inclusion mandate with the induction of its newest members. Last year, the Academy announced a commitment to double its number of diverse members by 2020. Subsequently, the organization...

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First UK Trailer for Biopic 'England Is Mine' About Musician Morrissey

"Steven, what are you waiting for? Take a chance." Entertainment One in the UK has revealed an official trailer for a film titled England Is Mine, a biopic telling the story of famed musician and singer Steven Patrick Morrissey. Morrissey is played by Jack Lowden...

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This Week on the Criterion Channel

Get ready to binge on twenty-four mesmerizing films by American avant-garde pioneer Hollis Frampton, whose formally radical works take the spotlight in this week’s Criterion Collection Edition. In the sixties and seventies, Frampton pushed the . . . Read More ...

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Short of the Day: ‘The Giant’ Has Come to Freak Your Mind

By H. Perry Horton An animated fable. “A young girl grows endlessly, stumbles upon a liquid that releases the darkest sides of herself, and eventually dissolves into the music of the universe.” That’s the description provided for the short animated 360 video...

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Charlize Theron Kicks Ass in Berlin in Final Trailer for 'Atomic Blonde'

"Someone set me up. Someone from the inside." Bring on the ass kicking mayhem! Universal has released a third and final trailer for the action movie Atomic Blonde, set in Berlin. Starring Charlize Theron as an undercover MI6 agent (and/or assassin) sent to Berlin...

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The Caped Crusaders Who Could Have Been: Every Abandoned ‘Batman’ Film

By H. Perry Horton Darren Aronofsky, George Miller, and many more tried and failed to make the bat fly. I don’t know how it started, but I remember when Superman III was slated for release, there was a rumor going around that we might see a Batman cameo in...

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Revenge of the (Film) Nerds

By Karen Gomez How cult directors are crashing the mainstream scene. So far, 2017 has been an interesting year for film. John Wick Chapter 2 carried on with the Keanussance, Logan made a proper farewell for one of the most beloved superheroes on the silver screen,...

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[The Daily] Conspiracies, Memoirs, and More

Jonathan Rosenbaum’s posted a revised version of his 1999 essay on the “Origins and Legacy of the Conspiracy Thriller”: “It’s a tradition that harks back to Louis Feuillade’s silent serial of 1915-1916, Les vampires, about a gang of ingenious . . . Read More ...

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Jackie Chan Wants Vengeance In First Trailer for ‘The Foreigner’

By Rob Hunter Jackie Chan as a dour ass-kicker in a new Martin Campbell film? Yes please. Action stars get older, but while most shift into other genres or retire all together the one and only Jackie Chan just keeps on kicking. Sure he’s a little bit slower and...

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A Crisis of Chrysalis: The Runway Scene in The Neon Demon

By H. Perry Horton A schism moment in a film about change. The Neon Demon is Nicolas Winding Refn’s version of a fairy tale. It features a young pauper who’s really a princess – Jesse – it takes place in a magical kingdom – Los Angeles – and it comes complete...

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Interview: Bong Joon-ho, Tilda Swinton, and Jake Gyllenhaal reveal ‘Okja’

By Matt Hoffman The director and stars of ‘Okja’ reflect on one of the biggest films (and monsters) of the summer. Bong Joon-ho’s latest is one of the most anticipated films of the summer. Okja marks the director’s first English-language film where he was given...

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[The Daily] Goings On: Godard, Kubrick, and More

New York. The tenth edition of Films on the Green, a series of free screenings of French films in the city’s parks, is on through September 7. Jim Jarmusch is one of the ten filmmakers and artists who’s selected a title for the lineup and his . . . Read More ...

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The Tao of Nicolas Cage: ‘Fire Birds’ or ‘Top Gun’ With Helicopters

By Chris Coffel What if Top Gun was about helicopters instead of jets and paired Nicolas Cage with a sleepwalking Sean Young? “I am the greatest. I am the greatest. I am the greatest. I AM THE GREATEST!” There are a number of things I love about doing this column...

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Navigating the Cruel World of Straw Dogs

Film scholar Linda Williams explores the political implications of Sam Peckinpah’s brutal suspense film and its highly controversial intermingling of sex and violence. Read More ...

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Wesley Snipes Stars in First Trailer for Sci-Fi Action 'Armed Response'

"Whoever did this is still inside." Saban Films has debuted the trailer for a weird new sci-fi action thriller titled Armed Response, starring Wesley Snipes - who seems to be back in action between this and The Recall. The film is about a crew of special forces...

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