The Cloverfield Universe keeps expanding, and this time quite literally. Busy Hollywood hyphenate J.J. Abrams has been working secretly - as he's wont to do - as a producer on another long-gestating sci-fi pet project called God Particle. Now The Wrap reports that God Particle will be another entry into the Cloverfield universe, following the [...]
The Rock sings music by the Hamilton guy. Only in the wonderful world of Disney. In two newly released clips from the upcoming animated adventure Moana, we see how the titular heroine and her sidekick demigod meet. In the first clip, demigod Maui (voice by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) cheerfully clarifies his long list of bona fides, [...]
Well hello, what have we here? With the coolest announcement in the galaxy, Lucasfilm and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller confirmed that they've found their Lando for the upcoming Young Han Solo Movie. It's Donald Glover, a geek fan favorite who rose to fame on NBC's Community before taking off as a stand-up comic and creative [...]
Go old school Nintendo with the new "Jack Reacher: Never Stop Punching" Online 8-bit video arcade game. This clever little marketing tie-in to Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is oversimplified fun that peddles in easy gaming nostalgia. With just the Z and X buttons on your keyboard, advance through the game as you punch through [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of violence and action, some bloody images, language and thematic elements) Released: October 21, 2016 Runtime: 118 minutes Director: Edward Zwick Starring: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Aldis Hodge, Holt McCallany, Madalyn Horcher Spoiler alert: in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Jack Reacher goes [...]
The final preview for Arrival has, er, arrived. It's just a 60-second ad but it nutshells what we can expect from this sophisticated sci-fi original, packed with possibilities, from Sicario helmer Denis Villeneuve. And by the looks of this ad, Arrival hopes to resonate in a political climate that's charged by talks of illegal immigration, open [...]
Welp, looks like I'm going to have to get around to seeing those first two Wolverine standalone movies as prep, because this latest - and final - installment with Hugh Jackman looks like it could be really good. The title is Logan, which is derived from Wolverine's actual last name, and it finds the X-Man [...]
With Fox Searchlight's big Oscar investment The Birth of a Nation going south, that indie studio's awards push looks to be gearing up behind Jackie, the introspective biopic about First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the aftermath of JFK's assassination. Debuting to raves at the Toronto Film Festival - particularly for Academy Award-winning star Natalie Portman - Jackie [...]
Marvel fans inevitably flock to Avengers movies (even when they take the form of a Captain America installment), but audiences are actually excited for the next volume of the GOTG. The first teaser (above) for Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 is a prime example of exactly why that is. In tandem with that first look, Marvel also debuted the movie's initial [...]
Toke up, Marvel fans, because composer Michael Giacchino is tripping the light fantastic. In the first music track released from the score to Marvel's upcoming new movie Doctor Strange, Giacchino channels 1970s era psychedelic rock. It's a stark departure from the scores he's become famous for, ranging from Pixar movies like Up and The Incredibles to [...]
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