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‘You Were Never Really Here’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is Chilling In This Brutal Thriller [Sundance] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2018 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You Were Never Really Here follows Joaquin Phoenix as a hired gun recruited on the down-low through a simple but secretive operator service to deliver pain to people who have done some bad things. In the hands of a blockbuster filmmaker, this would be a straightforward action movie, but in the hands of We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay, the experience is so much more cerebral....

8 Things We Learned From The ‘Twilight’ Anniversary Panel At New York Comic-Con By Jamie Jirak/Oct. 10, 2018 9:00 am EST November 21, 2018 will mark ten years since the first Twilight movie was released in theaters. At that time, I was a vampire-obsessed college freshman who had already read the books twice and an embarrassing number of posters lined the walls of my dorm room (Team Jacob!).I’ve always been fully aware of the problematic aspects of the story (Edward is incredibly controlling and Bella is more than willing to give up every aspect of her life to be with him), but when you don’t take the franchise too seriously, you’re able to enjoy the first film for exactly what it is: a hilarious and entertaining movie that deserves a spot in film history....

Exclusive ‘Replicas’ Deleted Scene: Keanu Reeves Raises The Dead By Chris Evangelista/March 28, 2019 6:30 am EST When he’s not out shooting everyone in the John Wick series, Keanu Reeves is tinkering around in the world of science. At least, that’s what he’s doing in Replicas, the sci-fi thriller coming to digital and Blu-ray next month. In the film, Reeves plays a neuroscientist who decides to clone his family after they’re killed in a car accident....

FilmAid Broadcast Part 1 - Rian Johnson, Director Of Looper By Slashfilmcast/April 5, 2013 5:25 pm EST In Part 1 of our FilmAid broadcast, Rian Johnson discusses his work on Looper and Breaking Bad, drops some hints at his next project, weighs in on the digital vs. film “debate,” and explains why it’s fun to make dog fart sounds with his mouth. If you want to support the cause we’re promoting, please head over to filmaid....

HBO Made A ‘Brexit’ Movie With Benedict Cumberbatch, And The Trailer Is Here By Ben Pearson/Dec. 14, 2018 4:30 pm EST Brexit is a highly complicated and ongoing national issue for the citizens of the United Kingdom, so you know what that means: it’s time to dive in and make a movie about it! HBO Films has done just that, casting Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) as the man who spearheaded the Vote Leave campaign and Rory Kinnear as the head of the Remain campaign....

Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of 2019 So Far By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 3, 2019 8:00 am EST The first half of 2019 is simultaneously the longest stretch of time I’ve experienced, and the shortest. The longest because the current political climate only worsens, and the shortest because I haven’t had the time to see nearly all the movies I wanted to see. Films like The Farewell, Parasite, Her Smell, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, An Elephant Sitting Still, and The Report evaded me before I sat down to write my best movies of 2019 list, but there are still plenty of great films to distract us — or perhaps remind us — of our most troubling real-life problems....

How Producer Gale Anne Hurd Saved ‘The Terminator’ From A Happy Ending By Fred Topel/Oct. 22, 2018 1:30 pm EST It’s rare for major studio blockbusters to have downer endings. The Terminator films sort of require it. They are about a nuclear apocalypse in which machines overpower humanity. The best victory afforded humans in those films is that the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, lives to defeat Skynet. Only Terminator 2: Judgment Day ends with the hope of averting the war, and subsequent sequels assured that the war rages on....

M. Night Shyamalan Says He’s Had The ‘Glass’ Ending In Mind Since 2000 – But It’s Still The Wrong Choice By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2019 7:30 am EST Spoilers for Glass follow,obviously.M. Night Shyamalan has completed his superhero trilogy with Glass, now playing in theaters everywhere. The film brings together both Unbreakable and Split for a denouement that left many critics (myself included) rather cold. In my humble opinion, the Glass ending feels like a betrayal of everything I held dear about Unbreakable....

Regina King To Make Feature Film Directorial Debut With ‘One Night In Miami’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 10, 2019 5:00 pm EST Oscar winner Regina King is set to make her feature film directorial debut with the adaptation of Kemp Powers’ play One Night in Miami. King will be taking on a script by Powers, who is adapting his own debut play based on the real lives of Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Teen Titans Go!’ Adding A Sixth Titan, ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’ Details & More By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2019 6:00 pm EST Meet the new villains coming to the second season of the Superman prequel series Krypton returning to SyFy soon. Did Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame trailers change how movies will be marketed from now on? No mercy…Deathstroke is coming soon to CW Seed....

Warner Bros. Offered James Gunn Superman Before ‘The Suicide Squad’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 4, 2019 10:30 am EST Since James Gunn was unfortunately fired from directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, he’s now jumped over to Warner Bros. Pictures to tackle their own misfit comic book sequel, The Suicide Squad. However, before the studio gave him control of the unlikely comic book heroes, they offered him the Man of Steel....

Working At Netflix Doesn’t Sound Very Fun, According To Employees By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2018 12:30 pm EST If you thought working at Netflix might be fun, hip and lighthearted, think again! A new interview with over 70 current and former employees reveals that the corporate culture inside the streaming giant is an absolute nightmare, where firings are abundant. Maybe you should apply for a job at Hulu instead. While I wish their film selection were better, and that their original TV shows had fewer episodes, I am by no means anti-Netflix....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Brought Back One MCU Star With Recycled Footage By Chris Evangelista/April 29, 2019 5:30 pm EST There are a lot of surprising (and not-so-surprising) cameos in Avengers: Endgame. While almost all of these involved the original actors returning to reprise their previous roles, there was one specific case that resorted to recycling unused footage. You probably could’ve guessed this while watching the scene in question play-out, but now it’s been confirmed....

‘Detective Pikachu’ TV Spot Reveals More Pokemon, Makes Pikachu Fart By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 22, 2019 4:30 pm EST Detective Pikachu, a movie I still can’t quite believe exists, has a new TV spot, featuring more Pokemon and more flatulence. Ryan Reynolds is the voice of the lead character, a Pokemon who is trying to help a young man find his missing father. Oh, and I guess he farts, too. What is this movie?...

/Filmcast Ep. 315 - Ex Machina (GUEST: Anthony Ha From TechCrunch) By Slashfilmcast/April 21, 2015 10:40 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Germain Lussier and Anthony Ha from TechCrunch to discuss the Star Wars fan celebration and the newest Batman vs. Superman teaser. Be sure to buy tickets to see The Primary Instinct this Sunday at IFFBoston! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Will Bring In The Multiverse, Deal With The Fallout Of ‘Endgame,’ Director Jon Watts Confirms By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 7, 2019 7:30 am EST Avengers: Endgame was a significant marker of the end of an era, but it’s looking like it will have even more profound repercussions than we could have anticipated. The first wave of which we’ll see in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home, which directly deals with the fallout of the climactic Avengers film, both on a micro and macro level....

By Chris Evangelista/April 11, 2019 2:30 pm EST As one Bruce Wayne says goodbye on Gotham, another appears on Titans. Iain Glen, known for his work as Jorah Mormont on Game of Thrones, will step into the role of an older Bruce Wayne trying to reconcile with his former side-kick Dick Grayson. Glen will make his first Bruce Wayne appearance when Titans returns next fall. More on the new Titans Bruce Wayne below....

How A ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Animator Took The Animation References Into Her Own Hands By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 27, 2019 11:00 am EST With every new thing we learn about the making of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the more of a work of genius the animated movie seems. From the voice acting, to the heartfelt narrative, to the bold, technology-pushing, kaleidoscopic animation, there’s so much to love about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse....

Japanese ‘Godzilla’ Studio Toho Set To Expand To The U.S. By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 19, 2019 5:30 pm EST The Japanese studio behind Godzilla is planning to expand to Hollywood. Toho, the movie group responsible for the creation of the iconic giant lizard, is expanding a subsidiary in the U.S. with the goal of working more with Hollywood. This may put in question the fate of Legendary’s mammoth MonsterVerse, the first series of Godzilla films to be completely produced by a Hollywood Studio....

Jordan Peele Explains What Sets ‘Us’ Apart From ‘Get Out’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 29, 2019 4:00 pm EST Jordan Peele’s eagerly anticipated sophomore directing effort, Us, debuted the first trailer on Christmas last year, giving families something to squirm about while they were home for the holidays. The trailer does a fine job of setting up the story of a black family (Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex), who suddenly find themselves stalked and hunted by another family of unsettling doppelgangers....