Adam Sandler's First Major Dramatic Performance Is Still His Best
The Netflix movie Spaceman is the latest film to utilize Adam Sandler as a dramatic actor, but Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love still did it best.
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Kate Winslet Provides An Update On Mare Of Easttown Season 2
Is Kate Winslet ready to get back in the saddle as Mare for a continuation of HBO's Mare of Easttown? Here's what the actor had to say in a recent interview. -
Why Gone With The Wind's Producer Initially Turned Down The Classic Film
Producer David O. Selznick originally decided to pass on Gone with the Wind but ultimately changed his mind and made the problematic classic film after all. -
How The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling Accidentally Started A Bomb Threat Epidemic
A couple of years after The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling wrote a TV movie called The Doomsday Flight that spawned a host of copycat airplane bomb threats. -
The Revenant Director Is Teaming Up With Tom Cruise For A Top Secret Movie
Tom Cruise has agreed to star in the mysterious new movie from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the director of films like The Revenant, Birdman, and Bardo. -
Cool Stuff: Michael Giacchino's LOST Season 1 Score Hits Vinyl For The First Time
Michael Giacchino's incredible score for LOST season 1 has finally made its way to vinyl, just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show's premiere. -
Madame Web Is Officially A Failure: Here's What Sony's Marvel Future Should Look Like
Instead of focusing on more supporting characters in Spider-Man's universe, Sony should devote all of its resources on making the best Spider-Man movie it can. -
The 7 Most Ridiculous Moments In Madame Web, Ranked By Our Headaches
Yes, Marvel's Madame Web is as bad as you've heard. Here are some of the film's most ridiculous moments, ranked by how much they gave us a headache. -
Cynthia Erivo And Ariana Grande Defy Gravity In The Stunning Wicked Super Bowl Trailer
In the Heights director Jon M. Chu is taking us back to the Land of Oz with Wicked, part one of the film adaptation of the hit musical. Watch the trailer here. -
The Only Bones Guest Star To Appear In Every Season
Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz showed up in every episode of Bones, but only one series guest star appeared every season. -
You Can Thank Carl Weathers Himself For His Hilarious Arrested Development Performance
The Arrested Development writers had an idea for bringing Carl Weathers into the beloved comedy show, but Weathers' own idea for his character was even better. -
Matthew Vaughn's Best Movie Is Like None Of His Others
The director of Kick-Ass and Kingsman has become a cinematic provocateur, but arguably his best film, 2007's Stardust, took a different approach. -
One Of The Greatest Thrillers Of All Time Gets A Netflix Remake With The Wages Of Fear Trailer
The Wages of Fear, which has been adapted into two masterpieces of suspense, is getting another adaptation -- this time for Netflix. -
One Of 2024's Scariest Movies Isn't Horror – And It's Ripped From The Headlines
A scary Sundance doc called War Game looks ahead to another possible post-election insurrection – this time involving members of the active duty military. -
Skywalkers: A Love Story Review: This Documentary Wants To Be This Year's Free Solo, But It's Missing A Crucial Component [Sundance]
One can make superficial comparisons between Skywalkers: A Love Story and Free Solo, but Skywalkers is missing a big part of Free Solo's beating heart. -
Netflix's Head Of Film Is Leaving, And The Streamer's Movies May Never Be The Same
Scott Stuber, who has overseen Netflix's original films since 2017, is on his way out. Will Netflix's strategy undergo a drastic shift after his exit? -
Women Directors Set Oscar Record, But Only One Woman Nominated For Best Director
Barbie, Anatomy of a Fall, and Past Lives all received Best Picture nominations, but only one of the women who directed those movies got a Best Director nom. -
Billy Gibbons' Legendary ZZ Top Guitar Inspired One Of Bones' Biggest Plot Lines
Pearly Gates, the name of ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons' guitar, made its way into Fox's Bones as the solution to one of the show's most unexpected mysteries. -
Yes, You Should Be Worried About Beetlejuice 2
In the David Zaslav era, no Warner Bros. movie is safe. But even beyond that, Beetlejuice 2 has an uphill climb to greatness. -
Thelma Review: 94-Year-Old June Squibb Stars In Her Own Version Of Mission: Impossible [Sundance]
June Squibb, an Oscar nominee for her work in Alexander Payne's Nebraska, gets her first starring role in Thelma, a delightful indie about a scammed grandma. -
The Best Jump Scare In Recent Memory Was Strategic Perfection
The toy phone jump scare in Kyle Edward Ball's Skinamarink was terrifying for the same reason the Bilbo Baggins scare in The Fellowship of the Ring shocked me. -
Terrible Marketing Ruined One Of The Most Astonishing Movie Moments Of The Year
Tom Cruise's cliff jump in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One should have been a triumphant, fist-pumping moment. Instead, it was met with a shrug. -
Cheers' Final Send-Off Had The Cast In A Disastrous Drunken State
Cheers may have been where everybody knows your name, but the cast seemed so drunk they could barely remember they were on TV during the final Cheers send-off. -
Jason Statham 'Schooled' Director David Ayer On The Set Of The Beekeeper
The Beekeeper's David Ayer has been making movies for more than 20 years, and he's smart enough to take advice from an action superstar like Jason Statham. -
After Mean Girls, Seven Other 2004 Films Need The Musical Treatment
With the new Mean Girls musical in theaters now, let's take a look at some different films from 2004 that might make for fun movie musicals. -
Lucasfilm Might Have Made A Huge Mistake With The Mandalorian Movie
With the The Mandalorian and Grogu film, Lucasfilm is betting mainstream audiences will be interested enough in these characters to show up to theaters. -
The Beekeeper Review: Jason Statham Stars In His Own Version Of John Wick (But Not As Good)
David Ayer is a good fit to direct this Jason Statham beat-'em-up, but the film's attempt to create its own mythology shows it's not easy to pull off.
