In HBO's latest The Plot Against America trailer, facism rises in a timeline in which Charles Lindbergh is elected President of the United States.
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After his unceremonious exit from The Walking Dead, Frank Darabont returns to television this year with a whole new project that has nothing to do with the undead -- but plenty, still, to do with monsters. The six-episode TNT series Mob City (formerly titled L.A. Noir and then Lost Angels) chronicles the war between gangsters and cops in…
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All right, so the sign shown above (via Collider) is just a joke, but the off-the-charts anticipation for Episode VII is very, very real. After the jump: Jon Favreau has Kevin Smith's vote for the Star Wars VII directing job Ed Burns is ambivalent on the admittedly slim possibility of getting an offer Peter Serafinowicz…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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Ever since Tyler Perry was first cast as Alex Cross in Summit's James Patterson franchise reboot, fans have understandably been pretty skeptical. Remember, this is a role once played by the great Morgan Freeman in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Any actor would have his work cut out for him following an…
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After all the recent back-and-forth, the only thing that's clear at this point about Bridesmaids 2 is that nobody knows right now whether there'll really be a Bridesmaids 2, and if so, whether star Kristen Wiig will be involved. In the meantime, however, fans of that film can comfort themselves with Jennifer Westfeldt's indie romcom…
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Casting! Here's info one one potentially great project, one that will probably find an appreciative audience, and one that will perhaps just make you hungry. I'll let you figure out which is which: Wentworth Miller joins Park Chan-wook's first English-language film, Stoker, John C. McGinley will realize his destiny by playing police chief to Tyler…
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For my money, The Wire is the best show to ever grace a television screen. I've watched I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Seinfeld, M*A*S*H, The Sopranos, and I still think the The Wire towers above them all. For five amazing seasons, series creator David Simon created an intense, detailed and eye-opening cross-section of Baltimore's beating…
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You could probably make a pretty fun movie by cutting together footage from all the different films that feature actors playing Andy Warhol -- his own I'm Not There, as it might become. If you wait a few months you'd be able to add Bill Hader's performance, which looks, physically at least, to be pretty…
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James Patterson's Alex Cross character was brought to the screen by Morgan Freeman in two films, Kiss the Girls and Along Came A Spider. Now there is a reboot of the character being assembled at QED. Rob Cohen will direct an adaptation of I, Alex Cross with Tyler Perry playing the psychologist/detective that appears in…
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Most of us stop thinking about work as we enter the holiday season, but Hollywood actors and actresses are lining up their jobs for the new year. There is a whole bunch of casting news that's recently been announced, much of it in the romantic comedy genre, and here's the rundown. Mad Men's Christina Hendricks…
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In this week's special episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, and Adam spend over 3 hours discussing one of the greatest cultural works of our time, The Wire. Special guests and TV critics Alan Sepinwall and Myles McNutt join us from their respective and wonderful blogs. The first hour is a general discussion about The…
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Mark Steven Johnson explains why Ghost Rider sucks so bad: "It was a hard R and bleak in my opinion, Johnson says of David Goyer's early script. "But then the studio says to you, 'I'm going to let you make your movie, your vision, but you've got to make sure it's a PG-13. We've got…
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