Simon Pegg has been the star, writer, or producer of several of The A.V. Club’s favorite comedies and sci-fi franchises, and he dropped by Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast recently to talk about virtually all of them.
Early into The Last Jedi, the zippy, operatic, and occasionally exhilarating new Star Wars movie, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) smashes his helmet into pieces. It’s chiefly a symbolic act: Kylo, who established his volcanic temper as the formidable new heavy of The Force Awakens, is determined to “let the past die”—to emerge…
In an entertaining spectacle of corporate synergy, Disney-ABC property Jimmy Kimmel Live! gave over its Friday show to director Rian Johnson and most of the cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Such Jack Donaghy-esque product integration aside, the hour at least gave host Kimmel a chance to pepper the cast and director…
We’ve reached the stage in Star Wars: The Last Jedi promotions in which the flow of new information has slowed to a trickle, where new additions to the cast tease their roles in vague ways and two seconds of footage is enough to light up Reddit threads.
Netflix announced today that it’s picking up a new film from Murder On The Orient Express co-stars Josh Gad and Daisy Ridley. Tragically, the new project will not simply be a documentary in which Gad employs ever-more complex schemes to get Ridley to cough up some Star Wars spoilers; instead, Variety is…
Shot on 65mm, the new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic Murder On The Orient Express is diverting and glitzy; one should expect no less from a locked-room mystery set on board a luxury train in the mid-1930s. But suspense remains a foreign concept for actor-director Kenneth Branagh. His erratic direction—more…
Making a Star Wars movie is a dream for many directors, a point that’s made in this new USA Today featurette from the set of The Last Jedi. Rian Johnson can’t help but giggle as shooting begins on Episode VIII and he gets to work with Chewie, Mark Hamill, and of course, the late Carrie Fisher.
If you’ve ever wanted to really get to know the lead of a Star Wars film while they’re just having a relaxing day at home, far from the stuffy, formal confines of a press junket, now is your chance. Of course, that’s only if your idea of a relaxing day at home includes wearing designer clothes around a hotel room and…
Can you feel it? The Last Jedi release date is now less than three months away, and while we’ve gotten a trailer and a couple slideshows, we haven’t seen nearly enough interaction between Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). Lucasfilm seems to be making amends in a new batch of photos that place these…
Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express is one of the most famous murder mysteries, so promotion for the latest film adaptation of the novel began with reintroducing the strangers on a train. As we see in this second preview, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh, who is rocking that scalloped ’stache) is tasked with…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nick Jonas has joined the cast of Chaos Walking, an adaptation of Patrick Ness’ post-apocalyptic sci-fi YA books. The story is about people colonizing a planet where nearly all of the women have been killed off and the rest of the living things suffer from some kind of telepathic…
So far, we’ve seen a few tantalizing glimpses of Luke Skywalker’s new animals friends in Stars Wars: The Last Jedi, but other than the fact that they’re called porgs, that they’re very cute, and that we should not think of them as Ewoks, we haven’t gotten a very good look at the furry space penguins just yet. Finally,…
The first trailer for Murder On The Orient Express does the bare minimum. It sets up the fact that someone was killed on a train—an obvious plot point—and then methodically introduces the suspects played by the likes of Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, and Daisy Ridley. Finally, it reveals the intensely…
Vanity Fair has unveiled a series of covers this morning shot by Annie Leibovitz and dedicated to the cast of The Last Jedi. The poses are familiar—Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill gaze into the distance as Rey and Luke; Gwendoline Christie, Adam Driver, and Domhnall Gleeson make a villainous trio—but most striking of…
We already knew that Kenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express was going to be a starry affair, with basically every character played by a celebrity of some sort. Now, Entertainment Weekly has debuted images of the celebrity passengers all decked out in their period garb.
On occasion of The Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration today, we finally got our first look at Episode VIII and some words from Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). Throughout the first trailer for the film directed by Rian Johnson we see Daisy Ridley’s Rey getting counseled by her elder, but it ends on an ominous note…
As Star Wars Celebration gets underway, you can expect a steady drip of information about the franchise over the next couple of days. Overnight, Disney made an announcement—not, alas, about a Last Jedi trailer—but about a new series of animated shorts, collectively called Star Wars Forces Of Destiny. Each film will…
“Who are you?” According to reports from a meeting of Disney shareholders, these are the first words spoken onscreen by Luke Skywalker in more than three decades. (In a canonical Star Wars film, that its. Skywalker has presumably not been under a gag order in the many Star Wars parodies and fan films produced in the…
Look, the jig is up: Josh Gad has been whiling away the hours on the set of Murder On The Orient Express by trying to trick Daisy Ridley into divulging plot details of her other gig, a science fiction series about wizards and talking dogs called Star Wars. While first his ruse was pretty transparent, Ridley has…
Look, Josh Gad is fucking trying. The latest in his ongoing series of duplicitous attempts to get Daisy Ridley to reveal Last Jedi plot details has come out, and he has called in no higher authority than Dame Judi Dench for help. The three all have supporting roles in Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming adaptation of Murder On…
