Chris Evans may be an A-list millionaire chiseled from pure, unvarnished marble, but, somehow, he still resonates as the most chill Avenger. Maybe that’s ‘cause he shows up charmingly trashed to red carpets, loves his very good dog, and actually uses his fame to help others. Evans exudes a blue-collar quality in…
Though Jimmy Kimmel usually gets the Marvel movie scoops (owing to ABC being partners with Disney and all), the Live! host has been looking after his infant son this week. But the promotional void was quickly filled by The Late Late Show’s James Corden, who convinced the Thor: Ragnarok to put on a live version of…
Thor, played with a familiar twinkle of jovial regality by Chris Hemsworth, spends the first few minutes of Thor: Ragnarok in chains, hanging sideways in a straitjacket of iron links. Things do not get easier for him. Like Tony Stark in Iron Man 3, the god of thunder will lose his weapon of choice: that mighty hammer…
The excellent Thor: Ragnarok trailer from Comic-Con was all bright colors, spaceships, and solid jokes from the Hulk, but a new set of preview images released by Empire suggest that at least some of this Thor movie will be a bit more low-key—pun very much intended.
Who he is: Loki Odinson, a.k.a. Loki Laufeyson, a.k.a. God Of Mischief
British animation studio Aardman is a reliably consistent hit maker, whether it’s a classic like Wallace & Gromit or a newcomer like the Shaun The Sheep movie. And now the people who also made Chicken Run are back with a teaser trailer for Early Man. This short clip doesn’t tell us much, but it does establish that the…
Because people’s desire to watch sexy British spies can never be fully satiated, a second season of The Night Manager may be on the way. Though initially billed as a limited series, the BBC, AMC, and production company The Ink Factory have now revealed that a second season is being plotted. “The Ink Factory, BBC and…
Against a bright orange sun, a giant gorilla towers in silhouette, helicopters buzzing around his head like angry insects. It’s as if that artist who paints monsters onto thrift-store paintings got his hands on the Apocalypse Now poster. Airlift out this most striking and revealing image, however, and Kong: Skull…
The people behind this trailer for Kong: Skull Island—supposedly the last one we’re going to get—must’ve been watching some Guardians Of The Galaxy teasers, because it seems significantly funnier and more stylish than the last few have been. Also, the trailer not only prominently features a classic rock song, but it…
Back in the early days of social media, Myspace was the place to be if you needed to express yourself through 25-question personality surveys, obnoxious auto-playing music, and an incredibly revealing selection of your top eight friends. As it turns out, it was also the place for soon-to-be international celebrities…
It looks like the box office stink of 300: Rise Of An Empire and The Spirit has finally dissipated, as Hollywood is getting back into the Frank Miller business. Thankfully, he’s not getting his hands anywhere near an actual production, but his comic mini-series Hard Boiled might be getting a big-screen adaptation. Not…
One of the most endearing parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that everyone involved seems to be best friends with each other. It could be a corporate-mandated friendliness thing, but having all of these people meet up every few years, put on silly costumes, and dance around while pretending to fight aliens or…
As a nation/planet/decadent empire crumbling on the edge of death, we’ve all been captivated by the drama and beauty of a prospective Taylor Swift/Tom Hiddleston coupling. The star power! The romance! The rocks! But not even Hiddleswift—both the hypothetical couple’s fan nickname, and the house in Hogwarts where the…
Tabloids and celebrity blogs thrive on candid photographs of celebrities. Since nosy paparazzi are an integral part of any megastar’s life, be it Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift, it seems futile to try to avoid them at every available opportunity. Besides, the old adage is that there is no such thing as bad publicity.…
Hot off the success of High-Rise and The Night Manager, Tom Hiddleston is poised to become one of Hollywood’s new leading men. He’s done the artsy biopic, got a tentpole movie on the horizon, and he seems to have the requisite number of fucks to play the new James Bond. But none of that would mean anything without an…
Taylor Swift has a long list of ex-lovers, with the most recent addition being Calvin Harris, a guy who is probably best known for dating Taylor Swift. You can’t stop Taylor Swift from Taylor Swifting, though, so it’s not especially surprising that she was recently spotted canoodling with another handsome beau she can…
Yesterday, Spectre and Skyfall star Daniel Craig made headlines, entering talks to star in a non-James Bond film from director Steven Soderbergh. Given his various statements about the franchise, it was hard not to see the move as Craig signalling his ongoing lack-of-desire to ever again hop in a tux and trade…
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster and Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise are both dystopian black comedies. Both are set mostly in one building, both feature gruesome violence, both have a lonely bachelor for a protagonist, and both were made in the UK— but other than that, they’ve got basically nothing in common. On this week’s…
High-Rise, a darkly funny adaptation by cult English director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, A Field In England) of the J.G. Ballard novel of the same title, preserves the book’s ’70s setting, steeping its vision of a toppling society in retro decadence: brutalist apartments carpeted in ankle-high, cream-colored shag;…
One of the most exciting voices working in genre filmmaking today is director Ben Wheatley. From Down Terrace, his intriguing debut, to Kill List, which ranked among our favorite horror movies since 2000, Wheatley has shown a knack for blending the wickedly funny with the flat-out wicked. His next feature looks to…