Movies

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Growing up, my mom and I watched a lot of movies together. Steel Magnolias was on TV one Sunday afternoon? We’re watching it. What about Fried Green Tomatoes? Yeah, that too. And even

Rodney Rothman shared the exact email he sent to the Shaun of the Dead writer/director during the making of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. As the filmmaker detailed, he wanted to add alternate posters of movies hidden around the movie. He asked Edgar Wright if he would throw out an idea for a movie of his

Anticipation for the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy was high when it was first announced, but many longtime fans were left disappointed after the release of The Phantom Menace. Its sequel, Attack of the Clones, wouldn’t achieve much acclaim either, though many were relatively satisfied with Revenge of the Sith.

What Exactly Is A Snozzberry? Halfway through Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, our title character introduces the remaining children to lickable wallpaper, where the oranges taste like oranges, the pineapples taste like pineapples, the strawberries taste like strawberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries. Ultimately, the candymaker doesn’t offer an explanation for what a

One of the more recent works from Stephen King’s pen, Revival is the story of a preacher who wants to contact some dearly departed family members, but conjures up something much more frightening from another realm. With readers noting a very Lovecraftian bent to King’s Revival, that otherworldly terror is sure to be something so

While most of us get lost in the fight scene itself, which, it can’t be argued, is amazing, what Dave Filoni sees are the stakes. The Star Wars prequels are about the fall of Anakin Skywalker, and that fall begins, according to Filoni, with the death of Qui-Gon Jinn. If Qui-Gon had won the fight,

In other words, the Academy is taking things one day at a time – as many businesses are. The situation is developing at a different pace week by week, and the Academy CEO is holding off on pushing back the ceremony unless it absolutely has to. The 93rd Oscars is currently scheduled to happen on

Beyond that, all the other Bond movies are essentially self-contained adventure with next to nothing to do with the movie that preceded it. It’s almost like a graphic novel of a popular comic book character, in which the character is the same, but there’s a reason this story exists out of the canon fans have

Paddleton (Andy) For my money, Paddleton might very well be Ray Romano’s best performance yet. While he’s terrific in The Irishman‘s ensemble and his performance in The Big Sick was more commonly celebrated, Paddleton finally gives Romano the dramatic lead role he’s been due for years. Not surprisingly, Romano’s character portrayal is excellent, as it’s

Nubia One last Amazon who should star in a Wonder Woman spinoff should be Hippolyta’s second daughter, Nubia. Just as Diana Prince was sculpted from clay, so is Nubia, but with a clay that gives her dark skin. Nubia is supposed to have the great strength of Diana, but Ares/Mars steals her from Hippolyta and

Bri and Lindsey Leaverton had originally picked out April 10 for their marriage ceremony, but as shelter-in-place laws began to take effect, they realized they would have to rearrange things. Their wedding planner pitched them a drive-in wedding, and it turned out to be an inspired choice. In Lindsey’s words to Buzzfeed:

Of course, as always, part of what is building our anticipation is the fact that Marvel Studios loves to play its cards close to the vest. While we may know the titles of various projects in development, and the filmmakers and performers involved with them, there is a lot that is kept mysterious in terms

At this point, we don’t know enough about the collaboration between Tom Cruise, SpaceX and NASA to speculate what’s coming in Hollywood’s first movie in outer space. This project will let the actor to continue to push the limits of action on the big screen and allow audiences to spend extended time in the actual

As current events have left major entertainment venues such as the Disney family of theme parks closed for an extended period of time, the losses reported have been bound to be massive. Today has confirmed that much for the happiest places on earth, as the Walt Disney Company’s latest quarterly earnings call has put a

Back in 2018, Michelle Obama published her bestseller Becoming, a memoir of her early life, motherhood, and her relationship with Barack Obama leading up to election night in 2008. Now the former First Lady is expanding her platform with new Netflix film Becoming and we’ve finally gotten a look at the first trailer for the

What if I told you that by removing six movies from this equation, you could get this runtime down to well under two days? It can be done, and while viewers may miss out on some fun MCU moments skipping through the below movies, they can happily press ahead without feeling lost in regards to

Black Widow Sacrifices Herself So Hawkeye Can Get The Soul Stone In the second act of Avengers: Endgame, the team splits up into smaller teams in order to retrieve all the Infinity Stones and reverse Thanos’ deadly snap. While the rest of the heroes utilize time travel to go back to the events in Avengers,

Dead Girl You know, there was actually a moment in 2009 when Emma Watson was the victim of a celebrity death hoax, which were, sadly, all the rage at the time. She is probably over it by now but, if I were to recommend a unique way to get back at those wretched internet pranksters,

She Actually Talks About Her Feelings As a parent, I would like for my kids to know that it’s okay to talk about your feelings, no matter how hard it is hear what they have to say. I mean, we expect that from everyone, but sometimes you have people, like Elsa, who feel that it’s

What Could Tenet Be Rated? It feels like Tenet would be a shoo-in for a PG-13 rating, as Christopher Nolan has never really strayed from that particular brand of filmmaking. Nolan is certainly no stranger to R-rated filmmaking, with Following, Memento, and Insomnia all landing the adult oriented classification in their theatrical releases. But the

As Christopher Lloyd explained, it was kind of payback for all the times the studio’s early films traumatized him as well. I mean the part in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when the poor Disney princess enters the dark forest was absolutely terrifying, for me, as a kid. Or how about when Pinocchio turned

Waiting For Guffman (1996) Christopher Guest is responsible for some of the greatest mockumentary films of all time like This Is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, and Waiting For Guffman, a 1996 film about a small town in Missouri that thinks they found the perfect way to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Like everything else created

During this unprecedented time in the world, many of us are discovering new ways to connect with one another and, with every adjustment, comes an error or two. One time, stand-up comedian and Hollywood star Tiffany Haddish had a Zoom business meeting about a pitch for a show and she had no idea how things

Make Bowser The Main Antagonist You ask any fan of Mario—any fan at all—and they’ll tell you without hesitation that Bowser is Mario’s main antagonist. So why did the original Super Mario Bros. movie make King Koopa the main bad guy? And yes, before you jump down my throat, I know, King Koopa was Bowser’s

Acting as a landmark moment in the history of the Star Trek movie canon, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is known for, among other things, the death of Leonard Nimoy’s Spock at the end of the film. Giving his life to save the Enterprise, especially his best friend, Captain James T. Kirk (William

Of course, now we’re wondering just who Gad might pull for an encore, considering you don’t design a rad opening sequence and theme song like the one for Reunited Apart without an intent to use it more than once. If you’re interested in seeing the entire Goonies reunion that Josh Gad put together for yourself,

Speaking to CinemaBlend while promoting A Quiet Place, Emily Blunt recalled how, during preparation for the famous and bathtub birth sequence, John Krasinski asked if she would rather shoot the potentially exhausting scene broken up into a schedule or all at once. For the purposes of authenticity, Blunt voted to film it in sequence to

The people of District 12, for instance spend every year leading up to Reaping Day praying their child’s name does not get picked when it might be a better idea to make them as “vicious and ready to go” as Cato is by the next Hunger Games, or at the very least, teach them some

I mean look, certainly we’ve always said this and we believe this about stakes have to be real, and if they’re not real, like the audience’s emotional investment in the moment and in those characters in the narrative is only…is contingent upon them feeling like there’s potential. There’s something to be lost. So in all

The Avengers (2012) From writer/director Joss Whedon, The Avengers sees our world-saving team of superheroes — specifically, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) — assembling for the first time in order to stop the mischievous Loki (Tom Hiddleston)