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‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese Dives Back Into The Folk Singer’s Life Martin Scorsesealready delivered an impressive documentary about folk singerBob DylanwithNo Direction Home. That film is a three and a half hour chronicle of Dylan’s life between his arrival in New York in January 1961 and his “retirement” from touring following his motorcycle accident in July 1966. Now the director has dug back into Bob Dylan’s lifewith a new documentaryfocusing on the 1975 tour known asRolling Thunder Revue, and the first trailer has arrived from Netflix....

‘San Andreas’ Trailer: The Rock Watches As Hollywood Destroys Los Angeles They say you always hurt the one you love, and movie studios love to destroy the town in which they reside.San Andreasis the latest film in which a studio throws huge money at an opportunity to demolish Los Angeles. Did that one restaurant’s valet scratch your Bentley? Reduce it to (virtual) rubble! Did that Starbucks mess up your latteagain? Drop it into a chasm!...

‘Snake Eyes’ Toys Give Us Our First Look At The ‘G.I. Joe Origins’ Characters Rather than getting some stills directly from the movie or even some set pics, our first real look atSnake Eyes: G.I. Joe Originscomes in the form of…toys. Perhaps the powers that be assumed that sinceG.I. Joeoriginated as a toy series it only makes sense to give us our first glimpse of the newG.I. Joemovie in toy form....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Score To Be Created By ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Composer Junkie XL While the early marketing efforts for Paramount’s upcomingSonic the Hedgehogmovie have resulted in some…oddimagery, we now know who will be providing the score for when the blue hedgehog is racing through the streets of San Francisco.Tom Holkenborg(akaJunkie XL), who composed the scores for films likeBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Mad Max: Fury Road, andThe Dark Tower, will compose the film’s music....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Manages To Make Spock Even More Fascinating With “Light And Shadows” I think tonight’sStar Trek: Discoveryepisode was our first official filler episode for the season. Titled, “Light and Shadows,” I expected a lot more than what we got. Even though it worked a little like “Point of Light” in that it moved existing plot points along and set up some new ones, the episode ultimately left us with, to be crude, figurative blue balls (even as it added a fascinating new angle to Spock)....

‘Tehran’ Trailer: AppleTV+ Initiates Its Own Espionage Thriller While Netflix continues to lead in the streaming wars thanks to its constant global expansion, a comparatively newer streaming service is pushing for some more global appeal of its own. AppleTV+ has unveiled a new trailer forTehran, an espionage thriller which has shades of Steven Spielberg’sMunichand follows an undercover Israeli agent whose mission to dismantle Iran’s nuclear reactor goes bad. Check out the trailer below....

‘The Batman’ Villains Revealed: A Half-Dozen Bad Guys Rumored To Join Matt Reeves' Reboot Who willRobert Pattinson’s Batman be brawling with inThe Batman? A new report specifically singles out both the Penguin and Catwoman, and adds that theMatt Reevesflick could have up to “half-a-dozen” villains in the movie. Would one Bat-film be able to sustain so many baddies? And why re-team theBatman Returnsduo of Penguin and Catwoman again? Learn Batmanvillains below....

‘The Boys Season’ 3 Reveals First Look At Jensen Ackles As Captain America-Inspired Hero Soldier Boy The Boys, a show everyone seems to love except me, is currently filming its third season. That third season will introduce a new character from comic series that inspired the show: Soldier Boy, a Captain America-like figure played bySupernaturalactorJensen Ackles. The first official look at Ackles as Soldier Boy has been released, giving us a look at the costume Ackles will be wearing as he takes on the character....

‘The Cabin In The Woods’ Teaser Poster Promises Twists And Turns Joss WhedonandDrew Goddardare both responsible for some pretty fantastic pieces of recent popular culture. Whedon, of course, madeFirefly, BuffyandAngel, Goddard had a hand inAlias, LostandCloverfieldand currently the former is makingThe Avengersand the other is writing Spielberg’sRobopocalypse. But, several years ago, the two paired up to write a movie calledThe Cabin in the Woods. Goddard directed and while it was scheduled to come out in early 2010,the horror film sat on a shelfas its distributor, MGM,went through hell....

‘The Invisible Man’ Director Leigh Whannell On Gaslighting, Being Haunted, And Taking Monsters Seriously [Interview] We, as a culture, are trained to poke holes in a woman’s story, to sympathize with the monster in the scenario, rather than the victim. Knowing this, directorLeigh Whannelluses the vehicle of horror cinema to Trojan horse a moral lesson into a fun Blumhouse thriller. His latest film,The Invisible Man, an Elisabeth Moss-led Universal Monster reboot in which an ex-lover stalks his old beau by hiding in plain sight, is another way of relaying the fear traumatized women feel when formerly safe spaces become violated....

‘The Mandalorian’ Clip: The Bounty Hunter Doesn’t Mind Being Outnumbered The Mandalorian Clip In this clip,The Mandalorianhas been sent to see Werner Herzog’s character byGreef Carga(Carl Weathers), head of a bounty hunter organization, to learn more about a secretive new bounty. Upon arrival, he’s met by a handful of Stormtroopers, who all look like they’ve seen better days. Their armor is dirty, likely because it’s all they have after the fall of the Galactic Empire....

‘WandaVision’ Director Matt Shakman Consulted Dick Van Dyke, Who Is Adorably Clueless About The MCU Marvel debuted the first two episodes of their new Disney+ seriesWandaVisionthis past weekend. The series finds Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living a literal sitcom marriage in the style of classic TV shows likeThe Dick Van Dyke ShowandBewitched. DirectorMatt Shakmanperfectly captured the style of those vintage programs, right down to the practical visual effects and the black and white cinematography, and he got some guidance from the perfect resource....

‘Wishbone’ Movie Coming From Producer Peter Farrelly Of ‘Green Book’ And ‘Movie 43’ Fame What’s the story, Wishbone? AWishbonemovie, that’s what.Wishbone, the PBS kids series where a Jack Russell terrier would inhabit the roles of various literary figures, is now set to become a film from producerPeter Farrelly, the man who brought us bothGreen BookandMovie 43. There’s no word on just how theWishboneformula will be adapted into a major motion picture, but I’ll let the geniuses in Hollywood figure that one out....