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‘The Art Of Self-Defense’ Director Riley Stearns Tells Us All About That Shocking Ending [Spoiler Interview] If you’re reading this, that means you’ve seenThe Art of Self-Defense, right? You witnessed a satire of toxic masculinity for the ages featuring a pitch-perfect Jesse Eisenberg performance, and you were blown away by that wild ending. And, for that matter, you’ve also read the other interviews /Film writers have conducted withthe castandwriter/directorRiley Stearns. Good....

‘The Layover’ Trailer: Kate Upton & Alexandra Daddario Stupidly Fight Over A Dude If you thought we’d gotten past the point where romantic comedies were about two women throwing away their friendship just so they can hook up with a hot guy while on vacation, think again. The Layover follows two best friends,Alexandra DaddarioofSan AndreasandKate UptonofThe Other Woman, as they run away from the stress of their life by taking a quick vacation....

‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake Cast Adds Noma Dumezweni As A New Character The live-actionThe Little Mermaidremake cast continues to grow. The latest:Noma Dumezweni, who delivered a memorable performance in the mostly forgettableThe Undoing, is diving into the Disney flick. As to which character Dumezweni might be playing, well, that’s mostly a mystery. All we know for now is that it’s a new character created specifically for the film, not a character from the 1989 animated film....

‘The Little Things’ First Look: Denzel Washington And Jared Leto Star In Mystery Thriller DirectorJohn Lee Hancock(The Blind Side,The Founder) is back with a new psychological thriller calledThe Little Things, which follows a pair of police officers (played by Oscar winnersDenzel Washingtonand future Bond villainRami Malek) as they try to solve a murder in Los Angeles. Oscar winnerJared Letoplays one of the duo’s primary suspects, and now a first look image shows Washington – cool as ever – coming face to face with Leto’s character....

‘The New Mutants’ Secures Another Release Date, Aims To Hit Theaters This Summer For directorJosh Booneand all the people involved with Fox’s superhero filmThe New Mutants, the past few years must have felt like they were caught in an episode ofTheTwilight Zone. The same cycle has occurred over and over again: a new release date for the film is announced, a flurry of marketing materials is released, and then, inevitably, the date is pushed back for one reason or another....

‘X-Men: Apoclaypse’ Featurette: The Four Horsemen Are Unleashed On The World We’ve already got one major comic book blockbuster behind us with the divisiveBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justicein theaters now. The next one on our list is Captain America: Civil War, but a few weeks after that 20th Century Fox brings the mutants back to the big screen withX-Men: Apocalypse. A new featurette for the film has surfaced focusing on the Four Horseman, the quartet of mutants that the titular villain puts under his control to help destroy the world....

10 Things We Learned At The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Press Junket Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the press junket for Marvel Studios’Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2in West Hollywood. Peter Sciretta and I will be publishing individual interviews with Marvel Studios presidentKevin Feige, writer/directorJames Gunn,and actorsChris PrattandKurt Russellhere on the site in the days leading up to the film’s release next week. In the meantime, I collected ten pieces of info we gleaned at the junket’s two press conferences, which featured key members of the creative team and nearly every major member of the movie’s cast....

2017 Summer Indie Movie Preview: 15 Limited Releases We’re Excited To See The summer movie season is almost upon us. Comic book movies, reboots, spin-offs, and an unwanted sequel or two – they’re all coming out these next four months. We’re looking forward to more than a few of them, but I’m more hopeful for some of the movies coming to on-demand, steaming services, and local arthouse theaters this summer. Last week,we brought you the list of our most anticipated wide releases arriving this summer....

Are The Star Wars Disney+ Shows Setting Up A Jedi: Fallen Order Crossover? It has already been well over two years since we’ve seen a “Star Wars” movie on the big screen, and it’s going to be a while before we see another one. For the time being, a galaxy far, far away largely exists on TV, thanks to the success of “The Mandalorian.” Disney and Lucasfilm are now doubling down on small screen “Star Wars” adventures, with “The Book of Boba Fett” wrapping up its run earlier this year, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” on the way, as well as “Andor,““Ahsoka,“and several other shows coming down the pipeline....

Casting Notes: Liam Neeson, Lucy Punch And Deborah Ann Woll Take New Roles We’ve got a bunch of quick casting notes today for some projects about which there aren’t a lot of details yet. First up isLiam Neeson, who is continuing his genre-ish run withUnknown White Male. After Neeson finishesClash of the TitansandThe A-Teamhe’ll join this Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan,House of Wax) picture about a doctor who is in a car accident only to wake up and discover his wife doesn’t recognize him....

Comparing The 1990s And The 2000s: What Our Movies Say About Us What do our movies say about us and the world that we live in? As 2009 has come to an end and 2010 is already upon us, a myriad of “Best of the decade” lists have been unleashed, many of them in the realm of film. Whether or not I agree with their choices, I find many of them to befascinatingreads....

Cool Stuff: Idiot Box Art Show You probably remember Gallery 1988 as the Los Angeles-based art gallery which hosts the pop-culture infused Crazy4Cult show every year. We’ve featured artwork from their exhibitions in previous editions of cool stuff:Beastie Boys Inspired Art,Crazy4Cult 2, andStan Lee Tribute. From April 2nd to April 23rd, Gallery 1988 is celebrating their 5th year anniversary with the Idiot Box art show. 100 Artists take aim at television’s guity pleasures....

Everything We Know About The Cuphead Show! So Far First “Castlevania,” then “Arcane,” and now “The Cuphead Show!” It looks like Netflix is slowly taking over the world of animated series based on popular video games. But if it means that one of the most stylish run-and-gun games of the decade becomes a magical, musical series about our favorite singing cups, how can we complain? “The Cuphead Show!” was announced back in 2020, as a serialized adaptation of the award-winning 2017 StudioMDHR game, “Cuphead....