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It is hard to ignore the toll that the box office took in the year 2020, as theaters shut down and in-home streaming took precedence due to safety concerns related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In a 2021 analysis, the global box office dropped by 72%, as outlined by Box Office Pro. However, despite the hit the box office took, the 2020s have produced some high quality content across genres. The slow return to theaters in 2021 was sparked by films like Halloween Kills, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Spider-Man: No Way Home....

You’ve likely seen it before - a director known for a certain set of trademarks, or for a certain genre, makes a film that no one ever expected them to make. Whenever and wherever this occurs, the results are sure to be eye-catching. And, in these cases, successes can be as interesting as failures. For this list, we want to take a look at seven directors who stepped (or leapt) outside of their comfort zones, and produced films that were different - for better or for worse - from their previous work....

The Good In this age where everything is ironic, it’s nice to watch a show that stands up and says it cares something. The Bad No extras make this set seem really skimpy. 7th Heaven: The Complete Third Season is 22 episodes following the Camden family as they go through all the ups and downs of life. Eric and Annie Camden have five children . There’s Matt, a college student who is being exposed to a different world then he’s ever been around before....

In 1984, the public had no idea what was about to be unleashed from the scary mastermind of Wes Craven with A Nightmare on Elm Street. The world was about to meet the disfigured, metal-clawed, fedora wearing Freddy Krueger. An evil monstrosity who made insomnia a welcomed issue for generations to come. From that point on, audiences were afraid to go to sleep even though Freddy sought his vengeance on the parents of Springwood by invading their children’s dreams and killing them....

Actor Alan Cumming, from X2: X-Men United and Peacock’s the Traitors, recently took to Instagram (via THR) to formally renounce his title of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, which he received in 2009 as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday honors. The announcement coincided with Cumming’s 58th birthday, upon which he posted: The award was given to celebrate Cumming’s outstanding service as a British-American citizen, specifically, as the actor notes, “for activism for equal rights for the gay and lesbian community, USA” while the Defense of Marriage Act and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell had been enacted by the Clinton administration and subsequently repealed during the Obama presidency....

We’ve lost a legend with the passing of Angela Lansbury. Known for appearing in Murder, She Wrote among dozens of other roles throughout her career both on and offstage, Lansbury has long been one of Hollywood’s most cherished actresses. She passed away on Tuesday, less than a week before she would have turned 97 years old. Online, many celebrities are paying tribute to Lansbury, showing how influential and popular she is in Hollywood....

Director Matthew Leutwyler delivers his most personal movie to date with Answers to Nothing, a drama which takes a look at several intersecting lives in Los Angeles. The filmmaker took the unique approach in basing each character off a personality aspect, while he was reevaluating his own life after going through a divorce. The story follows a therapist (Dane Cook) who grapples with cheating on his wife (Elizabeth Mitchell), an L....

Anton Yelchin discusses the film’s story, working with Nick Cassavetes and what he hopes viewers take away from the movie Having shared the screen with Anthony Hopkins, Larry David, Donald Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr. among others, Anton Yelchin has accomplished quite a lot for his 18 years. We recently had a chance to sit down and discuss his work in one of the most powerful films of the year, Alpha Dog....

Is there anything that Steve Jobs can’t get a company to do? In a story from Home Media Magazine, Apple recently “announced the company will release a slate of music tracks with no DRM copy protection from EMI Music for an added 30 cents per track.” In addition to this, “iTunes users even have the option of upgrading previously purchased tracks by paying the difference to get the non-DRM versions which have higher-quality encoding - 256 kbps vs....

You can go back to the 80s with Marty, Doc and the DeLorean in a all new special edition this February. Back to The Future will be re-released in a brand new two-disc special edition on February 10. This new edition will be priced at $19.98 SRP and the sequels Back To The Future Part II and Back To The Future Part III will be re-released and re-packaged on the 10th as well, although they will feature the same special features as before....

Last week on Ballers Spencer (Dwayne Johnson) and Joe (Rob Corddry) decided to nut up and steal some of Andre’s (Andy Garcia) clients. This week, they realized just how hard, and perhaps somewhat obviously, that plan was going to backfire. The boys are at war to keep their clients, and everyone else is doing their own thing. Let’s dig in. At the every of last week’s episode, Spencer sat face to face with Andrew and boldly stated that they were going to steal T-Sizzle as a client, and that was where we left off....

Batman has been a comic book and pop culture icon since 1939. Appearing in countless mediums, from Manga and anime to television shows and feature films. Unlike most superheros, Bruce Wayne is not endowed with super human strength, the ability to fly, or the fastest person on Earth. This forces him to use his intelligence and ingenuity when he wears the cowl as Batman. A result of this, Batman invents and utilizes a endless collection of gadgets....

It seems that even the massive skill of Baz Luhrmann combined with the star talents of Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman, could not stop his newest untitled film from being put on hold. In a story from News.com.au, it appears “the film’s World War II setting and the difficulties of shooting in remote locations - it is an epic romance and the Kimberley and the Queensland town of Bowen have been mentioned as possible locations - means 20th Century Fox will not give production the green light until it is confident that the huge investment will pay off....

Lucas Hedges has starred in some of the most successful and acclaimed films from the past twenty years — and he’s not even 30 years old. With almost every movie he’s been in getting nominated for an Academy Award, it’s safe to say Hedges has a bright career ahead of him. At his young age, he has already worked with some of the best directors in Hollywood including Kenneth Lonergan, Greta Gerwig, Martin McDonagh, and Wes Anderson, in addition to acting next to legends like Meryl Streep and three-time Oscar-winner Frances McDormand....

Michael Haneke is one of the most significant filmmakers working in Europe today, with films such as Funny Games (1997), The Piano Teacher (2001), Caché (2005), The White Ribbon (2009), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017), and others. Having started out as a dramaturge and film critic, this Austrian auteur didn’t make his feature film debut until the age of 47. It was 1989’s chilling drama The Seventh Continent. Since then, Haneke has been defying boundaries, exploring the darker recesses of the human psyche....

The hardcore lifestyles of musicians and rock stars have been the subject of several classic films and shows. With fame and fortune, there is usually some drama and conflict that comes with it. At the same time, if you’re watching a film about a famous rock star, you are surely going to get to listen to some great music throughout the film. Encapsulating the persona of a real human being is not an easy task for an actor....

Nowadays, it seems as though every movie and television series ever produced is available on some streaming platform. There are the originals, like Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video, and newer entries like HBO Max, Disney+, and Paramount+. Plus (see what we did there) a multitude of others, like Roku, Apple TV+, Peacock, and many more. Side note, is there a certain quota of “number of streamers with ‘plus’ shoehorned into their names” that needs to be met?...

This year’s Sundance Film Festival showcases a growing number of films from underrepresented communities, particularly those centered around BIPOC and Black experiences. One of the most notable distributors at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is A24, premiering two dramas about BIPOC women from first-time female directors. These films, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt and Earth Mama, offer unique perspectives on the lives of Black and indigenous women in America and are being hailed as essential additions to the festival’s lineup....

Roadside Attractions has unveiled the domestic trailer for Biutiful from director Alejandro González Iñárritu, starring Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Eduard Fernández, Cheikh Ndiaye, Diaryatou Daff, Taisheng Cheng and Luo Jin. The drama opens in theaters December 29th. Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona....

A little over a month away from its domestic release on November 18, MGM has dropped a second trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All. While the first preview featured Leonard Cohen’s “You Want it Darker?” serenading a quick cut jog through the film’s imagery with little dialogue, the newest theatrical trailer eschews the song to allow for many spoken lines, and lengthier, yet still fleeting, flashes of scenes, characters, and plot-points....