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With all the advancements in modern moviemaking – from unfathomably large screens and bone-shaking soundsystems in movie theaters, to absurdly high-definition camera technology, to hyper-realistic, bordering on the unsettling, progress in computer-generated imagery (CGI) – it’s understandable why a lot of moviegoers might overlook the classics, the black and white era. To make a contemporary analogy, the films of yesteryear, as opposed to those of today, might be akin to walking around with a Razor flip phone as opposed to an iPhone....

Being a part of the same medium, acting and directing are two very different spheres of craft. Both, acting and directing, when done right, are Herculean tasks that require a lot of practice and experience. When it comes to acting, the performer needs to have a very specific set of knowledge about emotions and human characteristics, whereas a director is often required to if not know, then know enough about all other aspects of technicality that surround the process of filmmaking along with an additional knowledge of performance....

Warner Bros. Pictures have unveiled four new character posters from A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. Take a look below! The comedy picks up six years after the duo’s last adventure. After years of growing apart, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar’s door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold’s house ends with the “high grade” contents-and Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree- going up in smoke....

Junji Ito has become a household name for Japanese horror in recent years. Initially finding success with the Tomie series, an anthology about an immortal girl that drives people insane, he would gain further fame through his prolific series of short stories, most of which feature some of the most bizarre scenarios the mind can conjure up. Did you ever think you’d be afraid of infectious, walking sharks? What about a woman who licks people to death?...

AMC announced today that it renewed its original Western drama Hell on Wheels for an expanded fourth season. For its third season, Hell on Wheels was moved to Saturday - a day that AMC has traditionally devoted to classic Western films and television shows - and the show attracted a larger audience than it had in its second season on Sunday nights. In its third season, Hell on Wheels delivered an average audience of 3....

Actor Zachary Quinto has joined the cast of American Horror Story as a series regular and co-male lead in Season 2 of the hit FX series. The actor played Chad Warwick during a four-episode arc in American Horror Story Season 1, one of the former owners of the Harmon family’s creepy house. The actor will play a whole new character in Season 2, as one of the two men set on tormenting Emmy winner Jessica Lange’s new character....

The Bluth family is planning a return to the small screen before their highly-anticipated big screen movie. Arrested Development series creator Mitchell Hurwitz revealed at The New Yorker Festival that there are plans to make a nine or 10-episode TV season which will lead into the Arrested Development movie. Here’s what Mitchell Hurwitz had to say below. Mitchell Hurwitz also added that the new season sprung out of a desire to fill the fans in on what the Bluth family has been up to these past five years since the show was cancelled....

Music has the ability to enhance a film and express emotions that simply could not be done with any other medium. When done right, the pairing of music, whether it’s original songs or original scores, and movies creates magic and becomes a huge reason why people relate so deeply to certain stories and characters. Looking back at some of the most iconic pairings in film history, it’s evident that sometimes a score’s impact is so great that audience members remember that music more than anything else in a movie....

While the MCU didn’t officially start until 2008’s Iron Man, Marvel had several successful film and television properties that had previously accumulated a legion of fans. Many will recall the popular Netflix series from Marvel, such as Daredevil and Jessica Jones, but there was also Fox’s The Gifted and Hulu’s Runaways. These shows put the spotlight on lesser-known heroes and villains from Marvel Comics, showcasing a diverse cast of characters that would some say has yet to be matched in the greater MCU....

On October 29th, the seven-part horror anthology Saw comes to its rousing conclusion with the highly anticipated final chapter Saw 3D. Director Kevin Greutert is promising one of the craziest entries ever seen in this series, upping the ante tenfold with all new traps that will have even the toughest splatter junky cringing in his seat. It’s going to be a gory mess, and a bloody good time that will have you covering your eyes for a good duration of the movie’s runtime....

The reviews for the highly anticipated MCU sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are now in. So, is the sequel a worthy successor to its critically acclaimed predecessor? And how well does the follow-up tackle the grief and loss at its center following the tragic death of star Chadwick Boseman? We begin with our own Julian Roman, who praises Black Panther: Wakanda Forever for its mature approach and even declares it a reshaping of the franchise....

Blair Underwood, Melissa George and Dianne Wiest are set to join the HBO drama, In Treatment. Gabriel Byrne stars in the show as Paul, a therapist who is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but becomes a testy self-doubting man full of barely concealed anger when he is a patient seeing his own shrink. The show is based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series. Underwood will play one of Paul’s patients, a fighter pilot who suffers the effects of a botched raid he was involved in years before that killed not only he three perpetrators but three underage hostages....

Blonde is the Netflix fictional biographical film about the life of Marilyn Monroe. Directed by Andrew Dominik, and adapted from the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde became one of the most anticipated movies of the year ahead of its Venice Film Festival Premiere. That said, since its release on Netflix, the film has unfortunately found itself at the center of controversy and backlash from critics and audiences alike for its exploitative, sexist, and outright cruel depiction of the Hollywood legend....

It might be hard for fans of the film to imagine anyone other than Mark Wahlberg as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, but it was almost Leonardo DiCaprio. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and released in 1997, the film chronicles the rise of an adult film star in the 1970s along with his subsequent downfall in the 1980s. It is highly acclaimed and is considered to be a groundbreaking performance from Wahlberg....

Weekend Box Office: Resident Evil: Extinction $24 million Good Luck Chuck $14 million The Brave One $7.4 million 3:10 to Yuma $6.3 million Eastern Promises $5.7 million Sydney White $5.3 million Mr. Woodcock $4.9 million Superbad $3.1 million The Bourne Ultimatum $2.7 million Dragon Wars (D-War) $2.5 million Zombies ruled the lot at the box office this weekend, once again proving that their genre is not a dead one. Resident Evil: Extinction is the third film in the Resident Evil franchise, bringing in a very nice take of $24 Million....

Bravo announced the acquisition of nine episodes of the Emmy Award-winning docu-drama series “Taxicab Confessions” in a deal with HBO. The announcement was made today by Frances Berwick, Executive Vice President, Programming and Production, Bravo. The critically-acclaimed, one-hour series makes its basic cable premiere on Bravo, Friday, December 29 with three back-to-back episodes (11 PM-2 AM ET/PT), followed by a New Year’s Eve marathon and a fourth original episode, Sunday, December 31 (12:30-4:30 AM ET/PT)....

Bros already makes history in three different ways. It is the first major studio gay rom-com, the first studio film featuring an all-LGBTQ+ cast in both queer and straight roles, and its creator, Billy Eichner, is the first openly gay man to write and star in his own studio film. Nicholas Stoller, who directed the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and co-directed the 2016 animated film Storks and the Netflix comedy series Friends From College, directed and co-wrote this pioneering big-screen project....

Call Jane stars Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver are eager to continue the conversation around the timely, abortion-centered film. Taking place in pre-Roe v. Wade Chicago, Banks plays a housewife who faces the difficult decision to terminate her second pregnancy after a devastating diagnosis; Weaver stars as Virginia, the head of the Jane Collective, an underground organization that helps Banks’ Joy obtain a safe procedure after she’s turned away by male doctors....

Captain America: The First Avenger will hit theaters nationwide on July 22. Star Chris Evans recently discussed the importance of pleasing the fans of this popular Marvel comic book series. The actor also talked about the challenges of keeping his character, Steve Rogers, grounded in reality. “It’s important, you know at the end of the day we are doing this for the fans. And if they’re not happy, we’ve missed the mark....

The MCU has dominated the Hollywood world for the past decade and a half in no small part due to its phenomenal plethora of characters that audiences all over the world can route for. From heroes like Iron Man and Thor to Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, the MCU has introduced hundreds of Marvel Comic characters to the big screen – and one of the most beloved is Captain America. One of the original six Avengers and helping pioneer what would become the largest cinematic universe in history, Captain America has become not just a Hollywood staple but a literal cultural icon of America, despite the fact that he’s fictional....