Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprise their respective starring roles as Neo and Trinity in The Matrix Resurrections . We’re just a few weeks away from the release of The Matrix Resurrections , and Warner Bros. is whetting our appetites with a shiny new trailer. As we’ve reported previously , series writers/directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski […]
Enlarge / They ain’t afraid of no ghosts. A new generation goes a-busting. (credit: Sony Pictures) The original Ghostbusters is one of my all-time favorite movies. Ghostbusters II? Not so much. But I enjoyed the 2016 all-female film (especially the extended cut, which let the cast cut loose a bit more), and I am not […]
Enlarge / Epidemiologists analyzed all 25 James Bond films to assess 007’s health risks while traveling around the world. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A graduate student in epidemiology working in the field leads a perilous life, as Wouter Graumans discovered when he came down with a serious case of food poisoning while visiting […]
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star as fortune hunters in Uncharted, an origin story for the hugely popular video game franchise. Sony Pictures has released the official trailer for Uncharted, its long-awaited adaptation based on the hugely popular action/adventure video game franchise of the same name. Movies based on video game franchises can be hit […]
Enlarge / Philippe Tlokinski stars as Stanislaw Ulam in the new film Adventures of a Mathematician . (credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films) On November 1, 1952, the US detonated the first thermonuclear weapon , dubbed “Ivy Mike , ” off the Enewetak Atoll in what is now the Marshall Islands. Most of us consider the late physicist […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Anthony McCoy, a visual artist who moves into the gentrified Cabrini-Green neighborhood in Chicago. [credit: YouTube/Universal Pictures ] With thought-provoking films like Get Out and Us, writer/director Jordan Peele has already cemented his status as a master of smart, socially relevant modern horror. His influence is even broader as a producer, […]
MJ (Zendaya) and Peter Parker (Tom Holland) try to enjoy a peaceful moment on a rooftop [credit: YouTube/Sony Pictures ] Sony Pictures was scrambling over the weekend to quash a leaked teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home. But now the studio has released the official version, announced during CinemaCon in Las Vegas by chairman Tim […]
Nicholas Cage is an imprisoned bank robber named Hero. [credit: YouTube/RLJE Films ] Nicholas Cage’s unusual artistic choices over the years have been frequently remarked upon by critics, and no doubt he’s been in some pretty bad films over his long and storied career (*cough* The Wicker Man *cough*). But he’s also chosen some truly […]
Enlarge / Don’t call it a reboot: Margot Robbie stars in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad (credit: Warner Bros. ) Fan enthusiasm has been high leading up to the premiere of The Suicide Squad , James “Don’t Call It a Reboot” Gunn’s band-of-misfit-supervillains homage to the classic 1967 film The Dirty Dozen (among many other […]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays an elite assassin—the titular Kate. [credit: YouTube/Netflix ] A ruthless criminal operative is poisoned and has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her killers in Kate , a new action thriller from Netflix starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who played Huntress in Birds of Prey . The streaming service seems […]