UPDATE: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Candyman‘s theatrical release has been pushed from mid-June to September 25th. Jordan Peele puts a bloody new spin on a Nineties horror classic with the new trailer for Candyman, a modern-day reboot produced and co-written by the Get Out filmmaker. The new Candyman, directed …
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You could tell Jane Fonda knew she was making history by the way she smiled, pausing for a second before reading out the Best Picture title. Watch her face. It’s almost as fun to re-view that moment as to have witnessed, in real time, what happened right after it. Sorry, …
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Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson star in the trailer for Spiral, the latest installment in the Saw horror franchise. The film opens in theaters on May 15th. Rock plays Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks, who takes charge of a case involving the gruesome murder of a police officer. Alongside his rookie …
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Hildur Guðnadóttir has had a historic few weeks. It began Sunday, January 4th, when the Icelandic composer became the first solo woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for Joker; it continued the Tuesday after that, when she picked up two prizes — one for Joker, one …
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Buck Henry, screenwriter for The Graduate and co-creator of Get Smart, has died at the age of 89. Henry died of a heart attack at a hospital in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. Born Henry Zuckerman in 1930 in New York City, the noted screenwriter was …
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Through the years, as the Batman legend has kept evolving, so has his arch-villain nemesis: the Clown Prince of Crime. Every era gets the Joker it deserves, and under the greasepaint, this most iconic of bad guys is a complex character: He needs to be funny to become truly terrifying. …
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More than 40 years after the release of Grease, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reprised their roles of Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson for a Q&A and sing-along on Friday. The Meet n’ Grease sing-along event, held at the Coral Sky Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Florida, featured a screening …
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Following its teaser trailer in July, Disney has unveiled the first lengthy look at their upcoming Mulan live-action remake. As evidenced by the new trailer, the live-action version strips away some of the more cartoonish elements of the 1998 animated film — that indestructible bug, the Eddie Murphy-voiced mini-dragon Mushu …
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Bernie Sanders delivered his “slow jam” analysis of the most recent Democratic debate alongside the Roots and Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s The Tonight Show. Sanders’ slow jam technique leaned closer to spoken word and stump speeches than smooth vocal stylings, but the Roots provided the Vermont senator with an R&B …
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Antebellum The trailer opens with an idyllic image of a little girl surrounded by ponies, flowers, and butterflies. From there, the scenes quickly become chilling, which is to be expected from the producers that brought us Get Out and Us. Pivoting from the pre-Civil War era to modern times, Janelle …
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