The Visitor Review: The Musical Adaptation Is White Centricity Set To Average Music In Tom McCarthy’s 2007 film “The Visitor,” released six years after June 12, 2025, a wall painting of the Twin Towers haunts the ICE detention center. Its presence denotes the racist and Islamophobic inhumanities that were exacerbated when the Bush administration waged the War on Terror in response to the 9/11 attacks. A critically regarded Sundance-selected drama, “The Visitor” has been noted by critics as one of the few humanizing portraits of undocumented people of color, though through a white male lens starring a white professor....

Why Paul Dano Was Drawn To Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners Paul Dano is enjoying a well-deserved victory lap in the biggest spotlight possible thanks to histremendous and chilling performancein Matt Reeves' “The Batman.” The actor, known for appearing (andgetting beat up) in various lower-budget movies, always seemed like an unconventional pick for the role of the homicidal, serial-killing Riddler. For several years, his casting in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in 2007 may have resulted in a very long shadow over his career....

Young-Adult Novel ‘The Maze Runner’ Adds A Screenwriter The latest bestselling young-adult novel to get a feature film adaptation has found itself a hot new screenwriter.Noah Oppenheimwill adaptThe Maze Runner, a New York Times bestselling adventure book byJames Dashner, that follows a group of kids who must navigate a deadly maze to make it out of an alternative dimension.Catherine Hardwickehas beentapped to direct the film, which is set up at 20th Century Fox...

‘Dexter’ Season 8 Unveils Poster And Trailer; Showtime Exec Talks Spinoff Potential Savor the next twelve episodes ofDexter, because they’ll be the last. The networkannouncedearlier this week that the serial killer drama would end its run after the eighth season, which begins in June. To prepare fans for the big goodbye, they’ve revealed a new poster and trailer hinting at events to come. However, the end ofDextermay not mean the end of theDexteruniverse....

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ TV Series In The Works With ‘John Wick’ Writer Derek Kolstad Hollywood has been trying to get a newDungeons & Dragonsmovie off the ground for a few years now, and now they’re throwing a TV show into the mix as well. A new report states that plans are in motion for aDungeons & DragonsTV show withJohn Wickfranchise writerDerek Kolstadtackling some of the scripts. This news comes on the heels of the announcement thatChris Pinewas in talks to star in theDungeons & Dragonsmovie....

‘Game Of Thrones’ – The 10 Most Important Moments In ‘Home’ After last week’s patient season premiere,Game of Throneslaunched itself into action with “Home,” a truly tremendous hour of television that reacted to last week’s careful table-setting by overturning the table entirely. Major characters died. Power structures were radically changed. And Jon Snow…well, that would be a spoiler. Let’s run down the most important stuff that happened, shall we? Bran Visits the Past In trueGame of Thronesfashion, Bran Stark’s first psychic voyage to the past was all about laying the groundwork and setting the stage for something much Bigger and More Important....

‘Gold’: Zac Efron To Star In Survival Thriller About A Man Who Finds The World’s Biggest Gold Nugget Zac Efronis about to strike it rich. The actor, who just appeared in the Netflix documentary seriesDown to Earth with Zac Efronearlier this year, is set to star in a survival thriller calledGold. He’ll play a man who discovers a gold nugget in the desert – but things quickly begin to go wrong from there....

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Season 1: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Are you getting tired of hearing dumb jokes based on the title ofI Know What You Did Last Summer? Well, get ready to hear one more, presuming you’re still here and you want to know everything we know aboutI Know What You Did Last Summerseason 1....

‘I Want To Eat Your Pancreas’ Trailer: An Anime Romance That Will Shed Tears, Not Blood No zombies can be found in the trailer forI Want to Eat Your Pancreas, despite what the title implies. But there are plenty of tears in this sentimental romance film from writer-directorShin’ichiro Ushijima, who adapts the belovedYoru Suminonovel of the same name into a sumptuous anime film that will now be making its two-day premiere in the U....

‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ Trailer: Van Damme Makes Fun Of Himself And Saves The World Action starJean-Claude Van Dammehas made a meta film commenting on his career before with 2008’sJCVD, but now the Muscles from Brussels is heading to Amazon for a new action comedy series where he takes it to the next level.Jean-Claude Van Johnsonstars JCVD as a version of himself that takes acting gigs as a cover for his real job as an undercover operative....

‘Jungle Cruise’ Star Jack Whitehall On Sharing Scenes With A CGI Jaguar And Playing Disney’s First Gay Character [Interview] Disney’sJungle Cruisefeels less like the classic theme park ride it’s based on, and more like a specific kind of adventure movie. You probably know the type. 1999’sThe Mummy. 2003’sPirates of the Caribbean. Spirited, funny, silly, romantic, charming adventures that blend action and banter in equal measure. And these kinds of movies demand a comic relief character, the goofball who says everything the audience is thinking in the back of their brain....

‘L.A. Confidential’ Sequel Starring Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe And Chadwick Boseman Was Rejected By Warner Bros. L.A.Confidentialis one of the best American movies of the 1990s, and it looks like it almost had itself a sequel.Brian Helgeland, who co-wrote the script with directorCurtis Hanson, recently revealed that he andL.A. Confidentialbook author James Ellroy came up with a movie sequel idea and even had a cast lined up, includingGuy PearceandRussell Crowereprising their roles from the first film, andChadwick Bosemanplaying a young cop....

‘Luke Cage’ Season 2 Trailer: Sweet Christmas Comes Early With Explosive Teaser And Release Date The bulletproof hero of Harlem is back. In the second season of the Marvel Netflix series, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) learns just what it means to be the neighborhood hero, earning new allies but also new villains. TheLuke Cageseason 2 trailer — more of a teaser really — is here to get you pumped about his return....