‘The Green Knight’ Trailer: Dev Patel Faces His Destiny In David Lowery’s Arthurian Legend Fantasy Film At long last,The Green Knightis coming to theaters. The fantasy epic from A24 and directorDavid Lowerywas supposed to embark on its quest via a world premiere at SXSW in 2020 before opening in theaters soon after, but the pandemic drove a sword straight into those plans. Those of us eager to see the film at any cost hoped A24 would release it digitally, but the indie distributor held fast and saved the film for theaters....

‘The Midnight Sky’ Featurette: George Clooney Hates The Cold George Clooneyhates cold. Probably because snow is cold, and wet, and gets everywhere. But he would sacrifice discomfort, even embrace it, forcinema. That’s the thrust of the latestThe Midnight Skyfeaturette, which Netflix has released ahead of the Clooney-directed sci-fi epic’s release on the streaming service. The Midnight Sky Featurette The Midnight Skywas a labor of love, especially from director-star Clooney, who overcame his aversion to the cold to shoot one of the most physically taxing films of his career....

‘Westworld’ Spoiler Review: 10 Questions From ‘‘Trace Decay’’ After the major events of “Trompe L’Oeil,“Westworldshifted into a slower gear with “Trace Decay,” an hour concerned with picking up the pieces after last week’s shattering events and setting the stage for the final two episodes of the show’s first season. As always, each new episode of the series brings up questions of both the literal and rhetorical variety, so let’s dive in and poke around and talk about what we just saw....

‘Wolfwalkers’ Review: A Dazzling Display Of The Best That Animation Can Achieve Hand-drawn animation is a fast-disappearing art in a medium that has come to value mass appeal and mass production over the careful study of tradition. It’s a bittersweet reality that resonates strongly with Cartoon Saloon’s latest animation masterwork,Wolfwalkers. A dazzling, majestic love letter to the disappearing Irish folklore that was once so prevalent all over the country, and that once nestled in the hearts of all its people,Wolfwalkersis about that last gasp of a bygone era and the wonder that it still holds....

20 Movies About Serial Killers That Will Absolutely Creep You Out Serial killers are scary. Sure, so are ghosts and monsters, but those occupy a distinct, purely fictional part of our minds. Supernatural creatures are ephemeral fears, frightening enough to generate a jolt or a few hours of unease, but nothing really beyond that. Serial killers are different because they’re real. They live in our world, and appear on newscasts and the front pages, not just in books, movies, and old stories....

Alice In Wonderland Teaser Trailer #2: Essentially A Remix Of The First Back during Comic Con we sawthe first teaserforTim Burton’sAlice in Wonderland, which will be released in 3D in March 2010. It showed off the expected stuff: Burton’s warped landscapes and character designs and a bit of the basic story structure that most audiences are familiar with anyway. Now there’s a second teaser. It has a bit of new footage (a really small bit) but is generally just a remix of the first....

Amazon Instant Video Service Launches For Prime Members We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Rumors of Amazon’s streaming service have been circulating for several months now, and a few weeks ago, wereportedthat an eagle-eyed Engadget reader had spotted a notice on his Amazon page that read “Your Amazon Prime membership now includes unlimited, commercial-free, instant streaming of 5,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost.” The announcement was pulled almost instantly, but not before news spread throughout the media that Amazon was planning a video streaming service to compete with Netflix’s Watch Instantly....

At 70, ‘The Red Shoes’ Remains One Of The Best Films Ever Made About Creating Art The world of ballet has served as a flashpoint for a handful of filmmakers over the 21st century, decades after the art form was more dominant in popular culture. In the last couple decades, ballet has served as the foundation for some of the great independent filmmakers, from Robert Altman with his 2003 dramaThe Companyto Darren Aronofsky with his horror-tingedBlack Swanin 2010 and Luca Guadagnino with the upcoming remake of Dario Argento’s iconic ’70s tale of terror,Suspiria....

Bad Lieutenant Producers Draw Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music In addition to their many literary charms, the novels ofJonathan Lethemhave an unusual superpower: they resist cinematic adaptations with great vigor. Ironic, given the heavy cinematic awareness and influences on his novels. Lethem’s latest,Chronic City, even opens with a scene in the offices of the Criterion Collection, and has some entertaining discussion of cinematic masterworks both real and imagined. For ages, Ed Norton was promising to direct and star in a version ofMotherless Brooklyn, as the tourettes-afflicted protagonist Lionel Essrog....

Barack Obama’s Favorite Movies Of 2018 Include ‘Annihilation,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ And More Former President of the United StatesBarack Obamahas put forward his candidacy for President of Film Twitter with his list of his favorite movies of 2018. Obama’s list is a collection of some of the most critically praised films of the year, including genre-bending sci-fi flicks likeAnnihilation, beloved foreign flicks likeShoplifters, and deft black comedies likeThe Death of Stalin....

Benjamin Walker Cast As ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Guess there are no hard feelings between Fox andBenjamin Walker, who last year walked away from the role of Beast in Matthew Vaughn’sX-Men: First Class. The studio has just signed the actor to be Abraham Lincoln inTimur Bekmambetov’s upcomingAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Varietyconfirmed that the actor will show up as the sixteenth president — or the fantasy, vampire-killing version of him, at least — in the adaptation ofSeth Grahame-Smith’s novel....

Bite-Sized Terror: Horror Anthologies Are Thriving At The Telluride Horror Show American Horror Story.Black Mirror.Room 104.Channel Zero.The Mortuary Collection.Monsterland.Creepshow.Scare Me.Nightmare Cinema.Scare Package.Books of Blood.Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.50 States of Fright.Into the Dark.Welcome to the Blumhouse.The Twilight Zone. Horror anthologies are all the rage across various media right now, and the Shelter-In-Place Edition ofTelluride Horror Showis no exception.A collection of selected short stories, anthologies come in the form of literature, television shows, movies and more....

Did Last Night’s ‘Game Of Thrones’ Reveal The Identity Of Jon Snow’s Mother? Early in the first season ofGame of Thrones, Ned Stark promises to tell his illegitimate son Jon Snow about his mother the next time they meet. Unfortunately, foolish honorable Ned gets his head chopped off before he ever meets Jon again. Four seasons later, Jon (and the entireGOTfandom) isstillwaiting to find out the true identity of his mother....