Why Do The ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Prequel Titles Make Absolutely No Sense? (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, and opinionated about something that makes us very happy…or fills us with indescribable rage. In this edition: the titles of thePlanet of the Apesmovies are in the wrong order and it’s. Driving. Us. Crazy.) ThePlanet of the Apesreboot franchise is many things —stunning technological achievements, emotionally resonant storytelling, andtestaments to genre filmmaking....

‘Alien: Covenant,’ ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Beauty And The Beast’ And More Previewed In New Photos Considering how battered and bruised 2016 left the world in general, the only sane thing to do is look at 2017 with caution and fear. Except for the movies. The movies look pretty cool. A bunch of new images from the year’s biggest movies have arrived online, suggesting that we may get to see some pretty cool movies before civilizationcompletelycollapses....

‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff ‘Better Call Saul’ Might (Also) Be A Sequel AMC was careful to specify thatBetter Call Saulwould be a prequel when it firstannouncedits plans for the spinoff series, but the ending ofBreaking Badleft us wanting to know what happened after that grand finale. Luckily,Bob Odenkirksays there’s a chance we could still find out. According to him,Vince GilliganandPeter Gouldhave also discussed the idea of doingBetter Call Saulas a sequel, or perhaps a prequel/sequel hybrid....

‘Dexter: New Blood’ Trailer: Michael C. Hall Returns As Your Favorite Serial Killer In November After a disappointing series finale left Dexter Morgan with a scruffy lumberback beard and an unsatisfying ending,Michael C. Hallis returning to see if everyone’s favorite serial killer can get a better send off. Dexter: New Bloodcatches up with the evasive murderer 10 years after he went “missing” in the middle of a hurricane. Under the name Jim Lindsay, he’s started a new life, working in a small town shop and smiling at all the local who have embraced him as a friend....

‘Eighth Grade’ Is Holding Free Screenings Across The Country That Won’t Enforce R-Rating Despite its title, eighth graders probably won’t be able to seeEighth Gradein theaters.Bo Burnham’s incisive, incredible film about coming of age in the digital age was saddled with an R-rating thanks to a few errant curse words that the MPAA is unreasonably strict about. But it’s a film that eighth graders should see. And A24 agrees. This week, the studio will be hosting free screenings across the country that won’t enforce the movie’s R-rating to encourage all ages to see this pivotal and powerful movie....

‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Show Continues The Story Of The Original Cast, Will Address How Fandom Has Changed Back in August, we learned that actor/writerPaul Scheerhad been hired by Amazon to write a TV adaptation of the 1999 sci-fi comedyGalaxy Quest, a movie about a group of washed-up actors who used to star on aStar Trek-style sci-fi show who are swept up into a real space adventure. This is great news – Scheer’s comedic sensibilities are a perfect match for that world....

‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Arrives In August Fans – like me! – have been waiting patiently, and not-so-patiently, forMindhunterseason 2. The first season debuted on Netflix all the way back in 2017, and confirmation of a second season came soon after. But all has been quiet on theMindhunterfront since then. Now,Charlize Theron, who is one of the producers on the serial killer series, has confirmed we can expect further mindhuntin' this summer, asMindhunterseason 2 arrives in August....

‘New Order’ Review: This Class Conflict Makes ‘Parasite’ Look Tame [TIFF 2020] Class conflict in cinema is nothing new. Though after Bong Joon-ho’s Best Picture-winningParasitebecame a global phenomenon, there’s perhaps never been a more receptive audience for films depicting a breakdown of unsustainable social contracts. (The ever-growing chasm of worldwide economic inequality unfortunately does not hurt, either.) Enter Mexican writer and director Michel Franco withNew Order, a taut 88-minute dystopian drama about a country thrown into disarray amidst societal upheaval....

‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ TV Series In The Works From Steve Zaillian Writer and directorSteve Zaillianis returning to TV for aTalented Mr. RipleyTV series. The series will be inspired by the sociopathic social climber from Patricia Highsmith’s novels, and while the Ripley show hasn’t found a home yet, several networks are clamoring to get their hands on it. This will be the latest screen adaptation of Highsmith’s character, who has been featured in several films – most notably Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation,The Talented Mr....

‘The Armstrong Lie’ Trailer: “I Was Confident That I Would Never Get Caught” Up until a few years ago,Lance Armstrong’s cycling career sounded like one of the great inspirational tales of our time. That he beat cancer was impressive enough; that he then went on to win the Tour de France a bunch of times was nothing short of incredible. Among the many people intrigued by Armstrong’s journey was filmmakerAlex Gibney, who set out to make a documentary about Armstrong’s return to the Tour de France....

‘The Walking Dead’ And The Case Against Killing Off Television Characters (This post contains immediate and major spoilers forThe Walking Dead.) You would think the creative team behindThe Walking Deadwould respect that. But instead, they have thrown caution to the wind and committed one of the most asinine decisions in the show’s history. They killed Carl. What’s even worse, they killed him without any ascertainable reason. Carl isn’tThe Walking Dead’s first unfortunate tragedy....

/Film Interview: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Directors Joe And Anthony Russo When Marvel announcedJoe and Anthony Russowould be directingCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, reactions were mixed. Sure the pair had worked on some awesome TV shows likeArrested DevelopmentandCommunity, but movie-wiseWelcome to ColinwoodandYou, Me and Dupreedidn’t exactly scream “superhero.” Then we saw the new movie. Instantly it was obvious the Russos were not only right for the job, but we want them back forCaptain America 3....

10 Films About Other Films This week brings the release ofKumiko, the Treasure Hunter, a film that is, in a weird way, based on another film — it’s inspired by an urban legend that has surroundedFargofor years. The connection between these two films is undeniably unique, but the idea of making movies about other movies isn’t. Below, we present a list of films about films. By that, we don’t simply mean films that remake or reference other movies, or films about the filmmaking process, but movies that center around other movies that actually exist in our world....