The Morning Watch: Making Sounds For Nature Documentaries, Adam Sandler's Steve Buscemi Song & More

The Morning Watch: Making Sounds For Nature Documentaries, Adam Sandler’s Steve Buscemi Song & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out how sounds are created to give a little more life to nature documentaries likePlanet Earth IIandThe Hunt....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · Kristina Barker

This Improvised Sir Anthony Hopkins Line Changed The Silence Of The Lambs Forever

This Improvised Sir Anthony Hopkins Line Changed The Silence Of The Lambs Forever The tongue clucks in “Hereditary.” Ju-on’s death rattle. The Babadook’s vocal fry. There are some uncanny sounds in horror movies that invade more nightmares than any spoken line. One such sound was ad-libbed by a knighted Oscar-winning Welshman on the set of a movie directed by a Roger Corman protege. Any guesses? The answer isSir Anthony Hopkins, whose portrayal of imprisoned flesh-eating psychiatrist Dr....

June 28, 2025 · 3 min · 511 words · Courtney Hoover

This Memorable Godfather Moment Almost Didn't Happen

This Memorable Godfather Moment Almost Didn’t Happen One of the key pieces of the opening scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film “The Godfather” is the cat that sits on Vito “Don” Corleone’s lap for the first few minutes. Apart from being some of the best minutes in cinema history and containing some of the film’s most quoted lines, that scene and the image of the cat on the Don’s lap is forever burned into my mind — and probably most who’ve seen it....

June 28, 2025 · 4 min · 736 words · John Richard

Trivia: Quentin Tarantino Almost Directed A Chris Tucker Stand-Up Comedy Movie

Trivia: Quentin Tarantino Almost Directed A Chris Tucker Stand-Up Comedy Movie In the late Nineties,Chris Tuckerwas one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He was making over $20 million to star in Brett Ratner’sRush Hourfilms but then he faded away. This was a guy who proved he was a comedy genius in the filmFriday, could be awkward and great in a sci-fi film likeThe Fifth Element, but he more or less dropped off the face of the Earth after 1998’sRush Hour, only returning for its two sequels....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 320 words · William Little

Watch The Entire Rebooted 'DuckTales' Pilot Online For Free

Watch The Entire Rebooted ‘DuckTales’ Pilot Online For Free Two days ago,DuckTalesreturned with an all new style and cast on Disney XD. Season one of the 2-D animated series is 21 half-hour episodes and two hour-long specials. Before the show even premiered, Disney ordered a season two. They’re clearly confident in the reboot. If they weren’t, then maybe they wouldn’t have released the first episode of the revival online. Below, watch the hour-longDuckTalespilot....

June 28, 2025 · 3 min · 434 words · Frank Clarke

Watch Trailers For FOX's New 2017-2018 Shows: Adam Scott Gets 'Ghosted', Dylan McDermott Flies 'LA To Vegas' & More

Watch Trailers For FOX’s New 2017-2018 Shows: Adam Scott Gets ‘Ghosted’, Dylan McDermott Flies ‘LA To Vegas’ & More Upfronts week continues with the trailers for the new shows coming to the FOX network in the 2017-2018 season. We’ve alreadyseen the trailerforSeth MacFarlane’s sci-fi comedy seriesThe Orville, which looks like a solid spoof of the classicStar Trekseries, as well asBryan Singer’sX-MenseriesThe Gifted. But FOX also unveiled trailers for the comedy seriesGhostedstarringAdam ScottandCraig Robinson, the procedural drama9-1-1from creatorRyan Murphy, the medical dramaThe ResidentwithCaptain America: Civil WarstarEmily VanCamp, and an airline comedy calledLA to Vegasfrom executive producersAdam McKayandWill Ferrell....

June 28, 2025 · 12 min · 2507 words · Theodore Thompson

Why Filming Phantom Thread Was A Nightmare For Daniel Day-Lewis

Why Filming Phantom Thread Was A Nightmare For Daniel Day-Lewis I recently noticedPaul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” listed under the romance category on Netflix, and I mean, okay, Iguess! But really, when I reflect on this fashionably exquisite film, I’m not really thinking about the apparent love story, so much as I’m thinking about the poisonous mushroom hellscape that is the lives of the two main characters. I don’t care if theNew Year’s balloon scenewasbeautiful, these two people should not be together and have completely lost their damn minds....

June 28, 2025 · 3 min · 565 words · James Cook

'A Star Is Born' Proves That Bradley Cooper Will One Day Be A Great Director – But Not Yet

‘A Star Is Born’ Proves That Bradley Cooper Will One Day Be A Great Director – But Not Yet (This post contains major spoilers forA Star is Born.)Bradley Cooper’sA Star is Bornis up for eight Academy Awards this Sunday. Three of those nominations—Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay—have gone to Cooper himself, who’s also scheduled to perform the film’s Best Original Song nominee “Shallow” with co-starLady Gaga. There was, however, considerable buzz recently when Cooper stated he was"embarrassed"at not picking up the nomination for Best Director....

June 27, 2025 · 11 min · 2279 words · Michael Rogers

'Batman Vs. Two-Face' Trailer: Adam West Goes On His Final Crusade

‘Batman Vs. Two-Face’ Trailer: Adam West Goes On His Final Crusade Batman is going back to the ’60s for one last time. The trailer forBatman vs. Two-Face, released posthumously after Adam West’s tragic passing earlier this year, features the iconic Batman actor’s last turn as the Caped Crusader, standing in animated form alongside his old palBurt Wardas Robin againstWilliam Shatner’s Two-Face. Batman vs. Two-Facesees West and Ward reprising their roles as Batman and Robin, which they made famous in the beloved and (intentionally, hilariously) campy ‘60sBatmanTV series....

June 27, 2025 · 2 min · 331 words · Whitney Gomez

'Buried' Screenwriter To Pen 'Twelve Strangers' For Producer M. Night Shyamalan

‘Buried’ Screenwriter To Pen ‘Twelve Strangers’ For Producer M. Night Shyamalan Over a year agoM. Night Shyamalanput together a deal with Media Rights Captial to create a label calledThe Night Chronicles. The first of three films for the label,Devil, is in post-production now. So it’s time to move forward on the second, to be calledTwelve Strangers. We don’t know much about the film right now, but we do know thatBuriedscreenwriterChris Sparlingwill write....

June 27, 2025 · 2 min · 296 words · Francis Ballard

'Captain Marvel' Favorite Goose The Cat Gets The Purrfect Funko POP Figures

‘Captain Marvel’ Favorite Goose The Cat Gets The Purrfect Funko POP Figures Captain Marvelis only in its second weekend at the box office (which added considerably more cash to the movie’s haul), but it’s already a certified hit. Even though Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn are the stars, there’s one breakout character that fans can’t get enough of, and they’re not human. It’s Goose the cat, and the little feline is getting a pair of new Funko POP figures that fans of Captain Marvel are going to love....

June 27, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · Kenneth Schmidt

'Carnage' And 'Kill List' Reviews: Similar Titles, Wildly Different Films

‘Carnage’ And ‘Kill List’ Reviews: Similar Titles, Wildly Different Films The titlesCarnageandKill Listsound like they could be the same movie.Kill List: Carnage.Carnage: The Kill List. I’d see that movie. In reality though, they’re two movies which, besides their ominous titles, couldn’t be more different. One is a comedy, the other a thriller. One is American, the other British. One is from a well-known filmmaker, the other an up and comer. And one has four of our most celebrated actors while the other is populated by unknowns....

June 27, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Michael Davis

'CRSHD' Review: The Millennials Are All Right In A Charming Collegiate Rom-Com [Tribeca]

‘CRSHD’ Review: The Millennials Are All Right In A Charming Collegiate Rom-Com [Tribeca] Emojis and Tinder are the order of the day inCRSHD, an ode to millennial romance that juggles silliness and sincerity, though it occasionally drops the ball. Written and directed byEmily Cohn, the romantic-comedy follows a familiar formula: a group of close girlfriends vow to find love, especially for the ditzy protagonist who wants to lose her virginity before summer break, and find themselves getting into a series of hijinks over the course of one wild, booze-filled night....

June 27, 2025 · 4 min · 651 words · John Mcdowell