Warner Bros. and DC FIlms' long hunt for a Suicide Squad director may be over.The AccountantandWarriordirectorGavin O’Connorhas been recruited to write the script for the upcoming superhero sequel and is also in talks to direct. Thenext DC film on the shooting scheduleisDavid F. Sandberg’s live-actionShazam!andSuicide Squad 2isn’t expected to head into production until fall 2018 at the earliest, but perVariety, the studio was keen to get someone working on the script ASAP....

Say what you will aboutThe Phantom Menace, that movie is extremely important forStar Wars. Not only did it help define the tone of the Prequel Trilogy in the past, but it’s also proving to be more and more important to the franchise’s future, too. One scene, in particular, the climactic fight sequence that became known as Duel of the Fates - after the iconicJohn Williamstrack of the same name - proves to be the pivotal moment of the whole saga, andTales of the Jedi, the most recent animated series developed byDave Filoni, helps to further prove it to be so....

Need a good mystery to solve? Want to take a walk through the criminal underworld? Well, if you wanna do it from the comfort (and safety) of your own home, you’re probably gonna want to watch a movie. Fortunately for fans of the genre, filmmakers have been turning to the thrills of crime for inspiration pretty much since folks started capturing moving pictures on film, so there are a whole lot of great options to watch when you’re in that mood....

SYFY has released the first five minutes of its newest original series,The Ark. The clip will give audiences a five minutes glimpse of the first episode of theDean Devlinscience-fiction series, which is slated to premiere on February 1.The Arkfollows the human race’s quest for survival through planetary colonization. Devlin, who produced sci-fi mega hitsIndependence DayandStargate, createdThe Ark, which tells the tale of a spacecraft and her crew on the quest for the survival of the human race....

[This is a re-post of my review from the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.The Keeping Roomopens today in limited release.] Daniel Barber’sThe Keeping Roombegins with a quote from Union General William Tecumseh Sherman: “War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”The Keeping Roomtakes place during war, but it is not about war, at least not in the traditional sense of soldiers on a battlefield....

Warner Bros. has released a series of “elemental” character posters from the upcoming animated filmThe LEGO Ninjago Movie. The film is a spinoff of sorts fromThe LEGO Moviefollowing this spring’sThe LEGO Batman Movie, as it takes place in the same universe as those films and follows the same general rules, but tells a new story with new characters. This film is based on the Ninjago LEGO line and features the voice ofDave Francoas young Master Builder Lloyd, who must team up with his friends to become secret ninja warriors and take on the evil warlord Garmadon (voiced byJustin Theroux), who also happens to be Lloyd’s dad....

The OAis an interesting case in this era of Peak TV. Like many binge-worthy Netflix series, the mysterious drama from co-creatorsBrit MarlingandZal Batmanglijseemed to come out of nowhere, generate a lot of interest for a couple of weeks, and then disappear into the sea of other worthy TV shows on an increasingly dizzying variety of content-providing platforms. With so much material available, the window to capitalize on viewers' interest is rapidly shrinking....

WhenShane Blackis making aPredatorfilm, folks are going to get excited about it no matter what, but until recently, that hype as existed in a void of knowing pretty much nothing about the film itself. We knew Black co-wroteThe PredatorwithThe Monster SquadhelmerFred Dekkerand that the film would acknowledge the events of the original films (making it more of a sequel than a hard reboot), but when it comes to official details, we’ve mostly been in the dark....

Annapurna Pictures has released a newThe Sisters Brotherstrailer. The adaptation ofPatrick deWitt’s novel hails fromDheepanwriter/directorJacques Audiard, making his English-language debut with a stellar cast.Joaquin PhoenixandJohn C. Reillyplay the titular Sisters Brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters, who are hired guns with a penchant for bickering who are tasked with killing a prospector who has stolen from their boss. I caught the film at TIFF and it was easily one of my favorite movies of this year’s festival....

James Gunnhas announced onhis Twitter accountthat a red band trailer ofThe Suicide Squadis dropping tomorrow. Gunn also revealed the official poster for the film, which features our merry band of villains as well as a long list of the amazing cast. The 2020 drought of superhero movies has finally eased up as we are once again given the bountiful work ofWandaVision,The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and now we are blessed withThe Suicide Squad....

While noir stories first emerged with dime store detective novels in the 1940s, the genre has proven to be far more fungible than its origins suggest. Not every film noir has to be set in a sprawling urban metroplex and star eitherSam SpadeorPhillip Marlowe. In fact, the noir genre has often succeeded when it incorporates elements of horror, action, science fiction, and even comedy. In one of the more creative reimaginings of the genre, the 1986 crime dramaRiver’s Edgecombined a gripping murder mystery witha dark coming of age story....

During the first quarter of 2025,Solo Levelinghas dominated the anime space.It won “Anime of the Year” at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, beating other big hitters likeFrieren: Beyond Journey’s End. It was alsoused as an example by Sony Entertainmentas it became the most-streamed anime of Q1 2025. But now, as fans wait for confirmation of its third season, a brand-new anime with really dark themes that was released two weeks ago has dethroned one ofSolo Leveling’s records, and time will tell if it will become the most streamed show of Q2 2025....

According to Netflix’s own rankings of its most popular movies and TV shows, the U.S. is completely obsessed with the shenanigans ofJoe Exoticin the insane documentary seriesTiger King. The seven-episode docuseries chroniclesthe stranger-than-fiction storyof Joe Exotic, a flamboyant and tremendously confident owner of a big cat zoo in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma. Much like a Stefon sketch, this show has everything: a dangerous rivalry with a fellow big cat owner, a murder-for-hire plot, a run for U....