A Moving History of the Decline and Fall of a Featherweight Empire
In 1946, boxing history may or may not have been made. It was a featherweight bout between Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, and Jackie Graves. The fight lasted for 8 rounds (out of 10 scheduled) and ultimately called…
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Reese Witherspoon Teams Up With Harlan Coben For a New Project
A new Harlan Coben project is on the way, and he's got an unexpected collaborator on the project in the shape of Reese Witherspoon. The pair will be writing a new book together, described as a suspense thriller, in what…
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Powerful Family Documentary Finds Beauty in the Pain
Over the last few years, I’ve suffered from some major eye issues that easily could have led to blindness. Now, some will be particularly bemused by a film critic losing their vision, mired somewhere between a Twilight Zone tale of…
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Todd Phillips Explains Why Working With Joaquin Phoenix on ‘Joker 2’ Was Heaven
The Big Picture Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with Joker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips. Joker: Folie à Deux follows Arthur Fleck post-Arkham, with a romantic twist involving Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn. During this interview, Phillips discusses using IMAX…
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Saturday Night Reviews Film Threat
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Jason Reitman’s latest film, Saturday Night, is set in the 90 minutes leading up to the first episode of what would become known as Saturday Night Live and attempts to capture the chaos, beauty,…
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Ariana DeBose Dishes on Cooking Up Horror in House of Spoils & Joining the MCU
The remarkable Ariana DeBose spoke with MovieWeb about taking on her first horror film, House of Spoils, the training that went into playing a fine dining chef, and joining Sony's wing of the MCU with Kraven the Hunter. House of…
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‘Haunt Season’ Review – An Unscary But Oddly Affecting Haunted House Horror Movie
Haunt Season is a strange film. It’s not the low-budget slasher B-movie that you can easily write off with its shallow characters and overreliance on fake blood. It’s something smarter, and, ultimately, more soulful than that. A tale of a…
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“North Dakota is Trump Country Today”: John Hanson and Rob Nilsson on the 4K Restoration of Northern Lights
Northern Lights It would be easy to call 1979 a red letter Cannes for New Hollywood: Apocalypse Now got Francis Ford Coppola his second Palme d’Or (split with Volker Schlöndorff for The Tin Drum), Terrence Malick received Best Director for…
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Kids in the Spotlight Offers Los Angeles Foster Youth a Path to Becoming Filmmakers
When Kids in the Spotlight CEO Tige Charity was laid off from a job in 2009, she began to think seriously about what she wanted to do with her life. “At that same time, my church was doing a series…
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Tobe Hooper’s Horror Classic Hasn’t Lost Its Devastating Power
One of the most notorious aspects of Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is that, despite its lurid title, premise (five young people encounter a cannibalistic back-country family, one lives to tell the tale), and tagline…
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Michael Jai White Can’t Save Formulaic Action-Comedy
Jason Krawczyk’s last directorial effort is 2015's punchy "bullets, blood, and Bingo" flick He Never Died. His comeback project, the Tubi original Don't Mess With Grandma (aka Sunset Superman), hopes to channel the same indie action gumption. It's a home…
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Liam Hemsworth Details “Unique” Situation With ‘The Witcher’ Season 4
The Big Picture In an interview with Collider, Liam Hemsworth talks about replacing Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher, sparking excitement and debate. Hemsworth admits he feels prepared and excited to take on the iconic role, despite…
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