‘Vox Lux’ Finds Natalie Portman Grappling With The Dark Side Of Pop Music [TIFF] Brady Corbetteams withNatalie PortmanforVox Lux, a strange saga split into two, showing the youth and adult life of a troubled pop star. Hard to decipher and loaded with omens and symbols,Vox Luxdoesn’t quite work, but it makes one hell of an impression.The anti-A Star Is Born,Vox Luxis the latest from actor-turned-director Brady Corbet, a beautiful dark twisted fantasy about the price of fame....

Alamo Drafthouse’s New D.C. Location Has A Movie Presidents Theme – And Bill Pullman Was There To Open It The doors might not play “Hail to the Chief” when you walk in, but otherwise the new Alamo Drafhouse location is as presidential as it gets. The latest Drafthouse location starts its soft opening today, August 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C., and promises to give theater-goers a fun experience with a lobby themed to movie presidents, a bar that’s straight out of a spy film, and an “Independence Day”-themed theater....

Alfonso Cuaron AMA Recap: ‘Gravity’ Alternate Ending, Cinema Outlook, Scientific Criticism & Superheroes Best director Oscar nomineeAlfonso Cuarondid a Reddit AMA Thursday, promoting his filmGravity, which is still in theaters and hits Blu-ray February 25. As tends to be the case with these, topics were all over the map, and we’ve grabbed the most interesting bits. Among them are an alternate ending toGravity, how he felt about scientific criticism directed toward the film, his outlook on the future of cinema, his feelings on digital formats, if he’d do a superhero movie, why he only did oneHarry Potter, Guillermo del Toro’s contributions toGravityand much more....

Amy Brenneman Wants To Kill Liv Tyler On ‘The Leftovers’ Final Season Amy Brennemanwas on a panel at the Television Critics Association for the NBC seriesHeartbeat, which she produced. After the panel she spoke with reporters further, and /Film asked her thoughts on the upcoming third and final season ofThe Leftovers. With one season left to resolve things, Brenneman has some very specific ideas for what her character, Laurie Garvey, needs to do before the end....

Bruce Willis Joined The Fifth Element In The Most Bruce Willis Way Possible “The Fifth Element” is one of those sci-fi films that defined the modern iteration of the genre. Even if you’ve never watched it, you’ve surely seen people cosplaying as Milla Jovovich’s Leeloo, the opera singer Plavalaguna (Maïwenn Le Besco), Chris Tucker’s Ruby Rhod, Gary Oldman’s Zorg, orBruce Willis' Korben Dallas at conventions. The 1997 Luc Besson film was like nothing we’ve seen before, and to this day, remains very much one of a kind....

Busy Luc Besson Adds Tommy Lee Jones To Comedy ‘Malavita,’ Sets Adaptation Of French Comic ‘Valerian’ Luc Bessonis really gluing his ass to the director’s chair. Though he directed a good handful of movies since 2000 (Angel-A, threeArthur and the Invisiblesfilms,The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-sec, andThe Lady) his directorial output has seemed to take a back seat to writing and producing efforts. (Admittedly, that could be an inaccurate perception based on those films' presence in North America; in Europe, it may not seem as if Besson had any lull at all....

Captain America Statue Unveiled At San Diego Comic-Con [UPDATED] UPDATE:The first photo of the Captain America statue is here, along with the first peek at a Marvel comic book featuring the statue. Click through to look. The kid from Brooklyn is headed home. To markCaptain America’s 75th birthday, Marvel has commissioned a giant bronze statue of the superhero, to be unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con later this month before heading to its permanent perch in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park....

Exclusive: Jonathan Levine’s ‘50/50’ Poster One of the best films of 2011 is coming soon and we’re happy to exclusively premiere its eye-catching poster.Jonathan Levine’s50/50starsJoseph Gordon-Levittin the story of a young man diagnosed with cancer at 27 and given a 50/50 chance of survival. Don’t fret, though,50/50isn’t some kind of down-trodden, depressing film. It was actually written byWill Reiser, the person the film is inspired by, and blends a poignant commentary on mortality with some raunchy humor and a touching love story....

Exclusive: Matt Ferguson’s NYCC ‘Batman’ Poster Cleans Out Axis Chemicals With A Bang New York Comic-Con is almost underway, and with it comes a new assortment of pop culture art from our favorite artists. The folks at Bottleneck Gallery will have quite a collection of new prints coming to the convention, and we’re proud to exclusively debutMatt Ferguson’s eagerly anticipated print forTim Burton’sBatmanfrom 1989. It’s a stylized take on one of the most explosive moments of the film where Batman blows up Axis Chemicals remotely with his Batmobile....

Here’s When The Cassian Andor Disney+ Series Takes Place In The ‘Star Wars’ Timeline The exact spot on theStar Warstimeline when the upcomingCassian Andorseries on Disney+ takes place has been revealed. While it was known that theRogue Oneprequel series starringDiego Lunawould take place before the events of the firstStar Warsstandalone movie, it was not yet clear how many years into Cassian Andor’s past we would go. But now StarWars.com has confirmed the setting of the Cassian Andor series timeline....

How A ‘Star Wars’ Card Game Helped Keep Fandom Alive In The ’90s My first published piece of film criticism came on July 14, 2025, two weeks shy of my fifteenth birthday. The night before, a group of my friends had spent the entire day camped out in front of the local movie theater waiting to purchase tickets forGeorge Lucas' long-awaitedStar Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. After the movie ended, a reporter from ourlocal newspaperwas there to capture everyone’s first impressions and managed to jot down my breathless praise of the film for posterity’s sake: “I don’t think I can wait two years for the next one,” this naïve youngStar Warsfan gushed, noting that the movie “threw open so many doors” and “left us hanging in a big way....

How Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Series Can Beat The Anime Adaptation Curse (And What It Can Borrow From Marvel And ‘Star Wars’) Anime fans around the country clutched their chests in fear as they read the fateful words that Netflix is planning onadaptingCowboy Bebopinto a 10 episode live-action miniseries. If you’re an American anime fan like me, then you’ve probably been a person who has had to suffer through several horrible live-action adaptations....

If ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ Season 2 Happens, It Will Focus On Different Characters Mike Flanagan’s Netflix seriesThe Haunting of Hill Houseis a hit with critics and audiences alike, but it’s also very much a self-contained story. It’s not your traditional TV show – it’s more like a miniseries, telling a complete story in one season of television. With this in mind, a second season focusing on the same main characters – the Crain Family – could undo the work of the first season....