Director Alexander Payne shares his thoughts on the current state of big-screen movies and their long run times.

A Quiet Place Part II continues to make noise, with a new milestone as a result.

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Every year around Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day, I get annoyed. I love that we celebrate the life and work of Dr. King, but I hate that his image is reduced into something that it wasn’t. He becomes cuddly Dr. King, a representative for peace and love that never made any white person uncomfortable. America was racist, Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and racism was over. That kind of childish view is why a documentary like Sam Pollard’s new documentary MLK/FBI is so essential. It shows King as a political actor working …

Christopher Nolan's Tenet could have an entanglement with August as far as European theaters are concerned, as Warner Bros. has been advising exhibitors in the U.K., France and Spain to prepare for an Aug. 26-28 launch according to a new report from Variety. That means that Tenet will launch on Wednesday the 26th in some territories, and Friday the 28th in others. The action movie had been slated to hit U.S. theaters on Wednesday, Aug. 12 before Warner Bros. removed it from the calendar entirely while promising that its domestic release would be "imminent." I'm …

The dynamic duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost has given us three bonafide genre-comedy hybrid classics in the form of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. Now, they're back at it again, diving back into the well of genre comedy alongside a dynamite ensemble cast. Truth Seekers, a forthcoming Amazon horror-comedy series, follows a team of misfit ghost hunters on the search for, well, the truth. And we've got the first images below. Beyond Pegg (looking natty in a wild wig) and Frost (looking rugged in a wild beard), the …

It's rare to see a TV show dedicate itself so fiercely to the inner lives of young girls. And it's even rarer to see it executed as well as the new Netflix adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club, which uses its premise to launch a charming collection of characters, brought together ostensibly for business purposes, but reminding us that friendship can create whole new families. For the record, I am reviewing this show as someone who was a fan of the original Ann M. Martin series: Decades before I discovered that memorizing the names of TV episodes could …

By now, you’ve likely heard about sexual abuse scandal involving USA Gymnastics and team doctor Larry Nassar. The benefit of Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk’s new documentary Athelte A is how they’re able to carefully lay out the events as they transpired, show the broader historical context that set up the rotten system, and then how it all leads to someone like Nassar being able to molest countless young girls for decades. As one of the Indy Star reporters who broke the story explains, “Nassar wasn’t our target. Our target was USA Gymnastics.” That’s not …

Sometimes it doesn't make sense to pull back the curtain on how TV shows get reviewed, but in the case of The Twilight Zone, a little context feels valuable. As you read this right now, all 10 episodes of Season 2 have been made available on CBS All Access. However, this review was written after only watching three of them — not because of time constraints on my end, but because these were the only three episodes provided in advance, with CBS telling critics that reviews could not be published until the season as a whole went live. The point …

With all due respect to Wesley Snipes, whose first and second Blade films still remain ahead-of-their-time-but-also-firmly-embedded-within-their-time superhero action-horror classics, Mahershala Ali just owned the character. We've known about him playing the Marvel-created daywalking vampire-hunting hero for some time now. But Ali just took to Instagram to post the first drawing of himself as the character. And... just... damn. If this is official concept art for the character design of Blade, I'm all in. His hair? An incredible '90s-feeling flat top with a ferocious cut …

I saw There Will Be Blood back when it opened in 2007 and it's a movie I still think about every few weeks or so. It's grown into one my all-time favorite films and I think Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) is one of the most memorable characters in cinema history. He is the perfect distillation of 20th century capitalism and its raw, transactional view of the world coupled with voracious greed. His one thread back to humanity is his son, HW Plainview (Dillon Freasier), and eventually he even cuts that so that he's left with …

Queen of the Damned, which was based on an Anne Rice novel, starred Aaliyah in the titular role, but many major Hollywood actresses were considered.

Queen of the Damned, which is based off the novel by Anne Rice, inspired someone to commit a grisly murder in the vampire Akasha's name.

The original game was a unique blend of action and horror, but will Shadows Of The Damned 2 ever come together? Here's what we know.

Baby Yoda. The Child. The pure, puppeted symbol of all that is good in the world from Disney+'s The Mandalorian. What else can be said about this creature, this wholesome inducer of "awws," this inspirer of masked bounty hunters, my literal biological son whom I will fight anyone to protect? He's the dang best. And he's such "the dang best" that he inspired his many fans to craft customized versions out of crocheting material, paper, 3D printers, and anything else his fans could get their hands on. Thanks to Reddit, we can see them all in all …

We talk to BATMAN: DAMNED writer Brian Azzarello to solve the mystery of this JOKER sequel - and why he and Lee Bermejo kept fans waiting.

Queen Of The Damned is the forgettable sequel to Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire but Aaliyah made the role of Queen Akasha iconic.

Faust: Love Of The Damned is based on the cult graphic novel and just might be one of the goriest comic books adaptations ever made.

Don't make friends, kids. Friends will only bring you jumpscares.