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The writer-director of the film based off his play talks about the process of bringing his play to life One of my favorite films of 2008 was the gripping drama Doubt, which comes to DVD and Blu-ray on April 7 after a successful theatrical run that garnered five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Adapated Screenplay for writer-director John Patrick Shanley. Shanley was present at one of Disney’s nifty “virtual junkets” where he was on hand to answer questions about the film....

Pickle chips or salt and vinnies? Ketchup chips or all-dressed? Welcome to Letterkenny, population 5,000, where questions like these stir up the biggest debates between the residents belonging to one of three groups: the Hicks, the Skids, and the Hockey Players. Originally starting on YouTube before being picked up by Crave Canada and now exclusively streaming on Hulu for audiences in the U.S., Letterkenny has become a cult hit Canadian comedy series, and season 11 proves why....

The Good An interesting collection of films from a very interesting actor. The Bad This set sort of feels thrown together with only a couple of the titles containing Extra Features. Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection offers 6 films in the cannon of an actor that exemplified a certain masculine and mature nature that came out of the various roles he embodies here. The 5 films that make up this collection are:...

George R. R. Martin has been keeping fans waiting for his Winds of Winter novel for almost as long as it took the Game of Thrones series to debut and air its final, controversial, episodes. While updating his most recent blog post, Martin once again noted that Winds of Winter is still coming, but also shed some light on how recent changes at Warner Bros. Discovery impacted a number of Game of Thrones spin-off shows....

Henry Cavill is looking as intimidating as ever, as he readies himself for battle in a new image from Netflix’s upcoming second season of The Witcher. Wielding his trusty sword and sporting the kind of steely look in his eyes that suggests some real carnage is about to be unleashed, the newly released image is sure to have fans excited for the further adventures of Cavill’s burly monster hunter. The first season of Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher introduced audiences to Justice League star Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts....

The X-Files star Gillian Anderson and 666 Park Avenue actress Rachael Taylor have joined the cast of Rand Ravich’s untitled pilot for NBC. The Untitled Rand Ravich/NBC Project story centers on an idealistic new Secret Service agent who gets embroiled in a vast international crisis during his first day on the job. He is assigned to protect the President’s son, when the son and many of his classmates are kidnapped. Rachael Taylor is playing FBI agent Susie Dunn, whose biological daughter Amber is among the abducted children....

Screenwriters strive to create narratives that are emotionally compelling and engaging. Traditionally, most stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, which are told in chronological (linear) order. This has worked well in the art of cinema, often with the ending culminating in an exciting finale and the beginning and middle providing the motives and exposition leading to this conclusion. Other, less conformist, movies have occasionally tried to play with these conventions and tell the stories out of chronological order, using a non-linear narrative....

The summer hit So You Think You Can Dance returns this week with performances by the Top 14 finalists (Kameron Bink, Cedric Gardner, Anya Garnis, Jaimie Goodwin, Lauren Gottlieb, Neil Haskell, Sabra Johnson, Hok Konishi, Pasha Kovalev, Shauna Noland, Dominic Sandoval, Lacey Schwimmer, Sara Von Gillern and Danny Tidwell) Wednesday, July 11 (8:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Adam Shankman, director and choreographer of the upcoming film Hairspray, joins the panel as a guest judge, and the finalists compete as couples once again on the Wednesday performance show....

The Good A fun movie that again manages to have a good time with the inner-workings of fairy tales. The Bad Sometimes I could see the computer behind this movie a little too much. Story feels too familiar. Happily N’Ever After offers an irony-laden spin on the typical fairy tale. Ella (Sarah Michelle Gellar) finds herself battling her stepmother Frieda (Sigourney Weaver) in a constant struggle for power in Fairy Tale Land....

Valentine’s Day is about to get a whole lot more exciting in Gotham City, as the latest trailer for Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special shows the citizens of Gotham engaging in chaotic romantic scenarios. According to Variety, the special episode promises to be just as raunchy and R-rated as the main series and is set to air on HBO Max on February 9th. The series stars Kaley Cuoco as Harley Quinn and Lake Bell as Poison Ivy....

Sorry, Harry Potter fans, but it looks like you’ll have to wait even longer for the next film installment of this series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has pushed back the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from November 21 of this year to July 17, 2009. Warner president Alan Horn said in his statement that the writers strike was the main cause for the release date shift....

The boy that lives under the stairs is probably one of the most famous modern characters in the world. Everyone, in some shape or form, knows the boy who was strong enough to survive the death spell. Harry Potter is a character that started as a way for J.K. Rowling to entertain her kids in bedtime stories, and now has a cinematic universe, a play, a theme park (in more than one location), and a whole wizarding world....

Captain America: The First Avenger was the fifth film in the MCU when it released in 2011, and introduced a fan-favorite character that’s been brought back multiple times for more than a decade. Hayley Atwell made the role of Peggy Carter instantly iconic in The First Avenger, mainly because she wasn’t a typical love interest for the hero. Peggy was a no-nonsense SSR agent who could handle her own in any situation, despite being constantly undermined by her male superiors....

The Walt Disney Studios continued to give Marvel True Believers the ultimate fan experience on Saturday, September 10, 2022, with a jam-packed presentation from the team at Marvel Studios at the Anaheim Convention Center as part of the D23 Expo 2022. Thousands of Disney fans were among the first to hear new announcements, see never-before-seen footage, and hear from the marvelous stars and crew who are behind all the fan-favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe heroes....

The Hellraiser franchise has always been known for pushing boundaries when it comes to the designs of its Cenobite characters. With a lead creature with a grid of pins hammered into their skull, the level of gut-wrenching details of these demonic characters is already set high, and for Hulu’s new take on Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart that means a new collection of terrifying Cenobites are coming. Director David Bruckner recently spoke to Screen Rant about the movie, and this included a discussion about creating a whole new batch of monsters for the reboot....

In animation, there’s sometimes irresistibly cute and adorable characters you can’t help but love, whether they’re tiny and fluffy, big and clumsy, or even villains in animated movies. There is no doubt that they all share a special place in our hearts and over time there have been countless adorable characters that have us squealing with joy and happiness, or simply out of frustration because they’re just… so… darn… cute. There’s nothing like your favorite characters hopping up on the screen, and while some old animated shows and movies may have been absent from the public eye for some time now, the characters that are the cutest are often the ones that have never left our hearts....

NBC has provided us with the storyline for Season 2: Episodes 2 & 3 of Heroes, airing October 1st and 8th: Heroes{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}“LIZARDS” 10/01/2007 (08:00PM - 09:00PM) (Saturday) : AS MATT INVESIGATES THE DEATH OF ONE HERO, ANOTHER IS ATTACKED BY THIS NEW SINISTER FORCE STALKING THOSE WITH ABILITIES – THE HAITIAN RETURNS – DIRECTED BY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALLAN ARKUSH – With one person dead, Matt (Greg Grunberg) enlists some unlikely help as the attacks continue on people with abilities....

Hey, Paulington! Is a Cinephile advice column that looks at life, love, and the movies. Anyone can send in a question, and Paulington will answer it. Sure, it’s a really cryptic, cliched concept that has been around since the dawn of time. But we’re spicing it up a little bit. Topics can range from anything: Sex, violence, haints and taints, your favorite movie! Paulington doesn’t care. He’s basically doing it for a paycheck....

On the heels of Homeland’s biggest numbers yet, with newly-released, record-breaking across platform ratings for its second season, Showtime has ordered a third season, consisting of 12 new, one-hour episodes. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. Homeland returned for its second season on Sept. 30th, up 60 percent from its Season 1 premiere, delivering 2.07 million viewers for the night. The Season 2 premiere week of Homeland attracted 5....

Upcoming psychological horror Smile made waves online this past weekend with an apparent viral marketing stunt. Actors appeared at a number of Major League Baseball games, staring and maniacally into cameras behind home plate to promote the film. While the stunt certainly garnered attention for Smile, it also prompted fans to share their experiences with viral marketing campaigns for other horror movies. One film that did this exceptionally well? 2002’s supernatural horror The Ring....