Up until today, every singleWes Andersonfilm except for two was a member of the acclaimed Criterion Collection, a company dedicated to peerless packaging of classic and contemporary film masterworks on blu-ray. WhileIsle of Dogshas to spend a few more moments in obedience school before getting the call, Anderson’sThe Grand Budapest Hotelhas finally made the jump. That film is part of the Criterion Collection’s April 2020 slate – alongside some other great choices....

Warner Bros. has released 21 new images from the upcomingJoker, starringJoaquin Phoenix,Robert De Niro,Zazie Beetz, andFrances Conroy. TheTodd Phillips-directed film is not directly connected to any DC Comics origin story for the famousBatmanvillain. It does, however, offer up an alternate version of Joker’s journey from a downtrodden, average Gotham citizen into one of the most chaotic and dangerous criminals in the city limits. The new images released by Warner Bros. put an emphasis on the grim world of Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) while also giving us a closer look at how much he transforms while wearing the clown paint....

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers forOnly Murders in the Buildingthrough Season 1Only Murders in the Buildingwrapped up its first season as one of Hulu’s most-talked about comedies to date. The show starsSteve Martin,Martin Short, andSelena Gomezwho live in a high-rise apartment complex, the Arconia, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. As a murder mystery unfolds in their building, the three neighbors team up to not only solve the murder of their neighbor, Tim Kono (JulianCihi) but create a podcast to narrate the investigation as it unfolds in real-time....

Are boom mics allowed at crime scenes? Audiences are soon to find out inOnly Murders in the Building, Hulu’s newest comedic murder-mystery. StarringSteve Martin,Selena Gomez, andMartin Short, the series’ first full-length trailer gives audiences a better look into the secrecy and intrigue of the show’s Upper West Side setting, and proves just how easy it is to become wrapped up in conspiracy. Only Murders in the Buildingfollows three true crimes obsessives (Gomez, Martin, and Short), who take it upon themselves to solve a murder when a fellow tenant of their apartment building is found dead....

Love, loss, drama, sacrifice, aspiration, struggle, survival, history, power, racism, assimilation, family secrets, kimchi -Pachinkohas it all. The multigenerational novel was written byMin Jin Leeand published back in 2017 to much acclaim. It follows the trials and tribulations of four generations of a Korean family, primarily through the lens of main protagonist Sunja as she moves from a small fishing village in Korea to experience life in Osaka, Japan in the 20th century....

By his own admission, directorJ.J. Abramsis bad at endings. “I’ve never been great at endings,” Abrams toldThe New York Times. “I don’t actually think I’m good at anything, but I know how to begin a story. Ending a story is tough.” So perhaps it should come as no surprise that Abrams’ grand conclusion to the Skywalker Saga,Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, is a failure. The nature of the failure is also not entirely unexpected if you look at Abrams’ filmography....

The thing aboutSex Educationis even if you hadn’t watched the first season, or if you just scrolled past it on Netflix, there’s a good chance you could predict everything that was going to happen in the series. Almost every storyline of the second season is built around cliché and coming-of-age tropes. There’s the jock, Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling), who wants to give up a promising swimming career to try and act in the high school musical....

Vertical Entertainment has released the official trailer for the World War II sci-fi action movieShadow in the Cloud. The movie is directed and co-written by Roseanne Liang and starsChloe Grace Moretz,Nick Robinson,Beulah Koale,Taylor John Smith, andCallan Mulvey. The official trailer arrives just one week afterMoretz shared theShadow in the Cloudteaseron Twitter. TheShadow in the Cloudtrailer gives us a longer look at the Moretz-led movie. Just based on what we’re offered, I can’t deny the premise looks intriguing....

To paraphrase another iconic mob family: Someday, and that day is today, WarnerMedia will call uponDavid Chaseto do a service for them. And as a gift on the day thatThe Many Saints of Newarkpremieres in theaters and on HBO Max,The Sopranoscreator has signed a five-year first-look deal with the multimedia conglomerate. As perVariety, Chase will develop content for HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros. Pictures Group alongsideNicole Lambert, executive vice president of Chase Films....

With his debut featureSorry to Bother You, writer-directorBoots Rileyshows he’s a filmmaker with a lot of potential and a lot on his mind. It’s a movie of staggering ambition, angling to be a modern-day version ofPutney Swopeas it tackles race, assimilation, labor, capitalism, but also expands to include the media, art, entertainment, and more. It’sa lot, and that’s before you even get to the absurdist reality where the movie dwells. There are aspects ofSorry to Bother Youthat work extraordinary well, but overall, the film gets crushed under the weight of trying to do so much that sometimes it can feel sluggish as it tries to make an impact....

Few faces scream theGolden Age of HollywoodlikeSpencer Tracy’s. From his big screen debut in the 1930Humphrey BogartflickUp the Riverto his death in 1967, Tracy spent his professional life building one of thegreatest filmographies of any movie star. Like the very best of them, Tracy had a number of classics to his name. His charming and hilarious work inFather of the Bridehas often been cited as his very best performance, but the list doesn’t stop there....

Last August, a group of fellow journalists and I got to visit the London set ofSpider-Man: Far From Home. The upcoming sequel has Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and his classmates going on a European vacation, but Peter’s fun is interrupted when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) recruits him to stop rampaging elemental monsters. During a break in filming, we got to talk toJon Favreau, who returns to play Happy Hogan in the movie....

Earlier this year,Dwayne Johnsonclarified thatwe shouldn’t expect to see himmake his superhero debut as Black Adam in the upcomingShazam!adaptation, but we might not have to wait too long to see the big DC bad take the screen after all. PerThe Wrap, Warner Bros. is eyeingSuicide Squad 2as an ideal place to introduce Johnson’s villain, who is traditionally known as the main nemesis to Shazam. According to the report, two separate project insiders have confirmed that “the current plan for the sequel is for the members of Suicide Squad to be tasked with tracking down a weapon of mass destruction....