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[This is a repost of my Missing Link review from earlier this year. The LAIKA movie has now won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Animated and has been nominated for a Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.] For the last decade, LAIKA has delivered incredible works of art and artistry in the stop-motion animated filmsCoraline,ParaNorman,The Boxtrolls, andKubo and the Two Strings. Four films with five Oscar nominations among them, four films that featured a mixture of genre, tone, settings, and original or adapted storylines....

Disney has released a brand new trailer for Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated new filmCaptain Marvel. The superhero origin story starsBrie Larsonas the titular hero, but it’s unique in the MCU for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, it’s their first film with a female protagonist as Oscar-winner Larson takes on the role of the MCU’s most powerful hero. Secondly, it’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first prequel, asCaptain Marveltakes place in the 1990s....

[Editor’s note: The following article containsspoilersforPalm Springs.] Palm Springs— which is streaming now on Hulu — is absolutely one of the best films of the year, and that’s partly to do with it ending on the perfect note. But findingthe right endingto the story did not come easy. Written byAndy Siaraand directed byMax Barbakow, the film starsAndy Sambergas a man who’s been stuck in a time loop for alongtime and accidentally brings another stranger – played byCristin Milioti– into the loop with him....

Back in August,we reportedthat Fox was developing aPrison Breaksequel series for 2016. For those who didn’t watch the original show, which aired from 2005-2009, it began when a brilliant engineer Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) purposefully got himself thrown in jail so he could free his wrongfully convicted brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell). At the time, we reported that the 10-episode event series “picks up the characters several years after we left them in the last season of the show....

TheReady Player Onemovie’s marketing campaign has hit the “character posters” stage, and the internet is ready to tear this movie apart. Which I don’t understand, at all. First of all, this is marketing. We all know marketing campaigns don’t always reflect the finished film, and on a pure foundational level the marketing campaign isnotthe movie. So love or hate the posters, viral websites, etc., but those actually have very little to do with the film at hand—which, I remind you, is a new movie from one of the greatest directors who’s ever lived....

John Boyegamay have become a critical darling thanks to his role in 2011’sAttack the Block, but he became a household name as Finn in the re-ignitedStar Warsfranchise thanks to his introduction in 2015’sStar Wars: The Force Awakens. Now, as the Skywalker Saga is about to draw to a close–and with it, perhaps Finn’s story as a former Stormtrooper-turned-hero of the Resistance–Boyega’s sharing some insight intoStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

What was the first thing you watched onDisney+? Did you dig into the Marvel movies, or go on a nostalgia trip through something likeDuckTales, or re-live the animated classics from the Disney vault? Or did you, like me, repeatedly watch the scene fromStar Wars: A New Hopein which Han Solo kills Greedo the bounty hunter, just relishing in the fact that Greedo yells “Maclunkey” now right before getting blastered to death in public?...

Everyday is now a special day for something – aunts, trees, lollipops, the disappearance of a fictional character. Netflix has released a new video to commemorate the event of Will Byers' disappearing to the Upside Down (July 26, 2025), and to remember where it all began. Sure there’s a mid-term election on November 6th as well, but it’s alsoStranger ThingsDay! The date could be a hint as to when we might see a trailer for the highly anticipated third season, although that remains to be seen....

I’ve enjoyed allThe LEGO Movieinstallments thus far. EvenThe LEGO Ninjago Movie, which no one saw, was pretty delightful even if it wasn’t as good asThe LEGO Batman Movieand my belovedThe LEGO Movie. But there was a bit of oversaturation, so there’s noLEGO Moviehitting theaters this year. But next year, we’ll finally get the sequel toThe LEGO Movie, and now the official title and logo have been revealed. The officialLEGOTwitter account just tweeted out the following: The cheeky title is about par for the course, and I thinkThe LEGO Movie 2: The Second Partis a fitting title for this franchise....

Fortniteis continuing its quest to have a piece of just about every blockbuster film and notable IP in its fold. The latest movie to join up with the ever-popular battle royale isRobert Eggers' highly anticipated Viking epicThe Northmanwhich is quickly approaching its April 22 debut in theaters. Rather than simply haveAlexander Skarsgård’s shirtless, revenge-hungry Amleth become a skin in-game though, theFortnitecrew decided it would be better to simply make an entire RPG within the game to celebrate the upcoming release....

Be aware there arespoilersfor the first season of Netflix’s The Rain. Netflix’s Danish dramaThe Rainserves up some of the best apocalyptic YA drama this side of The CW, but the first season sure does leave you wanting more! Told over a tight eight episodes,The Rainunfolds as a compelling mystery infused with moments of potent character drama. It’s the kind of show that leaves you on such a big hook at the end of every episode, you just can’t help but hit play on the next one....

The dust has settled on the“Transformerswriters room”set up at Paramount Pictures, and the studio now has a game plan for how they’d like to tackle the franchise going forward. First up isTransformers 5, for whichMichael Bayhas inexplicably decided to return and directwithMark Wahlbergstarring. But while Bay and Co. will jump into pre-production on that film next year for a June production start-date, Deadline reports that Paramount has tasked screenwritersAndrew BarrerandGabriel Ferrariwith penning an animatedTransformersfeature that will followT5....

WithJordan Peele’snew movie,Us, now playing in theaters, I recently sat down withLupita Nyong’o,Winston Duke,Shahadi Wright JosephandEvan Alexto talk about making the buzzed about film. During the interview they talked about what they appreciated about Peele’s script and the layers of subtext that he incorporates, how the film is a step toward redefining the black family as the All-American norm, what it was like working with Peele on set, how Peele tailors his creative process to what each individual actor needs, how much did they dig into the mythology and the iconography of the script, what it was like filming the intense and challenging scenes, and a lot more....