Easter eggs are pretty standard fare in popular entertainment these days, but from the sounds of it, the team behind the Wreck It Ralph sequel, Ralph Breaks The Internet, took the easter egg placement to the next level. As the animation team tells us in our interview, fans may need a couple viewings to catch all the…

Without a doubt, the most buzzed about part of next year’s The Lion King remake is its absolutely stacked cast, headlined by Beyoncé and Donald Glover. Starring alongside them are Florence Kasumba, Keegan-Michael Key, and Eric Andre, replacing Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings as Scar’s trio of hyena…

The most radical thing about Jinn is its softness. Director Nijla Mu’min has filled her debut feature with pastel colors, airy head scarves fluttering in gentle breezes, and dark skin beautifully lit in a spectrum of satiny shades. The film gently cradles its protagonist, Instagram-obsessed high schooler Summer (Zoe…

Steve McQueen’s Widows is the type of movie that Hollywood too rarely bankrolls anymore: a mid-budget crackerjack crowdpleaser for adults. McQueen, the British director and video artist who made Hunger, Shame, and 12 Years A Slave, has never applied his muscular, fluid camerawork and ease with performers to a script…

At the D23 Expo last year, Disney announced that every Disney princess, with most of the original voice actors, would be returning to the big-screen in the new Wreck It Ralph movie, Ralph Breaks The Internet. Ahead of the film’s release next week, we sat down with a few behind-the-scenes folks—art director Ami…

Director Peter Farrelly’s new film Green Book gets its name from The Negro Motorist Green Book, a Jim Crow-era guidebook written by Victor Hugo Green that black Americans could use to know which establishments were safe for them to patronize. The film follows black concert pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali),…

There have been relatively few sequels produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation—that is, the flagship Disney cartoon brand, not Pixar or any of their TV divisions—and it’s easy to see why. Disney specializes in happy-ending family entertainment, and producing a follow-up to a beloved all-ages cartoon places the young…

Two moments prominently featured in the Instant Family trailer attempt to wring laughs from the image of an anxious foster kid getting violently smacked in the face with a ball. They speak to the worst impulses of writer-director Sean Anders, whose tendency to go for broad slapstick and cheap gags has carried…

For the first time since he turned to filmmaking with 1996’s Basquiat, celebrated painter Julian Schnabel (whose other movies include Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) has paid tribute to a fellow artist. Unlike Jean-Michel Basquiat, however, Schnabel’s latest subject isn’t exactly someone…

Jim Cummings has had a pretty stellar voice-acting career, lending his dulcet tones to beloved characters in The Lion King, Spider-Man, and Darkwing Duck. But his most iconic role by far is the honey-loving teddy bear Winnie-The-Pooh, which he’s been voicing since 1988. We recently sat down with Cummings to ask him…

Near the seven-hour mark of Claude Lanzmann’s 550-minute magnum opus Shoah (1985), widely considered the greatest cinematic document of the Jewish Holocaust, a woman credited only as a “survivor of Auschwitz” tells of her harrowing transport to the Nazi death camp. Her name is Ruth Elias, and her story constitutes the…

We asked Ant-Man And The Wasp director Peyton Reed about a subject with which he’s well acquainted: on-screen duos. In the video above, he ranks his favorite five and explains how these duos influenced Ant-Man And The Wasp.

“We have a spectacle,” announces King Edward (Stephen Dillane) in the middle of both an England-Scotland peace brokering and a long, circling-camera take that opens Outlaw King. This exposition-heavy early scene, which includes in its unbroken shot Robert The Bruce (Chris Pine) sword-dueling with an opponent who…

Jason Mantzoukas is one of the most reliably funny comedic actors working today, bringing a wide-eyed intensity to every performance. His new film, The Long Dumb Road is apparently no exception. Directed by Hannah Fidell, the film stars Mantzoukas and Tony Revolori as an unlikely pair who wind up on a wild road trip…

Carly Ann Stone’s directorial debut The New Romantic follows a young journalism student who, frustrated with her post-graduation prospects, becomes a sugar baby to a wealthy older man and documents her experience in hopes to win a journalism competition. At the premiere of the film, we spoke with Stone, Jessica…

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald wastes no time at all ushering viewers back into the “Wizarding World” of Harry Potter. Those very words, in fact, appear right on the screen, in big letters, floating into view seconds after the Warner Bros. logo—sheening and monochromatic, to tease the stormier nature of…

The Nazis generally, and Josef Mengele in particular, committed so many horrific atrocities in real life that amplifying their crimes for fictional purposes feels like overkill. Still, if Quentin Tarantino can revise the circumstances of Hitler’s death for our cathartic amusement, there’s no reason why the…

Hitting theaters this Friday, Hannah Fidell’s new movie, The Long Dumb Road, stars Jason Mantzoukas and Tony Revolori as an unlikely pair who wind up on a wild road trip across the country. In this video from our interview, Fidell details how she took The Long Dumb Road from short film to full-length feature.

Carey Mulligan isn’t sure how she became what she jokingly calls a “serious, important” actress. “I’m completely not a serious person,” she tells us on the phone from London. Perhaps it was her start in costume dramas like the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice and the BBC miniseries of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.…

If Walt Disney Animation built its reputation on fairy tales and princesses, is upstart animation house Illumination founded on supervillains? Four of its first eight cartoons are part of the Despicable Me family, detailing the adventures of a bad guy (reformed by his adoption of three girls) and his chattering minions