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Recreating the Plot of Hackers Using Nothing But My Fading Memories

Hackers, a 1995 movie starring Angelina Jolie’s haircut, hit theaters exactly two decades ago. Its themes have never been more relevant or concerning to our connected society. Can you remember them? I almost can. Rather recently, I revisited the movie Hackers in the context of reviewing its 2015 counterpart Blackhat, starring Thor. My piece referenced…

Christopher Nolan Finds Himself At the Center of the Biggest Akira Movie Rumor Yet

Warner Bros. has been trying to make a live-action Akira movie for as long as we can remember. Multiple filmmakers, actors, and writers have unsuccessfully tried to adapt the graphic novel turned iconic animated film for Hollywood. Now comes the biggest Akira rumor yet. This new rumor says the studio is trying to restart the…

Take Disney’s Green Light Away: A New Mary Poppins Movie Is On the Way

I will give Disney this: at least there are actually other books to base this on. I will give them literally nothing else. Right, let’s get right down to the details: Disney is making a sequel to Mary Poppins because, why the fuck not at this point. It’ll take place twenty years after the original…

12 Movies That Deserve To Have Way More of a Cult Following

There are some movies that are so great, they become must-watch classics. But the most indelible cult movies are like a shadow canon, which become just as essential. Except sometimes some incredibly deserving cult movies never quite get their due. Here are 12 movies that deserve to be cult classics. 1) The Hercules films starring…

Fox Will Make a Good Fantastic Four Movie or Die Trying

Fox is moving beyond their Fantastic Four disaster (No, not that one. Not that one either. Yes, that one.) and focusing on making a sequel. Why is this the hill that they’re determined to die on? MTV caught up with writer/producer Simon Kinberg at the Toronto International Film Festival, who said he was “really focused…

What Is the Huge Easter Egg in Guardians of the Galaxy That No One’s Found Yet?

Director James Gunn was sharing GotG facts and trivia on his Facebook this weekend, when he made a remarkable admission: The biggest Easter Egg that Gunn hid in the hit Marvel movie still hasn’t been found. Here’s what he said, although doesn’t really offer any clues other than its existence: Jose Francisco Billini Have a…

This New Clip From The Martian Includes A Plan So Crazy, It Just Might Work

One of your astronauts is stranded on Mars. The rest of his crew is on their way back to Earth. How the heck do you turn the crew around fast enough to rescue the astronaut before he starves to death? Donald Glover has a plan in a new clip from The Martian—but it’s nuts. In…

The Most Perfect Way That Star Wars Could Troll Everybody

Actually, there are a LOT of ways that Star Wars could troll its fans, and audiences in general. Almost a whole galaxy’s worth of ways, in fact. But commenter Sean Kelley hit on a great one. In response to the question about whether Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have a post-credits scene, Kelley imagined…

Kimberly Peirce’s Remake of Carrie Struggled With Vagina-Phobic Execs Who Couldn’t Say “Vagina”

When Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce remade Carrie in 2013, everyone dismissed her version of the film as an unnecessary do-over. But Peirce had some ideas for how to make her version stand apart—including an awesomely weird ending, which freaked out studio executives who couldn’t even say the word “vagina.” By all accounts, the…

The Best Ways To Celebrate Marty McFly’s Arrival in 2015

It’s a huge year in the history of Back to the Future. It’s the 30th anniversary of the film’s 1985 release, as well as the year Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to in Part II. That latter date, October 21, 2015, is fast approaching, and if you’re a fan of the franchise, there are…

King Kong and Godzilla Are Going To Fight On The Big Screen Again

Fans of giant monster movies are going to get their dream rematch in the next few years. The upcoming King Kong movie is switching studios so that, eventually, King Kong can fight Godzilla in a massive, big screen showdown. Deadline reports Legendary Pictures is moving Kong: Skull Island from Universal Pictures to Warner Bros. Pictures.…

This Guillermo del Toro Art Show Is As Crazy As the Director Himself

Guillermo del Toro has only made eight films. Sure, a ninth is on the way (with 10 on deck after that), but he’s become such a well-known pop culture persona, that number feels low. Maybe it’s because his movies are so rich, they stay with us long after we leave the theater. And now, you…

I Need This Millennium Falcon Asteroid Field Coffee Table In My Life

Star Wars merchandise has been in the news a lot lately, both for good and bad reasons. Mostly though, the headlines are about people’s passion for the series, and wanting to own a piece of it. And there are not many pieces as amazing as the one you see here. What you see is a…

Tom Cruise and His Edge Of Tomorrow Director May Go To the Moon

Edge of Tomorrow was an underappreciated action-movie classic, and we’re dying for the planned sequel. But for now, director Doug Liman and star Tom Cruise are working on something else: The pair could team up for a moon-based adventure called Luna Park. Variety reports the movie, which “revolves around a group of renegade employees who…

Sky High Really, Really Needs To Be a TV Show

Last week, Sky High turned ten years old. And rewatching this classic superhero movie only made us appreciate it all over again—and now we’re wondering: Why isn’t this a TV show? This summer, Disney presented the world with another movie version of “children of heroes go to high school together and also save everyone.” It…

Norwegian director Andre Ovredal (Troll Hunter) will direct a thriller called Emergence about miners battling a terrifyingly destructive “rogue terraforming organism” on a far-off moon, Variety reports. Ovredal also helmed the upcoming supernatural mystery The Autopsy of Jane Doe, in which Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch play father-and-son coroners.

Let Us Brighten Your Day By Reminding You The Happening Happened

Later this week, M. Night Shyamalan is releasing a new movie called The Visit. And it’s actually pretty great. Scary, unpredictable, kind of like the movies that made him a household name. It’s unlike The Happening, the movie that almost killed his career. Released in 2008, The Happening stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel as…

The Creator of Popcorn Time Finally Revealed Himself

Love it or hate it—but you probably love it—Popcorn Time is a revolutionary app. And Federico Abad, the 29-year-old Buenos Aires-based developer who created it and just granted his first international interview about the “Netflix for torrents,” seems like a pretty rad guy. Based on a new interview with Dagens Næringsliv, a Norwegian tabloid, Abad…

Matt Damon Is Ripped And Ready To Go In the First Image From Bourne 5

After a film away, Matt Damon is back playing Jason Bourne, and here’s the gritty photo to prove it. Producer Frank Marshall tweeted the first image from the film’s set and it’s pretty obvious this is a different Bourne movie. Different looking? Yes, but a lot of the big players are back. Bourne 5 (which…

This New Indiana Jones Poster Belongs In A Museum, But You Can Own It

Like an Indiana Jones puzzle, what you see above is just part of the story. It’s part of a brand new poster by artist JC Richard that takes one of the most iconic scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark and turns it into a painfully beautiful limited edition poster. That poster, called Well of…