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Just a Lot of Leonardo DiCaprio Screaming in The Revenant

How to win your first Best Actor Oscar? Simple. Star in a movie that actually wasn’t that great and give a performance that wasn’t nearly your best. And! Just scream a lot. At bears, at pain, at people, at everything. That’s basically what Leonardo DiCaprio did in The Revenant and it worked out nicely for…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 23

10 Vital Storytelling Lessons I Learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer rocked our world, and it remains one of the all-time greatest TV shows. The story of a fated vampire-hunter who tries to live a normal life in high school, Buffy still has few worthy successors. And it has so much to teach us about good writing. I came to Buffy after…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 23

Burton’s Batman and Nolan’s Batman Begins Complement Each Other Perfectly

This weekend, a new man dons the famous cape and cowl. To mark the occasion, we decided to go back and see how Keaton and Bale, via Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman and Christopher Nolan’s 2005 Batman Begins, held up. Spoiler alert—they hold up really, really well. Let’s start with Burton. Watching his Batman again, one…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 23

Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

At exactly the same time Batman was becoming an obsessive, a new breed of enthusiast began its rise to prominence. For years they had lurked in the shadowy corners of popular culture, quietly pursuing their niche interests among themselves, keeping their heads down to avoid the inquisitive, judgmental gaze of the wider world. They called…

Movies Glen Weldon Mar 23

The Deepwater Horizon Movie Ironically Looks Like an Ad For BP

The trailer for Deepwater Horizon was just released—an upcoming movie about the 2010 oil rig explosion that killed eleven people and caused one of America’s worst environmental disasters. And if the finished film is anything like the trailer, I suspect it will be one giant (and perhaps unintentional) crisis management advertisement for the BP oil…

Movies Matt Novak Mar 23

Chris Pratt Gives a Hilarious Tour of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Set

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is currently filming and Disney has once again teamed up with Omaze to raise money for a worthy cause while giving one fan the trip of a lifetime. The rest of us? We get a nice warm feeling and this hilarious video. In it, Chris Pratt leads a tour…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 23

The Live-Action Jungle Book‘s Talking Animals Kind of Freak Me Out

With Idris Elba voicing Shere Khan, it would be hard to deny the character’s power and charisma. However, there’s a bit of an uncanny valley in these CGI-ed animals. This is the first extended look we’ve had of the talking creatures of Disney’s live-action Jungle Book, and while they look better than we thought they…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Mar 23

Our First Glimpse at The Force Awakens‘ Deleted Scenes

Ever since The Force Awakens released, we’ve known there were several scenes trimmed from the movie—entire characters were cut, or even moments from the trailers. Those scenes are making their way to the movie’s home release next month, but now we have our first look at some of them. Entertainment Weekly has some new photos…

Movies James Whitbrook Mar 23

The Hidden Trick in Almost Every Classic Hitchcock Scene

Hitchcock is the unquestioned master of suspense. But what is it about his scenes that makes them so gripping, and why do they stand up to repeated viewings, even when you know the twist? To answer this, the Nerdwriter turned to blocking—how you position stuff and people in relation to each other—specifically, the blocking in…

Sploid Avery Ellis Mar 23

Supergirl Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

From the beginning, Supergirl has been a flawed show with a lot of heart. The “problem of the week” storytelling has occasionally fallen a little flat, but the characters have gotten sharper and sharper. But last night’s episode, “Manhunter,” proved Supergirl has become essential viewing. Apart from a half-hearted subplot about Siobahn, Kara’s work rival,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 22

The Movie References Quentin Tarantino Used in The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino is a master filmmaker who loves to cite old movies in his work and even reference his own work in his films, it’s a wonderful cycle that adds another layer inside a movie for film buffs to appreciate. Here are those references he made in his latest movie, The Hateful Eight. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 22

This Low-Budget Time-Travel Thriller Looks Like Just The Right Amount of Goofy Fun

Here’s an exclusive clip from Paradox, a brand new time-travel movie where someone who’s about to travel through time is told that if anything goes wrong, “You will literally disappear up your own ass.” That is the exact attitude that messing with the fourth dimension calls for. We’re seeing a tiny trend of low-budget time-travel…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 22

Everyone’s Got Terrible Plans in the Latest Huntsman: Winter’s War Trailer

Everyone. The titular huntsman, Eric (Chris Hemsworth), tells us his plan is the worst. The evil queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) has clearly made a miscalculation about her sister Freya (Emily Blunt). And Freya’s got a plan of raising child soldiers that seems doomed to fail. This trailer reveals that the plot against Snow White isn’t…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta Mar 22

Check Out 20 Popular Movies Before and After Visual Effects Were Added

It’s absolutely no surprise that blockbuster movies rely so heavily on special effects and CG all the time now. When the effects are good, it just makes more sense for the fictional world they are building and the shots they are making. But it will forever be hilarious to see the actors act out in…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 21

They’re Finally Making a Sequel to the Greatest Film of All Time: D-War

Okay, so maybe D-War isn’t actually the greatest film of all time. That’s more accurately the Hercules film where Lou Ferrigno tows the Earth across space with his bare hands. But D-War is up there. And it’s getting a sequel! D-War is that movie in which some guy tries to bring back an ancient serpent,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 21

How Warehouse 13‘s Eddie McClintock Is Going To Put Supergirl In Order

When Eddie McClintock played Pete Lattimer on Warehouse 13, he dealt with a lot of strange situations. So he should be right at home on Supergirl, where he’s here to put everything in order. We talked to McClintock about playing Jim Harper… and whether he’ll get to play Harper’s alter ego, too. Spoilers ahead… Fans…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 21

Jacob’s Ladder is One of the Freakiest Movies Ever, And Now It’s Getting a Remake

It’s actually amazing that we’ve gotten to 2016 and nobody’s remade Jacob’s Ladder yet. But it looks like the long-rumored reboot of Adrian Lyne’s highly influential horror thriller—about a Vietnam vet (Tim Robbins) struggling with a very troubled mind—is finally going forth. According to Variety, Michael Ealy (Think Like a Man, 2 Fast 2 Furious)…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Mar 21

The R-Rated Daredevil Film That Almost Was

The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen is currently rocking Netflix following the release of Daredevil season two this past weekend. But before Marvel got the rights back to Matt Murdock, Fox staged a last-gasp attempt to revive the character following their disastrous 2003 film… and featured an R-rated superhero long before Deadpool. https://gizmodo.com/ben-afflecks-daredevil-is-just-as-terrible-as-you-remem-1766054262 We’ve previously featured…

Movies James Whitbrook Mar 21

The Only Scene Worth Watching in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch Was One They Cut

This week brings the latest Zack Snyder opus to the big screen, which led to the news that Snyder really wants to make Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead into a movie, which led all of us to talk about the last time Snyder put his id on rampant display: Sucker Punch. It was briefly suggested that…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Mar 21

Say Goodbye to Quint in This Sad But Gorgeous Poster for Jaws

There’s very little debate that Robert Shaw’s Quint is the best character in Jaws. Sure, we love Brody and Hooper, while the Mayor is funny and Bruce himself is killer. But Quint is the man, and his final moments are the focus of this great new poster by artist John Barry Ballaran, with the help…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 21

Just a Lot of Leonardo DiCaprio Screaming in The Revenant

10 Vital Storytelling Lessons I Learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Burton’s Batman and Nolan’s Batman Begins Complement Each Other Perfectly

Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

The Deepwater Horizon Movie Ironically Looks Like an Ad For BP

Chris Pratt Gives a Hilarious Tour of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Set

The Live-Action Jungle Book‘s Talking Animals Kind of Freak Me Out

Our First Glimpse at The Force Awakens‘ Deleted Scenes

The Hidden Trick in Almost Every Classic Hitchcock Scene

Supergirl Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

The Movie References Quentin Tarantino Used in The Hateful Eight

This Low-Budget Time-Travel Thriller Looks Like Just The Right Amount of Goofy Fun

Everyone’s Got Terrible Plans in the Latest Huntsman: Winter’s War Trailer

Check Out 20 Popular Movies Before and After Visual Effects Were Added

They’re Finally Making a Sequel to the Greatest Film of All Time: D-War

How Warehouse 13‘s Eddie McClintock Is Going To Put Supergirl In Order

Jacob’s Ladder is One of the Freakiest Movies Ever, And Now It’s Getting a Remake

The R-Rated Daredevil Film That Almost Was

The Only Scene Worth Watching in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch Was One They Cut

Say Goodbye to Quint in This Sad But Gorgeous Poster for Jaws

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