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Awards season is building to its biggest night, with the 89th annual Academy Awards fast approaching. Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their list of nominees for 2017 and they should be able to avoid the same #OscarsSoWhite backlash that was experienced last year. That is in part becauseViola Daviswas nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her work inFences, which makes her the most nominated black actress in the history of the Academy Awards....

Lilly Wachowski, who co-wrote and co-directedThe Matrixalongside sister Lana, is making her solo feature directorial debut with the queer dramedy Trash Mountain, perCollider. According to the film’s synopsis, Trash Mountain follows a gay Chicago man in his 20s who must return to rural Missouri to deal with the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left a house full of items, some valuable and some not so, to pick through....

James Cameronis one of the most popular names in Hollywood, and one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. His original script forThe Terminatorlaunched a multimedia franchise (despite beingsold for one dollar). HisAliensandTerminator 2: Judgement Dayare often regarded as some of the greatest sequels ever made. While everyone predictedTitanicwould be a box office bomb, it went on to become the highest-grossing movie of all time, a record it held for 12 years until it was dethroned but another James Cameron movie,Avatar....

As a response to some fan casting that we never knew we needed, Redditor BatFlashHunterDesign created a detailed piece of fan art showing what actorTom Hiddlestonwould look like as the Riddler in a futureBatmanmovie. All things considered, it looks pretty great. Tom Hiddleston has played the villain Loki in a number of MCU movies over the years, until what seemed to behis final appearanceinAvengers: Infinity War. Hiddleston should theoretically have a bit more free time now that his time with Marvel Studios has come to an end....

Many people have grown up lovingThomas the Tank Engineand the showShining Time Station. The show introduced a generation of children to the beloved series of characters through the animated stories and the short vignettes in between. Part of the charm of the series is the character of Mr. Conductor. In the US version of the show, the character wasplayed by George Carlin. Known for his edgy humor, Carlin seemed a strange fit for the part....

Melancholiais an apocalyptic drama art film about a rogue planet colliding with Earth and follows the story of two sisters anticipating the world’s end. The film was written and directed by Lars von Trier, starringKirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, and more.Melancholiapremiered in 2011 as the second film in von Trier’s Depression Trilogy, which was preceded byAntichristin 2009,followed byNymphomaniacin 2013. After premiering at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, the film received widespread critical acclaim, and Dunst won the festival’s Best Actress Award for her performance....

Most people have seenRyan Murphy’s work, even if they don’t realize it. He has created over 35 movies and television shows in countless genres, with many of his shows spanning several seasons andgaining cult followings. While his work covers topics anywhere from true crime to plastic surgery and even teenage musicals, a few central themes throughout his work have completely reinvented genres and changed television. Ryan Murphy has a love of melodrama, underdogs, utter strangeness, and telling stories that might otherwise be silenced, and his boldness has made him beloved....

One of the mostprolific LGBTQ+ showsof the late 1990s,Will & Gracewelcomed the world into the lives of gay men in NYC. The show was so prolific that it was rebooted for three additional seasons in 2017, with the original cast reprising their iconic roles. During its run, many stereotypes were challenged and mocked. For the first time on television, gay men were seen as more than the gay best friend. They were written as three-dimensional people who loved, struggled in their careers, and experienced the same emotional depth as real gay men....

With shooting scheduled to begin next month in Montreal onX-Men: Apocalypse, directorBryan Singertook to hisInstagrampage to reveal a new piece of production artwork, which confirms that the mutant Warren Worthington III, a.k.a. Angel, will be featured in the sequel. The image appears to show Angel locked in a cage at some sort of a circus, but it isn’t known how this image will fit into the story line. It’s worth noting that we haven’t heard who is playing Angel yet, butwe reported last month thatactorBen Hardyhas signed on to play an important yet undisclosed character from theMarvelcomics, so it’s possible that he could be playing Angel....

When it comes to filmmaking, Zack Snyder believes in not pulling any punches. This no-holds-barred approach led to the creation of the DCEU under Snyder, where Superman is a brooding alien struggling against a suspicious world, and Batman is a jaded vigilante who kills his enemies. Snyder’s DCEU movies have led to highly polarized reactions from critics and the general public. And the filmmaker appears to have learned to expect such reactions to his work....

After more than two years of fan demand, Warner Bros. will indeed #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. The release was officially announced by director Zack Snyder during a recently watch party forMan of Steel, with HBO Max confirming shortly thereafter thatZack Snyder’s Justice League cut will debut on the streaming servicesometime in 2021. But this is a major undertaking, as it has been revealed that the studio will need to spend millions in order to bring Snyder’s vision to life....

The biggest surprise in Season 2 of the Netflix superhit,Squid Game,isn’t the deaths we see on screen. It’s the death that happens inside us. Somehow, this once fresh, fiery, bloody, and bingeworthy drama managed to kill off our feverish interest in it. (ish)The sophomore season ofSquid Gamegoes from being the hugest Netflix series in its history to a head-scratching disappointment. What wrath this will unleash online remains to be seen, but fear not: Were it not forEmmy-winner Lee Jung-jaeand some truly surprising twists, the season would be a complete dud....

AnOscaris the greatest and most prestigious honor that can be bestowed upon an artistic or technical professional in the film industry. The very firstAcademy Awards ceremonywas held on July 07, 2025, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, rewarding the best pictures from August 1927 to July 1928. It was a dinner so private that only 270 people were in attendance, and it wasn’t even broadcast on the radio. Today, it is a pompous event that is streamed live globally, andcelebrities from the entire entertainment industryflock to the red carpet and are interviewed and photographed in their most elegant –or appalling– attire....