At the beginning of the year,we reportedthat Oscar-winning screenwriterCharlie Kaufmanwas set to adapt the bookI’m Thinking of Ending Thingsfor Netflix. Based onIain Reid’s novel, the story “centers on Jake, who is on a road trip to meet his parents on their secluded farm with his girlfriend, who is thinking of ending things. When Jake makes an unexpected detour leaving her stranded, a twisted mix of palpable tension, psychological frailty and sheer terror ensues....

When it comes to film composers, not many have had as deep and as diverse an experience working on major blockbuster films asBrian Tyler. The composer whose early work includes the memorableBill PaxtonfilmFrailtyas well asBubba Ho-Tepnow regularly lends his talents to some of Hollywood’s biggest films ranging fromAvengers: Age of UltrontoPower RangerstoThe Expendablesfranchise. Tyler’s also no stranger to more dramatic films likeTruthand also lends his talents to the small screen on TV series likeScorpionandHawaii Five-0, but he is perhaps most memorable as the primary composer for theFast & Furiousfranchise....

After boosting her indie movie cred withThe Peanut Butter FalconandOur Friend,Dakota Johnsonhas signed on to star oppositeCooper Raiffin theShithousedirector’s new movieCha Cha Real Smooth. Raiff wrote the script, which will see him play a bar/bat mitzvah DJ, as in, a guy who gets people dancing at the party, not spinning records while wearing headphones. At some point, he strikes up a friendship with a young mother (Johnson) and her autistic daughter....

Between Barack Obama and King Arthur, it’s clear thatDevon Terrelldoesn’t mind taking on roles that come with a lot of expectations. After his breakout role in the 2016 Obama biopicBarry, Terrell is poised to reach bigger audiences than ever in Netflix’s new fantasy dramaCursed. A retelling of Arthurian Legend based onFrank MillerandTom Wheeler’s comic of the same name, the series puts the mythic figure of Nimue (Katherine Langford), aka the Lady of the Lake, at the center of the story long before the sword in the stone or the Knights of the Round Table....

The Boysis one of the biggest hit shows currently active. It’s a twisted, confronting, crude, graphically violent, and utterly hilarious superhero series focusing on morally bankrupt “supes” and the social outcasts who, through their quests for vengeance, hold them accountable. Its immense popularity and arresting sense of appeal have even led to a spin-off series,Gen V,following the chaotic misadventures of a new generation of supes who, imbued with Compound V, compete at a school for superpowered beings....

The final girl. That term, coined byCarol J. Gloverin her 1992 bookMen, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film,refers to the trope, predominantly seen in slasher movies, that sees the hero and the one who takes down the villain as a shy, smart, good girl whose life is spared because she isn’t having sex and doing drugs like her friends. The final girl wasseen everywhere in the late 1970s and through the ’80s, before beingresurrected in the latter half of the ’90s....

If you’re a fan ofGame of Thronesthen not only will you already be hyped for the fabled Battle of Winterfell episode, but you’ll know what the name of the director,Miguel Sapochnikmeans. The Emmy-winner has helmed seminal action-oriented episodes like “Hardhome,” “Battle of the Bastards,” and “The Winds of Winter.” So when it comes to the epic battle against the Army of the Dead, it’s clearly in the right hands. We also know that this one episode took 11 weeks to film in mostly night shoots, and is said to rival the biggest battle sequences ever put to film....

Emmy award-winning directorDavid Nutterreturned to theGame of Thronesfold for Season 8, helming three of the final six episodes of the entire series – the season premiere, “Winterfell”; its follow-up, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”; and Sunday night’s entry – “The Last of the Starks.” Nutter won an Emmy in 2015 for his work directing the Season 5 finale, “Mother’s Mercy,” and some of his otherGoTepisodes include the memorable “The Dance of Dragons” (which featured the dramatic Meereen fighting pit attack against Dany, and Shireen Baratheon’s death), and arguably the show’s most heartbreaking episode – “The Rains of Castamere,” also known as “The Red Wedding....

As the final season of HBO’sGame of Thronesapproaches, we all want to know who – if anyone –will end up sitting on the Iron Throneby the time the show ends. There are plenty of flashy options, including a woman who has pet dragons, a man who’s actually a secret prince, and a megalomaniacal queen who would rather burn the world down than let someone else have power. But the best contender to help rebuild Westeros is a quieter, less dramatic choice: Sansa Stark, the girl who has literally grown up in front of us into the exact sort of deliberate, caring leader her country needs....

The Oscars are on Sunday, and it’s averytight year in a number of races, including (and especially) Best Picture. Before I get to my full predictions on Friday, I wanted to talk about the big category, and how voting for Best Picture works using what’s called a preferential ballot system. By now you’re probably aware that the Academy adopted a new voting system when it expanded the number of Best Picture nominees in 2009....

Although it’s a sport that has often been depicted in film in a more comedic way, stunt-oriented skateboarding became an increasingly popular activity in the 1970s, as the Santa Monica culture began to spread throughout the nation. Competitions and videos certainly helped to spread awareness of why skating was something to be taken seriously, but the most significant factor in its growing prominence was the popularity of celebrity skaters, many of whom were only teenagers when they started....

It Is In Us Allis a somber Irish thriller from writer-directorAntonia Campbell-Hughesthat capitalizes on the dreary, haunted aesthetics of the long stretches of rural roadway in the northwest corner of Ireland. It is a slow creeping film that really accelerates in the final act, but the lead-up to those final moments is a grim, depressing tale that really grabs you by the throat. Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis) is a man seeking to retrace the steps that his late mother once took, as he returns to the small rural community that she once called home....

WhenBravoCon 2023began, network fans had one question permeating their thoughts:Will they air the season ofReal Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip 3, or will it be shelved forever? Months before the reality TV conference, Bravo fans had been hit withnews of strongallegations between Caroline Manzo and Brandi Glanville. There was also news released shortly after thatMarco Vega, who worked on season 2 ofRHUGTwas suing Bravo, Peacock, andNBCUniversal. According to Vega’s lawsuit, he was hired as the butler for the second season of the reality show, and “it was Ms....