Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill concoct an unusual strategy for dealing with a blackmail threat in the trailer for the dark comedy film Outcome. Hill directed, co-wrote and stars in the movie that Apple TV releases April 10. Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, Susan Lucci, Laverne Cox, David Spade, Martin Scorsese, Atsuko Okatsuka, Roy Wood Jr., Welker White, Kaia Gerber and...

The first trailer for Dune: Part Three is finally here, and it wastes no time showing that victory comes at a cost. Set 17 years after the events of the second film, the story follows Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) as he rises to power, only to face the consequences of becoming both emperor and messiah. 　　What does the Dune 3...

Denis Villeneuve never planned to make a third Dune movie so soon after Dune: Part Two. After all, they are massive undertakings, and he felt the need to make a different film first to clear his mind. I went to my crew and said, Im taking a break. Thats it. Bye bye. I went back home and I kept waking...

Leslie Grace has become a quiet force on the film festival circuit. After breaking out in the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie musical In the Heights, Graces next big role, a starring turn as a DC superhero in the Batgirl movie, was among the finished films indefinitely shelved by Warner Bros. and taken as a tax write-off. In the interim years, she...

Paradise has been renewed for a third season at Hulu, which is all a part of creator Dan Fogelmans plan. The third season has been promised to be the last one by the creative team, as the This Is Us creator pitched the hit series starring Sterling K. Brown as a three-season story. Hulu confirmed the renewal on Tuesday, following...

On Nov. 4, 1983, Paramount unveiled the 90-minute apocalypse drama Testament in theaters. The film went on to earn a nomination at the 56th Academy Awards in the best actress category for Jane Alexanders role in the nuclear cautionary tale. The Hollywood Reporters original review of the movie is below: Of all the movies that have been made about the...

Im just a film nerd from Norway, said Sentimental Value director Joachim Trier, in his typically self-effacing manner, as he accepted the Academy Award for best international feature on Sunday Norways first-ever Oscar win. For Norways film community, those watching from inside the Dolby Theatre Norwegian Film Institute CEO Kjersti Mo and Norways Minister of Culture and Equality Lubna Jaffery...

Sarah Michelle Gellar is detailing what went wrong with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, and says one executive is to blame for the show not moving forward. The actress was set to reprise her iconic role in a new version of the show from Oscar-winning Hamnet directorChlo Zhao that was being made for Hulu and Searchlight Television, titled Buffy:...

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What are reality and truth anyway? And what do changing technologies and approaches to the world mean for documentary in the age of mistrust? Those were the topics of debate at the CPH:Conference industry event of the23rd editionof theCopenhagenInternationalDocumentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) on Tuesday afternoon. The session, moderated by Tabitha Jackson, the former Sundance Film Festival chief and new director...

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for Thomson Reuters, for which he later traveled around India and the Middle East as an educator specializing in American English style and grammar for adults. Ross has been...

Streaming platforms have made watching movies more convenient but it has also quietly taken away something important: ownership. Now, a new platform is trying to bring it back through a USB drive. A company called Video StoreAge is offering films on physical USB drives to recreate the feel of old video stores in a modern format. The concept is pretty...

Cowboy hats, jeans, a lot of alcohol and bull riding combine into a special mix of hypermasculine rituals at Mexican rodeo shows. But underneath also lies hidden queer desire, as we find out in Jaripeo, a film that world premiered at Sundance and now screens at the23rd editionof theCopenhagen International Documentary Film Festival,CPH:DOX. Co-directors Efran Mojica and Rebecca Zweigmix cinema...