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Along with a trailer, brand-new images for Netflix’s adaptation of iconic English novelistJane Austen’sPersuasionhave been released today.Dakota Johnson(Fifty Shades of Gray) stars as twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot, an intelligent and attractive Englishwoman who, like many of Austen’s female protagonists, is still unmarried despite the social conventions of the time. When she was nineteen years of age, Anne fell in love with a young navy officer named Frederick Wentworth, played byCosmo Jarvis(Lady Macbeth)....

In its fifth season,Ray Donovanconcluded with our titular fixer (Liev Schreiber) ready to do something he had never really committed himself to doing before — following Abby (Paula Malcomson). His vision of her ghost led him up and over a New York City mid-rise, out into the East River. We knew Ray wasn’t going to die even then, but that moment did raise plenty of questions about how the show would handle Ray’s psyche moving forward....

BeforeRobert Downey Jr.suited up forIron ManandAnton Yelchintraveled to deep space inStar Trek, the duo was united in 2007’sCharlie Bartlett. InJon Poll’s directorial debut, Charlie Bartlett (Yelchin) is a wealthy student who is transferred to a public school after being expelled from several private ones. Because of his ambitions, he ends up engaging in a power struggle with principal Nathan Gardner (Downey Jr.). With a58% score on Rotten Tomatoes,Charlie Bartlettsuffers from treading lightly on serious topics like attempted suicide and prescription drug abuse....

It’s still kind of hard to believe that Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios are actually sharing the character of Spider-Man. Such a prospect seemed impossible just a couple of years ago, given thatSpider-Manis Sony’sonlymajor comic book property and the fact that they already had in place long-reaching plans for theAndrew Garfielditeration of the franchise, from sequels to aSinister Sixspinoff. But that all changed after the release ofThe Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Marvel and Sony indeed struck an arrangement that sees Marvel including the newTom HollandSpider-Man in the MCU—making his debut inCaptain America: Civil War—while Sony is once again rebooting the character....

In 1995,Wild Side, a darkneo-noirthriller set in Los Angeles and filled withdeep psychosexual motives, became the last film project of cult Scottish artistDonald Cammell, who made a name for himself in cinema as an innovative auteur in the ’70s withPerformance(1970, co-directed withNicolas Roeg)andDemon Seed(1979). Cammell was always considered a somewhat provocative but effective director, so it didn’t come off as a surprise when the Nu Image production company decided to hire him forWild Sideto create a film that would allow the studio to move from their exploitation movies to the world of big cinema....

There are so many great, important, classic moments ofStar Trek: The Next Generation, but the quote that means the most to me, the one that I think about so often it’s become a mantra, is not “Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky’s the limit” or “Fear is the true enemy." Instead, it’s a simple line from “Remember Me,” a fourth-season emergency-of-the-week episode: “If there’s nothing wrong with me, maybe there’s something wrong with the universe....

More than perhaps any other element, music serves as a way to capture the mood of a scene. Few film moments are as important as the final one since it is the last chance to leave your audience with an impression. By any measure,Priscillais no exception to this rule,but the specific song choice does far more than set the tone, and it has so much to say about the turbulent marriage betweenElvisandPriscilla Presley....

While at the TCA Press Tour, the executive producers for all of the CW’s superhero shows were on hand to give updates on their many series, how they will be interacting, and more. But there’s always one specific question I have to ask when it comes toThe Flash: will we be seeing more of Gorilla Grodd? Back in January, producerAndrew Kreisbergtold us that he wanted to wait to tell the next chapter of Grodd’s story when they had time to do a multi-episode arc:...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed today the 32 films that have been submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Oscar category, and Disney’sThe Lion Kingis not among them. Since the film hit theaters and dominated the box office earlier this year, debate raged on whether it’s actually a “live-action remake” as it was marketed, or if it’s an animated film. In truth there’s only one live-action shot in the whole movie, while the rest was created using cutting-edge visual effects to craft photoreal versions of the characters....

Christopher Nolanloves to make our heads spinand knock us around with his intricate plot machinations. Nolan has yet to meet a storyline that he didn’t complicate by bending time to his will and strategically remixing chronology, even in an allegedly stagnant genre likethe biopic. That often leads to moments in all his films that are equally baffling, confounding, and exhilarating, with Nolan turning his ingenuity at finding new narrative angles in well-worn material into his calling card....

Paramount+ is ordering two more seasons ofThe Real World Homecomingfor those who are nostalgic about the early days of reality TV. The second season will focus on reuniting cast members fromThe Real World: Los Angeles. The cast of the third season is still TBD, but those of us who remember the drama between Stephen and Irene are crossing our fingers for aReal World: Seattlereunion. Paramount+ is once again getting into bed with ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Studios in order to bring about the second and third seasons of this critically-acclaimed series....

The end-of-year awards cycle leading up to the Academy Awards can often be a grueling stretch of time for film fans, as hearing about the same films over and over again can grow very frustrating. Although the Oscars have typically avoided more obtuse and challenging films in favor of traditional “awards bait,” the success ofPoor Thingssuggests that the Academy is finally opening itself up to more idiosyncratic projects. Yorgos Lanthimos’ uproarious horror romance satire managed tomake upward of $100 million at the box office....

The first week of May has come and gone, and of course a new week means we get new trailers. The list of trailers this time around was a little shorter than usual, but that doesn’t take anything away from those films and TV shows that did release trailers this week. The movies and series that gave us new looks this week includeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,The Nice Guys,Now You See Me 2,Bad Moms,Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and more....