Moon Knight Episode 4 Gets Real Trippy, Man Just when you might have thought you had a handle on what Disney+’s “Moon Knight” is all about, we get this week’s episode. We’re finally at Ammit’s tomb, yes, but we get a whole lot more than killer mummies making their way through cobwebs to attack our protagonists. This episode is darker than those before it as well. To say more, however, will get uswayinto spoiler territory, so here’s your official warning that there will be major spoilers for the fourth episode of “Moon Knight” ahead....

New ‘Friday The 13th’ Video Game Footage Puts You Behind The Hockey Mask I’m not sure if we’re living in a golden age of horror video games or if good horror video games are just abundant right now, but gamers who want to jump out of their seats and yell at their televisions after getting the crap scared out of them by a jump scare have plenty of options. While these games may vary wildly in style and execution, they all tend to have one thing in common – they put you in control of the victim....

New On Blu-Ray And Digital: ‘Columbia Classics Collection’, ‘Gladiator’ 4K, ‘Braveheart’ 4K In the words of theMama Mia!sequel: here we go again. It’s time for another Blu-ray round-up, and this week’s titles are what I’d call “specialty titles.” None of these are new movies – but they’re allnewreleases. These are the new Blu-ray releases (and digital releases, too) you should check out this week. Columbia Classics Collection The Columbia Classics Collection is a jaw-dropping new box set that has an odd assortment of films, all of which are in 4K, and all of which are worth checking out....

Nicolas Cage Turned Down A Lead Role In ‘Lord Of The Rings’ It seems likeNicolas Cagedoesn’t turn down anything nowadays. FromLeft BehindtoSeason of the Witch, the last five years haven’t been full of Cage’s best decisions. However, there was one point when Cage was a little more choosy, and he turned down what could have been one of the biggest roles of his career. In a recent interview, Cage revealed that he was offered a lead role inLord of the Rings, but he ended up turning it down....

NYCC: The First 45 Minutes Of Pixar’s Up Last night at the New York Comic-Con, the IGN Theater was cleared for a special screening of the first 45 minutes of Pixar’s new film,Up. Only the first 300 people in line (plus a few dozen people approved by the studio) were allowed access to the footage. Director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera took to the stage beforehand to let us know that the footage we were about to see was slightly incomplete, with music still yet to be done, sound effects yet to be recorded, and some CGI still missing [For the record, they could have fooled me: The footage we saw looked great and didn’t have any placeholder storyboards or animatics....

Producer Explains Star Trek’s Teaser Trailer, New USS Enterprise There have been reports that audiences seeingCloverfieldthis weekend are going wild for the attachedStar Trekteaser trailer, but my screening was dead quiet. And I can’t tell whether the mere four comments /Film received on our post about the bootleg version being on YouTube (stillthere) are a sign of disinterest, mild disappointment or reservation for the official version. Up until yesterday, I had a bad feeling aboutJ....

Richard Donner, Director Of ‘Superman,’ ‘Lethal Weapon,’ ‘The Goonies,’ And More, Dead At 91 Richard Donner, prolific Hollywood director and producer, has died. He was 91. Donner died Monday, according to his wife, producer Lauren Schuler Donner, and his business manager. No cause of death has been revealed. Donner directed some of the most iconic movies of the 1970s and ’80s, includingSuperman,The Goonies, andLethal Weapon.Donner’sSuperman(starring Christopher Reeve) was the first “modern” superhero film, and is at least partially responsible for the Marvel and DC mega-hits of today....

Robert Pattinson, Like All Of Us, Is Terrified Of Danny Devito’s Penguin Just days into its release, Matt Reeves' “The Batman” has hit it big at thebox officewith over $21 million in previews. Starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, alongside the star-studded cast of Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell, Reeves' entry offers a grim superhero picture (that nonetheless remainsas it always hasin some ways), following Batman into Gotham City’s underbelly in pursuit of a killer....

Stephen King’s ‘Pet Sematary’ Rising From The Grave In 2019 We’ve been hearing about a new adaptation ofStephen King’sPet Semataryforyearsnowas directors have come and gone. All it took to give it some momentum was another King adaptation becoming an unlikely box office juggernaut. In all official statements, Paramount setting a release date for the newPet Sematarysurely has nothing to do withItgrossing nearly $700 million worldwide earlier this year. But come on, let’s get real....

Tarsem Singh Signs To Direct Relativity’s ‘The Brothers Grimm: Snow White’ There are three outfits running in the race to make a new film version of Snow White. One is Disney, which hasSnow White and the Sevenin development. Number two is Universal, which is a few steps ahead withSnow White and the Huntsman, which has a script (by Evan Daugherty) and a director (Rupert Sanders) andpossible starsin Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp....

Teaser Trailer: ‘Battle: Los Angeles’ Sony Pictures has released the first teaser trailer forJonathan Liebesman’sBattle: Los Angeles. The movie has been described as aBlack Hawk Down-style military story set in an alien invasion. The footage in the trailer is pretty impressive, and is sure to get some notice. However, I think they show way too much for a teaser trailer. Remember, this is just the first teaser trailer — not even the first full length trailer....

The 14 Best Directorial Debuts From Actors Ranked It’s a cliché at this point: “I’m an actor, but what I really want to do is direct.” So many actors seem desperate for a chance to prove their work behind the camera. Really, it makes sense: Actors are often treated like puppets in someone else’s grander artistic vision. The idea of finally being able to assert some control over the process must sound appealing....

The Morning Watch: Creating Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Bridge Fight, Counterfeit Money In Movies & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, learn how the special effects team on “Spider-Man: No Way Home” combined practical and digital effects to create that incredible Doc Ock bridge fight....