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‘Lizzie’ Review: Chloe Sevigny And Kristen Stewart Slay In This Intimate Drama [Sundance] Before walking into this movie, the only thing I knew about Lizzie Borden was that she murdered her parents. But inLizzie, directorCraig William Macneill(The Boy, Channel Zero) and screenwriterBryce Kassoffer a different take on the still-unsolved killings that totally rewrites Lizzie’s narrative, casting her as a righteous heroine instead of an evil murderess. With superb performances from starsChloe SevignyandKristen Stewart, this intimate drama serves as a fierce response to abuse and oppression and a seductive peek into the inner life of one of history’s most notorious killers....

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Set For May 2015 Release Warner Bros. has chosen a berth for the fourthMad Maxfilm from writer/directorGeorge Miller.Mad Max: Fury Road, in whichTom Hardytakes over the title role from original star Mel Gibson, will be in theaters (in 3D) on July 11, 2025. That’s two weeks afterAvengers: Age of Ultronand one week before Brad Bird’sTomorrowland. We’ve still seen almost nothing from the film, which is now doing someadditional photography to add extra sequences....

‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Won’t Feature Angela Bassett After All Due To The Pandemic Maybe we got a little greedy.Mission: Impossible – Falloutis one of the best franchise sequels in years for many obvious reasons, but in no small part due to the top-to-bottom joys of watching that ensemble crash against one another in the most unpredictable ways. With the exception of some pivotal character deaths, we were hoping that as much of the cast as possible would be returning for the sequels....

‘Paranormal Activity’ Sequel And New ‘Pet Sematary’ Prequel Headed Straight To Paramount+ The upcomingParanormal Activitymovie is headed right to Paramount+ – and it has company. A newPet Semataryfilm, which will serve as a prequel to the 2019 adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic, is headed to the nascent streaming service as well. The news comes as part of Paramount’s plan to overhaul their release strategy as the theatrical experience is called more into question as streaming becomes dominant....

‘Plus One’ Trailer: Two Friends Make A Pact During Wedding Season After a huge boom in the 1990s, the steady stream of Hollywood romantic comedies has trickled down to a slow drip. That scarcity makes each new entry into the genre feel more significant than it may have before, and such is the case withPlus One, a delightful-looking rom-com starringMaya Erskine(Pen15) andJack Quaid(The Hunger Games) about two friends who agree to be each other’s plus ones during wedding season....

‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ Character Posters: Meet The Locals Nearly a decade has passed since the last time we dropped in on Sin City, but it doesn’t look like a whole lot has changed since then. Life looks as grim and brutal as ever inSin City: A Dame to Kill For, which follows four noirish storylines as they unfold across the city. Today, we have five newSin City: A Dame to Kill Forcharacter posters to (re)introduce you the town’s gun-toting, knife-wielding residents, including Nancy (Jessica Alba), Marv (Mickey Rourke), Gail (Rosario Dawson), Dwight (Josh Brolin) and Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Villain Details Surface, Phil Lord & Chris Miller Credited As Executive Producers Even though we’ve gotten a full trailer andsome interestingtidbits of informationaboutSolo: A Star Wars Story, there is still plenty we don’t know about the origin story for everyone’s favorite smuggler and scoundrel. For example, we’ve been in the dark about who the film’s antagonist will be for quite some time, even though we caught a glimpse of them in thefirst footage from the movie....

‘Star Wars’ Day Deals: Vinyl, Comics, Ornaments, Limited Edition Art, And More Earlier this morning, Disney and Lucasfilm kicked off Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you) by announcing that Taika Waititiwill be co-writing and directinga newStar Warsmovie. But let’s get down to what this day isreallyabout: merchandising. After all, this is America, where people want to spend their hard-earned money on frivolous pop culture-related things. So we’re here to help....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Casts Cary Elwes And Jake Busey Hawkins, Indiana is getting a little more crowded.Cary ElwesandJake Buseyare joining theStranger Thingsseason 3 cast in a move that is sure to get your ’80s nostalgia tingling once again. As you wished, of course. Cary Elwes will step into the role of “Mayor Kline,” described as a “handsome, slick, and sleazy … classic ’80s politician,” Netflix announced at their What’s Next event in Rome, according toThe Hollywood Reporter....

‘The Forever Purge’ Trailer: The Final ‘Purge’ Movie Is Unleashed This Summer The Purgefilm franchise is coming to an end (for now) withThe Forever Purge. This fifth and final entry is set after the Purge has been abolished – but that’s not going to stop a group of people from staging their own Purge. After all, if it did, there wouldn’t be much of a movie. Franchise creatorJames DeMonacowrote the script, whileEverardo Goutdirects....

‘The Gifted’ Teaser: Bryan Singer Brings The X-Men To Fox Earlier this year, Fox officiallyordered a newX-Mentelevision pilot, withX-Menmovie franchise mainstayBryan Singeron board to helm the first episode andBurn NoticecreatorMatt Nixserving as showrunner. Now, a new teaser has arrived, offering not only our first look at the footage from the show, but confirmation that it has been ordered to series, a release window, and a title:The Gifted. You can watch the first teaser below....

‘The Hateful Eight’ Started Out As A ‘Django Unchained’ Sequel; Plus: Wide Release Moved Up One Week The Weinstein Company is giving cinephiles a chance to start 2016 off right.The Hateful Eightis now set to roll into theatersJanuary 1, a week earlier than its previously announced January 8 wide release date. Of course, that still means much of the country has three weeks until they can seeQuentin Tarantino’s latest. So while we wait, here’s an interesting bit of trivia to consider: Did you know thatThe Hateful Eightoriginally started out as aDjango Unchainedsequel?...

‘The Hobbit’s’ Villain Smaug Revealed On Air New Zealand Airplane The first trailer forPeter Jackson’s secondHobbitfilm,The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, answered one of everyone’s biggest questions about the sequel. Would Jackson’s second film get us all the way into the Lonely Mountain and reveal Smaug, the malicious and greedy dragon at the end of the Dwarves quest? The title suggested it but the trailer confirmed it. Bilbo’s interactions with the dragon (voiced byBenedict Cumberbatch) responsible for forcing the dwarves out of their home are some of the most memorable and tense ones in the book....