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Taxi Driver’s Tight Budget Was A Blessing In Disguise “Taxi Driver” brought the notoriously grimy streetsof New York City in the 1970s to the big screen. Sure, previous films like “The French Connection” and “Death Wish” explored the city’s thriving underbelly, but director Martin Scorsese made New York feel like a character of itself, a place where residents melded with their decaying home whether they wanted to or not. Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman shot the grit and sleaze in a matter-of-fact, documentary-like style, lending the scenery a sense of authenticity....

The Adam Project Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Has To Stop The Invention Of Time Travel I am not even going to pretend that I won’t go see a Ryan Reynolds movie, no matter what it is. He’s an absolute delight. I have even been known to watch commercials he does, and I hate commercials. I mean, I don’t need a new cell phone service provider, and yet I will let those Mint Mobile ads run to the end when I’m on YouTube because it’s Ryan Reynolds....

The Best Terence Young Movies You’ve Never Seen (Welcome toThe Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. This week we focus on a director who made nearly forty films over forty years but is best known for only four of them.) Most filmmakers would be thrilled to have even a single movie resonate with audiences to the point of becoming entrenched in pop culture, but Shanghai-born EnglishmanTerence Youngcan claim four such films to his name....

The Comic Book Run You Need To Read Before Thor: Love And Thunder The Marvel Cinematic Universe never really does direct adaptations. Though there are scenes that feel straight out of the comics, everything from “Civil War,” to “Infinity War” to “Thor: Ragnarok” are very,very loose adaptationsof the comic storylines that inspired them. This brings us to the new trailer for “Thor: Love and Thunder.” The trailer dida lotof things, frommaking Thor thin again, todeleting a major canon pointfrom “Ragnarok,” to introducing highly anticipated characters like Zeus andJane Foster as the new Thor, and showing cool imagery like space goats pulling a Viking space boat....

The Last Airbender And Green Hornet Were Planned And Shot For 3D? If you’ve seen the hideous monstrosity that isClash of the Titans,replete with its horrendous and eye-torturing attempts at 3D imagery, you probably don’t have much love at all for post-production dimensionalisation. I’ve seen the online reaction to two upconvert projects that have been announcedin just the last 24 hours,Michel Gondry’sGreen Hornetfilm andM. Night Shyamalan’sThe Last Airbender, and it wasn’t pretty....

The Necessity, And Painful Limitations, Of Luke Cage And Black Lightning Have you noticed how some of the biggest names in black supeheroism often operate in a corner of their hometown instead of saving the world? While Superman, Batman, and others often take an entire city under their wing, black superheroes likeLuke CageandBlack Lightningonly look out for their neighborhood. Why is that? The answer lies in America itself. For too long, America has been a divided country, with black Americans deemed unimportant and low-rung next to white Americans....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Gamer, The Invention Of Lying, Pandorum, Weeds (Season 5), And More… We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s.GAMER The ADD-infused style that suited writers/directors Neveldine/Taylor so well on the Crank films doesn’t quite work to their benefit in Gamer, a futuristic sci-fi action flick which exposes their shortcomings as filmmakers....

TV Bits: Terence Winter Talks ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Season 2 Finale, Plus: ‘30 Rock’, ‘The League’, ‘Terra Nova’, Judd Apatow As we head toward the holiday season,Boardwalk Empirewinds down,30 Rockgears up, andTerra Novaremains in purgatory. After the jump: In a new interview withEntertainment Weekly, Winter explains that the decision to kill off Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) was made “[p]robably at the very beginning of season 2”: The idea was to try and push things to their absolute limit, even if it makes it difficult for yourself and your writing team....

VOTD: ‘[the Films Of] Ridley Scott’ Last month,Kees van Dijkhuizenhinted that this month’s installment of “[the films of]” would be “the biggest episode yet,” and it seems he’s made good on that promise. With 19 films under his belt,Ridley Scottis the most prolific of the filmmakers van Dijkhuizen’s profiled so far, as well as the most established. Impressively, van Dijkhuizen has managed to keep the runtime under three minutes while still paying appropriate homage to each of the director’s films....

W. Earl Brown Reveals The Backstory Behind That Infamous ‘Deadwood’ Season 3 Fight [Interview] For three seasons,W. Earl Brownplayed enforcer and bodyguard Dan Dority onDeadwood, while also serving as part of the writing staff. Brown returns to the role for the upcomingDeadwood: The Movie, hitting HBO this week. The actor spoke with /Film about his work on the original show, including the work that went into creating the famous fight scene from season 3....

Walt Disney Animation Developing Fantasy Adventure From ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Writer Ralph Breaks the InternetandFrozen 2are coming soon, but a new report has shed some light on a previously unannounced feature film that’s in the works at Walt Disney Animation.Adele Lim, one of the screenwriters of Warner Bros. hit filmCrazy Rich Asians, has been hired to write a new fantasy adventure film which will serve as the feature directorial debut of Disney veteransPaul BriggsandDean Wellins....

Watch Over 10 Minutes Of ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Behind The Scenes Footage The floodgates have opened forAvengers: Age of Ultron. After the release of the third trailer, we’ve now seen what looks like a climactic battle, Vision, more Hulk/Black Widow romance, Ultron’s army and even some mysterious claws. Many questions have been answered, more have been posed, and now anything is fair game. Case in point, several sites have postedAvengers: Age of UltronBehind the Scenes videos taken on the set of the highly-anticipated Joss Whedon sequel....

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Teaser: Someone Get Daniel Radcliffe An Accordion We’ve waited one more minute at the hardware store, our couch potato hearts thumbing through cable TV reruns of “George of the Jungle,” idly watching “Porky’s” for the 27th time this week, all in anticipation of the trailer for The Roku Channel’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” and our patience, dear friends, had paid off. The teaser for the upcoming biopic is finally here, and audiences can now see actor Daniel Radcliffe in full Yankovic regalia (glasses, mustache, full poofy hair, Hawaiian shirts) playing the biggest star to emerge from the comedy/music scene since the heyday of Spike Jones through the days of Tom Lehrer....