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First Trailer 'Dreams'; Directed by Michel Franco; Starring Jessica Chastain and Rupert Friend

Official Trailer 'Sentimental Value'; Directed by Joachim Trier; Starring Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård

Official US Trailer 'Cloud'; Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse); Starring Masaki Suda as Ryôsuke Yoshii, Kotone Furukawa and Daikan Okudaira

‘Crying’ — Tribute to the ‘Mulholland Drive’ Club Silencio Singer Rebekah Del Rio (1967 - 2025); Iconic scene was punctuated by a voice that defined Los Angeles

 
Rebekah Del Rio Sings 'Llorando' in a Clip from David Lynch's ‘Mulholland Drive’; Grab the Kleenex.

Gun For Hire: What Does Denis Villeneuve Joining As Director Tell Us About The New James Bond? Who Will Write?

Henry Golding Reveals Why Playing James Bond Is ‘Every Actor’s Kind Of Nightmare’

Highly Anticipated Official Trailer 'Project Hail Mary'; Directed by Academy Award winning filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller; Based on Andy Weir's New York Times best-selling novel

Official US Trailer for Norwegian Film 'Dreams' Starring Ella Øverbye

Official Trailer 'The Running Man'; Based on a Stephen King novel; Directed by Edgar Wright; Starring Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, Katy O’Brian, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace and Michael Cera; 1987 original with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Edgar Wright's 'Running Man' Remake; History of Stephen King's Book in Film

“The Phone Cameras Became Weapons”: Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle on Animating '28 Years Later' with Danny Boyle

’28 Years Later’ and the iPhone: Everything You Need to Know About How the $60 Million Film Was Shot; Nine keys to how Danny Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle shot the innovative sequel, as told to IndieWire

Final Trailer 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps'; Marvel-ous?

All Singin'! All Dancin'! Jon M. Chu To Direct Live-Action ‘Hot Wheels’ Movie For Mattel, Warner Bros. and Bad Robot

Filmmaker Erin Foster Set Out to Create an Edgy Romance like 'Fleabag,' and Ended Up With a Really Sweet Rom Com

Actor's Hard Life: Cosmo Jarvis Exits the Legendary Opportunity of a Role in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’; Logan Marshall-Green Steps in to Replace; Soon to play 'Young Stalin'; Tough kid Joseph was a Marxist, propaganda editor, and bank robber long before he became a dictator

Part of the Job? Inside the Billion-Dollar Celebrity Impersonation Scam; Victims think they’re talking to Keanu Reeves. Or Kevin Costner. Then come the pleas for cash. The brazen AI-fueled con that fleeces lovestruck fans and has Hollywood finally fighting back

Fascinating Read! Film Editor Pietro Scalia on Editing for Bernardo Bertolucci, the Beauty of Keanu Reeves, and Collaborating with Ryuichi Sakamoto

The Warner Brothers Studio Cafe Menu, 1941; NY Steak $.95

Film School: Our Chief Film Critic Justin Tanner Recommends This Classic!

‘Scream Of Fear’ (1961)

Susan Strasberg lets loose with more than one ear-shattering “Scream of Fear” over the course of director Seth Holt’s neat and nasty little chiller, which, despite its modest budget and small cast, manages to thoroughly entertain with its creepy jump scares and a series of marvelously jaw-dropping surprise twists.

Playing Penny Appleby, a wheelchair bound young woman who’s come to live with her estranged father (Fred Johnson) and his icy new wife (a smooth and sinister Ann Todd), Strasberg brings a combination of sensual warmth and off-the-chain panic to her role.

One minute she’s flirting shamelessly with the chauffeur (a smoldering Robert Lewis), the next she’s bumping into the corpse of her dead father. Repeatedly. Cue the titular scream.

Is he dead or is she just imagining things? Enter Christopher Lee as an oily doctor with the hots for step mom and a nice cozy sanitarium for Penny.

The romance between Strasberg and Lewis is a nice counterpoint to the Gothic melodrama of it all, and builds to a particularly steamy scene where the chauffeur appears out of the darkness wearing the skimpiest pair of underpants imaginable. It’s weird and sexy and, strangest of all, actually sweet.

Best of all, the final ten minutes are breathlessly unexpected and absolutely bonkers. And only 81 minutes long! ~Justin Tanner

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Trailer 'Scream of Fear' (1961)

What Cinema Theater Executive's Are Demanding of the Film Industry; 10 Points

AMC’s 30-Minutes of Previews Sparks Studio Backlash: “No One’s Watching Trailers”; Trailers Put Butts in Theater Seats

Official Trailer 'Superman' (2025)

Creating Superman in 2025; Filmmaker James Gunn Creates Against the Baggage of History, Contemporary Politics and Fans Old and To Be Discovered

NYT Review: 'Superman': It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Reboot!

James Gunn Calls ‘Superman’ an “Immigrant” Story About Lost American Values: “It’s Political”

SF Chronicle ‘Superman’ Review: A Hero and His Dog Try to Save the World, But Is It Worth It?

Editor's Note: Creator James Gunn is very savvy. Given the priceless value of the asset, the assignment had to have been a challenge. What would you have done to this IP? All creative elements and considerations aside, the essential question, for a comic book, is "Did you have fun?" Let's try something new, and see 'Superman' in a big screen cinema. ~ Gordy Grundy, Editor-in Chief