The new season, which dropped its first batch of episodes in May, is no exception. While the new episodes contain plenty of period references, one that has caught particular attention is the use of Kate Bush’s 1985 song “Running Up That Hill,” which is frequently played during pivotal moments in Season 4. And the new season’s massive viewing numbers suggest that Netflix has certainly provided many, many fans with opportunities to hear the song....

“I watched it probably in one night,” Stewart said of the recent Emmy-winning “The Crown” season. “I think [actress Emma Corrin] did a really beautiful job. I mean, not to say that my opinion matters at all! But I loved her in it, truly.” It turns out Stewart and Corrin’s portrayals of Princess Diana share a common starting point in dialect coach William Conacher. Stewart worked with Conacher just as Corrin did before here and just as Naomi Watts did to play Princess Diana in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2013 biographical drama “Diana....

Twenty-eight years ago, Lars von Trier created the darkly comic miniseries known in Denmark as “Riget,” which follows the lives of the staff and patients at a hospital experiencing weird phenomena — corpse mutilation, a Greek chorus of dishwashers, ghosts in the halls, a doctor rapidly giving birth to a full-sized Udo Kier at the end of Series One. Nothing unusual to see here in Lars von Trier world. The series, defined by its sepia color scheme and idiosyncratic “Twin Peaks”-like humor, ran for two seasons on Danish TV and on DVD in the U....

Fincher also likens “Bad Travelling” to “Ten Little Indians” meets “Deadliest Catch,” with the ship’s navigator, Torrin (Troy Baker), contending with mutiny, betrayal, and a starving Thanapod crustacean that bizarrely communicates through ventriloquism. But, of course, it was the grotesque, slimy xenomorph, hatched by legendary biomechanical designer H.R. Giger, that Fincher especially loved about “Alien,” and why he paid so much attention to the Thanapod. “David wanted [the Thanapod] disgusting and to be confusing,” Blur Studio animation supervisor Hubert Daniel told IndieWire....

The gift (and some would argue, curse) of a romantic comedy is it tends to follow familiar beats: the meet-cute, the break-up, the reconciliation, and a glimpse of the couple’s happily ever after. HBO Max anthology series “Love Life,” which centers on a protagonist from first love to lasting love over 10 episodes, delivers on the tropes but also addresses the in-between moments that often go overlooked. Season 2 star William Jackson Harper is Marcus, a book editor in New York City whose life turns upside down after finding an instant connection with auction house employee Mia (Jessica Williams)....

Lawless said, “No, Peanut. They are not Patriots. They are your flying monkeys,homegrown terrorists, QAnon actors. They are the douchebags that go out and do the evil bidding of people like you who like to wind them up like toys and let them do their worst.” She added the hashtags “#keepingYourFilthyHandsclean #enabler.” While the actor has not yet responded to Lawless, he has continued to tweet in support of the protesters, and in rebuke of the recent news that Donald Trump has been permanently suspended by Twitter....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Mare of Easttown Day” will be celebrated at the new Wawa location in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which is the county where the fictional Easttown is set. The first 100 customers on Thursday will get a “Wawa Delco” t-shirt, and all customers will be treated to free coffee for the entire day. Chester County Detective Christine Bleiler, who served as a police technical adviser on the series, will be on location at the Wawa to order the “Mare” cheesesteak, billed as “a limited edition sandwich that will be sold throughout dozens of Wawas in Delaware County....

Since those movies don’t exactly need our help getting on buyers radars, we’re leaving them off our usual memo to distributors in favor of a number of titiles that could really use the boost. The year ahead is certainly going to be an unpredictable one for distribution companies as the future of exhibition remains an open question. But the quality of these movies is not up for debate, nor is their potential to resonate with audiences well beyond Sundance....

Director Michael Mann revealed he scrapped a “brilliant screenplay” about late “Rebel Without a Cause” actor Dean due to his dream lead, DiCaprio, looking too young for the part. “That was so weird about James Dean,” Mann told Deadline. “It’s, ‘Who the hell could play James Dean?’ And I found a chap who could play James Dean, but he was too young. It was Leo. We did a screen test that’s quite amazing....

Let’s get this one out of the way: Despite appearing in marketing materials for “Morbius” (and appearing second-billed on the film’s IMDBb page, likely the product of some overeager fans), Michael Keaton does not actually appear in the vast majority of Daniel Espinosa’s film. In fact, depending on your stance on post-credits scenes, the beloved actor (and star of both Marvel and DC properties) doesn’t appear in the film at all....

Effectively threading the needle between “Au Hasard Balthazar” and “Legally Blonde” (a phrase that I’ve waited my entire life to write), Vignal’s comic tale of self-discovery is as light and gentle as the rolling terrain that it travels, even if Antoinette encounters a few more bumps in the road than the average person who decides to retrace Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous path through Cévennes National Park. Of course, when the “Treasure Island” author went to France in 1878, he did so in a futile effort to forget the person he couldn’t be with, whereas Antoinette embarks on the 220-kilometer journey in hot pursuit of her paramour....

Where to Watch “Nadiya Bakes”: Netflix There’s a camera angle in “Nadiya Bakes” that lets you watch pies and cakes and pastries as they cook. It’s time-lapsed and without the filter of the glass of an oven door, but it’s a tiny touch that shows you that making these kind of delicacies don’t happen by accident. Host (and all-around ray of enthusiasm) Nadiya Hussain first broke through the TV ranks as a contestant on “The Great British Baking Show....

You get the sense that John Boyega, whose social conscience has added a searching moral urgency to his post-Finn performances, was down to take things a lot further and weirder than the film around him ever does. The “Red, White and Blue” star assumes the role of Casi, a cocky but rumpled young public defender with the intensity of a puppy dog who’s trying to warn people about a coming earthquake that he alone can hear; it’s like Casi is able to see the on-screen text warning us that we only have “12 days until the collapse....

The comic book creator revealed to Rolling Stone that “Man of Steel” and “A Star Is Born” producer Jon Peters sent a script to adapt the graphic novel years ago. Gaiman hated it so much that he leaked the “really stupid” script to the press to ensure it never got made. “A guy in Jon Peters’ office phoned me up and he said, ‘So Neil, have you had a chance to read the script we sent you?...

Nielsen’s latest report on the 10 most-viewed streaming shows, which was based on viewership from August 9 through August 15, was entirely populated by Netflix titles. “Outer Banks,” the teen drama that premiered its sophomore season on the streamer on July 30, was the most-viewed show on Nielsen’s list, with 1,160 million views. The show was a massive hit during its premiere window and was viewed for an impressive 2....

And Wednesday the Board of Trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced the expected appointment of Jacqueline Stewart, the museum’s Chief Artistic and Programming officer, to replace Kramer as Director and President of the museum. Kramer brought in the cinema scholar, curator, public educator, and TCM host in 2020. She’ll take over the role of Academy Museum Director and President on July 18 to guide the future course of the organization, which Kramer successfully launched on September 30, 2021 after a long and arduous journey through construction delays and a pandemic....

However, when Kroll first pitched “Disclosure the Movie: The Musical!,” he meant it as a joke — a placeholder until he found a better idea. “I pitched it as an inappropriate example, but it stuck,” he said. “It was weirdly topical. This was after #MeToo had hit, and so we wanted to speak to sexual harassment in a way that ‘Big Mouth’ could attack as a musical idea. We were both obsessed with those run of movies where Michael Douglas is ‘too sexy for his own good’ [including ‘Fatal Attraction’ and ‘Basic Instinct’], and ‘Disclosure’ is the funniest and pretty flawed....

The Oscar winner and Las Vegas resident revealed during “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” April 20 that he had plans to build a movie studio in Vegas. Cage previously starred in Vegas-set films “Leaving Las Vegas” and “Honeymoon in Vegas,” before moving to Nevada for the state tax breaks. “There’s good mojo there for me,” Cage explained of the “small town and big city” feel of Vegas. But a silent electric car killed Cage’s film deal with the city....

“I feel strongly that you have to do a certain amount of work that the audience can feel even though you are not showing it. I think that way with character, history, I think that way with the UFO in question,” said Peele. “This is something I can feel in some of my favorite directors. Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino, to name a couple, I think are people who feel like they are painting a small picture in a world that’s already painted, but also we see the success of this is Marvel and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ and everything that goes deeper than what you’re being shown....

Other highlights include Jia Zhangke’s rarely screened “Xiao Wu,” Mohammad Reza Aslani’s rediscovered “The Chess Game of the Wind,” and Béla Tarr’s black-and-white noir, “Damnation.” Opening night filmmaker Steve McQueen also had a hand in the selection: he’s opted to screen Jean Vigo’s “Zero for Conduct,” which he says inspired his latest project, a five-film anthology series, the first of which will open the festival. “We are thrilled with our selections for Revivals, a section reshaped for the 2020 edition of NYFF to showcase the relevance, the vitality, and the beauty of yesterday’s cinema,” said Florence Almozini, FLC Senior Programmer at Large, in an official statement....