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Michael B. Jordan first broke out on television with his role as Wallace in the inaugural season of HBO's highly acclaimed drama, The Wire (2002). He subsequently appeared as a series regular on the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006) and later delivered a standout performance in the NBC sports drama Friday Night Lights (2009–2011).

In the past decade, Jordan has become best known for his collaborations with writer-director Ryan Coogler – including Fruitvale Station (2013), Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), and Sinners (2025) – all of which earned him critical acclaim. He returned to his titular role in Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023), the latter marking his directorial debut.

Jordan's broader filmography also includes roles in Chronicle (2012), That Awkward Moment (2014), Fantastic Four (2015), and Just Mercy (2019), in which he played civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson. However, it's Jordan's dystopian movie, adapted from an acclaimed book, that is seeing a resurgence on streaming, seven years after its initial release.

As The World Turns spoilers and updates reveal Eileen Fulton, who started her many years in Oakdale as Lisa Hughes, passed away at 91 years young. Ms. Fulton, who played on the CBS soap from four years past its beginning to its end, passed away after a period of declining health.

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Eileen Fulton spent almost 50 years on the CBS soap opera, playing a schemer who had eight husbands counting Martin Chedwyn (Simon Prebble); most viewers wouldn’t remember him, and it was annulled.

She was the minister’s daughter who portrayed Lisa Miller, one of the first ‘bad girls’ in daytime TV. Fulton passed away on Monday, July 14, in Asheville, North Carolina, the city of her birth, as confirmed by her family.

She joined the top daytime drama, As the World Turns, in 1960, initially for a three-month summer storyline,...

Eileen Fulton, the minister’s daughter who spent the better part of 50 years portraying Lisa Miller, one of the first “bad girls” of daytime television, on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, has died. She was 91.

Fulton died Monday in Asheville, North Carolina, after “a period of declining health,” her family announced.

Four years into the run of As the World Turns, Fulton joined the No. 1 daytime drama in 1960 for what was originally supposed to be a three-month summer storyline. She exited the soap three times — once to headline her own primetime spinoff, 1965’s Our Private World — but continued on through the final episode broadcast Sept. 17, 2010.

Her Lisa had eight husbands, with Nicolas Coster portraying two of them. Three of her marriages ended in divorce, four ended in death and one was annulled. When As the World Turns was done, her character’s full name was Lisa Miller...

After 30 years, if Apollo 13 had you holding your breath and biting your nails when Tom Hanks said, “Houston, we have a problem,” then buckle up, we’ve got a whole galaxy of movies you’ll want to launch into next. These space flicks bring the drama, the danger, and yes, the floating-in-zero-gravity slow-motion shots we all secretly love.

Some are based on real NASA-level heroics, others are full-blown sci-fi rollercoasters with exploding planets and rogue AI, but they all have one thing in common: they’ll keep you stuck to your seat like Velcro in a spaceship.

From astronauts having identity crises to missions gone sideways faster than a rocket launch, these movies pack thrills, emotion, and a lot of “don’t push that button!” moments. So, if Apollo 13 was your jam, these 15 picks are your next mission. No space suit required, just snacks, curiosity, and maybe a stress ball.

"M3GAN" surprised audiences in 2022 with its creepy tale about an overprotective robot named M3GAN (body performed by Amie Donald and voice provided by Jenna Davis) who follows her pre-coded directives a little too closely. Packed with a few gnarly kills, clever humor, and one skin-crawling dance sequence, this Gerard Johnstone-directed production grossed a whopping $181 million at the worldwide box office against a $12 million budget.

You know what that means, right? Sequels and spinoffs are coming starting this year, though they already face an uphill battle at the box office. Do we need a "M3GAN" universe? Probably not, but there's no question this pint-sized doll captured the interest of moviegoers, no doubt already reeling from the early onset of artificial intelligence -- stay calm, we're still in the early stages of cats diving into pools.

But where does M3GAN rank in the pantheon of terrifying movie robots? She's definitely scary,...

The 16th annual TCM Classic Film Festival gets underway Thursday night in Hollywood with a 45th anniversary screening at the Chinese Imax Theatre of the acclaimed second Star Wars feature, 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, with creator George Lucas on stage to talk about it. It certainly fits in with this year’s theme, “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film,” though it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that this movie is now old enough to fit snugly in with so many of the classic titles TCM regularly features on their channel and at this festival, which brings them back in all their glory to the big screen.

The heavy programming of more contemporary box office hits this year does provide some irony to the title of one of the festival’s panels happening Sunday, “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To,” featuring among others Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman.

Exclusive: The impact of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey will be explored in an upcoming documentary that’s being made in partnership with the legendary filmmaker’s estate and the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive.

Producing the film titled Monolith are Mike Medavoy and Michael Lee Peterson of Phoenix Pictures, Jason Clark of Catchlight Studios, Sean Richard, and Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson of Appian Way. Partners in Kind and Time Studios are co-financing the film.

The documentary, expected to be released in 2026, begins production this month. Helming the film is Stevan Riley, director of the acclaimed 2015 Brando-themed documentary Listen to be Marlon.

“2001 is the ultimate Zeitgeist movie,” Riley said in a statement. “It was recently voted the #1 movie of all time by film directors, and for good reason. It predicts and speaks to the dramatic technological and societal changes that we are facing today.”

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Black Bag is a spy thriller drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by David Koepp. The 2025 film follows British intelligence officer George Woodhouse, who is given the task of finding the identity of a double agent, but the only problem is that his wife is amongst the suspects. Black Bag stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, and Pierce Brosnan. So, if you loved the thrilling drama, intense mystery, and compelling characters in Black Bag, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a Cold War spy thriller drama film directed by Tomas Alfredson from a screenplay co-written by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan. Based on the 1974 novel of the same name by John le Carré,...

Michael Mann, Rob Reiner, Kathy Bates, Aaron Sorkin, Keir Dullea, Sean Young, Barry Bostwick and Eric Braedon are headed to the 16th annual TCM Classic Film Festival this month.

Reiner will chat with Kathy Bates and Aaron Sorkin before screenings of his dramas Misery (1990) and The American President (1995), and for the closing night film, Michael Mann will be on hand for a presentation of his action-packed Heat (1995), whose memorable performances include one from the late Val Kilmer.

The festival takes place April 24-27 in Hollywood.

Other presenters announced Thursday to talk about the making of their films include Dullea for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Bostwick for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Young for Blade Runner (1982).

Danny Huston will introduce Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) — a film directed by his father, John Huston — Alexander Payne will get the audience pumped for Ben-Hur (1959), and Paul Schrader will set up Hud (1963).

Plus, the...

The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival has announced its closing night selection, Michael Mann’s “Heat,” which marks its 30th anniversary this year. The 1995 crime drama stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and late actor Val Kilmer; a sequel is in the works, with Adam Driver and Austin Butler rumored to be playing the younger versions of De Niro and Pacino’s respective characters.

The 16th annual festival from Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has a theme of “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film.” The festival will take place April 24 to 27, with the “Heat” screening including a conversation with writer/director Mann. As previously announced, the festival will open with George Lucas’ “The Empire Strikes Back.” TCM Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz will serve as official host of the TCM Classic Film Festival, alongside Jacqueline Stewart, Dave Karger, Alicia Malone, and Eddie Muller.

Additional festival highlights include Rob Reiner in conversation with screenwriter...

Although Stanley Kubrick was well-respected in his time, he didn't win as many Oscars as you'd probably think. Sure, he received Best Director nominations for "Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange," and "Barry Lyndon," but he didn't win any of those. One of his most acclaimed movies, "The Shining," didn't even receive any Oscar nods at all.

Kubrick's only Oscar win was for Best Special Visual Effects for his 1968 sci-fi film, "2001: A Space Odyssey." The movie competed against "Ice Station Zebra," an espionage thriller starring Rock Hudson that released to mixed reviews and a middling box office performance. If the Academy had some sort of grudge against Kubrick, as some fans of his suspect, they still couldn't deny that "A Space Odyssey" deserved the win here; even more than half a century later, the movie looks fantastic.

What must've sealed the movie's win in this category...

"Oppenheimer" may have become the highest-grossing biopic of all time, and the Dark Knight trilogy may have made Christopher Nolan into a household name, but "Interstellar" is a strong contender for the director's best film simply because it has more of an emotional core than any of his other projects. By now, it's fairly well documented that "Interstellar" is somewhat of an outlier among the Nolan filmography in that regard. But the more you think about it, the more impressive it becomes.

A huge, galaxy-spanning space epic that actually sends a man into the singularity of a black hole during its climax also manages to be the most heartfelt and intimate portrait of human connection Nolan has ever wrought. That oddly complimentary dichotomy extends to other areas of the film, too. Just consider how committed to scientific realism Nolan was and how fantastical the events in the movie are. This...

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Olivia Hussey was 16 when she gained international stardom with her exciting performance as Juliet in the 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. However, Hussey, who died on December 27, 2024, is undoubtedly best remembered by audiences for her groundbreaking performance in the classic 1974 slasher film Black Christmas, in which she plays Jess Bradford, one of a group of sorority sisters who are stalked by a serial killer during the Christmas season.

Just as Black Christmas was one of the progenitors of the slasher genre, Jess became one of horror cinema’s first final-girl heroines, more than a decade before the term was invented in reference to the last surviving female character in a horror film. As the lone survivor of Black Christmas, Jess attained final...

The greatest movies continue to inspire filmmakers years after their release, featuring an idea that immediately draws viewers in. Some of the most notable films have moments that are endlessly quoted by audiences who fondly recall watching these spectacular creations. Several films such as Interstellar and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy have been returning to theaters this year, reminding viewers of some of their favorite pieces of cinema. This has prompted moviegoers to share which movie scenes they consider the most iconic.

Releases like Jaws and Toy Story have included some unforgettable sequences that bring a smile to viewers across the globe. These incredible scenes from iconic movies continue to linger in the minds of moviegoers due to their extremely strong writing and direction. Some of these pieces of cinematic history are more famous than others, proving to have left a lasting impression on many viewers.

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1974 was a big year for horror. Just months after William Friedkin’s juggernaut The Exorcist shocked audiences around the world, two films electrified the genre and sent it careening in a new direction. While Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre remains one of the most viscerally terrifying films of all time, it’s sister proto-slasher Black Christmas has arguably become more relevant. The film follows Jess (Olivia Hussey) and her friends as they’re targeted by a mysterious man known as Billy (Albert J. Dunk) who hides in the attic of their sorority house. In addition to sparking the slasher revolution, Bob Clark’s film is important for another reason.

Released just one year after the historic Roe v. Wade decision granted US women the right to safe and legal abortion, Black Christmas features a main character who makes the choice to terminate her pregnancy despite her boyfriend’s strenuous—and threatening—objections.

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Christmas is just around the corner, and it’s time to see brilliant classic movies, but if you are not in the mood to see Home Alone or Jingle All the Way for a millionth and want to see some adult movies. We at CinemaBlind have prepared a list of 11 best R-rated Christmas movies you can check out.

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Violent Night is a Christmas action comedy film directed by Tommy Wirkola from a screenplay co-written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller. The 2022 film follows Santa Claus as he comes across a wealthy family’s compound, where an elite team of mercenaries has kidnapped the family on Christmas Eve. Violent Night stars David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, and Beverly D’Angelo.

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Editor’s Note: The following story contains major spoilers for the movie “Queer,” now in theaters.

“Queer,” a new Luca Guadagnino romance so wounding and hypnotic in only the way he can do, ends the way it begins: with William Lee (Daniel Craig) alone again after another fascinating, devastating love affair.

After picking him up in Mexico City, expat, self-loathing, sweating decadent Lee entreats the lithe and elusive former Navyman Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey) to join him in the Ecuadorian jungles on the hunt for the ultimate trip — and the source of yagé, better known as the psychotropic beverage ayahuasca. Once deranged, off-the-grid healer Dr. Cotter (Lesley Manville) sets them up with the tea, Lee and Allerton go on a strange mind-bend of an inward journey, fusing their bodies in a hallucinatory dance until they’re spent.

Lee believes the drug may be the only way to reach his out-of-sync lover,...

One of the most popular Christmas horror movies among genre fans is the 1974 classic Black Christmas (watch it Here) – and this December, some of the movie’s fans are going to have the chance to catch it on the big screen! Variety reports that the American Genre Film Archive is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Black Christmas by bringing a 4K restoration to theatres across North America from December 7th through 22nd!

Directed by Bob Clark, the same filmmaker who brought us the family friendly classic A Christmas Story, from a screenplay by A. Roy Moore, Black Christmas has the following synopsis: As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess and the often inebriated Barb, begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb’s friend Claire goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered,...

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the American Genre Film Archive is releasing a 4K restoration of Bob Clark’s holiday horror classic “Black Christmas” in theaters.

Teaming up with the Agfa, Texas-based collectible company Mutant has created an 18″ by 24″ “Black Christmas” poster that will be available exclusively at select 50th anniversary screenings. The five-color screen print, produced by Night Swim in an edition of 285, features brand-new artwork by Phantom City Creative. Additional white and red variants of the poster will be released on Mutant’s website Nov. 29 — Black Friday.

“I am so honoured that the American genre Film Archive and Mutant are presenting the 50th Anniversary of ‘Black Christmas’ in movie theaters this year, star Olivia Hussey said of the rerelease. “The film world is lucky to have the Agfa, which continues to show the meaningful impact of going to the movies through screenings like this one. I’m...

William Shatner appears in 765874 – Unification: a quietly moving tribute to 1994’s Star Trek: Generations and the late Leonard Nimoy.

You know that late sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey where Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) sees different versions of himself at varying stages of his life? There’s a touch of that cosmic eeriness to 765874 – Unification, a short film released to mark the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: Generations.

That 1994 film was, of course, the last big-screen appearance from William Shatner’s James T Kirk, and the new short is a tribute to both his work throughout the franchise and those who co-starred with him, not least the great, dearly-missed Leonard Nimoy. This is an official film, too, not a fan-made piece – meaning Shatner himself appears, albeit digitally de-aged, as well as the likeness of Nimoy, with permission from his family’s estate. You’ll also find Robin Kurtis as Saavik,...

The worlds of Futurama and 2001: A Space Odyssey collide as Bender voice actor John Dimaggio recreates an iconic Hal 9000 scene. First airing in 1999, Futurama episodes chronicle the misadventures of pizza delivery driver Philip J. Fry (Billy West) after he is accidentally frozen in 1999 before then reawakening in the year 2999. Bender, a hard-drinking robot, has been a prominent character in the show since its premiere. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), on the other hand, hails from director Stanley Kubrick and is widely considered one of the most important sci-fi movies ever made.

Voice actor Rob Paulsen now takes to Instagram to share a recent recording session with Dimaggio in which the pair reenact a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The scene in question from the 1968 classic features the Hal 9000 computer system refusing to open the pod bay doors for Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea). Dimaggio speaks the same Hal 9000 lines but...

The great thing about sci-fi is its willingness to ask big questions. With so many of the genre's premises involving extreme life-or-death situations like, say, the end of the world, a mysterious plague, or even an alien invasion (to name but a few), these stories often posit questions of an earth-shattering nature, which, in turn, allows them to explore existential spaces in a manner other movie genres simply can't.

Sometimes, those questions can lead to confusing moments for audiences. Not everyone in a movie theater is on the same wavelength at all times, and it isn't a given that they're all necessarily interested in pondering the meaning of life. In such cases, a sci-fi movie's attempt to reach for the stars (so to speak) by thinking outside the box during its third and final act isn't always appreciated or even easily understood.

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Director Bob Clark’s seminal slasher Black Christmas is now 50 years old – and its conversation about reproductive rights is as relevant today as ever.

A bold slasher that has carved its path to become a festive favourite, Black Christmas – released 50 years ago today – is also an unwitting pro-choice manifesto.

Five decades after the Canadian movie first graced the big screen, and as we witness reproductive rights being eroded, its abortion storyline rings as a chilling, powerful reminder of what’s at stake in the 21st century.

Premiered on the 11th October 1974, Canadian director Bob Clark’s holiday-themed film is perhaps best known as one of the original slasher horrors, inspired by a real-life murder spree in Montreal. Following in the footsteps of cult thrillers such as Peeping Tom and Psycho, the film lays the groundwork for future mainstream blood-fests – most obviously John Carpenter’s seminal Halloween in 1978.

Received with mixed reviews at the time,...

Some movies are tailor-made for the big screen, especially sci-fi movies. While streaming has changed the landscape of cinema, there are still some movies which deserve to be watched on the biggest screen possible. Movie theaters offer an immersive experience that very few people are able to replicate at home. Streaming robs some movies of their scale and spectacle.

Sci-fi movies often rely on eye-popping visuals, which makes them uniquely suited to a big screen experience. Action and horror movies also tend to benefit from being watched in theaters, while some other genres aren't impacted as severely. Although streaming is more convenient and often much cheaper, it hasn't been able to replace the feeling of watching a sci-fi masterpiece unfolding in a theater.

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Science fiction productions dont come better than 2001: A Space Odyssey. Premiering in 1968, the flick is a triumph all around and a perfect introduction to Stanley Kubricks oeuvre.

Steven Spielberg accurately described it as the "big bang" of the post-Golden Age era, while George Lucas labeled it "hugely inspirational," adding that Kubrick was "the filmmaker's filmmaker." Martin Scorsese proudly included it among his cherished films of all time and Sydney Pollack called it "groundbreaking." William Friedkin gave an opinion too, calling it "the grandfather of all such films," whereas Ridley Scott declared that no one could match what Kubrick had done.

2001: A Space Odyssey AdventureMystery Sci-Fi Release Date April 2, 1968Director Stanley KubrickCast Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret TyzackRuntime 141

It isnt by accident or luck that the film sparkles with entrancing touches of serendipity. Kubrick snatched renowned sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke for screenplay duties.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Speak No Evil (2024)

Horror remakes are known for changing the tone or cinematography style, but some movies, like Speak No Evil, alter the originals more significantly. The announcement for the Hollywood version of Speak No Evil was surprising because the news broke one year after the release of the original 2022 Danish thriller. The original movie was quickly lauded as one of the best horror movies of the last five years, setting an extremely high bar for the 2024 version starring James McAvoy.

Surprisingly, the 2024 version of the film thrived against all expectations because the creative team chose to diverge from the original in many ways most notably, the ending of Hollywood's Speak No Evil. This movie isn't the first remake to completely change the source material. Many remakes have set themselves apart from the originals in theme, narrative style, plot, and characters, with varying levels of success.

Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, needs no introduction or validation. However, AI expert and research specialist Sasha Luccioni has submitted Kubrick's film to a deep analysis to see how accurate it is. In terms of the depiction of AI and technology standards, Luccioni has evaluated the 56-year-old film and offered her review: "We're definitely not there yet." Well, hopefully.

In a video review for Insider, Luccioni goes through a list of several sci-fi films and rates them according to their accuracy in depicting AI. Films like Iron Man, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, and the TV series Westworld are all part of the analysis. When she gets to Kubrick's classic, she focuses on Hal 9000, the sentient AI that puts the astronauts at risk and doesn't comply with one of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

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No Country for Old Men star Josh Brolin discusses the divisive response to the film's ending. In the Academy Award-winning film, Brolin played Llewelyn Moss, who discovers a significant amount of cash in the desert after a drug deal goes wrong and is pursued by a ruthless hitman, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). Instead of the expected showdown between these two characters, No Country for Old Men ends with Moss being killed offscreen, Chigurgh getting away, and retired Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) sharing two dreams he had.

While having a conversation with actor and cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi via Interview magazine, Brolin reveals how he is still approached by people who did not like No Country for Old Men's ending. He explains that while these viewers express their distaste for how the 2007 film concluded, it demonstrates how effective the ending ultimately proved to be. Brolin also addressed how...

An artificial intelligence researcher analyzes Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey for accurate AI depictions. The 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Daniel Richter is based on a short story by sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. The movie follows Dr. Dave Bowman (Dullea) and other astronauts as they embark on a mysterious mission. As time goes on, their ships computer system, Hal, begins to exhibit increasingly strange behavior.

Sasha Luccioni is an AI researcher at Hugging Face, a global startup that works on responsible AI. In a recent video for Insider, Luccioni rated Kubricks 1968 film for AI accuracy. Overall, she gave it a 2/10. One of the scenes Luccioni analyzed was the lip-reading scene. While there are applications of AI that do lip-reading, they are more often for assistance than surveillance, according to the AI researcher. Additionally, for the lip-reading to be successful, the person speaking...

I must admit, I didn’t know what to do with Todd Phillips’s “Joker” at first. The polarizing supervillain drama, based on Batman’s greatest nemesis, dazzled many viewers with its epic photography, its righteous indignation at broken social systems, and Joaquin Phoenix’s eerie and fragile performance as Arthur Fleck. But beneath all that there was a frustrating lack of specificity about what it was actually angry at, and a distracting lack of originality, since it cribbed wholesale from several obvious sources — especially Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” and “The King of Comedy.”

It took some time but I finally found where I stand with “Joker,” and it’s halfway between the praise and the criticism. All the film’s fine qualities and all of its deficiencies are in a symbiotic relationship, and the derivativeness is their connective tissue. After all, “Joker” is the story of a failed...

Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Vertigo faced mixed reviews initially, but are now considered masterpieces. Fight Club and Scarface also received negative reviews at first, but later gained cult status and critical acclaim. The Big Lebowski and Bonnie and Clyde provoked confusion and controversy, but are now celebrated in film history.

Some movies are so unexpected and revolutionary that it takes a while for critics to understand the vision, and they are torn apart when they are released. Many of the best movies ever made started out with mixed reviews, since their unconventional styles defied classification and confused people. The very qualities that made such movies interesting and unique also meant that critics didn't know how to approach them.

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis stirred controversy recently by referring to some of the negative early reactions in a trailer. The quotes for Coppola's old movies were proven to be fake,...

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Science fiction and social commentary have always walked hand in hand with one another. During the Cold War, the supposed communist threat was depicted in the form of invaders from Mars. Gene Roddenberry used the original Star Trek series to platform topics of prejudice, war, and religion. Looking at 20th-century science fiction from a modern perspective, many topics are still relevant today. This is the case with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Years before George Lucas would take space opera to new heights with Star Wars, Kubrick took us on a journey that depicted the human race's need for domination through technological innovation.

As the discussion regarding AI and an ever-growing dependency on technology continues, there's a lot in Kubrick's magnum opus that is more relevant than ever.

Nico Mastorakis has an uncanny ability of pulling ideas from various sources and running them through the Cuisinart of his peculiar sensibility, producing something altogether idiosyncratic. The six films assembled in Arrow Video’s new box set—one evocative religious allegory and five bawdy action comedies—testify to Mastorakis’s skills as a pop-cultural bricoleur. As a result, they serve as a series of variably amusing time capsules, deploying plenty of medium-specific references that might just delight viewers who came of age in the 1980s and early ’90s. Others will have to spend some time doing due diligence on Wikipedia.

The Time Traveler, from 1984, stars Keir Dullea as a man who fell to Earth, found naked along the Mykonos shore by expat American widow Andrea (Adrienne Barbeau). The new arrival soon names himself Glenn (as in astronaut John Glenn) and proceeds to learn the ways of the world. Unsurprisingly, a...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: Otto Preminger Plays New Games in Widescreen

By the discerning standards of IndieWire After Dark, there’s nothing too salacious or gruesome going on in “Bunny Lake Is Missing.” Instead, it’s Otto Preminger’s camera that’s nasty here. This is, first, a gorgeously shot movie, and one that doesn’t just rely on one camera or staging approach to yank us into its mystery and hold us there against our will.

There are plenty of classic Preminger long takes, of course, with the kind of diabolical dolly...

Christopher Nolan praised Keir Dullea's performance in 2001: A Space Odyssey as underrated, overshadowed by the film's technical achievements. Dullea's portrayal of Dave Bowman shows emotion and depth, carrying the weight of complex acting challenges in Kubrick's epic. Due to the movie's groundbreaking visuals and existential themes, Nolan believes Dullea's performance is one of the most underrated in film history.

Stanley Kubricks sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely regarded to be one of the greatest films ever made, but Christopher Nolan has pointed out the one part of the movie thats underrated. 2001: A Space Odyssey chronicles the entire history of the human race, from the first hominids that evolved into humans in prehistoric times to the next stage of evolution kickstarted in the orbit of Jupiter in the distant future. Its an epic in the truest sense, with an enormous scope, mind-boggling visuals, and a...

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if any film could capture the awe-inspiring vastness of the cosmos? Many directors have soared through the stars in science fiction, but one visionary’s belief is as enduring as the galaxy itself. George Lucas, the renowned creator of the epic Star Wars, has a deep appreciation for a cinematic masterpiece that even his own galactic saga cannot match: Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

George Lucas [Photo: Joey Gannon/Wikimedia Commons]Lucas made cinematic history in 1977 with Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, an instant classic that catapulted science fiction to the forefront of popular culture. Despite his phenomenal success, he remains convinced that Kubrick’s 1968 magnum opus is an unmatched masterpiece, a celestial pinnacle that no filmmaker in the near future can hope to surpass.

The film starred Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood in the leading roles.

The fourth "Futurama" movie, "Into the Wild Green Yonder," was released on DVD on February 24, 2009, and it was intended to be the final word on the series ... again. The initial run of "Futurama" ended in 2002 after encountering poor ratings. DVD sales of the show remained robust, however, and Fox agreed to make four straight-to-video "Futurama" movies as a way of resurrecting the series for what was essentially one final season. The four movies did better than expected, and Comedy Central picked up "Futurama" for a third run, starting in 2010. "Futurama" is the brain that wouldn't die.

But for a while, it looked like "Into the Wild Green Yonder" was going to be the last time audiences would ever see "Futurama," and the makers wanted the story to be appropriately epic. The story of "Green Yonder" involves a sudden cosmic surge of Chi, or life-giving energy, that spontaneously pulsates into the galaxy.

Adam Sandler has gone pseudo-serious before, from a mentally agitated toilet plunger salesman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love” to a depressed comic in Judd Apatow’s “Funny People.” But he’s never been so dour as cosmonaut Jakub Prochazka in Johan Renck’s lonely island of a science-fiction drama, “Spaceman,” where he’s six months into a solitary research mission investigating spectral cloud activity around the planet Jupiter.

Sci-fi cinephiles are certainly familiar with the cinematic wonderments capable of the gas giant, thanks to Stanley Kubrick’s Stargate sequence in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which sends Keir Dullea on an existential trip into Jupiter’s furthest depths. But Renck’s film, written by Colby Day, is too concerned with the far more banal Earthly dramas Jakub has left behind in the form of his wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan), who is preparing to leave him. “Spaceman” is a miserable...

Over the more than century-long history of Hollywood, countless visionary directors, actors, and writers have created some of the industry's most important movies. Everything from Wild West adventures to imaginative science fiction stories has helped make Hollywood the go-to powerhouse of entertainment that it is. The film business has shown a command over each genre, such as drama, war, and horror, with some films standing out as the definitive entry in their respective genre.

The genres all represent very different visions for entertainment, with some striving for thought-provoking stories while others prioritize action and adventure. Some actors and directors have defined their careers through association with these genres, and for good reason. Every genre has the potential to produce near-perfect stories, and some films prove this to be true.

2001: A Space Odyssey Remains Cinema's Most Mind-Bending Movie

2001: A Space Odyssey

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface,...

Merry Creepmas, you filthy animals. The final day of Bloody Disgusting’s 12 Days of Creepmas is here, and it feels only fitting to celebrate with the reigning champion of holiday horror: Bob Clark’s Black Christmas.

In case you missed any of the holiday festivities, you can keep track of the 12 Days of Creepmas here.

Released in 1974, Black Christmas has a simple setup on paper; over Christmas break, the residents of a sorority house are stalked and preyed upon by an unseen foe. Thanks to director Bob Clark and screenwriter Roy Moore, the plot isn’t quite so simple as it sounds thanks to a wonderfully complex cast of characters and character-driven moments that enhance the horror.

Scene-stealer Barb (Margot Kidder) is foul-mouthed and unapologetic, and her pranks or drunken quips ensure this sorority house is full of life. Barb is the precise type of handful that likely wears on housemother Mrs.

What do Black Christmas and Silent Night, Bloody Night have in common?

Blurry first-person Pov? Check. Mouth-breathing killer? Double check. Creepy phone calls? Triple Check. In both Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974) and Theodore Gershuny’s Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972), an unknown killer stalks their victims around the Christmas season, both striking terror and intrigue. Each entry succeeds to varying degrees in balancing cheer and fear; one becoming a holiday classic and the other a largely-forgotten gem. As a slasherific double feature, this holiday season brings a little goodwill and a whole lotta torture.

Gene Siskel once called Black Christmas a “routine shocker,” giving it a measly 1.5 out of 4 stars. That’s a paltry review for a tightly-wound and tense proto-slasher that helped catapult the slasher genre into the limelight. It might have come four years before Halloween, but it does many of the same things and in some ways,...

It’s hard to believe that Bob Clark, the director of the modern classic A Christmas Story, first cut his teeth on a much darker holiday film. Hitting theaters in 1974, Black Christmas is often considered to be the first true North American slasher film. Shockingly enough, it actually came out the same year as the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with both films creating a fascinating blueprint for horror films to come.

Set during Christmastime in Toronto, the film employs a popular urban legend known as “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs.” Allegedly based on a real 1950 murder, this legend was the source material for many later horror films such as When a Stranger Calls and The Sitter, and originated the idea of “the call coming from inside the house.”

As an entirely Canadian production, the film was first released in the Great White North, where it became a huge hit.

Black Christmas, released in 1974, is now recognized as a defining film of the horror genre, alongside Halloween. The film pioneered many slasher movie tropes, including the use of a killer without an identity and the calls coming from inside the house. Both Black Christmas and Halloween are atmospheric and use their respective holidays to add to the terror, making them highly influential in the genre.

With each passing year, 1974's Black Christmas gets more and more recognition as a true defining film of the horror genre. This hasn't always been the case as the film spent years underneath the radar, usually lost in the shadow of 1978's Halloween. John Carpenter's classic is also a pioneering film of the genre. However, even Carpenter has admitted to being influenced by Bob Clark's tale of terror on a dreary Christmas night. That's not to say that both films weren't influential; just...

No amount of superlatives for "2001: A Space Odyssey" could ever capture just how influential Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece truly was. Over 50 years after first arriving in theaters, countless filmmakers have cited the 1968 classic as the reason they pursued a career in the arts in the first place. Decades-long movie fans and freshman films students alike can appreciate its historical significance ... while also acknowledging that, quite frankly, the epic remains every bit as entertaining as it was divisive and controversial during its original release.

Given its significance in pop culture and film history overall, it's no surprise that interest in "A Space Odyssey" has hardly waned over the decades. That most certainly applies to the cast of the film, the intrepid group of actors who (along with the cutting-edge visuals) made countless viewer buy into the epic journey across the stars authored by Kubrick and co-writer Arthur C. Clarke. Of course,...

Despite what Hollywood wants us to believe, not every movie ever made needs a sequel. This did not stop the studios from trying their hardest to churn them out, leaving movie fans with only one solution: forget the sequel exists. It’s a useful technique, but, ironically, it doesn’t work on the worst films. We can say to each other, for example, that Highlander II: The Quickening never happened all we want. In our broken, battered souls though, we know it exists. And it sucks so much. The memory endures, like a cinematic kidney stone.

Trying to forget works best on sequels so middling, or cynically shoveled out that there’s not much for our memories to grab on to. If we do remember them, it’s with a befuddled “how the hell did that happen?” or a “they got A-list actors for that?” kind of awe. And then we forget about them again.

The ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey is ambiguous, but there are elements that can be objectively explained. The Star Gate sequence is a mesmerizing set piece that launches Dave into the next stage of evolution. The neoclassical bedroom represents an enclosure built by god-like aliens, suggesting a search for God and spiritual intervention.

The ambiguous ending of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey continues to befuddle audiences, but many elements and the core message of the ending can be explained. Some of Kubrick’s movies have straightforward endings, like the nuclear annihilation of Earth in Dr. Strangelove, but most of them end on an ambiguous note, like The Shining and A Clockwork Orange. The ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey is particularly confusing because the movie takes a surreal, psychedelic turn in its last half-hour, and the complex science fiction narrative doesn't make the 2001: A Space Odyssey ending any clearer.

Long before Christopher Nolan started making movies with puzzling endings — in fact, two years before Nolan was even born — Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey, the movie with the ultimate head-scratching finale. The ending’s symbolism and meaning have been debated countless times in the 55 years since the film was released, and nobody seems to have completely figured it out yet. Of course, the secret may have died with director/co-writer Kubrick, who passed away in 1999. But the closest thing we’ve got to an insider’s point of view comes from Keir Dullea, one of the film’s stars. Speaking at a fan event a few years ago, Dullea gave his opinion about the finale and speculated about what Kubrick might have intended. (Click on the media bar below to hear Keir Dullea) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Keir_Dulea_2001_Ending_.mp3

2001: A Space Odyssey is...

It is 2023, and streaming services are constantly in our faces and on our TVs and devices. Whether it be Max (or The Artist Formerly Known As HBO Max), Apple TV+, Disney+, Paramount+, or old stalwarts like Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video, it seems like we have unlimited options for content.

But even with genre-specific services like Shudder and Screambox, free-services full of movies like Tubi, or deep cut catalogs like The Criterion Channel or Arrow Player, there are still many movies which are not currently available on any service, so we have to call physical media in for the rescue.

Here are 5 excellent horror movies that are not available to stream, rent, or buy on any digital service, but do have excellent physical media Blu-ray and 4K Uhd releases.

Martin (1977)

Zombies. That is probably what comes to mind first when you think of George Romero. What many people don’t...

Prime Video is nothing if not a goldmine of content, with basically something to watch for everyone, and today we are making a list of the best new movies coming to Prime Video in September 2023 that you can watch in the upcoming month. The movies in this list are ranked according to their availability dates.

2001: A Space Odyssey (September 1)

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling,Academy Award winning achievement is a compelling drama of man vs machine,a stunning meld of music and motion.Kubrick(who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past,then leaps millenia(via oe of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowmen(Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.”Open the pod bay doors,Hal.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.

Army of Darkness (September 1)

Synopsis: It’s time to kick some Ash!

The Moon is a Korean sci-fi fantasy film. Directed by Yong-Hwa Kim, The Moon is set in the near future and it follows Astronaut Hwang Seon-woo (Do Kyung-soo), as he tries to survive on the moon after Korea’s second manned mission to the moon goes awry. To get him back home Naro Space Center turns to its former managing director Kim Jae-guk (Sol Kyung-gu). So, if you also loved The Moon here are some similar movies for you to check out next.

The Martian (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Fox

Synopsis: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a...