Making a great science fiction sequel may be easier than creating a killer comedy sequel, but not by much. Producers have been turning out second (and third, and fourth) chapters to continue stories of space an...
Daniel Radcliffe is a dead body that gives life in the infinitely strange and terminally unsatisfying "Swiss Army Man." The feature directorial debut from inventive and successful music video directors the Dani...
2016 marks the twenty-year anniversary of Nicolas Winding Refn’s emergence as a feature writer/director. His 1996 debut, the street-level Danish crime film “Pusher,” led to a string of other gritty stories of m...
Aside from the brief craze in the 1980s when “Krull” and “Conan” and the like roamed theaters, fantasy had never been a particularly popular genre for filmmakers to tackle —principally because it was too expens...
Two notorious real-world paranormal incidents from the 1970s get new treatment in “The Conjuring 2,” director James Wan’s sequel to his 2013 horror hit. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as Lorraine and Ed...
Epic in scale, but overly-familiar in shape, Legendary Pictures’ “Warcraft,” is so easily identifiable it begs the question: will fantasy films ever break free from the ruling influence of "The Lord of the Ring...
Pop quiz, hotshot: what’s the biggest independent movie of the year so far? Unlikely sleepers “Eye In The Sky,” starring Helen Mirren, or “Hello My Name Is Doris” with Sally Field? Tom Hanks vehicle “A Hologram...
“I may be a little slow. I’m not used to this anymore,” Shane Black preemptively apologized at the beginning of his interview with the Playlist. “I forgot that these things are a drain by the end of the day,” s...
Seth Rogen has come a long way since his early days playing roles on "Freaks & Geeks" and "Undeclared." Rogen is now a true multi-hyphenate writer/producer/director/actor, with forthcoming projects that lie...
Shane Black finds new inspiration in his own personal obsessions for "The Nice Guys," a comedic thriller starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as a mismatched pair of private eyes led by a missing-persons cas...