Birds of Prey trailer puts Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn in the spotlight
Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first trailer for Birds of Prey, the film otherwise known as Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), which has Suicide Squad actress Margot Robbie reprising her role as the deranged Harley Quinn.
What The Matrix 4 needs to convince us to take the red pill again
With Keanu Reeves returning to The Matrix for another adventure as cyber-savior Neo, it's time to think about what we really want from a fourth installment of the sci-fi franchise. Here's what we think is absolutely necessary for The Matrix 4 if it's going to live up to the original trilogy.
Thwips and quips: Ranking all the Spider-Man movies from best to worst
With so much of Spider-Man's future in doubt, it seemed like a good time to look back at the friendly neighborhood webslinger's history on the big screen. Here's how all eight theatrical releases featuring Spider-Man stack up, from the worst to the best of the wall-crawler's movies.
Stranger Things recap: Everything you need to know before season 3 premieres
With season 3 of Stranger Things premiering soon, well over a year since the second season arrived on Netflix, there's a good chance you could use a reminder about the events that have unfolded in Hawkins, Indiana up to now. Here's a breakdown of everything that's happened so far in the hit series.
What to watch after Chernobyl: Five compelling films about real-life disasters
HBO's Chernobyl miniseries is a big hit for the network, thanks to its compelling dramatization of the 1986 accident that led to one of the most infamous nuclear disasters of all time. For anyone looking for the next thing to watch, these films offer more excellent drama inspired by real-world disasters.
Us review: Jordan Peele makes seeing double singularly terrifying
Get Out director Jordan Peele brings another terrifying tale to the big screen with Us, in which a family's beach vacation takes a terrifying turn when its members are attacked by a group of people who look just like them. Frightening and impressively acted, Us is another big-screen win for Peele.
Captain Marvel review: Brie Larson’s cosmic hero makes the MCU feel new again
Captain Marvel, the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, brings cosmic hero Carol Danvers to the big screen in a compelling, action-packed, and surprisingly nuanced adventure featuring Brie Larson in the title role, and more than a few narrative twists and turns that keep the story fresh.
How ‘invisible’ effects brought Winnie the Pooh to life in ‘Christopher Robin’
Merging the world of Winnie the Pooh and the rest of A.A. Milne's wonderful creations with postwar London pushed the limits of visual effects in 2018's Christopher Robin and earned the film an Academy Award nomination for studio Framestore and visual effects supervisor Chris Lawrence.
How big screens and small explosions shaped the VFX of Solo: A Star Wars Story
Solo: A Star Wars Story brought the early years of the Star Wars saga's famous smuggler Han Solo to the big screen. It earned an Oscar nomination by finding ways to reinvent the old and make it new again, with some help from the Industrial Light and Magic visual effects team led by Rob Bredow.
To drive its giant virtual world, Ready Player One needed a custom A.I. engine
In order to bring Ready Player One to the screen, director Steven Spielberg and a visual effects team led by Roger Goyett had to build an entirely new universe populated by a host of familiar characters, while still maintaining a powerful emotional depth in their CG creations.
Alita: Battle Angel review
With Alita: Battle Angel, Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron finally deliver a sci-fi, cyberpunk adventure that's been in development for nearly two decades. The film keeps the action high and raises the bar for visual effects with its CG protagonist, even when the story feels a bit underserved.
VFX gurus explain how they weaponized wine and overcame challenges in ‘Aquaman’
Members of Award-winning visual effects company Method Studios explains how they crafted some of the most breathtaking scenes in Aquaman, including the multilayered rooftop chase sequence in an Italian village and the introduction of fan-favorite DC Comics villain Black Manta.
Why First Man’s Oscar-winning visual effects are a giant leap for filmmaking
Damien Chazelle's film First Man made the 1969 moon landing feel as powerful today as it did 50 years ago thanks to innovative visual effects techniques that blended old footage with new material. We spoke to visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert about his Oscar-winning work on the film.
‘Bumblebee’ review
Directed by Travis Knight, Transformers prequel film Bumblebee brings the series back to basics with a grounded, endearing story about a teenage girl's friendship with a transforming robot that not only changes both of their lives, but might save a billion-dollar franchise, too.
Everything we know so far about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Marvel's sorcerer supreme, Doctor Strange, will team up with Scarlet Witch in what might be the MCU's first horror movie. Here's what we know about it so far.
The Star Trek: Picard TV series: Everything we know
CBS premiered its Star Trek: Picard series, featuring the return of Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, on January 23, 2020. The series explores Picard's life after Star Trek: The Next Generation and the 2009 film Star Trek: Nemesis. Here's everything we know about Star Trek: Picard so far.
How VFX magic conjured the fantastic beasts of ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’
Visual effects studio Rodeo FX and VFX supervisor Arnaud Brisebois take you behind the scenes of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald to explore the visual effects that brought the film's amazing creatures and magical cityscapes to life in the Harry Potter spinoff.
‘American Vandal’ canceled by Netflix, but could continue elsewhere
Netflix has canceled its popular true-crime mockumentary series American Vandal, which received critical acclaim across two seasons that saw high-school investigative documentarians investigate the identity of a penis graffiti artist and a laxative-wielding "Turd Burglar."
‘Halloween’ review
David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel is an homage to John Carpenter's 1978 original film in more than just its title, and offers a fresh story that finds the right balance between the familiar and the new with a terrifying return to the blood-soaked saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode.
‘First Man’ review
First Man, Damien Chazelle's biopic of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong that chronicles the events around the famous 1969 moon landing, is another triumph for the Oscar-winning director. First Man is a film that makes the cinematic experience feel fresh in unexpected ways.
‘Daredevil’ season 3 review
Season 3 of Marvel's Daredevil series on Netflix offers some of the show's best moments to date within the first six episodes, and raises the bar for drama, action, and character development with a brilliant new direction for Matt Murdock and his supporting cast of characters.
‘Venom’ review
Sony Pictures' Venom brings the popular Spider-Man spinoff character to the screen in his own solo feature, and star Tom Hardy delivers a performance so enjoyably crazy that it can make a head-chomping alien a cheer-worthy hero. Read on for our full, spoiler-free review of the film.
‘Slender Man’ review
Sony Pictures' big-screen feature based on the viral Slender Man meme fails to live up to its creepy source material by giving audiences a film that's light on scares and relies too heavily on nausea-inducing camera tricks that feel more akin to face-swapping apps gone wrong.
Brewing nightmare fuel with the FX team behind the ‘Stranger Things’ Demogorgon
Spectral Motion is the award-winning studio that brought the terrifying Demogorgon to life in Stranger Things and made Robot from Lost in Space a fully realized character. In this interview, Digital Trends talks creatures, makeup, and movie magic with studio co-founder Mike Elizalde.
‘Castle Rock’ spoiler-free preview: Hulu’s Stephen King series is scary good
Castle Rock, the new Hulu series set within the world of horror novelist Stephen King's acclaimed novels, manages to mine fresh scares from classic stories thanks to its talented cast and creative team. Digital Trends got a look at the first four episodes of the show, and here's what you can expect from it.
M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’: Everything we know so far
Glass is M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming crossover film that combines characters from 2000's dark superhero movie Unbreakable and 2016's multiple-personality thriller Split. With Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and James McAvoy all returning for the film, here's everything we know about it so far.
‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ review
The sequel to 2015 blockbuster Jurassic World, the fifth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise takes the films in a new, and much darker direction, but director J.A. Bayona's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom still manages to retain the series' signature spectacle.
‘I ain’t going nowhere.’ Season 2 of ‘Luke Cage’ does Harlem’s hero proud
The second season of Luke Cage brings Mike Colter back as the steel-skinned hero of Harlem with a host of new enemies and allies joining the series along with some familiar faces, but can it top the critically acclaimed first season? Here's our review of Luke Cage season 2.
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ review
Director Ron Howard takes shoot-first smuggler Han Solo back to his early years in Solo: A Star Wars Story, which finds just the right balance of old and new elements to turn this prequel film into an exciting, entertaining heist movie that pays homage to the sci-fi saga's past.
‘Deadpool 2’ review
Ryan Reynolds returns as Marvel's mouthy mercenary Wade Wilson in Deadpool 2, the sequel to the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, with John Wick co-director David Leitch behind the camera and several new mutants joining Deadpool this time around.
How Avengers: Infinity War’s Oscar-nominated VFX team made Thanos a movie star
Visual effects studio Digital Domain helped turn Avengers: Infinity War villain Thanos into one of the film's breakout roles and earn the film an Oscar nomination. We spoke to members of the film's visual effects team to find out how they made the purple-skinned titan such a fascinating character.
‘Super Troopers 2’ review
Broken Lizard comedy troupe revisits 2001 cult classic Super Troopers with a sequel borne of an impressive crowdfunding campaign. Although the laughs aren't as plentiful or unexpected this time around, Super Troopers 2 still manages to channel the magic of the original in new ways.
Exclusive: How ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ took IMAX further than ever before
Marvel Studios and IMAX take you behind the scenes of Avengers: Infinity War in an exclusive featurette that explains exactly why the studio decided to go all-in on IMAX for the production, and make Infinity War the first major studio release to be shot entirely in the popular large-screen format
‘Westworld’ Season 2 preview
HBO keeps the tension high and the mysteries deep in the first half of Westworld's second season, which brings back many of its most popular characters and takes a deeper dive into the world of its futuristic theme parks. Here's a spoiler-free preview of what to expect from season 2 of the hit series.
‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ review
The sequel to 2013's Pacific Rim finally hits theaters, and Pacific Rim Uprising goes all-in on giant-robot action at the expense of its human elements.
How the ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ FX team crafted its skin-crawling villain
How the Oscar-nominated visual effects in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' brought Supreme Leader Snoke to terrifying life and created the saga's quietest collision.
‘Jessica Jones’ season 2 early review: No villains, no problem
Season 2 of Marvel's 'Jessica Jones' on Netflix hits hard in its first five episodes despite a villain-shaped hole in the story.
‘Annihilation’ review
'Ex Machina' director Alex Garland and a talented cast led by Natalie Portman put a terrifying spin on Jeff VanderMeer's dark sci-fi story in 'Annihilation.'