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The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 17 - The Uncertainty Principle By David Chen/Feb. 19, 2010 2:00 pm EST In this episode of The Tobolowsky Files, Stephen recalls one of his first years “off the beaten path” as he and Beth go to Illinois and encounter genius, insanity, and a ghost. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky....

Video: Tom Hiddleston Appears As Loki At Marvel Comic-Con Panel By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2013 7:24 pm EST The lights went out during the Marvel panel and Loki appeared on the stage at Hall H. Watch the video after the jump now. Video: Tom Hiddleston Appears As Loki At Marvel Comic-Con Panel By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2013 7:24 pm EST The lights went out during the Marvel panel and Loki appeared on the stage at Hall H....

VOTD: Roger Ebert Schools Richard Roeper On Movie Review Ratings By Germain Lussier/Jan. 24, 2014 5:00 pm EST In the realm of movie criticism, people love absolutes. This movie is better than that movie. This movie is 2 stars and that one is 5 stars, etc. However, if you actually critique movies for a living, you quickly realize not all movies are created equal. There are times and circumstances where films that may not be equal are given similar grades for different reasons....

Watch The Oscars Pizza Delivery Guy Collect His $1000 Tip By Angie Han/March 4, 2014 5:00 pm EST Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony had no shortage of A-lister attendees, but the star who really stole the show wasn’t a celebrity at all. It was Edgar Martirosyan, a delivery guy from Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria in Hollywood. While a typical trip for him might yield a few bucks’ tip, Matirosyan’s extra-special delivery to Hollywood’s richest and hungriest yielded an extra-special payoff on The Ellen Show this week....

William Friedkin Considering A Gig On ‘True Detective’ Season 2 By Germain Lussier/July 9, 2014 10:33 am EST True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto is currently writing season 2, and is beginning to let the powers that be in on his vision for the next season. As we know, that vision won’t fit in with the season one story which starred Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Also unlike the first season, it probably won’t be directed by Cary Fukunaga, though we don’t know that for sure....

‘Clouds Of Sils Maria’ Trailer: Juliette Binoche And Olivier Assayas Hit Cannes By Angie Han/May 22, 2014 11:30 am EST As nice as it was to see Juliette Binoche in Godzilla last weekend, we were disappointed to see that she didn’t get nearly enough to do. Thankfully, she has a much meatier role in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, which debuts at Cannes this week. Binoche plays aging actress Maria Enders, who returns to the play that launched her career decades ago....

‘Fast And Furious 6’ Featurette Offers New Footage And Story Details By Angie Han/April 23, 2013 7:21 am EST Even among this summer’s crowded lineup of blockbuster sequels, Fast and Furious 6 manages to stand out as one of the most highly anticipated releases of early summer. The trailers and promos so far have been gloriously high-octane, highlighting the fancy automotive tricks that are the series’ claim to fame. The newest featurette highlights still more explosive new footage, but also reveals a bit more about the story and characters....

‘Gimme Shelter’ Borrows A Great Movie’s Title For A New Teen Pregnancy Drama By Russ Fischer/Nov. 26, 2013 5:00 am EST It isn’t the fault of Vanessa Hudgens that her new movie, Gimme Shelter, steals its title from one of the best music documentaries ever made. (The original Gimme Shelter is famous for catching the murder of a Rolling Stones fan by a Hells Angel employed as concert security, and is commonly considered to represent the end of the so-called Summer of Love....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2014 3:30 pm EST Deadline reports that this would be essentially Gaiman’s Lucifer, saying, That hire means that the guy who did Californication is doing a show about Lucifer making his way through California, and that makes a weird sort of perfect sense. This version of Lucifer was introduced early in Sandman. His first appearance there was very much as an antagonist. But in the ‘Season of Mists’ storyline, Morpheus, the personification of dreams, goes to Hell in an attempt to free Nada, a woman he had imprisoned there centuries earlier....

‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ Star Heather Langenkamp Has Small Role In ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2012 6:00 am EST If you’re like me, you’ll take any little tidbit of news you can get concerning J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sequel Star Trek Into Darkness and this is a fun one. Heather Langenkamp, the star of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, recently revealed she plays a small role in the upcoming film....

‘Sabotage’ Red-Band Trailer: Schwarzenegger’s Return To Lean, Mean Action By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2014 12:30 pm EST David Ayer (Training Day, End of Watch) and Arnold Schwarzenegger team for Sabotage, which looks like a straight-forward, foul-mouthed, head-shootin’ B-movie. Despite the fact that he has been trying to do some acting in his various recent pictures, Schwarzenegger’s return to the screen hasn’t exactly set the box office on fire. Could this movie, which teams him with a solid supporting cast, be the one?...

‘The Avengers 2’ Will Film In UK Next Year; Plus Phase Two Concept Art And Featurette By Germain Lussier/April 2, 2013 8:23 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Two starts in just over a month with the release of Iron Man 3. It ends May 1, 2015 with the release of The Avengers 2, and a new report says director Joss Whedon will reassemble the team in the United Kingdom in early 2014 to get started on production....

‘The Final Member’ Trailer: A Penis Museum Isn’t Even The Weirdest Part Of This Movie By Russ Fischer/Feb. 20, 2014 1:30 pm EST In 2012 Fantastic Fest played a very entertaining documentary called The Final Member. The setting is the world’s only penis museum, located in Iceland. The museum is particularly well-endowed, as its creator, Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson, has collected nearly every possible example of the male organ. But there’s one missing, one “final member....

‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch Has The Voice Of A Dragon By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2013 8:00 am EST The teaser trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug showed a great tease of the appearance of the dragon Smaug. This time you get to hear him speak, in rumbling tones provided by Benedict Cumberbatch. This trailer also shows a few of the ways Jackson has extended the basic story of The Hobbit to fill three movies....

‘The LEGO Movie’ Trailer: Batman Keeps Trying By Russ Fischer/Oct. 31, 2013 10:59 am EST The new trailer for The LEGO Movie, from 21 Jump Street and Cloudy With a Chance of Meathballs directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, continues to suggest that the two guys have pulled off an impressive feat by making a toy commercial movie that looks good. We’ve seen a set of character-oriented teasers over the past week, and in the footage below you’ll see more from lead Lego guy Emmet (Chris Pratt), heroine Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), bad guy President Business (Will Ferrell), Metalbeard (Nick Offerman), and the slightly goofy Batman (Will Ferrell)....

‘True Romance’ Festival Taking Place May 2-3 In Burbank, CA By Germain Lussier/Jan. 28, 2014 7:00 am EST This is so cool. The Quentin Tarantino-written, Tony Scott-directed film True Romance celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Though it’s a bit late, a huge celebration of the film is set for May 2-3 in Burbank, CA. The event will take place at the Safari Inn Motel, the same place Clarence (Christian Slater) and Alabama (Patricia Arquette) go before their wild adventure comes to an end....

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Won’t Be Quite The Same Script Steven Spielberg Considered Shooting By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2013 6:09 pm EST OK, quick recap: in 2006, Steven Spielberg sparked to the idea of a film based around the idea of using wormholes for time travel. The project came to be called Interstellar, and was scripted by Jonathan Nolan. It turned into the focal point for an audience that hoped Steven Spielberg would make at least one more serious sci-fi movie....

Cool Stuff: Ken Taylor’s ‘Beetlejuice’ And Two New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Posters By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2013 4:30 pm EST Mere hours after Martin Ansin’s Taxi Driver was announced and two days away from a huge gallery show, Mondo has revealed three brand new posters. Two are the third and fourth entries in their Game of Thrones series leading up to the March 31 premiere. The third is the first image from Friday’s Stout/Taylor show: Ken Taylor’s Beetlejuice....

Dexter Season 8 Confirmed As Last, For Real This Time; Watch The Sneak Peek By Angie Han/April 18, 2013 4:22 pm EST It’s been all but confirmed for a while now that Dexter’s upcoming eighth season would be its last, but now the end is actually, officially, 100% confirmed. Showtime announced today that the serial killer drama would come to a close after the new season, which kicks off this summer....

Exclusive: Locations From TV Become Art In Tim Doyle’s ‘UnReal Estate III’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 3, 2014 10:00 am EST For two years, Austin based artist Tim Doyle has been proving locations on television are as essential as the characters. The Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons; the RV in Breaking Bad; Castle Greyskull in Masters of the Universe; these locations are as important to their show as Homer, Walt or He-Man. Now, for the third year in a row, Doyle emphasizes that point with the art show UnReal Estate III, which opens Thursday February 6 at Spoke Art in San Francisco....