Phil Lord
'The Afterparty,' which returns for its second season on July 12, continues to be the only whodunnit that doesn't live or die on who-dun-it.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review: The Spider-Verse Just Levelled Up
How do you improve on a masterpiece? Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse cracked the code.
CONTEST: Win advance screening passes for Cocaine Bear!
He's got legends lined up to tell his story. Find out how you can enter to win passes to see Cocaine Bear at a screening in either Toronto or Montreal.
Movies vs. Matrimony: Season 2 Round 16
Find out who won round 16 of MvsM!
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – The First Hip-Hop Superhero Movie
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s inclusion of a multiverse lets the film go as big as the art department’s imaginations allow and to deliver a movie that feels like a living breathing comic book.
Solo Interview: How Paul Bettany’s Star Wars Dreams Finally Came True
The Solo: A Star Wars Story villain and Avengers star gushes about Donald Glover, Ron Howard, and the future of the Star Wars franchise.
Solo: A Star Wars Story Review
The superficial Solo: A Star Wars Story already feels like a footnote to the epic saga. Read our full review straight from Cannes.
You Should Be Watching: New TV Picks (Part 2)
These are Peter's best bets and sure things of the new TV season, so be sure to mark them in your nightmare-agenda book.
The June Home Entertainment Round-Up
Time once again for our writers to look to their latest Blu-Ray, DVD, and VOD purchases with looks at new releases The Lego Movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alan Partridge, Small Time, The Cold Lands, Tapped Out, and A Wife Alone, and re-releases for The Life Aquatic, Judex, Hearts and Minds, The Revengers, and Countess Dracula.
22 Jump Street Review
It’s still hilarious, possibly even more so than its predecessor through sheer volume of jokes alone, but 22 Jump Street manages to be rushed, over thought, and even kind of smug via a brand of meta humor that makes its tone almost inscrutable.
The Lego Movie Review
Everything about The Lego Movie is awesome. An astoundingly smart, gut busting comedy with an anti-corporate message tied into the greatest virtues of one of the most beloved brands on Earth, Phil Lord and Chris Miller's exceptional film for people of all ages deserves to be talked about in the same breath as Monsters Inc. and Fantastic Mr. Fox when talking about the best animated comedies of the new millennium.
The Lords (and Millers) of Your Childhood
We catch up with one of the most beloved directorial duos working today, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, to talk about their work on The Lego Movie, why they have no interest in selling toys, the hardest part of animating a toy made out of building blocks, creating catchy earworms, and how their very terrible idea of a double decker couch was a very real thing.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Review
While Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 might not be directly created by the same writers and directors as the first incredibly delightful and hilarious animated outing, the sequel might actually be a tad bit better than the previously high set bar.
This Week in DVD: 6/26/12
This week in new DVD releases, a pair of sonically intriguing films with the Best Picture winning The Artist and the winning Swedish import Sound of Noise, and a pair of buddy action films with the smash hit 21 Jump Street and WWE Studios' Bending the Rules
21 Jump Street Review
Based on the laughably implausible and cheesy late 1980s Fox television drama, 21 Jump Street fires perfectly on all cylinders to create an experience that will appeal wonderfully to fans of Hot Fuzz and the Bad Boys films.