Sitting down to watch The House with a Clock in Its Walls, you know exactly the movie you want to see. A fun, exciting, kind of scary but whimsical adventure with great visual effects, fun characters, jokes, chills, thrills—all of that. The actual film has some of those things, but not enough to make it truly worth your while.
The first trailer for The House With a Clock in Its Walls was... fine. Cool visuals, great cast, but tonally, it felt a bit awkward. Well, that's gone in this second trailer, which ups the wish-fulfillment, fantasy, and adventure elements in a way that will get you very excited.
Video: The latest film from the director of Hostel and Cabin Fever features a house so haunted, it has its own heart. However, despite Eli Roth's reputation, this isn't a gory horror movie. It's produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which means the scares are fun for the whole family!
Video: If you thought we were still a few years away from human actors believably being replaced by digital replicas, we're actually already there. Check out this behind-the-scenes look at Framestore's work on Thor: Ragnarok's visual effects to see how.
Few Marvel films have reimagined a character as radically as Thor: Ragnarok. Director Taika Waititi took the things fans already loved about the character, filtered them through a new visual palette and added more jokes than almost any other Marvel movie. The result is probably one of the most rewatchable films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
With Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie, Thor: Ragnarok has technically introduced the first canonically queer character to appear in the MCU, but because the only explicit nod to Valkyrie's sexuality was ultimately cut from the film, her queerness remains almost entirely subtextual. It's a bummer, but we can take solace in the fact that with Hela, Marvel has, accidentally, brought queer representation to its Cinematic Universe - in a very particular way.
Cate Blanchett's Hela is one of the highlights of Thor: Ragnarok - but apparently the character could've had quite a different entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because Hela was originally being considered for the second Thor film.
Thor: Ragnarok is the funniest Marvel movie to date. In fact, it may be the funniest superhero movie ever. From the first scene until the very last, it's a non-stop cavalcade of jokes wrapped around an epic, sweeping space adventure. The whole thing will make you absolutely giddy.
So it looks like Marvel has decided it's Thor: Ragnarok Thursday. Earlier, Entertainment Weekly posted our first look at the film, and now they have revealed even more photos, including the much, much anticipated first look at Jeff Goldblum's cosmic lover of competition, the Grandmaster.
Video: Terrence Malick has a documentary that is, of course, about the entire history and future of humankind. And, equally obviously, there's a 40-minute version for IMAX narrated by Brad Pitt as well as a regular film version narrated by Cate Blanchett. No offence to Pitt, but we'd take the Blanchett version any day.
A ton of rumours about the cast of the next Thor movie have been floating around for ages, but now Marvel has finally confirmed its cast list. While there's a few expected faces on there, there's one really big surprise: Jeff Goldblum is in this movie.
