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The Jennifer Lopez Oscar Conversation 20 Years In The Making (Welcome toRole Call, where we examine two performances from an actor – their first defining role and their most recent/last – to get a sense of who they are.) If Academy voters in 1997 had fully understood Selena’s cultural importance,Jennifer Lopezwould have been nominated for an Oscar twenty years ago. Her portrayal of the young singer who was gunned down on the eve of launching into ultra-popularity was such a revelation that it turned Lopez into a star overnight, but it didn’t garner Oscar attention, which is a shame because what she achieved with the role was similar to what Joaquin Phoenix did as Johnny Cash inWalk the Linenearly a decade later....

The Morning Watch: ‘Get Out’ Anatomy Of A Scene, Production Design Of ‘Shape Of Water’ & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, writer/directorJordan Peelenarrates a scene from his Best Picture nominated horror thrillerGet Out....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Mandalorian’ Beskar Vs Marvel’s Vibranium And Adamantium, Remembering ‘The Munsters’ Christmas & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out whetherWolverine’s adamantium claws and skeleton from theX-Menmovies or Captain America/Black Panther’s vibranium would be stronger thanThe Mandalorian’s beskar armor from theStar Warsuniverse....

The Northman Review: Robert Eggers Spins A Brutal Viking Epic With A Dash Of Eerie Shakespearean Tragedy They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But Robert Eggers makes the very good case that revenge is best served on the bloodied backs of hulking Viking brutes, whose feral howls of rage cut through the gray, icy, unforgiving Nordic tundras, and whose quests for vengeance are besieged by witches and war on all sides....

The Woods Casts J.K. Simmons As A Murderous Psychopath On A Rampage JK Simmons has big plans to unleash his inner villain in the upcoming thriller, “The Woods.” Starring alongside Allen Leech (“Downton Abbey”), Fernanda Urrejola (“Cry Macho”), and Isabelle Anaya (“Donny’s Bar Mitzvah”), Simmons plays a murderous sociopath on a rampage. Earlier this year, he flexed his muscles in “The Tomorrow War” and has previously shown some sociopathic tendencies in “Whiplash,” so this feels like a pretty solid fit for JK Simmons, a man with a certain air of intimidation surrounding him....

There’s One Idea Bong Joon-Ho Can’t Keep Out Of His Films Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Hohas mastered every genre from sci-fi to murder mystery, but one subtle common thread runs through all of his work. One theme he established in his breakout crime drama “Memories of Murder” (2003) can be found even in his most recent work, “Parasite,” made nearly two decades later. Bong explained in an interview withThe Atlanticthat his films are founded in “misunderstanding....

TV Bits: Eddie Izzard Is Grandpa In ‘Munsters’ Reboot, Plus: ‘Veep’, ‘Girls’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Magic City’, ‘Mad Men’, Jason O’Mara Yes, thatMunstersreboot is still happening, and now it even has a star. After the jump: Although AMC’sMad Menis known for its painstaking attention to period-specific detail, even they make mistakes once in a while. Critics recently noticed one such slip-up in advance DVD copies of the premiere, which featured Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “The Look of Love” over its end credits....

TV Bits: Netflix Opioid Drama, A Show About Dog House Architecture, ‘SpongeBob’ Prequel, Another Season Of ‘The Blacklist’, And More In this edition of TV Bits: Netflix is making a new scripted drama and limited series about the opioid crisis calledPainkiller, and they’ve gotPeter Bergto direct.Eric Newman, showrunner of bothNarcosshows, is serving as executive producer, and Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpsterwill write and serve as showrunners and executive producers. “A tragedy decades in the making, the opioid crisis has become one of the most devastating public health crises of our time,” said Newman....

VOTD: Pixar Studios 3D Printing And Physical Animation If you collect toys and lovePixar, then these videos will start as exciting and turn into depressing. It shows a wing at Pixar Animation Studios that specializes in 3D printing. Basically, employees can take a frame from any of the Pixar movies and, through specialized printers, output a picture perfect, plaster, 3D model of a character or object from a movie. While toy companies who deal in Pixar materials can certainly make merchandise that looks like it’s from the movie, these machines make models that are precisely from the movie....

What Secrets Lie Within These ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Posters? Come along then, let us be on our way to scrutinize the marketing material forStar Wars: The Last Jedi! We’ve already attempted to dissect the secrets within therecent trailer, but what about the new posters? Both the new poster and a new IMAX standee seem to hold secrets, and only you and I can decode them, dear reader. TheStar Wars: The Last Jediposter secrets await you within....

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Clip: Alita Wrecks The Competition In Motorball In the futuristic science fiction world ofAlita: Battle Angel, the population needs entertainment – and they find it in the form of Motorball, a brutal sport in which cyborgs race around a ring chasing after a ball while destroying each other to get it. 20th Century Fox has released a new clip of a few highlights of directorRobert Rodriguez’s action sequence, which features the amnesiac cyborg Alita (Rosa Salazar) absolutely obliterating her competition in front of an electrified audience....

‘Before Midnight’ Review: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy And Ethan Hawke Meet Impossible Expectations [Sundance 2013] WithBefore SunriseandBefore Sunset, directorRichard Linklaterand starsEthan HawkeandJulie Delpycreated two amazing films about love, romance, relationships and fate. Films that were exceedingly simple visually, but incredibly powerful and complex in character, dialogue and performance. The first began the tale of an American named Jesse (Hawke) and a French woman named Celine (Delpy) who met on a train and fell in love while spending a day together in Vienna....

‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ Moves Forward With New Directors The on-again, off-again development process onBeverly Hills Cop 4is officially on again. Paramount has tapped Belgian filmmakersAdil El ArbiandBilall Fallahto direct the next installment of the action-comedy series, which will bringEddie Murphy’s Axel Foley back to his Detroit roots. Deadlinebroke news of the newBeverly Hills Cop 4directors. El Arbi and Fallah are best known for their TIFF dramaBlack, a Romeo and Juliet tale about a teenage girl who falls for a member of a rival gang in Brussels....