Kate Mara

One of the film’s screenwriters reveals the better movie we almost got instead.

Ryan Murphy’s ‘80s ball culture drama Pose already made history with its volume of transgender stars in major roles, and now FX is making it official. The LGBTQ drama has an official series order and first photo, though a slight casting shakeup means that Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany will no longer take part.

A secret Louis C.K. movie, Brie Larson’s directorial debut, Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Molly’s Game’ and HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ are headed to the Toronto International Film Festival.

Kate Mara looks very confused in the new teaser trailer for ‘Morgan,’ and so am I.

We’re still short an actual trailer for House of Cards Season 4, whose premiere will shove us all to the tracks by March, but in the meantime, remember that President Frank Underwood is one stone-cold killer. Revisit his most shocking act with a new look at House of Cards Season 4!

The Martian is probably the most fun you will ever have watching a bunch of nerds solve math problems.

As of this writing, Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four has made $25.6 million. Improbably, that’s less than half of either of the previous big-budget Fantastic Four movies, which are widely disliked by comics fan and cinephiles alike. There’s a chance Trank’s FF could wind up grossing less in theaters than Blade: Trinity, or even Trank’s own surprise debut hit, Chronicle (which cost about a tenth of his follow-up). In Hollywood parlance, those are ungood numbers. In most cases, they would almost mean certain doom (har dee har har) for any chance of a sequel.

The fact that Fantastic Four had a disastrous shoot followed by laborious reshoots may be the worst kept Hollywood secret of all time. Even if director Josh Trank hadn’t publicly displayed his dissatisfaction with the finished movie, just about anyone who sat through this mess could tell something was wrong just from the finished product. They’d know if from the inconsistent pacing, the main characters who contribute nothing to the movie, and a climax that feels like it was cobbled together by a completely different creative team. Hell, they’d know it from Kate Mara’s terrible reshoot wig, which sticks out like, well, a bad wig.

Here’s the thing about this Fantastic Four movie: it was supposed to be horrible. This movie has been riding an almost unprecedented level of bad buzz since earlier this year. Strangely, it seems to have started over literally nothing. Fans were upset they hadn’t seen anything official from the movie and began to suspect it stunk. Then, depending on who you talk to, the director was fired, the actors were upset and the script was a mess. But, the days of speculation are over and none of that bad buzz matters any more; there’s an actual film that can be judged on its own merits. Sadly, Fantastic Four, on its own merits, is still horrible.

As skeptical as many fans rightfully have been about Josh Trank’s reboot of Fantastic Four, there’s something sort of appealing about the film’s aesthetic and tone from the various teasers and trailers. In keeping with 20th Century Fox’s recent X-Men films, Fantastic Four looks as though it walks the line between the fun, vibrant world of the MCU and the grittier, stylized approach of Zack Snyder’s DCU.