CreepLA: Inside the Halloween start-up that's spooking Hollywood

you could thank Visa and MasterCard for your Halloween kicks this year. says the director) run last year. This years no different, boasting celebrity guests every weekend and another almost sold-out stint. Credit: Hatbox Photography Perhaps more impressively,Creepdoesnt boast the same established pedigree that its counterparts have built. People have pulled out of bringing year-round immersive theater to L.A. What VR is doing for cinema, I think is what this immersive world is doing for theatre....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 98 words · Nicholas Moon

Creepy aliens hunt Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal inLifeSuper Bowl trailer

The new clip teases a terrifying, deep-space journey taken by six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The films cast also includesThe Girl on the Trains Rebecca Ferguson andThe Wolverineactor Hiroyuki Sanada. Liferockets into theaters nationwide March 24. Credit: Alex Bailey Watch the new trailer above, and see the films new poster below. Columbia Pictures

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Dustin Smith DDS

Creepy TV Shows: 17 That Are Scary Good

Just like Rubber Man, the cinema-worthy FX series takes no prisoners. So far,Freak Showhas introduced us to what might be thescariest clown ever. That Ryan Murphy sure has a flair for the frightening. Michael Becker/FX This is a television show with imagination. It is a series that we callThe Twilight Zone. Yeah, ‘‘nefarious’’ doesn’t adequately describe this town’s seedy underbelly. Craig Blankenhorn/Fox Or if a serial killer was parading around dressed as Santa?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 226 words · Lisa Gonzalez

Criminal Minds: HowBeyond Borders' Daniel Henney will join the action

Whos dead or alive? Garcia [Kirsten Vangsness] has just learned that her team is in trouble. And the first person she calls is Agent Simmons, Messer tells EW. Sonja Flemming/CBS He drives them to the site of the last known signal from the team. They discover this horrific car accident. Once they see who is injured, they discover that someone is missing. Sonja Flemming/CBS Speaking of whom, heres another first look of the actor as Agent Matt Simmons in his new digs....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 94 words · Philip Perez

Criminal Minds: Thomas Gibson discusses getting fired

He said, Sorry, its necessary, and I absolutely have to have it.' He came into that room and started coming towards me. As he brushed past me, my foot came up and tapped him on the leg, Gibson recalls. Credit: Tony Barson/FilmMagic If I hadnt moved, he would have run into me. We had some choice words, for which I apologized the next day, and that was it. We shot the scene, I went home and I never got to go back....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Christina Fisher

Critical Mass: Bridget Jones, Blair Witch return to screens

Look no further than your local movie theater. See below to find out what critics are saying about all the latest releases. Bridget Joness Baby Opens Sept. 16. Credit: Giles Keyte/Universal; Lionsgate; Jürgen Olczyk (Admittedly, the conversation about Gangnam Style does end in a genuinely funny place.) In another 12 years, who knows?B+ Read the full EW review here. The group gets increasingly more lost as the scares get bigger and bigger....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Dr. Holly King

Critical Mass: Critics keep their distance fromThe Space Between Us

The Space Between Us Opens Feb. 3 in theaters nationwide. And Robertson has the charmingly feisty moxie of a younger, pre-trainwreck Lindsay Lohan. But they cant work their way out of the laughable corner that Chelsom and Loeb have painted them into. Credit: Paramount Pictures; Jack English/ STX Entertainment/Everett; Sony At one point, Tulsa actually has to spell out that Gardners heart is too big for this world. The emo soundtrack and eye-rolling third-act zero-gravity kissing scene dont help matters any....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 216 words · William Morrow MD

Critical Mass: La La Land, Office Christmas Party reviews

Check out what the critics are saying about this weeks new releases in the reviews below. La La Land Opens Dec. 9 in limited release. EWs Chris Nashawaty says: There have been a handful of lavish, big-studio musicals in recent years. Credit: Glen Wilson; Dale Robinette But for the most part, theyve been bloated Broadway adaptations full of sound and fury. And some moviegoers may, no doubt, feel a little tentative about the genre....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Charles Krueger

Critical Mass: Reviews putA Dog's Purposein the doghouse

A Dog’s Purposeis getting some ruff reviews. A Dogs Purpose Opens Jan. 27 in theaters nationwide. However, those who have waited five years to see the ensuing inside-the-Beltway bloodbath will be disappointed. Credit: Joe Lederer ButGoldwastes McConaughey’s mania with unconvincing sentimentality. Nor does the assault against Rana. But for the most part, they’ve been bloated Broadway adaptations full of sound and fury. And some moviegoers may, no doubt, feel a little tentative about the genre....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Gary Hernandez

Critical Mass: Year-end awards contenders soar, blockbusters fizzle

Fences Now playing. EWs Chris Nashawaty says: Wilsons title refers to the fence that Troy is building around his backyard. Its his way of keeping the harsh, unfair world out and protecting whats his. Credit: David Lee/Paramount; Claire Folger/Warner Bros.; Jaimie Trueblood/Sony; Kerry Brown/Paramount Washington and Davis performances do just the opposite. They invite us in to an intimate place thats messy and painful and hard to shake. Its as good as screen acting gets....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · Jennifer Moore

Critical Mass:Beauty and the Beasta pleasant retread

Beauty and the Beast Opens March 17in theatersnationwide. Like so much about Condons film, the new songs are perfectly fine, but theyre just not transporting. More than movies or theme parks, Disney has always been in the business of selling magic. (Should the many sacrifice a few? Belko trends too proudly toward ultraviolence, but theres true-pulp transgression in the films shamelessly sick kicks. A mass execution starts off troubling and then, somehow, becomes hilarious....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 440 words · Justin Rios

Critical Mass:Colossala monster hit,Smurfsgives critics the blues

Colossal Now playing. Her Gloria is basically a walking emotional hazmat zone: toxic, peevish, perpetually self-involved. (Jason Sudeikis is no peach either). But her mess feels real, unlike the manufactured naughtiness of most big-screen bad girls. Absurdity isnt always the mark of simplicity, however. Its more about the bedrock friendship between three lonely old men. Its a character movie, not an action movie. And were always laughing with the characters, not at them and how old they are....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 345 words · Dana Fox

Critical Mass:Fate of the Furiouszooms ahead,Lost City of Zfinds critics' affection

The Fate of the Furious Now playing. ), and an explosive hail-Mary finale so sublimely ridiculous it defies both good sense and gravity. (It helps, perhaps, that several main players have no hair to singe.) Credit: Universal/ Aidan Monaghan / Amazon Studios & Bleecker Street;Johan Voets/A Quiet Passion/Hurricane Films/Courtesy of Music Box Films And Nixon vividly telegraphs both her characters convictions and her deep physical and emotional suffering. But Cedar doesnt seem to trust the depth and width of his story....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 266 words · Jessica May