MOVIE REVIEW: We head into the darkness with Robert Pattinson in The Batman

Shawn Levy has some big ideas!

Film Review show on BBC Radio 5 Live is coming to an end after 21 years.During today’s show (March 11), the pair announced the final episode will be broadcast on April 1, 2022.“21 years is a long time to be clogging up the schedules,” Mayo said. “And we have decided – that’s no one else has decided – we have decided to step away, to withdraw, to spread our wings, to exit, pursued by a bear.“Anyway we are way too expensive and there are much better things for the BBC to spend their money on.”Channelling the great David St.

Grimes has a new romance, according to a new report.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSPOILER ALERT: This story contains major details about the new horror thriller “Fresh.”“Fresh” is not for the squeamish. The new Hulu film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Noa, a woman who falls for Steve, a handsome surgeon (Sebastian Stan) she meets in a grocery store. Little does she know he’s a black market dealer of human meat who sells to enormously rich men who enjoy eating female flesh.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticHumans have five senses, whereas cinema is limited to just two, sight and sound. We often hear how movies are a visual medium, but what about the other, invisible half? Filmmaker Sam Green (“The Weather Underground”) wants to get audiences thinking with their ears as much as their eyes, constructing an immersive, audio-driven essay film that focuses our attention on sound: how it works, what it can do and the way that specific noises can either unlock memories or spark entirely new ones.Full to bursting with humor, emotion and curiosity, “32 Sounds” is a uniquely mind-expanding plunge into a dimension of the human experience so many of us take for granted, a rare and rewarding sonic journey with the potential to enrich our lives.

Just in time for SXSW, Byron Allen’s Digital Freestyle Releasing has promoted Bill Vergos to Head of Digital Film Distribution. He had been VP Operations & Sales since 2015.

Heidi Montag is doing whatever it takes to get pregnant again!

Cardi B has been forced to postpone what would have been her first starring movie role.Cardi was due to star in Paramount Pictures comedy Assisted Living, but a week before production was due to start, the rapper was forced to back out of the production according to Deadline.Cardi was due to play a “low-level criminal on the run when she’s wrongly accused of a crime”, who goes on to hide out in her grandmother’s retirement home, per the film’s official synopsis.However, the movie’s cast and crew were reportedly told last week that Assisted Living is being put on hold for the foreseeable future – although they are hoping to resume filming later this year, Deadline reports. The reason given for Cardi’s departure was her “overextended” work schedule. NME has reached out to representatives for Cardi for comment.Cardi made her film debut in 2019’s Hustlers alongside Jennifer Lopez. Most recently, she also played a supporting role in F9: The Fast Saga.Last week, Charli XCX recalled the time that Cardi B called her “Charli STD” on Twitter.Charli appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on March 4, having released her latest single ‘Baby’ earlier this month (March 1).At one point in the conversation, the singer looked back on her collaborative track with Cardi B and Bebe Rexha, ‘Girls’, which came out in 2018.“It was one of those scenarios where we never actually met when we made the song,” Charli told Fallon.

“The Adam Project,” premiering on Netflix today is a potent blend of oversized science fiction, full of whiz-bang action, and deeply felt emotional storytelling that packs a punch, and TheWrap has an exclusive look at how the film was made. Ryan Reynolds plays a pilot from the future who steals a time-traveling spaceship and travels back to the past, where he encounters a younger version of himself (played by astounding newcomer Walker Scobell).

, the fascinating and addictive Discovery+ series about the fiercely competitive world of pig showing, is back with season 2. ET has the exclusive first look at the all-new episodes of the reality docuseries, which follows rivaling Texas families, the Baleros and the Rihns, as they battle it out for buckles and bragging rights. This season, as the rivalry continues to heat up between the two teams, several members, including Balero protegee Nugget and Rihn coach Tyler, begin to question their allegiances.

Disney+ on Friday, March 11! Watch NowThe animated family film stars Rosalie Chiang and Sandra Oh, and the newest Pixar movie features three new original songs from the GRAMMY-winning sibling duo, Billie Eilish and Finneas. Finneas, who was no stranger to acting prior to his music career, also voices one of the members of the boyband group, 4*Town, in the film.  director and co-writer, Domee Shi, is also known for the Oscar-winning Pixar short,, as well as her work on, and.

Derek and Julianne Hough are celebrating the classic routines from beloved Oscar movies in .The ABC special, airing one week before the Academy Awards, features the siblings, choreographers and professional dancers as they recreate legendary cinematic performances with the help of special guest stars like Kevin Bacon, John Stamos, Jenna Dewan, Harry Shum Jr., Amber Riley, Charli D'Amelio and newly minted Screen Actors Guild Award winner Ariana DeBose.ET exclusively debuts first look photos from the upcoming special, which will include reimagined performances from and «This is a show that we’ve been thinking about for kind of a long time,» Derek revealed to ET's Lauren Zima earlier this month while on the set of the special. «Stepping into the movies and recreating these iconic dance scenes in these films that inspired us.»And, surprisingly, the duo didn't have much time to rehearse for the hour-long special — only 10 days, in fact.

Once a supermodel, always a supermodel! Heidi Klum looked like she was posing for a cover shoot in her latest Instagram post! The America’s Got Talent judge, 48, took to her social media late Thursday night (March 10) to share a clip of herself looking absolutely fierce as she hung out in bed with her Tokio Hotel rocker husband Tom Kaulitz, 33. The German-born beauty draped her flawless figure in nothing but lingerie, showing her 9 million fans that she’s still got it!

On the down low! Sydney Sweeney embraced her honey red new hue in all its glory at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday, March 6, but it turns out that she’s had a tress transformation going on for quite some time. 

Zac Efron’s done an excellent job of erasing his squeaky-clean Disney Channel image in recent years. If his fratboy roles in “Neighbors” and its sequel commenced the process, then his turns as a paint-huffing pyromaniac in Harmony Korine’s “The Beach Bum” and serial killer, Ted Bundy, in “Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil And Vile” completed it.

Joe Biden announced on Friday that the U.S. and its allies are moving to revoke Russia’s “most favored nation” trade status following its invasion of Ukraine.

Freaky Friday actor stars in a new science fiction/action/comedy/drama/everything movie called Everything Everywhere All at Once. (Cue that TikTok sound with Bo Burnham singing, “Can I interest you in everything? All of the time?”) The film was made two years ago before the pandemic shut most of Hollywood down, and its release date is finally approaching. In the film, the plays an IRS Inspector opposite , who stars as the manager of a laundromat in L.A.

Defending her new diet. Heidi Montag explained why she’s eating raw meat amid her struggles to conceive baby No. 2.

Sam Heughan dishing on his Text For You co-star Celine Dion!

New details are surfacing about the end of Flip or Flop.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThis far into his screen career, it shouldn’t be a revelation to anyone that Zac Efron can act. He’s shown canny comic chops in the “Neighbors” films, wounded all-American ennui in “We Are Your Friends” and “At Any Price,” even a credible against-type chill as Ted Bundy in “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” — none of which has been enough to overtake his bland, floppy-banged, career-minting “High School Musical” persona in the popular imagination.

Gigi Hadid has celebrated the end of the fall 2022 fashion season with a bang.The model has just been snapped arriving in London with brand new bleach blonde hair – a huge change from the coppery hue she’s been favouring since March last year. Her new lengths match her bleached eyebrows, which she premiered last week on the Versace Milan catwalk.

Disney+ on Friday, March 11! Watch NowThe animated family film stars Rosalie Chiang and Sandra Oh, and the newest Pixar movie features three new original songs from the GRAMMY-winning sibling duo, Billie Eilish and Finneas. Finneas, who was no stranger to acting prior to his music career, also voices one of the members of the boyband group, 4*Town, in the film.  director and co-writer, Domee Shi, is also known for the Oscar-winning Pixar short,, as well as her work on, and.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJim Gaffigan has had a very busy pandemic. The fruits of his COVID-era labors are on display recently in two distinctive projects that illustrate the size and scope of his ambitions.First, there’s his recently released special “Comedy Monster,” a filmed version of his stand-up act that quickly became a ratings juggernaut for Netflix (more on that later).Then there’s “Linoleum,” an off-beat dramedy that premieres March 12 at SXSW and showcases a much more understated Gaffigan doing double duty, playing both a children’s TV host named Cameron and a charming NASA scientist called Kent. Both projects were conceived and shot as the world was grappling with its new masked reality.

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has shared an update on the film adaptation of her 2021 memoir, Crying In H Mart.As announced in June last year, the musician is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation and the soundtrack under the moniker, Japanese Breakfast.Speaking to Consequence about her progress on the film, Zauner said: “So I actually just finished the first draft of the screenplay.“My producers really like it, so hopefully the revision process won’t be too brutal. And yeah, hopefully that will come out sometime in the next couple years.

the former Empire actor was found guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct pertaining to a police report he filed on January 29, 2019 – the same day the alleged attack took place.Smollett’s lawyer Nenye Uche said at the time that he would appeal the conviction, adding that his client was “committed to clearing his name”.While handing Smollett his sentence in a Chicago court yesterday (March 10), Cook County Judge James Linn said: “Let me tell you, Mr Smollett, that there is nothing I can do here today that will come close to the damage that you have already done to your own life.“You’ve turned your life upside down by your misconduct and your shenanigans.”He added: “You took some scabs off some healing wounds, and for one reason: You wanted to make yourself more famous, and for a while it worked. The lights were on you.

Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’ have surged following its inclusion in The Batman.The deep cut from Nirvana’s classic 1991 album ‘Nevermind’ has surged on steaming platforms according to initial reports from MRC Data (via Billboard).The song appears twice in the film and also appeared in trailers leading up to the film’s release.According to the figures from MRC, ‘Something In The Way’ earned 3.1million on-demand official US streams in the first four days following the film’s release on March 4, an increase of 372,000 from the previous four days – or a 734 per cent increase.Between March 6-7, the song racked up 880,000 streams and then rose to 1.5million the following day. By March 8, the song had tallied 1.6million streams.The Batman director and writer Matt Reeves has explained how Robert Pattinson’s character was inspired by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain last year.Speaking about the inclusion of the song to Empire back in December, Reeves said: “That’s when it came to me that, rather than make Bruce Wayne the playboy version we’ve seen before, there’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse.“So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, and the idea of this fictionalised version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.” He then discussed how he believed Robert Pattinson was perfect for the part after witnessing his performance in 2017 film Good Time.He said: “In that movie you could really feel his vulnerability and desperation, but you could also feel his power.

Manchester City goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu will maintain the number one shirt for the Republic of Ireland this month, despite the Carabao Cup heroics of Liverpool back-up stopper Caoimhin Kelleher.

Rio Ferdinand has discussed the possibility of Bayern Munich marksman Robert Lewandowski in the Premier League, lauding his achievement of over 40 goals in the last seven seasons.

A former convent in Dumfries that was once used as a movie set is being trashed by unholy vandals.

Metal Lords – an upcoming film from Games of Thrones co-creator D. B.