Matt Singer is the managing editor and film critic of the website ScreenCrush.com. For five years, he was the on-air host of IFC News on the Independent Film Channel, hosting coverage of film festivals and red carpets around the world. He’s been a frequent contributor to the television shows CBS This Morning Saturday and Ebert Presents At the Movies, and his writing has also appeared in print and online at The Village Voice, The Dissolve, and Indiewire.
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The Oscars Will Have No Host This Year
For the first time in 30 years, there will be no Oscar host.
Someone Is Edited Out of the ‘Avengers’ Super Bowl Ad – But Who?
There’s some obvious spaces where a hero has been cut from the new ‘Endgame’ trailer. But WHICH hero?!?
A ‘Child’s Play’ TV Series Is Coming to Syfy
Not only is Chucky getting a new film, he’ll star in his own TV series coming soon.
‘Aquaman’ Is Now the Biggest DC Comics Movie Ever, Sequel in Development
Plus, a sequel is in development.
Report: Netflix ‘Would Lose 57 Percent of Their Subscribers If They Added Commercials’
An interesting study reveals the huge impact commercials would have on Netflix’s audience.
‘Assassin’s Creed’ Review: A Refreshingly Strange Video Game Movie
The assassins of Assassin’s Creed have an assassin's creed that they recite repeatedly in Assassin’s Creed. (If that mere fact alone makes you smile, you’re in for a treat.) This creed involves the phrases like “nothing is true” and “everything is permi…
‘Westworld’ Season Finale Recap: A Journey Inward
Okay, so I guess William got that mole of his taken off at some point? Who knew he was so into cosmetic surgery? He should have gotten some plugs for that bald head of his while he was at it.
‘Rings’ and ‘Friday the 13th’ Sequels Both Delayed
It’s not a great time to be a horror sequel. Blair Witch made just $9.5 in its debut in theaters last weekend (less than Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 made in its opening weekend 15 years ago), and now Variety reports that Paramount is pushing back two long-delayed installments in the horror…
After You Watch These Bill Murray Facts You Will Receive Total Consciousness
By the late 1990s, Bill Murray was one of the biggest comedy stars in the world, commanding a salary per picture of about $9 million. But did you know when Murray agreed to star in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, he made just $9,000, and when the studio refused to give Anderson the money he needed f…
7 Classic Gene Wilder Performances Available to Watch Right Now
How to eulogize Gene Wilder? I keep sitting here trying to find words worthy of the man who gave us Willy Wonka and Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and the Waco Kid. None do him justice. The most fitting tribute to Wilder came from Wilder himself, in a classic song from Will…
‘The Magnificent Seven’ Trailer: Chris Pratt and the Guardians of the Frontier
The bounty hunter, the gambler., the outlaw, the sharpshooter, the assassin, the warrior, and the tracker. Seven (a magnificent seven, if you will) against an army. And the army’s led by Peter Sarsgaard! I don’t like those odds.
‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Review: The Aliens Are Back, Bigger, Dumber, and Stupider T…
Like so many Hollywood blockbusters these days, Independence Day: Resurgence ends with a beginning. Before the dust has settled on the final conflict, the next conflict is already set in motion. Rather than tying a bow around the previous two hours of planet-leveling carnage, Resurgence immediately …