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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Disney Is Rebooting ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
The creator of ‘Chernobyl’ is working on the film.
People Are Doing the ‘Bird Box’ Challenge, And Netflix Is Begging People Not to Take It
Men women (and babies) are going viral by performing tasks blindfolded, but Netflix is pleading with people not to hurt themselves.
Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, the Ultimate Pro Wrestling Manager, Dies at 73
Heenan is arguably the pro wrestling greatest manager who ever lived. He died after a long battle with throat cancer.
A Complete Ranking of Every Spider-Man Movie Poster
Here’s the Wall-Crawler’s entire movie history, told in the sometimes amazing (and sometimes craptacular) posters from his movies.
The 15 Strangest Movies Based on TV Shows
If you prefer watching people sit on a beach to actually sitting on a beach for Memorial Day weekend, there’s a new Baywatch movie in theaters today, starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. Though Baywatch endured in syndication for over a decade, it’s not like there was a massive fanba…
The New ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Will Be the First Movie Released in the U.S. in the Scr…
The movies are getting bigger all the time — quite literally in the case of ScreenX, a new theatrical format from Korean company CJ 4DPLEX, the same company behind the 4DX technology you may have already seen invade your local multiplex. (We wrote about that experience here.) ScreenX is descr…
‘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…
‘Rogue One’ Review: A ‘Star Wars’ Movie Heavy on War (And Light on Stars)
It’s telling that Rogue One’s best character is a robot.
What’s Leaving Netflix in November 2016
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Streaming-ly speaking.
War Has Begun in First ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Teaser
Few franchises have had a more successful or impressive reinvention in recent years as Planet of the Apes. The original series, beloved in its day, petered out by the middle of the 1970s, and the first attempt to revive it, in a 2001 film from director Tim Burton, proved disastrous. But the new preq…