Matt Singer is the editor and 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. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, 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. His first book, Marvel’s Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular, is on sale now.
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New on Netflix: January 2020
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Every ‘Fast & Furious’ Movie Ranked From Worst to Best
Let’s rank all nine Fast and Furious movies. Ride or die.
Watch Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man Screen Test
Before Marvel cast him as Tony Stark, they made him audition!
Everything New on Netflix in July 2019
New ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ are coming your way next month.
The Best Movies of 2019 So Far
At the halfway point of the year, here are the best movies to date.
Charges Against Jussie Smollett Dropped
The ‘Empire’ star had been arrested for making false police reports, but now the Cook County State Attorney’s Office has decided to drop the case.
Luke Perry, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ and ‘Riverdale’ Star, Dies at 52
The ‘Riverdale’ actor never recovered from a “massive stroke” he suffered last week.
Ellen DeGeneres Says the Academy Wants Kevin Hart Back as Oscars Host
DeGeneres told Hart she called the Academy asking them to reinstate him as the host of the movies’ top awards show.
The Weirdest “Sexy” Movie and TV Halloween Costumes
Sexy Venom? Hannibal Lecter? You’ve got to see these.
Black Panther Passes ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Wonder Woman’ at the All-Time Box Office
The new Marvel blockbuster is now the 20th biggest movie of all-time -- after just 12 days of release.
‘Creed’ Review: An Old Franchise Flies High Again
“The way I imagine it, after the fight, he’s riding home in a cab, with the roar of the people chanting ‘Rocky!’ still in his ears. And he just drops over dead. In other words, he has achieved everything possible and he dies when he’s on top. I don’t think people want to see Rocky when he’s 80.”
Netflix Is Raising Their Prices…Again
Chill, Netflix.
The cost of a Netflix subscription is getting a 10% hike. In the short term, only new subscribers are affected; they’ll now pay $9.99 for the standard monthly streaming plan, up a dollar from the previous $8.99 price...
‘Jaws’ Is Coming Back to Theaters For Its 40th Anniversary
On June 20, 1975 a movie about an angry fish opened in about 500 theaters around the country. It was called Jaws, it was directed a guy named Steven Spielberg, it was scary as hell, and it changed the world forever. Its unique release strategy (wide instead of limited), intense television marketing campaign, and record-breaking box office essentially created the summer movie season (and made Spielberg a household name). 40 years later, regardless of its impact, Jaws remains a masterpiece, and a much better and more interesting movie than the vast majority of so-called summer blockbusters that it birthed.
‘Need For Speed 2’ Heads to the Starting Line
Furious 7 is the number one movie in the world, breaking box office records left and right. In a totally unconnected and hugely coincidental bit of news, a sequel to last year’s racing film Need For Speed is in the works from Electronic Arts and a bunch of Chinese partners. Get ready: Here comes Need For Speed: Second Gear! No? Okay, how about Need For Additional Speed? Wait, I’ve got it! 2 Need 2 Speed! Oh yeah, that’s the winner right there.
The Best Movie Trailers of 2014
Trailers are a huge part of the fabric of movies. They play before every film shown in theaters, and on every movie website around the world. They’re commercials, obviously, but they’re also more than that; miniature works of art that utilize the core elements of cinema—image, sound, music, action, editing—at their most pure and refined. And today at ScreenCrush we’re celebrating movie trailers by saluting the best sneak previews of 2014.
‘Hangover 3′ Review
'The Hangover' giveth and 'The Hangover' taketh away.
The first 'Hangover' made Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and especially Zach Galifianakis stars, and it elevated Todd Phillips from middling Hollywood director to name-brand comic auteur. But in the film industry, success that surprising and enormous demands more success; the beast must be fed. But as 'The Hangover Part II' and especially the new '
‘Iron Man 3′ Review
From the earliest days of his appearances in Marvel Comics' 'Tales of Suspense,' Tony Stark has always been modeled after aviator/inventor/industrialist Howard Hughes. With 'Iron Man 3,' Stark assumes a new dimension of Hughes' persona: that of the paranoid shut-in who, in his later years, became notorious for roaming his private floor of the Desert Inn Hotel in Las Vegas, freaking out about invis