One of the more surprisingly awesome movies of 2007 was I Am Legend. Our expectations were not that high for the adaptation of the graphic novel that starred Will Smith as one of the last humans left in an empty New York City, accompanied only by his dog and a legion of zombie-like creatures.

You can imagine our surprise when the film became one of our favorite genre flicks of the last decade and it easily is one you can watch over and over again.

A sequel has been in development since it left the theaters. But between Smith’s unwillingness to go back to the role and scripts that seem to be taking up a permanent address in development hell, it never happened.

Well, Warner Bros. feels that they have a real property with franchise potential so news arrives today that they’ve scrapped the idea of a sequel and will just reboot the entire I Am Legend world and bring it to a theater near you sooner than later.

The studio stumbled on a “Black List” script by Gary Graham called A Garden at the End of the World that reminded them of the feel of I Am Legend and they've hired the writer to pen a reboot for the post-apocalyptic thrill ride with smarts.

Watch I Am Legend online and discover anew what it is that is so special about that Smith flick and here’s hoping that a reboot will bring something different and be as surprising as the first one. 

We were among the first in the world to witness over 20 minutes of footage for Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, then we saw the premiere of that powerful Exodus: Gods and Kings trailer. How do you top that? Well, star Christian Bale proceeded to take to the stage at the Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox lot and talked to us about his experience making the biblical epic that chronicles the vast scope that is the life of Moses.

"He really was a very troubled and tumultuous man," Bale said of his investigation into the world of Moses. "He was very mercurial."

Bale tackled a varied list of sources when trying to find the man behind the icon. “I read the Torah, the Pentateuch, the stories that people recommended -- one of them I enjoyed a great deal was called Moses: the Life, Legends of the Jews -- and the Quran as well,” Bale said.

The Oscar winner then proceeded to rent a few movies to get a feel for the biblical tales that had been told before. Some of his choices may surprise. “The very first film I rented immediately after a meeting with Ridley was (Monty Python’s) The Life of Brian,” he said and laughed.

There was a method to that reasoning. “Anything where you’re approaching it from a very earnest point of view can unintentionally become The Life of Brian. It was a guiding light for me.”

His cinematic biblical humor journey did not stop there. “Immediately after that I rented Mel Brooks’ History of the World. You have to get it out of your system and you have to understand what it is that we can unintentionally make funny,” Bale reported.

“And you have to have humor. As earnest and as heavy as this, you have to have an element of comedy at your everyday life during film because otherwise it just becomes too exhausting.”

Did he re-watch The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston?

“I did. You know you can’t out-Heston Charles Heston,” Bale admitted and smiled.

“In my reading of the five books, I noticed this was an incredible weight he (Moses) was lifting on his shoulders. This should be something where you see a man really straining. That is of his nature. He really fought against being chosen. Ours should be a Moses just desperately trying to move forward because of the enormous pressure this is on him.”

Bale and Scott knew each other, but never quite found the right project to connect professionally. That is until Scott decided to take on the biblical story that is among the most widely known. “Ridley and I talked together often and said, 'Let’s find something,' and that was about four years ago, five years ago,” Bale said. “Then he turned up and said, 'I’ve got something. It’s Moses.' 'Swords and sandals?' 'Yeah, straight up Moses!'”

He immediately was drawn to it, simply because of Scott’s vision for how to tell this story. See, Exodus: Gods and Kings is the tale of the Jews leaving Egypt after centuries of slavery.

“There had to be a choice about how far we went with the story. It’s called Exodus for a reason, it’s not called Moses,” Bale said. “It was a story of revolution.”

One thing that was evident, even from that first Exodus: Gods and Kings trailer, is that there is a lot of guyliner used in the production. Bale was more than ready for that aspect!

“In the Egyptian part, these are people who lived as gods and therefore there’s a reputation to uphold and a beauty that they must convey. I’ve done a glam rock film before (Velvet Goldmine​) and I was good at putting on my own eyeliner,” Bale said.

When he headed off to film Exodus: Gods and Kings, he tried not to think too much about the gargantuan task that lay ahead, much of it relying on his shoulders as the man who would be the legend that is Moses.

“It is because I’m a real prat, so you go, ‘Wow, look at that. Look at all the people -- that’s a kilometer long. That’s amazing. What are they waiting for? Oh.’ You act it as though you can handle all this. To me that’s not an unhealthy thing,” Bale said.

“The day that I looked at something that size and thought I should probably be in the middle of that, I’d probably just hate myself.”

Want to see what we learned from those 20 minutes of Exodus: Gods and Kings footage? Click through the slideshow below and find out!

11 Things We Learned From Exodus Gods and Kings Footage

1. You Can't Out-Heston Charlton Heston

We met Christian Bale after screening the 20 minutes of footage and when asked about The Ten Commandments and that iconic performance of Charlton Heston, he simply said you don’t even try. "You can't out-Heston Charlton Heston," Bale admitted. "There's no point in trying!"

Focus Features has released the thrilling new trailer for Jude Law’s latest, Black Sea.

Law stars as a man who has spent the last three decades working on submarines and then is suddenly let go. Desperate for money, he has a plan, and now has the time to pursue it.

When he was out with a sub previously, Law’s character discovered a sunken Nazi U-boat that he believes is littered with gold. He assembles a team and heads off to the Black Sea believing that there could be $80 million out there to split evenly amongst the crew.

We all know how that is going to go!

Black Sea Trailer

Greed is such a nasty villain, isn’t it?

Black Sea lands from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland​) on January 23, 2015 and also stars Scoot McNairy (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Ben Mendelsohn and David Threlfall. 

Check out the first photos from Black Sea and click through the slideshow below!

Black Sea Photos

1. There's Gold In Dem Dere Nazi Sub

Jude Law finds what he is looking for in Black Sea. But, has he invited something even worse into his world?

Any time a movie trailer starts with the Pixar logo, you have us. Period. But, Pixar’s latest teaser trailer has arrived and it explores the most fascinating of concepts -- our emotions.

Oscar-winning director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc., Up) brings us Inside Out and it appears to be the most original of story ideas, brought to life in the most vividly gorgeous animated way that can only come from Pixar.

The teaser trailer for Inside Out is here and it starts with a cornucopia of images from some of their greatest hits. It is all part of an effort to show how the studio has captured the human emotional spectrum like no other. And now, they are literally going inside the brain to make characters out of those emotions.

Inside Out Teaser Trailer

We meet Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). And they are all inside the head of young Riley as she tries to adjust to life in her new city of San Francisco.

One of the most powerful of Pixar movies in the emotional realm can be seen when you watch Up online.

And considering that Inside Out is from the Up creator, we will be front and center when Inside Out arrives in theaters June 19, 2015 -- part of what we’re calling our greatest summer movie season ever! 

Inside Out Photos

1. Inside Out's Cast

The cast of characters of Inside Out, from Joy (Amy Poehler) to Anger (Lewis Black).

We all know it costs a lot of money to make movies. But, which movies cost the most to make? You probably think you know the film that had the highest budget. Heck, watch Titanic online and that’s probably what you’re thinking.

But, you’d be wrong!

We’ve compiled a list of the priciest movies to bring to the silver screen in the history of Hollywood, adjusted for inflation.

Would you be surprised if a certain Disney animated movie sat in the top 10?

Yeah, watch Tangled online, and yes, you can see every penny of the $281.7 million it cost! Half the budget probably was spent on animated hair!

We’ve got a varied list of movies that make up our 21 flicks whose finances went through the roof. Sure, many of them are massive hits and more than made back their money. Watch Avatar online and there’s one.

But, we also have one that forced a certain studio to sell off miles and miles of its property because the film cost so much and made so little.

Click through and discover the 21 most expensive movies ever made!

21 Most Expensive Movies of All Time

21. The Amazing Spider-Man

The reboot that most people didn't want, but still millions saw (!), cost $236.7 million to bring to the big screen. That's a whole lot of web!

One of the most surprising teases we’ve seen of late is the Mortdecai trailer. And one of the most delightful aspects of that preview for the January 23, 2015 release was the quirky and far-out performance of Johnny Depp… and his mustache!

Lionsgate has released a series of Mortdecai character posters featuring that soon-to-be legendary ‘stache on not only Depp, but on his co-stars’ characters as well, played by Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Mortdecai stars Depp as Charlie Mortdecai, an art dealer who travels the globe looking for unexpected riches and adventure. But, he may have stumbled on his greatest journey and highest payday when he realizes that a piece of art may hold the key to a cache of Nazi gold.

Hot on his tail is an MI5 officer, his cunning wife and an international terrorist.

Hey, but if anybody can get away with this feat, it’s the man with the golden mustache.

The film is based on the book Don’t Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli and is clearly one of our most anticipated flicks for the early part of 2015. 

Mortdecai Character Posters

1. Johnny Depp Is Mortdecai

The man who inspired the character posters, Mortdecai himself, and his magnificent mustache.

Back when we were at Comic-Con rumors swirled that Joaquin Phoenix would be Dr. Strange. But given the constant rumors and that some had Johnny Depp as Dr. Strange, we didn't think much of it.

Well, Marvel and Phoenix had been talking about it and reports arrive today that the star of the recently released Inherent Vice trailer has walked away. 

That’s right, Phoenix is no longer going to be Dr. Strange. Although at first we thought it was a unique casting choice, over time we have come to believe that the man who was Johnny Cash would have made a perfect Dr. Strange.

So, now the production that has Jon Spaihts writing the script and Deliver Us From Evil director Scott Derrickson directing is in search of a star.

They better get on that because Marvel has the Dr. Strange movie scheduled to be released July 8, 2016. Then again, if Ant-Man can lose Edgar Wright and still make its 2015 release date, we’re sure the studio that seems to do no wrong will be just fine.

Rumors had producers looking at Benedict Cumberbatch before... perhaps now he'll sign on?

Whoever gets the role, they have some pretty high levels to attain as superheroes have come to demand the most from their actors. Just check out our slideshow of the 21 greatest superhero performances.

21 Best Comic Book Movie Performances

1. Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 3

Robert Downey Jr. could not have been a better choice to play Tony Stark and his metal plated superhero alter ego, Iron Man. But, it was his fourth turn as the billionaire that truly was his best turn. The way he channeled a post traumatic stress that he clearly had from the Battle of New York in The Avengers was simply powerful.

File this in the it’s hard to believe but when you think about it we’re not surprised department... It was announced today that a Baywatch movie is happening. And what’s crazier (or makes perfect sense, we’re not sure) is that Dwayne Johnson is starring.

Johnson will be hitting the screen in the film to be directed by Sean Anders and John Morris. They’ll be working from a screenplay by Justin Malen.

We’re not sure if Johnson is set to play the part made famous by David Hasselhoff or if this is a new incarnation that only shares the name Baywatch with the iconic TV Show.

Check out Johnson in action and watch Fast and Furious 6 online as we ready for his next action role in Fast and Furious 7 to arrive in the first third of 2015.

Also, Anders and Morris just premiered the Horrible Bosses 2 trailer, their latest venture. 

After raking in over a billion dollars at the international box office, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction has arrived on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download.

As we stated in our Transformers: Age of Extinction review, the fourth Bay Transformers movie is not the best, but it’s not the worst either!

This time out, Shai LaBeouf is (thankfully) gone and Mark Wahlberg is our lead, flexing his muscles as a single father doing his best to provide a good life for his daughter (Nicola Peltz). When he finds an old abandoned truck and decides to fix it, he discovers that he’s found a Transformer!

Exciting, or is it?

As teased in the Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer, the government comes sweeping in and he and his family’s life will never be the same as they go on the run and get embroiled in what proves to be an interstellar invasion that threatens to take both the Transformers and the human race to the brink of extinction. It’s a global adventure of the most explosive varieties that is told in a classic, over-the-top-but-fans-love-it way by Bay.

The Transformers: Age of Extinction DVD and Blu-Ray contain over four hours of bonus content, and for fans of the series, that has to be music to their ears.

Given that this entire series, and almost especially this fourth film, is all about the Bay touch, the Bay On Action featurette has to be at the top of the must-see list for bonus features on the Transformers: Age of Extinction home video. It is a deeply intense and personal interview with Bay about his vision for the series and how he approaches the institution that is the big blockbuster differently than anyone else.

After all, when you watch a Bay film, you know you’re watching a Bay film!

Generation 2 is also quite fascinating in that there are so many fresh faces in this fourth film, this featurette looks at who has joined the team, and their insight as to why they wanted to make Transformers: Age of Extinction is often brutally honestly and sometimes even funny (we’re talking to you, Wahlberg!).

As we previewed long before the film opened, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee got new designs for the fourth film. And Drive Like Hell chronicles that effort from the design to the practical. Oh, and how Lockdown became a Lamborghini Aventador is a pretty cool addition too to this feature.

Given that much of the film was shot in China, a rarity these days, The People’s Republic explores how that came about and also how once in China, Bay and his team managed to shoot and choreograph many of the mind-blowing action sequences in a country that had never played host to such things prior.

As shown in that featurette, would you believe that many of the Chinese actors that appeared in the film were found on a Chinese reality TV show?!

And the final bonus feature we’d like to spotlight should be a terrific gift for fans of Transformers from way back in the day. When that Transformers: Age of Extinction Super Bowl trailer aired, we got our first look at the Dinobots and we knew that those pesky machines would be in Bay’s fourth Transformers film.

Rise of the Dinobots illustrates how that came to be by giving a history of those characters, as well as how they made their live action debut with Transformers: Age of Extinction. Cameras even take us inside Industrial Light & Magic to remove the veil of mystery of their creative process when it comes to creating the beloved Dinobots.

Watch Transformers: Age of Extinction online right now!

Transformers: Age of Extinction Quotes

The hunt ends here!

Optimus Prime

• Permalink: The hunt ends here!
• Added: June 30, 2014

1. Optimus is Over Being Hunted

Optimus Prime stands up!

As you can see by our The Conjuring review, we adored that flick and one part of the fear factor clearly came from that doll, simply known as Annabelle.

Well, now we get the prequel and it's pretty obvious by the title, Annabelle, that this horror entry into the October Halloween scare fest focuses squarely on how that creepy doll became so creepy.

Annabelle Wallis is Mia and Ward Horton is her husband John. It’s the '60s and they live in Santa Monica just as the Manson killings are putting fear into Los Angeles county residents.

Mia is expecting the couple’s first child and as a gift, John gives his wife a doll (yup, that one) that she had been searching for everywhere to “complete” the baby’s room -- frankly, all of this baby’s dolls are spooky!

But, given the massive and elongated close-ups of Annabelle by director John R. Leonetti (The Conjuring director James Wan is a producer), you get the picture that there’s something unique about this one.

When a brutal home invasion by satanic cultists leave their neighbors murdered, the attackers enter our couple's home
 -- as teased in the Annabelle trailer -- and are killed, and then a little blood spills on our doll that one of the killers took a liking to.

Let’s just say things are never the same again.

Mia and John have their baby. The doll acts weird. They give rid of said doll. They move to Pasadena, and guess what shows up? Yup, Annabelle. And instead of freaking out completely, Mia puts the tarnished and now looking more spooky than ever doll right up on the baby’s bookcase. No big whoop.

It is at this point that we start having some real issues with Annabelle. There’s a whole lot of suspension of disbelief that goes into most horror movies in order to have them be fun and horrific to the audience. But there are several problems with Annabelle, and one is that it is not in the least bit scary. There are moments when the audience will jump, sure, but we actually think that those are knee-jerk reactions to horror situations our mind tells us to jump at, not necessarily because what we saw on screen truly terrified us.

There are two things that save this film from becoming more of a Halloween ha-ha than a Halloween horror classic and that is Alfre Woodard and Tony Amendola. The veteran actors bring a level of sophistication to the film that is otherwise lacking. Woodard plays a concerned neighbor with knowledge of the supernatural and occult and Amendola portrays their priest from church who counsels the couple in their “troubled” times.

Both Amendola and Woodard become intimately involved when the scare meter starts inching higher as we move towards our conclusion. And that is a brilliant stroke of storytelling by screenwriter Gary Dauberman. The does the doll (or the devil?) want the baby storyline becomes a little muddled, but with Woodard and Amendola joining Wallis and Horton in the not so scary but still pretty thrilling conclusion, our Annabelle review finds the film manages to salvage some sort of weight.

Watch The Conjuring online to see where this thing is going because from the way Annabelle ended, we think that the Warrens and the Conjuring connection will likely continue.

Annabelle Photos

1. One Horror-able Doll!

Why would you have this doll in your house? Just, why?!

The Good Lie may star Reese Witherspoon and her name is on top of the poster. But, that is clearly to get audiences in the seats and attention drawn to an important movie that tells a tale that too little people know about.

The Sudan civil war sent hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from their homes and in the process thousands and thousands of orphaned children walked the Sudanese desert seeking asylum in Ethiopia. They would go back and forth in a diplomatic volleyball game that eventually found them walking thousands of miles only to arrive in a refugee camp. Some of them would eventually be chosen to come to America, mostly sponsored by faith groups and they would come to be known as the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Of course, there were some Lost Girls as well and The Good Lie tells just one tiny slice of an incredibly tragic story that is filled simultaneously with incredible heartbreak, hope, loss and the absolute worst and best of humanity.

Screenwriter Margaret Nagle does the bravest of things for a Hollywood movie -- she sets her story in Africa for the first third of the movie. We feel that in today’s studio system the pressure must have been immense to capsulize what the Sudanese refugees went through and get the story to America.

By putting a spotlight on their struggle and literally showing us the horrors they endured, when they do get to the U.S., it can be so much more than just a fish out of water story. There are some intense emotional issues these survivors need to deal with, and thus because we went on their horrific (and yet inspiring) journey, our story carries some serious weight.

We meet Mamere (Arnold Oceng), Jeremiah (Ger Duany), Paul (Emmanuel Jal) and Abital (Kuoth Wiel) as youngsters (played terrifically by a younger cast) and witness what they witness. Their village is destroyed and their parents are killed. They escape and do their best to survive. We see friends who do not make it. Their thirst for survival is an inspiration and is largely what drives The Good Lie to such heights.

When they arrive in America, it is Witherspoon and a church volunteer (Sarah Baker) who help them find an apartment, a job and to some extent adjust. But, no one is holding their hands. Even to see them marvel at a sink and how they can simply turn on and off water at will after wandering the desert searching for even a drop is a pure joy and also a moment for reflection at how blessed we are to live the life we lead.

Witherspoon is fantastic and she does the most marvelous job of getting out of the way, in a sense, of this story and letting this be all about the Africans instead of the white American who swoops in and save the day. In the end, it is them who has to take responsibility for their lives.

Through the story of these four Sudanese refugees, we learn about so many that have adjusted to life in America and are contributing in ways that are joyously astounding.

Our The Good Lie review also can report that director Philippe Falardeau did a masterful job of casting the main four leads.

By insisting that each is either from Sudan or was at least born there, there is an authentic reality that is front and center in his film. Each one of those performers either lived what these characters went through, or intimately knows someone who did. As such, they are able to have this one story be a solid representation of what tens of thousands experienced.

The Good Lie Photos

1. Reese Witherspoon Tries to Help

Reese Witherspoon does her best to help Arnold Oseng adjust to life in America.

Hot on the heels of those first American Snipers photos, we’ve got the Clint Eastwood film’s riveting first teaser trailer. Bradley Cooper stars as the deadliest U.S. sniper in history, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.

And in the below teaser, Eastwood basically shows us a scene from the film where Kyle is in Iraq and has to decide whether to take the shot that will kill. What he’s aiming at could result in destruction and death for the U.S., or massive heartbreak that hits all too close to home for Kyle.

It is powerful to say the least.

American Sniper Teaser Trailer

The American Sniper teaser trailer also shows off Kyle’s life on the homefront, with his wife (Sienna Miller) and newborn child. Eastwood looks as if he has crafted a war story that is full of heart and history-making power. 

Look for American Sniper in theaters for a limited run December 25, before opening everywhere on January 16, 2015.

The American Sniper poster has also premiered -- check it out below in our slideshow, along with a few stills from Eastwood and Cooper’s latest.

American Sniper Photos

1. The American Sniper Poster

The poster for American Sniper. Bradley Cooper stars in the latest from director Clint Eastwood.

Guardians of the Galaxy is the number one movie of the summer and now Marvel has announced plans for its arrival on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download.

Look for Chris Pratt and his collective of unlikely heroes to land on Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere on November 18 and then on Blu-Ray and DVD on December 9.

The new-to-you superheroes joined forces in August and, at the time of this article getting published, have banked a total of $645 million in global gross.

The home video package promises hours of never-before-seen deleted scenes, a gag reel and most jaw-droppingly, an exclusive look at Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Pratt is Star Lord and he’s joined by Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax, Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon and Vin Diesel as the lovable Groot. Together, they are the Guardians of the Galaxy, and with Guardians of the Galaxy 2 already green lit, you’ll want to watch this one again and again until we can get more of our favorite intergalactic heroes.

Marvel announced the following bonus features for the Guardians of the Galaxy DVD and Blu-Ray:

• Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
• Making-of Featurettes
• Exclusive Look at Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Gag Reel
• Audio Commentary

Check out our favorite Guardians of the Galaxy quotes and click through our slideshow of these stills that are visual marvels. Get it, marvels?!

Guardians of the Galaxy Photos

1. The Ronan Poster

Ronan the Accuser gets his own character poster!

With the announcement that Joaquin Phoenix has left Dr. Strange, attention now turns to who will in fact be the Marvel hero that is set to thrill audiences with the Dr. Strange movie arriving July 8, 2016.

We have our thoughts as to who would be perfect for Marvel’s first foray into the supernatural superhero world -- that frankly, is quite thrilling a prospect.

They’ve headed out into space with Guardians of the Galaxy and Dr. Strange would be a perfect way to enter a whole new realm.

There are eleven actors who we think would fit the bill for the good doctor, and we present them below. Then, we ask you to vote on them and let us know which of the following you think would be perfect to become Dr. Strange.

11 Actors Who Could Be Dr. Strange

1. Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch has the demeanor and the ability to play smart and relatable, and at the same time out of this world extraordinary. We think he's perfect.

Those are our choices, who are yours? And if you have someone else in mind, let us know in the comments section below.

Who should play Dr. Strange?

X-Men: Days of Future Past was one of our Top 17 summer movies of 2014 and you can imagine our thrill when Fox asked us to do a review of the Digital HD release of the film online, weeks before the X-Men: Days of Future Past DVD and Blu-Ray hit shelves.

Bryan Singer has directed a marvel of a movie that brings together our favorite X-Men characters in the old(er) and younger versions. Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender are Magneto, Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy are Professor X and they are joined by X-Men: First Class stars Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Nicholas Hoult as Beast. Filling out the cast are veterans Halle Berry as Storm and Ellen Page as Kitty Pride (who has a huge part in this story).

We also get introduced to some “new” mutant characters in Omar Sy’s Bishop, Daniel Cudmore’s Colossus, Bingbing Fan as Blink and our personal favorite, Evan Peters as Quicksilver.

Our story involves the man at the head of the evil Trask Industries, Dr. Bolivar Trask (an astounding Peter Dinklage), and how his effort in the late '60s to rid the world of mutants will produce Sentinels, robots built with only one purpose -- to wipe mutants off the face of the earth.

Our story begins and goes back and forth between that swinging decade and the future where Sentinels have not only pushed mutants to the verge of extinction, but the entire human race as well. They hatch a plan to send Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine (always awesome in that role) back in time to prevent Trask from ever building those Sentinels in hopes of preventing the planet’s extinction before it ever starts.

The film, as we stated in our theatrical X-Men: Days of Future Past review, is a revelation and witnessing it in Digital HD all over again is a reminder of how sublimely precious this Singer movie is. And we don’t lose absolutely an ounce of awesomeness with its arrival on digital formats from the big screen. After all, what makes this flick so special is the riveting story and we thoroughly enjoyed witnessing it again (and again!) on Digital HD.

Plus, with the ability to hook computers to our large screen HD TVs (and many of you even have TVs that are already connected to the internet), you can have that cinematic feel right at home.

And you don’t have to sacrifice bonus features to witness it on Digital HD either.

One of our favorite scenes in the entire movie involves our new favorite character, Peters’ Quicksilver. That Kitchen Sequence, as it is being called, gets an extended version as well as an in-depth look at how that Time in a Bottle-scored scene became as jaw-dropping as it is. Singer proves how much of a cinematic maestro he is with the entire film, but it is especially in this Kitchen Sequence featurette that we see the scope of his brilliance.

The X-Men: Days of Future Past gag reel is a surprising delight. We won’t ruin it, but you would be thoroughly surprised at who is the biggest ham on the X-Men set! The audio commentary provided by Singer on the deleted scenes adds a unique weight level to clips that would normally be seen as a throw away.

We also treasured the never-before-seen photos from the Trask Industries archives that are available on the iTunes Digital HD version we witnessed. And the behind-the-scenes footage only further enhances our thoughts that it was the right thing that the mastermind of this X-Men world, Singer, comes back to direct X-Men: Apocalypse.

Watch X-Men: Days of Future Past online now and prepare to be blown away. 

X-Men: Days of Future Past Photos

1. Beast and Mystique Get Beastly

Who knew that Mystique and Beast hook up? Considering the pair who play them in real life are together, that ought to work.

Jeremy Renner (the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron) plays Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb in Kill the Messenger in this astounding film that lands October 10.

It was Webb and his San Jose newspaper that broke the story of how the CIA was helping funnel drugs into Central America to raise cash to fight the communist insurgency in that area. And Webb paid dearly for it. Large city newspapers were jealous of his ability to break a story they couldn’t and the U.S. government would not stand idly by and let their methods be scrutinized. So, collectively, they tried to ruin him.

We’ve got two clips from Kill the Messenger -- the first features Renner with co-stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Oliver Platt as his editors.

Kill the Messenger Clip: Biggest Story

The second clip comes right from the books that the film was inspired by, Dark Alliance by Webb and Kill the Messenger by Nick Schou. He’s “threatened” by none other than the CIA!

Kill the Messenger Clip: I'm Writing the Story

Check out the Kill the Messenger trailer for more and don’t miss the flick when it lands next week. And don't miss our exclusive video interview with Renner, premiering on October 6. 

Kill the Messenger Photos

1. Jeremy Renner Stars in Kill the Messenger

Jeremy Renner might just fall prey to the title, Kill the Messenger, for exposing the government's secrets.

The first Weekend Movie Preview of October is here! We've got three new films landing in cinemas. As this is the month of Halloween, we've got one that aims to scare (Annabelle), one that is hauntingly real and simultaneously inspiring (The Good Lie) and one of the most anticipated movies of the fall in Gone Girl.

Let's break it down...

Gone Girl: Ben Affleck stars in the David Fincher-directed big screen version of Gillian Flynn's blockbuster book. What works so well for this film, as we stated in our Gone Girl review, is that not only is Fincher the right choice to helm, but that they used Flynn to write the screenplay!

Gone Girl Photos

1. Ben Affleck Searches

Ben Affleck joins the search for his Gone Girl.

Rosamund Pike plays the title character and gives a star-making performance. You will get no spoilers from us, but what we will say is that you need to run, not walk, and go out to see this movie right now. It is riveting and Fincher has done it again. 

Gone Girl Trailer

Annabelle: The Conjuring was a surprise hit, so filmmakers and producers decided to go back in time and introduce us to the doll that served as a conduit to all that horror. The film takes place in the '60s and we meet the titular doll as a pregnant woman is gifted the "precious little thing" to complete the baby's room. 

Annabelle Photos

1. One Horror-able Doll!

Why would you have this doll in your house? Just, why?!

As we stated in our Annabelle review, this movie is not even scary. It is wholeheartedly disappointing and is only saved by two veteran actors, led by Alfre Woodard. There is so much more to this story, it's just not what was presented.

Annabelle Trailer

The Good Lie: The Lost Boys of Sudan get a movie worthy of their struggle. Reese Witherspoon stars, but we don't even meet her until midway through the second act, which is a stroke of genius. We experience the hell that these kids go through, walking for thousands of miles when their villages are destroyed and they are left orphans. 

The Good Lie Photos

1. Reese Witherspoon Tries to Help

Reese Witherspoon does her best to help Arnold Oseng adjust to life in America.

The Sudanese leads are astounding and this poignant story tells how they were granted asylum in America and their struggles to not only fit into their new culture, but to try to leave the horrors of their childhood behind. It is simply stunning. For more, check out our The Good Lie review.

The Good Lie Trailer

Feel like staying in this weekend? Several titles have landed on digital download. Watch X-Men: Days of Future Past online, watch Transformers: Age of Extinction online or watch Chef online. 

After conquering the box office, those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are coming home. Paramount Home Video announced plans for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download, and for fans, it’ll make the perfect holiday present.

The holiday arrival of December 16 finds the DVD and Blu-Ray arriving, with Turtle masks to boot! And if you can’t wait that long, look for it on digital download a few weeks early on November 25.

As you can tell by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer, the boys come back in this origins story. The heroes named for iconic Renaissance artists are battling to save New York City.

Paramount announced that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will also include the following bonus features:

• Digital Reality
• In Your Face! The Turtles in 3D
• It Ain’t Easy Being Green
• Evolutionary Mash-Up
• Turtle Rock
• Extended Ending
• Shell Shocked Music Video
• Making of Shell Shocked

Check out the original and watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles online and be sure to click through and discover our favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles quotes.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Photos

1. Leonardo Character Poster

Leonardo is living large in his own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles poster!

Artist Isaiah K Stephens recently published a whole slew of her renderings of iconic Disney heroines as some of pop culture’s greatest super-heroines.

Many of them are movie icons and we had to share with our Movie Fanatic readership.

So, which films get the Disney princess treatment? Watch The Hunger Games online and you’ll never believe who Stephens painted as Katniss!

Watch X-Men online and we have two Disney princess in the slideshow below who jump into that universe!

And what if we told you that when you see how that Harry Potter world started and watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone online, you’ll just smile to no end at who Stephens imagined from the Disney world jumping into the landscape created by JK Rowling!

Click through and discover our favorite 11 Disney princess drawn as movie super-heroines.

11 Disney Princesses as Superheroines

1. Belle as Hermione

Belle stood up to a beast in Beauty and the Beast, so surely she could handle a little evil from the Harry Potter world as Hermione.

We here at Movie Fanatic are always quite thankful people who possess three unique qualities: Massive amounts of time, passion for the movies and wickedly astute video editing techniques.

That trifecta has arrived this morning in the form of a mash-up video featuring dozens of movies that share one quality: The use of the line: “Let the girl go!”

You’ve probably assumed that the line has been used several times over the hundred years of Hollywood moviemaking.  

But, after witnessing the below video, you might be surprised at how many bloody times it has been uttered and how many unique varieties of the line is used as well.

Which films are highlighted? Watch The Conjuring online and there’s one. Obi Wan gets to utter it and is one of our favorite Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith quotes.

And of course, you know you want to watch Speed online so you can see Keanu Reeves say it best!

Let Her Go Movie Mashup