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Stranger Things Retro Cassette Player Has A Secret Sneak Peek At Season 4 Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 25, 2021 3:58 pm EST It’s been more than two years since “Stranger Things” aired its third season, but season 4 is finally on the way. In a super fun marketing and merchandising tie-in, you can now get a Walmart limited edition “Stranger Things” branded Crosley audio cassette player to listen to music the same way the kids in Hawkins did: in analog!...

Superhero Bits: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Considered Duke Of Deception, ‘Hawkeye’ Wraps Production & More By Ethan Anderton/April 21, 2021 6:00 pm EST Would you like to see a Marvel series focused on the Dora Milaje? What was the Justice League: Worlds Collide animated movie going to be about before it was scrapped? Which comic book recently went up in value thanks to The Falcon and The Winter Soldier? Which villain was originally considered for Wonder Woman 1984?...

Superhero Bits: Spider-Man Gets Torn Apart, Thor 4 Poster Causes Confusion & More Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 13, 2021 6:04 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The Daily Stream: Happy 15th Anniversary To ‘Miami Vice,’ Michael Mann’s Movie About Hot Nights, Cold Mojitos, And Guys Being Dudes By Chris Evangelista/July 28, 2021 12:15 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: Miami ViceWhere You Can Stream It: PeacockThe Pitch: Michael Mann takes Miami Vice, the slick ’80s crime show he executive produced and reworks it into a moody, violent, really damn great film that blends action, romance, betrayal, friendship, and, of course, mojitos....

The Daily Stream: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Is Chicken Soup For The Cinephile’s Soul Columbia Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 11, 2021 8:02 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: An idealistic young senator enters the corrupt “wilds of Washington” D....

The Exorcist’s Bizarre On-Set Accident You Can Actually See In The Movie Warner Bros. Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 6, 2021 9:58 am EST When “The Exorcist” was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1998, actor Jason Miller, who played Father Damien Karras, remarked (via News & Record), “In the lexicon of movies, it’s right up there as probably one of the top horror films of our time.” At the time, film critic Mark Kermode was interviewing Miller for what would become the BBC documentary, “The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist....

Theatrical Cut Warner Bros. Pictures Like other big budget science-fiction films of the mid-eighties like David Lynch’s “Dune” or James Cameron’s “Aliens,” “Blade Runner” was initially released to theaters in a form that wasn’t quite what the filmmakers had in mind. Warner Bros. had imposed on Scott that he add an annoying narration by Harrison Ford to explain certain things that probably didn’t need to be explained. This “Captain Obvious” voiceover is used sparingly but almost every instance undercuts key moments like the death of Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer)....

David Fincher Super Bowl Commercial The Super Bowl is this weekend, but since we’re still in a pandemic, the hype that usually accompanies the sporting event is considerably muted. Several big companies are even sitting this year out and not buying ads. But Anheuser-Busch is! In fact, this is the first year the brewing company has shelled out the money for a Super Bowl commercial, and they decided to go big....

‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy’s Triumphant Return Is A Big Winner [TIFF 2019] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2019 9:00 am EST As the saying goes, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Eddie Murphy was never really “gone” in the literal sense, but the once megastar comedian had a serious drop-off, quality-wise, over the years. It got to the point where a new Eddie Murphy movie was so rare as to be non-existent....

‘Dune: The Sisterhood’ HBO Max Series Finds A Showrunner In ‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ Vet By Danielle Ryan/July 22, 2021 10:58 am EST After some minor hiccups, the spice is flowing once more on HBO Max’s Dune television prequel series. The series, titled Dune: The Sisterhood, has a new showrunner in Diane Ademu-John, best known for her work on Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor. Prometheus scribe Jon Spaihts had previously been attached to run the series, but he stepped down in November 2019 to focus on writing the script for the second Dune film....

‘How It Ends’ Review: Seeking Self-Love At The End Of The World [Sundance 2021] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 30, 2021 12:30 pm EST What would you do if you knew the world was coming to an end? It’s a familiar topic, but co-writers/directors Daryl Wein (Lola Versus, White Rabbit) and Zoe Lister-Jones (Band Aid, The Craft: Legacy) had the unique experience of putting their own spin on that idea during a time when our real world actually felt like it was ending: production on their latest movie took place last year during the pandemic....

‘Playing With Fire’ Trailer: John Cena Fights Fires, Wrangles Kids, And Disappoints Us All By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2019 11:30 am EST John Cena has been on the rise as an actor ever since he showed a completely different side to his talents with a supporting role in Amy Schumer’s romantic comedy Trainwreck. Since then, he led the animated film Ferdinand, starred in the surprisingly great Blockers, tracked down Transformers in Bumblebee, and he’s joining the squad in Fast and Furious 9....

‘Shang-Chi’ Tickets Are On Sale Now As New Teaser Hammers Home The Marvel Connections By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 16, 2021 10:15 am EST Tickets for Marvel’s latest, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, are now available to purchase, and the announcement comes alongside even more footage from the upcoming movie. A cynic might look at this as a carefully-plotted distraction from the ongoing messiness between Disney and star Simu Liu, but this is the standard time when marketing ramps up to a fever pitch and the studio does all it can to get butts in seats, especially during a pandemic … even if this is the worst possible moment to encourage people to venture out into confined indoor spaces....

‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’ Director Reveals Updated Costumes For The Shazam Family By Ben Pearson/June 21, 2021 8:04 am EST Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to director David F. Sandberg’s crowd-pleasing 2019 DC superhero movie Shazam!, has been filming since last month. And now, Sandberg is doing his best to make sure leaked set photos are not the way fans catch their best glimpses of this movie. He recently shared a video of star Zachary Levi in a new version of his superhero suit, but that video was purposefully dark....

‘Soul’ And ‘Wolfwalkers’ Lead The 2021 Annie Awards With 10 Nominations Each By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 3, 2021 11:00 am EST Every year, Annie Awards does what the Golden Globes, the Oscars, and all the other big awarding bodies cannot: properly celebrate the best of animation. And this year, the ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual animation awards did their job right, doling out the most nominations to two of the best movies of the year: Pixar’s singular Soul and Cartoon Saloon’s hand-drawn masterpiece Wolfwalkers....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 4 Teaser: Elisabeth Moss Asks For Justice By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 26, 2021 2:30 pm EST Ahead of the premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 this Wednesday, Hulu has released a final teaser promo asking for justice. Specifically, it’s Elisabeth Moss’ June asking for justice, for the women of Gilead she had left behind while fleeing the totalitarian government that imprisoned her. Watch The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 teaser below....

‘The Predator’ Has A Bonkers Ending, But It Was Originally Significantly Different By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2018 5:00 pm EST The Predator is in theaters this weekend, and even though it’s not faring too well among critics, yours truly found it to be a truly enjoyable, bloody, pulpy, action-packed extravaganza with the perfect amount of Shane Black’s signature humor and an outstanding ensemble cast to bring it all together. Plus, it has one wild ending that sets the stage for something huge in a possible sequel....

‘The Swarm’ Trailer: It’s Invasion Of The Killer Locusts In Netflix’s New Horror Movie By Danielle Ryan/July 9, 2021 1:03 pm EST French horror movies aren’t your average horror movies. They tend to be paced a little slower, they’re thematically a little darker, and they almost always stick with you long after the credits roll. That all looks like the case with the new Netflix horror flick, The Swarm (original title: La Nuée)....

25 Terrible Endings That Ruined Good Horror Movies Warner Bros. By SlashFilm Staff/Oct. 22, 2021 9:00 am EST You know the feeling. You’re watching a horror movie and you’re loving it. You’re grooving on it. You’re leaning forward in your seat, anticipating the next scare, the next kill, the next revelation. “This movie is going to stick the landing,” you think to yourself. Famous last words. Maybe it’s a boneheaded character choice, a sudden change in tone, or the pacing slows to a crawl just when things should be speeding up....

Adam McKay Reveals Why He Moved Away From Directing Comedy Netflix By Max Evry/Dec. 8, 2021 10:56 am EST From the time they both broke into “Saturday Night Live” in 1995, writer/director Adam McKay and his writer/star cohort Will Ferrell had one of those Kurt and Goldie-type partnerships that endured over nearly 25 years, five major movies, and four presidencies. Sadly the “Anchorman” pair began to drift apart once McKay’s career shifted into less comedic, more dramatic territory like “The Big Short,” “Vice,” and his latest “Don’t Look Up,” leading to their split in 2019....