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Heartbreaks And Headshots: The Action Movie Majesty Of The ‘John Wick’ Series By Jacob Hall/Feb. 15, 2017 10:00 am EST John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2 aren’t just good action movies – they’re perfect action movies. And they’re more than that – they’re great movies, filled with character and humor and detail that rewards careful consideration and thought. They also feature Keanu Reeves shooting so many people in the face, but that’s just the appetizer....

Heist Series ‘The Unusual Suspects’ Coming To Hulu By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 19, 2021 11:36 am EST The popular Australian heist series, The Unusual Suspects, is stealing its way into America via Hulu. I have high hopes the show will be better than the horrible pun I just wrote. Women Can Steal Things Too, Maybe? The four-episode series appears to be in the vein of Oceans 8…maybe? According to Variety, women from different walks of life come together after someone steals a self-made businesswoman’s $16 million necklace....

Idris Elba Admits He’s Probably Not Going To Play James Bond At This Point STXfilms By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 8, 2021 8:59 am EST Idris Elba is 49, only a few years younger than Daniel Craig, who — at 53 — is now retiring from the role of James Bond with “No Time to Die.” Like the Blond Bond, who was tendering his resignation to his boss, M, as early as his first outing, “Casino Royale” (the best Bond movie), Craig has been talking up his impending retirement for years....

Paramount+ Has Launched: Here Are 10 Things To Watch By Ben Pearson/March 5, 2021 10:00 am EST This week marks the launch of Paramount+, yet another streaming service in an era that’s already jam-packed with them. But that’s not entirely fair: Paramount+ is just CBS All Access with a new coat of paint, and that service has been around for some time now. To celebrate (well, at least acknowledge) the existence of a “new” streaming platform, we’ve scoured the service’s library and put together a list of 10 things to watch....

Peacock’s Queer As Folk Reboot Adds Juliette Lewis And Ed Begley Jr. Prime Video By Shania Russell/Dec. 2, 2021 11:08 am EST “Queer as Folk” is being reimagined once more, this time for an entirely new generation. The groundbreaking ’90s series from Russell T. Davies was a landmark change in LGBTQ+ representation, following the lives of three gay men (played by Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, and Charlie Hunnam) living in Manchester, England....

Pixar’s Win Or Lose Images Tease Pixar’s Unique New Animated Series Walt Disney Pictures By Shania Russell/Nov. 12, 2021 2:03 pm EST Pixar is stepping up to the plate for their first-ever original series. Coming soon to Disney+ is “Win or Lose,” an animated series following a co-ed middle school softball team during the week before their championship game. Each 20 minute-episode puts the audience in a new character’s shoes as they get ready for the biggest game of their very young lives....

Quibi Suffers One Last Death As Roku Rebrands Quibi Shows “Roku Originals” By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2021 1:00 pm EST Remember Quibi? It was a magical streaming service where everything was very short! Also, it failed miserably. In January, Roku picked up the library of Quibi titles, but rather than keep the Quibi name, Roku is rebranding everything they purchased as Roku Originals. And thus I think we can finally drive the final nail into Quibi’s coffin....

Rank All Godzillas! – A Definitive Ranking Of The King of Monsters’ Movies [Part One] By Jacob Knight/Dec. 28, 2017 10:00 am EST Take a minute to picture Godzilla in your head. What do you see? For many, the image is elementary — men in elastic monster suits brawling with one-another amidst a shoddily built train set, stepping on miniature cars willy-nilly in the hopes of conveying a sense of obliteration on an apocalyptic scale....

New Ben Harman Disney Posters Aladdin (Day) by Ben Harman Giclee 12 x 36 inches Hand-numbered edition of 175 $60 Aladdin (Night) by Ben Harman Giclee 12 x 36 inches Hand-numbered edition of 100 $60 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Day) by Ben Harman Giclee 12 x 36 inches Hand-numbered edition of 100 $60 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Night) by Ben Harman Giclee 12 x 36 inches Hand-numbered edition of 100 $60 These night and day print sets are absolutely stunning....

Sung Kang Is About As Excited To Work On The ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ TV Series As You Would Be By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2021 8:14 am EST Even though Star Wars isn’t churning out TV shows for Disney+ as fast as Marvel Studios, there’s still plenty to be excited about when it comes to the galaxy far, far away. Along with The Book of Boba Fett and the continuation of The Mandalorian on the horizon, the live-action side of Star Wars is bringing Ewan McGregor back as Obi-Wan Kenobi in his own TV show....

Andy Serkis Returning as Klaw for Marvel’s What If…? On Instagram, Andy Serkis teased his return as Black Panther character Klaw by way of the multiverse in the upcoming animated series Marvel’s What If…? on Disney+. Though Klaw met his demise at the hands of Killmonger in Black Panther, the series that imagines alternate universes featuring different versions of Marvel characters has allowed the Lord of the Rings star to reprise the role....

The Daily Stream: ‘Blow Out’ Is A Fourth Of July Movie That Builds To An Unforgettable Ending By Ben Pearson/July 5, 2021 7:00 am 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: Blow OutWhere You Can Stream It: The Criterion ChannelThe Pitch: John Travolta plays a movie sound effects designer who takes a microphone out into a nearby park in order to capture more authentic wind effects....

The Morning Watch: Venom: Let There Be Carnage Easter Eggs, The Dying Art Of Title Sequences & More Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2021 8:20 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

Thor: The Dark World Originally Had A Much Different Ending For Thor And Jane Marvel Studios By Ben F. Silverio/Dec. 8, 2021 3:36 pm EST Despite what /Film’s review said about it back in 2013, many True Believers agree that “Thor: The Dark World” is probably one of the worst offerings from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date. Even Thor himself agrees that it just wasn’t very good. (It’s definitely my least favorite MCU movie, despite having a poster for it hanging above my desk....

Who Is The Star Of The ‘Hawkeye’ Spin-Off? Echo Explained By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 5, 2021 9:45 am EST The Disney+ series Hawkeye hasn’t even premiered yet, but they’ve already announced a spin-off series for one of its main characters, the mysterious Echo. Who is she? Why is she getting her own spin-off? What’s with that handprint on her face? Here’s everything you need to know about Echo, the deaf and Indigenous hero coming to Hawkeye and Echo....

Will Smith Admits He Made ‘Wild Wild West’ For All The Wrong Reasons By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2016 2:30 pm EST Will Smith was once the king of the summer. After hits like Independence Day and Men in Black made huge bank during blockbuster season, So Warner Bros. thought they could count on rack up some cash for the studio with a film adaptation of the classic TV show Wild Wild West, and they weren’t entirely wrong....

‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ – Even Crazier Than You Imagined [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 26, 2011 4:00 pm EST The whole tongue-in-cheek, gory, B-movie grindhouse thing is so played out these days. How many ways can you film the explosion of the human head or the mutilation of a body part, really? Before Hobo With A Shotgun, I would have said there was some sort of ceiling to that kind of carnage....

‘Jungle Cruise’ Star Edgar Ramirez On What It’s Like To Play A Man Made Entirely Out Of Snakes [Interview] By Jacob Hall/July 29, 2021 9:55 am EST Edgar Ramirez plays a man made entirely out of snakes in Jungle Cruise. Literally. Other than a thin layer of flesh for his face, his toro and limbs are comprised of coiling, hissing snakes, the result of a disturbing jungle curse that has left him immortal and…forever made of snakes....

‘Language Lessons’ Review: Natalie Morales Crafts A Poignant Directorial Debut [SXSW 2021] By Kalyn Corrigan/March 26, 2021 2:00 pm EST “Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” Bong Joon Ho’s incredible Golden Globes speech caused a stir in 2020, and yet for many, his words fell on deaf ears. Despite director Bong’s Parasite going on to win Best Picture at the Oscars shortly thereafter – the first time a foreign film has received that award in the Academy’s 92 years of existence – polls still revealed a resistance among Americans to enrich themselves with the task of watching a movie with subtitles....

Hoult Has Some Big Shoes to Fill Renfield has appeared on screen many times over the years. Dwight Frye famously played him in Universal’s 1931 Dracula film, frequent Werner Herzog collaborator Klaus Kinski played Renfield in 1970’s Count Dracula, and in more recent years, he’s been played on the small screen by Nonso Anozie in 2013, Samuel Barnett in Penny Dreadful, and Mark Gatiss in last year’s Netflix drama. But among the most memorable iterations of Renfield on screen is Tom Waits in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in which Waits disappears into the role and commits to the character’s instability in a haunting, disturbing way....