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Superhero Bits: MTV Movie & TV Awards Give Marvel Love, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Hints & More By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2021 6:00 pm EST Want to see some alternate Venom concept art inspired by Mark Bagley version of the character? What production of Stan Lee’s is being auctioned off as an NFT? What’s the latest hint at some spoilery casting in Spider-Man: No Way Home? Which Marvel stars and titles walked away with MTV Movie & TV Awards?...

Superhero Bits: Spider-Man: No Way Home Might Be Very Long, That Stargirl Post-Credits Scene & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Nov. 3, 2021 7:24 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 Deep House Clip: The Haunted House Movie Goes Underwater [Exclusive] Epix By Shania Russell/Nov. 3, 2021 1:15 pm EST “The Deep House” is putting an aquatic spin on the classic haunted house movie. What could possibly make a ghost-infested home more anxiety-inducing, you ask? Flooding it with water, of course! As if being haunted by angry spirits isn’t enough, try surviving on a limited air supply. The couple at the center of this film are especially vulnerable once they realize that their deep sea diving trip includes some unwelcome and very ghoulish guests....

The Tender Bar Review: Cool Uncle Ben Affleck Shines In George Clooney’s Lifeless Drama By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 14, 2021 1:25 pm EST I like George Clooney. He’s a good-looking fellow, he’s a dedicated philanthropist, and he’s a damn fine actor. He seems like he has it all! But there’s one area Clooney continues to fail in, no matter how hard he tries: filmmaking. Clooney has directed some solid flicks — his directorial debut “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is clever and features a killer Sam Rockwell performance, and his ode to journalism “Good Night And Good Luck” is fantastic....

V/H/S/94: Release Date, Crew, And More Shudder By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 14, 2021 9:33 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) It’s almost spooky season, and this one’s going to get a fun new franchise release with “V/H/S/94,” the fourth film in the successful “V/H/S” horror anthology franchise....

‘Bros’: Billy Eichner To Star In And Co-Write An LGBTQ Rom-Com Set For Summer 2022 By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 5, 2021 2:30 pm EST Back in 2019, Judd Apatow teamed up with Billy Eichner to produce a yet-to-be-titled romantic comedy starring and written by the Billy on the Street host and comedian. Two years later, that rom-com now has a name and a release date, and a history-making precedent that will set it apart from the rest of the genre....

‘Loki’ Behind-The-Scenes Video Promises Mischievous Things By Chris Evangelista/June 2, 2021 12:00 pm EST Loki, the scamp of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is up to his old tricks in the new Disney+ series that bears his name. The show arrives next week, but first, let’s go behind the scenes with a new video. Here, star Tom Hiddleston promises that the series will have plenty of mischievous things, which makes sense, since Loki is the God of Mischief and all that jazz....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Review: “The War Without, The War Within” By Monique Jones/Feb. 5, 2018 9:00 am EST Each week, Star Trek: Discovery has found new ways to up the ante. In this penultimate episode, “The War Without, The War Within,” the ante has been upped even higher than before…and last week, the entire multiverse was about to become extinct! This week, the Federation is ready to take the fight to the Klingons on their own home turf thanks to insider knowledge from Mirror Georgiou....

‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Will Reunite Christian Bale With Director Scott Cooper By Ben Pearson/Feb. 26, 2021 3:30 pm EST Christian Bale and Scott Cooper are about to go for the hat trick together. A new report says the star and director are set to unite for the third time, after previously working on the films Out of the Furnace and Hostiles. Their latest collaboration? A film adaptation of Louis Bayard’s 2007 book The Pale Blue Eye, a murder mystery about a detective who is brought in to solve a baffling murder at the U....

‘WandaVision’ Showrunner Shares The Story Behind That Big Episode 5 Reveal By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 9, 2021 11:00 am EST Last week, WandaVision laid a whopper of a major reveal on us, introducing a cameo that may shatter the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it. And WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer has broken her silence on the late-episode twist, revealing that the introduction of this…certain character was planned early on. With Marvel chief Kevin Feige on board, of course....

‘Whistler Camp’, A Horror Film Set At A Gay Conversion Camp, Coming From Blumhouse And ‘Penny Dreadful’ Creator John Logan By Chris Evangelista/April 9, 2021 2:30 pm EST Conversion therapy, the bogus and cruel pseudoscience that attempts to force LGBTQ+ people to change their sexual orientation, will inspire the horrors of Whistler Camp, a new Blumhouse horror movie that marks the directorial debut of Penny Dreadful creator John Logan. The film is set inside a gay conversion camp and is described as “a queer empowerment story....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Clip: The Mother Boxes Recall The DC Comics Heroes’ Origins By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 28, 2021 10:00 am EST In less than a few weeks, we’ll finally get a chance to see Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Ever since Joss Whedon’s disappointing version of the DC Comics superhero ensemble arrived in the fall of 2017, fans have been demanding to see what the original cut of the movie would have been like if Zack Snyder hadn’t stepped away from the production....

Alien Vs A Nightmare On Elm Street – The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever [Final Round] Warner Bros. / 20th Century Studios By SlashFilm Staff/Oct. 29, 2021 11:01 am EST Welcome to the Tournament of Terrors, a /Film bracket where we argue about the greatest horror franchise of all time, and you, the readers, get to decide the winners. The rules are simple: two iconic horror movie series enter the ring, each represented by a /Film writer ready to champion them....

Blade Reboot Director Says The Original Film ‘Created The Superhero World That We’re In’ Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 12, 2021 12:01 pm EST Things are finally picking up when it comes to Marvel’s long-awaited “Blade” reboot. The movie, which will star Oscar winner Mahershala Ali in the lead role, was first announced during the Marvel Studios San Diego Comic-Con panel in 2019. The movie has a writer in Stacy Osei-Kuffour (“Watchmen”) and a director in Bassam Tariq (“Mogul Mowgli”)....

Cool Stuff: Celebrate ‘The Simpsons’ With The Classic Video Game Cabinet From Arcade1Up By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2021 6:00 am EST If you’re a kid of the 1990s, then you probably plugged way too many quarters into the Simpsons arcade game. Created by Konami, the classic side-scrolling brawler let you play as Homer, Marge, Bart, or Lisa as the family fought various Springfield villains to get back a kidnapped Maggie. Soon, you can bring back the memories of smashing those buttons and pushing that joystick with Arcade1Up’s home version of The Simpsons, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the beloved game....

Daily Podcast: Tower Of Terror Movie, Spielberg Nixes A Jaws Reboot, Fast & Furious Beef, And More By Ben Pearson/June 24, 2021 1:21 pm EST On the June 24, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including a Jaws reboot, a Tower of Terror movie, Jerry Seinfeld’s newest film, and the reigniting of the Vin Diesel/Dwayne Johnson beef....

Demi Lovato Will See If The Truth Is Out There With A Peacock Show About UFOs By Chris Evangelista/May 15, 2021 11:00 am EST Demi Lovato is going to hunt for UFOs as part of a Peacock series, and that is a sentence I never expected to write. The Grammy-nominated singer is apparently a true believer in aliens, and the series – currently titled Unidentified with Demi Lovato – will have Lovato, her sister, and a skeptical best friend as they attempt to uncover the truth about UFOs....

Emily Blunt Will Play Pinkerton Detective Kate Warne In New Co-Production With Dwayne Johnson By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 12, 2021 6:16 pm EST As Wikipedia notes, Warne was the woman responsible for uncovering the plot to assassinate then-president-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The AV Club observes that “We Never Sleep,” Pinkerton’s company motto, “supposedly stems from a restless night she spent watching over president-elect Lincoln during a train journey to Washington D....

Interview: Director Michael Stephenson On Best Worst Movie, Troll 2 As Geek Phenomenon, The Alamo Drafthouse, Skate Vids, And Pizza! By Hunter Stephenson/June 2, 2009 3:00 am EST One of the best documentaries of 2009 is Best Worst Movie. Whether you have read about it on /Film or watched it unfold before your eyes at a film festival, its very existence is miraculous. At its core, the doc marks the unlikely, unflinching reunion between director Michael Stephenson—the child star of 1990’s Troll 2 (renown for being the worst movie of all time)—and his estranged Troll 2 co-stars and filmmakers....

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Clip: No Desert Power Here Netflix By Jenna Busch/Dec. 2, 2021 10:09 pm EST Season 4 of “Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous Clip” will be released on Netflix on December 3, 2021. The streaming service has released a new clip entitled “Desert of Mysteries.” The CG animated series is about a bunch of teens who go to camp on Isla Nublar and the dinosaurs escape. Has no one in this world learned yet that you cannot contain dinosaurs?...