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Here Are Two Ways Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome Could Be Saved By Ben Pearson/April 14, 2021 9:30 am EST Earlier this week, Hollywood was heartbroken to learn the sad news that ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres would be closing all of their locations, including the famed Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard. Industry insiders, directors, and general audiences grieved the loss of these Southern California institutions by sharing their favorite moviegoing memories, but the future of the Dome remains murky....

Here’s Where You Can Stream Every ‘Bourne’ Movie By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2021 5:49 am EST (Welcome to Where to Watch, which provides a clear and simple answer to the question, “Hey, where can I watch this thing?” In this edition: the Bourne franchise.) Are you in the mood to watch Matt Damon run around punching people while the camera shakes? Or maybe you’re more interested in seeing Jeremy Renner crave some chems!...

Justin Chon And Alicia Vikander Search For The Definition Of Home In Blue Bayou [Interview] Focus Features By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 14, 2021 11:19 am EST Justin Chon has come a long way since he wowed Sundance audiences with his 2017 film “Gook.” The writer and director of “Blue Bayou” is many years removed from being “that funny Asian guy” from “Twilight” who directed and starred in the provocative black-and-white drama about two Korean-American brothers on the first day of the 1992 L....

Mega Man Adaptation Is Coming To Netflix Capcom By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 13, 2021 4:05 pm EST Mega Man Comes to Netflix This latest report comes from IGN, who have confirmed an earlier article by Comic Book. The project is described to be “very early in development” and hasn’t officially been confirmed by Netflix at the time of this writing. However, it would appear that the production company Supermarché has spilled the beans themselves, as their official website includes a very eye-catching tidbit nestled among its “About Us” section....

The Best Movies Streaming Right Now The Quick and the Dead Now Streaming on Hulu Release Date: 1995Genre: Weird WesternDirector: Sam RaimiCast: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Roberts Blossom, Kevin Conway, Lance Henriksen, Pat Hingle, Gary Sinise Before Sam Raimi became a blockbuster filmmaker with Spider-Man, he was still an indie weirdo crafting wild, stylish movies that the general public just didn’t quite get. One of the best of the bunch is this gonzo 1995 Western in which Raimi stages a series of elaborate shoot-outs in inventive, strange ways....

Psycho Goreman Sequel Could Happen, According To Director Steven Kostanski Shudder By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 21, 2021 2:46 pm EST It’s a great day to be a fan of violent alien overlords, big brain best friends, fearless pre-teen girl bullies, and of course, hunky boys. Filmmaker Steven Kostanski and the Canadian film production company Astron-6 have developed somewhat of a cult following thanks to films like “Manborg,” “Father’s Day,” “Bio-Cop,” “The Void,” “The Editor,"(directed by Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy) and “Leprechaun Returns,” but they truly knocked it out of the park with their hilarious sci-fi comedy gorefest, “Psycho Goreman....

The American Film Institute Reveals Top 10 Films Of 2021, Including Dune And West Side Story Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 8, 2021 7:49 pm EST It’s that time of the year when the best-of-the-year lists start trickling in, but in the case of the American Film Institute, it’s not just one critic who’s delivering their picks. AFI has a whole jury that deliberates these things, and now, they’ve released their selections for the best movies and television shows of 2021....

The Batman Featurette Shakes The Caped Crusader To His Core Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 16, 2021 5:16 pm EST We knew that we were getting a new trailer for “The Batman” today during DC FanDome, which we did indeed receive. But Warner Bros. and the filmmakers decided to bring something a little extra in the form of a behind-the-scenes featurette, which packs as many goods in it as another trailer....

The Daily Stream: Martyrs Lane Haunts With Heart British Film Institute By Anya Stanley/Sept. 22, 2021 2:51 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: “Martyrs Lane” Where You Can Stream It: Shudder The Pitch: Ten-year-old Leah (Kiera Thompson) lives with her increasingly distant mother Sarah (Denise Gough) in a massive vicarage filled with various souls in varying stages of survival....

The Most Terrifying Scene In ‘47 Meters Down’ Doesn’t Even Feature A Shark By Ariel Fisher/July 30, 2021 6:41 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: one of the scariest scenes in 47 Meters Down plays on our phobias.)We all have our phobias. Some of us are arachnophobic (there’s a movie about this one!...

The Novice: Release Date, Cast, And More IFC Films By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 6, 2021 3:49 pm 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.) Move over, Winklevoss twins. A new rower is in town and she’s driven by something much more compelling than the invention of Facebook. Meet “The Novice,” which is an under-the-radar sports drama that’s geared up and primed for awards season....

The Origin Of Squid Game’s Creepy Robot Doll Explained Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 5, 2021 3:48 pm EST The number one most-watched show on Netflix in 90 countries is the addictive Korean survival drama, “Squid Game.” The show centers on hundreds of people in deep financial debt who accept an invitation to compete in popular children’s games for the chance to win 45.6 billion won, or nearly $38.5 million dollars. This game comes at a high-risk, however, as losers of the “Squid Game” will be killed....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Greenberg, Chloe, And More By Adam Quigley/July 13, 2010 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With Noah Baumbach’s directorial breakthrough, The Squid and the Whale, he managed to capture a sense of harsh honesty that permeated all of the aggressive dysfunctionality. That honesty was something he lost with his next effort, Margot at the Wedding, which felt more like a coldly calculated, emotionally false hate-filled diatribe....

Upcoming Movies Based On Video Games To Keep On Your Radar Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 2, 2021 12:43 pm EST Despite what the people who still refer to all forms of gaming as “playing Nintendos” would have you believe, video games are a medium filled with rich storytelling, compelling characters, dynamic performances, and high-stakes situations. It’s no wonder that Hollywood has been desperate to get a slice of that magical (and profitable) pie, to mixed results....

VOTD: Pixar’s ‘Up’ Gets The Anime Opening Treatment By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2021 9:00 am EST What if Up was an anime? It’s a question no one was really asking, but one we got the answer to thanks to Pixar’s recently released Pixar Remix video, which condenses the entirety of the beloved 2009 Pixar film into a cheery two-minute anime opening. And it’s awesome. Watch the Up anime opening below....

‘Deep Blue Sea 2’ Is A Soggy Sequel By Rob Hunter/May 14, 2018 9:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. In this edition, we go swimming with sharks and take a look at the long-overdue follow-up to the highly entertaining shark attack thriller Deep Blue Sea.) Director Renny Harlin’s career is itself heading towards the DTV world these days, but back in the ’90s, he delivered a handful of truly solid big-screen action/adventures like Cliffhanger (1993), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), and the deliriously fun Deep Blue Sea (1999)....

‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Is Radioactive In The New Movie From Sion Sono By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 11, 2021 10:00 am EST Nicolas Cage has made a lot of crazy movies, but he himself has claimed that Prisoners of the Ghostland “might be the wildest movie” of his career. In this gonzo curiosity from director Sion Sono (Why Don’t You Play in Hell?), Cage is a convict who gets sent into a surreal wasteland to rescue the granddaughter of a warlord....

‘Shang-Chi’ Is More A Journey Of Self-Discovery Than A Superhero Movie, Director Destin Daniel Cretton Says By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 20, 2021 5:53 am EST Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has drawn an enthusiastic response from those in attendance at the movie’s world premiere. It’s to be expected when you’re dealing with a glitzy red-carpet event, not to mention the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Chris Evans, who has now officially ceded the headlining role in Captain America 4 to Anthony Mackie, once said Marvel’s “internal barometer for what is good and bad is pretty on point....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 23, 2021 4:00 pm EST You may have forgotten this, but Zoe Saldana has a small part in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Saldana did not return for the sequels, and by her own accounts, she had a bad time on the set. But now, Saldana is going to lead a pirate movie of her own – and wouldn’t ya know it, it’s also set in the Caribbean....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Featurette Shines A Light On The Bigger, Improved Virtual Sets By Ethan Anderton/April 1, 2021 1:00 pm EST The first season of The Mandalorian brought an innovative new tool to the filmmaking world with the virtual set production technology known as StageCraft. Often referred to on set as “The Volume,” Industrial Light & Magic’s StageCraft technology allows for fully rendered digitally created backgrounds to appear on LED screens in incredibly high resolution....