The 11 Greatest Animated Movie Dogs By Dalin Rowell/March 29, 2018 10:00 am EST With the release of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, there is an important question that has been stuck in the center of my mind: who are the best animated dogs in movie history? There is no shortage of options. From Disney’s personal collection of pups, to those created by other studios, who are the best of the best when it comes to animated canines?...
Why It’s Essential Viewing Neon A new addition to the canon of darkly comedic edgy teen girl movies like “Heathers” and “Jawbreaker,” “Assassination Nation” is a high-octane high school fantasy film perfect for a post-Trump, post-#MeToo, post-Cancel Culture (which isn’t real, by the way) world. The film feels like looking at America through a warped fun house mirror, but the results are a perfect reflection highlighting that the mirror isn’t warped — we are, and we always have been....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘Alice In Borderland’ Is A Twisty Japanese Thriller With Plenty Of Puzzles And Exploding Heads By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 23, 2021 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series: Alice in BorderlandWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: What if Battle Royale and Saw had a sick, twisted baby that that puts its characters through a series of manipulative, tortuous games — usually with a high body and splatter count?...
The Real Inspiration Behind It Follows Probably Isn’t What You Think RADiUS-TWC By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Nov. 29, 2021 10:38 am EST “It Follows,” the 2014 psychological horror film by director and screenwriter David Robert Mitchell, has been interpreted by viewers as being inspired by the risks and anxiety associated with sex and sexually transmitted diseases. On the surface, this interpretation is perfectly justifiable: the movie centers around the some of the deeply uncomfortable aspects of teenage sexuality, taking the classic “death by sex” horror trope to a terrifying literal extreme....
Tim Burton’s Netflix Series About Wednesday Addams Casts Jenna Ortega In Lead Role By Chris Evangelista/May 19, 2021 11:00 am EST Wednesday has found its Wednesday. Jenna Ortega (The Babysitter: Killer Queen) will star as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming live-action Netflix series directed by Tim Burton. The series will follow an older Wednesday Addams than the one we’re used to, as she enrolls at Nevermore Academy and has to deal with supernatural mysteries....
West Side Story Trailer: Steven Spielberg’s Splashy Musical Remake Is Full Of Color And Dance-Fighting 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 15, 2021 9:38 am EST Somebody pinch me, because I’m still having trouble believing that we’re getting closer and closer to living in a world where Steven Spielberg has directed and released a musical. And not just any musical, at that. The legendary filmmaker has had his sights set on remaking “West Side Story” with all the pomp, energy, and impeccably-staged dance numbers it deserves....
‘Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues’ Set Visit: Ron Burgundy Throws Down With A Dolphin By Germain Lussier/Nov. 12, 2013 10:00 am EST For Ron, the person, this is terrible. But for Ron, the character, it’s great. After nine years away, star Will Ferrell’s most iconic character is back on the big screen December 20. But on May 24, 2013, we were lucky enough to be on location at SeaWorld in San Diego, CA for the final day of filming Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues....
‘Mad Max’ Spin-Off ‘Furiosa’ Tells A Story That Spans Years, Will Be Australia’s Biggest Production Yet By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 2021 9:30 am EST Furiosa will return. Soon. Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller and Thor franchise star Chris Hemsworth held a press conference in New South Wales to announce production on the spin-off Furiosa will be taking place in Australia next year. Unlike Mad Max: Fury Road, which had a story that unfolded across a few days, Miller teased that Furiosa would be a saga that unfolds over many years....
‘Old’ Featurette: M. Night Shyamalan Explains His Philosophy Behind Making Horror Movies By Jeremy Mathai/July 20, 2021 9:09 am EST M. Night Shyamalan is no stranger to horror. Almost every single one of his movies can either be classified as outright horror or heavily feature horror elements as part of a related subgenre (your precise definitions may vary, but all of The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, The Village, The Visit, and Split fit comfortably within one of these two categories)....
By Jacob Hall/Feb. 25, 2016 5:00 pm EST It’s tough to pinpoint exactly when Bruce Willis stopped giving a s***, mainly because he’s still capable of great work. His tremendous performance in Rian Johnson’s Looper goes a long way to helping cancel out those past few Die Hard sequels, although it’s a bit harder to forgive his phoned-in paycheck jobs in movies like Vice and Fire With Fire. Those last two titles don’t ring a bell?...
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Marks The End Of Tom Holland’s Spidey Contract, But He Wants To Keep Slinging Webs By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2021 11:00 am EST Spider-Man: No Way Home was just officially announced as the third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures. There was a time when the studios parted ways and it seemed like Tom Holland might be done playing the webslinger, but thankfully they sorted things out....
‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Sets Record For Uses Of The F-Word In A Narrative Feature By Angie Han/Dec. 31, 2013 3:00 pm EST The Wolf of Wall Street is all about obscene excess in every vice imaginable. Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his associates do more blow, screw more hookers, toss around more money, and piss on more legal documents than most of us could ever dream of. So it only makes sense that they’d be more profane than just about everyone else, as well....
Cool Stuff: NECA’s Gremlins 2 Action Figure Line Expands With The Brain And A Demolition Duo NECA By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2021 9:00 am EST NECA has already given us an incredible array of action figures inspired by the holiday horror-comedy “Gremlins.” But now they’ve started to dig into the larger and more varied cast of creatures from the cartoonish “Gremlins 2: The New Batch.” The toymakers have already given the glamorous Greta an action figure, and now fans will be able to get their hands on The Brain and a pair of Demolition Gremlins with plenty of explosives to spare....
Daily Podcast: Pitch Perfect TV Show, Netflix’s Roald Dahl Universe, And An Interview With David S. Goyer AppleTV+ On the September 23, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior writer and weekend editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Netflix’s Roald Dahl extended universe and a “Pitch Perfect” TV series. Then, /Film senior news editor Jacob Hall interviews David S....
By Ben Pearson/Feb. 23, 2021 4:30 pm EST Edgar Wright’s first documentary has found a home. The filmmaker, whose previous feature directing credits include the Cornetto trilogy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Baby Driver, debuted his first documentary, The Sparks Brothers, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. And now Focus Features, the indie label which has worked with Wright on multiple projects already, has acquired the rights to the movie, which shines a spotlight on the eccentric and creative band known as Sparks....
Here’s Why Shang-Chi And Eternals Might Not Get Released In China Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 10, 2021 9:32 pm EST Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is off to a rocky start in China. “Black Widow” still hasn’t been released and the future of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “Eternals” is in doubt. “Shang-Chi” star Simu Liu and “Eternals” director Chloé Zhao are both Chinese-born, but they’ve each run into trouble now over comments they made earlier in their careers about China....
How ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Builds On The Themes Of The Previous Films, According To Director Colin Trevorrow By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2021 10:12 am EST Jurassic World: Dominion will bring the new Jurassic trilogy to a close, which means we’re in store for some sort of actual ending here, not just a set-up for future movies. And what better way to wrap up the series than with a film that’s timely?...
In A Cruel Twist Of Fate, ‘The Last Blockbuster’ Documentary Is Coming To Netflix By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 2021 5:30 pm EST After hitting the film festival circuit and getting an online release late last year, the documentary The Last Blockbuster is making one more stop that couldn’t be more ironic. In just a few days, Netflix will be streaming the film about the last standing Blockbuster Video store in Bend, Oregon....
Inside The Making Of ‘Us Again’, The Delightful Animated Short Now Streaming On Disney+ By Josh Spiegel/June 4, 2021 9:00 am EST At its heart, the true foundation of the Walt Disney Company are short films. Before there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe, before there was Pixar Animation Studios, and even before classic animated films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia, there were short films featuring beloved characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and many more that were driven by music instead of iconic, symbolic characters....
James Cameron Almost Fired His ‘Avatar’ Sequel Writers’ Room By Chris Evangelista/April 1, 2021 5:30 pm EST Now that she’s no longer running for president, Marianne Williamson is spending her free time interviewing James Cameron. Williamson is a reported big fan of Avatar, and she recently spoke to Avatar grandaddy Cameron on The Marianne Williamson Podcast. There, the filmmaker dropped the surprising reveal that he came close to firing his Avatar sequel writers’ room because the team was so focused on new stuff instead of obsessively combing over the things that made the first film such a success....
