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‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Deleted Scene Is A Masterclass In Awkward Comedy By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2021 9:53 am EST While the trailers and TV spots for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm were making the rounds last year, you might remember seeing a brief clip where Borat was having a lot of trouble learning how to golf. Now the entire Borat Subsequent Moviefilm golf clip that didn’t make it into the final cut of the movie has been made available on YouTube for your entertainment....

/Filmcast Ep. 615 - Nobody (GUEST: Matt Goldberg From Collider.com) By Slashfilmcast/April 21, 2021 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss the state of the housing market in the U.S. For the feature review, the cast plus Matt Goldberg, senior editor at collider.com, discuss Nobody, the new action-thriller starring Bob Odenkirk. Follow Matt Goldberg on Twitter. The Slashfilmcast is launching a Patreon! Support us at http://patreon.com/filmpodcast. Use #slashtag on Twitter to recommend a title for us to watch....

‘Killing Eve’ To End With Upcoming Season 4, But May Live On In Spin-Offs By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2021 8:30 am EST The upcoming fourth season of Killing Eve will be its final one. The critically acclaimed BBC America series will end with its upcoming Season 4, though the world of Villanelle may live on in potential spin-off series from AMC Networks and Sid Gentle Films Ltd, which produces Killing Eve....

‘Loki’ Featurette Shines A Light On The Mischievous Sylvie And Teases The Fate Of The Sacred Timeline By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2021 8:03 am EST After the identity of the time-hopping Variant criminal on Loki was revealed in the show’s second episode, this week allowed us to spend more time with the female version of the God of Mischief. Well, at least it seems like she could be Lady Loki, but the character played by Sophia Di Martino prefers to be called Sylvie, which could make her a different character altogether....

‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Gets The ‘30 For 30’ ESPN Documentary Treatment By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2021 11:46 am EST Even Looney Tunes deserve the sleek 30 for 30 documentary treatment from ESPN. The sports network has dropped a fun featurette ahead of the release of Space Jam: A New Legacy in the style of its acclaimed documentary series 30 for 30, which highlight famous athletes’ careers and legacies. Those documentaries are thorough and well-researched, featuring interviews with people who were present for amazing events and incredible archival footage....

‘The Nowhere Inn’ Trailer: St. Vincent Is Married To The Road By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 12, 2021 9:40 am EST Concert mockumentaries are a rare breed of movie, and The Nowhere Inn looks particularly unique. The trailer for this genre-bending concert film is here, giving us a glimpse at the movie madness real-life friends Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) and Carrie Brownstein put together. A Boring Rock Star? The Nowhere Inn is a fake documentary about Clark/St....

‘WandaVision’ Head Writer Jac Schaeffer Signs Deal With Marvel Studios And 20th Television By Chris Evangelista/May 26, 2021 2:30 pm EST Marvel is sticking with Jac Schaeffer. The WandaVision head writer (Marvel doesn’t like to use the term “showrunner”) and Black Widow screenwriter just inked a three-year overall TV deal with Marvel Studios and 20th Television. The deal will have Schaeffer developing projects for both Marvel and 20th Television, with the Marvel titles going to Disney+ and 20th Television projects developed for all platforms....

21% Of Fans Said This Is Bruce Willis’ Worst Movie — We Have Some Thoughts 20th Century Studios By Ryan Scott/Oct. 25, 2021 9:23 am EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) Bruce Willis has, unquestionably, earned his place in cinematic history. The man is (or at least was) an absolute icon, having appeared in some of the most important movies ever produced, such as “Die Hard” and “Pulp Fiction,” among many other classics....

Before The Harder They Fall, Check Out The Prequel Starring Michael K. Williams Tidal By Shania Russell/Oct. 21, 2021 5:25 pm EST Netflix Naturally, when the time came for Jeymes Samuel’s first feature, he had to continue the good work of revitalizing Westerns. With “The Harder They Fall,” Samuel assembles Black historical figures like they’re the Avengers. The film’s characters — Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), Nat Love (Jonathan Majors), “Treacherous” Trudy Smith (Regina King), “Stagecoach” Mary Fields (Zazie Beetz), “Cherokee” Bill (LaKeith Stanfield), and Bass Reeves (Delroy Lindo) — were all real living, breathing historical figures....

Cry Macho Review: Clint Eastwood Rides Again In This Old-Fashioned Cowboy Drama Warner Bros. By Josh Spiegel/Sept. 17, 2021 9:55 am EST It’s been nearly 30 years since “Unforgiven,” which remains Clint Eastwood’s directorial masterpiece, and each year is apparent on Eastwood’s craggy face in his latest effort, “Cry Macho.” In some respects, “Cry Macho” is as reminiscent of that seminal Western as it is another Eastwood hit, “Gran Torino.” In that 2008 drama, Eastwood was paired with a young actor, balancing his taciturn elder-statesman status with someone from an entirely different generation....

Daily Podcast: Mailbag, Peter Gets Locked Out, Tom Cruise, Crazy Rich Asians, Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm, Men In Black, & Avengers: Infinity War By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2018 5:30 pm EST Water Cooler Quickie: In The Mail Bag: In The News: All the other stuff you need to know:You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes./Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm....

Daniel Craig Accidentally Broke Dave Bautista’s Nose While Filming Spectre Columbia Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 28, 2021 8:34 pm EST While promoting his final Bond film, “No Time to Die,” star Daniel Craig reminisced on the Graham Norton Show about filming previous entries in the franchise. One moment he couldn’t help remembering was when he accidentally punched co-star Dave Bautista directly in the nose, breaking it. The former professional wrestler handled it pretty well, but Craig was terrified for at least a moment....

Everybody Get Up, It’s Time To Slam Now With A ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Poster Ahead Of Tomorrow’s New Trailer By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2021 9:56 am EST I don’t want to alarm you, but we got a real jam goin’ down. There comes a time in everyone’s life where they must get hyped and say “Hoop there it is,” and that time is now. Because there’s a new Space Jam: A New Legacy poster for you to marvel at....

How Pixar’s ‘Luca’ Took Inspiration From Studio Ghibli And Aardman To Create A “Handcrafted Feel” [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 28, 2021 8:00 am EST Luca is probably the closest Pixar will get to making a Studio Ghibli film. That’s probably not a huge swing to make — the creatives at Pixar have long been fans of the works of Hayao Miyazaki and the anime studio that he co-founded, frequently citing films like Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away as influences for their own award-winning films....

How The 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Created The Modern Superhero Comedy New Line Cinema By Max Evry/Oct. 7, 2021 9:00 am EST In 1990, music video director Steve Barron cracked the code on combining superheroics and laughs with New Line Cinema’s sleeper hit “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which went on to become (and maintain as its status through the ’90s) the highest-grossing independent film of all-time, taking in $200 million worldwide on a $13 million-dollar budget....

Netflix Is “Going To Do Everything” It Can To Get Christopher Nolan’s Next Movie By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2021 1:10 pm EST Could Christopher Nolan make a movie for a streaming service? As one of the biggest remaining proponents of the theatrical experience, it feels almost sacrilegious to suggest that he would be willing to make a film for a company like Netflix. But if the streamer gets its way, that is exactly what’s going to happen....

Quentin Tarantino Explains How He Would Have Fixed ‘It Follows’ By Angie Han/Aug. 25, 2015 3:30 pm EST Among the many interesting reveals from Quentin Tarantino’s recent wide-ranging interview was that he “really liked” David Robert Mitchell’s indie horror hit It Follows. “It was the best premise I’ve seen in a horror film in a long, long, long time,” said Tarantino. However, he continued, he had some problems with the premise’s execution: “It’s one of those movies that’s so good you get mad at it for not being great....

Red Notice: Release Date, Cast And More By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2021 1:35 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.) Netflix’s most expensive original film yet is not Martin Scorsese’s digitally-enhanced The Irishman, or Michael Bay’s bombastic action film 6 Underground. It’s Red Notice, a caper movie that brings together three of the world’s biggest movie stars for a globe-trotting adventure....

Shang-Chi: The Album Is Here To Celebrate Asian And Asian American Artists Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 3, 2021 8:28 am EST Get ready to rock out to the official motion picture soundtrack for “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” When “Black Panther” released its soundtrack in 2018, it incorporated a who’s who list of Black musical artists, led by Kendrick Lamar. Its original score, composed by Ludwig Göransson, leaned on traditional African music influences along with Senegalese singer Baaba Maal....

Shang-Chi Featurette: The Groundbreaking Significance Of Marvel’s First Asian Superhero Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2021 1:28 pm EST Marvel Studios is bringing their first Asian superhero into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the release of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” this week. Following in the footsteps of “Black Panther,” it’s another big step in the right direction when it comes to representation in the blockbuster arena....