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‘Creepshow 3’ Is All Trick And No Treat – And Possibly The Worst Horror Anthology Ever Made By Rob Hunter/Oct. 31, 2019 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. This week, we turn the page on possibly the worst horror anthology film ever made.) Shudder is a streaming service focused heavily on horror movies – you should not only already know this but also be a current subscriber – but in addition to offering up old favorites and forgotten gems they’re also in the original programming game....

‘Dune’ Lets The Character Teasers Flow: Learn Who Is Who In The Upcoming Sci-Fi Epic By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 13, 2021 12:20 pm EST As the premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune comes ever closer, Warner Bros. is getting the general public up to speed on what the hell the movie is all about. The latest effort is through a series of character-based teaser trailers. Wondering who each A-list actor is playing in the film?...

‘Host’ Director Rob Savage On What It Was Like To Make A Horror Movie During Lockdown [Interview] By Matt Donato/Aug. 10, 2020 10:00 am EST I reckon there won’t be many good things that come out of our country’s current pandemic reality. Maybe only one good thing, if we’re honest. Luckily for horror fans, that one good thing is a terrifying Zoom-based horror movie that the Shudder streaming service commissioned and dropped rather rapidly....

‘Impeachment American Crime Story’ Teaser: Sarah Paulson’s Linda Tripp Meets Beanie Feldstein’s Monica Lewinsky By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 11, 2021 1:04 pm EST Impeachment: American Crime Story has given us our first look at Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky and Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp. The third season of American Crime Story will focus on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton following his affair with Lewinsky. Impeachment American Crime Story Teaser...

‘Perestroika In Paris’: Barry Sonnenfeld Will Direct 2D Animated Movie By Chris Evangelista/April 12, 2021 4:00 pm EST Barry Sonnenfeld is set to make his first animated feature film with Perestroika in Paris, an adaptation of the Jane Smiley book of the same name. Legendary producer Frank Marshall will produce the movie via the Kennedy/Marshall Company, and the plan is to create a 2D animated film reminiscent of the animated comedy The Triplets of Belleville....

‘Playing With Sharks’ Trailer: The World’s Greatest Shark Photographer Gets Her Own Disney+ Documentary By Danielle Ryan/June 29, 2021 12:51 pm EST Sharks are terrifying. They represent something primordial, these creatures unchanged since the dinosaurs roamed. Their eyes are black pits, and their rows of teeth create a gnashing nightmare maw. Shark researcher and underwater filmmaking pioneer Valerie Taylor doesn’t see them that way. She’s the center of the new Disney+ and National Geographic documentary, Playing With Sharks, coming July 23 to Disney+....

Bill Murray Goes Full French Dispatch, Reads Wolcott Gibbs’ Rules For New Yorker Editors Searchlight Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 29, 2021 9:23 am EST If you want to receive tips from a New Yorker editor and watch Bill Murray drink himself to sleep while promoting “The French Dispatch,” then this is your lucky day. In the new movie from director Wes Anderson, Murray portrays Arthur Howitzer Jr., the editor of the eponymous “French Dispatch” magazine....

Black Panther 2 Shuts Down Production As Letitia Wright Recovers From On-Set Injury Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 5, 2021 5:02 pm EST Some bad news has just arrived from the set of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the sequel to Marvel Studios’ Best Picture-nominated film and runaway pop culture juggernaut. We previously reported on star Letitia Wright’s injuries sustained during filming of a stunt-heavy action sequence that were described to be “minor” in nature, though she did end up requiring hospitalization at the time....

Everything We Know About Marvel’s Echo So Far Marvel By Ben Pearson/Nov. 15, 2021 2:33 pm EST In an effort to expand its pop culture empire, Marvel Studios is developing a new batch of streaming shows which will help transition the Marvel Cinematic Universe out of the Infinity Saga and into new territory. One of the projects that will help do that is “Echo,” a spin-off show which centers on a deaf superhero who has photographic reflexes, enabling her to perfectly replicate any fighting style she encounters....

Ewan McGregor Says ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series Will “Feel So Much More Real” Than The Prequels By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2021 8:30 am EST Shooting on Lucasfilm’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series for Disney+has yet to begin, but the Jedi Master himself is ready. Ewan McGregor first played young version of the iconic character in George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels, and he was seen as one of the elements that worked in a series of films that didn’t exactly measure up to their predecessors....

Fantastic Fest 2019 Day Six Recap: ‘Memory: The Origins Of Alien’ Dives Deep Into A Masterpiece And ‘Scream, Queen!’ Explores The Queer Legacy Of An Infamous Horror Film By Jacob Hall/Sept. 25, 2019 2:30 pm EST (Welcome to The Fantastic Fest Diaries, where we will be chronicling every single movie we see at the United States’ largest genre film festival.) Welcome to Fantastic Fest 2019, day six. In this entry, Memory: The Origins of Alien finds new things to say about one of the best movies ever made, The Vast of Night is low-key science fiction that comes this close to working, and Scream, Queen!...

Horror Noire Trailer: Shudder Presents A Horror Anthology From Black Filmmakers Shudder By Ryan Scott/Oct. 14, 2021 5:31 pm EST The Shudder streaming service has released a trailer for the upcoming anthology horror flick, “Horror Noire.” This serves as a follow-up to the much-acclaimed 2019 documentary of the same name, which examined the history of Black horror and its influence on not just the genre itself, but on how it rippled across culture....

Killer Camp Season 1: Release Date, Cast, And More The CW By Ryan Scott/Sept. 8, 2021 6:48 pm EST The CW brought the slasher genre to life last year when it aired “Killer Camp.” The reality competition series that was originally produced in the U.K. was imported by the network to help fill gaps in its programming schedule. These gaps were created, in part, by production delays resulting from the pandemic, but The CW turned lemons into lemonade....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Netflix In March 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2021 2:00 pm EST Another month, another collection of movies that will soon be leaving Netflix — even if it feels like they just arrived on the streamer. But it’s the way of the world, for these movies and TV shows to make way for new arrivals in March. Here are the best TV shows and movies leaving Netflix in March 2021....

The Daily Stream: Disclosure Should Be Mandatory Film Education Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 25, 2021 5:08 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: “Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen” Where You Can See It: Netflix The Pitch: Hollywood has a historically terrible relationship with the transgender community, and there is a direct correlation between the way the transgender community is depicted in entertainment and the general public’s understanding of what it means to be transgender....

The Logan Roy of It All HBO Ironically, the Roy family being the worst is the paradox of Logan’s existence. He wants a successor, but the second he marks one of his children as next in line — even mentally — the gears shift and he defaults to attack mode. Logan does not want to be succeeded, in part because of who he’d be handing his legacy — his life’s work — over to....

The Eternals Are ‘Earth’s Original Superheroes’ Who Are Resurfacing For A Reason Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 12, 2021 10:09 am EST You’ve met Earth’s mightiest heroes, the Avengers. Soon, Chloé Zhao and Marvel Studios will introduce you to “Earth’s original superheroes,” the Eternals. The 26th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Eternals” is set to open in November. When it does, it will be the first MCU film helmed by a filmmaker who has won the Best Director Oscar — not to mention the first MCU film to receive a PG-13 rating for the scandalous(!...

The SnyderVerse Is Over, And There Will Be No Ayer Cut Of ‘Suicide Squad’, According To Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/March 22, 2021 12:00 pm EST After years of demanding it, fans were finally given the fabled Snyder Cut, AKA Zack Snyder’s Justice League, last week. You might think that would be enough, but a vocal group of those same fans wants even more. They want Warner Bros. to restore the so-called SnyderVerse by giving Zack Snyder the keys to future DC adaptations....

West Side Story Ending Explained: Even Death Won’t Part Us Now 20th Century Studios By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 10, 2021 5:40 pm EST Tonight, tonight, it all begins toniiiiiight, as “West Side Story” is finally out in theaters. There were plenty of skeptics when Steven Spielberg announced he was tackling the musical theatre juggernaut known as “West Side Story,” the beloved stage production turned into a classic film from Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise....

The Wynonna Earp Fanbase Was Too Niche SyFy It physically pains me to admit it, but “Wynonna Earp” isn’t exactly a show with broad appeal. Wynonna is the descendent of a very real person, but the circumstances of her show were well outside of the realm of possibility. Plenty of people love watching police procedurals featuring strong women with guns, but “Wynonna Earp” is a show where the gun is magical, the criminals are usually undead terrors, and that half-angel sister?...