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This Week In Trailers: The Dry, Grey Roads, Truman & Tennessee, Final Account By Christopher Stipp/April 17, 2021 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

VOTD: “You Look Like S***” – The Most Overused Line In Movies? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 27, 2010 7:00 am EST Some of the most common phrases used in movies probably include ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this", “It is what it is”, “Let’s get outta here!”, “look at me, stay with me”, “Excuse me, is this seat taken?”, “What did I miss?”, “We got a situation here”, “You’re in the wrong place at the wrong time”, “You have no idea what you’re dealing with” and “you look like s***!...

What We Do In The Shadows Season 4: Everything We Know So Far FX By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 26, 2021 4:12 pm EST Ever think about how far we’ve come from such a scrapped-together, low-budget, and quintessentially New Zealand-specific goodness that Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement gave us with their “What We Do in the Shadows” film? Waititi and Clement have gone on to much bigger things since 2014, with the former garnering Oscar love for “Jojo Rabbit” after making his mark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, of all things, and Clement doubling down on even more paranormal hilarity with FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” series....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Created A Bromance That Endured – And A Romance That Did Not By Evan Saathoff/April 8, 2021 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Great Moments in MCU History, where we fondly recall great little bits that made us fall in love with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.)Not everything in the Marvel Universe works out according to a master plan handed down from on high. It’s just that 99% of it does appear to arrive that way....

‘Fear Street Part 3: 1666’ Trailer: Netflix’s Horror Trilogy Comes To An End, In The Past By Chris Evangelista/July 14, 2021 7:48 am EST It’s all been leading to this. This week, the Fear Street trilogy comes to a close with Fear Street Part 3: 1666. And whatever you’ve thought of the trilogy so far, you have to admit it’s been an exciting event. So often now, streaming titles come and go....

‘Pacific Rim: The Black’ Trailer: The ‘Pacific Rim’ Saga Continues With A Netflix Anime Series By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2021 12:00 pm EST The Kaiju-busting world of Pacific Rim lives on in Pacific Rim: The Black, a new anime series from Netflix. Since Guillermo del Toro’s original film drew heavily on anime influences, it’s only appropriate that things have now come full circle. The first movie involved humans piloting giant robots called Jaegers to battle massive monsters known as Kaijus....

‘Pantheon’ Cast For AMC’s First Primetime Animated Drama Adds William Hurt And More By Ben Pearson/Feb. 19, 2021 5:00 pm EST William Hurt (The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: Civil War), Maude Apatow (Euphoria, The King of Staten Island), Corey Stoll (Ant-Man, House of Cards), and Lara Pulver (Sherlock) are the latest members of the Pantheon cast, joining one hell of an impressive lineup of actors who have been attached to this intriguing sci-fi drama for a while already....

‘Reminiscence’ Director Lisa Joy On Her Noir Influences And Directing Hugh Jackman [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Aug. 19, 2021 6:56 am EST Reminiscence is a real deal, large-scale noir. Hugh Jackman plays a bitter and jaded detective of the mind, looking like he could walk the dark and rainy streets next to Kirk Douglas or Burt Lancaster and not appear out of place. Jackman delivers old-school blunt dialogue and narration only his signature sincerity could sell....

Spider-Woman by Hopeless, Rodriguez, Lopez, & Busto Marvel Comics Following the 2014 “Spider-Verse” comic book event from Marvel, writer Dennis Hopeless launched a new series centered around the character of Jessica Drew, who shocked fans everywhere when her first cover featured her noticeably pregnant. Her pregnancy means she needs to take time away from being an Avenger, and has since shifted her focus to tackling street-crime. Drew has to battle not just the physical limitations of being a pregnant superhero, like her constantly changing body and weird food cravings, but also having to come to terms with accepting that every aspect of her life, especially fighting crime, is going to have to change because of the baby....

Bryan Cranston And Annette Bening Will Scam The Lottery In ‘Jerry And Marge Go Large’ On Paramount+ By Marisa Mirabal/June 22, 2021 7:11 am EST Paramount+ is going all-in with Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening on board for their new film Jerry and Marge Go Large. The two A-listers will play a couple that scams the lottery to win big. Based on a true story, the plot seems like a perfect film to watch after spending a year scrambling to make ends meet during the pandemic....

Cool Stuff: ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Star Wars’ And ‘Star Trek’ Hallmark Ornaments Will Be Comic-Con Exclusives By Ethan Anderton/June 30, 2021 6:00 am EST Hallmark won’t be bringing a booth to any in-person conventions this year. But when the home version of Comic-Con International in San Diego and New York Comic-Con come around later this year, they’ll be offering limited quantities of a few exclusive ornaments that fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, and Ghostbusters will want to get their hands on....

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: Halloween Horror Nights, Caribbean Cruise, Bound, And Warrior Universal Studios By Ben Pearson/Sept. 9, 2021 3:52 pm EST On the September 9, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by editorial director Peter Sciretta to talk about what they’ve been up to in the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: Peter’s back! At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Peter went on a Cruise, watch the videos here....

The End is Nigh Netflix There’s a giant comet hurtling towards the planet, and when it hits, we’re all going to die. It’s an incontrovertible fact. And yet the only two people who seem to actually realize that are astronomers Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawerence). Kate is the first person to spot the comet, and Dr. Mindy is the person who does the calculations that reveal our impending doom....

Wrighter’s Block Sony Pictures And that all seems to track when you consider Wright’s filmography. The closest thing he has to any sort of franchise is the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, which is comprised of “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End.” While those movies are some of the most popular Wright has made and they definitely made him more of a household name outside of the UK, each of the films tackle pretty different genres and introduce characters and plot lines....

Employee Picks: A David Cronenberg Masterpiece, A Pretty Good Tarantino Rip-Off, And Some Underrated Sam Peckinpah By Jacob Knight/Aug. 15, 2018 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to Employee Picks, a series where Jacob Knight uses his day job expertise as a video store manager to recommend unique and often overlooked alternative options to the big movies hitting theaters and home video.)...

Here’s What Happened To Loki After ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Marvel Studios Uh-oh, looks like those Russo boys are at it again! Nothing will stop the Russo Brothers from explaining every single thing that happened in Avengers: Endgame! This time, the filmmakers are dishing the dirt on what happened to Tom Hiddleston’s Loki after he escaped with the Space Stone. I guess that’s a spoiler, but the Russos themselves have said that the spoiler embargo has been lifted....

Gyllenhaal vs. Statham: Make It Happen Columbia Pictures As for Richie, his next release is the unfortunately titled “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre,” which reteams him with Jason Statham and is coming to theaters on January 21, 2022. Statham made his feature film debut in Ritchie’s directorial debut, “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels,” and he would take on a larger role as the trench-coated Turkish in “Snatch,” upstaging Brad Pitt....

Lamb Review: Noomi Rapace Shepherds A Gentle Folk Horror Film A24 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 8, 2021 11:39 am EST There’s a certain expectation that comes with an A24 horror film. Haunting. Creepy. Eerie. Unsettling. But while these words can be used to describe the latest A24 horror outing, “Lamb,” none of them wholly encompass this strangely gentle Icelandic folk tale about motherhood. Directed and co-written by Valdimar Jóhannsson, “Lamb” is as curious a creature as the weird hybrid lamb at the center of its story, like a fantastical tale dreamed up by Jóhannsson in the odd hours of the morning....

Last Night In Soho Writer Reminds Us That Nostalgia Was Originally Classified As An Illness [Exclusive] Focus Features By Ben Pearson/Oct. 28, 2021 3:18 pm EST Edgar Wright’s new movie “Last Night in Soho” (which arrives in theaters this week) tells the story of a young woman from modern times who is offered a window back to London in the 1960s, only to discover that the past is not quite as glitzy and sexy as it may have seemed....

Leverage: Redemption: Release Date, Cast, And More IMDb TV By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 10, 2021 12:32 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.) The original “Leverage” was a TNT crime drama series that ran for five seasons from 2008-2012. It must have been successful enough (these days, getting a new original show to be renewed for more than two seasons is practically a minor miracle), considering it has since been brought back with quite a few familiar faces for fans of the original on … IMDB TV, of all places....