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The Morning Watch: Seinfeld Gets A Different LEGO Makeover, Grant Imahara’s Grogu Animatronic & More Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2021 8:15 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, watch Jerry Seinfeld get a wild, life-sized LEGO treatment as a combined promo for both the arrival of “Seinfeld” on Netflix and the sitcom’s very own LEGO set....

The Scariest Scene In Pyewacket Will Haunt Your Dreams IFC Midnight By Matt Donato AND Ariel Fisher/Nov. 19, 2021 3:27 pm 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: Matt honors a scare in ‘Pyewacket’ that deserves to be mentioned alongside ‘Heredity,’ and Ariel may wind up run out of town....

Video: Where The Wild Things Are, Art Director Sonny Gerasimowicz, And The Film As A Movement By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 9, 2009 10:59 am EST While in Ireland this week for a set visit, two of the more interesting dinner discussions amongst peers regarded the dismal state of studio poster art and the box office potential for Where the Wild Things Are. It’s my belief that if WTWTA is a hit, it will signal a shot-call for a new era of mainstream films, ones that put creative cred, talent, and integrity ahead of this generational notion that people are generally dumb as s*** and desire basking in dumber s***....

‘CSI: Vegas’ Teaser Welcomes Back The Original Crime Scene Investigators By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2021 9:30 am EST CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was one of the most popular television shows of all time. It ran for 15 years on CBS, spawned several spin-offs, and entertained parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents endlessly with grisly crime investigations and detective camaraderie. Now the original crime scene investigators are coming back in a series revival called CSI: Vegas, and a new featurette catches up with Gil Grissom (William Petersen), Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), and David Hodges (Wallace Langham), who return to help Maxine Roby (Paula Newsome) and her team face a massive threat....

‘Loki’ Special Look: Tom Hiddleston Is Burdened With Glorious Purpose (Again) By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 4, 2021 10:30 am EST Loki’s time has come. And he is burdened with glorious purpose…again. But this time it’s not about conquering worlds, but saving them, even if he’s absurdly bad at that. A new Loki special look gives us another sneak peek at the highly anticipated Marvel series on Disney+, starring Tom Hiddleston as the fan-favorite God of Mischief, returned....

Becoming Part of the Boys As a member of The Boys, the vigilante group that seeks to expose venerated but secretly corrupt superheroes, we are thrust into a crime scene with little explanation, until an angry British man in a leather jacket begins yelling at us about the super “c**ks” that are responsible for it. “Here’s the deal,” the man declares. One of the members of The Boys, Hughie (played in the series by Jack Quaid) was at this electronics store before the attack took place....

Armond White Accuses Members Of The New York Film Critics Circle Of Racism; With Video By Germain Lussier/Jan. 20, 2011 4:30 pm EST The man who famously panned Toy Story 3 and Inception but loved Grown Ups and Jonah Hex once again finds himself at the center of a huge controversy. This time, though, it’s a bit more serious than his unconventional taste in movies. Famously contrarian New York Press film critic Armond White got national attention last week after getting into a public war of words with Darren Aronofsky and reportedly making Annette Bening cry at the New York Critics Circle Awards....

Army Of Thieves Ending Explained: Love In The Time Of Zombies Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Nov. 4, 2021 2:38 pm EST As much as Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” presented itself as a cross between a heist movie and a zombie flick, it did a better job of delivering undead-related thrills than the pleasures of watching a group of law-breakers execute a careful plan. “Army of Thieves,” a film that acts as a prequel to Snyder’s action/horror mashup, goes to the opposite extreme, in part because it takes place in Europe at a point when the zombie outbreak depicted in “Army of the Dead” has only just begun far away in Nevada....

Brian Grazer Replaces Brett Ratner As Oscars Producer By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2011 6:30 pm EST Earlier today, Eddie Murphy dropped out of his Oscar-hosting job after his Tower Heist director Brett Ratner resigned from his Oscar-producing gig. But if the Academy has things their way, Murphy may return yet. Producer Brian Grazer has been tapped to replace Ratner as the new Oscar producer, and apparently his first job will be to get Murphy back....

Controversy: Did It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Sell-Out With “The Great Recession”? By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 1, 2009 8:33 pm EST Wow, what in the hell was that? The third episode in the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia just concluded on FX on the East Coast, and there are already viewer grumblings over what appeared to be blanket-style, integrated product placement. During the second half of the ep, entitled “The Great Recession,” I wondered if I was watching an experimental commercial starring Rob McElhenney and Glen Howerton, with an actual, traditional, (and umm, funny?...

No Time To Die Becomes The Second Biggest Hollywood Movie Of 2021 MGM By Ryan Scott/Oct. 22, 2021 5:00 pm EST “No Time to Die” has crossed a major milestone at the box office as the latest “James Bond” flick heads into its third weekend in theaters domestically. The fifth and final entry in the franchise starring Daniel Craig’s 007 is now officially the second biggest American movie of the year, behind only Universal’s monster hit “F9,” the latest entry in the “Fast & Furious” saga, which earned $716....

Ridley Scott Is Disappointed About The Last Duel’s Box Office, But Suggests Time Will Be Kind To It 20th Century Studios By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 13, 2021 11:34 am EST “The Last Duel” hits digital platforms later this month and is coming to physical home media in December, and there’s a very good chance that most people reading this haven’t seen it yet because it was a box office bomb. The film earned strong critical notices, including a positive review from our own Marshall Shaffer....

Sneakerella Trailer: Oh My God, Shoes Disney+ By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 12, 2021 11:26 am EST Someone call Kelly! Disney decided to make her dream movie: it’s the story of Cinderella, but instead of a glass slipper, the magical footwear is a sweet set of kicks. Disney has released the trailer for “Sneakerella,” which puts a modern spin on the classic tale. The Disney+ original movie is a hip-hop musical that follows El (Chosen Jacobs), an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens who just wants to make cool shoes....

Station Eleven Teaser Trailer: HBO Max’s Pandemic Drama Brings The Apocalypse In December HBO Max By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 3, 2021 10:50 am EST The teaser trailer for HBO Max’s “Station Eleven” features a version of “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” But it also implies that what the world needs now is … a pandemic drama. Because that’s what “Station Eleven” is. In all fairness, the upcoming limited series is based on an Emily St....

Superman Is Immortal In DC Comics Now By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 9, 2018 3:30 pm EST Is Superman immortal? It’s a question that has followed the comic book character for decades. The last survivor of Krypton, Kal-El gains his strength and invulnerability from the Earth’s yellow sun. He’s in peak physical condition, and ages at a far slower rate than the rest of humanity. But does that translate to immortality? DC Comics finally answers that question....

SXSW Winner ‘The Fallout’ Heading To HBO Max By Jeremy Mathai/July 28, 2021 7:03 am EST The Fallout, filmmaker Megan Park’s debut feature, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2021 and received rave reviews across the board. The high school drama was even awarded the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Film Competition, as well as the Audience Choice Award. Clearly, Park managed to get herself on quite a few radars with this film....

The Daily Stream: ‘Steel’ With Shaquille O’Neal Isn’t Great, But Has Its Heart In The Right Place By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2021 7:09 am 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: SteelWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Metallurgist John Henry Irons (basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal) vows to do something when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands....

The Morning Watch: ‘Loki’ Plot Holes And Unanswered Questions, Noiseless Props In Movies And TV & More By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2021 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, take a look at some possible plot holes and unanswered questions leftover following the first season of Marvel’s Loki series on Disney+....

The Morning Watch: How Realistic Is Firefighting In Movies And TV, Catching Up Before ‘The Bad Batch’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2021 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

They’re Actually Rolling Cameras On That ‘Rescue Rangers’ Movie By Ben Pearson/March 16, 2021 3:15 pm EST Sometimes, some crimes go slipping through the cracks. But these two gumshoes are picking up the slack. Disney has begun shooting its Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers movie, which was first announced back in 2019. Akiva Schaeffer from The Lonely Island is directing the film, which stars John Mulaney (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) as the title characters....