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Thelma Motlys The only non-English language film on this list, “Thelma” is a queer paranormal thriller set in Norway. The film follows the eponymous Thelma (Eili Harboe), a sheltered young woman who goes to university in Oslo against the better judgment of her strict and religious parents. At college, Thelma experiences the world outside of her quiet and insular countryside home for the first time and begins to learn more about herself and those around her....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Speed’ Is A Perfect Action Movie By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2021 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: SpeedWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: There’s a bomb on a bus and if the bus slows down it’ll explode!Why It’s Essential Quarantine Viewing: Is Speed a perfect movie?...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage: Release Date, Cast And More By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2021 1:03 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.) Eddie Brock and his good buddy/alien parasite Venom are back for Venom: Let There Be Carnage. As you can probably tell from the title, another symbiote, Carnage, is in this film, too....

Why That Major Hawkeye Episode 4 Cameo Is So Significant Marvel Studios By Max Evry/Dec. 8, 2021 12:04 pm EST (WARNING: Major spoilers for the fourth episode of “Hawkeye,” obvs!) Although the reveal should not have come as much of a shock considering her casting was announced in the trades over a year ago, today’s fourth episode of Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” brought back everyone’s favorite ex-Black Widow Yelena Belova, as played by the always amazing Florence Pugh (“Midsommar,” “Little Women”)....

‘F9’ Featurette Showcases Total “Car-Nage,” Reveals A Dizzying Number Of Practical Car Stunts By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 6, 2021 12:30 pm EST The stunts in the Fast and Furious movies get more and more absurd with each installment. A rocket car? Slingshotting a car around a cliff? Catching another car with a truck?! Those things couldn’t be real. And yet, F9 shows that at least some of those are more real than expected....

‘Kingpin’ Sequel Is Somehow In The Works With Original Directors Peter & Bobby Farrelly Producing By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2021 2:17 pm EST After filmmakers Peter & Bobby Farrelly delivered the hit comedy Dumb & Dumber, they followed it up with Kingpin, one of the best bowling comedies ever made. Sure, maybe that’s becauue Kingpin is one of the few movies that’s actually about bowling (sorry, The Big Lebowski), but it still stands strong as a solid underdog sports movie starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Bill Murray, each giving top notch comedic performances....

‘Luca’ Review: Sweet And Simple Is The Best Recipe In Pixar’s Exquisite Ghibli-Inspired Throwback By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 16, 2021 9:00 am EST Simple is underrated. Especially at Pixar where, in recent years, filmmakers are putting more and more stock in high concept stories and high-quality CG innovations that are bringing the visuals of their films scarily close to reality. But is the ultimate end-goal of animation really to get as close to reality as it can be?...

‘Shadow And Bone’ Review: Netflix’s New Fantasy Series Is Complex And Compelling By Vanessa Armstrong/April 21, 2021 8:00 am EST When people hear the words, “epic fantasy,” most will think of dragons and wizened old wizards, of giant battles fought with swords and staffs, or maybe an elf or a white walker or two. Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, an adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s books, is a series that has none of these things....

‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Trailer Breakdown: A Closer Look At Those Countless Film & TV Easter Eggs By Ben Pearson/June 9, 2021 12:24 pm EST Warner Bros. released a second Space Jam: A New Legacy trailer earlier today, and you know what that means: it’s time for us to comb through it for easter eggs, references, callbacks, and everything else you may have missed on first watch. Space Jam: A New Legacy Easter Eggs...

‘The Djinn’ Review: Be Careful What You Wish For In This Small-Scale, Intense Horror Film By Marisa Mirabal/May 14, 2021 1:00 pm EST Writer/director duo David Charbonier and Justin Powell know how to get straight to the point without extracting any key elements that comprise an entertaining horror film. Their debut film The Boy Behind the Door was a terrifying and realistic depiction of friendship withstanding a traumatic childhood abduction. This year, the talented pair push the envelope with their sophomore film, The Djinn, by exploring guilt and familial love through a supernatural framework....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Final Poster Gives Us The New Captain America By Chris Evangelista/April 26, 2021 10:00 am EST Time for one more (and final?) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier poster, giving fans what they probably wanted from the get-go: Sam Wilson as the new Captain America. As played by Anthony Mackie, Sam, the artist formally known as Falcon, finally becomes Captain America in the show’s season finale, and Marvel and Disney have marked the occasion with an official poster of Sam in costume....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Character King Shark Was Harder To Create Than Rocket Or Groot, Says James Gunn By Ethan Anderton/June 18, 2021 10:59 am EST In Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, director James Gunn made us fall in love with a big talking tree with limited vocabulary and a bitter anthropomorphic raccoon with a penchant for bursts of rage and stealing people’s prosthetic body parts. That’s no easy feat, but it turns out the most difficult walking-talking animal character the filmmaker had to deal with came from the upcoming DC Comics movie The Suicide Squad....

‘We Need To Do Something’: Release Date, Cast And More By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2021 3:00 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 weird, off-the-wall horror movie We Need to Do Something is headed our way soon, and you absolutely need to go out of your way to see it....

It Takes a Village Touchstone Pictures Let’s dig into the results now and see if we can make sense of what people were thinking. It goes without saying that we’ll be delving into spoilers here, so if there’s a Shyamalan movie you haven’t seen, feel free to skip that section or paragraph … starting now. So, “The Village.” Is it really the Shyamalan film with the worst twist ending? That’s debatable, but the largest chunk of our respondents (23%) seem to think it is....

David Gordon Green Is Not Worried About The New Hellraiser Movie Competing With His TV Series Entertainment Film Distributors By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 20, 2021 5:23 pm EST There are two different “Hellraiser” projects on the way. There’s a new movie from director David Bruckner, and there’s also a TV show that will have a pilot episode helmed by “Halloween Kills” director David Gordon Green. Bruckner’s film, which will star Jamie Clayton as the new Pinhead, will drop on Hulu, while the “Hellraiser” TV series is headed to HBO, and, by all accounts, both projects are completely separate – they have nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that they’re both “Hellraiser” adaptations....

Disneyland Paris Bids Adieu To Free FastPass In Favor Of Paid Option By Josh Spiegel/July 8, 2021 6:47 am EST As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to become less oppressive to travelers, the new normal is becoming clearer to see at the Disney theme parks. One major aspect of the theme-park experience has been Disney’s free FastPass system, which enabled guests to use their park ticket to reserve a spot in line for some of the most popular attractions....

Don’t Worry Darling Trailer In theaters only. 9.23.22 pic.twitter.com/S2wiqcmL9m— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) September 13, 2021 Olivia Wilde announced through a tweet that the 1950s-set period piece thriller will debut exclusively in theaters on September 23, 2022, setting up the film for an end-of-year awards boost in a striking show of confidence from both New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Starring an absolutely stacked cast that includes Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Sydney Chandler, and Nick Kroll, “Don’t Worry Darling” has previously been described as “A 1950’s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets....

Everything We Know About Hocus Pocus 2 So Far Disney By Sandy Schaefer/Nov. 5, 2021 1:27 pm EST In hindsight, it’s kind of miraculous “Hocus Pocus” got made, considering it’s a Disney film that features, among other things, a running joke involving a teenager’s virginity, gleefully child-murdering (and, in one case, very horny) witches, zombie slapstick, and multiple impromptu musical numbers. It’s no wonder director Kenny Ortega’s fantastical comedy took a while to catch on with the masses and become the Halloween classic it is today....

Ladies And Gentlemen: Daniel Craig’s Wholesome Reaction To Learning He’s A Meme NBC By Lex Briscuso/Oct. 1, 2021 10:26 am EST I am delighted to be bringing you the latest in Daniel Craig: his reaction to his status as a reigning meme. I of course mean his iconic “Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd” moment from “Saturday Night Live” in March 2020 — which is so popular that the clip now has its own Twitter account....

Marlon Wayans Replacing Eddie Murphy In Richard Pryor Biopic By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2009 12:00 pm EST For a minute there, it looked as if Eddie Murphy’s career might have a trampoline off which it could rebound. Murphy was tapped as the lead in a Richard Pryor biopic (Richard Pryor: Is it Something I Said) and while that would have been waaay on-the-nose casting (Murphy has never been shy about noting the debt his early act owed to Pryor) it might have rescued Murphy’s rep from the pit of s*** in which he’s kept it penned for years....