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Above the Law Warner Bros In the decade’s twilight, as muscle-bound supermen lost ground to special effects, two unlikely challengers entered the ring. They were Ferraris, not Hummers, making up for their standard humanoid proportions with bone-breaking speed. While Jean-Claude Van Damme wouldn’t find his best showcase until the ’90s, the case could be made that Steven Seagal never bettered his debut. Seagal, an aikido expert who claims to have a past with the CIA, plays Nico Toscani, an aikido expert who has a past with the CIA....

The Actor Behind Taskmaster In ‘Black Widow’ Had To Keep Their Casting A Secret From Their Own Mother [Interview] By Vanessa Armstrong/July 15, 2021 9:04 am EST Black Widow has been in theaters and streaming on Disney+ Premier Access for a week now, and those who’ve seen it know how memorable Taskmaster is…and how the character’s identity is one of the film’s biggest reveals. /Film had the chance to interview the actor behind Taskmaser’s helmet about being part of the film and what may be in store for the Marvel supervillain, should they appear in the future....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2021 1:38 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 Movies: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, The Skin I Live In, Volver, The Human Voice, Bad Education, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Broken Embraces, Pepi, Luci, Bom, take your pick....

The Harper House Season 1: Release Date, Cast, And More Paramount+ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 26, 2021 8:14 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.) A new family is coming to town. Meet the Harpers, the animated clan at the center of “The Harper House,” a new comedy premiering this fall....

Two Movies A Year CBS Well, this is certainly one way to boost subscription numbers for a relatively little-known streaming service. According to Comic Book, “South Park” fans can expect the first two of these planned spin-off movies to premiere exclusively on Paramount+ before the end of 2021. Not only that, but there will also be an additional two movies each following year through 2027. If that seems like an absolutely ridiculous production schedule, well, that’s because it is....

‘In the movies, the prep is everything.’ gnepphoto/Shutterstock As Zoromski explains in the LA Times interview: “In the movies, the prep is everything … You also need time to clean, inspect and repair guns … You need time to fix old clocks. In period films, you are sometimes using antiques. But here, there was absolutely no time to prepare, and that gave me a bad feeling.” Zoromski’s concerns didn’t end there....

‘Gotham High:’ The Animated Teen Batman Show That Almost Was By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2011 12:00 pm EST This almost seems like a joke. A Batman cartoon featuring everyone as teenagers? And they all went to the same school? Well, it almost happened. That photo above is Clayface, Two-Face, The Penguin, Killer Croc, The Riddler, Batgirl, Batman, Scarecrow, Catwoman, Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane and Mr. Freeze. As teenagers. It’s a promotional image from Gotham High, a show that was being developed by comic book artist/author team Celeste Green and Jeffrey Thomas based on an image they sent to DC....

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Cast Adds Boyd Holbrook And Shaunette Renée Wilson By Chris Evangelista/May 14, 2021 10:30 am EST Let’s take a break from announcing Knives Out 2 casting to announce some Indiana Jones 5 casting, shall we? The James Mangold-directed sequel already has Harrison Ford (naturally), Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Mads Mikkelsen on board, and now Boyd Holbrook (who worked with Mangold on Logan) and Shaunette Renée Wilson (The Resident, Black Panther) have joined the cast as well....

‘OddTaxi’ Feels Like The Coen Brothers Made An Anime Starring Animal People, And It’s Great By Rafael Motamayor/June 11, 2021 8:16 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.) If you’ve followed this column long enough, you might have noticed that many of the anime shows I cover seem to be about and for teenagers. Whether they’re slice-of-life, fantasy, or sci-fi, most popular anime shows deal with mostly teenage problems....

‘The Saint’ Reboot Casts ‘Bridgerton’ Star Regé-Jean Page, Replacing Chris Pine, Who Replaced Chris Pratt By Ben Pearson/July 27, 2021 1:46 pm EST Regé-Jean Page, who broke out in a big way in the first season of Netflix’s steamy romantic period drama Bridgerton, has locked down another movie role. Page will play the title character in Paramount’s The Saint reboot film, which is loosely based on a 1920s book series that sparked a 1960s TV series and a 1997 Val Kilmer movie about a master of disguise who serves as a modern day Robin Hood figure, robbing the rich and redistributing wealth to those in need....

‘WandaVision’ Actress Kathryn Hahn Compares Agatha And Wanda To ‘Amadeus’ By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 22, 2021 11:07 am EST Emmy-nominated WandaVision actress Kathryn Hahn is speaking the right words when drawing comparisons between Agatha, her witchy character on Marvel’s first Disney+ series, and a jealous court composer named Salieri, played by F. Murray Abraham, in the Oscar-winning 1984 film Amadeus. Wanda Maximoff equals Mozart, of course. The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is set to air on September 19, 2021, and in a related interview with The AV Club, Hahn discussed what might seem like an unlikely influence on WandaVision....

‘Without Remorse’ Featurette Tries To Appeal To All The Dads Who Love Tom Clancy Books By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2021 2:00 pm EST Without Remorse Featurette Jack Ryan has been the star character of Tom Clancy’s presence in pop culture, but John Clark has popped up alongside him a couple times before on the big screen. Willem Dafoe played the character in Clear and Present Danger and Liev Schreiber portrayed him in The Sum of All Fears, but this is the first time the role has been handed to a Black actor, breathing new life into the character....

Aeon Flux Live-Action TV Show Is In Development At Paramount MTV By Kaylee Dugan/Sept. 28, 2021 9:44 pm EST The live-action “Aeon Flux” TV series just won’t die. Way back in 2018, we confirmed that “Teen Wolf” director Jeff Davis would be bringing “Aeon Flux” back from the dead with the help of the company that birthed it, MTV, but then everything went quiet on the “Aeon Flux” front. Now, a casual three years later, Davis has struck a deal with Paramount+ to get the surreal sci-fi series up and running again....

Ant-Man 3 Star Evangeline Lilly Is A Bit Behind On Her MCU ‘Homework’ Walt Disney Pictures / Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/Oct. 11, 2021 1:29 pm EST There are so many movies and so little time. It’s a problem that haunts us all and according to “Ant-Man and the Wasp” actress Evangeline Lilly, that even includes the stars of said movies. No one can watch everything and, as if the general barrage of new movies isn’t enough, Lilly is part of the bursting-at-the-seams Marvel Cinematic Universe, which just added TV series to its overwhelming docket of new things....

Being The Ricardos Review: An Exhausting And Unfunny Look At One Of The Funniest People Ever By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 7, 2021 12:00 pm EST Some multi-hyphenate filmmakers become their own worst enemy because they end up being stronger directors than writers, or vice versa. And then some multi-hyphenate filmmakers shouldn’t attempt to broaden their scope at all. To wit, Aaron Sorkin, who proved himself earlier in his career to be extremely gifted at capturing the rat-a-tat, rapid-fire pace of the world of media and politics, grafting urgency while depicting people speed-walking and talking through the halls of Washington, D....

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X And Muhammad Ali Director On How The Netflix Film Shows A New Side To Two Icons [Interview] Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 9, 2021 10:37 am EST “Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali” hits Netflix today, and this documentary has only grown more relevant since last summer when the George Floyd protests swept the nation. The film explores the friendship between two American and African-American icons, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, and how their lives were closely intertwined for three years, from 1962 to 1965, before outside forces drove a wedge between them....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Expands ‘The Mandalorian’ Collection With New Ahsoka Tano And Grogu Figures By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 2021 6:00 am EST The Mandalorian reached back into the prequel era to bring Anakin Skywalker’s former apprentice Ahsoka Tano into the live-action side of the Star Wars universe. Now you can bring Ahsoka Tano to your collectible shelf thanks to the new figure from Hot Toys, featuring the uncanny likeness of Rosario Dawson as the Togruta hero of the Clone Wars....

Djimon Hounsou Explains How Korath From ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Fits Into ‘Captain Marvel’ [Set Visit Interview] By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2019 9:00 am EST Djimon Hounsou returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain Marvel, reprising his role as Korath. You might remember we last saw Korath in Guardians of the Galaxy as a subordinate of Ronan the Accuser who travels to the planet Morag to retrieve an Orb that has been stolen by Star-Lord....

Don’t Rule Out ‘Jungle Cruise’ Sequels, Or Even A ‘Jungle Cruise’ Universe [Set Visit] By Ethan Anderton/June 30, 2021 11:54 am EST Disney is hoping Jungle Cruise will follow the path of success paved by their theme park-based action adventure franchise Pirates of the Caribbean. Not only do they want it to be a box office banger, but producer Beau Flynn says audiences shouldn’t rule out the possibility of seeing Jungle Cruise sequels, perhaps forming an entire universe of stories that take place within the adventure world being explored by Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt....

Every Terry Gilliam Movie Ranked Worst To Best Blue Finch Films Releasing By Fiona Underhill/Oct. 1, 2021 6:04 pm EST Terry Gilliam was always the odd man out in Monty Python — he was the only American, he wasn’t Oxbridge educated, and he was an animator, not a comedy writer. He did, however, find his directing feet with the troupe, co-directing “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” He would also go on to cast Michael Palin and Eric Idle in many of his projects....