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Yes, ‘The Suicide Squad’ Will Have Those James Gunn-Needledrops You Know And Love [Set Visit] By Jeremy Mathai/July 6, 2021 9:36 am EST Any James Gunn fan knows just how integral a role the soundtrack plays in his movies. In 2014, Gunn announced himself to mainstream audiences and immediately set the tone with Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” blaring over the title card of Guardians of the Galaxy. A few short years later, he thoroughly outdid himself with the chaotic and frenzied opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Expanding the Scope of A League of Their Own Including Rosie O’Donnell as the bartender of a gay bar in the A League of Their Own series provides some insight into how the story will be expanded to include a new perspective on the ensemble of women on and off the field. The original movie didn’t highlight any lesbian characters, so the fact that we’ll be spending some time in a gay bar shows that the series will feature a larger variety of female characters....

‘Allen V. Farrow’ Trailer: A Four-Part Docuseries Investigates The Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Woody Allen By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2021 12:30 pm EST The controversial and disturbing sexual abuse allegations against director Woody Allen are the subject of Allen v. Farrow, a new four-part HBO documentery series from investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy. In the 1990s, Allen was accused of sexually molesting his adopted daughter, Dyaln Farrow, daughter of actress Mia Farrow....

‘Black Panther 2’ Director Ryan Coogler Talks About The Death Of Chadwick Boseman By Chris Evangelista/March 11, 2021 1:30 pm EST Chadwick Boseman’s death last summer was shocking and devastating to many people, and the tragedy is further underscored when you watch him deliver arguably the best performance of his career in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, his final film. Boseman was an actor in his prime, and he no doubt had many more great performances to deliver – performances we’ll now never see....

‘Flora And Ulysses’ Review: A Young Girl Befriends A CG Squirrel With Superpowers By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 18, 2021 9:00 am EST Over the last 16 months, Disney+ has unleashed a slew of original films and TV shows, but few have felt like throwbacks to the days when Walt Disney Pictures released one low-budget, low-stakes comedy into theaters after another, in the hopes of translating into moderate box-office success. Though Disney+ has had a fair amount of new films, most of them – either because of the pandemic or through sheer luck – feel bigger than their streaming home....

‘Master Of None’ Season 3 Special Look: How ‘Moments In Love’ Changes Up The Netflix Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 18, 2021 5:30 pm EST Master of None has already mastered its brand of comedy-drama with its first two seasons, so why not change things up in a major way with its long-awaited season 3? The third season which comes nearly four years after season 2 aired on Netflix, goes by the title Master of None Presents: Moments in Love, and appears to take that title to heart....

‘Searching For Sheela’ Trailer: Netflix Documentary Catches Up With ‘Wild Wild Country’ Guru’s Righthand Woman By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 13, 2021 1:00 pm EST Netflix released the first trailer for Searching for Sheela, a feature documentary that catches up with the breakout individual of its smash hit docuseries Wild Wild Country, Ma Anand Sheela. The righthand woman of the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (AKA Osho), Sheela instantly became the most talked-about character of the series, owing to her alleged part in one of the worst bio-terror attacks in U....

‘Stranger Things 2’ Spoiler Review: The Problem With Sequels… By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2017 7:00 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: the second season Netflix’s highly anticipated Stranger Things.) What was it that made Stranger Things season 1 such a hit? Was it the nostalgia factor, with the abundance of 1980s charm drawing viewers in?...

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge’ Trailer: A Throwback To The Classic Arcade Game By Ben Pearson/March 14, 2021 9:00 am EST If you were a kid in America during the final decade of the 20th century and you ever entered an arcade with a couple of quarters burning a hole in your pocket, you may have played one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games. The side-scrolling original debuted in 1989 and its sequel, Turtles in Time, came out in 1991....

‘The Office’ Season 2 Superfan Episodes Are Now On Peacock, Watch More Of The ‘Threat Level Midnight’ Table Read By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2021 7:46 am EST Peacock has expanded their offering of The Office Superfan Episodes yet again. When the NBCUniversal streaming service became the exclusive streaming home of the hit workplace comedy at the beginning of 2021, it arrived with extended episodes for the show’s outstanding third season. Since then, the first season received the same treatment....

Cool Stuff: New Funko POPs Coming From ‘Solar Opposites’ And ‘Rick And Morty’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 2021 6:00 am EST There’s never been a better time for animated projects geared towards adults, especially when it comes to comedy. Two of the best animated series today come from Justin Roiland. Adult Swim brings us Rick and Morty, which he created with Community mastermind Dan Harmon, and Hulu has Solar Opposites, teaming him up with Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan while....

Could We Ever See A Sequel To El Camino? Here’s What We Know Netflix By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2021 3:07 pm EST (Welcome to Will There Be a Sequel?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” debuted on Netflix in 2019, exploring the trials of Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and ultimately answering the question of what happened to him after he escaped from that Nazi compound in the series finale of “Breaking Bad....

Everything We Know About Heathcliff So Far Paramount+ By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 30, 2021 9:55 am EST It’s been 15 years since we were last blessed with a film about an orange comic strip cat with “Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties,” but Legendary Pictures has recently obtained the rights to both a feature film and a series version of the arguably cooler orange cat, “Heathcliff.” The favorite of all the Catillac Cats and the Hydrox cookie to “Garfield’s” Oreo has become somewhat of a meme in recent years, which makes him ripe for a cinematic update....

Get In The Robot And Get The ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’: Ultimate Edition Set By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 20, 2021 5:39 pm EST If there are more than 5,000 stateside Evangelion fans reading this (and you also happen to be Blu-ray collectors), then some of you may want to stop what you are doing and gather your financial resources. The full Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, along with the movies Evangelion: Death (True)2 and The End of Evangelion, are coming to Blu-ray in North America for the first time....

Glenn Close Wants To Play Cruella Again, Maybe On An Adventure In The New York Sewers By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 9, 2021 9:00 am EST Cruella de Vil, kidnapper of dogs, queen of the sewers. At least, that’s Glenn Close’s pitch for a 101 Dalmatians sequel starring her Cruella, which the Oscar-nominated actress recently said she would be happy to reprise. You know, when we’re done with Emma Stone’s cool punk-rock Cruella....

Hellraiser Remake Is Shooting Now And Will Be ‘Beautiful And Scary’ New World Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 13, 2021 4:55 pm EST Fresh from the “Foundation” press day, /Film’s own Jacob Hall spoke with David S. Goyer who is currently co-writing and producing the highly-anticipated “Hellraiser” remake directed by David Bruckner. “[We’re] shooting as we speak. We’re about two-thirds of the way through it, and it’s going to be pretty neat,” says Goyer....

James Gunn Shares The Songs That Didn’t Make It Into ‘The Suicide Squad’ By Joshua Meyer/July 9, 2021 6:23 am EST The most memorable thing about David Ayer’s Suicide Squad was arguably its soundtrack album, which debuted in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart in 2016 and went on to earn a Grammy nomination for its Collector’s Edition. The soundtrack patterned itself after the jukebox sensibility of Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol....

Licorice Pizza Early Buzz Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango writer Erik Davis definitely seems to embody us all when he says he “fell hard” for the film, and notes its rewatchability. I fell hard for Paul Thomas Anderson’s #LicoricePizza. Like PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, it’s funny & eccentric, but the guy who sells mattresses in this one is a 15-year-old entrepreneur who’s fallen hopelessly in love & doesn’t know what to do about it....

Masters Of The Universe: Revelation Part 2 Trailer: Return To Eternia, Again Netflix By Ryan Scott/Oct. 27, 2021 2:54 pm EST It’s time to return to Eternia, He-Man fans. Again. Netflix has released a new trailer for “Master of the Universe: Revelation” Part 2, which will pick up where the show left off earlier this year. Kevin Smith (“Clerks”) is heading up this return to the iconic Hasbro franchise and, though Part 1 proved to be a bit controversial amongst fans, it was acclaimed critically....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 9, 2021 5:30 pm EST Nat Geo has brought in Free Solo directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin to take over an upcoming Thai cave rescue documentary about the 2018 rescue of a boys soccer team that became trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand. One Day in September filmmaker Kevin Macdonald had originally been attached to direct the doc, but Macdonald has left the project due to timing issues....