New ‘Shang-Chi’ TV Spot Gives A Closer Look At The Abomination By Shania Russell/Aug. 12, 2021 2:06 pm EST The release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is less than a month away, which means we’re only getting antsier about seeing this new hero in action. Until then, we have nothing but speculation on our side. Well, that and all the latest TV spots giving us more footage and even more clues....
Paul Verhoeven Is Making An American Spy Thriller And A Movie About Jesus By Chris Evangelista/July 8, 2021 10:41 am EST Legendary filmmaker Paul Verhoeven is back with Benedetta, a film set to premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The RoboCop and Basic Instinct filmmaker hasn’t made an American film since 2000’s Hollow Man, but it sounds like that’s going to change soon. According to Verhoeven himself, he’s working on an American spy thriller....
Out The short was produced by Max Sachar (Coco, Toy Story 3) and marks Pixar’s first attempt to feature an openly gay character in a central role. The plot features a man named Greg (voiced by Kyle McDaniel) who is in the process of moving. As his parents show up to help, Greg frantically tries to hide any evidence of his relationship with boyfriend Manuel (voiced by Caleb Cabrera). However, an intervention from colorful fairy god pets (just roll with it) causes Greg to switch bodies with his dog, Jim....
Respect The Frosted Tips: Why Guy Fieri Is The Best Host In Food TV Food Network By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 21, 2021 2:51 pm EST The Mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri first stepped onto the scene after winning the second season of “The Next Food Network Star,” earning a six-episode commitment for his own cooking show on Food Network. What followed is an empire that now includes hosting 14 different food shows, most notably his long-running “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,” and arguably his true magnum opus, “Guy’s Grocery Games....
Stranger Things Season 4 Poster Netflix The “Stranger Things” season 4 episode titles were revealed as part of Stranger Things Day, an annual event for fans of the show. Also released was a poster (with artwork by Kyle Lambert) chronicling the story so far and teasing what lies ahead in the upcoming season. The artwork features plenty of familiar locations and snapshots from the past three seasons, including the Starcourt Mall, Hawkins National Laboratory, and Will’s hideout in the woods....
The Movie: Blade Runner 2049 Warner Bros. When Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,” based on the works of beloved author Philip K. Dick, was released in 1982, it was nothing short of a flop. To date, it has made just $39 million, which is not what a studio wants — not even in the ’80s — from an ambitious sci-fi flick starring Harrison Ford, especially from the guy who directed “Alien.” To make matters more complicated, the original theatrical version is by no means the definitive version, with “Blade Runner: The Final Cut” finally making its way to release years later....
The 11 Best Pre-MCU Superhero Movies New Line CInema By David Court/Oct. 18, 2021 7:56 pm EST With Disney as Galactus (and Kevin Feige as its distinctly non-silver herald), devouring all forms of media in its path, it might be hard to remember a time before the behemoth that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After all, the vastly ambitious scope and size of the MCU changed superhero cinema. Suddenly, it wasn’t good enough for comic movies to be independent entities; shared universes and crossovers became the norm....
The Daily Stream: ‘Wayne’s World 2’ Is The Rare Comedy Sequel That Matches Wits With The Original By Ethan Anderton/June 10, 2021 7:53 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: Wayne’s World 2Where You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: After Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) has a dream in which Jim Morrison tells him to put on a rock concert, he and fellow late-night TV star Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) try to make it happen....
The Ghostbuster’s Ecto-1 For Sale By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2008 10:45 pm EST Someone is selling a restored Ghostbuster’s Ecto-1 which was used in Universal Studios Florida for over fifteen years. “This car is one of three Sony/MGM authorized Ghostbusters 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteor Ecto-1. There are the two original cars used in the films and this one built exclusively for the Universal Studios Theme parks. This car has a rich history and thousands of fans have been photographed with this car....
The Morning Watch: Creating The Black Void In ‘Stranger Things’, The Realism Of Hostage Rescue Scenes & More By Ethan Anderton/March 15, 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....
The Woods Casts J.K. Simmons As A Murderous Psychopath On A Rampage Paramount Pictures By Shania Russell/Sept. 28, 2021 12:37 pm EST JK Simmons has big plans to unleash his inner villain in the upcoming thriller, “The Woods.” Starring alongside Allen Leech (“Downton Abbey”), Fernanda Urrejola (“Cry Macho”), and Isabelle Anaya (“Donny’s Bar Mitzvah”), Simmons plays a murderous sociopath on a rampage. Earlier this year, he flexed his muscles in “The Tomorrow War” and has previously shown some sociopathic tendencies in “Whiplash,” so this feels like a pretty solid fit for JK Simmons, a man with a certain air of intimidation surrounding him....
Three New Pixar Series Coming To Disney+, Including The Very Adorable ‘Up’ Spin-Off ‘Dug Days’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 11, 2020 7:30 am EST Pixar is set to release three new animated series, as part of the influx of new shows headed to Disney+. Among those three animated series is Dug Days, a spin-off from Up featuring breakout character Dug the dog who trades the “dangers of the South America tropics for the dangers of suburbia,” as well as a new Cars series, and Pixar’s first longform animated series, Win or Lose....
TV Bits: ‘Everybody Hates Chris’, ‘Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!’, ‘Better Call Saul’, ‘Reacher’, And More By Chris Evangelista/March 27, 2021 10:00 am EST Everybody Hates Chris, the sitcom based on the life of Chris Rock, is returning – in cartoon form. Deadline broke the news, reporting that Rock would once again return as narrator. There’s no home for the show yet, but it’s being developed by CBS Studios. In the original live-action series, we followed young Chris Rock as he grew up in 1980s Brooklyn with “eccentric family members, including frugal father Julius, intimidating mother Rochelle, spoiled sister Tonya and younger brother Drew, who is more popular than Chris....
Star Wars: Visions – September 22, 2021 Anime Star Wars. ‘Nuff said. But if you really want to know more, there are plenty of details here. Suffice it to say, Star Wars: Visions is an anthology series where the episodes are considered short films, each with a different animator or animation studio behind it. It seeks to celebrate “the Star Wars galaxy through the lens of the world’s best Japanese anime creators....
WarnerMedia CEO Admits They Didn’t Think Through Their HBO Max Release Plan Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Sept. 29, 2021 2:52 pm EST WarnerMedia shook things up in a big way this year by releasing every single Warner Bros. movie both in theaters and on HBO Max on the same day in the U.S. In a year when the industry was hoping for box office hits to rebound from 2020, it was a big blow....
To Blip or Not to Blip Marvel Studios As the early opening title cards lay out the origins of the Eternals and their centuries-spanning conflict with the Deviants, it wasn’t exactly a huge leap to assume that most of that information would probably turn out to be a red herring. Wouldn’t you know it, Sersi’s (Gemma Chan) attempt to gain an audience with the powerful Celestial Arishem leads to the mid-film plot twist that the Eternals were engineered by the Celestials to deal with the out-of-control Deviants....
‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Review: Big, Dumb Monster Mayhem That Delivers By Chris Evangelista/March 29, 2021 8:00 am EST This is a weak defense because ultimately, these movies are more about humans than they are monsters. It’s clear that the folks making these movies want the audience to care about the human characters. When 2014’s Godzilla arrived, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws was cited as an inspiration by several people close to the production....
‘John Wick 4’ Casts Martial Arts Superstar Donnie Yen, And All Is Right In The World By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2021 6:48 am EST One of the best things about the John Wick franchise is watching Keanu Reeves’ increasingly tired super-assassin cross fists with some of the martial arts greats. After barely surviving a fight with Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman from The Raid, there was one big question: who could John Wick possibly fight next?...
‘Silicon Valley’ Review: The Most Awkward Moment In ‘Hooli-Con’ By Alex Riviello/June 19, 2017 3:30 pm EST (Each week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Silicon Valley season 4 by answering one simple question: what was the most awkward moment of the week?) The only thing more awkward than Richard Hendrix with a woman is Richard with an ex-girlfriend. There are scant few of them as it is, but it turns out that running into Winnie at Hooli-Con is enough to transition him into his usual “sputtering idiot” mode....
‘Y: The Last Man’ Trailer: The Classic Sci-Fi Comic Becomes A TV Series By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 5, 2021 10:03 am EST We won’t belabor the point. Y: The Last Man fans have been waiting very, very patiently to see an adaptation of the hit comic series written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Pia Guerra brought to life in all its live-action glory. There’s still a bit more of a wait until the anticipated day finally arrives, unfortunately, but FX on Hulu is making up for it by releasing new footage of their upcoming series to tide fans over until then....
