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‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Featurette Focuses On The Return Of The Dora Milaje By Ethan Anderton/April 15, 2021 11:00 am EST (Spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ahead.) Last week, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier brought back the Wakandan warriors known as the Dora Milaje. They weren’t too happy that Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) busted Baron Zemo out of prison to help them track down Karli Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman) and the Flag Smashers....

‘The Green Knight’ Early Buzz: A Haunting, Sexy Take On An Arthurian Legend By Shania Russell/July 19, 2021 10:08 am EST Dev Patel supremacy is upon us, as David Lowery’s long-awaited film, The Green Knight is finally within reach. Once upon a time, Lowery’s film had a 2020 release date before being repeatedly pushed back by the pandemic. With each trailer, the film showed off the kind of stunning visuals that require a big-screen release, garnering more and more buzz and turning eager fans impatient....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 3, 2019 4:30 pm EST Avatar: The Last Airbender is a perfect TV series, full stop. No “perfect TV series for an animated show” or “perfect TV series for kids.” For three seasons, Avatar: The Last Airbender delivered a rich, thematically complex, gorgeously animated story about a young boy who is charged with saving the world from an oppressive, conquering empire. It’s a simple, and familiar, tale but the characters were so vibrant and the storytelling so tight that Avatar: The Last Airbender deserves its place as one of the best TV shows of all time....

Ben Affleck Says George Clooney Gave Him The ‘Best Notes Of Any Director’ He’s Worked With By Kaylee Dugan/Oct. 5, 2021 9:42 am EST In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Affleck spoke effusively about Clooney’s directing skills, saying: Considering Affleck has worked with a suite of incredible directors over his career, including giants like David Fincher, Gus Van Sant, Kevin Smith, and Richard Linklater, that’s quite the compliment. While Affleck doesn’t mention it in the interview, it makes you wonder if his time working with Clooney has made him think differently about the way he approaches his own directing....

Every J.J. Abrams Film Ranked From Worst To Best Karwai Tang/Getty Images By Liam Gaughan/Sept. 9, 2021 8:46 pm EST J.J. Abrams has been an influential figure in the entertainment industry since his youth. Inspired by his prominent television producer father, Gerald W. Abrams, the young film buff was mentored by Steven Spielberg, and flexed his creative instincts as screenwriter of ’90s hits like “Forever Young,” “Regarding Henry,” and “Armageddon.”...

Fast and Fur10us? Universal Pictures While the two movie arc was confirmed way back in October 2020, and we’re 100% trusting the process when it comes with Lin and his filmmaking prowess (remember, he directed the best “Fast” movie), we still have so many questions. What are the movies going to be called? Are they going to go with the immaculate “Fast and Fur10us” which just popped into my mind and is honestly perfect, or will they mix up the formula yet again?...

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Adds Rob Kazinsky, Willem Dafoe In Talks By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2011 7:51 am EST Earlier this year, some personal issue caused the actor Rob Zazinsky to drop out of Peter Jackson’s two Hobbit films. But things are looking up, and slightly ironic to boot, because he’s now cast in former Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro’s new film, Pacific Rim. And if things go well, he’ll be joined by Willem Dafoe, too....

Heart Of Champions Trailer: Michael Shannon Dials Down The Scary, Coaches A Rowing Team Vertical Entertainment By Shania Russell/Oct. 8, 2021 5:46 pm EST Another day, another sports movie coming for our feelings. This time around, we’re ditching the basketball courts and soccer fields and heading out to the river with “Heart of Champions.” The upcoming film sees Michael Shannon starring as a college rowing coach, dropping into their lives just after the team descends into turmoil....

The Biggest Difference: Alex Dies in Season 5 /Film’s spoiler-full review of the season goes into this in depth, so I won’t say too much more here, except that Alex Kamal is very much alive at the end of the fifth book, Nemesis Games. This difference was likely made for very valid real-world reasons, as the actor who plays Alex, Cas Anvar, was removed from the show after several allegations of sexual misconduct came to light....

Lost Boys Remake In The Works With It And Quiet Place Stars Warner Bros By Eric Vespe/Sept. 17, 2021 6:32 pm EST One thing about Hollywood I could never stomach: all the damn remakes. Okay, so that’s not totally true, but it was too good of an opportunity to rephrase that great line from “The Lost Boys” in a story about a pending remake of that very movie. Truth is that there’s a surprisingly solid trend of strong genre remakes....

Martin Scorsese Will Introduce ‘Goodfellas’ And ‘Mean Streets’ For The 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival By Chris Evangelista/May 4, 2021 5:30 pm EST The 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival is being presented virtually on TCM and HBO Max next month, and it will bring with it two new introductions from Martin Scorsese. Scorsese will (virtually) be on hand to introduce both Goodfellas and Mean Streets for the fest, which means we’ll get to hear one of our greatest living filmmakers talk about his filmmaking, and honestly, you can’t beat that, folks....

Mother/Android Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Hulu Hulu acquired the rights to “Mother/Android” earlier this year and plans to debut the film on December 17, 2021. The streamer continues to lag behind its biggest competitors when it comes to subscriber numbers, yet has enjoyed great critical success recently with original series like “Reservation Dogs” and “Only Murders in the Building,” as well as many of its FX on Hulu shows....

Apocalyptic Stakes Funimation A doomsday terrorist faction, lead by the blue-skinned Humarise leader Flect Turn (Kazuya Nakai in Japanese, Robbie Daymond in English), is organizing to decimate the Quirk population. Their cultish gospel is based on the unverified Quirk Doomsday Theory, mentioned in season 4, that believes that interbreeding among superpowered humans may evolve human powers that can overwhelm and destroy humanity. They plant gas bombs — containing the Trigger drug introduced in the anime — worldwide to mass murder Quirked humans and leave behind the “pure” Quirkless individuals in their new world order....

Netflix Is Making A CG-Animated ‘Ultraman’ Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 14, 2021 7:30 am EST Ultraman is one of the biggest superheroes in Japan, though you’d be hard pressed to find people who know of it outside of the country’s borders, or outside of the tokusatsu/anime community. But Netflix is looking to change that. Netflix is setting up a CG-animated Ultraman movie with the help of Industrial Light and Magic, the VFX company founded by George Lucas....

The Book That Inspired Die Hard The Die Hard we know and love today wasn’t always the tale of John McClane and Hans Gruber in the Nakatomi. Based on Roderick Thorp’s novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, Die Hard was originally meant to tell the story of Joseph Leland, a much older cop who was already an established literary character. Nothing Lasts Forever (1979) was a sequel to The Detective (1966), which was adapted into a movie starring Frank Sinatra in 1968....

Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Voice Cast Includes Anna Paquin, Sam Elliott, Frances McDormand And More By Angie Han/June 12, 2015 10:30 am EST Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur will have a monster of a voice cast. The studio announced today that Raymond Ochoa (NBC’s The Night Shift) and Jack Bright (Monsters University) will lead the upcoming feature as Arlo and his human friend Spot. Jeffrey Wright, Anna Paquin, Sam Elliott, Frances McDormand and more are in supporting roles....

Pixar’s 15 Best Female Characters By Angie Han/June 23, 2015 11:30 am EST But that’s not to say Pixar didn’t have great female characters before that. Though they’re typically relegated to supporting roles, sharp women and interesting girls have always been part of the Pixar canon. To celebrate the studio’s new girl-driven film, here’s a look back at some of their most memorable ladies. Kevin (Up) Kevin inadvertently sets the second half of Up in motion, and it’s no wonder everyone wants a piece of her....

The 14 Best Giallo Films Ranked Unidis By Mary Beth McAndrews/Nov. 23, 2021 7:31 pm EST Black leather gloves. Bold colors. Incredible architecture. Gory kills. If you found yourself nodding along with each phrase, then you may just love giallo. Giallo, which literally means “yellow” in Italian, is a subgenre of Italian horror-thrillers that are believed to have emerged 1963 with the release of Mario Bava’s “The Girl Who Knew Too Much” (more on that later in the rankings)....

The Daily Stream: Redemption Proves Elusive In A Walk Among The Tombstones Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 10, 2021 7:45 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 Movie: “A Walk Among the Tombstones” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: How can you tell when a Liam Neeson movie is worth watching?...

The Daily Stream: Season 4 Of ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Resonates In These Covid Times By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 6, 2021 12:05 pm EST I rewatched season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager recently on a whim. Is it my favorite Trek series? Probably not. But for some reason, I felt the need to revisit the Voyager crew, led by Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), as they struggle to make the 75-year journey back to Federation space....