The 15 Best Halloween TV Episodes Disney By Audrey Fox/Oct. 13, 2021 8:02 pm EST Halloween is the one time of the year when television writers get to let their hair down a little bit. Normally constrained by the confines of their genre, a spooky holiday like Halloween gives shows the freedom to take their storylines in a different direction. A traditional sitcom can have ghosts in it all of a sudden, and a children’s show can embrace slasher film tropes....
The Best Movies And Shows Coming To Paramount+ In September 2021 Miramax By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 2, 2021 5:35 pm EST Have you signed up for Paramount+ yet? If not, perhaps I can interest you in a list of titles that are coming to the streaming service this month. And if that doesn’t do it for you then, uh, I guess we have nothing more to talk about, friend! But those of you sticking around should keep on reading to see the best movies and shows coming to Paramount+ in September 2021....
The Card Counter Director Paul Schrader Explains How He Directed Oscar Isaac And Tiffany Haddish Focus Features By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 26, 2021 4:30 pm EST “The Card Counter,” the latest movie from director Paul Schrader, is heading to theaters soon. The drama follows Oscar Isaac as a former military man named William Tell who served time because of his involvement in Abu Ghraib. Once out of prison, Tell turned to gambling and, as the story unfolds, he forms a bond with Tiffany Haddish’s character, La Linda, a gambling agent and pimp....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ Is Surprisingly Sweet For A Cult Musical About A Man-Eating Plant By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 6, 2021 7:00 am EST The Movie: Little Shop of HorrorsWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) has a passion for weird plants and his co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene), the former of which gets him in trouble when he discovers an unusual plant during a total eclipse....
Transgender Netflix Employees Plan Walkout Over Dave Chappelle Special — Why This Matters Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 13, 2021 1:51 pm EST Transgender employees at Netflix are planning a company-wide walkout on October 20 to protest statements about the Dave Chappelle comedy special “The Closer” made by co-CEO Ted Sarandos. Chappelle’s new special doubles down on his previous transphobic work, and sparked a significant amount of justified outrage. Netflix came under additional heat when they suspended three employees for “crashing” a meeting about how to handle the situation....
Zack Snyder Wrote A ‘300’ Sequel That Turned Into A Movie About Alexander The Great, But Warner Bros. Turned It Down By Chris Evangelista/May 17, 2021 3:30 pm EST We almost had ourselves a third 300 movie. Sort of. Zack Snyder, director of the first 300 and co-writer of the sequel 300: Rise of an Empire, recently revealed he wrote another 300 sequel that then turned into a love story about Alexander the Great and his general Hephaestion....
/Answers: Our Favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe Characters By Ethan Anderton/April 27, 2018 10:00 am EST Every week in /Answers, we answer a new pop culture-related question. In this edition, we celebrate the release of Avengers: Infinity War by asking “Who is your favorite character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?” Ben Pearson: Spider-Man My favorite MCU character has only been a part of the MCU for about two years. It’s Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, who is unquestionably the best Spider-Man ever committed to film thus far....
‘Cruella’ Featurette: Hey, At Least Emma Stone Looks Like She’s Having Fun Here By Chris Evangelista/May 5, 2021 5:00 pm EST Here’s yet another look at Cruella that makes the movie look…questionable, at best. Emma Stone plays the 101 Dalmations villain in her youth, before she decided to start murdering puppies for fashion. This new Cruella featurette has star Stone talking about how fun it is to play such a wicked character, and I have no doubt that she’s correct....
‘Dear White People’ Season 4 Teaser: The Musical Final Season Drops In September By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2021 1:30 pm EST Talk about going out on a high note. The fourth and final season of Dear White People, the excellent Netflix drama based on the 2014 movie of the same name, will consist solely of musical episodes inspired by music of the 1990s. Take a brief look at what the final batch of episodes will look like, courtesy of a new teaser that Netflix released today....
‘F9’ Shifts From May To June 2021, ‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ Bails To 2022 By Ben Pearson/March 4, 2021 11:00 am EST Fans of the Fast and Furious films will have to wait a bit longer to attend the next “family” reunion, because Universal Pictures has announced that they’ve moved the long awaited sequel’s release date back a month from May to June of this year. And if you (or more likely, your child or younger sibling) are an acolyte of the Minions franchise, that wait will be even longer....
‘Loki’ Trailer: The God Of Mischief Needs To Help Fix Reality In Marvel’s Next Disney+ Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 5, 2021 7:00 am EST Even the God of Mischief has trouble navigating bureaucratic nightmares — so if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the very simplified gist of Loki, the upcoming Marvel Disney+ series starring Tom Hiddleston as the titular God of Mischief in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame. Having stolen the Tesseract and splintered reality, Loki is captured and recruited by Owen Wilson to help fix reality....
‘SSSS. Gridman’ Is The Bombastic And Philosophical ‘Power Rangers’ Anime You Didn’t Know You Needed By Rafael Motamayor/June 30, 2021 10:24 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.) Anime is full of remakes and revivals of beloved decades-old shows, which struggle to recapture the magic of the original while also serving its own standalone story. The fact that it’s so hard to make revival shows right only serves to make the few that pull it off feel even more special, like in the case of Devilman Crybaby, or Studio Trigger’s SSSS....
‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Season 3 Trailer Introduces The New Vampiric Council By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 13, 2021 10:26 am EST What We Do in the Shadows, one of the funniest shows on TV at the moment, returns for an all-new season in a few weeks. When we last saw Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), and Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), Guillermo saved his vampire roommate from being killed by the Vampiric Council....
Agatha Harkness Disney+ Show Gets An Official Title And Logo Disney+ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 12, 2021 12:31 pm EST We already knew that Kathryn Hahn’s scene-stealing “WandaVision” character Agatha Harkness was getting her own spin-off. Now we have a logo for the show along with a title. This news comes to us from Disney+ Day, a big event for logo fans everywhere! While there’s no footage or no real news here, we all love Kathryn Hahn so damn much around these parts that we’re bringing you this post....
Atlanta Season 3 Is ‘In The Can,’ Brian Tyree Henry Confirms FX By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 19, 2021 5:02 pm EST It’s been a long wait for fans of “Atlanta,” which remains by far one of the best and most formally inventive television shows currently ongoing. The final episode of season 2 aired back on May 10, 2018 and production has since taken an extended break to accommodate the busy schedules of its cast....
Bob Odenkirk’s Son Confirms “He’s Going To Be Okay” After Heart-Related Emergency By Eric Vespe/July 28, 2021 4:36 pm EST Update: Bob Odenkirk has personally updated the world on his situation, and you can read his message below. It’s been a tense day as fans all around the world waited for an update on Bob Odenkirk’s condition following a medical emergency last night and, thankfully, the news is good. Odenkirk collapsed while filming the final season of Better Call Saul and was rushed to the hospital....
CSI: Vegas Season 1 Release Date and Where You Can Watch It CBS Studios / Jerry Bruckheimer Television “CSI: Vegas” premieres on CBS on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, at 10 pm EST/9 pm CST. You will also be able to stream the show on Paramount+ with a subscription. CSI: Vegas Season 1 Showrunners, Crew, and More CBS Studios / Jerry Bruckheimer Television Jason Tracey acts as showrunner for “CSI: Vegas.” Uta Briesewitz directs the first episode....
Daily Podcast: Interviews With Lin-Manuel Miranda And The Directors And Writer Of Encanto Walt Disney Animation On the November 26, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by news editor Hoai-Tran Bui to present interviews with Lin-Manuel Miranda and the directors and writer of the newest Walt Disney Animation movie, “Encanto.” Opening Banter: In Our Feature Presentation: Encanto Songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda On Why Animation Is The Perfect Medium For Musicals [Interview]...
David Fincher Talks ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,’ ‘Rendezvous With Rama’ And More By Russ Fischer/Dec. 31, 2010 1:18 pm EST David Fincher is doing a little work promoting the DVD release of The Social Network, and he sat down for an hour-long interview with Collider. There is some very detailed technical talk about the daily work of using multiple takes to build a scene — great stuff for the hardcore film nerds — and then mentions of future projects like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the long-in-development Rendezvous With Rama and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo....
Howard the Duck Universal Pictures “Howard the Duck” was the first live-action adaptation of a Marvel property. It was also the company’s first box-office bomb. Released in 1986, Marvel teamed with George Lucas to bring the character of Howard the Duck to life using a team of puppeteers. Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins, and Jeffrey Jones rounded out the human cast. Critics skewered “Howard the Duck” for its poor special effects, boring story, lackluster acting, and, well, pretty much everything else about it....
