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The Academy Awards Will Not Be Going Virtual For The 2021 Ceremony By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2020 11:30 am EST A few months ago, the 72nd Primetime Emmys ceremony went virtual with television’s biggest stars and creators checking into the live broadcast virtually from their homes and various locations. But when the 93rd Academy Awards come around in April next year, the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences won’t be making the ceremony virtual....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In September 2019 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 21, 2019 4:00 pm EST I won’t lie to you, folks. September’s new movie lineup on Netflix is a bit dire this year. The majority of new titles are Netflix originals that really don’t sound very good. In short, there is not a whole lot of nutrition here – just empty calories. Still, I did my best to find something to highlight....

The Quarantine Stream: Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of The ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Movie By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: A crime wave is sweeping over New York City thanks to an underground criminal organization known as The Foot Clan....

Theme Park Bits: Live Muppet Show Going Away, Arendelle Aqua Foodie Guide, And More By Josh Spiegel/Sept. 18, 2019 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: A live Muppets show is going away. A Frozen-themed color collection is invading Disney parks. Look at some Epcot posters from D23. And more! One of the unfortunate themes of Disney’s theme parks in 2019 has been cutbacks. Yes, you might wonder why it is that buying tickets to Disneyland or Walt Disney World has never seemed more expensive if they’re also cutting back on events within the parks....

‘Angry Birds 2’ Is The Highest-Rated Video Game Movie Ever On Rotten Tomatoes, Which Isn’t Saying Much By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 13, 2019 1:00 pm EST Video game movies haven’t fared very well with critics. In fact, nearly every single one has been trounced, with a few notable exceptions. The latest exception is The Angry Birds Movie 2, which has so far managed to stay “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes. And that’s not all: it’s officially the highest-rated video game movie ever on Rotten Tomatoes…but don’t break out the champagne just yet....

‘Away’ Trailer: Hilary Swank Struggles With Heading 20 Million Miles Away From Her Family By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2020 8:30 am EST Being an astronaut isn’t easy, and that job is made all the more difficult when there are missions taking these space explorers away from their family for extended periods of time. In Netflix’s new drama series Away, a mission to Mars will take an international group of astronauts away from their families for three years....

‘Feels Good Man’ Trailer: Pepe The Frog Creator Tries To Wrestle His Creation Back From White Supremacists By Ben Pearson/July 17, 2020 2:00 pm EST Pepe the Frog wasn’t always a symbol of white supremacy. It started out as an innocent cartoon character created by artist Matt Furie for an underground comic called Boy’s Club, but he improbably became a meme and was eventually co-opted by the alt-right into a symbol of hatred that was wielded like a weapon in various online forums....

‘First Wives Club’ Alums Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler & Diane Keaton Call Another Meeting With The Comedy ‘Family Jewels’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 22, 2020 9:00 am EST The First Wives Club members Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton are calling another meeting to order with a silver screen reunion in the comedy Family Jewels. New Republic Pictures won the rights to Family Jewels, a multigenerational family comedy that will reunite Hawn, Midler, and Keaton 24 years after they co-starred in the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club....

‘Gunbuster’ Is A Short But Impactful Mecha Anime That Mixes ‘Interstellar’ With ‘Top Gun’ By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 8, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)It’s impossible not to think of studio Gainax and Hideaki Anno when considering the most influential or popular mecha anime of the past two decades. Between Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, FLCL, and the creation of Studio Trigger, few studios have added so much to the genre outside of Sunrise (the creators of Gundam)....

‘Lost In Space 2’ Trailer: The Robinsons Search For Their Lost Robot By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 5, 2019 12:45 pm EST More than a year after Netflix debuted its glossy, big-budget reboot of classic 1960s sci-fi series Lost in Space, the second season is arriving to take us back to the stars. Following its New York Comic-Con panel, the Lost in Space 2 trailer was released online, showing the Robinson clan still as lost as ever, but now separated from their beloved alien friend Robot, who may hold their only ticket home....

‘Luther’ Movie Is “This Close” To Becoming A Reality, According To Series Star Idris Elba By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2020 2:30 pm EST Before he canceled the apocalypse in Pacific Rim, actor Idris Elba was working as a Detective Chief Inspector for the Serious Crime Unit in London on the BBC series Luther. Since debuting in 2010, there have been five total seasons, though they have arrived with decreasing frequency, with the most recent fifth season arriving in 2019....

‘Mission: Impossible II’ And The Final Bastion Of Hollywood Villains Being Coded As Gay By Ariel Fisher/July 15, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Queering the Scene, a series that explores LGBTQ themes and content in films of all kinds…especially where you least expect it.) Queer representation in cinema has often been problematic. As a result of queer coding, the LGBTQ+ community was often portrayed as violent, threatening, and abhorrent, an active threat to civilized heteronormative society....

‘News Of The World’ First Look And Details: Tom Hanks Reunites With Director Paul Greengrass For His First Western By Ben Pearson/Oct. 6, 2020 1:00 pm EST Beloved actor Tom Hanks has famously lent his voice to a cowboy in several of Pixar’s Toy Story movies, but he’s never appeared in a full-fledged Western…until now. Hanks stars in this year’s News of the World, a Universal Western which reunites “America’s dad” with his Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass and places him in a classic, archetypal situation as a man who discovers an abandoned young girl and takes her under his wing....

‘Palm Springs’ Commentary Cut Featuring Andy Samberg And Cristin Milioti Now Streaming On Hulu By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 25, 2021 12:00 pm EST Hulu is now streaming a Palm Springs commentary cut, featuring stars Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti providing insight into the streaming hit. It’s a fun idea, and it’s something more streaming titles should take advantage of – the technology to provide streaming commentary tracks is there and waiting. Could this be the start of a new trend or something Hulu is trying out just to drum up more awards season attention for Palm Springs?...

‘Saturday Night Live At Home’ Returning This Weekend With A Second Round Of Remotely Produced Sketches By Ethan Anderton/April 23, 2020 12:30 pm EST A couple weeks ago, Saturday Night Live returned to NBC with a special remotely produced “At Home” edition of the late night sketch show. After taking a break last weekend, SNL is returning with yet another Saturday Night Live At Home show this weekend on April 25....

‘Slinky’ Movie To Walk Down Stairs And Into Theaters To Tell The Origin Story Of The Classic Toy By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2020 8:30 am EST Who walks the stairs without a care? It shoots so high in the sky. Bounce up and down just like a clown. Everyone knows its Slinky. Though the age of technology and screen-based entertainment may have made the Slinky a little more obsolete, the springy toy is still a classic, and the story of how it came to be a staple of many childhoods is going to be told in a new movie....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Arrives On Disney+ On May The 4th By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 27, 2020 7:30 am EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is making its streaming debut two months earlier than expected. The final chapter in the Skywalker Saga is set to begin streaming on Disney+ on May the 4th, the long-observed “Star Wars Day” by nature of the date’s fortuitous Star Wars-related pun. The Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Disney+ debut date has been revealed....

‘The Blech Effect’ Trailer: The Fallen Former “King Of Biotech” Races To Reverse His Fortunes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 3, 2020 7:00 am EST In the ’80s, David Blech was dubbed the “King of Biotech” by the New York Times, a pioneer investor in a rapidly growing industry whose very touch (dubbed “The Blech Effect”) seemed to promise vast fortunes and success. But 30-something years later, Blech is $11 million in debt and awaiting a possible jail sentence, the “Blech Effect” taking on a dramatically different meaning....

‘The Croods: A New Age’ Review: An Unremarkable Sequel Best Viewed From The Safety Of VOD By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 23, 2020 9:00 am EST 2020 has been a year of incalculable oddities, and somewhere fairly high up on the list has to be the very existence of The Croods: A New Age. It’s been nearly eight years since the arrival of the first Croods film, which made a decent enough splash at the box office (primarily internationally) to spawn this long-gestating follow-up....

‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Gets A New Trailer – Watch Kevin Smith Recap The First Three Seasons By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 18, 2019 9:30 am EST Below, you can watch The Expanse season 4 trailer below, and if you like what you see but you’ve never seen a single episode, you can also check out a recap of the first three seasons from Kevin Smith to get you caught up before the show returns....