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Pixar Reveals First Photo From ‘Soul’, A Jazzy, Ethereal Original Story Coming In Summer 2020 By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2019 10:02 am EST Next year, Pixar Animation will be bringing two original movies to theaters. It’ll be the first time they haven’t released a sequel in a calendar year since 2015. Onward arrives first in March, but then summer brings a new movie that was announced earlier this year, and we’ve got a new look at it....

The Clock Tower: The Arrowverse Has Taken A Break When We Need It The Most By Amelia Emberwing/April 7, 2020 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Devil All The Time’ Scene Breakdown, Creating A Miniature Of Hobbiton & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2020 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. In this edition, director Antonio Campos walks us through scene from The Devil All the Time with Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland....

The New ‘Paranormal Activity’ Could Bring Back A Familiar Face By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 21, 2020 4:30 pm EST If there’s a main human villain for the Paranormal Activity movies, it’s Katie Featherston, the possessed victim of the first sleeper hit who has been the only character to consistently appear in most of the installments of the horror franchise. Played by Katie Featherston (who was an unknown who starred by her own name in the original Paranormal Activity), Katie has appeared five times total through the franchise’s six films....

Theater Owners Pledge $1 Million To Employees During Coronavirus Shutdowns, Ask Congress For A Movie Theater Bailout By Ben Pearson/March 18, 2020 3:00 pm EST Yesterday, NATO (the National Association of Theatre Owners) released a statement which tried to push back against speculation that Hollywood studios would fully forsake the movie theater experience because of the coronavirus and release all of their major blockbusters directly to streaming platforms. Now NATO has released another statement, this time pledging $1 million to movie theater employees who have been affected by the unprecedented closures and urging Congress for a movie theater bailout....

This Week In Trailers: Black Bear, 537 Votes, Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You, The Antidote, Yellow Rose By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 10, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TV Bits: Octavia Spencer’s ‘Self Made’, ‘Raising Dion’ Season 2, ‘Grace & Frankie’ Season 6 Trailer, And More By Ben Pearson/Jan. 2, 2020 5:30 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Michael B. Jordan’s Raising Dion is returning for a second season Get a glimpse of Oscar winner Octavia Spencer in her new Netflix show The sixth season of Grace & Frankie has a trailer Watch the trailer for Green Eggs & Ham season 2 And more!...

What To Watch After ‘Parasite’: A Primer For The Incredible World Of South Korean Cinema By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 11, 2020 11:00 am EST Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite destroyed the awards circuit this season, and for good reason. The dark comedy and thriller about a family of con artists strategically inserting themselves into a rich family’s lives is a masterwork of filmmaking. The less you know about Parasite before viewing, the better, so stop reading now and go watch it....

‘Bill And Ted 3’ Image Makes Keanu Reeves And Alex Winter ‘Face The Music’ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 18, 2020 8:30 am EST It’s still hard to believe this is really happening, but Bill and Ted 3, aka Bill and Ted Face the Music, is a real movie that we’ll actually get to see this year. After years of rumors and false starts, a third Bill and Ted movie is ready to bring back Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as the Wyld Stallyns in their adulthood....

‘Creepshow’ Review: Shudder’s Horror Anthology Pays Loving Tribute To The Romero-King Classic By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 17, 2019 7:00 am EST In 1982, horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King came together for Creepshow, a stylish, silly, scary horror anthology that paid tribute to the EC horror comics of the ’50s. Loaded with big hairy monsters, ghouls bursting from graves, squirmy bugs, and more, Creepshow has become hallowed in the halls of horror....

‘Die Hart’ Turns Kevin Hart Into An Action Star And John Travolta Is His Insane Coach In New Quibi Series By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2020 8:30 am EST Kevin Hart has always taken jabs for being a short guy, and that’s not going to stop anytime soon, especially now that he’s signing up to star in Die Hart, a new series on Quibi, the short-form streaming subscription service launching in April....

‘Doctor Sleep’ Posters Want To Make Damn Sure You Know This Is A ‘Shining’ Sequel By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 9, 2019 11:30 am EST Hey, did you know Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shining? If not, don’t worry, two new posters for the Stephen King adaptation are here to make damn sure you don’t forget. These two posters lean heavily into imagery from Stanely Kubrick’s Shining adaptation, and also plaster Stephen King’s name above the title, something that hasn’t been done for a while....

‘Gemini Man’ Featurette: Double The Will Smith, Double The Fun By Ethan Anderton/July 24, 2019 9:30 am EST What happens when your greatest enemy turns out to be yourself from 27 years ago? That’s the premise of Ang Lee’s upcoming action thriller Gemini Man, and Will Smith is the assassin caught in the middle of it all. The teaser trailer for Gemini Man did a good job of setting up the basic premise, something that we’ve seen play out with a variety of sci-fi concepts, ranging from time travel to clones....

‘Infinity Train’ Season 3 Leaving Cartoon Network Behind, Will Premiere On HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/July 6, 2020 5:00 pm EST The third season of the animated anthology series Infinity Train will premiere exclusively on HBO Max. The series originated on Cartoon Network, but now you can catch the first two seasons on HBO Max before season 3’s arrival sometime this summer. The series is set on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one its own universe....

‘Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet’ Trailer: Rob McElhenney Enters The World Of Fantasy Epic Video Games By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 8, 2020 3:00 pm EST If the line-up of programming available on Apple TV+ hasn’t been doing much for you yet, maybe the addition of a new comedy series from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars and executive producers Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day will do something for you. Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet finds Rob McElhenny playing both the star and creator of an epic fantasy video game as he tries to hoard all the credit and glory, frustrating the team around him that’s just trying to bring his wild vision to life....

‘No Man Of God’ Tasks Elijah Wood With Interviewing Ted Bundy By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 2020 3:30 pm EST Deadline has the details on No Man of God, a new film that will see Elijah Wood playing FBI Agent Bill Hagmaier. The film is “set largely in a single interrogation room” and will be based on “real-life transcripts culled from conversations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Wood) and serial killer Bundy that took place between 1984 and 1989....

‘Solar Opposites’ Interview: Justin Roiland On Sci-Fi Gadgets, Hilarious Human Death, Potential Pupa Merchandise, Serial TV & More By Ethan Anderton/May 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST Since I loved the show so much, I was glad to speak with series co-creator Justin Roiland, who also co-created Rick and Morty, to discuss how working on Solar Opposites with co-creator Mike McMahan is different than working with Dan Harmon, how they keep track of sci-fi gadgets, the challenge of doing a more serialized series, whether we’ll get a plush of The Pupa, and more....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Embeds Soul-Searching Within Big Action During “Dangerous Debt” By Caroline Cao/April 3, 2020 8:00 am EST Ahsoka Tano is in a tight spot in “Dangerous Debt”, the latest episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Ahsoka (Ashley Eckstein), Trace (Brigitte Kali), and Rafa (Elizabeth Rodriguez) are imprisoned by the Pyke Syndicate on Oba Diah after their disastrous attempt at deception. Directed by Saul Ruiz & Bosco Ng and penned by Dave Filoni & Charles Murray, “Dangerous Debt” is snappy with the fisticuffs and fleeing despite the rocky transition from its opening introspection to the escapade action....

‘Tenet’ Trailer: Christopher Nolan Returns With An Exciting New Action-Thriller By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 19, 2019 9:01 am EST Christopher Nolan is back with Tenet, a big, mysterious action-thriller featuring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. Like most Nolan projects, close to zero details have trickled out about the plot – and that’s just the way the filmmaker likes it....

‘The Rhythm Section’ Trailer: Jude Law Trains Blake Lively For Revenge By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2020 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Blake Lively has tackled a variety of roles on the big screen since her Gossip Girl days. Towards the end of her run on The CW show, she took on Green Lantern and Savages, and after the show was over, she starred in The Age of Adaline, The Shallows and A Simple Favor, roles that couldn’t be more different from each other....