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‘Mr. Smith Goes To Washington’ Revisited: The 1939 Film Remains A Powerful And Damning Statement About Political Corruption By Jessica Mason/Aug. 8, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to 1939: Revisited, a column dedicated to taking a look back at some of the films of one of the most highly-praised years in film history and explaining why they still matter today. In this entry: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington tells a story of political corruption that resonates 80 years later....

‘One Day At A Time’ Is Officially Over After Failing To Find A New Network Home By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 9, 2020 8:30 am EST One Day at a Time is officially over. The beloved sitcom, which already managed to survive one cancelation after it was dropped by its first home Netflix, failed to find a third home following its axing by Pop TV. Co-showrunners Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce have declared the series officially dead....

‘Scream’ Honest Trailer: How Movie Dorks Harassed Women Before Twitter By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2020 6:00 am EST We’re deep into October now, so there’s a good chance that you’ve probably already watched Scream, and maybe even some of the sequels that followed. After all, there’s no better time to brush up on the slasher franchise now that a new installment of Scream is on the way. But funnily enough, the folks behind Honest Trailers have never tackled Wes Craven’s meta horror movie, and even though it’s certainly a modern classic, it’s not without a few silly little details that are worth a laugh....

‘Spiral’ Review: ‘Get Out’ Meets ‘Hereditary’ In This Disturbing Film [FrightFest 2019] By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 29, 2019 7:00 am EST After Get Out opened to massive box office and critical acclaim, everyone started to predict the rise of so-called ‘social thrillers’, or movies that used high-concept genre tropes to tell stories that reflect our times. The newest attempt at a social thriller is the terrifying and disturbing Spiral from director Kurtis David Harder, which uses a ’90s setting and a story of a gay couple to tell a story about America today, resulting in a movie that will shake you to your core....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2020 10:30 am EST Despite his reputation as a director of groundbreaking and mind-bending films, Christopher Nolan is a stickler for tradition. Just as he passionately fights for the practice of shooting on film, Nolan pushes the casts of his films to appreciate the classics — gathering up his cast and crew before each of his productions start to screen movies that serve as inspirations for their respective projects....

‘The Conjuring 3’ Likely To Get Delayed Until 2021, Studios Not Confident About Theaters Reopening In August By Ethan Anderton/July 1, 2020 8:30 am EST At the end of last week, studios shifted the release dates for the big movies that are intended to usher in the reopening of movie theaters around the United States (and around the globe). Originally slated for release in July, movies like Tenet, Mulan, Unhinged, Broken Hearts Gallery and Bill & Ted Face the Music have been delayed between two weeks and a month due to the fact that movie theaters in some of the biggest markets in the US would not yet be allowed to open....

‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ Score Is Coming To Vinyl, ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ Soundtrack Returns By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 2020 6:00 am EST If you’re a fan of Netflix’s horror anthology shows The Haunting of Hill House and the recently released The Haunting of Bly Manor, especially the scores by Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart (aka The Newton Brothers), we have good news. Waxwork Records is not only re-releasing the previously out of print vinyl soundtrack for The Haunting of Hill House in a new color variant, but they’re also releasing a vinyl soundtrack for The Haunting of Bly Manor for the first time....

‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ Director Issa Lopez Will Helm ‘Our Lady Of Tears’ For Blumhouse By Chris Evangelista/May 20, 2020 3:00 pm EST Issa López, director of the fantastic horror film Tigers Are Not Afraid, is teaming up with Blumhouse. López will helm Our Lady of Tears, based on an article about a case of mass hysteria that overtook an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Mexico City. Per the story, “Between October 2006 and June 2007, an outbreak swept through a Catholic school in Mexico....

‘Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series’ Coming To PlayStation VR This Summer By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2020 5:00 pm EST Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series has been available on the Oculus Quest for awhile now. The three-episode VR series is an immersive video game experience created by ILMxLAB that allows players to step into the shoes of a smuggler who is recruited for a mysterious job by Darth Vader himself....

‘Westworld’ Season 3 Featurette Escapes From The Park By Chris Evangelista/March 12, 2020 3:30 pm EST Westworld season 3 arrives this weekend, and if you’re curious about what’s in store, perhaps this new featurette can help. Titled Escape From Westworld, the behind-the-scenes video delves into what’s going down with season 3 – a season that strives to change things up a bit, and bust free of the same old, same old we’ve come to expect from the series so far....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ May Be Pushed Back Again, Potentially Bumping ‘Dune’ To 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 9, 2020 12:30 pm EST Brace yourself, Wonder Woman 1984 may be delayed again. Warner Bros. is reportedly considering pushing back the Wonder Woman 1984 release date from its current October date to either November or even late December, which would bump Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated Dune adaptation to 2021. These rumblings come in the wake of Tenet hitting the U....

‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Will Introduce A New, Evolved Kind Of Zombie By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2019 1:00 pm EST It’s been 10 years since Zombieland hit theaters. The fact that the horror comedy made $102.3 million at the box office on a budget of $23.6 million should have meant a sequel got fast-tracked, but it took far longer than expected to come together. But here we are, a decade later, with all four of the primary cast members now Oscar nominees, and it’s time to return to the post-apocalyptic world where zombies have taken over everything....

By Ben Pearson/Aug. 8, 2019 12:30 pm EST Read his comments below, including a fascinating breakdown of which parts of Tolkien’s stories are “off limits” in the series. Lord of the Rings Season 1 to Have 20 Episodes Logically, you try to bundle all the scenes that take place in one location and film them so that you have it done and don’t have to return to that place several times....

Cool Stuff: Reebok Releasing ‘Aliens’ Inspired “Bug Stomper” Sneakers For Colonial Marines By Ethan Anderton/April 16, 2020 6:00 am EST If you liked the official Alien Stomper sneakers released by Reebok back in 2016. but you missed out on getting your hands on them, you might want to try again with an entirely new set of shoes inspired by Aliens, the 1986 blockbuster sequel to Alien. For Alien Day this year, Reebok is releasing a “Bug Stomper’ variation on the sneaker that is decked out camouflage and colors worn by the United States Colonial Marines who are sent in to deal with the xenomorph invasion on LV-426 in Aliens....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 13, 2020 4:30 pm EST After a long and storied career in Hollywood, Roger Deakins would finally earn his much deserved first Oscar for cinematography with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. And though the dynamic director and cinematographer duo won’t be working together on Villeneuve’s upcoming sci-fi film Dune, the filmmaker revealed that Deakins is still leaving his mark on the highly anticipated adaptation of the seminal Frank Herbert novel....

George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ Sequel Trilogy Would Have Brought Back Darth Maul, Leaned Heavily On Princess Leia By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 10, 2020 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Before the new Star Wars trilogy came around, the prequels were the most divisive installments of the sci-fi saga. While older Star Wars fans love the original trilogy more, those who grew up with The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith hold the movies in high esteem....

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Latest Prank Involved Crashing An Alt-Right Rally For A Racist Singalong By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2020 11:00 am EST It looks like Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again. The notorious provocateur and satirist, who has built up a reputation for pranking real people while in disguise for his projects, has apparently staged his latest prank at an alt-right rally. Baron Cohen reportedly crashed a rally for the far-right militia group known as the Washington Three Percenters, leading the rally in a racist singalong before he nearly caused a riot and was chased out by the crowd....

Steven Soderbergh Wrote A Script For ‘Sex, Lies, And Videotape 2’ While In Quarantine By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 20, 2020 9:30 am EST Steven Soderbergh has been the name du jour amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with many turning to his frighteningly realistic thriller Contagion during these uncertain times and the filmmaker getting tapped to lead a committee to safely resume film production. But what has Soderbergh actually been up to in the months since lockdown?...

Superhero Bits: The Real Godspeed Coming To ‘The Flash’, Tom Ellis Closes ‘Lucifer’ Deal & More By Ethan Anderton/June 1, 2020 6:00 pm EST Are you ready for Godspeed to come to The Flash? When does Marvel get the rights to Daredevil back? What’s the status of the sixth season of Lucifer? What did Cathy Yan have to say about a Birds of Prey rumor perpetuated by an unreliable YouTuber? Which X-Men movies got canceled thanks to Disney buying Fox?...

The Morning Watch: The History Of The Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera, ‘Men In Black International’ VFX & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2019 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....