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‘Never Have I Ever’ Trailer: Mindy Kaling’s Netflix Comedy Is Full Of “Steamy Teen Romance” By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2020 3:30 pm EST Never have we ever seen a Netflix teen comedy so full of that Mindy Kaling brand of cringe comedy. Netflix has released the official Never Have I Ever trailer for the comedy series created by Kaling and based on the actress/writer’s childhood growing up in suburban Massachusetts. Newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan shines as Devi, a fictionalized version of Kaling who is just as horny as the real-life actress....

‘Night Of The Kings’ Review: Neon’s Latest Acquisition Title Is A Thrilling Ode To Storytelling’s Power [TIFF 2020] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 21, 2020 1:00 pm EST Champions of art love to pontificate about its importance, especially during times like a pandemic. But that rhetoric might ring a little hollow right now. However, it’s not an exaggeration to say that humans as a species are hardwired for storytelling. There’s science to back up the capability to narrativize our experience as necessity, not merely a luxury....

‘Prophet’ Movie Finds A Screenwriter In ‘Arrow’ Veteran Marc Guggenheim By Ben Pearson/May 7, 2020 4:00 pm EST In the 1990s, Deadpool comics creator Rob Liefeld created a character named John Prophet who appeared in Youngbloods before spinning off into a title of his own. Former Warner Bros. production president Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 is developing a Prophet movie centering on that character, a supersoldier who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up years in the future, and now the film has found a writer....

‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Is Set In 1968, But It’s Really About 2019 By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 12, 2019 12:00 pm EST Horror movies show us what we fear. That’s why the genre has had a long tradition of mixing thrills and scares with poignant social commentary. From Rosemary’s Baby and Night of the Living Dead, to Halloween and Get Out, the best horror movies use scares to illuminate the fears and anxieties that lie beneath our society and culture....

‘Search Party’ Season 3 Trailer: New Network, New Season, New Problems By Chris Evangelista/June 15, 2020 1:00 pm EST The cult hit Search Party is returning for a third season at an all-new home. The first two seasons of the series aired on TBS, but for season 3, Search Party is packing up its bags and heading on over to HBO Max. The series follows a group of hip millennials (those darn kids!...

‘Shotgun Wedding’: Jennifer Lopez And Armie Hammer Will Attempt To Get Hitched In New Action-Comedy By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 27, 2020 4:30 pm EST Lionsgate just announced Shotgun Wedding, an action-comedy that will bring together Jennifer Lopez and Armie Hammer, a combination sure to make some people in the audience pop their eyeballs out of their heads like horny Tex Avery cartoons. In the film, “Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Armie Hammer) gather their lovable but very opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding just as the couple begin to get cold feet....

‘The Batman’: Jeffrey Wright In Talks To Play Commissioner Gordon By Ben Pearson/Sept. 23, 2019 2:56 pm EST Robert Pattinson’s new iteration of The Dark Knight may have just found one of his most important allies. A new report says that Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale, Westworld) is in talks to play Commissioner Gordon in The Batman for director Matt Reeves. The Hollywood Reporter says Wright is in negotiations to be the latest actor to play a live-action version of Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon, a morally upstanding guy who always seems to be barely treading water in the fight against crime, necessitating a loose partnership with a guy who wanders the city dressed like a bat....

‘The Batman’: Much Like The Rest Of Us, Jeffrey Wright Didn’t Recognize Colin Farrell As The Penguin By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2020 2:30 pm EST The Batman trailer dropped last weekend, and in addition to being really cool, it also featured our first look at Colin Farrell as The Penguin. Although many people didn’t realize that, at first. Farrell pops up in the trailer three quick times and is completely unrecognizable buried under the makeup used to turn him into Oswald “The Penguin” Cobblepot....

‘The Devil Has A Name’ Trailer: The Truth Lies Beneath By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 17, 2020 5:00 pm EST Have you heard the news? The Devil Has a Name! Or so the title of this new movie claims. Featuring always-welcomed character actor David Strathairn, this film claims to “comedically pull back the curtain on the culture of greed that poisons Corporate America, from sea to polluted sea.” Kate Bosworth, Edward James Olmos, Martin Sheen, Alfred Molina, and Haley Joel Osment all appear here, with Olmos also directing from a script by Rob McEveety....

‘The High Note’ Trailer: Dakota Johnson Is The Ambitious Assistant To Tracee Ellis Ross’ Pop Diva By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 28, 2020 9:30 am EST The workplace romantic dramedy is underrated. We all know about the death and resurrection of the romantic-comedy, but fewer eulogies have been written for the slow death of the workplace dramedy (Working Girl, etc.) and the slow resurgence of them in films like Nancy Meyers’ underrated The Intern and Nisha Ganatra’s surprisingly good Late Night....

‘The King Of Staten Island’ Trailer: Pete Davidson Works Through His Grief With Judd Apatow By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 8, 2020 7:30 am EST Pete Davidson has always never been shy about sharing his personal issues and traumas. The Saturday Night Live comedian has spoken candidly about his firefighter father’s death during the September 11 attacks, and even joked about it in his stand-up. And now, he will be tackling those issues head-on in the Judd Apatow-directed comedy The King of Staten Island....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Trailer: Mando And Baby Yoda Are Back By Ben Pearson/Sept. 15, 2020 7:22 am EST Baby Yoda is back. Lucasfilm and showrunner Jon Favreau have unveiled the first The Mandalorian season 2 trailer for the Disney+ series, and you can watch it in all of its glory below. The Mandalorian Season 2 Trailer We suspected we might see the first trailer for the upcoming second season during this year’s Star Wars Celebration, but that event was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic....

‘The Outsider’ Featurette Wants To Remind You That Stephen King Writes Scary Stuff By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 12, 2020 11:00 am EST There’s a new Stephen King series coming our way: The Outsider, an HBO adaptation of one of the horror master’s more recent novels. The story concerns the investigation of a brutal murder with seemingly supernatural connections, and since it’s a Stephen King story, there’s a lot of spooky stuff going on....

‘The Stranger’ Trailer: A Deranged Dane DeHaan Tries To Murder Maika Monroe By Ben Pearson/April 9, 2020 12:30 pm EST In the series finale of Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister makes a grand speech about how there’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. I hope Maika Monroe’s character in the new Quibi movie The Stranger saw that speech and took it to heart, because she’s going to need one hell of a story of her own if she wants to stay alive....

‘The Underground Railroad’ Teaser: Speak Upon The Ashes By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2020 4:00 pm EST Barry Jenkins has unveiled another The Underground Railroad teaser, and like the two teasers released before this, it’s gorgeous, haunting, and affirms that this is going to be the very definition of must-see TV. The series is set in an alternate history where the Underground Railroad was a real, physical secret railroad, with actual tracks and tunnels tucked away underground....

‘Top Gun Maverick’ Behind-The-Scenes Video Flies Into The CGI-Free Danger Zone By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2020 11:30 am EST Top Gun: Maverick was supposed to be flying into theaters this month, but the coronavirus changed that. Now, the Tom Cruise sequel is due out in December, but if you’re impatient to feel the need for speed, here’s a fun little treat. A very quick, but very cool, Top Gun: Maverick behind-the-scenes video is here to remind you again that instead of CGI, Maverick is really putting Cruise in the cockpit of a plane and letting him fly like a bat out of hell....

‘WALL-E’ Was One Of Pixar’s Biggest Gambles – And It Paid Off By Josh Spiegel/June 5, 2020 9:00 am EST (Infinity and Beyond is a regular column documenting the 25-year filmography of Pixar Animation Studios, film by film. In today’s column, writer Josh Spiegel highlights WALL-E.) How do you know for sure how much power someone has in Hollywood? For filmmakers, it can be as simple as seeing a studio greenlighting a pet project thanks to their success with big-budget blockbusters....

20 Years Ago, ‘Best In Show’ Provided The Kind Of Comedy We Need Right Now By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST Improvisation takes a hell of a lot of talent and grit. There is a particular sort of flexibility and creativity that is required in order to continue a story or work through a challenge. The act of improvising is being utilized in a variety of ways in 2020, but the skill only truly brings a smile to someone’s face when it’s witnessed within a performative setting on stage or on screen....

Anthony Mackie To Star In And Produce New Netflix Thriller ‘The Ogun’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 24, 2020 4:00 pm EST Anthony Mackie is continuing his streak of being the busiest streaming star, doing the rounds at Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, and now Netflix again with a new thriller feature film The Ogun. Mackie is set to star in and produce the thriller, written by former stuntman-turned-action screenwriter Madison Turner, which follows a man as he brings his teenage daughter to Nigeria to find a cure for her rare genetic condition, where she is kidnapped....

Edgar Wright Plans To Bring ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World’ Back To Theaters, Reveals More Trivia During Watch Party By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2020 9:30 am EST Scott Pilgrim vs. The World taught us a lot of things — Edgar Wright’s elastic versatility as a director, that bread makes you fat, how not to wash your hands — but 10 years later we’re learning still more about the energized action comedy....