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Theme Park Bits: Galaxy’s Edge Reservations, The Millionth Millennium Falcon Guest And More By Josh Spiegel/July 25, 2019 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: The Galaxy’s Edge reservation window has expanded. More than a million guests have ridden the Millennium Falcon. And more! If you’ve visited Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland Park, you know that there are a couple of very big fan experiences, such as getting a drink in Oga’s Cantina or making yourself a lightsaber, that are reservation-driven....

TV Bits: ‘The Good Place’, ‘Masters Of Doom’, ‘Claws’, ‘Dear White People’, ‘Primal’, ‘Snowpiercer’, ‘The International’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 6, 2019 12:00 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: We’re in for a crazy, jaw-dropping cameo on this final Good Place season! (But we don’t know who it is yet) USA is making a show about the guys who created Doom. Claws renewed for fourth and final season. Dear White People renewed for fourth and final season, too....

Watch: A Father Learns To Do His Daughter’s Hair In The Emotional Oscar-Qualified Animated Short ‘Hair Love’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 5, 2019 4:30 pm EST This year, Sony Pictures Animation broke Disney and Pixar’s iron grip on the Best Animated Feature category at the Oscars, and next year, they’re making a strong bid for the Best Animated Shorts category as well. The animation company behind last year’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has just released one of its most moving and heartwarming animated shorts online, presumably to drum up some support for an Oscar campaign in the most crowded animated shorts year ever....

“All The Demons Are Still In Hell” In A Rushed Episode Of ‘The Terror: Infamy’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 20, 2019 7:00 am EST If I could offer one piece of advice to The Terror: Infamy it would be this: slow down. The second episode of the latest season of AMC’s spooky – and now disturbingly timely – anthology series moves at a mad dash. I’m not talking pacing, either. Rather, episode 2 – “All the Demons Are Still in Hell” – constantly feels as if it’s in a rush, bustling its characters from one location and plot point to the next....

‘DreadOut’ Review: A Freaky, Frantic Adaptation Of The Horror Video Game [Fantasia Film Festival] By Matt Donato/July 19, 2019 2:00 pm EST For comparison’s sake, the DreadOut movie is like a stealth Fatal Frame adaptation given how Indonesia’s survival horror video game, which gives the film its title, is often likened to Japan’s popular ghosts-on-camera platformer. Kimo Stamboel, half of the infamous filmmaking “Mo Brothers” duo, proves that not all video game adaptations are buggy disasters....

/Filmcast Ep. 599 - Wonder Woman 1984 By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 29, 2020 8:00 pm EST This week, David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Hoai-Tran Bui, Slashfilm writer and critic, to review Wonder Woman 1984. Tune in to hear Jeff’s passionate diatribe against the latest film directed and co-written by Patty Jenkins. Follow Hoai-Tran Bui on Twitter and subscribe to Hoai-Tran’s podcast. Use #slashtag on Twitter to recommend a title for us to watch....

‘Friends’ Pop-Up Experience Will Be There For You In New York City This Fall By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 31, 2019 1:30 pm EST Twenty-five years ago, six twenty-something New Yorkers sat in the the little corner coffee shop Central Perk and made history. To this day, Friends is one of the most beloved sitcoms in history, only finding renewed popularity once it hit Netflix a few years ago. They’ve been there for us for the past quarter-century, but soon they’ll be returning to their old haunt of New York City to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary with a special Friends pop-up NYC experience opening this fall....

By Ethan Anderton/June 5, 2020 12:00 pm EST Most summer blockbusters are PG-13, allowing for the potential audience to be as big as it possibly can be. Studios want families to bring their kids who are old enough, and want adults to have a good time too. So filmmakers often go for a rating that allows them to throw around a bit of profanity, maybe a single f-bomb, just the right amount of sex appeal, and plenty of action....

‘Kimmy Vs. The Reverend’ Is An ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Interactive Special Coming To Netflix By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2020 10:30 am EST Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt may have concluded its normal series run, but the show has found new life – as an interactive special. Similar to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend lets the viewer decide the actions of the characters on screen. In addition to returning cast members Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, and Carol Kane, the interactive special also features Daniel Radcliffe, Jack McBrayer, and more....

‘Locke And Key’ Trailer: Netflix’s Adaptation Of The Horror Comic Is Almost Here By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 8, 2020 7:02 am EST It’s hard to believe, but the Locke and Key series is almost upon us. The adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s graphic novel series went through several fits and starts at several different networks before finally ending up at Netflix. And now, ahead of the show’s debut, the first real Locke and Key trailer is here....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Is Being Released In Theaters And Disney+ Premier Access This March By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 10, 2020 2:09 pm EST Raya and the Last Dragon is the latest Disney release to head straight to Disney+ amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with the animated Disney film set to hit both theaters and Disney+ Premier Access in March 2021. At the Disney Investors conference, Disney announced that the highly anticipated fantasy epic Raya and the Last Dragon will premiere day-and-date in both theaters and Disney+, the latter on which it will be available for the Premier Access fee of $34....

‘Teddy’ Review: An Emotional Werewolf Story Audiences Can Sink Their Teeth Into [Fantastic Fest 2020] By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 27, 2020 10:00 am EST The only constant thing in life is change. A simple statement but profoundly complex given the effects time has on our emotions, physical bodies, and maturation. Werewolf stories utilize physical transformation on a thematic level in various ways, but at the heart of their stories is an aspect of the uncontrollable loss of self through physical alterations....

‘Tenet’ Will Screen Early In The U.S. Where Theaters Are Open (But Polls Suggest People Would Be Fine Watching It At Home) By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 18, 2020 10:30 am EST Here’s a round-up of a few Tenet related items. You remember Tenet, right? The movie that will single-handled save cinema as we know it, if it doesn’t give us all the coronavirus in the process? First: Tenet will have advance screenings in the U....

‘The Last Dance’ Trailer: ESPN’s Michael Jordan Documentary Series Bumped Up To April Release By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2020 9:30 am EST Even though most of the news these days is terrible, every now and then something good comes out of the coronavirus pandemic. In this case, since ESPN doesn’t have any new sports to air right now, they’ve bumped up the premiere of the 10-part Michael Jordan documentary series The Last Dance....

‘The Politician’ Season 2 Trailer: The Political Mudslinging Continues, And Bette Midler Is Joining In By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2020 3:00 pm EST The first season of Ryan Murphy’s dramedy series The Politician followed the exploits of the ambitious Payton Hobart (Ben Platt) as he campaigned to become student body president in a Santa Barbara, California high school. It was full of satirical political back-stabbing and double-crossing, not to mention plenty of morally and ethically questionable decisions....

‘The Woman Who Ran’ Review: Hong Sang-Soo’s Gently Evocative Exploration Of The Feminine Mystique [NYFF 2020] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 14, 2020 7:00 am EST A woman spends a couple days catching up with friends over coffee and home-cooked pasta. One is a happy spinster living in the countryside, the second is an aspiring artist who has found a second lease on life, and the last is a career woman dealing with marriage issues with her more famous husband....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 22, 2020 10:30 am EST What does the future of theaters look like? That has been one of the resounding questions since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shuttered cinemas around the globe, with major markets in the U.S. still closed down amid surging cases across the country. According to AT&T CEO John Stankey, it’s not looking great. The chief of the WarnerMedia parent company spoke about the future of movie exhibitors in an investor conference call, painting a pretty grim picture for movie theaters through at least early 2021....

Ben Pearson’s Top 10 Movies Of The Decade By Ben Pearson/Dec. 17, 2019 8:00 am EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) The 2010s were a tumultuous era for movies, but reports of their demise have been greatly exaggerated. While television made a powerful surge to try to usurp the crown and become the defining medium of the past decade, movies held their own and occasionally reminded us why we love them so much in the first place....

Bob Iger Responds To Marvel Critics, Essentially Says ‘Black Panther’ Is One Of The Best Films Ever Made By Ben Pearson/Oct. 23, 2019 12:30 pm EST A recent wave of backlash against superhero films has been raging for weeks, and now Bob Iger, the CEO of Marvel owner The Walt Disney Company, is now putting on his Avengers swim trunks and wading into the conversation to defend his studio’s movies against the comments of old-guard Hollywood icons like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola....

Brie Larson Auditioned For ‘Terminator’, ‘The Hunger Games’ And All Of The New ‘Star Wars’ Movies [UPDATED] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2020 10:35 am EST Brie Larson has been established as one of the strongest superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her role as Captain Marvel. But she’s been auditioning for a number of other major studio blockbuster franchises that just didn’t pan out for her. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Brie Larson started her own YouTube channel in order to allow her to bolster “deep conversations, anti-racist rhetoric, inclusive content....