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Terry Pratchett’s Beloved ‘Discworld’ Books To Be Adapted Into A TV Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 28, 2020 7:30 am EST The beloved fantasy series, which has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, takes place on a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants, which in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle. Discworld made up of a series of interconnected stories that takes inspiration from — and often parody — the works of J....

The Morning Watch: Behind The Return Of ‘Rick And Morty’, The Breakable Set Of ‘The Hunt’ & More By Ethan Anderton/May 6, 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....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Action Button’ Reviews Video Games On YouTube Unlike Anyone Else Reviewing Video Games On YouTube By Jacob Hall/Oct. 29, 2020 8:00 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 Series: Action ButtonWhere You Can Stream It: YouTubeThe Pitch: Tim Rogers reviews video games on the internet. But he reviews video games on the internet unlike anyone else you have ever seen....

This Week In Trailers: Frankie, Midnight Traveler, Shut Up And Play The Piano, So Long, My Son, Chained For Life By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 17, 2019 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Midnight Diner, Leonard Soloway’s Broadway, The Prey, Human Lost By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 14, 2019 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?...

Watch ‘The Irishman’ Cast In The First Table Read From 2013 And See Martin Scorsese Bring It To Life On Set By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 4, 2020 1:00 pm EST It was a long road for Martin Scorsese to get his crime drama The Irishman off the ground. The film was in development for nearly a decade before Netflix gave the legendary filmmaker the money he needed in order to make the multi-generational-spanning story come together properly, largely due to the visual effects technology needed to digitally de-age Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci....

Will There Be ‘The Outsider’ Season 2? Maybe, Since The HBO Series Scored Better Ratings Than ‘Watchmen’ And ‘True Detective’ By Chris Evangelista/March 11, 2020 12:00 pm EST Will we see The Outsider season 2? The HBO Stephen King adaptation was originally announced as a limited series, and the show covered the events of King’s book in full. But right before the series premiered, HBO switched things up and removed the “limited series” tag from the show....

YA Fantasy Novel ‘The Thief’ Being Adapted For Disney+ By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 17, 2020 3:00 pm EST Disney is planning on adapting Megan Whalen Turner’s YA fantasy novel The Thief for Disney+. It’s not entirely clear if this is going to be a film or a TV show, but in either case, Disney’s live-action team is working on the adaptation, with a script from screenwriter Brian Duffield (The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Love and Monsters)....

‘Dublin Murders’ Trailer: Starz Crime Drama Follows A Series Of Creepy Child Murders By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2019 4:00 pm EST How many chilling crime dramas centering around a series of small-town deaths can you have? Never too many, as the Dublin Murders trailer proves, delivering to us yet another crime drama filled with resolutely creepy imagery and lots of woods. The Starz crime drama follows two detectives as they investigate the mysterious death of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, which may be connected to a series of unexplained child murders....

‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga’ Review: Rachel McAdams Is A Star In A Pitchy Eurovision Spoof By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 24, 2020 8:00 am EST America is no stranger to the outsized singing contest. We’re a country that made American Idol the top-rated show for years and we can thank The X-Factor for creating beloved boy bands like One Direction. Glee and Pitch Perfect were bonafide cultural phenomenons. But every year, across the pond, something strange and outlandish takes place that we still struggle to wrap our heads around: the musical smorgasmord that is the Eurovision Song Contest....

/Filmcast Ep. 537 - Joker (GUEST: Bob Chipman From Escapist Magazine) By Slashfilmcast/Oct. 8, 2019 9:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Bob Chipman (aka MovieBob), film critic from escapistmagazine.com, moviebobcentral.com, and creator of The Big Picture, to review Joker. Find out whether the latest movie by director Todd Phillips starring Joaquin Phoenix helped them put on a happy face. Read MovieBob’s review of Joker here. Read New Yorker’s Richard Brody review of Joker here....

‘Little Britain’ Pulled From Netflix, U.K. Streaming Services For Use Of Blackface By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 9, 2020 5:30 pm EST Little Britain, one of the most popular BBC shows when it premiered in 2003, remains widely unknown outside of the U.K. But it will likely be remembered for its notoriety now, as the sketch comedy series written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams has been pulled from streaming on Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and Britbox over its use of blackface....

‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Returning To Theaters Through Halloween By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 24, 2019 4:30 pm EST If you’re in the mood for some theatrical-based frights this Halloween season and don’t want to bother to see Countdown, here’s some good news. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is returning to theaters this weekend, and will run through Halloween. The creepy (but mostly family-friendly) horror flick adapts the iconic book series that traumatized children everywhere with its weird, drippy drawings....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker,’ ‘Avengers: Endgame’ And The Problem With Nostalgic Blockbusters By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 4, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: here’s the problem with our biggest movies relying too heavily on nostalgia.)The end of any particular year in film and the beginning of the next – to say nothing of the transition between two entire decades - affords us the opportunity to introspect and pinpoint certain filmmaking trends and tendencies that stand out from the crowd, that recur over and over again and become representative of a larger ethos over time....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Box Office Rises To $40 Million In Previews By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2019 12:30 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is finally here, and as is to be expected, it’s making lots of money. The third and final entry in this new trilogy, and the final installment of the Skywalker Saga, has earned itself a respectable haul domestically. However, it has not surpassed The Force Awakens or The Last Jedi – a fact that many will scramble to interpret in a variety of ways....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Spoiler Review: J.J. Abrams Delivers A Relentless Game Of Hyperspace Hopscotch By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 23, 2019 7:00 am EST In the year of our Ford 2019, trying to make sense of people’s wildly divergent Star Wars opinions opens up a murky frontier of epistemological questions that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, in theaters now, only complicates all the more. Epistemology concerns the nature of knowledge and justified belief....

‘The Adventures Of Superman’ Radio Series Being Revived For DC FanDome By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2020 7:30 am EST In case you forgot, DC FanDome isn’t over just yet. The big event celebrating all-things-DC was split in half, with the first installment – DC FanDome: Hall of Heroes – arrived in August. Now, DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse is set to arrive this weekend, and bring with it all sorts of new things for fans to nerd out about....

‘The Devil Is A Part-Timer!’ Is A Hilarious Anime Comedy About Satan Working At A Fast Food Restaurant By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 1, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)When you’re trying to convince a newcomer about the diversity of anime shows and the power of the anime medium to tell vastly different stories, show them an action show, followed by something completely different – like a comedy....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Coasts Too Slow And Runs Too Fast In The Uneven But Exciting “Liars” By Caroline Cao/July 31, 2019 2:00 pm EST The Handmaid’s Tale is rolling the dice toward its finale with one of its uneven, but serviceably suspenseful, episodes. “Liars” runs too fast, stops, then pants, then runs too fast toward the horizon. This episode both accelerates and coasts toward its season finale with “what comes around, goes around” vibes....

‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ Trailer: Anne Hathaway Is A Journalist Caught Up In The Iran-Contra Scandal By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2020 9:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, and one of our most anticipated movies playing up in the mountains of Park City, Utah is the latest directorial effort from Mudbound and Pariah director Dee Rees....