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‘Lamp Life’ Trailer: Pixar’s New Short Film Explores What Happened To Bo Peep Between ‘Toy Story’ Movies By Ben Pearson/Jan. 23, 2020 7:30 am EST In the Toy Story universe, what exactly happened to Bo Peep between her heartbreaking separation from Woody to the moment he encounters her as a pants-wearing badass in Toy Story 4? Lamp Life, an upcoming Disney+ short film, aims to answer that question. Or does it?...

‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Cast Reunion Slated For Next Month By Ben Pearson/Sept. 23, 2020 1:00 pm EST Break out your container of Dapper Dan, because the cast of the Coen Brothers’ stylish adventure film O Brother, Where Art Thou? is getting the band back together. George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and Chris Thomas King are among those who are set to reunite next month – virtually, of course – to celebrate the movie’s 20th anniversary at the Nashville Film Festival....

‘Onward’ Early Buzz: A Sweet And Emotional Adventure That’s Missing The Usual Pixar Magic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 19, 2020 7:00 am EST Just being an animated film from Pixar is a vote of confidence, with audiences holding the studio’s movies to the highest of standards. But could Pixar’s latest film, the fantasy-comedy Onward, live up to those standards? According to the Onward early buzz, opinions are mixed. The first reactions to Onward are out, and while some are enchanted with the Tom Holland and Chris Pratt-starring road trip adventure movie about two elf brothers on a quest to resurrect their dead father for a day, others aren’t convinced that Onward has that special Pixar magic....

By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 15, 2020 5:00 pm EST Servant season 2 hasn’t dropped yet, but Apple TV+ has already gone ahead and ordered season 3. The creepy M. Night Shyamalan-produced series created by Tony Basgallop and follows a mysterious couple who hire a mysterious nanny – everything is very mysterious in this show. Season 1 ended with a bit of a cliffhanger, and with this renewal news, it’s probably safe to assume season 2 will as well....

‘She-Hulk’ TV Series In The Works At Disney+ [D23] By Jacob Hall/Aug. 23, 2019 4:51 pm EST The Incredible Hulk has been a scene-stealer on the big screen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for over a decade, but now everyone’s favorite giant green rage monster is no longer alone: a She-Hulk Disney+ series is heading to the new streaming service from Marvel Studios. The show was announced at the Disney+ panel at the D23 convention and while it’s still early days for the project, here’s what we know....

‘Shirley’ Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Is Shirley Jackson In Josephine Decker’s Haunting New Movie By Chris Evangelista/May 8, 2020 9:30 am EST After already knocking it out of the park in The Invisible Man, Elisabeth Moss is back to wow us with yet another killer 2020 performance. The actress, who seems to specialize in playing women coming unmoored, stars as the troubled writer Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker’s Shirley. This is no by-the-numbers biopic, but rather a strange, haunting, and wholly unconventional attempt to take the viewer inside Jackson’s troubled mind....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Round-Up: J.J. Abrams And The Cast Tease More Details About Rey And Kylo Ren’s Relationship By Ben Pearson/Aug. 29, 2019 7:30 am EST We’re just under four months away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which brings the Skywalker saga to an epic conclusion. In a new interview, co-writer and director J.J. Abrams briefly teased the film’s final sequence, and elsewhere, he and Daisy Ridley and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy all tried to describe Rey and Kylo Ren’s relationship in this film in just one word....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ TV Spot: The Knights Of Ren And Sith Troopers Finally Appear By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 23, 2019 1:08 pm EST With less than a month until Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters, Disney and Lucasfilm will be releasing new snippets of footage here and there leading up to the release. If you’ve already seen everything you want to, then it might be time to start staying away from the internet for a bit....

‘Tenet’ Will Play At A Southern California Drive-In Despite Indoor Theaters Being Closed, Ignoring WB’s Previous Mandate By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2020 11:30 am EST If you live in Los Angeles and have been itching to see Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending new action thriller Tenet on the big screen in the safest possible way, we have good news. Starting tomorrow, Tenet will be playing at Mission Tiki, a drive-in located about 40 minutes outside of the city center....

‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Review: In Space, No One Can Hear You Screw Up A Franchise By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2018 7:00 am EST Warning: This Cloverfield Paradox review contains spoilers. The curious, accidental Cloverfield franchise gets a new addition with the long-delayed The Cloverfield Paradox. After lengthy reshoots, and shuffling through various possible release dates, this latest entry in the Cloverfield series made history with a surprise trailer dropped during the Super Bowl, and a surprise release on Netflix immediately following the game....

‘The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ Reunion Special Headed To HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 31, 2020 3:00 pm EST The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air team is getting back together for HBO Max. A Fresh Prince reunion special featuring Will Smith and other members of the cast will gather in September to record the special, which will “feature music, dancing and some surprise guests.” The special will then air on HBO Max in time for Thanksgiving....

‘The Last Shift’ Review: This Fast Food Drama Bites Off More Than It Can Chew [Sundance 2020] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 31, 2020 4:00 pm EST A good performance from Richard Jenkins can’t save The Last Shift, a languid fast food drama that has aspirations of exploring class and race in middle America, but lacks the tools to effectively do so. Documentary filmmaker Andrew Cohn makes the jump to narrative features here, telling the story of a fast food veteran tasked with training a new hire who possesses a wildly different outlook on life....

AT&T’s “Pause Ads” Will Start Playing Video Ads When You Pause Your TV By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2019 4:00 pm EST As cable and broadcast television networks stand in the face of streaming services, they’re having to come up with creative ways to make money. AT&T’s solution? A newfangled video version of a “pause ad,” which is, unfortunately, exactly what it sounds like. Thirty seconds after you press pause on your remote, a full video ad (with sound!...

Cool Stuff: Emperor Palpatine’s Force FX Elite Lightsaber Will Bring You Closer To The Dark Side By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2020 6:00 am EST The collection of lightsabers that Star Wars fans can bring home as part of Hasbro’s line of Force FX Lightsabers from The Black Series is pretty impressive. They include the more prominent hero and villain weapons from Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Darth Maul, Rey and Kylo Ren, but they also include the likes of characters who aren’t quite Kit Fisto, Asajj Ventress, and Count Dooku....

Coronavirus Entertainment Updates: Bane Masks See A Pandemic Boom, Drive-In Festival Comes To NYC, Japan Re-Opens Theaters With Classics By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 20, 2020 2:45 pm EST As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic wears on, Hollywood and other industries are finding ways to cope with the rippling effects of shutdowns and quarantine. Some industries are seeing a surprising boom, like drive-in theaters or sellers of Bane masks from The Dark Knight Rises....

Duncan Jones Explains Why He’s Wrapping Up His “Mooniverse” With A Graphic Novel By Ben Pearson/June 9, 2020 12:00 pm EST It took nearly a decade for Duncan Jones to create a follow-up to his stellar feature directorial debut, Moon. The quasi-sequel, Mute, landed on Netflix in 2018, but there won’t be another big gap between the second and third entries in his “Mooniverse”: Madi, the third part of this loose trilogy, arrives this November....

HBO Max Partners With Crunchyroll To Offer 17 Popular Anime Series Upon Launch, With More To Follow By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 7, 2020 3:00 pm EST Netflix and Hulu have been working hard to cater to anime fans as the streaming wars kick into high gear, but HBO Max may have got one leg up on them by partnering with Crunchyroll, the biggest anime streaming service in the world and the central hub for anime fandom in the United States....

Michael Jordan Series ‘The Last Dance’ Is ESPN’s Most Watched Documentary By Ethan Anderton/April 21, 2020 4:00 pm EST Last weekend, ESPN debuted the first two episodes of the anticipated documentary series The Last Dance, a chronicle of NBA superstar Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls as they made a run for what would become their final championship season. The premiere was bumped up to April from June since ESPN is desperate for programming due to the lack of sports happening around the world, and it worked out rather well for them since it’s now their most-watched documentary ever....

Next Batch Of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Will Include An “Unusual Ghost Episode” By Chris Evangelista/July 13, 2020 1:30 pm EST I quite enjoyed Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries reboot, but I had one specific complaint: it needed more ghosts. One of the hallmarks of the original Unsolved Mysteries were episodes devoted to ghostly encounters, and sadly, the first six episodes of the revival had zero (it did have a UFO episode, though). Thankfully, it looks like the next six episodes – which don’t have a premiere date just yet – will include at least one episode devoted to the supernatural, although it’s going to be “unusual,” according to executive producer Terry Dunn Meurer....

No, Tom Cruise Did Not Bring Scary COVID-19 Robots To The Set Of ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 14, 2021 2:00 pm EST There’s a story making the rounds that sounds too good to be true. Here’s the gist of it: Tom Cruise apparently brought a pair of terrifying robots to the set of Mission: Impossible 7 to guard against COVID-19. Now, I know what you’re saying: “That’s fucking amazing....