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The Quarantine Stream: ‘Belzebuth’ Is Nerve-Shredding Religious Horror By Jacob Hall/April 18, 2020 10:00 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 Movie: BelzebuthWhere You Can Stream It: ShudderThe Pitch: Following a series of brutal massacres involving young children, a weary Mexican police detective finds a hell of a lot more than he bargained for when he digs a little deeper....

Time Has Been Kind To Disney’s ‘Hercules’, A Flawed But Fascinating Attempt To Recapture The Magic Of ‘Aladdin’ By Josh Spiegel/Sept. 10, 2019 9:00 am EST (Revisiting the Renaissance is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of the 13 films of the Disney Renaissance, released between 1986 and 1999. In today’s column, he discusses the 1997 film Hercules.)One of the best qualities of Disney feature animation is that it can be timeless....

Trivia: Michael Jackson Wanted To Buy Marvel In The ’90s So He Could Play Spider-Man In A Movie By Ben Pearson/May 3, 2020 11:00 am EST Michael Jackson’s legacy is complicated, to say the least. For the purposes of this piece, I’m going to avoid all discussion of the allegations against the late King of Pop (please look into that yourself if you somehow haven’t heard about it and make up your own mind about what did or didn’t happen) and just move straight into trivia territory....

‘Back To The Future: The Musical’ Photos Reveal The DeLorean On Stage, Dancing Doc Browns & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 28, 2020 2:30 pm EST Back to the Future: The Musical started early previews at the Manchester Opera House just last week. Unfortunately, since the show is only playing in London until the middle of May, that leaves a lot of Back to the Future fans unable to check out the lively show from Tony Award-winning director John Rando (Urinetown, On The Town)....

‘Cleopatra’ Will Reunite Gal Gadot And ‘Wonder Woman’ Director Patty Jenkins At Paramount Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2020 10:00 am EST For the longest time, Sony Pictures has been trying to get a Cleopatra movie off the ground. Directors like Paul Greengrass, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve and many more have been linked to the project over the years. But now a new Cleopatra movie is in the works over at Paramount Pictures with Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot slated to reteam with the DC Comics superhero franchise director Patty Jenkins....

‘Clerks 3’ Takes Inspiration From Kevin Smith’s Heart Attack, Won’t Be As Much Of A Tearjerker As The Old Draft By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 9, 2019 9:30 am EST Last week, we learned that Kevin Smith was breathing new life into Clerks 3 just a few years after the project was abandoned because one of the film’s co-stars simply didn’t feel compelled to participate. However, rather than dusting off the old draft of the script that almost went into production, Kevin Smith is writing an entirely new screenplay, and this one will take some cues from the real life heart attack that the filmmaker suffered last year....

‘Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Concept Art Gives The Superheroes A New Look, Reveals US Agent By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2019 12:30 pm EST While everyone is talking about the debut of The Mandalorian and the completely nonsensical change to the face-off between Greedo and Han Solo in Star Wars: A New Hope as it appears on Disney+, there are some Marvel Cinematic Universe goodies that have been surfacing from the streaming service’s debut....

‘Falling’ Trailer: Viggo Mortensen’s Directorial Debut Is About A Father And Son At Odds By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 14, 2021 3:00 pm EST Viggo Mortensen makes his directorial debut with Falling, the story of a gay man dealing with his estranged, conservative father who is suffering from dementia. Mortensen also stars in the pic, which features great character actor Lance Henriksen as the antagonistic father. Falling played at both Sundance and at TIFF last year, where it was met with mixed reviews....

‘Outside The Wire’ Trailer: Android Anthony Mackie Goes To War By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 7, 2021 2:00 pm EST Android Anthony Mackie is ready to kick some ass in the latest trailer for Outside the Wire. The Netflix action flick is set in the future (naturally) and follows a drone pilot (Damson Idris) who teams up with Mackie’s android soldier to help locate a doomsday device. Because that’s pretty much how action movies work now – characters have to find some sort of destructive device, and usually, that device has some sort of beam of blue light shooting out of the sky....

‘Parasite’ Black And White Poster Shows New (Spoilery) Perspective By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 10, 2020 12:30 pm EST Bong Joon-ho was frequently compared to Alfred Hitchcock after the release of his Oscar-winning masterwork Parasite. And soon, audiences will get to see Parasite as if it was shot in Hitchcock’s time (at least, early on in his career). A Bong-approved Black-and-White edition of Parasite is coming soon to U.K. theaters and to the Curzon Home Cinema streaming service, and to mark the occasion, a monochromatic poster has been released....

‘Pieces Of A Woman’ Trailer: Vanessa Kirby And Shia LaBeouf Cope With A Tragic Loss By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 2020 3:00 pm EST Vanessa Kirby is proving herself a performer to watch, following her breakout, Emmy-nominated turn in The Crown with a string of roles in blockbusters and indie dramas. The latest of which is a vehicle for the actress that could take her straight to the Oscars. Kirby stuns as a grieving mother in Pieces of a Woman, a devastating drama that earned raves at the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival before getting quickly scooped up by Netflix, which debuted an official trailer showcasing Kirby’s gutting performance....

‘The Alienist’ Season 2 Trailer: The 19th Century Detectives Are Back To Investigate Mysterious Kidnappings By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 22, 2020 8:30 am EST Though The Alienist was a minor summer sensation in 2017, the TNT 19th century psychological thriller remains a criminally underrated treat. A 19th century detective drama starring Dakota Fanning, Daniel Bruhl, and Luke Evans, The Alienist followed the unlikely trio as they resolved to find the culprit behind a series of child murders in 19th century New York using early methods of criminal profiling....

‘The Babysitter: Killer Queen’ Trailer: Looks Like McG Is At It Again By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2020 4:00 pm EST I know everyone out there has been craving a sequel to The Babysitter, the 2017 McG horror-comedy where people shout things like “He shot me in the boob!” and everyone is insanely over-the-top. Well, good news: here it comes. It’s called The Babysitter: Killer Queen, and honestly, I don’t even know what to say anymore....

‘The Boys’ Review: The Nihilistic, Cruel, Heartless Superhero Show We Probably Deserve By Chris Evangelista/July 19, 2019 11:30 pm EST Based on the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys presents us with a world where superheroes are very real, and not very heroic. If “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” as John Dalberg-Action once wrote, then it stands to reason that superpower would super corrupt....

Contest: Win A ‘Rocketman’ Prize Pack That Includes The 4K Blu-Ray Release By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 26, 2019 9:30 am EST Rocketman, the fantasy musical biopic inspired by the life of Elton John, arrives on Blu-ray this week. And it’s pretty damn good! Rather than take a conventional biopic approach, Rocketman tackles Elton John’s life and career through the style of a traditional musical, complete with fantastical music numbers. In honor of the Rocketman Blu-ray release, we’re giving away a prize pack that includes the 4K Blu-ray release, and more....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys New ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Captain America Figure Is Totally Worthy By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2019 6:00 am EST Hot Toys has already unveiled plenty of figures inspired by Avengers: Endgame, but The D23 Expo was the first place fans were able to get the one that everyone has really been waiting for (at least until Thicc Thor comes along). Easily one of the most amazing moments in Avengers: Endgame is when Captain America summons Mjolnir into his hand and starts beating the hell out of Thanos....

Here’s How Super Nintendo World’s AR Binoculars Will Work, According To A Patent By Ben Pearson/March 19, 2020 1:30 pm EST It’s unclear what the new timeline might be for the opening of Universal Studios’ highly-anticipated Super Nintendo World land, since the coronavirus will almost certainly prevent its scheduled unveiling at Universal Studios Japan later this summer. But while we wait to find out more, let’s look ahead to what the park has in store for its visitors....

Indie Filmmakers Band Together To Host SXSW 2020 Pilot Showcase On Vimeo By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 14, 2020 1:00 pm EST The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has effectively brought Hollywood to a standstill as movie theaters, businesses, and public spaces shutter out of abundance of caution for the virus. The first to feel these effects were film festivals, which thrive in all of the above, and grant indie filmmakers a wider audience and outreach than they could hope through their own limited resources....

Kevin Feige Misses Marvel’s Underdog Days, Says A Transgender Character Is Heading To The MCU, Updates On ‘Shang-Chi’ & More By Ben Pearson/Jan. 2, 2020 3:30 pm EST It’s not controversial to suggest that Kevin Feige’s run at Marvel Studios is the most impressive aspect of mainstream pop culture storytelling of the past ten years. But Feige doesn’t want fans to look at Marvel’s successful track record and just blindly accept everything that the studio releases....

Netflix Fall Theatrical Releases Include ‘The King’, ‘Marriage Story’, And More By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2019 5:30 pm EST Netflix finally revealed its plan to release The Irishman in theaters this November, but Martin Scorsese’s crime epic isn’t the only film from the streaming channel headed to the big screen. In total, the streaming giant will send 10 movies to theaters. The Netflix fall theatrical releases will include The King, Marriage Story, Dolemite is My Name, and more....