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‘Your Honor’ Trailer: Bryan Cranston’s Judge Breaks Bad In Showtime Thriller Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 22, 2020 2:00 pm EST Bryan Cranston can’t stop breaking bad. In the Emmy-winning actor’s return to the crime drama, Cranston stars in the 10-episode limited Showtime series Your Honor as a judge whose principles are shaken when his son gets involved in a hit-and-run accident involving an organized crime family. Watch the Your Honor trailer below....

10 Streaming Horror Movies To Get You Through These Troubled Times By /Film Staff/June 4, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: A few days ago, Chris and I decided this week’s theme should be “feel good” horror movies because we can all use some hope and empowerment....

Fantasia Film Festival Dispatches, Day One: ‘The Columnist’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Fried Barry’, ‘Survival Skills’, ‘The Mortuary Collection’, ‘Monster Seafood Wars’ By /Film Staff/Aug. 20, 2020 9:00 am EST The Fantasia International Film Festival is now on-going – virtually. Usually, this genre-heavy fest is held in Montreal, but with things the way they are this year (terrible), the festival has gone virtual. This year, Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato are covering Fantasia for /Film from the safety of their homes, firing off dispatches featuring capsule reviews of the titles we’ve watched from the safety of our own homes, all while dreaming of poutine....

HBO Max Extending Availability Of Several DC Movies Through December By Ben Pearson/June 25, 2020 5:30 pm EST HBO Max’s rollout wasn’t as notoriously bad as Quibi’s, but the team behind WarnerMedia’s new streaming service probably would have benefited from being a little clearer about the availability of certain movies and shows on the platform. That extends to its roster of DC-centric content, because while the company previously announced that movies like Justice League, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and more would be leaving the service on July 1, it has since changed course on that....

Louisiana Police Apologize For Using ‘The Purge’ Siren To Signal The Start Of Coronavirus Curfew By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 8, 2020 2:00 pm EST In The Purge, a blaring siren signals the start of violence and mayhem as all crimes — including murder — become legal for 12 hours. It’s only the dystopian premise of a fictional horror series, thank goodness, but every once in a while, when the world gets really bad, the internet will joke that we’re not too far from going through a real-life Purge....

Over 300 Black Artists Call For Hollywood To Divest From Police By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 24, 2020 11:30 am EST Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, Idris Elba, Viola Davis, and Tessa Thompson are among over 300 Black artists and executives calling on Hollywood to prove Black Lives Matter. In a letter penned by Insecure actor Kendrick Sampson, Thompson, and Black Lives Matter co-founders Patrisse Cullors and Melina Abdullah, the group calls on Hollywood to divest from police and elevate Black talent and stories amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police officers....

Remembering When ‘The Avengers’ First Met – And How They Punched The Crap Out Of Each Other By Evan Saathoff/Dec. 7, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Great Moments in MCU History, where we fondly recall great little bits that made us fall in love with the MCU.) Recall – if you don’t mind being bossed around a bit – that viral video of an Avengers: Endgame audience losing its mind at the sight of Captain America wilding Mjölnir for the first time....

Superhero Bits: Black Panther Is Coming To ‘Fortnite’, ‘Batman: Soul Of The Dragon’ Clip & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2020 6:00 pm EST When will Pennyworth come back from midseason hiatus in 2021? Want to see a clip from Batman: Soul of the Dragon? Ready for Black Panther to arrive in Fortnite? How does Chris Pine feel about being compared to Chris Evans, Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth? Why did Patty Jenkins argue with Warner Bros....

The Morning Watch: ‘Snowpiercer’ Graphic Novel Comparison, THR’s Producers Roundtable & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 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. In this edition, find out the differences between Snowpiercer and the 1982 graphic novel Le Transperceneige on which the movie is based....

The Quarantine Stream: Watching ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ Should Be A Holiday Tradition By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 16, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: The Muppet Christmas CarolWhere You Can Stream It: Disney+The Pitch: It’s A Christmas Carol, but with the Muppets.Why It’s Essential Quarantine Viewing: While it’s perfectly okay to not be in the holiday spirit this year, if you’re in search of just a tiny bit of cheer you can’t go wrong with The Muppet Christmas Carol, a funny, sweet adaptation of the Dickens classic full of great songs, great gags, and Michael Caine as arguably the best-ever on-screen version of Scrooge....

Water Cooler: Tenet, Class Action Park, Tread, Bill And Ted Face The Music, Baewatch, Peninsula, Get Duked By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the August 28, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. Opening Banter: Jacob is off today, but we all wish him a happy birthday!...

Zack Snyder Teases His Cut Of ‘Justice League’ With An Alternate Version Of The Villain Steppenwolf By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2020 8:00 am EST When DC FanDome launches later this month, fans will get a proper glimpse at Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League, which is heading to HBO Max in 2021. While director is busy putting the movie together in post-production, he couldn’t help but tease fans a little bit with a look at the new, alternate version of the villain Steppenwolf, the leader of the Parademon army who acts as a herald announcing the forthcoming arrival of the read big bad, Darkseid....

‘A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood’ Director Marielle Heller Explains How She Convinced Tom Hanks To Play Mr. Rogers By Jason Gorber/Nov. 28, 2019 4:00 pm EST A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is the latest film by Marielle Heller, best known as the director of quirky and engaging stories such as 2018’s award winning Can You Ever Forgive Me. Her latest project is the story of Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a jaded and fairly miserable investigative journalist who has become a new father and is tasked with a 400 word piece on heroes....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 14, 2020 8:30 am EST Somebody once told us the world was going to roll us, but we didn’t anticipate this. Shrek — alongside such films as A Clockwork Orange, The Dark Knight, and The Hurt Locker — has been deemed a work of “important cultural, artistic, and historic” value by the Library of Congress, which revealed its National Film Registry 2020 list today. 25 films made the list of new additions to the National Film Registry, including, yes, Shrek....

‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’ Review: A Mostly Excellent, Much-Needed Return By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 28, 2020 8:00 am EST Can Bill and Ted exist in 2020? That’s the big question attached to Bill & Ted Face the Music, the long-awaited third film in the Bill & Ted series which comes nearly 30 years after Bogus Journey. The two lovable dimwitted slackers who found themselves unlikely saviors of the world seemed like a wonderful relic of the ’90s, products of the kind of absurd surrealism that could only come from the minds of people who were very young, very silly, or very high....

‘Black Adam’: Noah Centineo Joins Dwayne Johnson In DC Superhero Film By Ben Pearson/July 16, 2020 1:00 pm EST Noah Centineo, the rom-com heartthrob male lead of Netflix’s To All the Boys movies, is stepping into the DC Extended Universe. A new report says that the 24-year-old Centineo is joining Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in Black Adam, the Shazam! spin-off that’s been in development for years at DC and Warner Bros....

‘Black Widow’: Ray Winstone’s Character Has An ‘Avengers’ Connection By Ben Pearson/March 24, 2020 2:30 pm EST Marvel Studios’ Black Widow has been delayed indefinitely due to the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean the passion has abated for fans who have been wanting a Natasha Romanoff solo film for years. Now a detail about one of the movie’s supporting characters has made its way online, and it turns out that the Ray Winstone Black Widow character has a connection to Joss Whedon’s groundbreaking 2012 team-up movie The Avengers....

‘Hamilton’ Was A Huge Hit For Disney+ In July, Surprising No One By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 10, 2020 2:00 pm EST Here’s some more info: I can’t say this is a big surprise, primarily because Hamilton appears to be infinitely watchable. I’ve rewatched the nearly three-hour musical five times already, and I’ll probably watch it again sometime soon. And I know I’m not alone there. There’s just something about the fast-paced musical that makes me want to revisit it over and over again....

By Ben Pearson/April 9, 2020 4:30 pm EST Stanley Kubrick is probably one of the most studied filmmakers in American history – you can find hundreds of books about the making of classics like The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Spartacus, and the rest of his filmography. But hearing what Kubrick thought about his movies, in his own words, is more of a rarity. Now, a new documentary aims to scratch that itch for film fans....

‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Thanksgiving Marathon Will Have New Host Segments By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 20, 2020 4:30 pm EST Back when Mystery Science Theater 3000 aired on Comedy Central, the network would run what they called Turkey Day Marathons every Thanksgiving. The marathons would involve between six and twelve rebroadcasts of previous episodes with new host segment material cut throughout. The tradition carried over briefly to the Sci-Fi Channel era with one Turkey Day Marathon, and then died out....