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Water Cooler: Star Wars: Duel Of The Fates, Invisible Man, Mary Poppins Returns, Polaroid, Jerry Maguire, Avatar: The Last Airbender & Yojimbo By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the February 20, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

‘Bloodshot’ Review: Vin Diesel’s Superhero Flick Is A Big Snooze By Chris Evangelista/March 11, 2020 9:00 am EST Diesel plays Ray Garrison, a heroic Marine who wants nothing more than to kill some bad guys and then go home and awkwardly canoodle with his wife, Gina (Talulah Riley). But fate has other plans. Out of seemingly nowhere, Ray and Gina are abducted by the wonderfully named Martin Axe (Toby Kebbell), a guy we know is evil because he wears socks with sandals....

‘First Date’ Review: Hijinks Ensue In This Harebrained Crime Thriller [Sundance 2021] By Ben Pearson/Feb. 1, 2021 12:00 pm EST The best thing I can say about First Date, the wacky new crime comedy from writer/directors Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp, is that it almost never takes its foot off the gas. It opens with a bang (someone gets shot in the first scene), and after a very brief sequence which establishes some of the main characters, it quickly kicks back into high gear....

‘Freaky’ Review: This Body-Swap Horror-Comedy Is The Best Slasher Movie Since ‘Scream’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 11, 2020 8:00 am EST Filled with inventive kills, genuinely funny jokes, and a surprisingly warm heart, Freaky is one of the year’s most enjoyable films. It’s a blood-drenched horror-comedy that goes for big laughs, bigger gore, and wraps it all up in touching pathos that’s bound to catch more than a few viewers off guard....

‘Get Out: The Annotated Screenplay’ Will Take Us Inside Jordan Peele’s Horror Film By Ben Pearson/Nov. 11, 2019 4:30 pm EST Get Out may seem like yesterday’s news, but when you think back over the biggest horror films of the past decade, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut looms large. Now fans of the film can explore it in even more detail with Inventory Press’s Get Out: The Annotated Screenplay, a 224-page book which features the screenplay along with Peele’s in-depth notes, more than 150 stills from the movie, and behind-the-scenes information about how this modern classic came to be....

‘Greta’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Goes Nuts In Neil Jordan’s Wacky Thriller By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 27, 2019 7:00 am EST Everybody needs a friend. And who wouldn’t want to be friends with Isabelle Huppert? It’s a set-up too good to ignore, and director Neil Jordan milks it for all that it’s worth in his gonzo thriller Greta. What could’ve very easily been a serious, scary movie is, Jordan’s hands, a weird, goofy freakshow, in which Huppert hams it up as the loneliest, craziest woman in New York....

‘Hamilton’ Clip: Disney+ Ensures The World’s Gonna Know His Name By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2020 11:00 am EST Hamilton arrives on Disney+ next week, just in time to give you something patriotic to watch for the July 4th holiday weekend. The first trailer for the recorded presentation of the Broadway sensation just arrived last weekend, and now a new Hamilton clip has debuted online that further shows how the Broadway production was recorded, complete with the original cast, to give viewers the ultimate immersive experience....

Jojo Rabbit Clip Johansson’s Rosie is understandably angry at Rockwell’s Nazi captain, whose negligence resulted in her son Jojo getting a grenade blown in his face, and a scar and limp to prove it. But she has to turn to him to give her naive son a job while she’s at work, and there are your expected list of duties working for the Hitler Youth: Deskwork, hanging up propaganda posters, or taking the blue-eyed Aryan clones for a walk....

‘Ms. Marvel’ Series In The Works At Disney+ From Marvel Studios [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2019 2:15 pm EST Update: Disney officially confirmed that Ms. Marvel is coming to Disney+. See the logo for the series below. Marvel Studios already has Captain Marvel expanding the cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but soon they’ll add another young superhero to the comic book world with the same namesake as the comic book company that created them....

‘Mulan’ Will Be Available On Demand On Vudu And FandangoNow Next Week By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 1, 2020 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mulan’s VOD debut comes one month after the live-action movie, which stars Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Tzi Ma, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Ron Yuan, Gong Li, and Jet Li, eschewed a theatrical release for a premiere on Disney+ Premier Access with the additional one-time fee of $29....

‘Sylvie’s Love’ Review: A Sexy, Simmering Romance Starring Tessa Thompson And Rising Star Nnamdi Asomugha [Sundance 2020] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 31, 2020 1:00 pm EST Hollywood’s Golden Age is full of grand, sweeping love stories, but that era of cinema history didn’t exactly provide an equal playing field for filmmakers and actors of color. So Sylvie’s Love, writer/director Eugene Ashe’s new grand, sweeping love story, feels less like a pure homage than him making a movie that should have existed back then but was never given the chance....

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Brings Back Edward Furlong As John Connor By Chris Evangelista/July 18, 2019 11:46 am EST During the San Diego Comic-Con panel for Terminator: Dark Fate, James Cameron popped-in via video and offhandedly dropped a piece of info we hadn’t heard before: Edward Furlong is returning to the franchise for the first time since Terminator 2. Furlong played the young John Connor in that film, and while the return of Terminator stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton was well-known, Furlong’s return is a bit of a surprise....

‘The Batman’ Release Date Pushed To October 2021, ‘The Flash’ And ‘Shazam 2’ Also Delayed By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2020 11:00 am EST We’re all going to have to wait a little longer to see Robert Pattinson’s take on the Caped Crusader. As previously reported, Matt Reeves’ The Batman shut down production due to the coronavirus, and that has now officially impacted the movie’s release date. Originally set to open in the summer of 2021, The Batman’s release date has now been pushed to October of that year instead....

Brit Marling’s Response Dear fans of The OA – Some of you may know already or some of you may be learning from this letter that Netflix will not be continuing The OA. Zal and I are deeply sad not to finish this story. The first time I heard the news I had a good cry. So did one of our executives at Netflix who has been with us since the early days when we were sketching out Hap’s basement on the floor of our production office in Queens....

‘VFW’ Trailer: Stephen Lang And His War Vet Pals In Get Their Own ‘Assault On Precinct 13’-Style Action Film By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2019 1:30 pm EST If you enjoy grindhouse, throwback, exploitation-style cinema, a new entry is coming your way next year. VFW, an Assault on Precinct 13-style action film from director Joe Begos (Almost Human, Bliss), is about a group of war veterans who take a violent stand against against a gang of encroaching street punks....

‘WandaVision’ Is Like “Six Marvel Movies” Packed Into A Sitcom By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2020 8:30 am EST Anytime someone involved with a TV show says something like, “This isn’t really a TV show, it’s a 6/8/12-hour movie!”, I get a little nervous. Netflix does this all the time, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. More often than not, it results in some lopsided, poorly paced TV. But that’s not going to stop the folks behind WandaVision, darn it!...

Animated ‘Mortal Kombat’ Movie Starring Joel McHale And Jennifer Carpenter To Debut This Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2020 12:24 pm EST Mortal Kombat is taking the fight across different mediums. An animated Mortal Kombat movie is currently in development at Warner Bros. Animation and is set to debut before the new live-action film even hits theaters. Warner Bros. Animation has set the animated Mortal Kombat movie, titled Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, for a 2020 debut with Joel McHale and Jennifer Carpenter set to star....

Bite-Sized Terror: Horror Anthologies Are Thriving At The Telluride Horror Show By Kalyn Corrigan/Oct. 28, 2020 11:00 am EST American Horror Story. Black Mirror. Room 104. Channel Zero. The Mortuary Collection. Monsterland. Creepshow. Scare Me. Nightmare Cinema. Scare Package. Books of Blood. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. 50 States of Fright. Into the Dark. Welcome to the Blumhouse. The Twilight Zone. Horror anthologies are all the rage across various media right now, and the Shelter-In-Place Edition of Telluride Horror Show is no exception....

Daily Podcast: Black Widow, More Planet Of The Apes, Studio Ghibli, A Star Wars Game Show, And More By Ben Pearson/Dec. 3, 2019 2:20 pm EST On the December 3, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Marvel’s Black Widow trailer, a new Planet of the Apes movie, a surprise announcement about the Studio Ghibli library, a new Star Wars game show, and more of what The Rise of Skywalker has in store....

Daily Podcast: Rosario Dawson Is Ahsoka In The Mandalorian By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2020 1:15 pm EST On the March 20, 2020 Emergency Episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by Star Wars expert Bryan Young of the Full of Sith Podcast to discuss the breaking Star Wars scoop, Rosario Dawson has been cast as Ahsoka Tano in The Mandalorian season 2. Opening Banter: In The News: Star Wars Exclusive: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Casts Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano Who is Ahsoka How might she fit into Mandalorian Force user She knew yoda The end of rebels Ashley Eckstein Rosario Dawson All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....