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DC Comics Podcasts Coming Soon To Spotify, Audible Announces New Shows With Kevin Bacon, Alicia Silverstone & More By Ethan Anderton/June 18, 2020 5:00 pm EST In the future, everyone will have a podcast. If there wasn’t already a plethora of podcasts available before the coronavirus pandemic, the quarantine has certainly inspired a whole swath of new audio entertainment to fight for our attention. Even media giants are getting in on the latest rise in podcast popularity, and Spotify and Audible will be adding more to the bunch....

Disney Parks Closing All Hotels And Stores Amid Coronavirus Concerns By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2020 8:30 am EST Even the most magical place on Earth is not immune to the coronavirus pandemic. Four days after Disney Parks fully suspended operations at Anaheim’s Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Florida’s Walt Disney World theme park, the company announced that its Disney Parks hotels and stores will be closing until further notice, starting March 17....

New Episodes Of Original Disney+ Shows, Including ‘The Mandalorian’, Coming Friday By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 12, 2019 10:30 am EST People can’t stop talking about Disney+, the new Disney streaming service that may or may not be working for you at this very moment. While the service launched today, Tuesday, you won’t have to wait a full week for new episodes of the original shows. Instead, new episodes of everything – including The Mandalorian – will hit this Friday, and roll-out on Fridays going forward....

Saturday Fiction In a black-and-white drama set to the backdrop of a politically turbulent period of time, a doomed couple chart their tragic love story across the decades. But enough about Cold War. Saturday Fiction, Lou Ye’s World War II-set Chinese drama starring Gong Li as a famous actress who reconnects with an old flame amidst an incomprehensible political plot, shares only surface-level similarities with Pawe? Pawlikowski’s achingly beautiful 2018 romance....

Superhero Bits: ‘Superman: Man Of Tomorrow’ Trailer, ‘Suicide Squad’ Video Games Rumors & More By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see the trailer for the animated Superman: Man of Tomorrow movie? What might the Suicide Squad video game be called? Are you ready for Lucfier’s sixth and final season? Did you hear Joss Whedon was the one who directed the Justice League post-credits scene? Which Marvel movies could be returning to theaters in when they reopen?...

Superhero Bits: Arroweverse Fall 2019 Trailers, Dylan Sprouse Wants To Play Human Torch & More By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see the Comic-Con trailers for Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow and Black Lightning? Which actor met with Christopher Nolan for Batman Begins? What beloved DC Comics story with Superman is getting an animated movie in 2020? When does the second season of Titans arrive? What rules do Marvel Studios actors have to follow?...

The Dead Speak! Listen To Emperor Palpatine’s Mysterious Broadcast From ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 23, 2019 1:30 pm EST The opening crawls of Star Wars movies have traditionally caught audiences up on the passage of time between films. That proved to be rather unnecessary between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi since we pick up pretty much immediately after the end of the first installment of the new trilogy....

The Morning Watch: ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Easter Eggs Round-Up, Remembering ‘Big Bad Beetleborgs’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 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, run through a bunch of Easter eggs referencing Star Trek: The Next Generation and more in the first season of Star Trek: Picard on CBS All Access....

The Morning Watch: Arnold Schwarzenegger Career Retrospective, ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Trailer Music Analysis & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 30, 2019 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....

By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 12, 2020 12:00 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Watch trailers for Ragnarok and Better Things. Mark-Paul Gosselaar has joined the cast of the Saved by the Bell revival. Justin Chambers is leaving Grey’s Anatomy. Need a Thor/Loki fix in between Thor films? You might want to check out Ragnarok, a Norwegian series that transplants Norse mythology into a modern-day high school setting. The series “is set in the small, fictitious town of Edda, situated in the grand, breathtaking Norwegian nature....

‘Cherry’ First Look: Tom Holland And His Buzzcut Make A Withdrawal By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 2, 2019 10:00 am EST The Russo Brothers are reuniting with Tom Holland, but not for a Marvel movie. The filmmakers are directing Holland in Cherry, a crime-drama about a bank robber. Holland took to social media to reveal a Cherry first look image, and it has the once and future Spider-Man looking much different than we’re used to seeing him....

‘Pixar Popcorn’ Trailer: Pixar Characters Return For New Short Films On Disney+ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2021 12:30 pm EST Some of your favorite Pixar characters are back for Pixar Popcorn, a new collection of mini-shorts (which means they’re extra short, I guess) set to stream on Disney+. The animated shorts feature characters from Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, and more in “all-new, bite-size stories created by Pixar Animation Studios’ talented animators....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 3, 2020 2:30 pm EST In 2018, we learned that a Silk movie was in the works at Sony, which would center on a Korean-American character named Cindy Moon. A relatively new addition to the comics, Cindy is a classmate of Peter Parker’s who also accidentally gets bitten by a radioactive spider. As Silk, her alter-ego, Cindy possesses powers that are similar to Spider-Man’s, although instead of building her own web-shooters, she has the ability to blast webbing organically out of her fingertips....

‘The Comeback Trail’: Robert De Niro Tries To Murder Tommy Lee Jones For Insurance Money By Ben Pearson/Sept. 7, 2020 11:00 am EST The first Friday the 13th of this year came on March 13, just days before the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final Friday the 13th of 2020 arrives in November. While we have no clue what the state of the world will be at that point, a new movie will be released that day which features three Oscar winners in a comedy about a group of conmen trying to murder an actor during the filming of a fake movie....

‘The Craft’ Remake Adds Michelle Monaghan To The Coven By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 25, 2019 3:30 pm EST The Craft reboot continues to grow its coven. The latest addition is Michelle Monaghan, a great actress who deserved to break out big after her star-making turn in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Monaghan’s role in The Craft is being kept secret, but since the main story is about high school witches, she’s likely playing a parent, a teacher, or perhaps a surprise role we won’t see coming....

‘The Croods 2’ Tops U.S. Box Office Again In A Tepid Post-Thanksgiving Weekend By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 7, 2020 4:00 pm EST The weekend after Thanksgiving typically sees some of the biggest drops of the year — which would mean something if we weren’t in a pandemic. On the plus side, this year’s post-Thanksgiving weekend drop was only about 40%, compared to the average 50% drop. Which doesn’t mean much when the few films that are showing in U....

‘The Death Of Stalin’ Review: Pitch-Black Comedy Done To Perfection [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 10, 2017 8:00 am EST “I wanted to get away from American politics,” joked Veep creator Armando Iannucci at the world premiere of his new film The Death of Stalin during the Toronto International Film Festival. “So what better way than to make a film about a narcissist who terrifies his own country?“It’s hard not to see parallels to the current American political climate and that of the chaotic days following the demise of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as depicted in The Death of Stalin....

‘The Undoing’ Trailer: Murder And Intrigue Tear Apart Nicole Kidman’s Upper Class Family By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2020 2:00 pm EST Despite some reported creative woes behind the scenes, Nicole Kidman clearly loved teaming up with creator David E. Kelley on HBO’s Big Little Lies, because she’s stepping back into the world of murder mystery among the upper class with the new limited series The Undoing. Based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s New York Times best-selling book You Should Have Known, HBO’s The Undoing follows a successful therapist, Grace Fraser (Kidman), along with her husband, Jonathan (Hugh Grant, who’s been taking some tantalizingly seedier roles recently), and their young son (Noah Jupe), who attends an elite private school in New York City....

‘Utopia’ Trailer: What If A Comic Book Uncovered A Real Global Conspiracy? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2020 9:30 am EST Utopia follows a group of nerds obsessed with a comic book called Distopia and the arrival of its sequel Utopia. While the comic is just an engaging story for most fans, others think it has been hiding clues to some kind of impending disaster, and may be the key to uncovering a global conspiracy....

CBS All Access Expands Free Trial To 60 Days, So Now’s The Time To Binge ‘The Twilight Zone’ And ‘Star Trek’ By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2020 11:00 am EST Mashable called our attention to the 60-day CBS All Access free trial. All you have to do is head over to the streaming service’s website, and when you go to checkout, use the promo code GIFT and sign up for a one-month free trial....