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The Morning Watch: The Making Of ‘Frozen 2’s “Into The Unknown,” The Score Of ‘Marriage Story’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 26, 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....

The Most Underrated, Overlooked, And Misunderstood Movies Of The Decade By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2019 10:00 am EST (This article is part of our Best of the Decade series.) What makes a movie underrated? In a literal sense, a good movie with overwhelming poor reviews is underrated. But there’s more to it than that. There can be movies that are fairly well received, and yet, they feel unloved; ignored; overlooked. So when it came time to compile a list of the most underrated movies of the decade, I decided not to just focus on the titles I felt deserved better reviews, but also films that deserved more love; more attention....

This Week In Trailers: Goff, The Dakota Entrapment Tapes, Seduced: Inside The NXIVM Cult, The Eric Andre Show Season 5, Secrets Of The Saqqara Tomb By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 17, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Universal Studios Beijing Unveils New Concept Art And Details About Each Of Its Seven Themed Lands By Ben Pearson/Oct. 20, 2020 5:30 pm EST A year ago, we wrote about the seven themed lands being planned for China’s Universal Beijing Resort, which is set to open sometime next year. Now there’s a new video showcasing tons of new pieces of concept art, and we have some additional details about each land: Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness, Transformers Metrobase, Minion Land, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Jurassic World Isla Nublar, Hollywood, and Waterworld....

‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Review: This Predictable Sequel Has Nothing New To Say, But You’ll Still Have Fun By Chris Evangelista/June 26, 2019 8:00 am EST At some point, the ghost-chasing Warrens might want to consider getting rid of all that spooky stuff they have locked away in the spare bedroom. As played memorably by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, the couple – based very loosely on real-life paranormal investigators – were first introduced to movie audiences with 2013’s superior haunted house flick The Conjuring....

‘Dial A For Aunties’: ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ Creator Nahnatchka Khan To Direct Netflix Romantic Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 19, 2020 5:30 pm EST Fresh Off the Boat creator Nahnatchka Khan has docked her beloved ABC sitcom and signed up with Netflix to adapt Dial A for Aunties, an upcoming romantic-comedy book by Indonesia-based author Jesse Q. Sutanto which is being described as “Crazy Rich Asians meets Weekend at Bernie’s.”...

/Filmcast Ep. 583 - Mulan (GUEST: Nancy Wang Yuen) By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 8, 2020 8:00 pm EST After months of delay, Disney’s live-action Mulan finally made its debut on the Disney Plus streaming service (for a premium). David, Devindra, and Jeff talk about their mixed feelings toward the movie with sociologist and author Nancy Wang Yuen. Read Nancy’s review of Mulan here. Thanks to our sponsors this week: PrettyLitter, Feals, and Candid Co....

‘Friends’ Reunion On HBO Max Delayed Due To Coronavirus Production Shutdown By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2020 10:30 am EST Hollywood is essentially shut down right now. Nearly all television shows and movies have suspended production until the spread of the coronavirus can be contained. That means some upcoming content that viewers were looking forward to will be delayed, and now that includes one of the most anticipated and demanded reunions in recent memory....

‘Honey Boy’ Director Alma Har’el On Working With Shia LaBeouf And Finding An Ending In The Editing Room [Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Nov. 27, 2019 4:00 pm EST It may become necessary to redefine to word “autobiographical” when referring to the latest work from director Alma Har’el, Honey Boy, based on an original screenplay by actor Shia LaBeouf, who not only fashioned the story of a child actor’s relationship with his domineering father on his own experience growing up, but also cast himself as his father character James Lort in this harrowing and all-too-real portrayal....

‘Invisible Life’ Review: An Unabashed, Affecting Brazilian Melodrama By Marshall Shaffer/Dec. 26, 2019 12:00 pm EST There came a point early on in Karim Aïnouz’s drama of separated sisters, Invisible Life, where I wondered if the way he depicted a scene veered a little too sharply into the melodramatic and borderline hysterical. Then I remembered how the poster billed the film: a tropical melodrama. Once I reset my bearings a bit, I found the narrative quite engrossing and the story rather moving....

‘Joker’ Featurette: Go Behind-The-Scenes With This 22-Minute Look At The Making Of The Film By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2020 3:30 pm EST Hey, remember Joker? It seemed like such a huge deal last year, and it eventually won Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar. But the dark, violent film from Todd Phillips kind of feels like yesterday’s news at the moment – especially with everything else going on right now. Despite this – or perhaps because of it – Warner Bros....

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Will Reduce Production Size In Malta Due To Rising Coronavirus Cases By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 2020 11:30 am EST Production on Jurassic World: Dominion is back underway in the United Kingdom, but once shooting is done there, the cast and crew is slated to head over to the island nation of Malta. However, Universal will be scaling back production on the island due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases, including four of the film’s crew members who have tested positive on the island before production has even begun there....

‘Relic’ Trailer: Emily Mortimer Stars In A Different Kind Of Haunted House Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2020 2:00 pm EST At this point, we all know what to expected from a haunted house horror movie. The poor residents of a very creepy, often old, house are being terrorized by some supernatural forces that picks them off one by one. But Natalie Erika James’ debut feature Relic, which hails from the Sundance Film Festival’s lauded Midnight section, puts a refreshing twist on the haunted house movie, setting up the Emily Mortimer-starring thriller as a family drama about the debilitating effects of dementia....

‘Roundtable’ Live Read: Brian K. Vaughan’s Unproduced Script To Be Read Aloud In Hollywood By Ben Pearson/Oct. 16, 2019 2:45 pm EST In the summer of 2008, Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic writer Brian K. Vaughan (Lost, Y: The Last Man) sold a high-concept screenplay to DreamWorks called Roundtable. The movie never went into production, the script sat on a shelf collecting dust, and Vaughan went on to become the showrunner of the CBS TV series Under the Dome and continue his career in comics by writing things like the sci-fi/fantasy epic Saga....

‘Sound Of Metal’ Trailer: Riz Ahmed Gives One Of The Year’s Best Performances By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2020 1:30 pm EST Sound of Metal Trailer This is a great trailer. It’s a great showcase for Ahmed’s performance and it also takes you through the emotional journey present throughout the narrative. In Sound of Metal, “During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss....

‘The Doorman’ Review: Ruby Rose Puts A New Spin On Familiar Action Movie Tropes [Nightstream] By Kalyn Corrigan/Oct. 13, 2020 9:00 am EST Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A decorated military veteran suffers a traumatizing event in the line of duty and heads to the city to recuperate, only to find more trouble lying in wait. Sudden Death. Speed. Skyscraper. Under Siege. The Rock. Passenger 57. White House Down....

‘The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special’ Will Have Rey Fight Darth Vader And More Crossover Craziness By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 2020 11:30 am EST The Star Wars Holiday Special is so infamous that George Lucas has not only disavowed it entirely, but it has been said that he would gladly smash every copy with a sledgehammer. However, Disney is hoping to give fans a better way to celebrate Life Day with The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special....

‘The Outsider’ Review: HBO’s New Stephen King Adaptation Is Incredibly Scary By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2019 9:00 am EST Stephen King knows horror. He’s spent the last few decades at the top of the bestseller list, raking in mountains of cash by giving readers the creeps. While King’s tales of terror are loaded with the supernatural, the author understands that to make all those paranormal shenanigans truly terrifying, they need to happen to real, everyday people....

‘Undine’ Review: Christian Petzold’s Modern Fairy Tale Romance Washes Over You [NYFF 2020] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 3, 2020 10:00 am EST For such a romantic, Christian Petzold sure likes to keep his audience at arm’s length. The German director of alt-history star-crossed romances like the 2018 stunner Transit ventures into folklore with his latest cosmic romance Undine, a chilly, cryptic film that spends most of its runtime searching for a soul....

David Lynch Short Hits Netflix, Features The Director Interrogating A Monkey By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 20, 2020 7:30 am EST It’s been some time since director David Lynch brought Twin Peaks: The Return to Showtime. The filmmaker has kept relatively quiet since then, but today is his birthday, and he actually has a present to give us in the form of a short film on Netflix. Overnight, Netflix released What Did Jack Do?...