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Joe Begos’ ‘VFW’ Is Vile, Repugnant Splatterhouse Cinema Joyously Blasting Blood In Your Face [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Matt Donato/Sept. 29, 2019 1:00 pm EST Fangoria’s production banner is becoming a tell-all for cinematic expectations, minimum requirements including gore, violence, and oh, more gore. Joe Begos’ VFW is the latest outrageous splatter flick to promote the iconic horror brand, and let me tell you – it delivers as suggested. That’s both a positive and negative depending on which filmmaking aspect is being magnified, but we’ll get there soon....

Major Hollywood Studios Won’t Be Buying Out Movie Theaters Any Time Soon By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 16, 2020 11:30 am EST Can movie theaters survive the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic? With the fall/winter movie season effectively out for the count after major studios pushed back their big releases to 2021 and state governments keeping major markets like Los Angeles and New York closed, movie exhibitors are struggling to stay afloat. Studios like Universal have reached a compromise with AMC Theaters by striking a VOD window release, but is that enough to keep theater chains from sinking?...

Moviegoers Want Fewer Trailers Before Movies, Because This Is Getting Ridiculous By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2019 1:30 pm EST If you’ve been to the movies lately (and I’m assuming you have, since you’re reading a movie website), you may have noticed that the trailers before the show starts are endless. The practice is particularly egregious at AMC theaters, which tend to show at least twenty minutes of trailers before they get around to starting the movie you paid to see....

Now Scream This: Celebrate Halloween Season With These Streaming Horror Movies By /Film Staff/Oct. 11, 2019 2:00 pm 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: With October’s howl now at full volume, Chris and I have so many different weekly themes to choose from! Maybe “Werewolf Wonders,” or “Sleepover Slashics,” or – well, let me rephrase that....

Rumor: Martin Scorsese Wants To Move ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ To Netflix As The Budget Skyrockets To $225 Million By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 24, 2020 11:00 am EST It looks like Martin Scorsese is missing his pals at Netflix. The streaming giant essentially gave Scorsese a blank check to make The Irishman, and now that the legendary filmmaker is back working with a regular studio, he’s reportedly getting nostalgic for that Netflix freedom....

Superhero Bits: ‘The Boys’ Sequel Comic On The Way, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Gets Golden Tomato & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2020 6:00 pm EST What weird, grotesque thing that Thanos does was cut from Avengers: Infinity War? Why didn’t Oliver Queen get included in the first logo for Crisis on Infinite Earths? Which X-Men are the latest to join the Funko POPs line-up of Marvel characters? Are you ready for a comic sequel to The Boys?...

The Morning Watch: Take A Tour Of ‘The Office’ Set, ‘Cobra Kai’ Shot-By-Shot Scene Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 11, 2021 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, take a tour of the Dunder-Mifflin set of The Office with cast member Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson....

Universal’s Super Nintendo World Will Use Wearable Tech To Turn A Real-Life Theme Park Land Into A Video Game By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 14, 2020 8:30 am EST The first Super Nintendo Land is coming to Universal Studios Japan, and it is shaping up to be one of the most immersive and tech-forward theme park lands to date. Billed as “a life-size, living video game,” Super Nintendo Land may be the closest theme park guests will get to being dropped in the middle of a Super Mario game — barring the part where you grow to the size of a giant, probably....

Upcoming Sony IMAX Releases Include ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’, ‘Venom 2’, ‘Morbius’, And ‘Uncharted’ By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2020 3:30 pm EST Remember IMAX movies? You see, kids, once upon a time, we left our houses to go to movie theaters to watch stuff on the big screen! But if we wanted to watch movies on an even bigger screen, we’d head to an IMAX theater. And Sony just announced a whole slew of their upcoming features are getting the IMAX treatment, including Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and more....

Why ‘Artemis Fowl’ Director Kenneth Branagh Made So Many Major Changes To The Book [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 10, 2020 7:30 am EST The film version finally arrives on Disney+ this summer and we spoke to director Kenneth Branagh about, well, why he changed the source material so much. Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl was published in 2001, right at the height of Potter-mania, and developed a loyal following of its own, with young readers flocking to the story of a 12-year-old criminal mastermind who was more conniving villain than fantasy hero....

‘Black Is King’ Trailer Shows Off More Of Beyoncé’s ‘Lion King’ Inspired Visual Album Coming To Disney+ By Ethan Anderton/July 19, 2020 11:00 am EST Beyoncé is basically the queen of visual albums thanks to the collections of music videos she created for her musical albums Beyoncé and Lemonade. So it’s only appropriate that the queen is given us Black is King, a visual album based on the music of The Lion King: The Gift, a collection of music inspired by remake of the Disney classic....

‘Cobra Kai’ Season 1 Is Now Available To Stream For Free On YouTube By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 30, 2019 8:30 am EST Have you been curious about checking out Cobra Kai after months of hearing your one YouTube Premium subscriber friend wax poetic about it? Well, you’re in luck because the first season of the acclaimed The Karate Kid follow-up is now streaming for free on YouTube. But it’s for a limited time only....

‘Downhill’ Trailer: Will Ferrell And Julia Louis-Dreyfus Are In Crisis In The American Remake Of ‘Force Majeure’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 20, 2019 8:30 am EST When it was announced that there would be an American remake of Ruben Östlund’s excruciatingly good Swedish comedy-drama Force Majeure…well, it was all downhill from there. Fittingly, that remake, starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a couple in crisis, is titled Downhill. But with a comedy all-star team in front of the screen and an Oscar-winning duo behind the camera, could Downhill actually reach the heights of its Swedish predecessor?...

‘Dune’ Trailer Breakdown: A Closer Look At Denis Villeneuve’s Jaw-Dropping Adaptation By Ben Pearson/Sept. 9, 2020 11:00 am EST Director Denis Villeneuve has given Dune the blockbuster treatment, and today’s newly released trailer makes it look like one of the biggest movie events of 2020. But if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s 1960s sci-fi classic, there’s a good chance you were bowled over by the visuals in that trailer but were left wondering what exactly is happening in this story....

‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ TV Series From NBC And Norman Lear Will Star Reba McEntire By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 15, 2020 4:00 pm EST Fried Green Tomatoes, Fannie Flagg’s 1987 novel that became a 1991 Jon Avnet film, is now headed to TV. The legendary Norman Lear is executive producing the series for NBC, and Reba McEntire will star, with Jennifer Cecil attached to write and executive produce. The series is described as a “modernization of the novel and movie that explores the lives of descendants from the original work....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets Jim Carrey To Play Joe Biden, Adds Three New Featured Players By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2020 2:30 pm EST Saturday Night Live is returning on October 3 to kick off the late night sketch comedy show’s 46th season. Thankfully, the entire cast will be back in the studio, no longer producing episodes remotely from their homes. In fact, there will even be a limited audience to make sure that the live comedy doesn’t play awkwardly without anyone to laugh and clap and hoot and holler....

‘The Good Place’ Season 4 First Look: What’s In Store For The Final Forking Season? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2019 8:30 am EST As we learned over the summer, The Good Place is coming to an end with the upcoming fourth season. Thankfully, the show wasn’t canceled by NBC, but creator Michael Schur just thought now was the best time to finish the story on his own terms. We haven’t seen any new footage from the show’s final season, but thankfully, that changed today....

‘The Midnight Sky’ First Look: George Clooney Faces The End Of Mankind In His Netflix Apocalyptic Space Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 25, 2020 10:30 am EST A barren Earth, a man in isolation facing the end of mankind: sounds a little less like an apocalyptic sci-fi drama and more like reality. But hey, back when George Clooney shot The Midnight Sky, the world hadn’t yet fallen to pieces. The Oscar winner wrapped his sci-fi space drama , which follows a space crew returning to Earth only to find one living survivor (Clooney), back in February — just before the pandemic hit....

‘The Stand’ TV Series Finds Its Randall Flagg In Alexander Skarsgard By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2019 10:17 am EST Yet another Skarsgard has joined the Stephen King adaptation universe. Alexander Skarsgard, brother of Bill “Pennywise” Skarsgard, has signed on to the cast of the CBS All Access adaptation of The Stand. Skarsgard will be playing Randall Flagg, the big bad of the epic apocalyptic saga. Skarsgard joins a cast that includes James Marsden, Amber Heard, and Whoopi Goldberg, with Josh Boone directing....

‘We Can Be Heroes’ Teaser Trailer: Sharkboy And Lava Girl Are All Grown Up And Their Kids Need To Save Them By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2020 11:30 am EST Robert Rodriguez has a superhero movie called We Can Be Heroes coming to Netflix at the beginning of 2021. Initially, it seemed like it was a new, original premise from the director, utilizing as much green screen technology as possible to bring it to life....