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The Morning Watch: Daisy Ridley’s ‘Star Wars’ Rap Recap, The Origins Of Stop-Motion Animation & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 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. In this edition, watch as Star Wars franchise star Daisy Ridley gives a rap recap of the entire Skywalker saga on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’, ‘The Mandalorian’ Episode 3 Easter Eggs & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 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 Quarantine Stream: ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga’ Is A Silly But Terrific Comedy By Ben Pearson/June 30, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire SagaWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Two middle-aged Icelanders who have spent their entire lives determined to win the annual Eurovision Song Contest finally get their chance to compete on the world stage....

Theme Park Bits: Secret Life Of Pets Ride Opening Date, A Possible Expansion At Disney World, And More By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 29, 2020 10:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: The Secret Life of Pets ride has an opening date. Is Disney’s Hollywood Studios getting another expansion? And more! At Universal Studios Hollywood, they’re preparing for a brand-new attraction that’s really gone straight to the dogs. The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash!...

TV Bits: ‘Truth Be Told’ Season 2, ‘Crank Yankers’, ‘The English Game’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, And More By Ben Pearson/March 8, 2020 9:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: Truth Be Told is coming back for more on AppleTV+. Crank Yankers has been renewed for additional episodes. The creator of Downton Abbey is back with a new series called The English Game. Michael Mann’s HBO series Tokyo Vice has added another cast member....

‘50 States Of Fright’ Trailer: Every Town Has A Local Legend In This Sam Raimi-Produced Quibi Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 13, 2020 3:00 pm EST Sam Raimi adds his name to the list of high-profile creatives who are somehow associated with the forthcoming mobile streaming platform Quibi. The horror maestro executive produces the anthology horror series 50 States of Fright, which has a pretty self-explanatory title: each 10-minute episode centers around a different local urban legend in a different city....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale: Kit Harington Talks About Jon Snow’s Last Moments By Ben Pearson/Aug. 20, 2019 5:30 pm EST Fans will spend years debating the merits of Game of Thrones, a series that didn’t exactly stick its ultra-anticipated landing – and that’s coming from someone who appreciated a lot of what final season was able to do within the parameters in which it operated. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I genuinely enjoyed the final moments of the series finale, which caught up with the surviving members of the Stark family and set them off into new eras of their lives....

‘Magic Of Disney’s Animal Kingdom’ Will Take Viewers Behind-The-Scenes Of Disney’s Animal Experiences By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 12, 2020 4:00 pm EST Disney+ wants to take you inside Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, and The Seas with Nemo & Friends at EPCOT with Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a new original series from National Geographic. The new docu-series is narrated by Josh Gad, and is being billed as “the ultimate tribute to the parks’ magnificent array of more than 300 species and 5,000-plus animals and the herculean tasks their animal care experts undertake to keep things running day and night....

‘No Time To Die’ TV Spot: James Bond Is Keeping Everyone Waiting By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 17, 2020 4:30 pm EST James Bond’s knives are out in No Time to Die, which features an exciting Knives Out reunion for Daniel Craig and Bond series newcomer Ana de Armas. Naturally, only Craig’s Bond would keep de Armas’ CIA agent waiting, but the superspy seems to enjoy taking his time in the the newest No Time to Die TV spot, keeping everyone on edge as they await Craig’s final outing as Agent 007....

‘Space Force’ Season 2 Officially Ordered For Blast Off At Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 14, 2020 11:00 am EST The first season of the Netflix’s comedy series Space Force starring Steve Carell feels like it premiered years ago, but it only hit the streaming service back at the end of May this year. Netflix doesn’t often take long to renew their hit shows, but in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems like maybe some numbers needed to be crunched to figure out whether the show was worth bringing back for a second season....

‘Space Force’ Trailer: Space Is Hard In Netflix’s New Comedy Series Starring Steve Carell By Ethan Anderton/May 19, 2020 8:30 am EST Netflix’s new comedy series Space Force reunites The Office executive producer Greg Daniels with the workplace comedy’s star Steve Carell in a send-up of the wild endeavor of the Donald Trump presidency to create a branch of the military dedicated to colonizing the moon and creating an intimidating presence in space....

‘The Boys In The Band’ Trailer: Ryan Murphy Brings A Beloved Broadway Play To Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 2, 2020 8:30 am EST In 1968, playwright Mart Crowley made history when he premiered the Off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band, a drama that revolves around a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party in New York City. Hailed as a groundbreaking portrayal of gay life, the play was adapted into a feature film directed by William Friedkin in 1970, which was also considered a milestone in queer cinema as one of the first major American films to revolve around gay characters....

‘The Crown’ Season 4 Review: The Tragedy Of Princess Diana Casts A Dark Shadow Over The Royal Family By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 9, 2020 7:00 am EST The Crown season 4 might be the most interesting season of the Netflix show yet, for one key reason: it seems determined to make us dislike, even downright loathe, every member of the House of Windsor, from Queen Elizabeth on down. Previous seasons of the ornate monarchy melodrama were not without judgment or criticisms for its main cast of flawed characters, but in season 4, Elizabeth II and family descend to their lowest point as the royals sets about destroying their newest member, Diana Spencer....

‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Returning To Theaters For 40th Anniversary By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 18, 2020 2:30 pm EST There’s an on-going debate as to whether or not movie theaters are safe right now, so anytime there’s an announcement about something “coming to theaters,” it’s accompanied by a pang of uncertainty. So please take this news with caution: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is returning to theaters. And I’m not talking about drive-in theaters, but actual, indoor movie theaters....

‘The Invisible Man’ Review: Elisabeth Moss Is Incredible In Leigh Whannell’s Scary, Timely Horror Update By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2020 7:00 am EST Is this the first real horror movie of the #MeToo era? Leigh Whannell’s nerve-jangling The Invisible Man bears almost no resemblance to the 1933 Universal pic starring Claude Rains, nor does it take much from the original H. G. Wells novel of the same name. About the only thing Whannell’s modern-day update has in common with those titles is that it involves a dangerous, and invisible, man....

‘The Kitchen’ Trailer: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, And Elisabeth Moss Can Handle The Heat By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 16, 2019 11:45 am EST Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss seem like an odd combination for a ’70s mob drama, but The Kitchen might be the perfect melting pot for these two comedians and the Emmy-winning actress. The drama (not a comedy!) stars the trio as the wives of mobsters who decide to take the Irish mafia’s matters into their own hands....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 May Already Be Done With One Of The New Characters By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 30, 2020 12:30 pm EST The Mandalorian season 2 has brought quite an assembly of characters into the story of the bounty hunter Din Djarin and Baby Yoda (who now has an actual name: Grogu). Just this past weekend, The Clone Wars favorite Ahsoka Tano made an appearance played by Rosario Dawson. Earlier this season, Katee Sackhoff brought her animated character Bo-Katan to life in live-action as well, and she brought two other Mandalorian warriors with her....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 May Start Shooting Soon…Unless They’re Filming Another ‘Star Wars’ Show Entirely By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2020 8:30 am EST There’s great confusion in the Star Wars universe today. A new report surfaced this morning indicating that The Mandalorian season 3 could begin production as early as late November or early December. However, that same report notes that other sources are saying production won’t begin on new episodes of the Star Wars series until early 2021, though the show has been in pre-production for several months despite not having an official greenlight....

‘The Wolfman’ Reboot Starring Ryan Gosling Lands ‘Invisible Man’ Director Leigh Whannell By Chris Evangelista/July 8, 2020 11:29 am EST Having already proven he has the goods to bring a new twist to classic Universal Monsters with The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell is now in negotiations to helm The Wolfman. Ryan Gosling is set to star in the horror pic, which was previously reported as being partially inspired by Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 5, 2021 3:00 pm EST Over the holiday, around 44 million households tuned into Robert Rodriguez’s We Can be Heroes, making the new family superhero movie one of Netflix’s biggest hits. And all those parents who plopped their kids in front of the spiritual sequel to Rodriguez’s Sharkboy and Lavagirl for just two hours of peace and quiet can look forward to another kid-friendly sequel from the filmmaker....