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‘Aquaman 2’ Will Again Feature James Wan’s Horror Sensibilities By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2020 1:00 pm EST With Aquaman, director James Wan delivered one of the more wild and imaginative movies in the DC Extended Universe. The underwater worlds of the DC Comics superhero were something to behold, and there were a handful of truly great sequences scattered throughout the movie, even if there were also exponentially dumber scenes in-between them....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Is Officially Rated R For “Strong Violence” And More Naughty Stuff By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2019 3:30 pm EST It’s official: Birds of Prey is rated R. It was all but confirmed that the DC film featuring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn would earn an R rating, and Robbie herself talked about how the film was made with that rating in mind. But still, there was always a chance that DC and Warner Bros....

‘Bridgerton’ Trailer: Shonda Rhimes Goes Back In Time For A Scandalous New Netflix Series By Ben Pearson/Dec. 14, 2020 4:00 pm EST After spending around 15 years churning out hit after hit for ABC, prolific producer Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away With Murder) shocked Hollywood by signing a deal in 2017 in which she would produce shows for Netflix. The first series in that deal is finally debuting this month: Bridgerton, a Regency-era drama full of sex, romance, deception, and illusion....

‘Crip Camp’ Trailer: Obama-Produced Netflix Doc Focuses On A Summer Camp That Helped Inspire A Revolution By Ben Pearson/March 11, 2020 1:00 pm EST Crip Camp debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and became a big hit at the fest, winning the Audience Award for documentaries and earning a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating from reviewers. The Netflix film, which is executive produced by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, is a documentary about “a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities” and how its visitors were inspired to fight for civil rights for the disabled in America....

‘Dickinson’ Trailer: Hailee Steinfeld Is A Literary Rebel With A Cause In This Apple TV+ Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 26, 2019 2:00 pm EST Imaginations, and corseted ladies-to-be, literally run wild in the Dickinson trailer starring Hailee Steinfeld as a young Emily Dickinson. But this isn’t the buttoned-up literary icon that you would imagine her as. In Apple TV+’s upcoming coming-of-age series, Steinfeld is a punk rock version of Emily Dickinson who dances wildly and throws up anachronistic hand signs because this isn’t your grandma’s period costume drama....

‘Red Sonja’ Director Jill Soloway Sees The Movie As A “Bad Girl Superhero” Film, Likens It To ‘Deadpool’ And ‘The Dark Knight’ By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2019 12:30 pm EST Following extensive allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, director Bryan Singer was removed from the long-gestating Red Sonja movie. The project was given a dose of new energy and excitement when Transparent creator Jill Soloway was hired to replace him, making this the first large-scale, high profile project to be tackled by a non-binary director....

‘Sound Of Metal’ Director Darius Marder Shot On 35mm Because It’s “My Goddamn Movie” [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Dec. 4, 2020 1:00 pm EST Marder’s experience in documentaries shows in Sound of Metal, which is about a two-person punk band drummer named Ruben (Riz Ahmed) losing his hearing. It’s also a story about addiction, community, love and time, and the search for stillness. Sound of Metal is an emotionally stirring debut that Marder recently told us about crafting....

‘Spider-Man 3’ Brings In Benedict Cumberbatch As Doctor Strange By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 8, 2020 11:14 am EST The Spider-Man: Far From Home sequel, AKA Spider-Man 3, is about to get a little Strange. A new report reveals that Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange is now a part of the film, suggesting that Strange is stepping into the mentor role for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker previously occupied by Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Samuel L....

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Already Renewed For A Second Season Before Series Premiere In January By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2019 10:30 am EST The new series Star Trek: Picard isn’t slated to premiere on the CBS All Access subscription service until January next year. But there’s already a strong vote of confidence in the return of Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, because the new series has just been given a second season order by CBS, not to mention a hefty tax incentive from California....

‘Star Wars’ Book ‘The High Republic: A Test Of Courage’ Follows A Teen Jedi’s Journey By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 11, 2020 5:00 pm EST Middle school kids will actually want to seek out a book with the word “test” in its title. The upcoming middle grade novel Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage is one of many books coming out of the High Republic subseries, but the first to exclusively cater to young readers, who will get the chance to see characters their age in a Star Wars story....

‘Star Wars: Cassian Andor’ Series Adds New Cast Members, Recruits Tony Gilroy As Showrunner By Chris Evangelista/April 24, 2020 2:03 pm EST The Disney+ Star Wars series Cassian Andor has locked down two new cast members, and a showrunner to boot. Genevieve O’Reilly and Denise Gough will be joining lead actor Diego Luna on the show, while Tony Gilroy, one of the writers of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, is now in place as showrunner....

‘Starship Troopers’ Honest Trailer: A Satire So Good That People Thought It Was Just A Dumb War Movie By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2020 6:00 am EST When Starship Troopers came out, it was mostly received as an action-packed sci-fi movie filled with gnarly alien bugs, plenty of graphic violence, and some nudity for the horny teens out there. But slowly people realized that even though the director of RoboCop may not be subtle, he’s certainly not bombastic enough to make such a hollow movie....

‘The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special’ Shows Us A Future Beyond ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Bryan Young/Nov. 19, 2020 7:00 am EST When it was announced that there would be a new Star Wars Holiday Special, everyone scratched their heads and said, “Well, this is sort of cool, I guess.” The original Star Wars Holiday Special, released in 1978 and aired only once because of how utterly awful it was, has lived on in bootlegs and become something of an ironic favorite....

‘The Sinners’ Poster: Seven Young Girls Embody The Seven Deadly Sins By Ben Pearson/Jan. 13, 2021 1:30 pm EST Actress/writer/producer Courtney Paige is making her directorial debut with a new film called The Sinners, which follows seven high school girls who go to extreme measures to make sure their dirty laundry is not aired in their religious town. Check out the new poster below. The Sinners Poster Here’s the movie’s official synopsis:...

‘The Sisters Brothers’ Is A Gorgeous, Surreal Postmodern Western [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 8, 2018 11:00 am EST Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers is an utterly strange, utterly lovely postmodern Western about two outlaw brothers and the two men they’re hunting. Dreamy, surreal and balancing darkness and light in equal measure, it’s a wholly unique, somewhat perplexing experience. Find out more in our The Sisters Brothers review below. The Sisters Brothers ride across the plains; into dusty towns; towards the ocean....

‘WandaVision’ Brings In ‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Matt Shakman, Will Feature ‘Thor’ And ‘Ant-Man’ Characters [D23] By /Film Staff/Aug. 23, 2019 4:43 pm EST Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are back to reprise their roles as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch and The Vision (respectively) in WandaVision, a Marvel Studios Disney+ show which Olsen promises will explore those characters in a deeper way than they’ve been explored so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘We Summon The Darkness’ Review: Alexandra Daddario Leads This Satanic Panic Headbanger [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Matt Donato/Sept. 27, 2019 8:00 am EST Alexandra Daddario in a heavy metal horror movie? All those incantations and offerings to our Dark Lord have finally paid off my fellow – er, I mean, how lucky are we! Marc Meyers’ satanic panic headbanger flips the script on evil intentions and assembles a kickass girl gang decked out in studded leather....

Charlize Theron Is Fast To Lose The Dreads For Cipher’s Return In ‘Fast And Furious 9’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 3, 2019 3:00 pm EST Timothee Chalamet tried it, thousands of children have suffered through it, but could Charlize Theron be the one to conquer the bowl cut? The actress is reprising her role as the villainous Cipher in Fast and Furious 9, whose trademark dreadlocks were almost as awful as her terrorism scheme that turned Dom (Vin Diesel) against his family in The Fate of the Furious....

Chinese Movie Theaters Reopening At The End Of March With ‘Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone’ In 4K And 3D By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2020 12:00 pm EST If you’re looking for hope that the United States can return to some kind of normal lifestyle after a couple months of self-containment, look no further than China. The nation where the pandemic began is slowly recovering as new cases of the virus dwindle and light at the end of the tunnel starts to look a little clearer....

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Gives Lebowski Thor From ‘Avengers: Endgame’ The Action Figure He Deserves By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2019 5:00 pm EST One of the best elements of Avengers: Endgame was the drastic change in Thor, the god of thunder. Traumatized by his failure at killing Thanos at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, Thor has gotten lost in beer and snacks. He’s severely overweight, panics at the drop of a hat, and always seems anxious (when he doesn’t seem drunk)....