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‘Venom 2’ Gets A Second Villain With Shriek, Carnage’s Longtime Love Interest By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 15, 2019 8:03 am EST You can’t wreak carnage without a little Shriek. Quite literally in the case of the Venom sequel, which has just added a second villain to join Woody Harrelson’s bewigged Carnage. The end credits of Sony’s surprise 2018 hit Venom heavily pointed to Carnage as the main Venom 2 villain, but reports have emerged that Carnage will be joined by his frequent comic book partner in crime (and in love), Shriek....

Cool Stuff: Mondo Celebrates ‘The Iron Giant’ With A New Shirt And Enamel Pins By Ethan Anderton/July 1, 2020 6:00 am EST The Iron Giant isn’t celebrating a special anniversary or anything like that this year. But Mondo never gets tired of paying tribute to one of the last truly great 2D animated movies of the 20th century. This time, in honor of the movie about a robot who chooses to be much more than a weapon, we have a new t-shirt by artist Maggie Chiang, as well as four new enamel pins by artists Scott C....

David Prowse, The Towering Actor Who Played Darth Vader In ‘Star Wars’, Has Died At 85 By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 29, 2020 9:00 am EST James Earl Jones may be the first actor who comes to the minds of Star Wars fans when they think about Darth Vader. But the villain wouldn’t have been nearly as imposing if it wasn’t for towering presence of actor David Prowse, the actor who was actually on set and inside Darth Vader’s suit for the original Star Wars trilogy....

Here’s Why It Took So Long For Disney+ To Restore ‘The Simpsons’ In 4:3 By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2020 4:30 pm EST Variety as the answer in a new report diving into the complicated process that the Disney+ team went through to “reconfigure its content-delivery engine and build a brand-new feature” to accommodate different underlying video attributes. Joe Rice, VP of media product at Disney Streaming Services, told Variety that this was a much more involved process than you would think, as the team had to make sure this reconfiguration wouldn’t break any of the existing features on Disney+, like Continue Watching, Watchlists, and the auto-play feature....

Jeremy Renner And Ryan Reynolds React To The Spider-Man/Marvel Rift; Spidey-Themed Protest Planned [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 21, 2019 1:30 pm EST Update: Predictably, a Change.org petition about this is now making the rounds. Get the details below. Yesterday, the internet collectively lost its mind over the news that Spider-Man may be leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since then, we’ve gotten some updates about the story that makes the whole situation feel like more of an ongoing negotiation than a totally done deal, but still, people are very attached to this character and don’t want to see him cut off from the established ties to the MCU....

Kevin Smith Is Still Trying To Make ‘Mallrats 2’ Happen By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 2, 2020 5:00 pm EST View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kevin Smith (@thatkevinsmith) View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kevin Smith (@thatkevinsmith) In the Instagram post above, Kevin Smith offers up a positive message about how 2019 was one of the best years of his life, and how 2020 is going to be hard to measure up to what he accomplished last year....

Now Scream This: 10 Great Horror Movies To Stream For Father’s Day By /Film Staff/June 19, 2020 9:00 am 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: This week on Now Scream This, we honor fatherhood. Specifically, Horror Daddies. Those nurturing and protective characters whose intentions are hopefully pure, but not always....

Start Your Nuclear Doomsday Clocks: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Just Got A Premiere Date By Ben Pearson/Sept. 3, 2019 11:00 am EST The specter of time looms over Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic Watchmen comic, with its nuclear doomsday clock counting down toward the story’s unforgettable ending. But now, more than thirty years after the comic was first published, that story will continue in the form of a new TV show from Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers....

The Morning Watch: ‘Monsters Inc.’ Storyboard Comparison, ‘Once Upon A Time In The MCU’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 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, see how the storyboards for an adorable scene in Pixar’s Monsters Inc....

The Morning Watch: Animators React To ‘Toy Story 4’, The Greatness Of ‘The Greatest Showman’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 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, listen as animators react and breakdown some sequences from Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4....

The Morning Watch: Bo-Katan In ‘The Mandalorian’ Explained, ‘Rick And Morty’ In Other Languages & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 16, 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, find out everything you need to know about Bo-Katan, the Star Wars character from The Clone Wars that just showed up on the latest episode of The Mandalorian....

The Morning Watch: Restoring The 1989 ‘Batman’ Suit, How Streaming Platforms Own You & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 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, find out how the original Batman suit from Tim Burton’s 1989 movie was restored for the Comic-Con exhibition last month....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Venture Bros.’ Built One Of The Richest, Funniest And Most Detailed Fictional Universes In TV History By Jacob Hall/Sept. 11, 2020 8:30 am EST If you’re new to The Venture Bros., if you want to see what the fuss is all about, you may need to power through the early episodes. That first season (and especially the pilot) represent the show at its crudest, both aesthetically and comedically....

This Week In Trailers: Cunningham, Abstract: The Art Of Design Season 2, Clemency, Explained: Season 2, Living Undocumented By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 21, 2019 8:30 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?...

Watch: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Directed A Trailer For The ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Video Game By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 10, 2020 7:30 am EST It’s always exciting when filmmakers test the waters in different mediums, especially the medium of video games. Video games are becoming increasingly cinematic, so much so that the lines are being blurred and you’ve got film websites reviewing games. So when a filmmaker makes the leap to video games, it’s not that much of a leap....

Why Subtitles Give Disney+ The Edge In The Streaming Wars By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 20, 2019 10:00 am EST The “Streaming Wars” are here, that much is sure. With an insane number of streaming services launching this and next year, and license deals for library content shifting around in the wake of the new platforms, everyone is theorizing over what will be the biggest draw going forward. Is it original content like The Mandalorian or The Morning Show?...

‘Becoming’ Trailer: Michelle Obama Goes Back To Her Roots In This Inspiring Netflix Doc By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 4, 2020 1:30 pm EST Michelle Obama is embarking on a journey down memory lane, and a 34-city tour where she connects with minority communities to empower and inspire them. And if seeing the former First Lady in-person wasn’t enough to inspire people, the trailer for Becoming certainly will. The upcoming documentary produced for Netflix offers a rousing look at Michelle Obama as she returns to her roots in the south side of Chicago and uses her experiences to help others....

‘Clouds’ Trailer: Disney+ Tells The True Story Of The Teenager Behind The Viral Hit By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 13, 2020 7:30 am EST A young man sings about clouds in the upcoming Disney+ feature release, Clouds, a much more moving biographical drama than its logline suggests. Fin Argus stars as Zach Sobiech, a musically gifted teenager living with osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, who writes a wildly popular song that cements his legacy....

/Filmcast Ep. 527 - The Lion King By Slashfilmcast/July 23, 2019 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss exciting news out of San Diego Comic-Con, covering everything from Tom Cruise in Top Gun 2, Natalie Portman as Thor, and Patrick Stewart returning as Captain Picard. For the feature review, the cast collectively ask the existential question “what’s the reason of being for this new Lion King movie?” Read about why even furries think the Cats trailer looks unattractive here....

‘His Dark Materials’ Season 2 Trailer Teases Hot Explorers, Divine Wars In Coming Weeks By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 2020 5:30 pm EST His Dark Materials season 2 premiered on HBO this Monday, and as the first episode’s credits rolled, we got a tease of what to expect in the weeks ahead. And per the new His Dark Materials season 2 trailer: lots more action, intrigue, devastating wars, and a former Hot Priest, now Hot Explorer Shaman Man....