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The Morning Watch: Hilary Swank Visits NASA, Live-Action And Animated ‘Mulan’ Comparison & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 10, 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, watch as Hilary Swank pays a visit to NASA in conjunction with the release of her space drama Away from Netflix....

The Morning Watch: Shia LaBeouf Gets Spicy, Jim Gaffigan Takes A Lie Detector Test & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 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, Shia LaBeouf sits down to chow on some spicy wings and talk about his buzzed about indie film The Peanut Butter Falcon and Honey Boy....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ Features A God-Tier Performance From Peter Lorre By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 10, 2020 7:00 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: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)Where You Can Stream It: The Criterion Channel, HBO MaxThe Pitch: On a family vacation in Switzerland, a couple (Leslie Banks and Edna Best) befriend a man staying in their hotel....

TV Bits: ‘Animal Kingdom’, ‘Lost In Space’, ‘Julia’, ‘Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.’, ‘Flack’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 18, 2021 4:00 pm EST TNT has renewed its series Animal Kingdom for a sixth and final season. Season 5 premieres this summer. The show is based on the film of the same name and focuses on the criminal activities of a Southern California family. In the upcoming season 5, “Pope (Shawn Hatosy), Craig (Ben Robson), Deran (Jake Weary) and J (Finn Cole) are still dealing with the fallout from the events surrounding Smurf’s death, including family members out for revenge....

Warner Bros. Pushes ‘Dune’ To December 2020, Sets Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley Movie For Fall 2021 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2019 9:30 am EST Over the weekend, Warner Bros. Pictures made some adjustments to their release calendar for the next couple of years. First up, the studio decided to move Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Dune out of the busy weekend before Thanksgiving. And then they added to the fall of 2021 by setting a date for the upcoming Elvis Presley biopic from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann....

What Happened This Week On ‘Westworld’ Season 3: “Passed Pawn” By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2020 8:00 am EST We’re in the endgame now, people. There’s only one more episode of Westworld season 3 left, and I don’t know about you, but I’m so ready for the end. This season has been a wasted opportunity, with the promise of starting fresh almost immediately obliterated by the series falling back into bad habits....

‘Black Adam’ Producer Talks The Introduction Of Justice Society Of America And DC Universe Connections By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2020 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Just over a week ago, DC FanDome brought fans their first sneak peek of Black Adam, albeit in the form of some concept art exploring the origins of the DC Comics character who has gone from anti-hero to villain to superhero throughout his comic book history....

‘Doctor Who’ Is Dreaming Of A Better Episode To Tackle Mental Health Than “Can You Hear Me?” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 10, 2020 1:00 pm EST Chris Chibnall the overcompensating writer is back with “Can You Hear Me?” — a bloated Doctor Who episode that fumbles its message on mental illness with retro callbacks and far too many mysteries. The seventh episode of season 12 ends the hot streak that Doctor Who had been on lately, due to showrunner Chibnall, who co-writes the episode with Charlene James, reverting to his worst tendencies: overstuffing and overcomplicating a promising premise....

‘Don’t Look Up’, An Adam McKay Netflix Comedy About An Asteroid Headed To Earth, Will Star Jennifer Lawrence By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 19, 2020 11:30 am EST Jennifer Lawrence will star in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, a new Netflix comedy set to arrive later this year. In the film, “an asteroid is approaching Earth and it’s up to two low-level astronomers to go on a massive media tour to warn the rest of mankind....

‘Ghostbusters’ Halloween Horror Nights Maze Coming To Universal Studios This Fall By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2019 9:00 am EST There’s going to be something strange in your neighborhood if you head to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios this fall. The theme park has announced a new Ghostbusters Halloween Horror Nights maze opening at both Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort for the special spooky holiday event that happens every fall....

‘Masters Of The Universe’ Netflix Series Cast Reunites ‘Batman’ Voice Actors Mark Hamill And Kevin Conroy By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 14, 2020 11:36 am EST Masters of the Universe: Revelation, a new animated He-Man series from Netflix, Mattel Television, and Kevin Smith, will feature the following actors: Mark Hamill as Skeletor Lena Headey as Evil-Lyn Chris Wood as Prince Adam / He-Man Sarah Michelle Gellar as Teela Liam Cunningham as Man-At-Arms...

‘National Treasure’ Honest Trailer: An Action-Packed Mandatory High School Field Trip By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2020 6:00 am EST If The Da Vinci Code was too hard to follow because of all the art and nonsense, then Disney has you covered with a treasure hunt where the puzzles are easy and everything is thoroughly explained like you’re on some kind of high school field trip. National Treasure brings us Nicolas Cage in his most subtle role yet, and as the Honest Trailer reveals, there’s an even greater conspiracy at the center of this movie than a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence....

‘Parks And Recreation’ Is Returning Next Week For A Scripted Coronavirus Charity Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 24, 2020 7:30 am EST Parks and Rec fans literally couldn’t get better news: NBC has announced that a Parks and Recreation reunion special will bring our favorite residents of Pawnee back for a half-hour scripted episode in aid of coronavirus efforts. Almost all the original cast members, including Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O’Heir, and Retta, will get back to work as the beloved members of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation department, along with a few guest stars....

‘Robin Robin’, New Netflix Stop-Motion Holiday Film From Aardman, Adds Gillian Anderson And Richard E. Grant By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2020 12:30 pm EST Aardman, the British animation studio responsible for Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and more, is cooking up a new stop-motion musical holiday special for Netflix called Robin Robin. Today, Aardman announced the voice cast for the flick, which is due out next holiday season, and at the top of the list are two very familiar, exciting names: Gillian Anderson and Richard E....

‘The 355’ Trailer: Jessica Chastain Leads An International Team Of Operatives To Save The World By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 6, 2020 8:30 am EST If a bunch of dudes can always band together to stop some generic bad guy from destroying the world with some kind of doomsday device, so can a group of women. That’s exactly what Universal Pictures is doing with The 355, a new action blockbuster that teams up Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Bingbing Fan as an assembly of international operatives tasked with stopping some kind of massive attack....

‘The Batman’ Will Lean Into Bruce Wayne’s Trauma, According To Its Co-Writer By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2020 10:30 am EST DC FanDome is just over a week away, and we’re expecting that virtual convention will reveal some news about director Matt Reeves’ hugely anticipated upcoming superhero film The Batman. But in the meantime, that film’s co-writer has spoken about how the new movie is going to deal with Bruce Wayne’s trauma....

‘The Conjuring 3’ Will Take Viewers Away From The Traditional Haunted House Set-Up By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 26, 2020 1:00 pm EST If things had gone according to plan we would’ve seen The Conjuring 3, AKA The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, this year. But of course, things did not go according to plan in the year 2020, and now we have to wait until June 2021 before we can see the next chapter in The Conjuring Universe....

‘The Craft’ Reboot Summons David Duchovny To Play A Character Who Is Probably Not A Teen Witch By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 17, 2019 4:00 pm EST The Craft reboot has summoned up a new cast member: David Duchovny. Zoe Lister-Jones is writing and directing the remake of the 1996 horror favorite about a coven of high school witches, with Blumhouse producing. No word on who Duchovny might be playing, but I’m guessing he’s not one of the teen witches, because that would be weird....

‘The Death Of Dick Long’ Trailer Asks If You Want To Get Weird By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2019 3:00 pm EST Things get weird in the trailer for The Death of Dick Long, a new dark comedy from director Daniel Scheinert. Scheinert is one half of DANIELS, the filmmaking team responsible for Swiss Army Man, aka “the farting corpse movie.” Armed with that knowledge, you can safely assume Dick Long is going to be a bit off the wall....

‘The Godmother’: Jennifer Lopez Crime Drama Coming From ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Director And ‘The Departed’ Writer By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2020 11:30 am EST Jennifer Lopez is forever hustling for her next project. And maybe this one could finally land her that much-deserved Oscar. The Hustlers star is set to play the real-life Colombian drug lord Gridelda Blanco in The Godmother, a crime drama set to be helmed by The Handmaid’s Tale director Reed Morano and penned by The Departed screenwriter William Monahan....