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Exclusive ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Clip Gives Praise To Joe Pantoliano By Chris Evangelista/March 31, 2020 8:30 am EST Joe Pantoliano (or Joey Pants, as he’s known to some) is one of those legendary character actors who always elevates whatever role he’s playing, no matter how small. It’s just fun to watch him work. And one of his most memorable roles is that of Captain Howard, the perpetually anxious police captain in the Bad Boys franchise....

Josh Duhamel Boards Bank Heist Thriller ‘Bandit,’ A Feature From The Director Of That Viral ‘Uncharted’ Fan Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 2, 2020 5:30 pm EST Josh Duhamel is getting a brush with the wrong side of the law. The Think Like a Dog actor is boarding Bandit, which is being directed by Allan Ungar, the filmmaker behind that viral Uncharted fan film. This heist thriller follows the true-life exploits of an American bank robber who becomes Canada’s most wanted....

New ‘West Side Story’ Images Take You To The Streets With Steven Spielberg’s Musical Remake By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2020 1:00 pm EST One day there will come a time when we can all gather outside again in groups. And if you need help picturing what that might look like, look no further than these new West Side Story images. The pics have the cast out and about, dancing and leaping and clearly having a good time in the streets....

Superhero Bits: ‘Black Lightning’ Ending With Season 4, First ‘Ms. Marvel’ Set Photos & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 20, 2020 6:00 pm EST Why is Black Lightning ending with season four? How much did Detective Comics #27 recently land at an auction? Why is Ms. Marvel dressed as Captain Marvel in the show’s first set photos? Is Wonder Woman 1984 going to let Diana fly? Want to see a new photo of Joe Manganiello as Deathstroke?...

That Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Movie Is Still Coming, And Eva Longoria Will Direct It By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2019 4:30 pm EST If you’re not familiar with the story of Richard Montanez, he was just a janitor at the Frito-Lay snack company who could barely read or write when he came up with the idea for Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. One day at the factory where Cheetos are made, a batch of the crunchy cornmeal snack emerged without the traditional cheese dust on it....

The ‘Riddick 4’ Script Is Done, Just In Case Anyone Other Than Vin Diesel Wants To See It By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2019 5:00 pm EST Vin Diesel loves dropping news on his Instagram account, and his latest is a doozy. It appears the script for Riddick 4 actually exists, and to prove it, Diesel held the physical copy it. Titled Riddick 4: Furya, the script presumably brings back Diesel’s Pitch Black character for yet another adventure....

The Amazing And Timely True Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ By Amelia Emberwing/July 31, 2019 8:00 am EST Netflix’s The Red Sea Diving Resort is live on the streaming service today. We weren’t at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival to see the world premiere, but we do think that it’s important to take a look at the very real events that inspired the film before we take a look at Chris Evan’s first project after hanging up Captain America’s shield....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Mandalorian’ Becomes An Anime, ‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ Cast Reunion & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 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, see what the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian might look like if it were an anime series instead....

The Morning Watch: How ‘1917’ Was Made To Look Like A Single Shot, Breaking Down Dancing Scenes In Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 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....

The Real-Life ‘Conjuring’ House Will Be Live-Streamed For One Week By Chris Evangelista/April 29, 2020 5:00 pm EST Hey, do you want to spend a week in the real house from The Conjuring? Well, now you can – and you don’t even have to break quarantine. For one week in May, The Dark Zone Network is setting up a 24-7 live-stream of the real-life Conjuring house, located in American’s most terrifying state – Rhode Island!...

We’re Giving Away Two iTunes Downloads Of ‘The Night Clerk’, Starring Tye Sheridan And Ana De Armas By Ben Pearson/Feb. 17, 2020 12:30 pm EST Ana de Armas recently played a key role in Rian Johnson’s murder mystery Knives Out, but now she’s back in an entirely different type of part in a new murder mystery called The Night Clerk. We’re giving away two iTunes download codes for the film, which comes out this week and stars Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One, Dark Phoenix) as a hotel employee who gets tangled up in a bad situation....

Will Forte Says ‘MacGruber’ TV Series Will Keep Fans “Satisfied And Grossed Out Enough” By Ethan Anderton/March 2, 2020 9:30 am EST Earlier this year, MacGruber fans got the exciting news of America’s greatest hero returning with a TV series over at the NBCUniversal subscription streaming service Peacock. Will Forte will be back as the titular character, a raunchy parody of the resourceful, environmentally conscious 1980s TV character MacGyver, and we recently got a chance to catch up with the former Saturday Night Live cast member to talk about what fans can expect from the MacGruber TV series....

By Steven Prokopy/Aug. 19, 2019 1:00 pm EST Viveik Kalra is likely not a name you know, unless you happened to have seen the Sundance TV mini-series Next of Kin (he had a supporting role in it) or caught his other series Beecham House on PBS earlier this summer. But Kalra has been getting a great deal of acclaim since January when his film debut Blinded by the Light, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and quickly became a favorite among critics and audiences....

‘Emancipation’, Will Smith And Antoine Fuqua’s Slave Drama, Heads To Apple By Chris Evangelista/July 1, 2020 12:30 pm EST Apple has scored a huge win, beating out Warner Bros. for Emancipation, an Antoine Fuqua-directed action film starring Will Smith as a runaway slave. It’s another high-profile project for Apple, who also have the Tom Hanks World War II drama Greyhound arriving this year, and recently swooped in to help save Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 7, 2020 12:00 pm EST HBO Max will have to pivot to a new release date for the Friends reunion special — again. The highly-anticipated unscripted Friends reunion special, which is set to bring back the hit sitcom’s original cast members Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry, has reportedly been delayed yet again due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its impact on physical production....

By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 1, 2019 11:30 am EST Hunters Trailer I am here for the reemergence of Al Pacino. To be fair, Pacino never really went away. But a lot of the projects he’s been involved with over the last few years have been…not great. But things are starting to turn around. In the wake of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Irishman, he’s appearing in Hunters, created by David Weil and executive produced by Jordan Peele....

‘Songbird’, The Michael Bay-Produced Pandemic Thriller, Accused Of Not Following COVID Safety Protocols By Ben Pearson/Sept. 24, 2020 12:30 pm EST Songbird, a new thriller movie produced by Michael Bay which filmed in Los Angeles this summer, seems to have had a shaky journey through production. A recent article quotes a source from the film’s set, and the source accuses the movie of not following all of the proper COVID-19 safety protocols during its short 19-day shoot....

‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Hits CBS All Access This August; See Teaser Art Here By Ben Pearson/July 1, 2020 11:00 am EST Star Trek: Lower Decks isn’t the first animated Star Trek series, but it’s the first that was designed as an outright comedy – and now we know exactly when the sci-fi-tinged laughs will begin. CBS All Access has announced the show’s release date, and the streaming service has unveiled some new teaser art to boot....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Sets The Stage For The Tragedy Of ‘Revenge Of The Sith’ With “The Phantom Apprentice” By Caroline Cao/April 24, 2020 9:00 am EST The former Skywalker apprentice and the former acolyte of the Sith are finally face-to-face in Star Wars: The Clone Wars as part two of the Siege of Mandalore finale arc rages on. Directed by Nathaniel Villanueva, “The Phantom Apprentice” proceeds as a tragedy where the offstage—offscreen—action of Revenge of the Sith permeates the tensions, namely the prospective truths that will break the heart of Master Anakin Skywalker’s former apprentice, Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein)....

‘The Laundromat’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Delivers An Uneven But Undeniably Ambitious Slice Of Modern History [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 16, 2019 7:00 am EST It’s not exactly clear why there’s been such a boomlet in explanatory, often didactic, films about recent history. It can’t be merely a reaction to the anti-intellectualism of Trump because films like The Big Short predated his rise. Perhaps it’s a response to our information-saturated culture and a need to cut through the volume of digital noise....