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Video: Main Street Electrical Parade 2019: The BEST Disneyland Parade Is BACK! By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2019 11:20 am EST Disneyland opened the vault and unleashed the Main Street Electrical Parade. Watch as Kitra and Peter watch one of Disneyland’s most iconic parades return to Walt’s original magic kingdom! We are there for the opening day — August 2, 2019, so we also check out all of the limited time Main Street Electrical Parade 2019 merchandise and food options and pop into Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge (because, why not?...

Video: Trying To CRASH The Millennium Falcon In ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2019 11:00 am EST Last month we ran an experiment to see what would happen if you rode the Millenium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run attraction in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge without touching a button or controlling the steering. The result was one of our most popular videos, and you can watch that here. We have returned to Batuu to run another experiment, this time we are trying to crash the Millenium Falcon....

What It’s Like To Attend A 24-Hour ‘Star Wars’ Movie Marathon By Vanessa Armstrong/Dec. 24, 2019 12:00 pm EST I’ve done long movie marathons before; horrifically long ones that lasted more than 30 hours, in fact (and you can read about that Marvel marathon here). So when the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood partnered again with Nerdist to host a 24-hour Star Wars marathon, I eagerly signed up. I was a pro at this, I told myself....

‘Ad Astra’ Clip: Brad Pitt Fights Space Pirates On The Moon By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2019 5:00 pm EST Ad Astra Clip The scene begins with Roy (Pitt) landing on a massive moon base that functions as a sort of waystation for the astronaut as he heads on a mission to find his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones). But soon after he suits up to take drive on the moon, with his team marveling at the beautiful shot of Earth looming from a distance, their tranquil moon rover trip is interrupted when they’re attacked by space pirates....

‘Ava’ Trailer: Watch Jessica Chastain Beat The Crap Out Of Colin Farrell By Chris Evangelista/June 24, 2020 4:00 pm EST If you ever wanted to see Jessica Chastain beat the crap out of Colin Farrell and get yelled at by John Malkovich, today is your lucky day. In Ava, Chastain plays a deadly assassin who has to fight for her own survival when a job goes wrong. This isn’t exactly ground-breaking in terms of plotting, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all have fun watching Jessica Chastain pummel people who get in her way....

‘Black Christmas’ Trailer: You Messed With The Wrong Sisters By Ben Pearson/Sept. 5, 2019 10:00 am EST We’ve already seen two versions of the holiday horror film Black Christmas: Bob Clark’s low-budget 1974 original cult classic, and Glen Morgan’s slicker, more expensive remake in 2006. But now the story of a group of sorority sisters terrorized by a serial killer during the holidays is getting a woman’s touch: Sophia Takal (Always Shine) is directing another remake for Blumhouse that puts a new spin on the familiar story....

/Filmcast Ep. 571 - The King Of Staten Island By Slashfilmcast/June 16, 2020 8:00 pm EST Devindra gets ready for a big move across the country amid the pandemic. David watches The Great while Jeff checks out Hannah Gadsby: Douglas. For the feature review, the cast reluctantly rent The King of Staten Island, the newest Judd Apatow movie starring SNL member Pete Davidson. Read Jesse David Fox’s piece about whether we should take Dave Chappelle seriously....

‘Frozen II’ Makes It Official – Modern Disney Animation Has A Villain Problem By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 25, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: why do modern Disney movie villains stink?)Early in the new Walt Disney Animation Studios film Frozen II, our main quintet of characters plays a friendly game of charades. Queen Elsa of Arendelle, her goofy sister Princess Anna, their living-snowman pal Olaf, the ice-salesman himbo Kristoff and his reindeer Sven are just relaxing in the castle, with Anna trying to get the others to guess a challenging clue....

‘Guns Akimbo’ Will Still Be Released Despite Director’s Twitter Harassment Of Writers Of Color By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 25, 2020 10:30 am EST Over the weekend, the release of Guns Akimbo was put into question after its director Jason Lei Howden launched a vicious Twitter harassment campaign that appeared to target female writers of color. But despite widespread criticism of Howden’s behavior, which sparked verbal attacks and death threats against the writers he targeted, distributor Saban Films confirmed that they still intend to release Guns Akimbo this week as planned....

‘High Fidelity’ Season 2 Would Have Focused On Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Cherise By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 27, 2020 3:30 pm EST Once Rob (Zoe Kravitz) finished counting down her Top 5 Heartbreaks in Hulu’s High Fidelity series, what else would there be to explore? Future seasons planned to take the focus away from Kravitz’s lead character and turn it to other scene-stealing supporting characters, according to a new report that gave details on what a High Fidelity season 2 would’ve looked like had it not been unceremoniously canceled by Hulu after one (critically praised) season....

‘His Dark Materials’ Dramatically Expands Its World(s) With “The Idea Of The North” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 11, 2019 7:00 pm EST I’m not usually one to encourage people to stick around with a show because “it gets good later!” But if newcomers to His Dark Materials were uncertain about this series after the intriguing but confusing first episode, then the second episode may be the one to hook them. Not that “The Idea of the North” is any less mystifying or provides any more answers to the many mysteries that it’s juggling....

‘One Day At Disney’ Documentary Follows A Day In The Life Of People At Disney Around The Globe; Watch The Trailer [D23] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2019 6:36 pm EST Disney announced at this year’s D23 Expo that its much buzzed-about secret project is a Disney+ documentary project offering an inside look at the day-to-day lives of cast members at the Walt Disney Company across the world. Titled One Day at Disney, the project is a special documentary series that will kick off with a feature film and be accompanied by a hardcover book currently available for pre-order at D23....

‘Orphan’ Prequel Bringing Back Original Star Isabelle Fuhrman By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 2, 2020 4:30 pm EST Earlier in the year – back when we were all so naive and innocent – word broke that a prequel to Jaume Collet-Serra’s horror-thriller Orphan called Esther was in the works. That was weird enough news on its own, but now, it just got a little weirder. Because Isabelle Fuhrman, who played Esther in the first film, is returning....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Clip To Debut On Fortnite, Which Now Has Rey And Finn Skins By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 13, 2019 11:30 am EST In just a few years, the online video game Fortnite has become a pop culture titan, influencing how kids do embarrassing viral dances and how we see our new Star Wars clips. J.J. Abrams announced at last night’s Game Awards that a new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker clips will debut exclusively on Epic’s online shooter game, just after two new Star Wars Fortnite skins were unveiled at the game’s item shop....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Review: The Presence Of The Force Grows In “The Relic Raiders” By Caroline Cao/Nov. 17, 2019 4:00 pm EST “The Relic Raiders” is the first Star Wars Resistance episode to directly engage in the Force. For the majority of Resistance, the Force itself has been virtually non-existent as an explicit presence, despite exploration of its vacated worship sites and references to practitioners like the Knight of Ren and Jedi....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2020 5:30 pm EST Sinister team C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson are ready to answer The Black Phone. The pair will adapt the short story by Joe Hill into a feature film for Blumhouse, with Derrickson directing a script he co-wrote with Cargill. Mason Thames (For All Mankind) and Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4, Secrets of Sulphur Springs) are set to star in the adaptation, which tells the story of a kidnapped boy who receives a ghostly call on the broken phone located in the basement where he’s being held captive....

‘The Mandalorian’ Broke The ‘Stranger Things’ Streak As The Most In-Demand Streaming Series By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 26, 2019 2:00 pm EST Even if you haven’t seen Stranger Things, you probably know the Netflix series is one of the most popular streaming original shows on the market. But this week, the Disney+ original series The Mandalorian finally surpassed the series as the most in-demand original streaming show in the United States, breaking a streak of 21 weeks....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Has Robert Rodriguez Directing At Least One Episode By Ethan Anderton/March 21, 2020 12:00 pm EST Not too long ago, there was an unsubstantiated rumor going around that Logan director James Mangold and Alita: Battle Angel director Robert Rodriguez would be directing episodes in the second season of the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian. However, since James Mangold flat out debunked the story and Robert Rodriguez never said a thing, it didn’t sound like any of it was true....

By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2020 8:30 am EST Countless movies and television shows were forced to shut down indefinitely last month as the coronavirus pandemic started to become a larger concern across the globe. That means movies that were in production and had previously set release dates towards the end of the year and even through 2021 may not meet their expected deadlines. But when it comes to two forthcoming comic book blockbusters, their timeline might not be impacted at all....

‘WandaVision’ Clip: The Unusual Couple Tries To Figure Out The Significance Of A Special Date By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2021 9:30 am EST In just a few days, WandaVision will become the first Disney+ series from Marvel Studios to take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In fact, it’s the beginning of a whole new era for the interconnected comic book franchise that saw its core storyline come to an end with Avengers: Endgame in 2019....