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‘The Batman’ Set To Resume Production In September By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2020 1:30 pm EST It’s a good thing we found a way to defeat the coronavirus and things can now get back to normal! Huh..? What’s that? The coronavirus is still around? Well, uh…anyway, The Batman is going to resume production next month! Warner Bros. latest take on the Caped Crusader, this time starring Robert Pattinson and directed by Matt Reeves, halted production in March but will now pick back up again in the U....

‘The Lighthouse’ Director Robert Eggers On The Horrors Of New England And Giving The Audience Permission To Laugh [Interview] By Jacob Hall/Nov. 8, 2019 8:00 am EST With The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers has created one of the best, and weirdest, movies of 2019. His follow-up to The Witch is a tale of supernatural New England horror, a dizzying descent into paranoia and debauchery, and a filthy comedy about what it’s like to share a small space with the roommate from hell....

Part 3: The War On Terror – War of the Worlds and Munich Is It The Terrorists? “Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us.“On September 11, 2001, real life became a disaster movie, with images splashed across TV that previously only existed in big blockbusters – buildings toppled as people fled through the streets in terror, chased by tidal-waves of smoke....

B-Movie Kings Gerard Butler And Frank Grillo Are Combining Their Powers For The Joe Carnahan-Directed Thriller ‘Copshop’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 2, 2020 1:00 pm EST Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo, the leading men of our dirtbag cinema dreams, are teaming up for the ultimate in B-movie action thrillers: a crime thriller directed by The Grey filmmaker Joe Carnahan titled Copshop. Deadline reports that Butler and Grillo are set to lead Joe Carnahan’s action thriller Copshop, which takes place in a small-town police station that “becomes the unlikely battleground between a professional hitman (Butler), a smart rookie female cop, and a double-crossing con man (Grillo) who seeks refuge behind bars with no place left to run....

Now Scream This: Can You Survive These Killer Animal Movies? By /Film Staff/July 18, 2019 8:00 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: With Crawl in theaters, Chris and I have an easy thematic narrative this week: When Animals Attack! Who doesn’t love a right turning of the tides when Mother Nature’s kingdom punishes humanity?...

Peacock Reveals Trailers For ‘Brave New World,’ ‘Psych 2,’ And More Upcoming Originals By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 25, 2020 4:30 pm EST Peacock released a slew of new trailers for its initial slate of Peacock Originals premiering when the new streaming service launches this summer. Among these original movies and shows include an adaptation of the Aldous Huxley dystopian classic Brave New World starring Alden Ehrenreich and Demi Moore, a feature film sequel to the beloved comedy series Psych, and more....

STX Sets Up ‘Fast And Loose’ With ‘The Meg’ Writers And ‘Hobbs & Shaw’s David Leitch By Ben Pearson/April 28, 2020 4:00 pm EST Deadline reports that STX Entertainment and 87North are developing Fast and Loose, an action mystery/thriller from writers Jon and Erich Hoeber (The Meg, Red, Red 2). Here’s the description of the plot: Sounds like a mix of True Lies and Crank – so naturally, we’re extremely intrigued....

Superhero Bits: New Batman Game May Be Announced Soon, Spider-Man 3 May Shoot In September & More By Ethan Anderton/June 30, 2020 6:00 pm EST Are you glad Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy will be staying together if there’s a third season of Harley Quinn? Will a new Batman video game be announced at DC FanDome in August? Will Spider-Man 3 be starting production in September? Which Marvel Comics movies will be part of Disney+’s summer movie nights?...

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To HBO Max In January 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 28, 2020 4:00 pm EST A new year, a new list of movies coming to HBO Max, the WarnerMedia streaming service that is finally living up to its potential to be a one-stop shop for all things DC Comics. Because amid all the prestige dramas and stone-cold classics, there has been, until now, a lack of the beloved DC animated shows that aired during the ’90s and early 2000s....

The Original ‘The Lion King’ Animators Have “Huge Resentment” Of Disney’s Remake By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2019 2:00 pm EST The Lion King remake has already made over $1 billion worldwide, and it hasn’t even been in theaters for two weeks. That means Disney will likely be remaking their classic animated movies for years to come, for better or worse. And if you ask the animators behind the original 2D versions of those movies, it’s undoubtedly worse....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Braven’ Is A B-Action Movie Where Jason Momoa’s Lumberjack Fights Drug Dealers By Jacob Hall/May 24, 2020 10:00 am EST Ah, okay. You need a little bit more. Got it. Braven is about Joe Braven (Momoa), a blue collar family man whose wife teaches archery classes, whose daughter is a precocious young moppet, and whose father (the great Stephen Lang) is a warm, tough SOB who is slowly losing his mind to dementia....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Red Shoes’ Is Technicolor Passion Come To Life By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 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 Red ShoesWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Aspiring ballerina Vicky Page (Moira Shearer, in her feature debut) catches the eye of ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), who chooses her as his next muse after his prima ballerina quits his ballet company to get married....

‘Antebellum’ Trailer: Janelle Monáe Seems To Be Unwillingly Traveling Through Time By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2020 7:30 am EST The high concept horror thriller Antebellum was pushed back by Lionsgate from the initially planned April release due to the closure of movie theaters around the world. But now that business is starting to resume, and movie theaters could possibly be opening in July, the studio has the movie back on track for a release in August, and they’ve unveiled a new trailer....

‘Becoming’ First Look: Netflix Goes On Tour With Michelle Obama By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2020 4:30 pm EST Michelle Obama is the subject of Netflix’s Becoming, a new documentary that promises an intimate look into the former First Lady’s life. Instead of a normal trailer, Netflix has released a first look that shows a scene from the doc, where Mrs. Obama says, “So little of who I am happened in those eight years [that Barack Obama was president], so much more of who I was…happened before....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: “Bad Choice Road” Is Almost Unbearably Tense By Chris Evangelista/April 14, 2020 8:00 am EST This week on Better Call Saul: Jimmy returns! Kim quits! Lalo heads south of the border! Mike and Gus have a talk! Things get almost unbearably tense! Mike After last week’s phenomenal episode, Better Call Saul doesn’t even let viewers catch their breath. As the season comes near its end, things are growing almost unbearably tense, with seemingly all our players pushed to the edge....

‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’ Featurette Takes You Behind The Scenes With The Excellent Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2020 3:00 pm EST There’s less than a week left until we can see Bill & Ted Face the Music. The long-awaited sequel finally arrives via On Demand and limited theatrical release next week, and to ramp up excitement for the feel-good sci-fi comedy, Orion Pictures has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette that gives the spotlight to the excellent cast led by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves....

‘Dune’ Release Pushed To October 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 5, 2020 1:00 pm EST The bad news for movie theaters in 2020 continues as Dune, Denis Villeneueve’s star-studded sci-fi epic, vacates its December 2020 release date and moves to October of next year. Dune joins an ever-growing number of big movies that have been pushed into next year due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. For now, Warner Bros. will hang their 2020 winter box office hopes on Wonder Woman 1984, which is still set to open on December 25....

/Filmcast Ep. 519 - Aladdin (GUEST: Aisha Harris From The New York Times) By Slashfilmcast/May 29, 2019 7:00 pm EST When Devindra is away, David and Jeff come out to watch the latest Disney live-action Aladdin. Together with Aisha Harris from the New York Times, the cast find out whether the remake live up to the original 1992 version. Read Aisha Harris’s article in the New York Times on why the reiteration doesn’t make Disney more progressive, and Anisa Khalifa’s blog post on why the casting can’t solve its flawed foundations....

‘Stargirl’ Trailer: The Best-Selling Coming-Of-Age Story Is Coming To Disney+ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2020 10:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Not to be confused with the forthcoming DC Universe superhero series of the same name, Stargirl is a new Disney+ original movie adapted from Jerry Spinelli’s New York Times best-selling novel. The coming-of-age tale follows an introverted young man named Leo Borlock (Graham Verchere) who likes flying under the radar....

‘The Hawkline Monster’ Will Be A Gothic Western From ‘The Favourite’ Director Yorgos Lanthimos By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 17, 2019 6:00 pm EST The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos has a new project lined up, and it sounds amazing. Lanthimos is in talks to direct The Hawkline Monster, a gothic western based on the novel by Richard Brautigan. The story concerns two gunslingers who are hired by a young girl to kill a monster, and both Hal Ashby and Tim Burton both attempted to adapt the book to film in the past....