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This Week In Trailers: World Of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations Of David Prime, Apocalypse ‘45, Alone, John Was Trying To Contact Aliens, Space Sweepers By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 8, 2020 9:00 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?...

UPDATE: ‘Mulan’ Confirmed To Be Available To All Disney+ Subscribers Without A Premium Price In December By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 2020 6:45 am EST Disney’s Mulan was one of the first movies to have its theatrical release delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, five months later, the film is finally getting released, but it won’t be arriving in theaters in the United States. Instead, Disney+ will be offering Mulan as an additional premium VOD purchase through their new “Premier Access” section this week....

Video: Universal Hollywood’s ‘Jurassic World’ Launches New Encounters With Baby Raptors & Triceratops… Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong, Right? By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2019 9:30 am EST Universal Studios Hollywood is gearing up for the grand opening of Jurassic World: The Ride and has launched a bunch of new dinosaur meet and greet experiences. A triceratops and a baby raptor join the upgraded Raptor Encounter experience. Watch as we adventure to Jurassic World and come in close contact with these three dinosaur encounters....

We Watched Gorgeous And Gripping First Episode Of ‘The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance’, And Our Jaws Are Still On The Floor [Comic-Con 2019] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 19, 2019 7:46 pm EST Netflix isn’t immune to Hollywood’s obsession with digging back into the past for a dose of nostalgia in their entertainment line-up. This time they’re reaching into cult territory with a revival of The Dark Crystal, the fantasy adventure film from Jim Henson that fascinated audiences in 1982 and continues to be a retro favorite for many cinephiles....

With The Removal Of An Historic Court Ruling, The Movie Landscape As We Know It Might Change Forever By Ben Pearson/Nov. 18, 2019 3:30 pm EST According to the Wall Street Journal, the Justice Department is moving to completely wipe out the Paramount consent decrees, a ruling which, for the past 70 years, has regulated how movie studios distribute films to movie theaters. If those decrees are indeed overturned (and it looks like they will be), it could have devastating consequences to the theater industry as we know it, and the entire movie landscape could shift as a result....

‘Adventure Time: Distant Lands’ Clip: BMO Sings About The Potatoes And The Mysteries Of The Universe By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2020 3:00 pm EST Like any other sentient video game console floating through space, when faced with the unexplainable mysteries of the universe, BMO will….sing a song! The Adventure Time fan-favorite gets the spotlight in the first clip from Adventure Time: Distant Lands, the series of four original special episodes set to debut on HBO Max this month....

‘Artemis Fowl’ Brings The Heist Movie To The Children’s Fantasy Genre [Set Visit Report] By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 19, 2020 9:00 am EST The prevailing magic of children’s fantasy stories is seeing our intrepid heroes come of age in the most fantastical of situations. They enter this strange world timid, unsure, and insecure, and emerge from it a changed, emboldened hero. But Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl gave us a different kind of hero....

‘Doctor Strange 2’ Sends ‘Baby-Sitters Club’ Star Xochitl Gomez To The ‘Multiverse Of Madness’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2020 9:35 am EST The Doctor Strange 2 cast is growing. Xochitl Gomez, who recently appeared on Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club, has joined the Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness cast. Who is she playing? We have no idea! Like the Multiverse of Madness itself, this is a story shrouded in mystery....

‘Endings, Beginnings’ Trailer: Shailene Woodley Is Torn Between Two Similar-Looking Bearded Brunette Men By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2020 6:00 pm EST In Endings, Beginnings, star Shailene Woodley faces a dilemma that many a young woman struggle with: being caught in a love triangle between two similar-looking bearded brunette men. It’s hard to tell where Jamie Dornan and Sebastian Stan begin in Endings, Beginnings, a dimly lit, naturally acted new romantic drama from director Drake Doremus about a woman trying to get her life back on track after a bad break-up....

Green Eggs and Ham Trailer It’s not enough anymore for Dr. Seuss stories to be remembered fondly as short and sweet fables that teach us about love or the environment. Now we must have the Dr. Seuss-verse (Seusseniverse?) with Netflix’s expansion of the “world” of Green Eggs & Ham. Created and executive produced by animation veteran Jared Stern, Green Eggs & Ham follows picky eater Guy Am I and eggs and ham-lover Sam I Am as they go on a road trip to rescue an endangered creature from a zoo....

‘His Dark Materials’ Season 3 Is Already In The Works By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 5, 2020 1:00 pm EST His Dark Materials has yet to debut its sophomore season, but the team behind the epic fantasy-adventure series is already hard at work on season 3. Executive producer Joel Collins teased that His Dark Materials season 3 is already in the works, and seeing as it adapts the most ambitious and lavish book of Philip Pullman’s trilogy, they’re going to need all the time they can get....

‘Homecoming’ Season 2 Review: A Strong Cast Mostly Makes Up For A Muddled Season By Chris Evangelista/May 21, 2020 9:00 am EST In an overstuffed TV landscape, Homecoming season 1 felt like something special. Not only was it engrossing, quickly hooking you with its mysteries, but it also stood out from the crowd thanks to its unique visual style – employing different aspect ratios to better illustrate time differences – and the way it employed music cues from films like All the President’s Men, Klute, Body Double, and many more....

‘Japan Sinks: 2020’ Trailer: A New Sci-Fi Disaster Anime From The Creator Of ‘Devilman Crybaby’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 29, 2020 1:30 pm EST Masaaki Yuasa is one of the hardest working filmmakers in the anime industry right now. On top of directing hit anime series like Devilman Crybaby and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, he’s also made time to helm artful, critically acclaimed films like The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, and Ride Your Wave....

‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Trailer: Reese Witherspoon And Kerry Washington Face Off By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 20, 2020 4:00 pm EST Reese Witherspoon is trading Big Little Lies for Little Fires Everywhere, a Hulu limited series adaptation of Celeste Ng’s domestic drama book of the same name. And those fires seem to be quite literal, if not so little, as the Little Fires Everywhere trailer shows, opening with a scene of Witherspoon standing in front of her mansion engulfed in flames....

‘Little Women’ Clip: Florence Pugh Schools Timothée Chalamet On Love By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2019 4:30 pm EST Amy March is probably one of the most hated characters in literary history. The youngest of the March sisters who come of age during the Civil War in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Amy was always a little bratty, a little spoiled, a little too typical of the kind of feminine girls that young female readers always abhorred....

‘Mulan’ Early Buzz: One Of The Best Disney Live-Action Remakes Yet By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 10, 2020 7:30 am EST Let’s get down to business: what did critics think of Mulan? Well, their praise for Niki Caro’s live-action remake of the beloved 1998 animated classic is as swift as a coursing river, with many calling it one of the best Disney live-action remakes yet. Here are the Mulan early buzz reactions. Mulan, which stars Liu Yifei in the title role, is quite a departure from the usual Disney remake formula, with no musical sequences and not a wacky sidekick in sight....

‘Songbird’ Early Buzz: The First COVID-19 Movie Apparently Wasn’t Worth Shooting During A Pandemic By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2020 5:00 pm EST Before it was even slated for release, the Michael Bay-produced, COVID-19-inspired pandemic thriller Songbird was already stirring up controversy. Apparently during the production, which unfolded in the midst of the pandemic, the crew was ignoring important safety protocols to help control the spread of coronavirus. Was it worth the trouble?...

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Sequel Would Have Brought Back Mackenzie Davis From An Alternate Timeline By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2020 11:00 am EST Terminator: Dark Fate made a valiant effort to properly reboot the Terminator franchise by sending it off in a fresh direction while still having ties to the the original continuity after Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It essentially gave the Terminator franchise the same treatment that The Force Awakens did for Star Wars, complete with the return of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, a new Terminator played by Gabriel Luna, Mackenzie Davis as a cybernetically enhanced resistance fighter from the future, and a new take on the John Connor formulua in the form of Daniella (Natalia Reyes), the new savior of the future war between humans and technology....

‘The Current War: Director’s Cut’ Review: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Historical Drama Gets A Second Chance By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 22, 2019 12:00 pm EST The Current War had its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival back in 2017. The reaction from the audience in attendance: considerably mixed, bordering on mostly negative. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon understood where this was coming from: he wasn’t happy with the film, either. The filmmaker had been rushed to finish the film in time for TIFF and delivered a cut he was unhappy with....

‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 Is Being Rewritten To Factor In The Pandemic By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2020 5:00 pm EST AppleTV+ made headlines when it cast Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell in its original series The Morning Show. It continued to draw attention all throughout its first season, whether it was for the inclusion of a #MeToo subplot or how critics seemed to slowly rally around the show as it raced toward its finale....