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‘Snake Eyes’ Adds Samara Weaving As ‘G.I. Joe’ Character Scarlett By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 14, 2019 3:00 pm EST G.I. Joe spin-off Snake Eyes continues to add surprisingly impressive cast members. Samara Weaving, the breakout star of this summer’s Ready or Not, is the latest addition to the Snake Eyes cast, set to play G.I. Joe team member Scarlett. Weaving joins a cast that already includes Henry Golding, Haruka Abe, Ursula Corbero, Iko Uwais, and Andrew Koji....

Spider-Man Far From Home Extended Clip Don’t pay attention to what the title of this video says: This is a full 10-minute clip from Spider-Man: Far From Home that shows Peter Parker getting recruited (aka kidnapped) by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) while on his European class vacation. Fury brings Peter in to meet Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), a noble-browed superhero who has come to save our Earth after his world was destroyed....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2020 5:30 pm EST Cate Blanchett is headed to Netflix. Stateless, a six-part drama that Blanchett co-created and stars in, was just picked up by the streaming service. Stateless follows four characters – “an airline hostess, an Afghan refugee, a young father of three and an ambitious bureaucrat” – in one of Australia’s immigration detention centers.THR says that Netflix just scooped up the worldwide rights to Stateless, a new Australian show featuring Cate Blanchett....

‘The Banker’ Review: Apple’s New Movie Is Strangely Inert And Lifeless By Josh Spiegel/March 6, 2020 11:00 am EST The new based-on-a-true-story drama The Banker inspires a reference to the charming political-fantasy sitcom Parks and Recreation, and its line about something having “the cadence of a joke”. The Banker has the cadence of a movie. It’s 120 minutes long — ah yes, a standard feature-length runtime. Its stars are now best known for their work in franchise fare — OK, they’re taking a break from action movies!...

‘The Big Fix-Up’ Clip: Wallace & Gromit Go On Their First Augmented Reality Adventure This Fall By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 27, 2020 3:30 pm EST The clumsy inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit have been gracing our screens for more than 30 years. Aardman Animation’s crowning achievement, Wallace & Gromit feel like it’s been a part of our cultural landscape forever, due in part to the unchanging stop-motion animation and the classic slapstick situations the duo put themselves in....

‘The Blacklist’ Season Finale Will Be A Live-Action/Animation Hybrid By Chris Evangelista/May 14, 2020 2:45 pm EST The Blacklist, a show that managed to last longer than I realized, is about to air its seventh season finale – in a surprising way. The episode was only halfway done shooting when production had to shut down due to the coronavirus, and rather than wait to finish filming it, a creative solution was employed: animation....

‘The Boondocks’ Revival Heading To HBO Max In The Fall Of 2020, All Original Episodes Coming Too By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2019 9:30 am EST At the beginning of the summer, we reported on Sony Pictures Animation expanding their scope to include international stories and alternative animated projects geared towards adults. One of those projects included a revival of the Adult Swim series The Boondocks, but unlike the original run of the series, the revival won’t be heading to cable....

‘The Witches’ Video: Anne Hathaway Teaches You How To Spot A Witch, Unveils New Footage By Ben Pearson/Oct. 15, 2020 4:30 pm EST What do you get when you take three of Hollywood’s most creative minds – Robert Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro, and Kenya Barris – and set them loose on an adaptation of a Roald Dahl novel? Answer: The Witches, Zemeckis’s upcoming take on the story of a boy who discovers a conference of witches staying at a hotel and is subsequently transformed into a mouse....

By Jacob Hall/May 8, 2020 1:40 pm EST Well, you can’t make a show about a Mandalorian without including the most famous guy to ever wear the armor. Famed bounty Boba Fett, who was killed-off in Return of the Jedi but grew incredibly popular in the decades since due to appearances in novels, comics, and video games, will play a role in season 2 of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. And in a piece of casting that will bring a smile to the face of anyone who appreciates continuity, he’ll be played by Temuera Morrison, who took on the role of Jango Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones....

Cool Stuff: Go Go ‘Inspector Gadget’ Action Figures From The 1980s Animated Series By Ethan Anderton/June 22, 2020 6:00 am EST Inspector Gadget first arrived on television back in 1983 in the form of an animated series. The titular detective armed with an endless variety of high-tech gadgets is always out to stop the organization Mad and their relentless, mysterious leader Dr. Claw. Now Inspector Gadget is getting the ultimate action figure treatment from Blitzway with a deluxe set that also includes his brilliant niece Penny, the helpful dog Brain, and the stealthy Chief Quimby....

David Fincher’s ‘Mank’: Here’s Who’s Playing Who In This Screenwriter Biopic By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 25, 2019 4:30 pm EST After a long hiatus from feature filmmaking, David Fincher has decided to head back to the movies with Mank, a biopic of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. We already know that Gary Oldman is playing Mankiewicz, but what about the rest of the cast, which includes Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, and more?...

Martin Scorsese Doesn’t Like Superhero Movies And The Internet Is Really Mad About It By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 4, 2019 11:30 am EST There was a time when superheroes and comic books strictly belonged to the fringes. No more. We’re now in a landscape where studios are oversaturated with superhero movies. Where the mid-budget movie is extinct, and where comic book adaptations reign supreme. So what does Martin Scorsese, one of our greatest living filmmakers, think about all of this?...

More ‘Borat 2’ Plot Details Revealed: The Film Will Address Trump And Jeffrey Epstein’s Relationship By Ben Pearson/Sept. 9, 2020 11:30 am EST Last night, word broke that Borat 2 has already been completed and screened for a small group of people in the film industry. Details were slim, but the original report stated that “Borat is no longer the little-known Kazakh TV personality he played in the original 2006 movie....

Rotten Tomatoes Has Added Over 600 Critics, Expanding Diversity In Voices And Media Platforms By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 2019 3:00 pm EST Exactly one year ago, Rotten Tomatoes announced they would be adding new critics that would be part of their Tomatometer rating system, focusing on the inclusion of more diverse voices in criticism. Today the entertainment rating aggregation website announced they’ve added over 600 critics in the past year, adding more women, critics of color, and content creators from outside of the traditional channels of entertainment criticism....

Satoshi Kon’s ‘Tokyo Godfathers’ Is Returning To Theaters 10 Years After The Anime Master’s Death By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 12, 2020 9:00 am EST While it’s a bit late to be a Christmas present, GKIDS is bringing back Satoshi Kon’s anime classic (and all-time great Christmas movie) Tokyo Godfathers to theaters for a limited time. The Tokyo Godfathers theatrical re-release comes as the venerated anime director is soon to be rewarded a posthumous Winsor McCay Award at the upcoming 2020 Annie Awards for lifetime achievement in animation....

The 100 Best Movies Of The Decade [Part Two] By /Film Staff/Dec. 17, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to /Film’s countdown of The 100 Best Movies of the Decade, examining the absolute best movies that were released between 2010 and 2019. This is part two of a five-part series and part of our Best of the Decade series.) Last week, the /Film team sat down for an extended two-part podcast to narrow down the 100 best films of the past decade....

The Clock Tower: ‘Supergirl’ Celebrates Its 100th Episode By Amelia Emberwing/March 2, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.)It was a big week for our heroes, both on-screen and off....

The Clock Tower: Let’s Talk About The Amazing Women Of The Arrowverse By Amelia Emberwing/March 9, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.)It was Super Tuesday last week, which means all of the Arrowverse took a little mini-hiatus while folks around the United States headed to the polls....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Belushi’ Is An Intimate, Moving Portrait Of The Comedian’s Life And Demons By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2021 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: BelushiWhere You Can Stream It: ShowtimeThe Pitch: A feature documentary from award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler about the too-short life of John Belushi, the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny-bones of audiences worldwide....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Underwater’ May Be Derivative, But It Sure Is Fun By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 6, 2021 7:00 am EST The movie release landscape is a bit of a mess right now, but back in the old days, whenever a studio lacked faith in a film, they would dump it into theaters in January. As a result, multiplexes became wastelands at the start of the year, with studios pushing out their leftover titles – the type of titles doomed to fail, financially....