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‘Critical Thinking’ Review: John Leguizamo Turns Inner-City Teens Into Chess Champs In This Powerful, Inspiring Drama By Ethan Anderton/March 21, 2020 3:00 pm EST There are plenty of movies where inner-city kids with troubled lives get inspired by their teachers. But you’ve never seen one like Critical Thinking, which takes that formula and puts a different kind of intellectual twist on it by focusing on a group of Black and Latinx kids in 1998 who were determined to become national chess champions....

‘Demolition Man’ Sequel In Development, According To Sylvester Stallone By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2020 10:30 am EST It’s been 27 years since the sci-fi action movie Demolition Man was released in theaters. And because nostalgia keeps injecting new life into old movies, it sounds like Sylvester Stallone will be back in action for a sequel. In a recent Q&A conducted through the actor’s Instagram account, the aging action star revealed that a Demolition Man sequel is currently in development at Warner Bros....

‘Enemies Of The State’ Review: A Conspiracy Theory Becomes A Family Affair [TIFF] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST We live in a time that fetishizes a post-truth. In our post-fact world, suspicion of institutions is at an all time high, and citizens on both left and right find ways to pretzel themselves into believing in grand conspiracies as the mundane facts of incompetence and hubris feel too constrained for the magnitude of our society’s problems....

/Filmcast Ep. 551 - Little Women (GUEST: Melissa Tamminga From Seattle Screen Scene) By Slashfilmcast/Jan. 21, 2020 10:00 am EST David goes to Hollywood and meets a very culturally relevant character. For the feature review, the cast plus Melissa Tamminga, writer for @SeattleScreen, discuss Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, the latest reincarnation of the beloved story. Thanks to our sponsor this week: Pretty litter, Lightstream, Quip Go to prettylitter.com and use the code FILMCAST for 20% off your first order Visit to lightstream....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Story “Feeds Into The Possibility” Of More Sequels, According To Dan Aykroyd By Ethan Anderton/June 25, 2020 8:30 am EST When the Ghostbusters cast and filmmakers reunited on Josh Gad’s web series Reunited Apart, there was a little confusion about something Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman said during their chat. Many thought the filmmaker was revealing another sequel was already in development, but it was just an out of context quote that got misconstrued....

‘Green Lantern’ TV Series Flies To HBO Max, Plot Details Revealed By Ben Pearson/Oct. 9, 2020 11:00 am EST HBO Max is about to go green. A new report says that after a year of development, a Green Lantern show based on the popular, ring-wearing DC Comics character has officially received the greenlight at the streaming service. Fear not: this won’t be a show about just one character who has the mantle – instead, it will introduce “a multitude of Lanterns” into the action....

‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Reveals Major Connection To ‘The Force Awakens’ Character By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2020 8:00 am EST Star Wars: The High Republic, a series of books and comics set 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace, promises to go back even further than a long time ago, in a galaxy far away. And yet, despite its 200-year separation from the events of the Skywalker Saga, there are still major ties between the beloved films and the forthcoming series....

‘The Farewell’: Writer/Director Lulu Wang On Committing To Her Vision, The Power Of Saying “No”, And More [Interview] By David Chen/July 19, 2019 8:00 am EST Lulu Wang’s The Farewell tells the story of Billi, a Chinese-American artist who discovers that her grandmother is dying of cancer. Her initial distress intensifies when she realizes that her family has no intention to tell grandma about the diagnosis, although they do schedule a mock wedding so the family can have one big get-together to say goodbye....

‘The Legend Of Halloween’ Book: David Gordon Green Wrote An Illustrated Version Of The 1978 John Carpenter Classic By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2020 11:00 am EST What if someone took John Carpenter’s iconic horror film Halloween and reworked it into an illustrated storybook? You’d get The Legend of Halloween, a new book from Further Front Publishing written by Halloween 2018 director David Gordon Green and Onur Tukel (who also illustrated). The results are kind of adorable, and while some may take issue with seeing Michael “The Shape” Myers being reduced to a cute illustrated character, it’s no worse than watching him kung-fu fight Busta Rhymes in Halloween: Resurrection....

‘The Lodge’ Review: The Next Great Horror Film Is Here, And It’s Terrifying [Sundance] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 28, 2019 1:30 pm EST It seems like every year, we get at least one film heralded as “the next great horror movie.” Sometimes, that assessment is overblown. But sometimes, it’s spot-on. This year’s next great horror film is The Lodge, and I am entirely confident in that assessment. It’s going to be nearly impossible for any other fright flick this year to top the atmospheric dread and abject terror on display here....

‘Trolls World Tour’ Honest Trailer: From The Director Of ‘Shrek’s Yule Log’ Comes The Death Of Movie Theaters By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2020 6:00 am EST Since no one had anything else to watch while quarantining at home, Trolls World Tour became a VOD sensation that might usher in the death of movie theaters. At least that’s what the National Association of Theater Owners wants you to think. But when you see what the Trolls World Tour Honest Trailer has to say, you’ll realize that this is just an instance of parents desperately doing anything they can to get their kids to sit down for an hour and a half without having to play Frozen 2 again....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Poster Is A Radical Reminder That The Movie Is Coming To Theaters Only By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2020 10:30 am EST Wonder Woman 1984 has color. It’s set in the ’80s. And it’s coming to theaters. Those are all things that the new Wonder Woman 1984 poster is here to remind us of, two of which are more exciting than the other. Warner Bros. has released the best poster yet for Wonder Woman 1984, the highly anticipated (and surprisingly timely) follow-up to Patty Jenkins’ 2017 smash hit Wonder Woman....

David Lynch Short Film ‘Fire’ Debuting On YouTube By Chris Evangelista/May 20, 2020 11:30 am EST David Lynch is about to gift us with another one of his hard-to-find short films. Fire (Pozar) is a short written, directed, and animated by Lynch, featuring music by Marek Zebrowski. As part of the experiment of the movie, Lynch gave the short to Zebrowski and the composer then made music without any input from the director, with Zebrowski interpreting the visuals in his own way....

Hacked Disney+ Accounts Are Being Sold On The Dark Web By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2019 11:30 am EST Disney+ is one of the cheapest streaming services out there, but that hasn’t stopped people from selling hacked Disney+ accounts for even cheaper on the dark web. According to a new report, thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts are already for sale. In fact, hacked accounts were available for sale on hacking forums within mere hours of the Disney+ launch....

Hollywood Studios Release Back-To-Work Guidelines Amid Coronavirus Pandemic By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 1, 2020 1:00 pm EST Hollywood is looking to get back to work amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Since TV and film productions shut down unilaterally across the globe in March, studios and unions have been looking for ways to resume production while keeping crews and casts healthy. Now, a new report by labor unions and studios outlines back-to-work guidelines for the entertainment industry to start back up again....

Ivan Reitman Spills ‘Ghostbusters 2020’ Details On Paul Rudd’s New Character By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2019 5:30 pm EST Even though Ghostbusters 2020 has been shooting for over a month now, there haven’t been many details that have leaked from the film’s set up in Canada. But producer Ivan Reitman has given us a little piece of information about the new movie that gives us at least some small idea of the supernatural activity that’s happening in the new movie…and it also provides a new detail about Paul Rudd’s character in the movie....

New ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Episodes Are Already Generating Credible Tips By Chris Evangelista/July 9, 2020 12:00 pm EST In addition to terrifying kids in the ’90s, the original Unsolved Mysteries would also encourage viewers to “help solve a mystery” by calling the appropriate people with tips. This would even lead to updates on the show, where host Robert Stack would interrupt a story with his voice as smooth and dark as barrel-aged bourbon....

Pop Culture Imports: Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Memories Of Murder,’ Sebastián Lelio’s ‘Gloria,’ Jet Li’s ‘Fearless,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 15, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) There’s nothing like a foreign movie to keep you cozy on these cold November nights. This week’s Pop Culture Imports compiles more of the best foreign movies and TV streaming now, including a few underrated flicks from renowned filmmakers like Bong Joon-Ho’s Memories of Murder, Jet Li’s Fearless, and a Chilean character drama from the director of A Fantastic Woman....

Spoiler Discussion: The Mandalorian Chapter 12 “The Siege” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2020 12:15 pm EST On the November 20, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and special guest Bryan Young (from Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com and Full of Sith podcast) for a spoiler-filled conversation about the fourth episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian season two, entitled “The Siege”. In The Spoiler Discussion: We discuss The Mandalorian Chapter 12 “The Siege” chapter 11 feedback Brief thoughts Beat by beat breakdown Speculation for the future Bryan’s Review: ‘The Mandalorian’ Makes an Eventful, Action-Packed Pitstop With “The Siege” All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Superhero Bits: ‘Green Lantern’ Super Nintendo Game Footage, Magneto Voice David Hemblen Passed Away & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 23, 2020 6:00 pm EST Need to learn a little more about M.O.D.O.K. before his animated show premieres on Hulu? Want a first look at Starfire’s new look in the third season of Titans? Ready to buy your Spider-Bot even though Avengers Campus isn’t open? Want to see footage from a canceled Green Lantern game for Super Nintendo?...