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‘MLK/FBI’ Review: An Infuriating Look At J. Edgar Hoover’s Attempt To Stop Martin Luther King [TIFF 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 16, 2020 7:00 am EST But in the years since King and Hoover’s deaths, a presumption has sprung-up that Hoover was acting on his own, independently, and that the much of the power structure of the U.S. government was oblivious to his actions. But as Sam Pollard’s excellent documentary MLK/FBI reveals, that’s simply not the case....

‘Once Upon A Snowman’ Trailer: Find Out Olaf’s Unlikely Beginnings In This ‘Frozen’ Prequel Short By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 19, 2020 7:00 am EST Everyone’s favorite summer-loving snowman has another animated short dedicated just to him. In Once Upon a Snowman, we finally get to see Olaf’s unseen origins in a Frozen prequel short film coming to Disney+ this month. Watch the Once Upon a Snowman trailer below. Once Upon a Snowman Trailer...

‘Palm Springs’ Alternate Opening: Editor Describes The Version We Didn’t See By Ben Pearson/Jan. 1, 2021 8:00 am EST Palm Springs, the excellent time loop comedy starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, was one of the few movies that felt like it made a big splash when it hit a streaming platform earlier this year. Hulu picked up the movie for a record amount after the Sundance Film Festival, and that investment paid off: the film broke viewership records for Hulu, and it inspired tons of theories and chatter about what was going on in the movie’s many timelines....

‘Royalties’: Quibi’s Music Comedy Series Hires ‘Clueless’ Director Amy Heckerling By Ben Pearson/Aug. 28, 2019 4:30 pm EST Clueless director Amy Heckerling is the latest major “get” for Quibi, the short-form streaming platform that’s set to launch early next year. She’ll direct all ten episodes of a new comedy series called Royalties that’s set in the world of music, using the satirical skills she’s sharpened over the course of her career to skewer the music industry....

‘She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power’ Season 5 Trailer: Prepare For The Final Battle Of The Final Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 30, 2020 1:00 pm EST She-Ra and the Princesses of Power will premiere its fifth and final season on Netflix this May, bringing an end to the beloved animated series. Showrunner Noelle Stevenson’s reboot of the iconic ’80s animated property was more successful than anticipated, earning Emmy and Critics Choice nominations and critical acclaim....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ D23 Poster Features Rey And Kylo Ren Locked In Battle By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2019 10:44 am EST This morning’s D23 Expo presentation featured lots of new footage from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but while it doesn’t seem as if that footage is going to make its way online any time soon, here’s one new look at the movie that is online: a brand new poster, featuring a lightsaber battle between Rey and Kylo Ren....

‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Trailer: Netflix Passes The Iconic Phone Down To Gen Z By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2020 4:00 pm EST In every generation, there is The Baby-Sitters Club. They alone will take on all the babysitting gigs in town, but realize that the important thing the entire time was friendship. The Baby-Sitters Club was a ’90s hallmark, with virtually every preteen girl cherishing their collection of the sweet YA novels by Ann M....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Will (Probably) Start Filming This Year By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 15, 2020 2:00 pm EST The Mandalorian season 2 isn’t even out yet, but Jon Favreau isn’t wasting any time. The Star Wars TV series creator says that if all goes according to plan, The Mandalorian season 3 filming should commence before the end of 2020. Unlike many other shows, The Mandalorian’s StageCraft technology – a gigantic digital video screen that allows filmmakers to “capture a significant amount of complex visual effects shots in-camera using real-time game engine technology and LED screens to represent dynamic photo-real digital landscapes and sets with creative flexibility previously unimaginable” – keeps it a relatively small affair, production-wise....

‘The Sleepover’ Trailer: Netflix’s Action Comedy Is Like ‘Spy Kids’ Meets ‘National Treasure’ Meets ‘True Lies’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 5, 2020 4:30 pm EST Take the clue-following premise of National Treasure, the kid-centric approach of Spy Kids, and mix a dash of the “spouse doesn’t know about their partner’s secret skills” concept from True Lies, and you get The Sleepover, a new action comedy coming to Netflix later this month....

‘The Wonder Years’ Reboot Happening At ABC; Story Will Center On A Black Family By Ben Pearson/July 8, 2020 5:30 pm EST The Wonder Years is making a comeback. ABC is developing a reboot of the classic family television series, with the intention of debuting the series for the 2021-2022 season. But instead of following a suburban White family like the original series did, this reboot will center on a Black family....

‘Underwater’ Trailer: Kristen Stewart Finds Something Scary Under The Sea By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2019 8:00 am EST Kristen Stewart and her cool haircut get into some serious deep-sea trouble in Underwater, a new thriller that looks like an aquatic Alien. Stewart plays a member of a team of underwater researchers who have to deal with something monstrous and deadly. Is it an alien? A giant squid? Cthulu? Who knows! Watch the Underwater trailer below....

Ep. 573 - Shirley (GUEST: Joanna Robinson From Vanity Fair) By Slashfilmcast/June 30, 2020 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Joanna Robinson, senior writer at Vanity Fair, to talk about Devindra’s move across the country during a pandemic, Christopher Nolan’s chair ban, and Will Ferrell’s singing in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. For the feature review, the cast dives into Shirley, Josephine Decker’s film starring Elizabeth Moss....

HBO Says Andrea Arnold Was Never Promised Final Cut On ‘Big Little Lies’ [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/July 24, 2019 3:30 pm EST Midway through the second season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, a controversial story broke saying director Andrea Arnold had her creative control taken away from her by first season director Jean-Marc Vallee. Arnold directed all seven episodes of the season, as Vallee did for the first. However, Arnold’s work was then turned over to Vallee, who allegedly recut and reshaped the season....

I’m Thinking of Ending Things Now Streaming on Netflix Release Date: 2020Genre: Uh…Director: Charlie KaufmanCast: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David ThewlisCharlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is weird. That probably goes without saying at this point, since everything Kaufman does is a little weird. But it’s more than that – it’s a melancholy, beautiful experience that is one of the year’s best films. Jessie Buckley, in yet another star-making performance (how many of those is she going to have before she’s a full-blown star?...

Pop Culture Imports: Getting In The Robot With Hideaki Anno And ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 28, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) I’m doing something a little different this week in celebration of the Netflix release of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the seminal anime series that has launched a million essays and even more memes....

Ridley Scott And Kevin Macdonald Want Your Quarantine Videos For YouTube’s ‘Life In A Day 2020’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 11, 2020 11:00 am EST Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald are reuniting to show you what Life In A Day in 2020 is like. And it’s more than just quarantine videos, though the executive producer and director of the YouTube documentary want your quarantine videos too. A decade after the original Life In A Day crowdsourced documentary, Scott and Macdonald are teaming up yet again to create the new feature film Life In A Day 2020, which will collect footage from people around the world to tell the story of a single day on Earth....

Sequel Bits: ‘Orphan’, ‘Snake Eyes’, ‘Mission: Impossible’, ‘Borat’, ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’, ‘Encino Man’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 27, 2020 1:00 pm EST Orphan: First Kill, the inexplicable prequel to Orphan that’s somehow bringing back original star Isabelle Fuhrman, has a new cast member: Rossif Sutherland. Deadline broke the casting news but doesn’t have any info on who Sutherland is playing. Orphan: First Kill once again focuses on “Leena Klammer, who orchestrates a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility....

Star Wars Bits: Domhnall Gleeson Recalls First Reaction To ‘Episode 9’ Script, ‘Vader Immortal’ Episode II Coming To D23, And Much More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 18, 2019 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Domhnall Gleeson explains his reaction to reading the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker script for the first time ILMxLAB plans to preview the second installment of Vader Immortal at next week’s D23 Expo Read an excerpt from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – Black Spire How does the length of a Star Wars movie correlate to its perceived quality?...

By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 10, 2020 2:30 pm EST Ridley Scott is no stranger to making waves in sci-fi with the likes of Blade Runner and Alien, not to mention the latter’s recent franchise prequels Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. All of these movies prominently feature android characters, and the human-like robots have fascinated the filmmaker so much that he became involved with an entire series about them called Raised by Wolves for HBO Max....

The Morning Watch: Meet The Cast Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’, Before And After ‘Ghostbusters’ VFX & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....