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Joss Whedon’s HBO Sci-Fi Series ‘The Nevers’ Sets Main Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 30, 2019 1:00 pm EST The new Joss Whedon supernatural period drama has set its main cast. The Nevers cast has been announced by HBO, with 12 actors comprising the main ensemble for the sci-fi series following a gang of Victorian woman who find themselves with “unusual abilities.” Outlander’s Laura Donnelly has already been announced as the lead in the HBO series, but joining her in The Nevers are several Whedon alums and major stars, including Olivia Williams, Nick Frost, and Denis O’Hare....

New ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Trailer Shows First Look At The Speedster After Redesign By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 12, 2019 6:18 am EST It’s amazing how fast one trailer can turn our opinions around. Six months after Paramount Pictures put Sonic the Hedgehog on hold to do a last-minute redesign of its lead character, the studio has dropped a new trailer with an infinitely less terrifying version of the speedster. Gone are the tombstone teeth and the horrifyingly human traits that made the video game character look like a creepy mutant version of himself — the classic Sonic with his huge eyes and white gloves is speeding his way to the big screen....

Pop Culture Imports: Have A Bong Joon-Ho Marathon With ‘Parasite,’ ‘The Host,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 21, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.)Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite broke streaming records when it hit Hulu last week, making it just the latest achievement the blackly comic thriller has notched since won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, culminating in this year’s historic Best Picture win at the Oscars....

Superhero Bits: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Alternate Time Stone Heist, ‘Krypton’ Showrunner Reacts To Cancellation & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2019 6:00 pm EST What did Hayley Atwell think of Captain America’s final scene in Avengers: Endgame? Could Noah Hawley return to the world of Legion at some point? How was the heist for the Time Stone almost different in Avengers: Endgame? Who has joined the cast of the second season of Titans as a villain?...

The Clock Tower: Crisis On Infinite Earths Premieres With ‘Supergirl’, ‘Batwoman’, And ‘The Flash’ By Amelia Emberwing/Oct. 11, 2019 10:30 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 other week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk....

The Morning Watch: ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Series Recap, Documentary Directors Roundtable & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 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. In this edition, get a recap of Star Wars: The Clone Wars before the seventh and final season debuts on Disney+ this week....

The Morning Watch: Everything You Didn’t Know About ‘Surf Ninjas’, The Evolution Of The Batmobile & More By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 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. In this edition, take a look back at the goofy action comedy Surf Ninjas starring Ernie Reyes Sr....

The Morning Watch: Marvel’s Mrs. Maisel, ‘Black Widow’ Special Look Easter Eggs & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 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. In this edition, watch as Rachel Brosnahan enters the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Mrs....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Making Waves: The Art Of Cinematic Sound’ Is Fundamental For Film Fiends By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2020 7:30 am EST Here’s where we get into individual sound designers like Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Ben Burtt (Star Wars, WALL-E), Gary Rydstrom (Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan), each taking audio on the big screen to a new level in a variety of ways. Not only do we hear from those sound designers themselves, but there’s an endless roster of other Hollywood sound designers who discuss what drew them to the profession, praise the work of their colleagues, and reveal some of the secrets of sounds that went into movies like The Matrix, Top Gun, Argo, and more....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Imagineering Story’ Offers A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Creation Of Theme Park Magic By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 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 TV Series: The Imagineering StoryWhere You Can Stream It: Disney+The Pitch: Created by Walt Disney, Imagineering is a division of the Disney company tasked with transforming their movies into fantastically themed immersive worlds for us to explore and play in....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Secret History Of Hollywood’ Features The Deep Dives You Need Right Now By Ben Pearson/April 7, 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 Show: The Secret History of HollywoodWhere You Can Stream It: The podcasting app of your choice.The Pitch: The Secret History of Hollywood is the most compelling, immersive, and emotional podcast I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to....

Viggo Mortensen To Reunite With ‘Green Book’ Director Peter Farrelly For A Movie About An International Beer Run By Ben Pearson/June 11, 2020 1:00 pm EST One neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired—some would call it insane—idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and share a few laughs over a can of beer. One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar....

‘Black And Blue’ Review: Naomie Harris Deserves Better Than This Cop-Out Of A Cop Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 24, 2019 12:00 pm EST For many actors, an Oscar nomination is a crowning achievement that can lead to newfound opportunities or added prestige to their name. But for Naomie Harris — and in an unfortunate pattern, many Oscar nominees and winners of color — that Oscar nomination has amounted to zilch. Since earning a nod for Best Supporting Actress for her raging turn in Moonlight, the British actress has been relegated to supporting roles in blockbusters that have ranged from deranged to disastrous....

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Adds Dear Amy Adams To Cast By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2020 3:00 pm EST The movie adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen just upped its star power by adding Amy Adams to the cast. Based on the Broadway musical, the movie also stars Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, and Amandla Stenberg, and follows an awkward teen who lies and says a fellow classmate who recently died by suicide was secretly his best friend....

‘Get Duked!’ Trailer: Stoner Teens Get Hunted On The Scottish Highlands By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 3, 2020 12:30 pm EST Get Duked Trailer Oof, this is my least favorite type of trailer set-up: the “funny” fake-out. You know what I’m talking about: a trailer that starts off trying to fool the audience into thinking it’s a serious movie only to then pull the rug out and reveal that what you’re seeing is actually a trailer for a wacky, silly flick....

‘Hard Kill’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Is A Billionaire In An Action B-Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 17, 2020 1:00 pm EST It’s a natural result of the pandemic that movie lovers are starved for content, leading studios to dig deep into their coffers to finally release on VOD the star-studded B-movies they’ve been hiding away. Maybe that’s why we’ve seen the release of movies like Money Plane starring Kelsey Grammar or the latest Bruce Willis action flick, Hard Kill....

‘Jaws’ Coming To 4K For The First Time Ever This June By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2020 1:30 pm EST In 1975, a fledgling filmmaker named Steven Spielberg released a little movie about a big shark. It went on to become the prototypical summer blockbuster, and turned Spielberg into a household name. That movie is, of course, Jaws, and it remains an all-time classic – the type of film that is somehow endlessly rewatchable from beginning to end....

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Bringing Back A Character From ‘Jurassic Park’ (With A New Actor) By Chris Evangelista/June 25, 2020 1:00 pm EST Dodgson, we’ve got Dodgson here! Jurassic World: Dominion is bringing back a minor, but familiar, character from Jurassic Park: Dodgson. You might recall Dodgson as the guy dressed like a secret agent, tasking Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) will stealing dinosaur embryos via a fake shaving cream can. The character only pops-up in one scene, but everyone remembers Nedry yelling “Dodgson!...

‘Revolver’: Beatles-Themed Comedy Will Star Maya And Ethan Hawke By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2020 4:30 pm EST Real-life father and daughter Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke will star together in Revolver, a comedy about a young woman trying to get very close to the Beatles after a plane carrying the Fab Four unexpectedly lands in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska. WALL-E and Finding Nemo/Finding Dory director Andrew Stanton is set to helm the film from a script by Stranger Things writer Kate Trefry....

‘Scenes From A Marriage’ Will Reunite Jessica Chastain With Oscar Isaac After Michelle Williams Drops Out By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST Over this past summer, HBO slated a new limited series adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s miniseries Scenes From a Marriage. The project had Oscar Isaac and Michelle Williams on board to star in the examination of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple....