You Can Watch The Full ‘Star Wars’ Kabuki Play Online By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 2, 2019 12:30 pm EST R2-D2 may not always fare well on stage in Tokyo, but Kylo Ren does. While the U.S. was celebrating Thanksgiving this last Thursday, Japan’s capital was celebrating Star Wars with a kabuki stage play. The special one-night performance adapted parts of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi in the style of Japanese kabuki theater....
‘Atlantics’ Trailer: Senegal’s Oscar Contender Is A Ghost Love Story With A Twist By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 8, 2019 6:00 pm EST Atlantics debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews, winning the esteemed Grand Prix award and becoming Senegal’s pick to be considered for the Best International Feature Film Oscar. It was a magnificent feature directorial debut for French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, who became the first woman of African descent to have a film screen at the festival’s Competition section....
‘Briarpatch’ Trailer: Rosario Dawson Is After Her Sister’s Killer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 13, 2019 5:30 pm EST Briarpatch is the kind of sleek, stylish neo-noir series that could catch your eye in the age of Peak TV. Coupled with a severe performance by Rosario Dawson, and this USA mystery-thriller anthology series may be the next big thing. Watch the Briarpatch trailer below. Briarpatch Trailer Executive produced by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and written and executive produced by Andy Greenwald, the first season of Briarpatch stars Dawson as Allegra Dill, an investigator who returns to her Texas hometown to find her sister’s killer, and meets all manner of strange characters and stray zoo animals along the way....
‘Love, Simon’ TV Series Moves From Disney+ To Hulu Over “Adult Themes” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 24, 2020 6:00 pm EST The Love, Simon TV series has a new streaming home and a new name. The half-hour comedy series based on the 2018 teen LGBTQ romantic-comedy has now been moved from Disney+ to Hulu, with the new title Love, Victor, named after the show’s new protagonist. Love, Victor, which will premiere on Hulu during Pride Month this year, was initially set to debut on Disney+, but was reportedly deemed inappropriate for the family-friendly streaming service....
‘Radioactive’ Trailer: Rosamund Pike Changes The World As Marie Curie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 6, 2020 4:00 pm EST StudioCanal has released the first trailer for Radioactive, and it unfortunately is not set to the song by Imagine Dragons. It does however have an all-star cast led by Rosamund Pike, who stars as Marie Curie, the brilliant scientist whose groundbreaking research on radioactivity changed the world — not necessarily for the better....
‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Official First Look Released; Kelly Marie Tran Cast In The Lead Role By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 27, 2020 10:10 am EST Walt Disney Animation has unveiled the first look at Raya and the Last Dragon. The upcoming fantasy-adventure animated film has only teased gorgeous pieces of concept art until now, but today, we finally got to see the Raya and the Last Dragon first look image in its fully-rendered CG glory....
‘Star Wars’ Triple Force Friday Midnight Events Seem More Limited This Year By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2019 5:00 pm EST This week brings Star Wars Triple Force Friday to shelves across the world. But the debut of the first merchandise from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order isn’t getting quite as big of a launch as the previous iterations have seen. Lucasfilm has announced the retail locations in the United States and Canada that will be hosting special Triple Force Friday launch events, including the customary midnight openings....
‘Stumptown’ Trailer: Cobie Smulders Is A Private Investigator With A Whole Lot Of Attitude And Debt By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2019 4:00 pm EST With Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD coming to an end with the seventh season, new comic book blood is needed to fill ABC’s network timeslots. Unfortunately, most the Marvel action is headed to Disney+, so ABC has grabbed another comic book property that will take them into the TV comfort zone of procedural crime drama....
‘The Great’ Trailer: Elle Fanning And Nicholas Hoult Jostle For Power In Hulu Series From Writer Of ‘The Favorite’ By Ben Pearson/April 23, 2020 11:00 am EST Tony McNamara, the writer of Yorgos Lanthimos’s razor-sharp 2018 movie The Favourite, is once again exploring a woman’s quest for power – this time as the creator, writer, and executive producer of a new Hulu series called The Great. The Favourite’s Nicholas Hoult seems to enjoy playing a fool, because he’s at it again here as Peter III, the wildly unqualified Emperor of Russia, while Elle Fanning (Maleficent) plays his new wife, who quickly grows weary of her husband’s foolishness and plots to overthrow him....
‘The King Of Staten Island’ Hits Blu-Ray In August, Watch A Clip About Pete Davidson’s Personal Comedy By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 4, 2020 12:00 pm EST The King of Staten Island was intended to be released in theaters this summer, but Universal Pictures and director Judd Apatow thought it was better to release the movie on Premium VOD rather than waiting for movie theaters to reopen. Unfortunately, that means what should have been Pete Davidson’s big screen breakthrough only ended up on the small screen....
‘The Rental’ Tops U.S. Pandemic Box Office, ‘Interstellar’ Re-Release Adds Some Fuel To International Theaters By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 4, 2020 1:00 pm EST A new movie topped the U.S. pandemic box office for once, with audiences showing up in — well, not droves, but respectable numbers for The Rental, Dave Franco’s feature directorial debut. While catalog titles filled up the rest of the top 10 of this past weekend’s box office, it goes to show that horror is the only thing that’s thriving at the box office amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, perhaps to offset the real-life horrors that are mounting every day....
‘The Third Day’ Teaser: Jude Law Can’t Leave A Creepy British Island In This HBO Limited Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 9, 2020 3:00 pm EST A secluded island paradise can sound pretty tempting, but not the one that Jude Law gets trapped on in the upcoming HBO limited series The Third Day. While visiting a mysterious island off the British coast, Law’s character encounters a group of inhabitants who are hell-bent on preserving the island’s traditions — at any cost....
‘We Summon The Darkness’ Trailer: Headbang To Some Heavy Metal Horror By Chris Evangelista/March 19, 2020 5:00 pm EST Crank up the volume for some heavy metal horror with We Summon the Darkness. This festival fave finds three female metal-heads who get mixed up in something seriously satanic after a big concert. The We Summon the Darkness trailer below teases the mayhem to come while also seeming almost maddeningly vague. There’s clearly more than meets the eye here....
‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Clip: The New Guys Are Still Learning Jesse Eisenberg’s Rules By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 17, 2019 3:30 pm EST It’s been 10 years since the events of Zombieland, and as that zombie comedy showed, it’s not easy surviving in an apocalyptic wasteland. But one of the ways that Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone’s gang lived so long in Zombieland: Double Tap was by following Columbus’s (Eisenberg) hard line rules for surviving the zombie apocalypse....
Director Francis Lawrence Wants To Make Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Survivor’ A TV Show By Jack Giroux/Nov. 22, 2019 7:30 am EST Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor isn’t the most commercial concept for a film adaptation. For a long time now, a movie based on Palahniuk’s dark comedy has struggled to reach theaters, and back in 2007, Francis Lawrence was one of the filmmakers who gave it a shot. As the I Am Legend and Mockingjay director told us, the book is a difficult nut to crack, but he’s currently attempting to adapt it as a television series....
Doctors Say You Should Probably Skip Returning To Movie Theaters Anytime Soon By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 18, 2020 3:30 pm EST Movie theaters in the United States are gearing up to reopen. The New Mutants, Unhinged, and of course, Tenet, are all set to hit movie theaters in the upcoming weeks, but these titles arrive under an umbrella of uncertainty. Because, as I’m sure you’re well aware, the coronavirus hasn’t gone anywhere....
Marvel’s ‘Runaways’ Season 3 Trailer Gives A New Look At The Show’s Final Season By Ben Pearson/Nov. 18, 2019 4:30 pm EST Runaways, the teen-centric superhero series that’s been chugging along on Hulu since 2017, is coming to an end – but there are still ten new episodes left. Hulu just dropped the trailer for the show’s upcoming third and final season, and while much of it looks pretty dour, at least Elizabeth Hurley seems to be having an absolute blast playing the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay....
New ‘Star Wars’ Movie Coming From Director Taika Waititi By Chris Evangelista/May 4, 2020 9:10 am EST At the beginning of the year – back when we were all so young and naive – a rumor surfaced that Taika Waititi might be directing a new Star Wars movie. Looks like that rumor was true! A new Star Wars movie directed by Waititi is officially in the works, with the Jojo Rabbit filmmaker writing the script with 1917 writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns....
Relax And Let Henry Cavill Read You ‘The Witcher’ By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 14, 2019 12:00 pm EST As I write this, it’s Friday, it’s late in the day, and we’re all ready for the weekend to get here. None of us much feels like doing anything that requires real effort at the moment, so my advice is to just kick back and relax. And what could be more relaxing than having professional handsome man Henry Cavill read The Witcher?...
The Morning Watch: Reference Acting In Animation, ‘The Little Mermaid’ Storyboard Comparison & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2021 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, learn what it takes to be a reference actor for animated movies and TV shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender....
