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The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Titan Games’ Is A Cheesy, Inspiring, And Downright Wholesome Reality Competition Show By Jacob Hall/Aug. 11, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series: The Titan GamesWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson invites a bunch of amateur athletes to compete against one another (and against a few professionals) in physically demanding challenges that feel like Nickelodeon’s GUTS grew up and really got into Crossfit....

This Week In Trailers: True History Of The Kelly Gang, The Uncertain Kingdom, How To Be A Good Wife, Same Boat, It Started As A Joke Starring Eugene Mirman By Christopher Stipp/March 21, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

‘Frankie’ Trailer: No One Can Say No To Isabelle Huppert By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 20, 2019 4:30 pm EST A gorgeously shot family drama that takes place in the sun-dappled European countryside that stars Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei, and Brendan Gleeson? How could we say no? Frankie, directed by Little Men’s Ira Sachs is film about a family coming to terms with grief and a matriarch that, fittingly, no one can say no to, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival....

‘Hamilton’ On Disney+ Resulted In Over Half A Million App Downloads Over The Weekend By Ethan Anderton/July 6, 2020 2:00 pm EST Over the weekend, it seemed like everybody and their mother was watching the Broadway sensation Hamilton on Disney+. Since getting tickets to the historical hip-hop musical was extremely hard even before stage shows were shut down due the coronavirus pandemic, millions of people were anxious to see the show for the first time....

‘Honest Thief’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is A Reformed Bank Robber Whose Second Chance Is Taken From Him By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 30, 2020 2:30 pm EST He’s known as the In and Out Bandit, and you won’t sully his good name. Liam Neeson may have declared himself done with action back in 2017, but you can’t retire those particular set of skills. And now the upcoming thriller Honest Thief has got Neeson back where we want him: behind a phone, making threats in his wonderfully gravelly voice....

‘Hustlers’ Director Lorene Scafaria On American Culture, Big Bird, And Pop Star Charisma [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Sept. 13, 2019 3:00 pm EST Hustlers lives comfortably in the grey. Lorene Scafarai’s movie shows the good deeds and the bad and the right and the wrong, never telling the audience exactly how to feel about it all. The crimes speak for themselves, but Scafaria keeps the characters and the world messy with more empathy than moralizing....

‘M.O.M. Mothers Of Monsters’ Trailer: A Found Footage Take On ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ [Exclusive] By Matt Donato/Feb. 12, 2020 12:30 pm EST Many perceive found footage cinema as “easy” to execute based on technical merits and equipment usage, foolishly discrediting the difficulties of execution. Audiences have been burned time after time by handheld “nightmares” that misunderstand why The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity became such huge successes....

‘Rambo’ SteelBook Blu-Ray Collection Draws First And Last Blood By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 31, 2020 5:00 pm EST Lionsgate is drawing first blood — and last blood — with its first-ever SteelBook Blu-ray release of the Rambo franchise. For the first time ever, Lionsgate is releasing all five films in the series in a hulking 4K Ultra HD SteelBook Collection this October. Learn more about the Rambo SteelBook collection below. Collider debuted the first look at the Rambo SteelBook collection, which includes all five films from the 37-year action franchise starring Sylvester Stallone as the Special Forces fighter John Rambo: First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III, Rambo, and Rambo: Last Blood....

‘The Angry Birds Movie 2’ Review: A Sometimes Inspired And Generally Tolerable Sequel By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 12, 2019 9:00 am EST There’s really only so much you can expect from a film like The Angry Birds Movie 2, an ungainly title for an ungainly project. A movie based on a smartphone game has beget a sequel, both of which had to come up with characters and stories to varying success. What this movie does well has little to do with its story or even its built-in logic, or lack thereof....

‘The Good Lord Bird’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is Abolitionist John Brown In This New Showtime Series By Chris Evangelista/May 13, 2020 8:30 am EST Ethan Hawke gets intense in the first trailer for The Good Lord Bird. The new Showtime series has Hawke playing abolitionist John Brown during Bleeding Kansas, “a time when the state was a battleground between pro- and anti-slavery forces.” The seven-episode limited series drops on Showtime this August....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Will Hit Theaters And HBO Max On Christmas Day By Ben Pearson/Nov. 18, 2020 3:54 pm EST Big, surprising news: Warner Bros. will now debut Wonder Woman 1984 in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day. This news came seemingly by accident when a trailer was released revealing the HBO Max date. The trailer was then pulled, but director Patty Jenkins has confirmed the news as well....

Animated ‘Transformers’ Prequel Rolling Out With ‘Toy Story 4’ Director Josh Cooley By Ethan Anderton/April 30, 2020 7:30 am EST Back when the Transformers franchise was still churning out sequels, a whole writers room was put together to figure out the future of the toy-based film series. And outside of the established timeline of live-action movies, we’ve been hearing about an animated Transformers prequel focusing on Cybertron and the origins of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons for some time now....

Beyond Fest 2020 Schedule: ‘Freaky’, ‘Possessor’, ‘Saint Maud’, A David Lynch Triple Feature, And More By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2020 12:30 pm EST Beyond Fest, the annual L.A.-based genre film festival, has announced its full line-up for this year’s event. Comprised of double and triple features and taking place at the Mission Tiki Drive-In theater in Los Angeles, the festival will feature the world premieres of Christopher Landon’s body-swapping Blumhouse horror film Freaky as well as the Robert Forster-led werewolf film The Wolf of Snow Hollow, plus the West Coast premieres of Rose Glass’s Saint Maud, Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, and many more....

First Look At Lionsgate’s ‘John Wick’ And ‘Now You See Me’ Roller Coasters, Ride Details Revealed By Ben Pearson/Oct. 21, 2020 2:30 pm EST Last year, Lionsgate scrapped its plans to build an indoor theme park called Lionsgate Entertainment City in New York City. But the company hasn’t gotten out of the theme park industry altogether – it’s just ramped up its efforts overseas. A new report today brings us some details and the first concept art for a Now You See Me ride and a John Wick roller coaster at a theme park called Motiongate in Dubai, where Lionsgate already has a Hunger Games-themed attraction up and running....

By Chris Evangelista/April 9, 2020 2:30 pm EST The special will “explore some questions left unanswered in Netflix’s breakout docuseries, including whether lead figure Joe Exotic is ‘really guilty’ of the murder-for-hire plot of which he was convicted, a look at the disappearance of animal activist Carole Baskin’s former husband and the status of a newly reopened investigation into that disappearance.” I enjoyed Tiger King, but I’m hesitant to put much stock in anything TMZ produces....

Johnny Depp Drops Out Of ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Franchise After Recent Court Case Verdict By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2020 9:30 am EST Johnny Depp has been embroiled in a legal battle with the British tabloid The Sun after they referred to the actor as a “wife beater,” claiming that he had abused his ex-wife, Aquaman actress Amber Heard. That court case recently came to an end, and a judge ruled that the allegations were “substantially true,” which means Johnny Depp lost the case....

Kevin Feige Diplomatically Disses Previous ‘Fantastic Four’ Films, Talks Briefly About New MCU Version By Ben Pearson/July 22, 2019 10:30 am EST There may be no one more controlled at handling press than Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. He’s a total pro who’s fully aware that every word he says is going to be pored over and dissected, so he would never do anything as brazen as trash another movie in public....

Marvel Heading To Australia For ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’ And ‘Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings’ By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2019 8:30 am EST The New South Wales state government has announced that Thor: Love & Thunder and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will both be shooting in Sydney, Australia, following in the footsteps of Thor: Ragnarok, which shot mostly in Gold Coast, Queensland. Since Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the first one scheduled for release on February 12, 2021, it will be the first to shoot in Australia starting later this year....

Netflix Goes Big With ‘The Gray Man’, A Russo Brothers Movie Starring Ryan Gosling And Chris Evans By Chris Evangelista/July 17, 2020 9:00 am EST Netflix has always wanted to prove they’re in the big leagues. They’ve attracted huge names – Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and more – and continue to go for Oscar gold. And now they’re ready up their game in regards to blockbuster entertainment. The streaming service is ready to drop over $200 million to make The Gray Man, an espionage thriller directed by the Russo Brothers and starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans....

New ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Poster Shows Diana Wielding The Lasso Of Truth By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 18, 2020 5:00 pm EST Everything is new and shiny in Wonder Woman 1984, which brings the superhero into the age of materialism and big hair. But some things stay the same, regardless of ’80s fashions or fancy new suits of armor. One of those things which we can always count on Diana of Themyscira to wield is her trusty lasso of truth,which makes an appearance in the latest Wonder Woman 1984 poster....