Small-Screen Stream: Comfort Food TV To Get You Through The New Year By Amelia Emberwing/Jan. 6, 2020 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Small-Screen Stream, a feature where we share the best television shows streaming and where you can watch them.)During this insane time of year, we all find comfort in our favorite things. There’s a whole song about it! I wanted to keep that in mind with first Small-Screen Stream of 2020....
Superhero Bits: History Of Marvel Comics, Tom Holland Was Supposed To Appear In ‘Venom’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2019 6:00 pm EST Who would win in a fight between Darkseid and Thanos? Will Warner Bros. take Todd Phillips idea to create DC Black label movies? Want to see what Tom Cruise would be like as Iron Man? How would the Superman cameo for Shazam have been if Henry Cavill had appeared?...
The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Movies Work Best When The Team Works Together By Evan Saathoff/Jan. 6, 2021 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Great Moments in MCU History, where we fondly recall great little bits that made us fall in love with the MCU.) Some early Marvel movies are smaller blockbusters than you might remember, getting by on the charm of their leads and one or two modest action scenes. Revisiting Guardians of the Galaxy reveals a different mainstay left behind with Marvel’s massive success: a willingness to get a little grimy with it....
The Mandalorian Spoiler Discussion Podcast: Season 2 Episode 1 “The Marshal” By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2020 2:15 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. On the October 30, 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 first episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian season two, entitled “The Marshal”....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Proves Tim Robinson Doesn’t Need ‘SNL’ To Make Sketch Comedy Gold By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2020 9:00 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 Series: I Think You Should Leave with Tim RobinsonWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Former Saturday Night Live featured player and Comedy Central’s Detroiters creator and co-star Tim Robinson teams up with fellow SNL writer and his Detroiters co-creator Zack Kanin to deliver a series of offbeat comedy sketches mostly featuring characters that need to desperately leave, would be wise to leave, or are being implored to leave a variety of awkward, confrontational and goofy situations....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘Tombstone’ Is An Eminently Quotable Western Featuring Val Kilmer’s Best Performance By Ben Pearson/Dec. 28, 2020 8:00 am EST If you peruse the IMDb “quotes” page for this 1993 western classic, you’ll find a hundred different reasons why this is my favorite western of all time. No other western comes close in terms of quotable lines, and I challenge anyone to find a performance in the genre that’s better than Val Kilmer’s complete transformation into the boozy, tuberculosis-afflicted Doc Holliday, who is just as quick with a quip as he is with his trigger finger....
The Quarantine Stream: Against All Odds, ‘Batman Beyond’ Stands Among The Best DC Comics Shows Ever Made By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 12, 2021 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 Series: Batman BeyondWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: 20 years after the Dark Knight’s retirement, headstrong teen Terry McGinnis ends up under the tutelage of an elderly Bruce Wayne as the new Batman, protecting Neo-Gotham from all kinds of new threats and rogues....
VOTD: Making Of The Captain America Vs. Captain America Fight In ‘Avengers: Endgame’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2019 6:00 am EST In order to tell one of the most epic comic book stories ever brought to screen, Avengers: Endgame needed plenty of visual effects. From creating characters like Thanos and Professor Hulk and wardrobe pieces like the quantum realm suits to environments like Vormir and entire shots comprised completely of digital elements....
WTF: The True Spirit Of Christmas Lies In This ‘Frozen 2’ Doll Set That Costs $30,000 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2019 6:00 am EST Frozen 2 has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, but there might be even more money to be made on the merchandise side of the market. Plenty of toys, clothes, lunchboxes, candy and more are being sold with the Frozen brand plastered all over them....
‘Beastars’ Is The Coming-Of-Age Murder-Mystery Noir-Thriller Teenage Romance Anime ‘Zootopia’ You Didn’t Know You Needed By Rafael Motamayor/March 19, 2020 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)We’re living in a golden age of anime. There is a never-ending stream of new shows airing all the time, and too many streaming services to count. With so many shows arriving all the time, the Netflix model of waiting until all the different-language subtitles and dubs are ready means that their shows get delayed by months until they get released at arguably odd times compared to the already established anime season....
‘Black Widow’ Will Have Multiple Black Widows By Chris Evangelista/July 29, 2019 2:00 pm EST Scarlett Johansson will be back as Black Widow in the Black Widow movie – but she’s not going to be the only person to use that codename. It sounds like there are in fact multiple Black Widows. According to co-star Rachel Weisz, she and fellow co-star Florence Pugh are also Black Widows. And there are even more we’re not aware of yet....
‘Everyday Parenting Tips’: Ryan Reynolds To Star In Family Comedy About A Monster-Filled Earth By Ben Pearson/Aug. 5, 2020 3:00 pm EST King is set to direct Everyday Parenting Tips, a family comedy from Universal which has signed Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) to star and has Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street) on board to produce. Get the details below. The Hollywood Reporter brings word about Everyday Parenting Tips, which is based on a New Yorker article of the same name by acclaimed writer Simon Rich....
‘Gemini Man’ Is A Huge Bomb, Losing At Least $75 Million At The Box Office By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 21, 2019 5:30 pm EST Perhaps the world just wasn’t ready for two Will Smiths in the same movie. Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, an action spectacle in which Smith has to fight a younger clone of himself, did paltry box office in America, but there was a hope that its weekend release in China could turn things around....
‘Megalo Box’ Will Inspire And Thrill You With Its Sci-Fi Spin On A Classic Boxing Anime By Rafael Motamayor/June 19, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)Imagine, if you will, a world where the sport of having two people punch each other really hard with their fists wasn’t dangerous enough. Imagine that someone decides that what the sport of boxing really needs is to strap powered exoskeleton gear onto boxers so they can punch each other even harder....
‘MLK/FBI’ Trailer: New Documentary Examines How The FBI Tried To Stop Martin Luther King Jr. By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 18, 2020 9:30 am EST Every child learns about the historic efforts of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. to stop systemic racism in a society that continually treated Black people as inferior. But what they don’t often learn is how the Federal Bureau of Investigation, led by J. Edgar Hoover, was ordered to provide surveillance of King in order to get enough evidence to destroy him and the movement that he was leading....
‘Mr. Mercedes’ Featurette: The Stephen King Series Is Now On Peacock By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2020 10:00 am EST Mr. Mercedes is not a new show. But Peacock is sure treating it like one. The Stephen King-inspired series originally aired its first three seasons on Audience Network, and if you’re reading that and thinking, “What the hell is Audience Network?”, you’re not alone! In fact, the channel doesn’t even exist anymore....
‘Murder To Mercy’ Trailer: Netflix Doc Details The Cyntoia Brown Case By Ben Pearson/April 15, 2020 1:00 pm EST Netflix knows we can’t get enough of its true crime documentaries, so there’s another one on the way later this month. It’s called Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, and it centers on the case of a girl who was arrested for murdering a much older man who picked her up for sex....
‘News Of The World’ Trailer: Tom Hanks Reunites With Paul Greengrass To Go West By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 7, 2020 8:00 am EST Tom Hanks is the Captain again in News of the World, the Oscar-winning actor’s highly anticipated reunion with his Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass. But News of the World is a very different film from the 2013 Oscar-nominated biographical thriller, with Hanks strapping on a cowboy hat and spurs to star in an epic Western....
By Jack Giroux/Oct. 7, 2020 9:00 am EST Raised by Wolves is a hardcore slice of science-fiction. From showrunner Aaron Guzikowski and director Ridley Scott, the series effortlessly blends thought-provoking drama and the fun of watching androids obliterating humans with the awesome power of their voice. It’s a show that doesn’t feel alien to Scott’s own sci-fi universes. Consider Raised by Wolves to be Blade Runner or Alien’s cool cousin....
‘Roma’ Becomes The First Netflix Film To Join The Criterion Collection By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 18, 2019 4:00 pm EST While a few original Netflix shows have received Blu-ray releases, Netflix movies tend not to get the same treatment. But that’s about to change – in a big way. Roma, the Netflix movie that scored several Oscar nominations and took home Best Foreign Language Film, is getting a Blu-ray release – and not just any old Blu-ray release, either....
