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‘Parasite’ Editor Jinmo Yang On Subtlety And The Time Director Bong Joon-Ho Apologized To Him [Interview] By Marshall Shaffer/Jan. 28, 2020 3:00 pm EST What praise is left to offer for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite that someone has not yet said? From debuting to the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival to earning the first ever Oscar nominations for South Korea, this riveting masterpiece gained fans among critics, moviegoers and industry folk at every turn this season....

‘Philophobia: Or The Fear Of Falling In Love’ Review: An Intriguing Blend Of Horror And Romance [Denver Film Festival] By Amelia Emberwing/Nov. 26, 2019 5:00 pm EST The below contains minor spoilers for the film Philophobia: or the Fear of Falling in Love.You ever feel like your love life is a horror movie? If so, you’re going to find Philophobia: or the Fear of Falling in Love extremely relatable. Tyler Cole’s directorial debut takes a swing at romantic horror and punches it right in the heart....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Sequel Is Officially In The Works By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 29, 2020 8:30 am EST Faster than you can say “gotta go fast,” a Sonic the Hedgehog sequel has been greenlit. Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy announced that development has begun on a sequel to 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog, after the incredible box office success of the video game adaptation earlier this year, despite being cut short by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

‘Sweetheart’ Maroons Kiersey Clemons On An Island With Man-Eating Monster [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Matt Donato/Sept. 29, 2019 3:00 pm EST J.D. Dillard’s Sweetheart is fierce aquatic horror without any frills. Think Cast Away, but instead of a volleyball companion named “Wilson,” it’s a man-eating sea monster who hunts by moonlight. There’s your plot. A marooned survivor with no immediate escape and her fishman rival. Simplicity can be a beautiful thing, and Dillard’s waterlogged grudge match is one such occasion....

‘The First Lady’: Michelle Pfeiffer Will Play Betty Ford In Showtime Anthology Series By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2021 5:30 pm EST Michelle Pfeiffer will play Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, in Showtime’s The First Lady. The anthology series is described as “a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House,” with season one focusing on Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt....

‘The Killing Of A Sacred Deer’ Review: The Director Of ‘The Lobster’ Drags You Into The Abyss [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2017 11:00 am EST While watching The Killing of a Sacred Deer, a passage from Stephen King’s Pet Sematary came to mind: “It’s probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls — as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Confirms Robert Rodriguez As Director And Here’s The Baby Yoda Picture To Prove It By Ethan Anderton/May 5, 2020 7:30 am EST Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that Ant-Man director Peyton Reed was at the helm of an episode of The Mandalorian season 2, we have confirmation of another filmmaker entering a galaxy far, far away. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Spy Kids) celebrated Star Wars Day yesterday evening by posting an image of him on set with the familiar little Force-sensitive puppet everyone knows as Baby Yoda....

‘We Are Freestyle Love Supreme’ Trailer: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hip-Hop Improv Group Takes The Spotlight By Ben Pearson/May 28, 2020 5:00 pm EST If you remember watching the early days of the American version of Whose Line is it Anyway? in the late ’90s and early 2000s, you probably recall a game in which performer Wayne Brady would essentially freestyle his way through a song based on a suggestion from the audience....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Box Office Strong Enough To Help Movie Theater Stocks, But Theaters Aren’t Out Of The Woods Yet By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 29, 2020 3:00 pm EST Wonder Woman 1984 hit HBO Max on Christmas Day, but it also opened in theaters. This means for the first time in a while we have some box office numbers for a big studio movie, and guess what? Those numbers aren’t too shabby!...

10 Lessons From Watching The Entire 2019 New York Film Festival Main Slate By Marshall Shaffer/Oct. 21, 2019 1:00 pm EST I’ve heard from many a festival-goer that it’s possible to work through the entire New York Film Festival lineup – or at least its premier section, the Main Slate – given how the event spreads out manageably over the course of seventeen days all at Lincoln Center. But with schedule conflicts or lack of interest in certain titles, it’s a feat seldom seen or accomplished....

Guillermo del Toro Tarot Card Deck Let the fantastic vision of Guillermo del Toro guide your tarot practice with this sumptuously illustrated deck inspired by the haunting world of the award-winning filmmaker. From the macabre world of Guillermo del Toro comes a deliciously twisted take on a traditional seventy-eight-card tarot deck. Designed and illustrated by Tomás Hijo, this deck features sumptuous original artwork inspired by the themes, imagery, and characters of some of del Toro’s most popular films, including Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak, and The Shape of Water....

Director Todd Phillips Questions The ‘Joker’ Backlash, Compares Film’s Violence To ‘John Wick’ By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 26, 2019 11:30 am EST Joker hasn’t even hit theaters yet, but the dark, gritty comic book movie has already stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy. Many people are questioning the film’s reported violence, and showing concern that Joker is going to glorify its villainous lead character. Things got so heated that Warner Bros....

Epcot Receiving Massive Overhaul; New Guardians Of The Galaxy Coaster Details Revealed [D23] By /Film Staff/Aug. 25, 2019 12:32 pm EST When you think of Disney Parks, the first things that come to mind are probably staples of The Magic Kingdom: rides like The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the trinity of Mountains (Space, Splash, and Big Thunder). But it’s rare to find someone who initially conjures up imagery of anything from Epcot, the Walt Disney World park that’s spent decades struggling to define itself....

Exclusive: Head To The Final Frontier With A Track From The ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Score By Ben Pearson/Feb. 5, 2020 7:30 am EST The soundtrack for the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard won’t officially beam into stores and digital libraries until later this week, but we’re here to premiere an exclusive track from composer Jeff Russo’s score, which you can listen to a couple of days early. “Engage” with the new track below....

Fantastic Four, Mutants, And More: Marvel’s Phase 4 Announced, And Here’s When You’ll See The New Movies & TV Shows [Comic-Con 2019] By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2019 7:21 pm EST Marvel Studios took the stage at Comic-Con’s Hall H to an electric, rock star atmosphere, and after taking a victory lap for the success of Avengers: Endgame and the first ten-plus years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, mega-producer Kevin Feige revealed the next ten (10!...

LA Comic-Con Not Happening In December, Will Return In September 2021 By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 2020 12:30 pm EST Not too long ago, Comikaze Entertainment Inc. announced that they were somehow planning on having LA Comic-Con happen as an in-person event this December. This was rather shocking to a lot of fans, and had plenty of people questioning the logic behind such a decision considering the precarious times we’re all living in due to the coronavirus pandemic....

New Jersey Movie Theaters Reopening This Week (But Probably Not Any AMC Theatres) By Ben Pearson/Sept. 1, 2020 4:30 pm EST New Jersey movie theaters are set to reopen this week, just in time for Labor Day weekend. Taking refuge from the hot, late-summer weather in the cool confines of an air-conditioned movie theater is normally one of our favorite pastimes. But unfortunately, there’s nothing normal about this godforsaken year, and while we’re not epidemiologists, there’s enough information out there suggesting that theaters still aren’t safe that we cannot in good conscience endorse the idea of returning to a theater....

Podcast: The Best Movies Of Fantastic Fest 2019 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2019 1:15 pm EST On the September 30, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the best movies they saw at Fantastic Fest 2019. Opening Banter: Jacob and Chris are back from Fantastic Fest! How was the festival experience?JacobColor Out of SpaceSweetheartMemory: The Origins of AlienThe Death of Dick LongDolemite is My NameThe LodgeFirst LoveKnives OutThe LighthouseParasiteChrisIn the tall GrassThe WaveFracturedIn the Shadow of the MoonThe Mortuary Collection The Golden GloveScream, Queen!...

Pop Culture Imports: The German Answer To ‘Hannibal,’ A Danish Natal Horror Film, A Vampire Anime, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 28, 2018 7:30 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) It’s the end of 2018 and it feels like it’s been 84 years. But at least we’ve been entertained by plenty of excellent foreign movies and TV shows in the process....

Robert Downey Jr. Declined To Campaign For ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Best Actor Oscar By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 8, 2019 8:30 am EST Recently, Disney revealed their For Your Consideration page for Avengers: Endgame, and there was a curious omission from the list of potential nominees: Robert Downey Jr. While Endgame has a huge cast, Downey Jr. is the lead, and on top of that, this was his swan song as Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man....