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The Morning Watch: ‘Back To The Future Part II’ Inspires A Real Hoverboard, The Longer Version Of ‘Uncle Buck’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 13, 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....

The Morning Watch: Family Recreates ‘The Simspsons’ Intro, Stuntmen React To ‘X-Men’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 15, 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 a family makes good use out of their old Halloween costumes and self-quarantine time to recreate the opening of The Simpsons in their house and neighborhood....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘Shazam’, What’s Left Of Buster From ‘Mythbusters’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 12, 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, the VFX artists at Corridor Crew are joined by director David F....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Is The Perfect Alternative Holiday Movie By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 2, 2020 7:00 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 Movie: Eyes Wide ShutWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are an upper-class married couple who have a fight about infidelity that never actually happened, leading Cruise’s severely cucked character to stalk out into New York City looking to reclaim his manhood....

The Quarantine Stream: Now Is The Time To Join ‘Cobra Kai’, The Best Show You’re Not Watching By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 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: Cobra KaiWhere You Can Stream It: YouTube PremiumThe Pitch: Decades after their 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament bout, a middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence find themselves martial-arts rivals again....

Theme Park Bits: Walt Disney World Reopening, Epic Universe Delayed, And More By Josh Spiegel/May 30, 2020 10:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Major Orlando-area resorts are opening back up soon. Disney CEO Bob Chapek shared scant details about enforcing new policies. And more! First, the good news. As you have no doubt already heard, Walt Disney World in Orlando has submitted a reopening proposal to the Orange County Task Force....

‘Avengers: Damage Control’ Trailer Wants You To Suit Up, Step In, And Save The World By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 10, 2019 9:52 am EST Because I am an old, old man, I’m still not entirely sure what The VOID is, other than the thing I stare into every morning when I wake up. But based on my research, it’s a fancy-pants VR experience that more and more hot properties are taking advantage of....

‘Better Call Saul’ Showrunner Peter Gould On Season 5 Flashforwards, ‘Breaking Bad’ Cameos, And The Looming Ending [Interview] By Fred Topel/Feb. 19, 2020 8:00 am EST For the last two seasons, Peter Gould has taken over as showrunner on Better Call Saul. While Vince Gilligan wrote and directed El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, his co-creator Gould has handled the origin story of Saul Goodman, from his early days as Jimmy McGill to his future as Gene Takovic in witness protection in Nebraska....

‘Just Mercy’ Trailer: Michael B. Jordan Fights For Justice By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 2, 2019 2:30 pm EST In Just Mercy, Michael B. Jordan is a young attorney looking for justice. Based on a true story, the film follows Jordan’s Bryan Stevenson as he attempts the clear the name of Walter McMillian, played by Jamie Foxx, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death row. Brie Larson also stars in the drama, which got a good deal of attention when it premiered at TIFF this year....

‘Never Have I Ever’ Season 2 Starts Production In November By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 23, 2020 2:30 pm EST Never say never to Never Have I Ever. The acclaimed Mindy Kaling comedy managed to avoid the cancelation onslaught against Netflix productions amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, setting its season 2 production start date in November. Variety reports that Never Have I Ever season 2 is set to start production in the next few weeks, with Netflix and producer Universal Television aiming for a November 10 start date....

‘Night Hunter’ Trailer: Henry Cavill Goes Up Against A Criminal Mastermind By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2019 5:30 pm EST Henry Cavill is (was?) Superman, but that won’t stop him from popping-up in low-budget action flicks destined for DirecTV. Cavill stars in Night Hunter, an action flick that also features Ben Kingsley – another actor who is forever lending his talents to these types of endeavors. In Night Hunter, Cavill and Kingsley play two guys dealing with a murderer who has concocted an elaborate game…of death!...

‘Parasite’ Can’t Stop Winning Awards, Picking Up 10 Nominations At The Asian Film Awards By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2020 9:00 am EST Remember when Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars earlier this year? That may have been the last good thing to happen in 2020, before the world descended into the hell that we currently live in. But while the rest of the world has had a pretty bad year, Parasite continues to have one great one, picking up even more awards nominations on top of its historic Oscar wins, this time at the Asian Film Awards....

‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Sequel Series ‘Clarice’ In The Works At CBS By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 13, 2020 7:30 am EST After NBC gave us a series focused squarely on The Silence of the Lambs serial killer Hannibal Lecter, CBS is looking to follow the classic movie with a sequel series called Clarice, focusing on Jodie Foster’s character of FBI agent Clarice Starling one year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs....

Silicon Valley Season 6 Trailer Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, and Martin Starr all return for the sixth and final season of Silicon Valley, which is going big with its swan song. Literally — it’s going up against Big Tech in the upcoming episodes, with Richard Hendricks and his ragtag group of Pied Piper employees waging war against the dastardly tech giants and corporate villains in a storyline that may hit too close to home....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Adds Carl Lumbly, Possibly As Another Black Captain America By Ben Pearson/Feb. 19, 2020 10:59 am EST In Marvel Studios’ first live-action Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, we expect to see Falcon, AKA Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), grapple with the responsibility of becoming the new Captain America after the events of Avengers: Endgame left Steve Rogers an old man in the current Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Ups The Brutality And Bungles Major Questions In “Unfit” By Caroline Cao/July 10, 2019 9:00 am EST June’s (Elisabeth Moss) quote, “It’s an acquired taste seeing others in pain,” sums up frequent reservations about the increasingly tortuous content of The Handmaid’s Tale, particularly in an age where bodily autonomy in the USA is more fraught. “Unfit” examines how pain can drive the heart to commit callousness. However, the episode is marred by the show’s white woman-centricity, with June (and her fellow white-dominated Handmaid sisters aside from Janine) tormenting a black female character of prominence, Ofmatthew/Natalie (Ashleigh LaThrop) in this case....

‘The Simpsons’ Gives A Commencement Speech To The Class Of 2020 By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2020 1:00 pm EST Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the graduates of the class of 2020 aren’t getting their traditional commencement ceremonies. But because of that, countless celebrities have stepped up to give virtual commencement speeches to inspire the next generation of great thinkers who can hopefully save us from the hell we’re experiencing now....

‘Trolls World Tour’ Actors Want Box Office Bonuses Despite The Film Skipping Theaters By Ben Pearson/May 6, 2020 12:30 pm EST You thought Trolls World Tour was done making headlines? Think again, chumps. The animated sequel, which may end up as one of the most significant films in Hollywood history, is still generating some controversy – not from theater chains, this time, but from its own stars. A new report says that Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, and the sequel’s other “top voice stars” were not told ahead of time that the movie would be skipping theaters and premiering straight on VOD, and now their representatives are trying to secure the actors the bonuses they would have received had the movie opened theatrically....

‘Watchmen’ Episode 4 Promo Teases Lady Trieu And A Reckoning By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 4, 2019 10:00 am EST After three episodes of whispered references to a mysterious “Lady Trieu,” we finally get to meet her face to face in the Watchmen episode 4 promo. Right off the bat, Hong Chau’s trillionaire businesswoman strikes an intimidating figure, saying “a legacy…legacy as in blood.” But that’s not the only intriguing thing about this promo, which teases a “reckoning” after the events of the past three episodes....

Adam Driver Is Super Chill, Returns As Kylo Ren On The Fantastic First ‘Saturday Night Live’ Of 2020 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2020 10:30 am EST Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live for the third time this weekend, and the result was one of the best episodes of the season. Not only did it feature the return of Kylo Ren, but it had some truly weird and hilarious sketches that Adam Driver committed too 100%....