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Jason Bateman, Chimp Attack Survivor, Hosts A Festive And Funny ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2020 10:00 am EST Jason Bateman returned to host Saturday Night Live for the first time in 15 years, and even though the official Christmas episode doesn’t happen for a couple more weeks, if there were a couple more holiday-themed sketches, this could have been it. But even so, there are some very funny and festive sketches, and even a hilarious sketch featuring musical guest Morgan Wallen making fun of his irresponsibility ruining his initial scheduled appearance on SNL....

Netflix’s ‘Munich’ (No Relation To The Spielberg Movie) Adds Jeremy Irons And ‘1917’ Star George MacKay By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 3, 2020 10:30 am EST Netflix has recruited some major international actors to star in their adaptation of Munich — not at all related to the Steven Spielberg film. Watchmen star Jeremy Irons and 1917 actor George MacKay are set to star in Netflix’s Munich, a feature adaptation of the Robert Harris bestseller, a spy thriller set in Europe at the brink of World War II....

New On Blu-Ray: The Alfred Hitchcock Classics 4K Collection, ‘Beetlejuice’ 4K, ‘The Elephant Man’, ‘Ghost Ship’ By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 2020 8:00 am EST The Alfred Hitchcock Classics 4K Collection Hey, you ever hear of this Hitchcock guy? Yeah, he’s a real one-hit-wonder; the guy’s going nowhere! But seriously folks, Alfred Hitchock remains one of the most talked-about filmmakers of all time for a reason: he was a master of the craft....

Red Band ‘Big Time Adolescence’ Trailer: Pete Davidson May Not Be The Best Role Model For A 16-Year Old Kid By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 18, 2020 12:00 pm EST After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2019, the indie coming of age comedy Big Time Adolescence starring Pete Davidson and Griffin Gluck is finally coming to select theaters and Hulu. It’s been a longer road than usual for the Sundance selected movie that received warm reviews early last year, but we’re glad it’s finally getting released next month....

The Clock Tower: Recapping An Especially Strong Week For The Arrowverse By Amelia Emberwing/March 13, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.)Take a deep breath. Do you smell that?...

The Future Of The ‘Star Trek’ Film Franchise Is Uncertain, According To Simon Pegg By Ethan Anderton/May 19, 2020 12:00 pm EST The future of the Star Trek film franchise at Paramount Pictures appears to be in limbo. At one time, there were discussions to get a Star Trek 4 off the ground that would have given us a time travel story where Chris Pine as Captain Kirk teamed up with Chris Hemsworth his late father George Kirk....

The Great Debate: Is Martin Scorsese Belittling Superhero Movies? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 4, 2019 12:15 pm EST On the October 4, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall and writer Chris Evangelista to debate Martin Scorsese’s recent comments about superhero movies. The Topic: Martin Scorsese Doesn’t Like Superhero Movies and the Internet is Really Mad About It While doing press for The Irishman, Martin Scorsese said the following about superhero movies: “I don’t see them....

VOTD: Turning Up The Heat In Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ By Ethan Anderton/June 1, 2020 6:00 am EST It’s been over 30 years since director Spike Lee released the provocative, insightful, and unfortunately prescient racially charged drama Do the Right Thing. The film follows a pizza delivery man named Mookie (played by Lee himself) as he makes the rounds in a Brooklyn neighborhood on one of the hottest days of the year....

‘2067’ Trailer: Kodi Smit-McPhee Tries To Save The Future By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 12, 2020 12:00 pm EST Welcome to the future, where Earth has been ruined by climate change! Fun, right? Well, that’s the premise of 2067, a new sci-film featuring time travel, post-apocalyptic landscapes, and Kodi Smit-McPhee dressed like a Ghostbuster. Ryan Kwanten also stars in the film, which comes from writer-director Seth Larney. Watch the 2067 trailer below....

‘Anaconda’ Reboot Slithering Into Existence With ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Writer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 24, 2020 2:30 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that an Anaconda reboot is in the works at Columbia Pictures, which has hired Evan Daugherty, who has worked on tentpoles like Tomb Raider and Divergent, to write the script. Daugherty’s take on the new Anaconda will not be a remake or a sequel, but a “reimagining,” according to THR, which notes that Columbia Pictures is hoping for a “Meg-style approach to the concept....

‘Defending Jacob’ Trailer: Chris Evans’s Son May Be A Killer In New AppleTV+ Series By Ben Pearson/March 25, 2020 4:00 pm EST Aside from lending his voice to a few episodes of Robot Chicken, Chris Evans hasn’t appeared on a TV series since popping up in the pilot episode of the quickly-cancelled 2003 drama Skin. But in the wake of wrapping up his stellar run as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and co-starring in the murder mystery Knives Out last year, Evans is finally heading back to the small screen – this time in another murder mystery....

‘Doctor Who’ Just Changed Everything With “The Timeless Children” By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 2, 2020 8:00 am EST “Everything is about to change.” Doctor Who’s season 12 finale certainly lived up to the Master’s sinister promise, dropping a doozy on us about the identity of the Timeless Child that manages to be mind-blowing and deflating all at once. Because what does this mean? How will this change things? For a show like Doctor Who, which has always felt more comfortable as a casual sci-fi series on which you can drop in no questions asked, perhaps not at all....

‘Downhill’ Review: ‘Force Majeure’ Gets A Watered-Down, Mostly Amusing American Remake [Sundance 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 27, 2020 7:30 am EST If you watched Ruben Östlund’s uncomfortable dark comedy Force Majeure and thought, “This is good, but it would be better if it was nicer and more watered-down,” you’re in luck. Downhill is exactly that – a remake that is more or less the same movie as its original – with most of what made the original so special tactfully removed....

‘Dr. Stone’ Is A Hilarious And Oddly Educational Anime About The Power Of Science By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 16, 2019 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)After exploring the dark and complex existentialism of a ’90s anime last time, this week we’re jumping right back to the present for maybe the most anticipated anime of the summer season, which somehow still managed to be its biggest surprise....

‘Fake!’: Kate Winslet To Star In Cryptocurrency Scheme Movie From ‘The Report’ Director Scott Z. Burns By Ben Pearson/Oct. 9, 2020 5:00 pm EST Kate Winslet is heading back into the tech world for her newest movie. After playing Apple executive Joanna Hoffman in 2015’s Steve Jobs, Winslet will be portraying a woman who was scammed by a cryptocurrency scheme in Fake!, a new movie that’s being written and directed by The Report’s Scott Z....

By Ben Pearson/Nov. 5, 2020 1:30 pm EST Grabs you by the lapels, slams you down into a chair, shines a bright light in your eyes So, where were you on November 4, 2020? At home, huh? A likely story. Got an alibi for that? We got a tip that someone canceled the CBS All Access series Interrogation on that day. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?...

‘Lovecraft Country’ Trailer Goes Full Cthulhu By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2020 12:26 pm EST The final Lovecraft Country trailer is here, and it goes full Cthulhu. Adapted from the novel by Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country blends Lovecraftian horror with 1950s Jim Crow America. Previously trailers for the upcoming HBO series have somewhat downplayed the fact that there are full-blown otherworldly creatures in the show, but this final look does not hold back....

‘Percy Jackson’ Author Still Hates The Movies, Says Disney+ Series Will Fix Everything By Ethan Anderton/June 9, 2020 4:00 pm EST While responding to some fans on Twitter, Rick Riordan reiterated his hate for both Percy Jackson movies: It should be noted that we’re not sure what censoring this Twitter user is talking about. I’ve reviewed the original casino scene clip from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and it hasn’t been censored in any way....

‘Running Scared’ Director Proposes A Big Change For Rotten Tomatoes: Filmmakers Get An Appeal On Ratings After Ten Years By Ben Pearson/May 14, 2020 3:30 pm EST Over the past ten or fifteen years, Rotten Tomatoes has bolstered its power and become one of the key arbiters of a film’s quality for millions of people around the world. A film’s Rotten Tomatoes score follows a movie around online, often being presented next to a title and giving potential viewers one more thing to think about before they click “play....

‘Sphere’ TV Series, Based On The Michael Crichton Novel, Destined For HBO By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2020 4:30 pm EST Sphere, Michael Crichton’s sci-fi novel about an ancient alien spacecraft discovered on the ocean floor, is headed to HBO. Westworld producer Denise Thé is handling the series, serving as showrunner, writer, and executive producer of this new adaptation. Sphere is one of Crichton’s better books, and it was previously adapted into a kind-of-terrible movie in 1998 starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L....