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Listen: Official ‘Stranger Things’ Podcast Goes Behind The Scenes Of Starcourt Mall By Ethan Anderton/July 18, 2019 1:30 pm EST You’ve binge-watched all of the third season of Stranger Things and you don’t know what to do next. Well, Netflix can at least keep you occupied for a little while longer with a new podcast that dives into the making of the hit show’s latest season, and the first episode is already available....

Luca Guadagnino Leads Unusual Team-Up With Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg To Make A Gay Hustler Epic By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 29, 2020 3:00 pm EST Searchlight has set Rogen and Goldberg to pen the script for the Scotty Bowers film directed by Guadagnino, based on the Matt Tyrnauer documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, which chronicled the exploits of the World War II Marine combat veteran-turned-hustler who secretly arranged dates for gay Hollywood movie stars from the 1940s until the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Deadline reports....

Sony’s New ‘Cinderella’ Picks Up ‘Frozen’ Star Idina Menzel And Emmy Winner Billy Porter By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2019 2:45 pm EST Hot on the heels of rumors circulating that Billy Porter is being lined up to play the man-eating venus flytrap at the center of the Little Shop of Horrors remake over at Warner Bros. Pictures, it sounds like recent Emmy-winning Pose star will be getting musical elsewhere too with a new take on the classic fairytale Cinderella....

Streaming Services Shudder, Acorn TV, And Magnolia Picture’s DOX Offering Discounts For Movie Lovers In Quarantine By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 17, 2020 9:30 am EST Shudder, Acorn TV, and Magnolia Pictures’ genre channel DOX are offering discounts to new subscribers who may be feeling the cabin fever under quarantine amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Both Shudder and Acorn TV are offering extended free trials, while DOX is 50% off for new subscribers....

Superhero Bits: John Wesley Shipp Returning To ‘The Flash’, ‘Joker’ Box Office Opening Projections & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see Marvel’s entire 8t0th anniversary panel from D23? When will Marvel’s Helstrom show start shooting? Could Joker earn over $100 million in its opening weekend? Will Zatanna be appearing in The Suicide Squad? Who will John Wesley Shipp be playing in The Flash season six?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ In 5 Minutes, Breaking Down Gambling Scenes In Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 18, 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....

The Quarantine Stream: Stop The Presses! ‘The Great Muppet Caper’ Is Wonderful By Ben Pearson/Jan. 25, 2021 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: The Great Muppet CaperWhere You Can Stream It: Disney+The Pitch: Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo inexplicably play journalists in this movie. When they botch the reporting of a jewel heist, they must travel to London and interview the famous fashion designer whose jewels were ripped off in order to solve the case....

The Streamer’s Guide To January 2020: What To Watch At Home To Prepare For This Month’s Theatrical Releases By Marshall Shaffer/Jan. 2, 2020 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to The Streamer’s Guide, a new monthly feature recommending at-home viewing options from filmmakers with new movies arriving in theaters this month.) You may recognize this column name from its appearances surrounding the Sundance, Toronto and New York film festivals over the last two years....

TV Bits: ‘Wahl Street’, ‘The Brides’, ‘Rebel’, ‘Fierce Queens’, ‘Stranger Things 4’, And More By Ben Pearson/March 15, 2020 9:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: Mark Wahlberg is getting his own HBO Max documentary series. YouTube has cancelled Impulse after two seasons. ABC’s Rebel adds an Ocean’s Eleven actor to its cast. Reese Witherspoon’s nature documentary gets a trailer. Stranger Things 4 finds a new shooting location. ABC’s The Brides series has found its Dracula....

When ‘The Office’ Arrives On Peacock In 2021, It Will Come With Extended Episodes By Ethan Anderton/July 31, 2020 1:30 pm EST The Office is still sitting comfortably at Netflix as one of the streaming service’s most popular shows. But starting in 2021, if fans want to stream the series, they’ll have to head over to Peacock. In order to make sure fans who have seen the series countless times will follow the series to Peacock instead of just buying it themselves, they’ll be releasing extended editions of episodes that will restore cut footage that has never aired on TV before....

“A Bloody Bore And Embarrassment Of The First Magnitude”: What Critics Said About ‘The Shining’ In 1980 By Matthew Monagle/Nov. 5, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Film Historiography, a series that explores the initial reactions to important, iconic, and memorable films.) “Writing about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, which is now playing at the Capitol Theater, is a lot like writing about God or politics. Everybody’s doing it.” - Vivi Mannuzza, The Berkshire Eagle...

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Creators Michael Dante DiMartino And Bryan Konietzko Exit Live-Action Netflix Series Over “Creative Direction” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 12, 2020 10:00 am EST A new day of black sun has arrived for the Avatar: The Last Airbender fans. Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who created the original critically acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series, have parted ways with the Netflix live-action remake. Both DiMartino and Konietzko were attached as executive producers and showrunners since the project was revealed in 2018, but they have announced that they are exiting the project over the “creative direction....

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Live-Action Series Officially Makes Gren Nonbinary By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 19, 2020 1:30 pm EST In the Cowboy Bebop anime, Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener, nicknamed Gren, was always a character for whom gender was…let’s say, fluid. Basically — in a very anime twist on things — an experimental drug causes Gren to grow breasts. Despite the strangeness of Gren’s origins, the character would become informally recognized as an LGBTQ icon in anime....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ International Trailer Includes A Bit Of Additional Proton Pack Action By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 11, 2019 8:00 am EST The first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife brought the franchise back yet again, this time with a heavy dose of nostalgia in the vein of Super 8 and Stranger Things. One of the chief complaints about this first trailer is that it didn’t have any comedy, a trademark of the original franchise that hailed from bona fide comedians from the likes of Saturday Night Live, The Second City and other comedy institutions....

‘Ghostwriter’ Trailer: Apple TV+ Reboots The Supernatural Mystery Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 27, 2019 5:30 pm EST These mystery-solving kids aren’t afraid of no ghosts, much less ghosts who write. In fact, they befriend a literate specter in Apple TV+’s upcoming reboot of the ’90s supernatural mystery series, Ghostwriter. Contrary to its title, this series isn’t about a ghostwriter, but a writing ghost that helps a group of children solve mysteries....

‘Lizzie McGuire’ Sequel Series Starring Hilary Duff Coming To Disney+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 23, 2019 4:03 pm EST Hey now, hey now. Disney+ is slowly becoming what dreams are made of. Disney announced that a Lizzie McGuire sequel series is in the works for Disney+, with Hilary Duff set to reprise her role as the wisecracking teen with a cartoon persona. But this time, she’s all grown up. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that a new Lizzie McGuire series is coming to Disney+, with Hilary Duff attached to star....

‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Spoiler Review: A Chilling, Brilliant Continuation Of The Best Show On Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2019 7:00 am EST Note: This Mindhunter season 2 review contains spoilers. “How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” asked FBI Agent Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) in season 1 of Mindhunter, the superb serial killer drama that might just be the best thing on Netflix....

‘Pelican Blood’ Review: A Powerful Portrait Of Sacrifice And Motherhood [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Marisa Mirabal/Oct. 3, 2019 5:00 pm EST One of the defining traits of a mother is her unconditional love. No matter how rotten a child can be, a mother’s love can be undying and never waiver through troubled waters. It is both a blessing and a curse – this endless devotion and sacrifice that comes with being a parent....

‘Pieces Of A Woman’ Review: Vanessa Kirby Delivers A Career-Best Performance In A Tragedy That Never Comes Together [TIFF 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 15, 2020 8:00 am EST How do we begin to put ourselves back together after everything falls apart? After our hopes and dreams suddenly go up in smoke? That’s the sort of question that lies at the heart of the often painful Pieces of a Woman, a stark tragedy awash in the harsh coldness of a Massachusetts winter....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Lets J.J. Watt Follow The Tradition Of Enthusiastic But Awkward Athletic Hosts By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2020 1:00 pm EST It’s Super Bowl weekend, so Saturday Night Live decided to have one of the NFL’s star players host the show. J.J. Watt is a defensive end for the Houston Texans, so it should come as no surprise that performing isn’t exactly his forté. But even so, the athlete hosted SNL with the same enthusiasm and energy that the likes of Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps and Charles Barkley have brought to Studio 8H....