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The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Hulu And Disney+ In October 2020 By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 17, 2020 6:30 pm EST Since Wonder Woman 1984 isn’t coming to theaters in October anymore, you’re gonna want to find some new stuff to watch at home. Thankfully, Disney+ and Hulu have a wave of new movies and TV shows coming to your living room. Not only is Disney+ bringing the debut of the second season of The Mandalorian and the astronaut drama series The Right Stuff, but Hulu has plenty of Halloween horror on the way with new original movies and some blockbusters making their streaming debut too....

By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 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 a low budget, high cardboard remake of some of the most famous sequences from Alien that some people created in quarantine....

The Morning Watch: Siskel & Ebert On Johnny Carson In 1986, The Layers Of ‘Mad Men’ & More By Ethan Anderton/July 9, 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: ‘What We Left Behind’ Is A Two-Hour Christmas Present For ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Fans By Jacob Hall/Nov. 20, 2020 7:30 am EST Co-directed by series showrunner Ira Steven Behr (who is also frequently on camera), What We Left Behind plays like a feature-length victory lap…but in a good way. It’s a chance for Behr and his writers, actors and crew members to bask in the glow that time has given them – history has been kind to Deep Space Nine, the fans have finally embraced it, and critics have finally begun to acknowledge its groundbreaking creative choices, especially its heavy focus on long ongoing arcs and dense serialization....

Watching Extended ‘Gemini Man’ Footage Is Like Seeing A Lost Young Will Smith Performance By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 8, 2019 1:00 pm EST If you had the chance to talk to your younger self, what would you say? That’s the premise, more or less, of Gemini Man, the upcoming sci-fi action film starring Will Smith…and Will Smith. Smith stars as an assassin named Henry who is being hunted down by a younger clone of himself, called Junior, sent to kill him by his former employer....

Water Cooler: Wolfwalkers, Cobra Kai, Borat, Hunter Hunter, Mad Max, Unpregnant, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Battlebots, Australian Survivor, Freaky, DisneyWar, By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2021 12:10 pm EST On the January 6, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

‘A League Of Their Own’ TV Series Cast Will Feature Abbi Jacobson, D’Arcy Carden And More By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 16, 2020 12:00 pm EST THR has a breakdown of the League of Their Own TV series cast, and their respective characters:Abbi Jacobson: Carson Shaw Carson’s a catcher from a tiny farm town, who suddenly finds herself hopping the train to Chicago to chase a dream she didn’t even know she had....

‘Avatar 2’ Performance Capture Photo Teases An Underwater Creature Of Pandora By Ben Pearson/June 24, 2020 4:30 pm EST You may have noticed that Avatar 2 producer Jon Landau has been regularly posting set photos from director James Cameron’s follow-up movies. You’ve probably also noticed that they haven’t exactly been the most thrilling images – it’s largely been shots of people standing inside sound stages around pools. But today, Landau has published an Avatar 2 performance capture photo of one of the actors totally submerged underwater, and it finally provides a significant hint at what we’ll see when (if?...

‘Fast 10’ Might Be A Two-Part Finale, Suggests Vin Diesel By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2020 11:30 am EST Dominic Toretto can’t live his life a quarter mile at a time anymore after finding out he has a son in The Fate of the Furious. But that’s not stopping Vin Diesel from flying by the seat of his pants and hoping to turn Fast 10, which was meant to be the end of The Fast Saga, into a two-part finale as a reward for the fans who have stuck with this franchise for nearly 20 years now....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators David Benioff And D.B. Weiss Sign Massive $250 Million Deal At Netflix [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 7, 2019 4:44 pm EST High demand in the Peak TV era means that content creators are pulling in hugely lucrative deals like never before. People like Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, Mike Schur, and Greg Berlanti have all signed massive nine-figure deals recently to produce content for various companies, and now Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D....

‘I Am Not Okay With This’ Trailer: A Coming-Of-Age Superhero Movie In The Vein Of John Hughes By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2020 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you’ve had enough of big screen superheroes lately, maybe you’d like an origin story for one that feels more like a John Hughes high school movie with all the teenage trials and tribulations you can handle....

‘Liberté’ Review: A Prolonged Graphic Experience That Overstays Its Welcome [NYFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 30, 2019 1:00 pm EST And even if these elements are in your wheelhouse of toleration, don’t expect titillation. Or much feeling at all, to be honest. Unlike a Gaspar Noé film, which leverages similar extremes in sexuality, Serra does not provoke for the purpose of producing a visceral response. Not that something like Irreversible does not also make use of elongated sequences of disturbing sexual behavior, but Serra uses the prolonged runtime of Liberté to give his audience the space to process the events of the film on an intellectual level....

‘Mulan’ TV Spot: It Seems You’ve Been Hiding Something By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 21, 2020 4:00 pm EST Mulan is headed to Disney+ (and select theaters) next month, and Disney is in full-blown marketing mode. They’ve been releasing TV spots and featurettes every other day – and here’s another! This latest Mulan TV spot plays up how big and epic this flick is supposed to be, and also features a healthy dose of Donnie Yen, which is never a bad thing....

‘Possessor’ Review: Brandon Cronenberg’s Ultra-Violent Thriller Is Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen Before [Sundance 2020] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2020 11:00 am EST Bathed in blood and gore and unrelentingly aggressive, Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. It is a singular work – one so ghastly, so unique, and so brutal that it will awe some and disgust others. It is a film about extinguishing humanity and embracing savagery....

‘Resident Evil’ Live-Action Series Coming To Netflix; Learn The First Story Details By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 27, 2020 7:30 am EST Netflix is adding another geeky property to its collection. The streaming giant confirmed that a live-action Resident Evil Netflix series is in the works, based on Capcom’s massively popular video game franchise. Netflix revealed the first story details about its live-action Resident Evil series, which puts a bit of a Stranger Things twist on the story....

‘Soul’ Review Round-Up: Pixar Gets Existential In One Of The Studio’s Best Films By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 12, 2020 7:30 am EST Pixar has set a high bar for itself ever since it launched with its all-time cinematic classic Toy Story. And the animation studio has continued to raise the bar ever since, releasing its share of masterworks, and its share of films that are…less so. But thankfully, it seems like Pixar’s latest highly anticipated release, Soul, falls in the former category....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’: New TIE Fighter Revealed, Knights Of Ren Backstory Is Coming By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2019 11:00 am EST Since Star Wars didn’t have a full fledged panel at Comic-Con, we’re relegated to picking up details on The Rise of Skywalker that came from panels covering other corners of the galaxy. In this case, the Lucasfilm Publishing panel had a couple details that Star Wars fans will be happy to hear about....

‘Succession’ Season 3 Aims To Start Filming Later This Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 11, 2020 12:00 pm EST Succession season 3 was one of the many productions set to begin filming this spring, only to be shut down by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The stars of the Emmy-nominated HBO comedy drama were left in limbo as to when they could return to filming, as the pandemic stretched on through the summer....

‘The Batman’ Is “Grounded In Americana” And Is “The Next Evolution” Of The Classic Characters By Chris Evangelista/May 21, 2020 12:30 pm EST The Batman is currently on hold from shooting due to, well, everything. But that doesn’t mean we can’t still talk about Matt Reeves’ upcoming new take on the Caped Crusader. Jeffrey Wright, who plays Commissioner Gordon in the upcoming reboot, offered some more insight into what we can expect....

‘The Craft: Legacy’ Trailer: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (And Form A Coven) By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 29, 2020 12:00 pm EST Listen up, witches: The Craft is back, in sequel-reboot (sequelboot?) form. The Craft: Legacy comes to us courtesy of Blumhouse, and at one point, it was assumed this would be headed to theaters. But now the film is headed right to VOD for Halloween season. Written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, the story involves a young girl who moves to a new town and strikes up a friendship with a group of witches....