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‘The Mandalorian’ Documentary Series Reveals Episode Synopses, Promises A Peek Behind The Curtain By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2020 12:00 pm EST This week, Disney revealed that it would be pulling back the curtain on its biggest Disney+ hit with a documentary series that would dive into the making of The Mandalorian. In an eight-episode series called Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, executive producer Jon Favreau would take viewers on a tour of the unique sets and cutting-edge technology used to make the beloved Star Wars series....

Animated ‘Creepshow’ Halloween Special Coming To Shudder With Stories From Stephen King And Joe Hill By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2020 11:30 am EST If you’re jonesing for some new Creepshow and can’t wait until season 2, Shudder has you covered. An animated Creepshow Halloween special will air on the horror streaming service this October, bringing stories by Stephen King and son Joe Hill to life with the voice talents of Kiefer Sutherland and Joey King....

Aubrey Plaza Joins The Cast Of New Guy Ritchie Movie Starring Jason Statham By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 2, 2020 4:30 pm EST I, for one, think Aubrey Plaza should be in every movie, all the time. So I can’t complain about the news that she’s joining the cast of the new, currently untitled, Guy Ritchie movie. The action flick will see Ritchie reunite with Jason Statham, with Statham playing an MI6 agent trying to stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology....

Avengers, Black Panther, X-Men And Other Marvel Comics Collections Available For Free Digital Download Right Now By Jacob Hall/April 2, 2020 12:30 pm EST These comics are also currently available to read for free on Marvel Unlimited, the comic book subscription service. Here’s what available: All together, that’s $170 worth of Marvel comics you can own for free right now! And while storylines like Dark Phoenix and Civil War are well-known (and have inspired major movie adaptations), allow me to recommend some of the other collections available here....

BBC’s ‘War Of The Worlds’ Trailer Brings The Alien Tripods To Edwardian England By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2019 3:30 pm EST Steven Spielberg had the aliens from H.G. Wells classic sci-fi invasion story War of Worlds tear through Boston and the rest of the modern world back in 2005, which feels like a lifetime ago. Now the BBC is giving the story a new adaptation in the form of a miniseries, but as the War of the Worlds trailer shows, this one throws the invasion back to Edwardian England, bringing the British people of the early 1900s face-to-face with technology the likes of which they’ve never seen before, truly a nightmare from another world....

Ben Affleck Still Wants To Make His Own ‘McMillions’ Movie By Chris Evangelista/March 3, 2020 2:00 pm EST HBO is currently in the midst of airing McMillions, a documentary about the McDonald’s Monopoly scam that was almost forgotten about until a Daily Beast article brought it back into the limelight. After the original article broke, nearly everyone, everywhere, thought: “Hey, this would make a good movie!” And while McMillions got to it first, Ben Affleck has also been attached to helm a feature based on the story....

Celluloid Lives: Major Studios Renew Deal With Kodak To Facilitate Shooting On Film By Ben Pearson/Jan. 30, 2020 12:30 pm EST In a primarily digital era, it seems like even household name directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino have to battle for the right to shoot their movies on film. Those two directors were part of a group which led the charge back in 2015 to convince the studios to sign a deal with Kodak, which resulted in that company staying in business and producing a certain amount of film stock every year....

Edgar Wright And Collaborators Launch New Production Company, Which Already Has A Big Netflix Deal By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 19, 2020 1:30 pm EST Edgar Wright’s highly anticipated Last Night in Soho may be delayed due to coronavirus (COVID-19), but the filmmaker is keeping busy during the pandemic. Wright has teamed up with two of his longtime collaborators Nira Park (The Cornetto Trilogy) and Rachael Prior (Baby Driver) alongside filmmaker and protégé Joe Cornish to launch a new production team, Complete Fiction....

Filmmakers, Writers Rally Behind John Boyega After He Gives A Rousing Black Lives Matter Speech By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2020 8:00 am EST The Black Lives Matter movement and the anti-police brutality protests sweeping the nation have become a sort of litmus test for which celebrities can put their money where their mouth is. Empty words of support and vague platitudes don’t work anymore when America — and the rest of the world — is this angry and this broken....

Gender-Flipped ‘She’s All That’ Remake Casts ‘Cobra Kai’ Star Tanner Buchanan By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 4, 2020 2:00 pm EST New remakes are pouring out of Hollywood all the time, and one of the latest is reaching back into 1999 with a remake of teenage romantic comedy She’s All That. But this time, we’re getting an update of the story with a gender-flipped approach called He’s All That, one that will attempt to make a movie star out of TikTok sensation Addison Rae....

Marvel’s Animated ‘Tigra And Dazzler Show’ Loses Showrunner And Entire Writing Staff In “Creative Overhaul” By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2019 11:00 am EST At the beginning of the year, we learned that Marvel Television was teaming with Hulu on four new animated shows inspired by various characters from Marvel Comics. There’s M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, Marvel’s Tigra and Dazzler Show, and Howard the Duck. Despite the recent shift in power as Jeph Loeb steps down from Marvel TV and Kevin Feige starts to oversee both the film and television sectors of Marvel Entertainment, almost all of the shows remain on track at Hulu....

Netflix Picks Up ‘The Lovebirds’ Starring Kumail Nanjiani And Issa Rae After Paramount Canceled Release Due To Coronavirus By Ethan Anderton/March 21, 2020 10:00 am EST One of the many theatrical releases that was postponed due to coronavirus concerns was the romantic comedy The Lovebirds starring Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) and Issa Rae (Insecure). Paramount Pictures pulled the movie from its April release date as several other studios postponed upcoming theatrical releases due to the growing concerns about the spread of coronavirus....

Revisiting ‘Return To Oz,’ Disney’s Sequel-To-A-Classic That Haunted Our Nightmares By Rafael Motamayor/Feb. 17, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Picture it: a time when the head of Walt Disney Productions said, what if we tried to appeal to more than just families? What if we make a series of boldly innovative films that challenge the notion that we only do one type of film?...

By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 8, 2020 9:30 am EST MGM was the first studio to announce a major theatrical release delay due to coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns and, even as the entire industry grinds to a halt amid the ongoing pandemic, continues to be one of the few Hollywood studios still making major deals. As MGM’s new film chairman Michael De Luca hires executives and reshapes the company, the studio has picked up Ridley Scott’s true crime drama Gucci, based on the real-life murder of fashion house head Maurizio Gucci, and is in talks with Lady Gaga to star....

WrestleMania 36 Is Still Happening, But With A Limited Staff And No Live Audience By Ethan Anderton/March 17, 2020 7:37 am EST While endless entertainment events have been canceled, movie theaters have closed down, and essentially all sports have been suspended, the WWE isn’t going to let the coronavirus stop one of their biggest events of the year. WrestleMania 36 was slated to take place on April 5 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida with thousands of spectators....

‘21 Bridges’ Review: Chadwick Boseman Shuts Down Manhattan In This Bland, Predictable Thriller By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2019 7:00 am EST Hollywood doesn’t pump-out many non-franchise action-thrillers these days, so perhaps we should be thankful for 21 Bridges. And perhaps that this movie hails from producers The Russo Brothers, a duo responsible for so many blockbuster franchise movies, is a good sign. But lordy, does the end result have to be so lifeless?...

‘Birds Of Prey’ Reactions: The Latest R-Rated DC Film Gets Some Fantabulous Buzz By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 29, 2020 2:03 pm EST Birds of Prey has had its premiere in London, and several critics were on hand to witness the latest bit of R-rated DC mayhem. The overall consensus: it’s sure as hell better than Suicide Squad, but that’s not saying much. But the most common reaction is that the film is fun, with great action and some fun performances....

‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Director Teases Deleted Scenes And A Potential Extended Cut By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2020 5:00 pm EST Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is full of shocking, hilarious scenes where the titular reporter from Kazakhstan interacts with real, unsuspecting people. The results range from unbelievable patience to unfathomable stupidity and even the spouting of casual racism and conspiracy theories. But with a movie like this, there’s plenty of footage that we didn’t get to see....

‘Coming Home In The Dark’ Review: An Unbearably Tense Thriller That Sticks With You [Sundance 2021] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 31, 2021 7:00 am EST A one and a half-hour gut-punch, Coming Home in the Dark is bleak, tense, and often unshakable. It sticks with you; haunts you. Leaves you feeling restless. Anxiety-inducing and frequently unpleasant, it travels down dark roads, and while you can likely guess the destination, getting there is no less unnerving....

‘Doctor Who’ Season 12 Clip: Time Can Be Rewritten, But Not Human DNA By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 17, 2019 1:30 pm EST As we’ve learned from many seasons of Doctor Who, time can be rewritten. The best part of the long-running BBC sci-fi series is that it routinely flouts the rules of time travel, with the titular time-traveling alien regularly interfering in historical events. But there seems to be thing that shouldn’t be rewritten, even in the Doctor’s eyes: human DNA....