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The Latest ‘El Camino’ Teaser Brings Back Another ‘Breaking Bad’ Character By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 2019 11:00 am EST So much of El Camino, the Breaking Bad sequel-movie, is shrouded in secrecy. Sure, we know it’s about what happened to Jesse Pinkman after he drove off shrieking like a madman in the series finale. But how many other Bad characters will be making an appearance? It was previously confirmed that Jesse’s old drug-dealing buddies Badger and Skinny Pete would be back, and now we’ve learned about the return of someone else: Old Joe....

The Morning Watch: ‘WandaVision’ Hints About How Vision Is Alive, 2020 Directors Roundtable & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 19, 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. In this edition, take a closer look at some of the hints about how Vision has returned in Marvel’s new series WandaVision....

The Morning Watch: A Pro Pole Dancer Reviews Pole-Dancing Movie Scenes, How 33 Directors Got Their Start & More By Ethan Anderton/April 29, 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 Morning Watch: Pixar’s ‘Onward’ Storyboard Comparison, Analyzing Sniper Scenes In Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 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, see how the storyboards for Pixar’s Onward compare to the final cut of the movie....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Romancing The Stone’ Is A Fun, Sexy Adventure By Ben Pearson/May 25, 2020 7:00 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 Movie: Romancing the StoneWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: When a romance novelist’s sister is kidnapped, the novelist finds herself flung into a dangerous, whirlwind adventure that’s fit for one of her books – including meeting a brash, handsome stranger who helps her on her quest....

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Our Friend’, ‘Alien Xmas’, ‘Breach’, ‘Hunter Hunter’, ‘The Ultimate Playlist Of Noise’, ‘Skyfire’ By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 25, 2020 12:00 pm EST The time has come once again for us to get our lassos and round-up some pesky trailers that escaped from the trailer farm! And then we’ll, uh, milk them. Okay, this metaphor has gone off the rails. In any case, a trailer round-up is where we put together trailers for some smaller titles that deserve attention even if they’re not huge blockbusters....

Why You May Never See Studio Ghibli Movies On Any Streaming Service By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 16, 2019 2:30 pm EST But that’s not an oversight: GKIDS, the indie animation distributor that took over the distribution rights to Ghibli films from Disney in 2017, says it doesn’t have any plans to bring Ghibli films to any streaming service in the foreseeable future. And there’s a very specific reason for that. Hayao Miyazaki hasn’t had the best relationship with Hollywood over the years....

WTF: ‘Call Of Duty’ Adding Leatherface And Billy The Puppet For Halloween Gameplay Event By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2020 6:00 am EST It’s Halloween, but since full-on parties are going to be few and far between thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we’ll have to find other ways to enjoy this spooky holiday. If you’re getting sick of watching horror movies and TV shows at home, maybe you’ll want to mix it up with some gaming, and one of the more entertaining options might be playing the latest iteration of Call of Duty during The Haunting of Verdansk Halloween gameplay event, because two horror icons are getting in on the action....

‘Antebellum’ Directors Making Apocalyptic Drama ‘Rapture’ By Chris Evangelista/May 1, 2020 4:30 pm EST Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, directors behind the coronavirus-delayed horror movie Antebellum, are already cooking up their next project. It’s called Rapture, and it’s described as an “apocalyptic drama” and “a mind-bending nightmare of Biblical proportions.” Plus: Antebellum now has a new release date in place for this August. Lionsgate is clearly very happy with Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the directors of the upcoming Antebellum....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: “JMM” Pushes Jimmy Over The Edge By Chris Evangelista/March 31, 2020 8:00 am EST This week on Better Call Saul: Kim and Jimmy get hitched! Lalo gets bail! Mike gets to work! Saul Goodman comes out to play (and yell)! Kim Last week’s Better Call Saul ended with a whopper: Kim “proposing” marriage to Jimmy. This week’s episode, “JMM”, proves that wasn’t just a lark. Nor was it something the season would build up to....

‘Elijah’: ‘Crawl’ Director Alexandre Aja Helming New Horror Movie For Searchlight Pictures By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2020 3:15 pm EST Deadline broke the news on Elijah, the new horror movie from Crawl and The Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja. The story “follows a young boy who invites a mysterious man into his home, believing the stranger to be the key to saving his sick mother. As increasingly disturbing things start to happen around his home, the boy soon realizes that the sinister stranger is not the savior he claims to be....

‘Perry Mason’ Trailer: HBO Reinvents The Iconic Character With ‘The Americans’ Star Matthew Rhys By Chris Evangelista/April 16, 2020 11:00 am EST Matthew Rhys is a private eye in the 1930s in Perry Mason, a new take on the 1950s-60s TV series that originally starred Raymond Burr. Perry Mason was a lawyer on that series, but this new HBO show promises to reveal the character’s “origins” working as a P.I. in 1931 Los Angeles....

‘Pistol’: Danny Boyle To Direct FX Miniseries About Sex Pistols Guitarist Steve Jones By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 12, 2021 4:30 pm EST Danny Boyle got his chance to explore the mod rock icons the Beatles with Yesterday, and now he’s shooting straight for ’70s punk rock with Pistol, an FX limited series that follows the life of Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. FX announced that it has ordered Boyle’s Pistol, a six-episode limited series about the Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones based on Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol....

By /Film Staff/Aug. 24, 2019 12:19 pm EST In 2018, some details began to leak online about a possible new Walt Disney Animation project rumored to be called Dragon Empire. We knew that Disney story artists Paul Briggs (Frozen) and Dean Wellins (Zootopia) were attached to make their directorial debut, with Moana producer Osnat Shurer overseeing and Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) writing the script. Now that project has officially been announced, and its real title has been revealed to be Raya and the Last Dragon....

‘Veronica Mars’ Review: The Hulu Revival Is As Good As Ever By Josh Spiegel/July 15, 2019 7:00 am EST It’s become old hat for a cult TV show to get revived in some capacity now, but rare is the TV show that gets two different revivals across different mediums. Veronica Mars is that rare show. First, it was brought back from the dead because of a passionate crowdfunding campaign that led to a movie released by Warner Bros....

‘Wolfman’s Got Nards’ Trailer: The ‘Monster Squad’ Documentary You’ve Been Waiting For [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 29, 2020 1:15 pm EST Update: Wolfman’s Got Nards will finally be available on VOD on October 27, 2020. Our original post from July 2018 follows.The Monster Squad is a bonafide cult hit, the type of film that floundered at the box office when it first arrived, only to grow a devoted following over the years....

Abbi Jacobson To Star In ‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines,’ The Next Animated From Phil Lord And Chris Miller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 19, 2020 4:00 pm EST Here is the synopsis for the film: Michael Rianda will direct the film based off a script he co-wrote with Jeff Rowe, his fellow Gravity Falls writer. The film has been in development since 2018, when Rianda and Rowe were first announced to be in charge of the project with Lord and Miller producing....

Amy Adams Reunites With Adam McKay For Netflix Series About A Class Action Lawsuit Against Walmart By Ben Pearson/Aug. 4, 2020 1:30 pm EST Amy Adams and Adam McKay are teaming up again. The actor and director, who previously collaborated on 2006’s Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and 2018’s Vice, are reuniting for a new limited Netflix series about the largest class action lawsuit in this country’s history. Get the details below....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Invislble Man’ And ‘Creature From The Black Lagoon’ Creep Into The Spinatures Line-Up By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 11, 2020 6:00 am EST Continuing the expanding line of Waxwork Records new Spinatures collectible line, two more classic Universal Monsters will be coming to your record players (and collectible shelves) next spring. The Invisible Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon will both be getting their own Spinature busts. You can situate the Universal Monsters on the spindle of your record player when you’re spinning your favorite LPs, or just display them proudly on a shelf with the rest of your horror collectibles....

Disneyland’s Avengers Campus Opening Has Been Delayed By Ben Pearson/April 10, 2020 3:00 pm EST On March 11, Disney announced that its highly-anticipated Avengers Campus would be opening at Disney California Adventure in the prime summer slot of July 20, 2020. But since the company’s theme parks have been closed for weeks due to the coronavirus, it looks like Disney won’t be able to hit that date after all. Avengers Campus Delayed...