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John Mulaney Questions The Headless Horseman And ‘The Birds’ In An Outstanding ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2020 10:00 am EST John Mulaney is one of the most beloved veterans of Saturday Night Live. Though he wasn’t ever a cast member, he made some memorable appearances at the Weekend Update desk, and he was one of the best writers on the show for a long time. Now that his star has risen outside of the realm of SNL as one of the best comedians working today, there’s a lot of excitement whenever he hosts....

Netflix Will Allow Parents To Filter, Remove Movies And Shows From Kids’ Profiles By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 7, 2020 2:30 pm EST With kids quarantined inside with nothing to do but stream movies and shows for the foreseeable future, parents are naturally going to get stricter with what they can and can’t watch. But how many complaints do you think it took for Netflix to start rolling those stricter parental controls into its actual platform?...

New ‘The Underground Railroad’ Teaser Introduces Cora Randall And The Real Runaway Slave Train Station By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 22, 2020 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Everyone learns about The Underground Railroad in school as a network of secret routes and safe houses used to help enslaved African-Americans escape out of slavery into the free states of the North and Canada. But what if The Underground Railroad wasn’t merely a metaphor, but rather an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors riding on secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the southern soil, taking slaves on the first journey of their free life?...

New Details For Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ Confirmed, Including Junkie XL’s Original Score By Ethan Anderton/July 6, 2020 9:30 am EST Zack Snyder’s Justice League will arrive on HBO Max next year, and that has fans of the filmmaker’s vision for the DC Extended Universe over the moon. However, with such a long wait until they can see the movie they’ve demanded for over two and a half years, fans are hungry for any new information they can find out about Zack Snyder’s cut, and the director fed them some scraps over the holiday weekend....

Pop Culture Imports: A Tranquil Korean Reality Show, A South African Romantic-Comedy, And A Delicious Documentary On Chinese Food By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 31, 2018 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) Yes, it’s that time again — the time when I yell at you to dive into the wealth of foreign movies and shows available to stream, and you nod your head and vaguely promise that you totally like reading subtitles....

Revisiting ‘Bride Of Boogedy’, Disney’s Horror Movie Parody Sequel That Somehow Exists By Rafael Motamayor/July 3, 2020 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Despite Mr. Boogedy (which I previously wrote about for this column) never becoming the TV show it was meant to be, the Disney powers-that-be thought that the horror parody about a family of pranksters being haunted by a ghost absolutely warranted a sequel....

Russo Brothers Producing ‘Grimjack’ And ‘Battle Of The Planets’ (Aka ‘Gatchaman’) Movies, May Direct ‘Planets’ [Comic-Con 2019] By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2019 12:45 pm EST Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony & Joe Russo addressed adoring fans from the Hall H stage at San Diego Comic-Con this morning, and while we’ll have a full breakdown of that panel soon, we wanted to share two pieces of information they revealed that we hadn’t heard before....

Superhero Bits: Canceled Superman Game Concept Art, Complete ‘Teen Titans’ Series Comes To Blu-Ray & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 14, 2019 6:00 pm EST Will you get the celebratory 750th issue of The Flash? Did you know there was an open-world Superman game once in the works? Will Marvel’s Moon Knight series tie into the Blade movie? When does the complete series of Teen Titans arrive on Blu-ray? Which Avengers: Endgame deleted scene almost upended the MCU timeline?...

Superhero Bits: New ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Details, ‘Captain Marvel’ Pager References SWORD & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2020 6:00 pm EST How does the Captain Marvel pager given to Nick Fury reference SWORD? What lies in the Olympia Archives of Marvel’s Avengers video game? Want to know more about Spider-Man: Miles Morales? Have you seen the trailer for the German superhero movie Freaks – You’re One of Us? Are She-Hulk and more Marvel characters coming to Marvel’s Avengers video game?...

The Cost Of Canceling SXSW Could Keep The Festival From Returning In 2021 By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 2020 8:30 am EST The entertainment industry is starting to take a hit as large gatherings of people for major events create concerns about spreading coronavirus to more of the population. The global release of No Time to Die was pushed back from April to November, but it’s the indie world of cinema that might be hurting the most after the cancellation of the South by Southwest music, film, tech and media festival was announced just before last weekend, less than one week before it would have began on March 13....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘21 Chump Street’ Is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s One-Act Musical Written Between ‘In The Heights’ And ‘Hamilton’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 8, 2020 10:00 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: 21 Chump StreetWhere You Can Stream It: YouTubeThe Pitch: In a plot that mirrors the events of 21 Jump Street, a Florida police officer goes undercover and poses as a high school student in an attempt to bust the kids who were dealing drugs....

Theme Park Bits: Studio Ghibli Theme-Park Concept Art, A Star Wars Show Closes, And More By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 13, 2020 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: A Star Wars show is closing at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Take a look at the concept art for a Studio Ghibli theme park. And more! Fans of Star Wars may be sad to learn that at least one of the many, many ways in which you can relive the saga at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is going away....

Universal Studios Beijing Reveals Seven Themed Lands: Harry Potter, Transformers, Jurassic World & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 12, 2019 10:00 am EST Universal Studios Beijing is bringing the magic of the movies to China in the form of a huge new theme park, as well as the signature Universal CityWalk entertainment complex, and two new resort hotels. Today, the seven themed lands that make up the new theme park were revealed, and they include some Universal Studios favorites like the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Jurassic World, but also lands for Transformers, Kung Fu Panda, the Minions of Despicable Me, and more....

Video Game Trailers: ‘Iron Man VR’ Pits Tony Stark Against Ghost, And ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Features Kamala Khan As A Playable Character By Ben Pearson/Oct. 7, 2019 3:30 pm EST While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has come to a turning point in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel video games are trying to take things to the next level. Next year will see the release of two new games – Iron Man VR and Marvel’s Avengers – and new trailers for each of them debuted over the weekend during New York Comic Con....

Water Cooler: Rebecca, Hubie Halloween, The Haunting Of Bly Manor, Star Trek: Picard, Hausu, And More By Ben Pearson/Oct. 16, 2020 2:15 pm EST On the October 16, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler....

‘Imaginary Friends’ Brings John Krasinski Back To Comedy Alongside Ryan Reynolds By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2019 8:30 am EST Imaginary Friends is a new fantasy comedy set up at Paramount Pictures that will team up John Krasinski with Deadpool star and all-around smart ass, Ryan Reynolds. You can probably guess what the movie is about based on the title.Variety has word on Imaginary Friends lining up Krasinski and Reynolds to star....

‘In The Tall Grass’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘Cube’ Takes On The Stephen King And Joe Hill Story By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 17, 2019 9:00 am EST In the Tall Grass, the considerably nasty short story from Stephen King and son Joe Hill, just dropped its first trailer – and what an effective trailer it is. In the best horror tradition, In the Tall Grass takes something innocuous – in this case, an overgrown field – and makes it terrifying....

‘Joker’ Spoiler Review: Joaquin Phoenix Elevates A Disturbing, Incendiary Portrait Of The Villain As Antihero By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 7, 2019 8:00 am EST Reading around online, it would be easy to go into into Joker with a list of talking points in your head before you had even seen the movie. Since its unprecedented win last month of the Venice Film Festival’s top prize, the latest comic book tentpole from Warner Bros....

‘Love And Monsters’ Trailer: Can Young Love Survive In The Aftermath Of A Giant Monster Apocalypse? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2020 3:00 pm EST Some of the most soul-crushing and formative experiences come from young romance. But imagine how much harder that kind of love would be in the wake of a giant monster apocalypse. Love and Monsters is a new sci-fi romance that finds a young man named Joel (Dylan O’Brien) estranged from his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick) after giant monsters appeared on Earth and forced what remained of humanity to hide underground....

‘Monsters Of California’: Former Blink-182 Frontman To Direct Coming Of Age Sci-Fi Film By Ben Pearson/Oct. 8, 2020 4:00 pm EST In the immortal words of former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge: “Work sucks, I know.” But DeLonge is actually hard at work as we speak, making his feature directorial debut on a movie called Monsters of California. The film, a coming of age science fiction story about a group of kids who investigate paranormal events in Southern California, is currently in production and has a whole slew of newly announced cast members....