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J.J. Abrams Made Hilarious ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Codenames For The Secret Characters By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 13, 2020 12:00 pm EST When you go into a project as big as Star Wars, you have to be prepared for a life of secrecy. But J.J. Abrams knew that whole drill, having helmed 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. So when he and co-writer Chris Terrio came into Star Wars Episode 9, they came prepared with a few cheeky codenames....

LOL: Watch The ‘Solar Opposites’ Cast Cook Up Some Baby Biscuits In The Recording Booth By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2020 6:00 am EST Solar Opposites arrived on Hulu last month and quickly became the most-watched original program on the streaming service to date. The animated series from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland and writer Mike McMahan follows four aliens who are stranded on Earth waiting for a living super-computer called the Pupa to evolve and terraform the planet to give their entire race a new home....

Netflix Donating $5 Million To Support Black Youth, Black Creators, And Black-Owned Businesses By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 2020 2:00 pm EST After creating a collection of Black Lives Matter movies and TV shows to show support and solidarity with the global movement trying to stop police brutality and racial inequality, Netflix is putting their money where their mouth is. The streaming service is pledging $5 million to organizations dedicated to helping Black youth, Black creators, and Black-owned businesses who aren’t always afforded the same opportunities....

Knives Out Shirley Now Streaming on Hulu Release Date: 2020Genre: Fictional BiopicDirector: Josephine DeckerCast: Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Logan LermanElisabeth Moss turns in another raw, brilliant performance, once again playing a woman coming unhinged. It’s what she does best, and Shirley might be the best work Moss has turned in yet. Moss plays Haunting of Hill House author Shirley Jackson as she struggles to write a new novel based on a real-life missing person case....

Pedro Pascal’s ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Villain Has A Dark Comic Book History – Here’s What You Need To Know By Eric Vilas-Boas/Dec. 25, 2019 9:00 am EST Gone are the goatee and helmet, but Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian heartthrob Pedro Pascal is indeed in the new trailer for next year’s Wonder Woman 1984. His Maxwell Lord is a capitalist known for mythmaking. “Think about finally having everything you’ve always wanted,” he says in the trailer, in a television broadcast over ’80s scenes with boxy cars and shopping malls....

Quibi Finally Adds Airplay Streaming Support For TV Viewing By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 27, 2020 2:00 pm EST Was there ever a new brand with worse timing than Quibi? Quibi, a mobile streaming platform dreamed up by Jeffrey Katzenberg and supported by dozens of high-profile stars and filmmakers, was supposed to be the next big thing — by making content much, much smaller. On paper, it’s an interesting idea: a streaming platform for the commuter, for people to watch on the subway or in the office bathroom stall....

Small Axe Trailer Here’s the release schedule for the five films within the Small Axe anthology, and you can get a breakdown of what each of the films is about below the schedule: Mangrove – November 20 (watch the trailer here) Lovers Rock – November 27 Education – December 4 Alex Wheatle – December 11 Red, White and Blue – December 18 Mangrove centers on Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), the owner of Notting Hill’s Caribbean restaurant, Mangrove, a lively community base for locals, intellectuals and activists....

Superhero Bits: ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Lizard Concept Art, ‘Doctor Strange 2’ And ‘Shang-Chi’ Rumors & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 31, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see some alternate designs for Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man? Could we see some alternate versions of familiar MCU heroes in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness? What Easter egg from Batman (1989) is in Arthur’s apartment in Joker? Could we see MI6 characters introduced in the Shang-Chi movie?...

The Best Movies Leaving HBO Max In September 2020 By Ben Pearson/Aug. 21, 2020 3:30 pm EST It feels like only yesterday I was writing about how Blazing Saddles and The Departed were coming to HBO Max. They both arrived on the streaming service last month, but evidently only booked a short stay – they’re both packing up and moving on at the end of next month. Instead of recommending again that you watch those (although you still really should – they’re both great!...

The Short Of It: Reviewing The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts By Leigh Monson/Jan. 29, 2020 2:00 pm EST Of all the shorts categories celebrated at the Academy Awards, the animated shorts are what you could probably consider the most popular. Everyone knows animated shorts! They play in front of your favorite Pixar and Dreamworks movies, are brief enough to capture your child’s wandering attention span, and act as a testing ground for new animation techniques and methods of storytelling, often without needing to utter a syllable....

Watch An Exclusive ‘Ford V Ferrari’ Clip Of Matt Damon And Christian Bale’s Brawl By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 11, 2020 4:30 pm EST Get ready to start your engines with Ford v Ferrari, now available on Digital, 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD. In honor of the home media release of the Oscar-nominated film, we’re debuting an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip that focuses on a big fight scene between stars Matt Damon and Christian Bale....

Watch Extended Previews Of New Digital Releases ‘Birds Of Prey’ And ‘Bloodshot’ By Chris Evangelista/March 24, 2020 3:30 pm EST Birds of Prey and Bloodshot both hit digital today as studios attempt to figure out how to appeal to folks stuck at home due to the coronavirus. Both of these digital releases are early – especially Bloodshot, which opened in theaters this month – and studios are hoping that movie-goers will shell out some cash to own titles sooner than expected....

Watch The ‘Star Wars Resistance’ Season 2 Premiere Online For Free Right Now By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 10, 2019 11:00 am EST Last weekend brought the second season premiere of the Disney XD animated series Star Wars Resistance. It also happens to be the final season of the series that has been unfolding concurrently with the events of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and will soon lead up to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

‘Books Of Blood’ Hulu Movie Coming From Seth MacFarlane And Brannon Braga By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 1, 2019 7:30 am EST Horror anthologies are all the rage on TV right now, so it’s curious that longtime Star Trek producer Brannon Braga is choosing to go in the opposite direction with Books of Blood – turning Clive Barker’s horror anthology series into a feature film. But that is what is happening with Braga’s directorial debut, a Books of Blood movie adaptation coming to Hulu starring Anna Friel as a “brilliant, beautiful psychologist” who strikes up a connection with a self-described “ghost whisperer” (Rafi Gavron) after she loses her son to leukemia....

‘Da Five Bloods’ Posters Arrive Ahead Of Next Week’s Netflix Release By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2020 12:30 pm EST A new Spike Lee joint is always worth getting excited about, but to have one arrive now, at this particular time, seems essential. Lee’s latest, Da Five Bloods, is hitting Netflix next week, and ahead of that streaming release, several fantastic new posters have found their way online. You can see the posters, along with some words from Lee, below....

‘Doctor Sleep’ Is A Sequel To ‘The Shining,’ But It Owes A Debt To Other Horror Movies As Well By Kristen Lopez/Nov. 8, 2019 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to Classically Contemporary, a series where we explore the ways in which new releases echo classic Hollywood or how classic Hollywood continues to influence modern filmmaking.)Because Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King’s 1977 novel The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaptation, it’s easy to say those are the only sources of inspiration....

‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ May Shake Up Marvel’s Visual Style Thanks To Director Sam Raimi By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 14, 2021 4:00 pm EST There’s a lot of anticipation for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the big screen. That’s mostly because we’re entering a new era for the interconnected comic book franchises, but also because we haven’t seen a Marvel movie since Spider-Man: Far From Home in July 2019....

‘Five Eyes’: Guy Ritchie And Jason Statham Reunite For A Spy Thriller By Ben Pearson/Sept. 4, 2020 4:30 pm EST Director Guy Ritchie plucked Jason Statham from the world of modeling and gave him his first acting job in 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The two have reunited multiple times over the years – in 2000’s Snatch, 2005’s Revolver, and again in next year’s Wrath of Man – and now the duo are getting together to make yet another new movie....

‘Have A Good Trip’ Trailer: Sting, Nick Offerman, And More Teach Us About Psychedelics In Netflix Documentary By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 1, 2020 5:30 pm EST What would it be like to trip with Sting? You probably won’t be able to experience that, but you can hear Sting talk about his craziest trip in Have a Good Trip, Netflix’s new comedic documentary featuring a bunch of celebrities, including Adam Scott, Nick Offerman, Sarah Silverman, and more talking about psychedelics....

‘Impasse’ Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Next Film Is A Wintry Spy Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 13, 2020 4:30 pm EST Zhang Yimou is the go-to auteur for beautifully shot Chinese arthouse films, though the visual splendor of his style sometimes overshadows everything else in his work. As a result, Zhang’s recent films have earned a reputation for being visually striking but narratively stilted. But Zhang’s last film, the monochromatic (and hugely fun) martial arts film Shadow, proved that the Chinese filmmaker still has some oomph left in him....