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‘Magic Of Disney’s Animal Kingdom’ Is Just The Latest Disney TV Special To Highlight The Theme Parks – Watch The Best And Weirdest Here By Josh Spiegel/Sept. 21, 2020 11:00 am EST This week marks another new arrival to Disney+, the eight-episode Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom series, produced by National Geographic. The eight episodes, narrated by Josh Gad, all purport to offer the audience a weekly peek into the inner workings of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, one of the four theme parks of the Walt Disney World Resort, as well as The Seas with Nemo and Friends pavilion at Epcot....

‘Marvels’: New Fictional Podcast Series Expands The Podcast Universe By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 14, 2019 4:30 pm EST Marvel and Stitcher announced that it is launching a 10-episode Marvels podcast series available exclusively on Stitcher Premium until 2020, when it will see a wide release across all podcast platforms. “Building off our award-winning momentum of Marvel’s Wolverine: The Long Night and its sequel Marvel’s Wolverine: The Lost Trail, the New Media team is thrilled to continue to push the envelope of Super Hero storytelling via the scripted podcast medium” said Shane Rahmani, SVP and GM, Marvel New Media....

‘Once Were Brothers’ Review: A Straightforward Look At Music Legend Robbie Robertson [TIFF 2019] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 6, 2019 5:00 pm EST There has been a recent spate of documentaries from the survivors of the 60s, those artists that manage to outlive and outlast many of their colleagues and collaborators, resulting in decades of music making. The latest, Once Were Brothers, draws from Robbie Robertson’s story, a unique narrative where a half-native kid from Toronto became the center of a movement that birthed Americana....

‘Peninsula’, The Quasi-Sequel To ‘Train To Busan’, Hits Theaters In August And Will Stream On Shudder In 2021 By Ben Pearson/July 8, 2020 12:30 pm EST Director Yeon Sang-ho released his acclaimed zombie thriller Train to Busan back in 2016, and we’ve been eagerly awaiting his in-universe follow-up project, Peninsula. Now the new movie has an official release date, and it’s coming to North American theaters in less than a month....

‘Star Wars: The High Republic – A Test Of Courage’ Review: A Young Adult Novel That Proves Thrilling For All Ages By Bryan Young/Jan. 6, 2021 11:00 am EST This review will touch on some plot points that some readers may not want to know in advance. So consider this a minor spoiler warning.Author Justina Ireland gives us the second installment of The High Republic with the utterly delightful book Star Wars: The High Republic – A Test of Courage....

‘WandaVision’ Trailer Breakdown: Aren’t They A Fine Pair? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 2020 10:00 am EST Last night during the Emmys, a surprise trailer for Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series WandaVision was released. The show has been confirmed to be the first Marvel Studios series coming to Disney+ later this year, arriving before The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which will likely now be delayed until 2021. But don’t worry, because as our WandaVision trailer breakdown reveals, this looks like Marvel’s trippiest production yet, making it far more intriguing than anything Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes are up to....

‘We’re All Going To The World’s Fair’ Review: A Girl Enters A Mysterious MMORPG And Grapples With Her Identity [Sundance 2021] By Ben Pearson/Feb. 2, 2021 4:30 pm EST Jane Schoenbrun’s intimate narrative debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair opens with an eight minute unbroken shot that immediately pulls you in. Alone in her bedroom, a high school girl named Casey (Anna Cobb, in her film debut) records a video of herself uttering the same phrase three times, pricking her finger with a pin, smearing blood across her computer screen, and pressing play on a video which bathes her in rapidly changing colors....

21st Century Spielberg Podcast: With ‘Catch Me If You Can’ And ‘The Terminal’, Steven Spielberg Found Light In The Darkness By Chris Evangelista/May 12, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to 21st Century Spielberg, an ongoing column and podcast that examines the challenging, sometimes misunderstood 21st century filmography of one of our greatest living filmmakers, Steven Spielberg. In this edition: Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal.)“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in,” wrote Robert Frost....

Cambridge Analytica Movie Coming From ‘WandaVision’ Director Matt Shakman By Ben Pearson/May 5, 2020 5:00 pm EST Matt Shakman, the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia veteran who directed every episode of the upcoming Marvel Disney+ series WandaVision, may be uniting with several other Marvel alums for a new film project. A new report says Shakman is in talks to direct a Cambridge Analytica movie for producers Anthony and Joe Russo and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Avengers: Endgame)....

Disney+ Offers 4K HDR, Dolby Atmos At No Extra Charge In Latest One-Up Of Netflix And Apple By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 26, 2019 12:30 pm EST With two months left to go until the launch of Disney’s highly anticipated streaming platform Disney+, the only thing left is to weigh our options: Is it worth it to subscribe to a whole new streaming service? Well, Disney is certainly making a good case for it, with the impressive slew of original TV shows and movies coming to Disney+, as well as a surprisingly low price for the amount of content we’re about to get....

HBO And BBC Renew ‘His Dark Materials’ For A Third And Final Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 22, 2020 9:00 am EST His Dark Materials is returning for a third, and likely final, season. The fantasy-adventure series adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed series has been renewed for a third season by HBO and BBC One. The news doesn’t come as a complete surprise, as the first two seasons adapted the first two books in Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy of novels, but it will — for the first time — bring Pullman’s complete vision of his story to the screen....

By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 15, 2020 1:14 pm EST The Madonna biopic has found itself a director: Madonna. Yes, the material girl will direct and co-write her own biopic, which is such an unapologetically hubristic move that you have to respect it. Diablo Cody is co-writing the script with Madonna, and the film will presumably follow Madonna’s rise to fame. We really don’t know a whole lot about the approach here – is it going to follow the traditional musician biopic trappings (see: Bohemian Rhapsody), or will it go for something different (see: I’m Not There)?...

Mondo’s Pixar Show Is A Stunning Tribute To Some Of The Greatest Animated Movies Ever Made By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 9, 2019 12:00 pm EST Mondo has established itself as the go-to source for unique and distinctive posters depicting beloved movies. So it’s no surprise that they’ve allied themselves with Pixar, for the all-new gallery show, The Spirit of Adventure: A Pixar Poster Show. The show is now open, offering 15 all-new posters from nine different artists....

The Best Fantastic Fest Movies You’ve Never Seen By Rob Hunter/Sept. 19, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. This week we celebrate Fantastic Fest’s 15th anniversary with a look at some of the best films that played over the years that failed to find the audience they deserved.) As mentioned above – literally just two lines up – this year’s Fantastic Fest Film Festival in Austin, TX is their 15th, and that’s something worth celebrating....

The Best Movies Leaving Hulu In February 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 21, 2021 3:00 pm EST Hulu has to return some videotapes — that is, return some titles back to the streaming ether, due to licensing rules that force platforms to play this game of hot potato. But it’s another month, and another list of old titles that must leave Hulu to make way for the new. Here are the best movies leaving Hulu in February 2021....

The Quarantine Stream: Start Taking Animation Seriously With The Year-Best ‘Wolfwalkers’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 15, 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: WolfwalkersWhere You Can Stream It: Apple TV+The Pitch: The daughter of a wolf hunter, Robyn, comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack....

‘American Gods’ Season 3 Trailer: You Can’t Outrun Destiny By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 4, 2020 10:30 am EST American Gods season 3 is all about destiny — which it turns out you can’t outrun, nor put on ice. Even when you attempt to lay low in a wintry Wisconsin town, as Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is doing in the third season of the fantasy thriller series based on Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed novel of the same name....

‘Enola Holmes’ Trailer: Millie Bobby Brown Is Sherlock’s Sister By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 25, 2020 8:00 am EST Millie Bobby Brown is ready to solve some mysteries in Enola Holmes, a new Netflix movie that finds the Stranger Things star playing the sister of none other than Sherlock Holmes. When Enola’s mother goes missing, she must crack the case while also dealing with her two brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft. Shenanigans and anachronisms follow!...

‘Joker’ Cinematographer Lawrence Sher On Contrasts And Chaos [Spoiler Interview] By Jack Giroux/Oct. 23, 2019 2:00 pm EST Sher, who’s an economics major with a background in still photography, has been working with Phillips since the Hangover trilogy. Before the duo’s first collaboration on that hit series, Sher shot Garden State and I Love You Man, to name just a few. This year, he played on a huge, beautiful canvas with Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and was able to make a comic book movie that’s a throwback to the ’70s and the Martin Scorsese movies that made him want to be a cinematographer in the first place....

‘Mank’ Trailer: One Final Look At David Fincher’s Trip Back To Hollywood In The 1930s By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 5, 2020 10:00 am EST Mank is now on Netflix, and the streaming service decided to release one last trailer to seal the deal. This final Mank trailer is appropriately old-timey, cut like the type of trailers for Hollywood’s yesterday. It also comes with plenty of gushing pull-quotes to remind you that this is a prestige picture over at Netflix....