The Food That Defined Film And Television In 2020 By Matt Donato/Jan. 8, 2021 9:00 am EST I love to eat. I love to cook. I love to stuff myself into restaurant booths surrounded by companions, boozy creations, and another kitchen’s signature nibbles. I love to write about how filmmakers utilize food, whether it’s to set a mood, spark a connection, or layer a sense of comfort atop an otherwise deceptively tense standoff....
The Morning Watch: ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Storyboard To Screen, VFX Artists React To ‘Mary Poppins’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 12, 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: Werner Herzog Presents ‘The Mandalorian’, Willem Dafoe Career Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2019 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, as The Mandalorian debuts the premiere episode on Disney+ today, take a look at what the series would be like if it were a documentary by Werner Herzog....
‘Batwoman’ Casts Javicia Leslie To Replace Ruby Rose As The Series Lead By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2020 7:30 am EST Gotham City has a new Caped Crusader in town. God Friended Me actress Javicia Leslie has been cast as the new Batwoman lead, replacing Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane in season 2 of the CW series. Leslie, who will be the first Black actress to ever portray Batwoman in live-action, will be playing a new character named Ryan Wilder....
‘Black Widow’ Poster Reveals David Harbour As Red Guardian, Natasha’s New Suit & More [D23] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2019 2:54 pm EST Marvel Studios already made their big presentation at The D23 Expo, but that wasn’t all they had to show off to fans eager to see more from the upcoming Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first Black Widow poster has been revealed from The D23 show floor, showing off not only a new suit for Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff, but also our first look at David Harbour suited up as Alexei, the Red Guardian, as well as the rest of the supporting cast....
‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: Audaciously And Raucously Hilarious With A Surprisingly Tender Heart By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2020 9:00 am EST But America is all about second chances. And Borat is given one now that America is “great again” under the rule of Premier McDonald Trump. The leaders of Kazakhstan have given Borat a chance to redeem himself by bringing Vice Premier Michael Pence a special gift, and it’s all chronicled in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan....
‘Bride Of Frankenstein’ Reboot Still Being Stitched Together At Universal By Chris Evangelista/June 12, 2020 1:30 pm EST Universal’s Bride of Frankenstein reboot isn’t quite dead yet. At one point, the film was supposed to be part of Universal’s Dark Universe – but then that entire idea was chased away by torch-wielding villagers. Now, Universal is taking a different, and so far better, approach to reviving their classic monsters. They already released The Invisible Man with Blumhouse, and have several other monster-related titles in the works....
‘Disney Family Singalong’ Reunites ‘High School Musical’ And Disney Movie Stars At A Social Distance By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 14, 2020 4:30 pm EST We’re all in this together — from at least six feet apart. Disney has enlisted Disney Channel and Disney movie stars in a star-studded Disney Family Singalong set to air this week on ABC. The socially-distanced singalong event will reunite High School Musical stars Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens, along with other cast members of the beloved Disney Channel movie to perform “We’re All in This Together,” while mega-stars like Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, Disney legends like Moana star Auli’i Cravalho and Alan Menken join in for a medley of Disney classics....
‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga’ Trailer: Will Ferrell And Rachel McAdams Put On A Wild Show By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2020 8:30 am EST The Eurovision Song Contest remains a puzzling spectacle for Americans. Why, every year, does all of Europe get so intense about a song competition? Why do the performances and costumes look like they emerged from some crazed acid trip? Why is someone dressed like a unicorn?...
‘Extra Ordinary’ Directors And Cast On Bringing Their Sweet And Strange Supernatural Comedy To Life [Interview] By Danielle Solzman/March 6, 2020 8:30 am EST Extra Ordinary, a blend of low-key supernatural chills and offbeat Irish comedy, is one of the sweetest and funniest movies of the year. /Film was able to sit down with writer/directors Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman and cast members Will Forte, Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, and Claudia O’Doherty to discuss the film, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last year and is finally getting its theatrical release this weekend....
‘Fire Will Come’ Review: A Slow-Burn That Transforms Into A Raging Inferno [NYFF 2019] By Caroline Cao/Oct. 11, 2019 5:00 pm EST For the countryside of rural Galicia, Spain, there seems to be an explanation for a past wildfire pinned on one ex-convict, Amador (Amador Arias with a weathered disposition). When the convicted arsonist is released from jail, he rejoins his elderly mother (Benedicta Sánchez) in the mountainous countryside where he reacclimatizes into a society wary about welcoming him back....
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Featurette: Bringing August Wilson’s Play From The Stage To Screen By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 28, 2020 4:30 pm EST August Wilson’s words are revered as poetry, his plays taught in classrooms. So it’s no wonder that director George C. Wolfe and producer Denzel Washington wanted to put special care in bringing Wilson’s stage play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, to the screen. In a new featurette, Wolfe, Washington, and the rest of the cast of Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom delve into Wilson’s “crackling” dialogue and lyrical writing, and how they set about adapting it for the screen....
‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Trailer: Edward Norton Is A Detective With Tourette’s In 1950s Crime Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2019 9:08 am EST Edward Norton’s longtime passion project is finally coming to theaters. The Oscar-nominated actor has spent nearly two decades trying to get Motherless Brooklyn off the ground, an adaptation of the 1999 novel by Jonathan Lethem. And now, it has finally arrived with the official Motherless Brooklyn trailer signaling that this movie, which Norton directs and stars in, does indeed exist....
‘Peacemaker’: ‘Suicide Squad’ TV Spin-Off Featuring John Cena Coming From James Gunn And HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 23, 2020 10:00 am EST HBO Max already has one DC-set TV spin-off in the works devoted to the Gotham City Police Department. Now they have another: Peacemaker, a series spun-off from the upcoming The Suicide Squad. John Cena will reprise the role for the series, and Suicide Squad writer-director James Gunn will write all eight episodes of the series, and direct multiple episodes, too....
‘Pet Sematary’ Spoiler Review: A Scary New Twist On A Familiar Story By Chris Evangelista/April 8, 2019 7:00 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Pet Sematary.) How do you bring Pet Sematary back to life after so many people have grown familiar with its story?...
‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Sequel Pushed Back Six Months To Fall 2022 By Ethan Anderton/April 24, 2020 6:40 pm EST Last fall, Sony Pictures finally dated the anticipated animated sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The movie was slated to arrive in April 2022, but now, thanks to the complications caused by the production shutdown due to coronavirus and the constant shuffling of release dates for movies this year, the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel is being pushed back six months to a fall release date in 2022....
‘Tenet’ Trailer Breakdown: Christopher Nolan Communicates With The Future By Chris Evangelista/May 22, 2020 10:00 am EST The new Tenet trailer is here (after debuting in…checks notes…Fornite), and to put it bluntly, it rules. Action-packed, full of stunning visuals, and, since it’s a Christopher Nolan movie, mysterious as hell. While this trailer reveals the most about the film so far – for instance, it’s not about time travel, even though it sure looked like it was – it’s still shrouded in secrecy....
‘The Call Of The Wild’ Trailer: Harrison Ford And A Dog Named Buck Take On Mother Nature By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 20, 2019 7:30 am EST This year, Harrison Ford became a dog in the animated sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2. Next year, he’s teaming up with a dog for an adventure that will see them battling the elements during the middle of the Gold Rush in the 1890s....
‘The Nest’ Director Sean Durkin On How You Make A Thriller Feel Haunted [Interview] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 25, 2020 9:00 am EST Writer/director/producer Sean Durkin is unafraid to take us to some dark places, providing a unique and compelling vision along the way. The winner of the Sundance directing award for Martha Marcy May Marlene, he returned to that festival with The Nest, a creepy, harrowing character piece about a family’s struggles with their own dreams and expectations....
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Gets Golden And Trippy In A New Motion Poster By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2020 9:30 am EST While some of spring’s biggest blockbusters are running for the hills in the face of the spread of coronavirus around the United States, it sounds like Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics are still intending to release Wonder Woman 1984 this summer. In what feels like a show of confidence in blockbuster summer, the studio just released a new Wonder Woman 1984 motion poster featuring Gal Gadot decked out in her new Golden Eagle armor as some trippy vibrant colors swirl around her....
