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Netflix’s ‘Eurovision’ Movie Music Video: Will Ferrell And Rachel McAdams Fire Up “Volcano Man” By Chris Evangelista/May 18, 2020 5:30 pm EST Netflix’s Eurovision movie now has a title and a music video to go with it. The title: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. The music video: “Volcano Man.” What does any of this mean? Who can say? All we can know for sure is that stars Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are decked out in some memorable costumes for a suitably epic – and silly – video....

New On Blu-Ray: ‘Tenet’, ‘Crash’, ‘The Dark And The Wicked’, And ‘The Wolf Of Snow Hollow’ By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 24, 2020 9:00 am EST It’s time yet again to check in with the dwindling world of physical media. This week’s look at what’s new on Blu-ray includes Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action flick Tenet, David Cronenberg’s subversive Crash, the creepy horror flick The Dark and the Wicked, and the curious horror-comedy The Wolf of Snow Hollow....

Patty Jenkins Fought For Both ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Opening Scenes When Warner Bros. Wanted One Cut By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2020 11:00 am EST On the surface, it might seem like the Themyscira sequence could easily be cut, but Jenkins saw that it served two purposes. First, it gives a brief introduction to Diana’s origins for those who maybe haven’t seen the first movie yet and are catching it by happenstance with their family or on a plane....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’ Fixes A Plot Hole, Snyder Cut Campaign Does Some Good & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 9, 2019 6:00 pm EST Harley Quinn isn’t having the best day in this promo for the upcoming third episode of the new animated series.Crisis On Infinite Earths surprisingly fixed a plot hole created by DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season one....

SXSW 2021 Planning Online Festival, Does Not Specify Status Of Traditional Fest By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 22, 2020 12:30 pm EST What does the future hold for film festivals? Right now, it’s hard to say. Several festivals had to cancel this year, or compromise with online components. And while there was once a hope that the coronavirus situation would be over and done with sooner rather than later, it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon....

The Best Cinematic Needledrops And Song Choices Of 2019 By Kristen Lopez/Jan. 24, 2020 12:00 pm EST Since the dawn of film, music has always been an essential component. A director’s use of a particular song can become synonymous with a scene and bring an added layer of emotion. The use of music in 2019 was no exception and it was hard narrowing this list down to just ten. The movies here used music, either as needle drops or performed, to give audiences insight into the narrative or their character....

The Morning Watch: How ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Compares To Source Material, Kids React To 90s Cartoons & More By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 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, find out about the big differences between the Best Picture nominated Jojo Rabbit and Christine Leunens’ novel on which it’s based, Caging Skies....

‘Antlers’ Trailer: Scott Cooper And Guillermo Del Toro Have Cooked Up Something Scary By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 20, 2019 8:30 am EST The trailer for Antlers is here, and it’s creepy as hell. Director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro have teamed to adapt a short story from Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca, and the results look incredibly promising. In the film, Keri Russell plays a small-town school teacher who begins to suspect all is not well with one of her students....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Featurette Clip: Chris Hemsworth Gets Ready To Play Lebowski Thor By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2019 2:00 pm EST Avengers: Endgame is available today on digital download, allowing fans to revisit their favorite parts of the movie over and over again. After landing at the top of the box office charts as the highest grossing movie of all-time, the movie is now Fandango’s most pre-ordered title in the company’s history....

‘Black Adam’ Cast Adds Quintessa Swindell As Cyclone By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 14, 2020 3:00 pm EST Black Adam has added a new cast member: Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone. Swindell joins Dwayne Johnson as titular anti-hero Black Adam, Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, and Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher. Jaume Collet-Serra is directing the pic, which is connected to Shazam!, but not exactly what you’d call a sequel. Instead, it’s to set up an eventual confrontation between Black Adam and Shazam in a future film....

‘Borat 2’ Star Maria Bakalova Felt It Was Her “Duty” To Go Through With Giuliani Scene, Had A Sweet Reunion With Babysitter Jeanise Jones By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 4, 2021 3:30 pm EST In a recent interview, Bakalova revealed her thought process going into both difficult scenes, and her tearful reunion with Jones after the film shoot. In an interview with the LA Times, Bakalova went into detail about her audition process (“I did it on a whim and two weeks later, I was flying to London for the callback”) and how she had to convince her parents she was starring in a legitimate film (“I kept telling them not to worry and this was going to be a real, legit movie”)....

‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Review: Laughter And Love In The Face Of Death [True/False 2020] By Abby Olcese/March 13, 2020 10:00 am EST Kirsten Johnson’s film Dick Johnson is Dead isn’t dissimilar from Mucho Mucho Amor, which premiered at the True/False film festival just the night before Johnon’s film had its T/F opening, in the same exact venue. Where Mucho Mucho Amor is a more unexpected tale of closure at the end of a life, however, Dick Johnson is Dead is about preparing for a very expected end–the eventual death of Johnson’s father, the eponymous Dick Johnson, from Alzheimer’s Disease....

‘Disenchantment’ Part 2 Trailer: Matt Groening’s Animated Fantasy-Comedy Series Is Back By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 29, 2019 2:30 pm EST Animation titan Matt Groening, the creator of long-running series The Simpsons and Futurama, took a stab at fantasy with Netflix’s Disenchantment, a fantasy-comedy that premiered to mixed reviews last year. But the animated series is back with at least 20 more episodes and a tantalizing new tease about a presumed dead character in Disenchantment Part 2....

/Filmcast Ep. 596 - One Cut Of The Dead By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 30, 2020 8:00 pm EST This week, David, Devindra, and Jeff get a surreal e-mail from long time listener Joshua. For the feature review, the cast followed the recommendation on #slashtag and watched One Cut of the Dead, the Japanese zombie comedy directed by Shinichiro Ueda. Use #slashtag on Twitter to recommend a title for us to watch. Thanks to Mike C for building the Hashtag Slashtag website: https://hashtagslashtag....

What Makes It Great The first thing to notice about a sports anime is that it’s almost always more visually stimulating than watching an actual sport, and Haikyu!! is no exception. The landscapes in the background and the details of the volleyball court all look stunning. Showing speed through animation can be a difficult thing, but the show goes to great lengths to really make you feel how fast the game moves, how hard the spike hits the ball and just how fast that ball is actually moving – thanks to animation being able to add color, lines and even steam in order to better portray speed and force....

‘His Dark Materials’ Thickens The Plot In The Exposition-Heavy “The Spies” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 18, 2019 7:00 pm EST It took long enough, but it finally feels like we’ve gotten to the plot of His Dark Materials. It was partly on the fault of the series, for taking the Game of Thrones approach that unwisely split up our disparate storylines to give the impression of an epic, sprawling saga. But for the first time, His Dark Materials feels focused toward an end goal that unites our two biggest groups of characters: Lyra and the Gyptians....

‘Land’ Trailer: Robin Wright Heads Into The Wild For Her Feature Directorial Debut By Ben Pearson/Dec. 21, 2020 4:00 pm EST Actress Robin Wright (The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump) recently got behind the camera to make her feature directorial debut, Land, a new drama which has been accepted into the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Wright directs and stars in the new film, playing a woman who wants to live her life off the grid in the mountains – but as this newly released trailer reveals, the isolated wilderness lifestyle she yearns for proves to be a bit more complicated than it initially appears....

‘Memetic’: Seth Rogen And ‘The Batman’ Co-Writer Mattson Tomlin Are Adapting A Comic About A Killer Meme By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 28, 2020 11:31 am EST Here is the synopsis for Memetic via GoodReads: “A meme is an idea that starts with an individual, and then virally spreads to multiple persons and potentially entire societies. Richard Dawkins suggests a meme’s success comes from its effectiveness to the host, but history shows that destructive memes can spread just as rapidly through society....

‘Mulan’ Sidekicks And Music Will Show Up As Easter Eggs [Set Visit] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2020 10:00 am EST There are many elements that seem to set Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan apart from other Disney remakes, but two of them stand out the most: it’s not a musical, and it doesn’t feature any of the wacky sidekicks that made the 1998 animated film so beloved. While the live-action remake directed by Niki Caro seems to take the serious war epic approach to the story of Fa Mulan, the Chinese folk hero and Disney heroine, producer Jason Reed teased to /Film during a visit to the set of Mulan that some of the elements of the beloved 1998 animated film will make their way into the film....

‘Palm Springs’ Director And Writer Tease Time Loop Details, Whether Anyone Else Is Stuck In The Loop By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2020 4:00 pm EST “Nothing matters” might not be the lesson you want to take away from Palm Springs, a sunny rom-com that stars Andy Samberg as a man trapped in a time loop that has turned him into a vacationing nihilist and Cristin Miliot as the fellow wedding guest who gets trapped in it with him....