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‘Fast And Furious: Spy Racers’ Trailer: It’s Basically ‘James Bond Jr.’ For A New Generation By Ben Pearson/Dec. 8, 2019 2:00 pm EST There’s a new Toretto in town in Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, the new Netflix animated series from DreamWorks and Universal. Tyler Posey from Teen Wolf is providing the voice for Tony Toretto, the younger cousin of Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto from the live-action Fast movies. And based on this newly-released trailer, this show essentially feels like a slightly tweaked version of James Bond Jr....

‘Harley Quinn’ Season 3 Headed To HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 18, 2020 10:30 am EST Here’s some good news for a change! Harley Quinn has been renewed for a third season – and it’s headed to HBO Max. The animated series originated on DC Universe, but DC Universe is now rebranding to be a comics-only destination, while their original programming jumps over to HBO Max. Featuring the voice of Kaley Cuoco, Harley Quinn is a very funny, very adult animated series that strives to playfully mock the world of Batman and other DC-related characters, and if you’re not watching it, you should really start....

‘Jingle All The Way’ Honest Trailer: Nothing Says Christmas Like Capitalism By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2019 6:00 am EST It’s officially Christmas season, and if you didn’t get enough shopping done on Black Friday last weekend, you’ll have plenty of time in the weeks ahead to partake in the time-honored tradition of capitalism, all in the name of religion. But before you head out to do shopping in person like someone who has a death wish, maybe you need a reminder of how terrible it is to shop in the real world with a little help from Jingle All the Way and Honest Trailers....

‘Ju-On: Origins’ Trailer: Netflix Unleashes A ‘Grudge’ TV Series By Chris Evangelista/May 12, 2020 2:00 pm EST The horrors of The Grudge, aka the Ju-On franchise, get a new lease on life (or should we say death, ahhhh!!!) via Netflix. Ju-On: Origins is a new series that once again takes viewers to the cursed house that has figured so prominently into the film series. The house even made a cameo appearance in the recent The Grudge reboot/sequel that pretty much no one bothered to see....

‘Love Life’ Season 2: ‘The Good Place’ Actor William Jackson Harper To Play New Lead In Anthology Series By Ben Pearson/Nov. 5, 2020 3:30 pm EST Love Life, HBO Max’s romantic anthology series, has found its new lead actor.William Jackson Harper, who broke out playing neurotic, ethics-obsessed professor Chidi Anagonye in NBC’s excellent The Good Place, will take over as the new central focus in Love Life season 2. Anna Kendrick starred in the first season, and if you didn’t get enough of her in those ten episodes, don’t worry: her character is expected to pop back in on occasion during season 2....

‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels Release Dates Pushed Back By Chris Evangelista/April 24, 2020 12:30 pm EST What’s the one thing that can slow down the constant perpetual motion of Ethan Hunt, IMF Agent? The coronavirus. Due to production halts because of the worldwide pandemic, the release dates of the two back-to-back Mission: Impossible sequels have been postponed. Mission: Impossible 7 is moving from July 2021 to November 2021, while M:I 8 has been bumped from August 2022 to November 2022....

‘Relic’ Trailer: The Sundance Horror Hit Subverts The Haunted House Story By Chris Evangelista/May 21, 2020 5:30 pm EST One of the most buzzed-about genre entries at Sundance this year was Relic, writer-director Natalie Erika James’ horror film about three generations of women dealing with something potentially supernatural. If that sounds vague, that’s intentional – this is clearly being set-up as one of those “the less you know about, the more surprised you’ll be” movies....

‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Honest Trailer: It’s Like A Dungeons & Dragons Quest On Xanax By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 31, 2020 6:00 am EST Because studios can’t always be shelling out money for intellectual property that they hope to turn into the next blockbuster franchise, Universal Pictures opted for the public domain fairytale of Snow White to turn into a gritty fantasy film series by way of Snow White and the Huntsman....

‘Summer Of 85’ Review: Young Love Burns Brighter Than Dark Noir [TIFF 2020] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 17, 2020 12:00 pm EST This poignant emotional core might seem unlikely from the film’s opening, a noir-like lamentation of how things have gone so wrong that someone died. “I must be mad,” Félix Lefebvre’s Alex ominously narrates, “I should have known all along.” He’s got a preoccupation with death not unlike the titular teen lead of Harold & Maude....

‘The Batman’ Production Halt Is Giving Matt Reeves More Time To Plan Big Action Scenes By Chris Evangelista/April 10, 2020 11:30 am EST The Batman is currently shut down due to the Joker, er, I mean the coronavirus pandemic. But director Matt Reeves is using this delay to his advantage, and fine-tuning his upcoming Dark Knight reboot. As Reeves puts it, this downtime will give him more of the prep time he wished he had right before they started shooting, so at least there’s one positive thing coming out of all of this....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’: Daniel Brühl Shares Images Of His Return As Baron Zemo By Ben Pearson/July 23, 2019 12:30 pm EST During Saturday night’s Marvel Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con, actor Daniel Brühl hijacked The Falcon and the Winter Soldier presentation with a video interruption in which his character, the villainous Baron Zemo, revealed a new look – one that more closely resembled the look from the comics....

‘The Matrix 4’ Production Shuts Down Due To Coronavirus By Chris Evangelista/March 16, 2020 1:00 pm EST On Friday, we reported that Warner Bros. had no plans to halt production on The Matrix 4. What a difference a weekend makes. Today we have word that The Matrix 4 production is indeed being shut down for the time being, joining a growing list of titles that have ground to a halt in the wake of fears of the coronavirus (aka COVID-19)....

‘The Stand’ Trailer: Stephen King’s Apocalyptic Epic Comes To CBS All Access [NYCC] By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 9, 2020 10:30 am EST The Stand NYCC panel arrived today and brought with it a new trailer that gives us our best look yet at the new Stephen King adaptation. Stars Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Amber Heard, Jovan Adepo, Odessa Young, and Owen Teague alongside showrunner Benjamin Cavell and executive producer Taylor Elmore were all on hand to discuss the upcoming adaptation, which seems to be sticking close to the book – while also updating things for a more modern age....

‘Veronica Mars’ Season 4 Is Confusingly Called ‘Veronica Mars’ Season 1 On The Blu-Ray Release By Chris Evangelista/July 31, 2019 5:30 pm EST Veronica Mars recently returned for a whole new season on Hulu. Technically, it’s season 4, coming on the heels of the previous three seasons that aired on UPN/The CW. But don’t tell the distributors of the latest season’s Blu-ray release that. For some baffling reason (rights issues?), the Veronica Mars season 4 Blu-ray is being sold as Veronica Mars season 1....

Cameron Crowe Didn’t See Penny Lane In ‘Almost Famous’ As A Manic Pixie Dream Girl By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 2019 10:00 am EST Almost Famous is a favorite among many of the /Film staff members (both present and past), but the movie hasn’t been beyond criticism despite being loved by many entertainment journalists since its release nearly 20 years ago. In the years since, contemporary views have called out the movie for being one of many in the 21st century to utilize what has come to be called the “manic pixie dream girl,” a cliche female character often used in films to teach broodingly soulful young male characters to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures....

DC Universe Explores New Territory With Unscripted Series And An Anthology Mixed-Media Project By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 6, 2019 11:00 am EST Not everyone can be a superhero, but everyone could develop an unscripted superhero series for DC Universe. As the streaming service heads into its second year, DC Universe is expanding to even bigger ambitions, with two DC Universe new series announced at this year’s New York Comic-Con. DCYou Unscripted and BizarroTV are the two new projects in development at DC Universe, with the first opening the doors for fans wishing to pitch their own DC Universe unscripted series and the second exploring the “stranger edges” of the universe through an anthology, mixed-media series....

Documentary Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield Shares The Books And Movies You Should Read And Watch Alongside Her Work [Interview] By Alex Arabian/Dec. 19, 2019 4:00 pm EST Lauren Greenfield has been a professional photographer since the Reagan era, documenting the American Dream’s devolution into insatiable avarice and a form of capitalism increasingly based on cruelty through a singular lens. She’s also an acclaimed documentarian of the 21st century whose latest film, The Kingmaker, about former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos, tells a very different kind of wealth story than her previous films....

Marvel Cancels ‘Howard The Duck’ And ‘Tigra And Dazzler’ Animated Shows At Hulu By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 2020 11:00 am EST At the beginning of December last year, Marvel’s Tigra and Dazzler Show intended for Hulu had a shake-up behind the scenes that resulted in the firing of the showrunner and the entire writing staff of the animated series due to creative differences with Marvel. Now the show has been axed completely, and the Howard the Duck animated series that was also in the works is being thrown out the window too....

Star Wars Bits: Quest Of The Jedi, The Merry Rise Of Skywalker, 365 Days Of Star Wars Women, And More! By Adam Frazier/April 26, 2020 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Talking Bay 94 Chats with ILM Effects Supervisor Roger Guyett 365 Days of Star Wars Women An Excerpt from William Shakespeare’s The Merry Rise of Skywalker Blast Points Podcast Celebrates the Love with New Commentaries and Bonus Episodes A First Look at Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Stories of Light and Dark And More!...

The Morning Watch: Pro Surfer Breaks Down ‘Point Break’, ‘Mamma Mia’ May Have The Best Sequel & More By Ethan Anderton/June 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....