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The Morning Watch: Stuntmen React To Marvel Movie Action, A Horse Expert Reviews Horse Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 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, stuntmen react to and breakdown some key action sequences from Marvel Studios movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Black Panther and more....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The X-Files’ Reminds You That The Truth Is Out There By Chris Evangelista/May 27, 2020 9:00 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 TV Show: The X-FilesWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: FBI Agents Mulder (believer in the supernatural; horny) and Scully (non-believer in the supernatural; also horny) team-up to investigate government conspiracies, ghosts, monsters, aliens, and other strange occurrences....

The Quarantine Stream: The Movie Is ‘Hot Rod’, And It Likes To Party By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 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: Hot RodWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) is a self-proclaimed stuntman who spends his days trying to live up to the legacy of his father, who he believes used to test stunts for Evel Knievel before the famous daredevil made the jumps himself....

Universal And AMC Reach Historic Deal Shortening Theatrical Exhibition Window From 3 Months To 3 Weeks By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2020 2:17 pm EST The war is over. AMC Theatres famously threw a huge fit and swore to never play Universal Pictures movies in its theaters after the studio released Trolls World Tour to video on demand at the same time as it hit theaters earlier this year. But now the two sides have come to terms and reached an historic new deal which could become the new normal going forward....

VOTD: VFX Artists Reaction To The ‘Cats’ Trailer May Surprise You More Than Digital Fur Technology By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2019 6:00 am EST In case you haven’t heard, the YouTube channel Corridor Crew has been making waves with a new series of videos featuring visual effects artists reacting to some of the best and worst computer generated imagery created in blockbuster films. They’ve scrutinized everything from Jurassic Park back in 1993 to Disney’s remake of Aladdin this past summer, not to mention the abomination that was Sonic the Hedgehog....

You Can Now Sleep At The Last Blockbuster For $4 Per Night By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 12, 2020 9:30 am EST The last Blockbuster Video store standing – located in Bend, Oregon – wants you to stay the night. For $4 a night, four guests can rent out the last Blockbuster on Airbnb, just like in the old days when we’d rent out videotapes from them. There’s an entire faux living-room set up to provide guests with comfort, and those staying will have the entire run of the store from check-in to check-out....

‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Is Being Summoned At Disney+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 24, 2019 7:30 am EST It turns out that all that talk about a Hocus Pocus sequel wasn’t a bunch of — well, you know. Disney+ is developing a Hocus Pocus 2 movie with Workaholics writer and co-producer Jen D’Angelo set to pen the script. The original cast hasn’t been confirmed to return, but D’Angelo has reportedly been tasked with bringing back the bewitching trio played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy....

‘How To Fix A Drug Scandal’ Trailer: New Netflix True Crime Series Uncovers A Miscarriage Of Justice By Chris Evangelista/March 12, 2020 4:00 pm EST Netflix’s never-ending stream of true crime docu-series continues with How to Fix a Drug Scandal, a new 4-part series from Erin Lee Carr, director of Mommy Dead and Dearest. The doc follows crime drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who was caught both tampering evidence – and using the drugs she was tasked with testing....

‘Isn’t It Romantic’ Director Todd Strauss-Schulson To Adapt ‘Zombie Brother’ Comic By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 2019 3:00 pm EST After tackling the meta worlds of horror and romantic comedies with The Final Girls and Isn’t It Romantic, director Todd Strauss-Schulson will head into comic book territory with an adaptation of the Chinese digital comic book Zombie Brother. If this is the first you’re hearing of the comic, we’ll let you know what it’s all about below....

George Bletsis Jaws Poster Vice Press is teaming up with Bottleneck Gallery to unveil this new Jaws piece at Thought Bubble Comic Convention this weekend, which is the biggest independent comic convention in the U.K. The convention is focused specifically on comics, art, and creators, and is curated by Tula Lotay; it takes place in Leeds, about 170 miles north of London. If you can make it in person, this piece will be available at the Vice Press booth, which will be located at Tables 42 – 44 in the Comixology originals hall....

‘Little Rock Nine’: Chadwick Boseman And Seth MacFarlane Executive Producing TV Series Based On Racial Integration In An Arkansas High School By Ben Pearson/Aug. 18, 2020 2:00 pm EST In 1957, 14-year-old Carlotta Walls became the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of Black students who made history by walking into the historically segregated all-white Central High School in Little Rock and taking classes in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v Board of Education....

‘The Gorge’ Movie Coming From ‘Tomorrow War’ Writer By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 19, 2020 5:30 pm EST The Gorge! It’s a new movie from Zach Dean, writer of a movie no one has even seen yet – The Tomorrow War, and while there is next to no info about this latest from Dean, I am legally obligated to write about it. What is The Gorge, you ask? Why, it’s a “high-action, genre-bending love story,” at least according to the source of the news....

‘The Kitchen’ Review: A Messy Crime Drama That Wastes A Killer Cast By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 7, 2019 1:00 pm EST Halfway through the new period crime drama The Kitchen, the three leads stride confidently down a New York street towards the car driven by their muscle. They get to the car, and two of them get in; the third tries to open the remaining door, before snapping to the driver, “It’s locked....

‘The Old Guard’ Director Gina Prince-Bythewood Takes Inspiration From Basketball And ‘Mission: Impossible’ [Interview] By Jack Giroux/July 10, 2020 11:00 am EST Gina Prince-Bythewood is a director known for authenticity and intimacy. In Beyond the Lights, Love & Basketball, and Disappearing Acts, audiences feel how close she is to her characters, their dreams, and their conflicts. That’s a part of what makes her new Netflix movie, The Old Guard, stand far apart from the typical action movie....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Introduces The Full Roster Of Bad Guys James Gunn Is Bringing To Theaters [DC FanDome] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 2020 1:17 pm EST DC FanDome finally gave us a proper first look at The Suicide Squad from director James Gunn. The filmmaker behind Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is shaking up the roster of DC Comics characters with a whole new line of weird and obscure bad guys, and the film’s panel during the virtual DC Comics convention finally confirmed who all of the new cast members are playing, not to mention giving us some wild first looks....

By Chris Evangelista/July 15, 2020 5:30 pm EST Lupita Nyong’o was originally set to play the daughter character, Nawi, but it looks like Nyong'0 has moved on, which is a pity because a movie with this premise starring Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o would’ve been fantastic (not to say it won’t still be good without her). Davis is one of the best actors working right now, and I’m excited to see her lead a pic like this....

‘Truth Seekers’ First Look: Simon Pegg And Nick Frost Reunite To Bust Some Ghosts By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 22, 2020 9:30 am EST Truth Seekers First Look Images But Pegg and Frost look far removed from the characters they played in Shaun of the Dead in the new images from Truth Seekers. Pegg a bad wig and a suit in the series, while Frost embraces his rugged woodsman look with a pretty cool beard....

Apple TV+ Buys Up Older Shows And Movies To Create A Back Catalogue That Can Compete With Netflix, Disney+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 19, 2020 1:00 pm EST Bloomberg reports that Apple Inc. is acquiring “older movies and shows for its TV+ streaming service,” with the aim of building a back catalogue as impressive as those on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and other streaming platforms. Apple’s video programming executives are reportedly taking pitches from Hollywood studios to license “older content” for Apple TV+, for which they have already bought some shows and movies....

Bryan Cranston Remakes ‘The Shining’ For A Mountain Dew Super Bowl Commercial By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 2020 9:30 am EST This weekend brings us Super Bowl LIV, and with it will be a bunch of star-studded new commercials pushing all the biggest brands in front of one of the largest television viewing audiences of the year. But in the internet age, it’s more important to go viral before the Big Game, and some of this year’s biggest commercials are already online....

Charlie Kaufman Wrote A Novel About A Film Critic Who Watches A 3-Month-Long Movie By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 22, 2019 1:30 pm EST Charlie Kaufman wrote a very Charlie Kaufman-sounding novel, and I can’t wait to read it. Kaufman, the scribe behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anomalisa, and more, will release Antkind, a novel about a neurotic film critic (is there any other kind?) who stumbles upon a three-m0nth-long movie....