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‘First Cow’ Trailer: Kelly Reichardt Returns With Another Tender Frontier Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 8, 2020 11:30 am EST Meek’s Cutoff and Wendy and Lucy director Kelly Reichardt has a talent for portraying the American working class experience through quiet, contemplative frontier dramas — letting humanity shine through the grim wilderness. Her latest film, First Cow, does that as well, but under the cover of a rather quirky premise: a cook and a refugee strike up a close friendship and an unusual business deal by stealing milk from a cow....

‘His Dark Materials’ Enters A Brave New World With “The City Of Magpies” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 2020 8:00 am EST His Dark Materials is going through some growing pains. The first season couldn’t quite meet its own Game of Thrones-sized ambitions, which hobbled the show before it could really find its footing. Was it a dark, serious epic fantasy? Or the whimsical YA adventure that Philip Pullman’s novels first presented as?...

‘Lovecraft Country’ Trailer Digs Deeper Into The Occult And Teases The Season Ahead By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 17, 2020 8:30 am EST Lovecraft Country just made its debut last night and it’s already on its way to being HBO’s new genre TV series sensation. If the buzz for the horror series produced by Misha Green, J.J. Abrams, and Jordan Peele couldn’t be high enough, HBO has dropped a “season ahead” trailer giving us a sneak peek at the coming episodes of Lovecraft Country, and the occult mysteries that are in store....

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ And When Quentin Tarantino’s Unpredictability Becomes Predictable By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 1, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: is it still surprising when Quentin Tarantino decides to rewrite history?)Sitting in the theater, waiting for the lights to dim, I couldn’t help but wonder how Quentin Tarantino would surprise me with his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....

‘The Addams Family’ Review: They’re Creepy And They’re Kooky And Pretty Dull, To Be Honest By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 10, 2019 1:00 pm EST Arriving with the attitude that, well, there always has to be something new playing in theaters, The Addams Family ends up feeling like filler. That is, of course, the 2019 animated film The Addams Family, not entirely to be confused with the 1991 film of the same name or its 1993 sequel Addams Family Values....

By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2020 4:30 pm EST We’ll take whatever good news we can get these days, so here’s something: The Haunting of Bly Manor, the follow-up to The Haunting of Hill House, is right on schedule. The Netflix series from Mike Flanagan wrapped production before the coronavirus shut everything down, and now all the post-production work is carrying on unaffected. So while many TV shows and movies are being forced to delay their releases right now, Netflix is still likely to premiere Bly Manor this year....

‘Westworld’ Season 3 Episode 5 Trailer Promises Big Action And More Character Backstory By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2020 12:30 pm EST Judging by this trailer, the next episode of Westworld is going to have a lot of action. Explosions, chases, gunfights, and more are all teased here. Also teased: more backstory into Serac, the new villainous character played by Vincent Cassel. On top of all that, it looks like Aaron Paul’s Caleb is going to start questioning his allegiance with Dolores....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Review: A Startlingly Kind, Delightfully Cheesy Balm For The Horrors Of 2020 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 15, 2020 9:00 am EST With Wonder Woman 1984, the highly anticipated follow-up to Jenkins’ mega-hit, the filmmaker digs her heels even further into that promise of cheesy superhero goodness, to the point of it being a potential health hazard. But the cartoonishly optimistic charms of Wonder Woman 1984 feel like a direct rebuke of the current political and cultural landscape in a way that is unquestionably ham-fisted, but is — as trite as it sounds to repeat this far-too repeated phrase —a much-needed balm for 2020....

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Kicks Off ‘Ghostbusters’ Action Figure Line With Classic Movie Characters By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2020 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hasbro has taken over the Ghostbusters license for toys and collectibles. That means we’ll be getting Ghostbusters: Afterlife figures sometime this summer when the movie comes out. But before we see what the merchandise looks like for the anticipated sequel, Hasbro is reaching back to the original Ghostbusters movie to create a new line of figures with the classic characters....

Cool Stuff: New ‘The Mandalorian’ And ‘Indiana Jones’ Prints Are Full Of Adventure And Excitement By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2020 8:30 am EST Bottleneck Gallery is back with a new batch of collectible prints to cover your walls with some gorgeous pop culture art. This time, they’ve got artist Hugh Fleming delivering a golden adventure in the form of a new Indiana Jones print for Raiders of the Lost Ark. And for those who might prefer their action and adventure in space, Tom Walker has created a trio of The Mandalorian prints featuring the bounty hunter and some of his allies, each with a different color scheme....

Disney+ Joins Comic-Con At Home With Panels For The ‘Phineas And Ferb’ Movie, ‘Marvel’s 616’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 1, 2020 4:30 pm EST Disney+ is joining the online festivities with Comic-Con at Home, the virtual experience hosted by San Diego Comic-Con. The streamer announced that it will be hosting virtual panels for three of its upcoming original titles, including the animated movie Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe and the anthology docuseries Marvel’s 616....

Exploring The Shared DNA Of ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ And The ‘Star Wars’ Series By Bryan Young/Jan. 28, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films and television properties that inspired George Lucas’s iconic universe. In this edition: the Steven Spielberg pulp masterpiece Raiders of the Lost Ark.)Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark might be one of the greatest films of all time....

John Carpenter To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award At Fantasia Film Festival By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 6, 2020 11:00 am EST There’s no filmmaker quite like John Carpenter, and it’s about time the man got some awards love for his staggering work. Enter the Fantasia Film Festival, who are presenting Carpenter with a lifetime achievement award. And since the festival is virtual this year it means Carpenter doesn’t have to leave his house to collect it, and that will no doubt appeal to him, as the legendary director really just wants nothing more than to hang around his pad playing video games these days....

Jonathan Glazer And A24’s Secret Short Film ‘The Fall’ Is Now Available Online By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 25, 2019 11:30 am EST Jonathan Glazer directed one of the best films of the last ten years, Under the Skin. Now he’s closing out the decade with a disturbing, nightmarish short film: The Fall. For seven-plus-minutes, Glazer’s short film draws you into a story of mob-mentality at its absolute worst – a story that has unfortunate and terrifying connections to the current reality we find ourselves in....

Peter Fonda, ‘Easy Rider’ Star And Cinematic Rebel, Has Died At 79 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2019 10:00 am EST The films of the 1960s and early 1970s broke so many of the conventional rules of filmmaking, and they reinvigorated cinema with a creative edge that would change the landscape of Hollywood for decades to come. Right at the center of it all was Peter Fonda, the star, co-writer and producer of Easy Rider, one of the most rebellious and influential films of all-time....

Productions Move Forward Despite COVID-19 Surges As Warner Bros. Considers New ‘Tenet’ Release Options By Chris Evangelista/July 22, 2020 10:00 am EST The coronavirus continues to linger, and in my cases, surge. But Hollywood is determined to get back to work. Studios are in the midst of working with the guilds to figure out new protocols to shoot in California, New York, Georgia, and Illinois, even as the pandemic spikes in some of those places....

So ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Made Your Kid A Horror Fan – What Next? By Amelia Emberwing/Aug. 14, 2019 1:00 pm EST There’s no “right time” to get into the horror genre. Whether you dipped your toes in young, or didn’t dive into the world of the spooky until much later in life, horror is for you. That being said, there’s a certain level of nostalgia that comes into play when you dip your toes in at a younger age....

Spoiler Discussion Of The Mandalorian Chapter 11 “The Heiress” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2020 3:15 pm EST On the November 13, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and special guest Bryan Young (from Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com and Full of Sith podcast) for a spoiler-filled conversation about the third episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian season two, entitled “The Heiress”. In Our Feature Presentation: Spoiler Discussion of The Mandalorian Chapter 11 “The Heiress”: Notes from the previous episode Brief thoughts on this episode Beat by beat dissection Speculation about the future All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....

Superhero Bits: ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Finishes Production, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Viewing Party & More By Ethan Anderton/July 31, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to partake in an Avengers: Endgame viewing party this week? Why are some Chinese fans already unhappy about Shang-Chi? How many times did one Florida man see Avengers: Endgame in theaters? Want to see how Sean Gunn walks as Rocket Raccoon on set? How much did the Justice League Snyder Cut campaign raise for suicide prevention?...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: DC Daily Podcast Launches, ‘Birds Of Prey’ Box Office Tracking & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2020 6:00 pm EST It’s time for an awkward 1989 prom in the promo for “Slay Anything,” the next DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. DC Universe has announced a new DC Daily Podcast with interviews, in-depth discussions and breaking news. Abigail Shapiro will recur in season two of Titans as Dorothy Spinner, the daughter of Niles Caulder....