By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 10, 2020 4:30 pm EST If you’re craving more CSI in your life, CBS is thinking about making you very happy. The network is mulling over a CSI revival event series that would bring back some original stars of the procedural drama. The original CSI ran for fifteen seasons, and spawned three spin-offs: CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, and CSI: Cyber. The potential event series would be related to the main CSI, and set in Las Vegas....
‘Dickinson’ Adds John Mulaney As Henry David Thoreau By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 17, 2019 2:00 pm EST John Mulaney will wax poetic as Henry David Thoreau in Dickinson, the new Apple TV+ series that asks: “What if Emily Dickinson was a wild party animal who got rowdy with all her hot friends?” Specific details about Mulaney’s part are non-existent at this point, but Thoreau, the author of Walden (among other things) was Dickinson’s 5th cousin once removed (I looked that up), so there’s that to consider....
‘Honey Boy’ Trailer: Shia LaBeouf’s Powerful, Cinematic Therapy Session By Ben Pearson/Nov. 22, 2019 3:30 pm EST At some point over the past few years, you’ve probably rolled your eyes at something Shia LaBeouf has said or done. Whether it was attention-grabbing art projects like #IAMSORRY or the live-streamed marathon of him watching his own movies that spun out of him getting caught plagiarizing artist Daniel Clowes, or the off-screen drunken escapades that were fodder for tabloids, it’s been clear for a long time that LaBeouf was going through some things....
‘Jurassic World 3’ Bringing Back Original Trio Laura Dern, Sam Neill, And Jeff Goldblum By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 25, 2019 5:05 am EST There are a few facts of life: God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, Man brings back dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, and Jurassic World 3 brings back Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum to clean up the mess. The original Jurassic Park stars are coming back for another go-around with the prehistoric reptiles as part of the Jurassic World 3 cast as their iconic characters as Dr....
‘Marriage Story’ Trailer: Adam Driver And Scarlett Johansson Are Getting A Divorce By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 2019 9:30 am EST Writer and director Noah Baumbach is no stranger to dysfunctional relationships, having been behind the scripts and camera for movies like The Squid and the Whale and While We’re Young. But now he’s back with Marriage Story starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and some critics are calling his best work as a director yet....
By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2020 4:00 pm EST Shawn Levy, a producer and filmmaker with a successful and eclectic career, will produce Mother Land, a new Lionsgate horror movie about a family haunted for generations by an evil spirit. The project hails from a spec script by Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby, and Levy will produce with Stranger Things producing partner Dan Cohen.Variety has the story on Mother Land, describing it as “centered on a family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for years....
‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Isn’t Just A Fairy Tale – It’s Quentin Tarantino Doing Walt Disney By Bryan Young/July 31, 2019 7:00 am EST Naturally, there are spoilers ahead.Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is the ninth (or tenth?) film from Quentin Tarantino. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a has-been Western actor named Rick Dalton and Brad Pitt as his stunt-double and driver, Cliff Booth. Together, they traverse the world of Hollywood in 1969 and its changing landscape....
‘Picard’ Season 2 Could Feature The Return Of LeVar Burton’s Geordi La Forge By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2020 11:00 am EST If you’re hoping to see even more Star Trek: The Next Generation characters pop up in Star Trek: Picard, you’re probably going to get your wish. LeVar Burton, who played Geordi La Forge on The Next Generation, has all but confirmed he’ll be appearing in the second season of the CBS All Access series, while also hinting at other character returns in the future....
‘Steven Universe Future’ Offered A Double Feature Of Fusion Shenanigans This Week By Caroline Cao/Dec. 19, 2019 1:00 pm EST The latest double-feature episodes of Steven Universe Future return to idyllic shenanigans. After the last intense episode, “Volleyball”, which spilled some discomforting revelations about Rose Quartz, two low-stakes breezer episodes are refreshing and bring us back to the old season one days of the original Steven Universe. Fusion-lovers like me especially perked up....
By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2020 5:00 pm EST The Last Narc Trailer Directed by Tiller Russell, The Last Narc seeks to tell the true story of the life of Camarena, who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by Mexican cartels just as he was on the brink of uncovering a conspiracy about the truth of the U.S. “War on Drugs.” The four-part docuseries follows Hector Berrellez, a highly decorated special agent who was assigned to lead the DEA’s investigation of Camerena’s murder and uncovers the same web of deceit leading back to Washington, D....
‘The Mandalorian’ Novel Release Date Pushed Back To Fall 2021 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 1, 2020 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Earlier this summer, the first wave of The Mandalorian books were teased by Lucasfilm and Del Rey Books. On top of the anticipated The Art of The Mandalorian (Season One) coming in December, there was also supposed to be an original novel arriving around the same time....
‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ Standees Gives Us Our First Look At Rose Along With Dominic Monaghan’s Character By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 4, 2019 12:00 pm EST It’s Triple Force Friday, which means there are all sorts of Star Wars-themed things being unleashed upon a defenseless public. From this comes the tiniest glimmers of new pieces of info from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. As is usually the case for these movies, we know very little about what we’re in store for....
‘Uncut Gems’ Trailer: Adam Sandler Is A Bad Jeweler In Latest Anxiety-Inducing Safdie Brothers Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 24, 2019 6:03 am EST It’s always a pleasure to see Adam Sandler take a break from the mind-numbing broad comedies that are keeping him paid by Netflix, but his latest artistic collaboration with the Safdie brothers, Uncut Gems, guarantees anything but a good time. The A24 ingenues, Josh and Benny Safdie, are well-known for their anxiety-inducing crime dramas in which the protagonists make exceedingly bad decisions....
Emergence It’s hard to entirely dislike a show that has the good taste to feature Allison Tolman and Clancy Brown in key roles, but Emergence feels familiar in all of the wrong ways. In fact, the series feels like a warmed-over relic rescued from the mid-’00s, when every network was attempting to mimic the success of Lost by whipping up their own ambitious genre mystery series. This feels like one that would’ve been forgotten even back then....
‘Waves’ Trailer: A Family Is Pushed To Its Limits In This Emotionally Devastating Drama By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2019 7:30 am EST Waves is one of the most emotionally devastating movies you’ll see all year. Written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, the film follows the trials and tribulations of a family living in South Florida. Like Shults’ two previous films – Krisha and It Comes at Night – Waves is tense, raw, and often anxiety-inducing....
‘We Don’t Deserve Dogs’ Is A Soul-Stirring Portrait Of Good Dogs And The Humans Who Desperately Need Them [SXSW] By Ethan Anderton/March 20, 2020 1:00 pm EST (The SXSW Film Festival may have been cancelled, but our coverage will go on with reviews of films and TV shows made available to our critics.) Dogs have already been given the designation of man’s best friend, and while that seems a little unfair to cat-lovers out there, it’s hard to argue with the idea that dogs are generally more loyal and loving than their feline counterparts....
Another BBC ‘Great Expectations’ Adaptation Is Coming From ‘Peaky Blinders’ Creator Steven Knight By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2020 5:00 pm EST Do we really need a new Great Expectations adaptation? Probably not, but as long as the BBC keeps recycling its costumes, we’ll keep getting more adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. However, BBC’s newly announced adaptation of Great Expectations has a writer that could give the Dickens classic a gritty edge....
Rob Zombie’s Halloween Vinyl Soundtrack Available for the first time on vinyl, the Halloween soundtrack is a double LP with score cues by composer Tyler Bates, select dialogue from the movie, and songs by Alice Cooper, The Misfits, Blue Öyster Cult, Nazareth, Peter Frampton, Kiss, Iggy Pop, and more. Pressed on 180 gram Black and Crystal Clear Striped Vinyl with Pumpkin Orange Splatter, the soundtrack comes with exclusive liner notes by Rob Zombie, a 20-page booklet featuring never-before-seen set photography from Zombie’s personal collection, a 12"x12" art print insert, printed inner LP sleeves with set photography, old style tip-on gatefold jackets with matte satin coating, and new artwork by Robert Sammelin....
Daily Podcast: Latest Updates On The ‘Spider-Man’ Situation, And Netflix Vs. Theaters With ‘The Irishman’ In The Balance By Ben Pearson/Aug. 22, 2019 2:15 pm EST On the August 22 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and TV news, including the latest updates on the Spider-Man situation and a conversation about Netflix’s fight with theaters over The Irishman....
How ‘The Dark Crystal Age Of Resistance’ Production Designer Gavin Bocquet Kept The Spirit Of Jim Henson’s Film [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 29, 2019 11:00 am EST Bocquet is no stranger to a big fantastical production. He has worked on the big-budget Star Wars prequels, flowery fantasy films like Stardust, and Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. But he felt the immense pressure of expanding on the wholly unique world of Henson’s The Dark Crystal....
