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How Tom Hanks Became The Everyman Version Of Daniel Day-Lewis By Scott Beggs/Nov. 21, 2019 7:00 am EST The two major differences between Tom Hanks and Daniel Day-Lewis are their approaches to craft and how they answer questions on press tours. Everything else is window dressing. Both are fierce, profoundly gifted actors. Both are deep wells of creativity. Yet even though each actor is equally at home in torturous dramas and whimsical romps, we never think of them in the same breath....

If You’re Enjoying HBO’s ‘Watchmen’, You’ll Love These Five Comic Books By Vanessa Armstrong/Oct. 30, 2019 1:00 pm EST There are a lot of obvious differences between HBO’s Watchmen and its source material, the 1986 comic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. There’s also a lot of coverage out there about these differences, and I agree with the coverage that says these differences work more often than not. But even though the TV show and the graphic novel are clearly different, there are crucial similarities as well....

J.K. Rowling Launches ‘Harry Potter At Home’ Online Hub For Bored Kids And Teachers By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 1, 2020 2:30 pm EST J.K. Rowling is bringing a little magic to our quarantines. The author of the Harry Potter series has launched an online hub for children, families and teachers who are stuck inside amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The hub, called Harry Potter at Home, comes soon after Rowling relaxed the copyright permission on the Harry Potter books so that teachers could read the beloved stories to their students over video....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 5, 2020 8:30 am EST Although the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is still in full force, all 50 states have begun to release their stay-at-home restrictions, with businesses across the country slowly grinding back to life. But what does that mean for movie theaters? Theaters across the country have remain shut since lockdowns were imposed in mid-March, but the National Association of Theater Owners, which represents movie theaters across the U....

Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Casts Elena Satine As Julia By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2019 3:30 pm EST Every western neo-noir needs a doomed ingenue, and the beautifully tragic Julia is that to John Cho’s grizzled bounty hunter Spike Siegel in Netflix’s upcoming Cowboy Bebop adaptation. The live-action remake of the acclaimed anime series created by Shinichiro Watanabe has found its Julia in Elena Satine, best known for her roles in Twin Peaks: The Return, Strange Angel, and Revenge....

New ‘WandaVision’ Trailer: Wanda Maximoff And Vision Are Ready To Fight By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2020 5:30 pm EST WandaVision will be the first series coming to Disney+ from Marvel Studios, and not only will it directly connect to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but that sequel will also connect to the upcoming Spider-Man 3. Much of the series have been shrouded in mystery, but the latest WandaVision trailer gives us the best look at the series yet....

Ranking The 10 Best ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ Sketches On The Show’s 50th Anniversary By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 11, 2019 10:00 am EST It’s not hyperbole to note that the Monty Python comedy troupe changed the state of comedy. The six men who made up the group — Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin — came together as an unstoppable force that reshaped what TV comedy could be, before they then upended expectations of what film comedy could be in the late 1970s....

Revisiting ‘The Plausible Impossible’, Disney’s Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Animation Process In The 1950s By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 12, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)It’s impossible to comprehend exactly how popular the Walt Disney anthology TV series was back in its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, in part because it’s still somewhat baffling to ponder what the anthology TV series was to begin with....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To HBO Max In June 2020 By Chris Evangelista/May 27, 2020 12:30 pm EST HBO Max launches this week, but what about the future? What will be available to stream next month, for instance? A lot, as it turns out. And it’s a lot of quality stuff, too. Not just HBO Max originals, but also plenty of familiar films as well. These are the best TV shows and movies coming to HBO Max in June 2020....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ Premiere, ‘Star Wars’ Family Feud, Jimmy Kimmel Takeover & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 18, 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, watch everything that happened on the blue carpet of the world premiere for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

Watch: ‘Jeopardy!’ Champion Ken Jennings Honors Alex Trebek Before Debuting As Guest Host By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2021 2:00 pm EST Following the airing of Alex Trebek’s final episode of Jeopardy! last week, the long-running game show returned to air this week. A permanent replacement to take over the hosting reins has not yet been named, but in the meantime, the show will continue with guest hosts, starting off with Greatest of All-Time champion Ken Jennings....

Free Guy Teaser Even though this is very goofy, it’s refreshing to have marketing for a blockbuster not go the traditional route with a trailer teaser that just shows 10 seconds of footage and announces when the full trailer will arrive. With this, at least Ryan Reynolds is having some fun, and he’s tossing up some serious bargains. That blue shirt he’s wearing has a retail price of $499,999, but you can get it for the low price of $19....

‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Season 8 Is Coming To NBC; Season 7 Debuts In Three Months By Ben Pearson/Nov. 14, 2019 11:30 am EST Good things come to those who w8. The #Brooklyn99 squad will be coming back for Season 8 on NBC! pic.twitter.com/bQsGYA4oG9 — Brooklyn Nine-Nine (@brooklyn99) November 14, 2019 Season 7 will consist of 13 new episodes and will debut on February 6, 2020. No word yet on how many episodes will be in season 8, but I expect it to be in that same ballpark; the show used to have 20+ episode seasons when it was on Fox, but dropped to 18 episodes in its first season at NBC....

‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ Will Tap Into 1980s Horror, Feature Unexpected Character Debuts By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 30, 2019 3:00 pm EST Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is slated to arrive in theaters early in the summer of 2021, and it will bring some horror to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. More specifically, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige says it will draw inspiration from the horror of the 1980s, the kind that Steven Spielberg brought to the big screen with Raiders of the Lost Ark or Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom that offered scares and adventure hand-in-hand....

‘In Fabric’ Review: Hilarious Horror Abounds In Another Giallo Gem From Peter Strickland [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 14, 2018 2:00 pm EST Berberian Sound Studio and Duke of Burgundy director Peter Strickland once again pays homage to Euro-horror of yesterday, crafting a sumptuous sensory overload. In Fabric finds the filmmaker following a haunted dress from a demonic department store, and it’s every bit as weird and amusing as that scenario suggests....

‘It: Chapter Two’ Director Andy Muschietti On His “Definitive” Cut Of The ‘It’ Saga, Designing Creepy Creatures, And More [Spoiler Interview] By Ben Pearson/Sept. 6, 2019 10:00 am EST After breaking out with his low-budget horror film Mama in 2013, director Andy Muschietti rocketed to the big time by directing 2017’s It, which adapted the child-centric storyline in Stephen King’s sprawling 1986 novel. That film was a box office juggernaut, and now he’s back with It: Chapter Two, a sequel that picks up 27 years after the original and sees the Losers’ Club reunite in Derry, Maine to battle Pennywise (Bill Skarsgärd) once again....

‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Headed Back To Norway For More Beautiful Scenery & Potential Tom Cruise Injuries By Chris Evangelista/July 21, 2020 11:30 am EST Tom Cruise is bringing the Mission: Impossible crew back to Norway. Mission: Impossible – Fallout filmed partially in the Nordic country, and Cruise recently told Norway’s culture minister Abid Raja about returning there in the fall to shoot more scenes for Mission: Impossible 7. The upcoming sequel had to suspend filming due to the coronavirus, but the crew was recently granted permission to start shooting again....

‘Shadowed’ Is A New Creepy Horror Short From ‘Lights Out’ And ‘Shazam’ Director David F. Sandberg By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2020 3:15 pm EST Before he became a big Hollywood director, David F. Sandberg was making creepy, and effective, short films with almost no budget, almost all of which were filmed inside his residence. And now, since all of us are stuck indoors, Sandberg has done it again. Shadowed, his latest short, follows in the tradition of his other horror shorts in that it stars his wife Lotta Losten as a woman tormented by something malevolent and supernatural....

‘Star Wars’ Is Getting An Official Kabuki Stage Adaptation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 5, 2019 4:30 pm EST The Star Wars franchise has long worn its Japanese influences on its sleeves. From the kimono-like robes of its Jedi, to the pseudo-Japanese names, to the Akira Kurosawa homages, as well as the roots of the Force in Eastern mysticism and philosophies, Lucas owes a lot to the country. For further proof, George Lucas initially wanted to cast longtime Kurosawa collaborator Toshiro Mifune as Obi-Wan Kenobi....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Review: Meet Flix’s Family In “From Beneath” By Caroline Cao/Nov. 11, 2019 5:30 am EST The Colossus sends a shuttle with Kaz (Christopher Sean), Torra (Myrna Velasco), and Flix (Jim Rash) and Orka (Bobby Moynihan) to Flix’s stormy homeworld of Drahgor III. After their run from the First Order back in “The Engineer,” they’re in desperate need of fuel, and Flix’s family refinery could be their salvation. If not, the entire Colossus community will be stranded....