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A Tall Task For Short Films: How Festivals Are Adapting To A Changing Landscape For Viewers By Marshall Shaffer/Dec. 24, 2020 10:00 am EST No story in the world of short-form content attracted as much attention (and derision) as the staggering collapse of Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s mobile video platform dedicated solely to “quick bites” of content. Don’t write the epitaph for shorts solely based on the demise of Quibi, however....

All Three Seasons Of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Are Arriving On U.S. Netflix This May By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 24, 2020 4:30 pm EST Avatar: The Last Airbender is hitting U.S. Netflix next month, after the beloved Nickelodeon series had been available on the streamer in other regions for years. But it was only a matter of time before Avatar: The Last Airbender returned to Netflix in the U.S., with the streamer developing a live-action remake of the series from original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko....

Apple Teams With A24 On ‘Sharper’, A Con Artist Movie Starring Julianne Moore By Chris Evangelista/June 22, 2020 2:30 pm EST Apple and A24 are uniting for Sharper, a new film starring Julianne Moore. Sharper follows a con artist, which comes from writers Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. There’s really not a whole lot to go on here – no director, no synopsis, no clue as to what type of film this is going to be....

By Ben Pearson/May 26, 2020 5:30 pm EST Here’s the movie’s official description from the Sundance Film Festival’s programming guide: Timid and hardworking single mother Shari (Ella Balinska, Charlie’s Angels) brushes away hesitations and decides to dip her toe back into the dating scene after being spurred on by her coworkers. She’s thrilled when her boss sets her up on a blind date with Ethan (Pilou Asbæk, Game of Thrones), who initially proves every bit as charming and magnetic as his photo....

Breaking Down The 10 Most Important Moments From ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 By Evan Saathoff/Dec. 21, 2020 8:00 am EST Holy smokes, what a season. We’re still only a few days from the finale of The Mandalorian season 2 and there are still a lot of strong feelings out there. It’s Star Wars, what do you expect? But a lot more happened this year beyond just the events of last week’s episode....

Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon And More ViacomCBS Channels Finally Coming To Hulu’s Live TV By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2021 4:00 pm EST Finding the right live television streaming service can be tricky. After all, they don’t all have some of the channels that you otherwise might be accustomed to having through a standard cable subscription. For example, Hulu with Live TV has been missing popular channels like Comedy Central, MTV, BET, VH1, Nickelodeon, TV Land, and more because they didn’t have a deal with ViacomCBS....

Cool Stuff: NECA Expands ‘Back To The Future’ Action Figure Line-Up With Doc Brown By Ethan Anderton/July 24, 2020 6:00 am EST When NECA put up their first wave of Back to the Future action figures for pre-order, it included the 1985 version of Marty McFly, a 2015 version when he’s in disguise as his son Marty McFly Jr., and the 1955 version of George McFly’s bully Biff Tannen. The figures looked incredible, but fans were a little disappointed that Christopher Lloyd as Dr....

Jamie Lee Curtis Shares First ‘Halloween Kills’ Image As The Sequel Heads Back To A Familiar Location By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 8, 2019 1:00 pm EST Halloween Kills, the sequel to 2018’s Halloween, has started production, and we’re already starting to get bits and pieces of material from the David Gordon Green-directed film. Jamie Lee Curtis, who is back as Laurie Strode, took a pic of herself back in character on her first day of shooting....

Martin Scorsese Strikes A First Look Deal For Movies And TV Shows At Apple TV+ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2020 9:00 am EST Apple TV+ recently stepped up as the primary financier of Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. It sounds like the collaborative experience between Apple and the legendary filmmaker has been a satisfying one, because Scorsese and his Sikelia Productions banner have just signed a multi-year first look deal for movies and TV shows that the filmmaker would produce and direct for Apple TV+....

Now Scream This: The Best Streaming Horror Movies Based On Books By /Film Staff/Nov. 13, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: As an uncivilized swine who barely has enough time to keep up with weekly cinema releases, let other mediums of storytelling, Chris has informed me that some of my favorite horror films are actually based on written literature....

The Clock Tower: This Was A Tremendous Week For Every Show In The Arrowverse By Amelia Emberwing/Nov. 1, 2019 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes, cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every other week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled with spoilers. Proceed at your own risk....

The Majority Of Georgia Movie Theaters Won’t Reopen Next Week By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2020 2:30 pm EST Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp – the same elected official who claimed that he “didn’t know” the coronavirus could be spread without symptoms, even though that news had long since become public knowledge – made headlines when he announced he was ignoring the advice of everyone who knows what they’re talking about and allowing several businesses to reopen in the Peach State....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Nice Guys’ Is The Buddy Comedy You Need Right Now By Chris Evangelista/April 3, 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: The Nice Guys.Where You Can Stream It: HBO Now, HBO Go, Max GoThe Pitch: Depressed private detective Ryan Gosling and burly bruiser Russell Crowe end up joining forces to solve a mystery in 1977 Los Angeles....

TV Bits: ‘Pen15’ Season 2 Trailer, ‘Woke’, ‘Who’s The Boss’, ‘Money Heist’, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 8, 2020 11:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: The hilarious Hulu comedy Pen15 gets a new trailer for its second season A new show called Woke introduces animation after the protagonist’s run-in with the police Netflix’s Money Heist is coming back Inexplicably, so is 1980s sitcom Who’s the Boss? And more!...

‘Abominable’ Review: Wildly Imaginative Visuals Balance Out A Generic Adventure Story By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 26, 2019 7:00 am EST For years, DreamWorks was comfortably settled into its role as the bargain bin Pixar, coasting its way through with thinly veiled Pixar knock-offs and Shrek sequels. But the How to Train Your Dragon franchise signaled a change for the studio. Here was an animation studio that was finally going to take itself seriously, that was going to prioritize storytelling and characters and deliver lush, jaw-dropping visuals....

‘Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers’ Movie Will Star John Mulaney And Andy Samberg By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2020 4:25 pm EST Last year, we heard the wild news that Hot Rod and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping director Akiva Shaffer would be tackling a live-action and CGI hybrid big screen version of the animated series Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers. But now we’re even more excited, because we have word that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse co-star John Mulaney and Brooklyn Nine-Nine lead Andy Samberg will be voicing the titular characters respectively....

/Filmcast Ep. 504 - The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part And Russian Doll By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 12, 2020 8:38 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff watch the Second Part of the Lego Movie. Find out from Jeff’s limerick whether this sequel still sparked joy. Stay tuned for the After Dark as the cast gets to the core of the Netflix series Russian Doll. Listen to David’s other podcast Write Along with writer C....

‘Hollywood’ Trailer: Ryan Murphy Tells An Alternate History Of Tinseltown In Latest Netflix Limited Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 20, 2020 10:30 am EST Revisionist stories seem to be all the rage lately, especially revisionist stories about the Golden Age of Hollywood. After Quentin Tarantino took a revisionist brush to the dying gasp of the Golden Age in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ryan Murphy is tackling postwar Tinseltown with his latest Netflix limited series....

‘Insert Coin’ Video Game Documentary Coming To Alamo Drafthouse VOD And More Virtual Cinemas By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2020 2:30 pm EST Even though the South by Southwest film festival was canceled back in the spring when the coronavirus pandemic was just beginning to tear through the United States, some of the movies intended to premiere at the festival still screened for critics. One of those movies was Insert Coin, a video game documentary looking at Midway Games and the making of historical video games like Smash TV, NARC, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and more....

‘Joker’ Will Likely Become The Highest-Grossing R-Rated Film Of All Time By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 21, 2019 8:30 am EST Moviegoers are about to give Joker even more reasons to dance like a goofball on those stairs in the Bronx. The Todd Phillips-directed movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as the beclowned bad guy is on the fast track to becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever (not adjusted for inflation). This means it’ll likely surpass the current record-holder: Deadpool....