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The Best Animated Kids Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen By Rob Hunter/June 27, 2017 8:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition: the best animated kids movies you’ve probably never seen!) There are currently three animated kids movies playing in theaters, two in the top ten at the box-office, and this week also sees the release of Despicable Me 3....

The Water Cooler: ‘Star Wars Battlefront 2,’ Netflix’s ‘American Vandal,’ And Some Damn Good Barbecue By /Film Staff/Oct. 13, 2017 9:00 am EST Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Ethan Anderton checks out Star Wars Battlefront 2, Ben Pearson eats some delicious barbecue, Hoai-Tran Bui binges American Vandal, Peter Sciretta attends a “Strolling Magic Showdown,” and Jacob Hall reads two very different books about filmmakers....

This Week In Trailers: Amateurs In Space, Happy Hour, NETIZENS, A FOND, True New York, Beyond The Gates By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 3, 2016 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Everyday, Skokie: Invaded But Not Conquered, The Joy Of Six, In Organic We Trust, Journey To The West, The Liability By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 26, 2013 10:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: South Of The Border, The Story Of Furious Pete, R U There, The Two Escobars, The Housemaid By Christopher Stipp/May 28, 2010 3:00 pm EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

‘31’ Has Been Rated NC-17 And Rob Zombie Is None Too Happy About That By Jacob Hall/Dec. 28, 2015 7:00 am EST We can say a lot of things, both good and bad, about Rob Zombie as a director, but at least he has a voice. While many filmmakers are happy to color within the lines and deliver something approachable and easy to sell, Zombie’s particular brand of foul, brutal, throwback horror is always interesting, even when the movie is a total stinker....

‘Aquaman’ Comic-Con Footage Recap: Ocean Master’s Army Rides In On Ships And Sharks [Comic-Con 2017] By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2017 12:56 pm EST The next DC Comics movie from Warner Bros. Pictures may be Justice League, but several of the characters from the superhero squad have yet to get their own feature film. Wonder Wonder made her solo debut with box office that’s still rolling in this summer, but the next solo superhero adventure will takes us to see....

/Film Interview: ‘The Lone Ranger’ Director Gore Verbinski - “We Are On A Crazy Road To Extinction” By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2013 6:59 pm EST When George Lucas and Steven Spielberg said Hollywood would implode because of a reliance on massive blockbusters, they were probably thinking of films like those made by Gore Verbinski. The director has done small films — even winning an Oscar for the animated Rango – but he’s best known for the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies and now The Lone Ranger, which opens July 3....

‘Friday The 13th’ Video Game Review: A Terrific Horror Game That Actually Feels Like The Movies By Vanessa Bogart/May 30, 2017 8:00 am EST Last week, one of my more anticipated video games of 2017 arrived: Friday the 13th. Well, part of it did. The game is being released in two parts: the multiplayer component, where players can play as camp counselors and the hockey-masked menace who wants to murder them, became available on last Friday....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Details: Opening Crawl, Rough Cut Reactions, AT-ATs & More By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2017 9:30 am EST Following the premiere of the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a bunch of new details poured onto the web thanks to interviews with director Rian Johnson and stars Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill and John Boyega. Some of them demanded their own post where we could dissect them, while others are just interesting details that fans who are hungry to know everything they can about The Last Jedi will be happy to hear....

‘Upgrade’ Director And Cast On Making A Sci-Fi Action Movie On A Blumhouse Budget [Interview] By Matt Donato/June 1, 2018 8:00 am EST Each year during Austin’s SXSW Film Festival, press attendees (like myself) must pick-and-choose amidst a Texas-sized whirlwind of conflicting screening times and maximum exhaustion. In 2018, that meant (excitedly) interviewing Upgrade writer/director Leigh Whannell alongside stars Logan Marshall-Green and Betty Gabriel instead of catching a buzzy midday showing…like it was even a hard choice?...

An Open Letter To Bob Iger Regarding Disney’s New Streaming Service By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 14, 2017 8:00 am EST Bob, First, I hope you don’t mind if I call you Bob. “Mr. Iger” seems too formal, even for the CEO of the Walt Disney Company. So, Bob, I’m writing this letter to you in regards to the exciting news you announced earlier this week: that Disney will pull its films from Netflix in 2019 and begin a streaming service of its own....

Cardboard Cinema: The Only Problem With Mondo Making A ‘The Thing’ Board Game By Jacob Hall/Feb. 20, 2017 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Welcome to Cardboard Cinema, a feature that explores the intersection between movies and tabletop gaming. This column is sponsored by Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy in Austin, Texas.Mondo has built its reputation on creating objects of tangible, physical beauty: posters, t-shirts, pins, and toys, all of it geared toward pop culture-savvy individuals hungry for something unique....

Christopher Nolan, Jon Favreau And Quentin Tarantino Join Battle Against Premium Video On Demand By Germain Lussier/June 1, 2011 11:30 am EST Has anyone actually ordered a movie off DirecTV’s controversial Premium Video On Demand service? Beginning in April, several studios teamed up with the cable provider to offer their movies only two months after they hit theaters for the price of $29.95, much to the dismay of theater owners and filmmakers alike....

Colin Trevorrow Talks ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ And Yes, He’s Aware Of That George Lucas Petition By Jacob Hall/Jan. 12, 2016 10:00 am EST The director of Star Wars: Episode 9 was never not going to be controversial. This is the most popular movie franchise in history we’re talking about here – little things raise tempers and lead to arguments arguments, so of course the person put in charge of an entire movie was going to create a tempest by default....

Does HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects’ Pilot Live Up To Gillian Flynn’s Novel? By Meredith Borders/July 9, 2018 7:00 am EST Last night, HBO aired “Vanish,” the first episode in an 8-hour miniseries based on Gillian Flynn’s debut novel Sharp Objects. Flynn’s an executive producer of the series, along with show creator Marti Noxon and Blumhouse Production’s Jason Blum. The three creatives make something of a powerful triumvirate, especially when paired with episode director Jean-Marc Vallée, who’s responsible for every episode of last summer’s huge HBO hit Big Little Lies....

George Lucas Has Seen ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, But What Did He Think? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2015 12:00 pm EST As of the end of November, Star Wars creator George Lucas hadn’t seen a single frame of the forthcoming saga continuance, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But here we are just six days later and that has changed entirely. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy revealed that Lucas will be attending the premieres of the movie in Los Angeles and London, but he’s actually already seen the entire movie....

How The New ‘Star Wars’ Novels Connect To ‘The Last Jedi’ By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2017 12:00 pm EST When Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, an edict came down from on high: every Star Wars-related product that the company produced moving forward would be canonical, from coloring books to video games to comics and beyond. We already saw how some of the books influenced the script for The Force Awakens, but now we know how a whole new set of Star Wars novels will connect to the events of Rian Johnson’s upcoming movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

Is Michael J. Bassett In Consideration For Predators? By Brendon Connelly/June 16, 2009 11:54 am EST Judging from some of the comments on his blog of late, it seems a distinct possibility that Michael J. Bassett is one of the “about seven” directors under discussion for the directing job on Predators. The comments were sniffed out by the good burghers of Quiet Earth, who surmised in them a connection to the Robert Rodriguez-produced sci-fi sequel....

Is Universal Studios Working On A New Harry Potter “Video Game Ride”? By Jacob Hall/Aug. 24, 2016 2:00 pm EST Major companies filing patents isn’t always news, because many major companies file patents just because they can. This is especially true in the theme park industry, where potential ride and show technology is patented so it can be utilized in a potential future attraction. You know – just in case. After this is a competitive business....