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Sequel Bits: ‘Bumblebee’, ‘Power Rangers’, ‘The Predator’, ‘The Nice Guys’, ‘Back To The Future’ And More By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2018 4:30 am EST Here’s a very cute new Bumblebee poster. The art here leans heavily into the angle of friendship between human and robot, which seems to confirm director Travis Knight is going for an Iron Giant vibe here. I’m no fan of the Transformers franchise, but I have to admit the marketing for Bumblebee has been effective, and has even made me think the movie might turn out to be surprisingly good....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Fast & Furious 7’, ‘Kill Bill 3’, ‘ExpendaBelles’, ‘Zoolander 2’ By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2013 4:18 pm EST If you consider sequel news to be a gift, we’ve got a whole sleigh full of presents for you. After the jump: No (duh), Justin Bieber won’t replace Paul Walker in Fast & Furious 7 Zoe Bell could become one of the ExpendaBelles Ricky Gervais will be back for Night at the Museum 3 Phil “You Had One Job” Tippett is returning for Jurassic World Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is coming sometime in 2014 Quentin Tarantino is really not interested in doing Kill Bill 3 Zoolander 2 is “on hold,” and Dodgeball 2 has a script Someone has been arrested for that Transformers extortion attempt Sullivan Stapleton and Eva Green gets their own 300 posters The rumor started when Carbuzz....

Small-Screen Stream: Revisiting ‘The Staircase,’ Remembering Anthony Bourdain, And More Of The Best Shows Streaming Now By Lindsey Romain/June 13, 2018 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Small-Screen Stream, a feature where we share the best television shows streaming and where you can watch them.) Summer is here, and with it comes a pretty eclectic group of impulse watches. Whether you’re drowning out the heat with the AC or anxiously awaiting the warmth, that distinct summer feeling is already in the air....

Star Wars Bits: Star Wars Land Updates, The Making Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Book, And New Words From Two Obi-Wan Kenobi Actors By Jacob Hall/May 18, 2016 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits: A very cool update on Disney’s Star Wars theme park land. Words of wisdom from Carrie Fisher and Kathleen Kennedy. Not one, but two Obi-Wan Kenobi actors speak out....

Stranger Things Season 2 Episode Titles: What Do They Mean? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2016 9:00 am EST Yesterday Netflix finally announced that they have renewed Stranger Things for a second season, and with it came a Stranger Things season 2 teaser trailer which revealed the titles of the nine episodes in the upcoming second season. Being that I love to speculate, I thought now would be a good time to take a look at these episode titles and try to predict what it might all mean....

Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Thor: Ragnarok, Arrow, Deadpool, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, The Flash By Angie Han/July 13, 2015 4:08 pm EST And we’re back from Comic-Con with a super-sized Superhero Bits! Want a new look at Batman’s costume in Batman v Superman? Or Arrow’s new outfit for Season 4? Will Lady Sif be in Thor: Ragnarok? How could Agent Carter tie into Doctor Strange? What are people saying about the Lucifer pilot?...

The Best Films Leaving Netflix In October 2015 By Jack Giroux/Sept. 29, 2015 1:30 pm EST If you’ve recently been craving to watch the Dane Cook star vehicle, Good Luck Chuck, then you better hurry up, because it’s about to leave Netflix. Once again, the company is depriving us of comedy classics we just need to watch again and again. In reality, the streaming service is actually dropping some great movies next month....

The Gang’s All Here In The Official ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Poster [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2015 2:25 pm EST Marvel just released the full Avengers: Age of Ultron poster. And it’s jam-packed with heroes, villains, and anticipation for the May 1 Joss Whedon sequel. Among the revelations? Anthony Mackie will return as Falcon, despite denials for the past several months. There are also confirmations of cameos from a number of other smaller Marvel Cinematic Universe characters....

The Lessons Universal (And Hollywood) Should Learn From ‘The Mummy’ By Chris Evangelista/June 20, 2017 7:30 am EST Remember The Mummy? It hit theaters…checks notes…two weeks ago? Wow, time sure flies when you’re trying to forget you saw a certain movie.The Mummy was sold as a film featuring Tom Cruise doing battle with a recently resurrected mummy, but mostly it sat there, lifeless and entirely void of any entertainment value, all thanks to a muddled script, slipshod editing, and bland direction....

The Odds And Ends Of 2014: A Few More Superlatives To Wrap Up A Year In Movies By Angie Han/Jan. 2, 2015 2:30 pm EST Most Effective Marketing Campaign: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 Anyone can give you a well-cut trailer or a pretty poster. Lionsgate turned its marketing campaign for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 into an experience. The Capitol TV dispatches turned us all into citizens of Panem, while supplementary materials like the District Heroes series expanded the world of Panem far beyond what we’ve seen or will ever get to see in the movies....

This Week In Trailers: Grave Encounters, Killer God, Las Malas Intenciones (The Bad Intentions), Cross, PressPausePlay By Christopher Stipp/April 8, 2011 6:00 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Queen To Play (Joueuse), The Resident, The Return Of Uncle Benon, Without By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 18, 2011 6:00 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?...

Top 20 Stories Of The Week: Alan Rickman, David Bowie, 10 Cloverfield Lane & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2016 4:30 pm EST The Top 20 Stories of the Week are the stories we think you should check out on /Film from the previous week. Some of the top stories from the week include the end of Heroes Reborn, a director hired for a remake of Jumanji, a new direction for Chronicles of Narnia, a reboot of 24, our most anticipated films of 2016 and more....

Zack Braff’s Kickstarter Film ‘Wish I Was Here’ Will Premiere At Sundance 2014 [Updated With Images] By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2013 11:22 am EST Sundance 2014 just got a something new and something old. The festival, which takes place January 16-26 in Park City, UT just added the world premiere of Wish I Was Here, Zack Braff’s comedy, which the writer/director created through KickStarter. It co-stars Kate Hudson, Mandy Patinkin, Josh Gad, Ashley Greene and Joey King....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’: What Did You Think? By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2018 6:30 pm EST Avengers: Infinity War is now playing in theaters everywhere, and we want to know what you thought of Marvel’s latest blockbuster. Did you love it? Did you hate it? Did it leave you a sobbing mess as the credits rolled? We want to know! Tell us your Infinity War reactions! Have you seen Avengers: Infinity War yet?...

‘Breaking Bad’ Was The Last Great Antihero TV Show By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 18, 2018 8:00 am EST Breaking Bad, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this week, was far from the first TV drama focusing on an antihero. Bland chemistry teacher-turned-meth chef and eventual kingpin Walter White followed in the footsteps of mobster Tony Soprano, bad cop Vic Mackey, enigmatic ad man Don Draper, and other dark leading characters of television in the 2000s....

/Film Interview: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Dave Filoni Answers Burning Questions About The New Series By Germain Lussier/Aug. 7, 2014 7:00 am EST When Star Wars Rebels was first announced, I immediately had a ton of questions. How did the Jedi help start the Rebel Alliance? Does that make Luke Skywalker less significant? Who was this mysterious bad guy hunting down Jedi? Why do we need him if we have Darth Vader?...

‘Let The Right One In’ TV Series Pilot Gets ‘Doctor Who’ Director By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2016 6:00 am EST Update: Doctor Who and Happy Valley director Euros Lyn has been hired by TNT to direct the pilot of a television series based on Let The Right One In. Lyn also directed episodes of Daredevil, Black Mirror, Sherlock, Torchwood and Broadchurch. Learn about the Let The Right One In tv series, after the jump....

‘Spectacular Now’ Director James Ponsoldt Making ‘I Want My MTV’ Movie For A24 By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2016 12:30 pm EST A24 has optioned the rights to I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, and has set The Spectacular Now/The End of the Tour director James Ponsoldt to develop the book into a feature film. Details on the I Want My MTV Movie, after the jump....

10 Things We Learned From ‘Breaking Bad’ S5E15 “Granite State” By Joanna Robinson/Sept. 23, 2013 12:30 pm EST As we promised in “The Ones Who Knock” Kickstarter, I will be doing weekly recaps here for each episode of Breaking Bad. For those of you unfamiliar with my recapping style, it’s less of a straightforward plot summary and more a distillation of the most interesting elements of each week’s episode. The recaps will spoil everything up through the current episode (S5E15 “Granite State”), but won’t spoil any future episodes or even scenes from the “Next Time” segment of the show....