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‘The Magic School Bus Rides Again’ Trailer: Kate McKinnon Leads The Class To Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2017 10:30 am EST All aboard the Magic School Bus! The enchanted vehicle pulls up for a second go-around with a frizzy-haired teacher behind the wheel in the Netflix reboot-sequel of the beloved PBS animated series. In The Magic School Bus Rides Again, the teacher is a little less frizzy-haired, though she’s still a Frizzle....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Deleted Scene Features A Cameo From Beyond The Grave By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 23, 2018 6:30 am EST Thor: Ragnarok is now available to buy on digital download, and that includes all of the special features that come with it. Besides the new Team Darryl short film featuring The Grandmaster coming to Earth and moving in with Thor’s old roommate, fans have taken notice of a certain deleted scene that brings back a Marvel Cinematic Universe character from beyond the grave....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Footage Recap And New Story Details Revealed [Comic-Con 2017] By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2017 8:52 pm EST Marvel Studios brought Thor back to San Diego Comic-Con for their big Hall H panel, and while you probably already watched the new Thor: Ragnarok trailer, there’s still plenty more that we can tell you. Not only were some new details gleaned from the panel itself, but there were extended bits of footage shown before the trailer debuted as well....

‘UnREAL’ Season 3 Trailer: The Savage ‘Reality Show’ Drama Looks To Course Correct By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 18, 2017 12:30 pm EST After a nearly year-long delay, Lifetime’s UnREAL is coming back onto our TV screens. The darkly comic send-up to reality TV was nominated for a few Emmys in its first season and became one of the breakout shows of 2015, but it has been plagued by so many of its own behind-the-scenes conflicts that the drama in front of the cameras seemed demure by comparison....

All-You-Can-Watch MoviePass Returns, Thanks To Partnership With Hollywood Movie Money By Angie Han/Aug. 30, 2011 10:30 am EST Earlier this summer, we told you about the rollout of a new service called MoviePass, which would allow customers unlimited movie tickets for the fee of $50 a month. Then, just two days later, we reported that plans for the service had been scrapped when theaters — who had not previously been consulted — refused to honor those passes....

Diagon Alley Tour Part 1: London Waterfront, Diagon Alley Entrance, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2014 9:30 am EST So far I’ve written about the two new rides in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley expansion: Harry Potter and the Escape From Gringotts and the Hogwarts Express, the amazing interactive wands that let anyone perform magic throughout the wizarding worlds, and today I wanted to finally give you guys a virtual Diagon Alley tour, showing you around the new land in Universal Studios Orlando theme park....

Dwayne Johnson Delivers ‘Jumanji 2’ Video From The Jungle As Rhys Darby Joins The Cast By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2016 9:30 am EST Production on the new Jumanji is underway over in the jungles of Hawaii. Kevin Hart just recently posted a first look at our main characters played by himself, Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan and Jack Black. Now it’s Hart’s Central Intelligence co-star’s turn to share a behind-the-scenes look at the movie that was initially thought to be reboot, but is actually a sequel....

HBO Exec Addresses Controversial ‘Confederate’ Series From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Producers [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2017 1:15 pm EST On Wednesday, July 19, HBO made headlines when they announced the new show from Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The news wasn’t high anticipation for their follow-up – it was controversy over the show’s racially charged concept. Confederate is a dystopian drama about a world in which the South won the Civil War, and slavery still exists in modern day....

Jack Giroux’s Most Anticipated Movies Of 2016 By Jack Giroux/Jan. 13, 2016 7:00 am EST As Jacob noted the other day, this is the time of year we get to rest comfortably in our bubbles of excitement. We rarely feel any disappointment this early in the year with what’s hitting theaters (unless you were one of the few really pumped about The Forest), so we’ve yet to reach the point of skepticism about our most anticipated films of the year....

Jake Scott’s Sundance Guest Blog #3: More News From The Frontier By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2010 12:00 pm EST Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Jake Scott has been blogging his Sundance experience on /Film. You might not know 42-year-old director Jake Scott yet, but you will. You definitely know his father Ridley, the filmmaker behind such films as Alien, Gladiator, and Blade Runner (Jake worked in the editing room during the school holidays)....

Marvel Has An “Interest” In An All-Female Superhero Movie, Tessa Thompson Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 15, 2018 2:00 pm EST Women are finally getting their time to shine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And it couldn’t come soon enough. After years of stealing the scenes from under the titular male superheroes, the female superheroes may finally get their all female Marvel movie — at least, that’s what Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson hopes....

Movie Review: 10,000 BC By Zach Lawrence/March 12, 2008 4:53 pm EST Editors note: This review is a little late, and its entirely my fault as I accidently passed it while working at SXSW in Austin. The Following is Documented Wiki Info: The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch. [World population was likely below 5 million people, mostly hunting-gathering communities scattered over all continents, save for Antarctica, and with the proto-Lapita migration also reaching the islands of the Pacific....

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Now Streaming on FilmStruck Before David Lynch returned to the town of Twin Peaks with the recent Showtime revival, he made the polarizing prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. While the Twin Peaks series begins after the death of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), Fire Walk With Me goes back and focuses on the traumatic events that lead to her untimely demise. Like most Lynch properties, Fire Walk With Me won’t be for everyone....

Seven Samurai Now Streaming on FilmStruck Akira Kurosawa’s epic 1954 classic is unparalleled, even though it’s been adapted several times into several different films (mostly named The Magnificent Seven). The set-up is simple: a group of peasant farmers hire a band of samurai to protect their village from bandits. But with this framework, Kurosawa crafts a film brimming with excitement, pathos, honor and violence; a sweeping, absorbing experience. For 207 minutes, Kurosawa fully engrosses you in the cinematic world he’s created....

Planned ‘Star Wars’ Spin-Off Was Set On Tatooine, Confirms Production Designer By Ben Pearson/Aug. 16, 2018 11:30 am EST Earlier this summer, word came out that Disney and Lucasfilm were placing the Star Wars spin-off movies on hold in the wake of Solo: A Star Wars Story’s disappointing performance at the box office. The studio quickly came out and refuted that claim, but follow-up news basically said the same thing that the initial report did: the spin-offs are still in development, just don’t expect to hear anything official about them for a little while as Lucasfilm licks their wounds....

Producers Guild Award Nominations Include Nods For ‘The Artist,’ ‘The Descendants,’ And ‘Midnight In Paris’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2012 9:30 am EST Here’s your best indicator yet as to what the crop of nominations for the Best Picture Oscar is likely to be. The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced its nominations for 2011 awards, which will be doled out on January 21. The ten films nominated for the PGA’s top honor include expected pictures such as The Artist, The Descendants and War Horse....

Reboot Bits: Kevin Eastman Talks ‘Ninja Turtles;’ Jean-Claude Van Damme Wants In On ‘Bloodsport,’ Plus ‘Masters Of The Universe,’ ‘Total Recall’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2012 3:00 pm EST Remakes have become so common that barely a day goes by without updates on projects that seek to revitalize or reuse proven or existing stories. Today the list of remake news involves a couple of ’80s action mainstays talking about new versions of their old fims, and a couple other odds and ends....

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises, The Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Superman By Germain Lussier/July 5, 2012 12:30 pm EST Want to see how Spider-Man could have looked different in The Amazing Spider-Man? How is Warner Bros. subtly marketing The Dark Knight Rises in Canada? Why does Peter Parker use Bing in The Amazing Spider-Man? Is Hugh Jackman on his way to Australia to film The Wolverine? Did Olly Moss change how you’ll look at Spider-Man forever?...

‘Justice League’ Trailer Breakdown: Come Together For A Frame-By-Frame Analysis By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 2017 7:00 am EST After watching the Justice League trailer countless times, we have a more in-depth breakdown of the new trailer, taking a closer look at just what the hell is going on in this first union of Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), The Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher)....

‘Logan’ Spoiler Review: No More Adamantium Claws In The Valley By Jacob Hall/March 8, 2017 7:30 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: James Mangold’s Logan.) There has never been a superhero movie like Logan. Paced like a ’70s drama, styled like a classic western, and powered by characters rather than action, director James Mangold has concluded the saga of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine with a powerful pop rather than an empty bang....