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This Week In Trailers: A Leaf Of Faith, Nancy, Eating Animals, Motherland, Monsters And Men By Christopher Stipp/May 5, 2018 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: Meld, Hampstead, Becoming Bond, Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra Of Rock, The Commune By Christopher Stipp/March 12, 2017 8:00 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: The Phantom Menace, Another WolfCop, Kaleidoscope, Automatic At Sea, Blame, Monogamish By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 11, 2017 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?...

TV Bits: ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Animal Practice’, Louis C.K., Brendan Fraser, Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson, And More By Angie Han/Oct. 22, 2012 6:00 am EST There’s a lot of new stuff to get through in today’s TV Bits, so let’s get right to it. After the jump: AMC and Dish settle legal dispute; AMC resumes airing on Dish Why The Walking Dead ended up at AMC instead of HBO or NBC NBC euthanizes Animal Practice and brings back Whitney Louis C....

TV Bits: ‘Shooter’ Canceled, ‘Kim Possible’ Teaser, ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale Hype & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2018 10:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day plan a new series at Apple Watch a teaser for the new Kim Possible live-action movie Shooter is canceled, but might not be entirely dead Find out what Lost creator Carlton Cuse thinks about a reboot Get ready for another Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med crossover Find out what Nikolaj Coster-Waldau thinks of the Game of Thrones finale...

Watchmen: Three Hour Theatrical Cut? 4 1/2+ Hour Directors Cut DVD Planned By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2008 2:24 am EST Zack Snyder is in post production on his big screen adaptation of Watchmen, and is currently sitting on a three-hour superhero movie. “The main picture is nearing three hours long and I know I have a fight on my hands just with that,” Snyder told the New York Times. And the eventual Ultimate Edition DVD version of the movie (think Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings extended editions on crack) will no doubt be over four and a half plus hours in length....

What The ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Credits Scene Could Mean For ‘Avengers 4’ By Jazmine Joyner/July 6, 2018 9:00 am EST Ant-Man and The Wasp is like that bright sunny day after the months of rain that was the events of Avengers: Infinity War. It is a funny action film that focuses on the importance of family and responsibility to those you love the most. But I know, like everyone else, you want to know what does this entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe mean for Avengers 4....

‘Black Panther’ Review Round-Up: A Relevant, Richly Realized Marvel Masterpiece By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 6, 2018 11:00 am EST The embargo for Black Panther reviews is up, and the praise is nearly universal for Marvel Studios’ latest film. Ryan Coogler’s ambitious, expansive film with a majority-black cast is promising to be a cultural phenomenon, with early tracking suggesting Black Panther could break box office records. Anticipation is high for the comic book movie starring Chadwick Boseman as the titular hero, which has already outsold all other superhero movies in pre-sale tickets, and accumulated even more buzz with rapturous social media reactions to early screenings....

‘Daredevil’ Season 2 Early Reactions: Meet The Same Show, Same As The Old Show By Jacob Hall/Feb. 24, 2016 10:30 am EST The first season of Daredevil fluctuated between wonderful and dull on an episode-by-episode basis, with thrilling subplots and characters butting up against stuff that simple didn’t work at all. The result was a totally watchable mixed bag, a series with a clearly defined identity and a (mostly) killer cast that sagged here and there, spending a few too many episodes spinning its wheels....

‘Divergent’ Review: Would-Be ‘Hunger Games’ Successor Gets Off To A Shaky Start By Angie Han/March 21, 2014 12:30 pm EST Fair or not, it’s impossible not to measure Divergent against The Hunger Games. This is true for obvious reasons, in that they’re both dystopian YA adaptations featuring strong heroines, or that Divergent is actively and openly gunning to be the next Hunger Games. Unfortunately, it’s also true because Divergent, as directed by Neil Burger, never makes enough of a mark to rise above that easy comparison....

‘Inside Out’ Early Buzz: Pixar Makes A Sweet Return To Form By Angie Han/May 18, 2015 8:00 am EST Pixar never stopped being good, but for a little while it stopped being great. Cars 2 was the first Pixar movie to get a “Rotten” score, and while Brave and Monsters University fared better they couldn’t live up to the likes of Up and Wall-E. So there’s a lot riding on Pete Docter’s Inside Out, which with its inventive premise and emotional appeal, looks like a potential return to form for the studio....

‘Snatched’ Review: The Great Goldie Hawn Is Wasted In This Lazy Comedy By Josh Spiegel/May 12, 2017 8:00 am EST The world of comedy has changed vastly since Goldie Hawn’s last big-screen appearance in The Banger Sisters in 2002. Largely, comedy has progressed in the last 15 years, but Hawn’s return is not the banner occasion she deserves. Snatched, in which she plays the neurotic mother of a selfish wild child played by Amy Schumer, is mostly lazy and turgid....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Will Not Be Altered Following Carrie Fisher’s Death By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2017 2:30 pm EST Last December, Hollywood was hit with the tragic news that Star Wars saga actress Carrie Fisher had passed away. She had already completed filming on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but reports indicated that her character General Leia was meant to have an even bigger role in Star Wars: Episode IX....

A Nightmare On Elm Street Joins Universal Studios’ 2010 Halloween Horror Nights By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2010 3:00 pm EST Universal Studios Hollywood just announced the newest maze for the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights: “A Nightmare On Elm Street: Never Sleep Again,” will bring guests back on a nightmare journey to the town of Springwood, the scene of Freddy Krueger’s unspeakable crimes. They’ll wind through the ominously twisting corridors of the Barham Day Care Center, glimpse ghastly scenes of carnage among the young people of Springwood and face the ultimate showdown with Freddy in his infamous boiler room lair....

CBS Addresses Les Moonves Sexual Misconduct Allegations And Other Harassment Investigations [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Aug. 5, 2018 1:00 pm EST Kelly Kahl, president of CBS entertainment, gave an executive session before the Television Critics Association knowing full well that a majority of questions would center around the sexual misconduct allegations brought against Les Moonves, the Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation. The New Yorker published Ronan Farrow’s investigation last week where six women came forward with stories about Moonves involving physical assault, sexual harassment and blacklisting the women when they refused his advances....

Early Buzz: Latest ‘Pacific Rim’ Test Screening Draws Big Praise [Updated With New Poster] By Angie Han/March 25, 2013 9:45 am EST As a Guillermo del Toro-directed film about giant robots battling giant monsters, Pacific Rim was automatically burdened with sky-high expectations. But the more we hear about it, the more it sounds like it actually lives up to them and then some. The first test screening last month was met with glowing approval....

Fantastic ‘Ready Player One’ Posters Pay Homage To Your Favorite Movies From The Past By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2018 10:30 am EST The end of this month will see the release of the anticipated adaptation of Ready Player One. The novel from Ernest Cline is coming to the big screen courtesy of director Steven Spielberg, who seems like the only director who could pull off a pop culture mash-up of this scale – especially with all of its key references to some of the most iconic blockbusters ever made....

First Clip From ‘Mortal Kombat: Legacy,’ Premieres April 12 By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2011 7:00 pm EST You might think I sound crazy, but I know I’m not the only one who gets chills when they think about the first time they saw the Mortal Kombat movie. The movie itself is largely disappointing, but after playing the games obsessively at local arcades – lining up quarters, practicing fatalities, etc. – finally sitting down in the theater and hearing the initial scream of “MORTAL KOMBAT,” over the New Line logo, followed by The Immortals techno beats, was a very exciting moment....

Let’s Speculate About Marvel’s Plans For 2020 By Angie Han/Oct. 28, 2016 7:00 am EST We’re still in the early stages of Marvel’s Phase Three — next week’s Doctor Strange is just the second film out of ten — but since Marvel is famous for mapping out its plans well ahead of time, it’s impossible not to wonder what’s coming in Phase Four. So let’s give into that temptation, and spend a bit of time speculating....

Marvel Bits: ‘The Avengers’ Halts Production Due To Script Theft?; ‘Thor’ Scores $93 Million Internationally; Idris Elba Wants To Be ‘Luke Cage’; Kevin Feige Talks Future Marvel Movies And TV By Adam Quigley/May 2, 2011 4:00 pm EST Here’s some potentially frustrating news. Last week, someone got possession of Samuel L. Jackson’s copy of The Avengers shooting script, and attempted to sell it to any film sites and bloggers who were willing to pony up the cash....