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The Best Films And Shows Arriving On Netflix In November 2015 By Jacob Hall/Oct. 30, 2015 4:00 pm EST Netflix giveth and Netflix taketh away. Although the world’s most popular steaming service is losing a bunch of great movies and television shows next month, it’s gaining plenty of stuff worthy of your team and attention in turn. If you like unique and varied documentaries, surreal animated family movies, and Marvel superheroes, you’ll have plenty to dig into over the next few weeks....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ Ride Concept, ‘Star Wars’ Galactic Nights, 35 Years At Tokyo Disneyland By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 23, 2017 11:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: See what a Nightmare Before Christmas ride might have looked like, as envisioned by one Imagineer Cars characters get into the Halloween spirit by dressing up at Disney’s California Adventure The Star Wars: Galactic Nights event is returning to Disney’s Hollywood Studios Get details on how Universal Studios and Legoland are incorporating VR worldwide The parent company of Louis Vuitton is bringing a steampunk theme park to Paris Details for Tokyo Disneyland’s 35th-anniversary celebration have been announced And more!...

This Week In Trailers: Mr. Roosevelt, In The Fade, Saving Capitalism, The Breadwinner, The Strange Ones By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 4, 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 Review: 24 Season 7 Premiere - What Did You Think? By David Chen/Jan. 13, 2009 3:34 pm EST [The following contains spoilers for the first 4 episodes of 24: Season 7] It’s been a little bit over 18 months since the last season of 24 (not counting 24: Redemption) and after the general awfulness of Season 6, I was quite concerned that one of my once-favorite television shows had lost its magic for good....

TV Trailers: ‘Legion’ Gets Explosive, ‘Riverdale’ Gets Steamy By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2017 2:00 pm EST The first months of the year may be a dismal time for movies, but it’s a very good time for television. Today we’ve got new promos for two of this winter’s most highly anticipated series: The CW’s Riverdale, which I like to refer to as “Sexy Archie,” and FX’s Legion, which I suppose you could refer to as “Sexy X-Men” depending on your feelings about Dan Stevens....

VOTD: How David Fincher Hijacks Your Eyes; Plus, Meet The Real Ed Kemper By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 19, 2017 6:30 am EST What makes David Fincher such an acclaimed filmmaker? What is it about his style and grasp of material that makes some cinephiles go nuts and sing his praises? A new video may have just discovered Fincher’s secret: he hijacks your eyes with the use of camera movement. Watch the David Fincher video essay below....

Watch Five Minutes Of ‘Creed’ As Philadelphia Gives The Movie An Honorary Day This Month By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 7, 2015 11:00 am EST The steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum have become quite iconic thanks to the famous training montage from the original Best Picture winning boxing drama Rocky. Plenty of tourists have ran up those steps and taken countless pictures there in honor of Sylvester Stallone’s iconic character Rocky Balboa, and now the city of Philadelphia is honoring the forthcoming franchise spin-off Creed with an honorary, celebratory day....

What Does It Mean For Hollywood If Another Copyright Extension Doesn’t Pass This Year? By Ben Pearson/Jan. 11, 2018 4:30 am EST Until the 20th century, works of art both great and small typically went from being owned by their creators to being owned by no one – or, perhaps more accurately, to being owned by everyone. In the public domain, a movie, song, or book can be reprinted or utilized by anyone at any time, without needing permission....

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Co-Director Vaguely Discusses Flashbacks And Cap’s Evolution By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2012 10:00 am EST The hiring of brothers Anthony and Joe Russo to direct Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a pleasant surprise. The two have experience on television (Community, Arrested Development) and features (Welcome to Collinwood, You, Me and Dupree) and their resume is just the sort that Marvel seems to really like at the moment....

‘Climax’ Review: Gaspar Noé’s Latest Dances Deliriously Toward Death [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 10, 2018 9:00 am EST Whenever any cinematic movement occurs with a noticeable sense of purpose on screen, critics commonly employ the trope of reaching into the language of dance. It’s not just walking, it’s a filmic ballet. It’s not just blocking, it’s choreography. Maybe it says something more about the scattershot cinematography of a screen-saturated culture where images are captured with little acknowledgement of the relationship between the subject and cameraperson, but when the two are in complete symbiosis, it stands out....

/Film UK - Future Gangs, A Serial Killer, Amy Adams, Danny Wallace And It’s A Wonderful Afterlife By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 25, 2009 5:00 am EST Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK....

‘Foxcatcher’ Early Buzz And Teaser: Bennett Miller At His Best By Angie Han/May 19, 2014 8:30 am EST It’s far too early to throw around phrases like “best of the year.” But it’s not too early for the phrase “best of Cannes,” and superlative reviews for Foxcatcher suggest that the Bennett Miller drama has already earned that label. Steve Carell reportedly puts in a career-changing performance as eccentric millionaire John du Pont, who becomes the benefactor to two American wrestlers — brothers Dave (Mark Ruffalo) and Mark Schulz (Channing Tatum)....

‘John Carter’ Concept Art Revealed, Andrew Stanton Talks, Trailer On Harry Potter? By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2011 12:00 pm EST Formerly of Mars, John Carter will be Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton’s first foray into live action. And by “live action” we mean real actors interacting with the type of high end digital effects that take well over a year to craft correctly. Stanton has been hard at work on his adaptation of the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs novel about a Civil War soldier transported to Mars who becomes something of a red planet superhero, helping to liberate the natives....

‘Lost’ Creator Damon Lindelof Defends ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 5 Against The “Haters” By Angie Han/Aug. 21, 2015 2:30 pm EST In terms of viewership, Season 5 was Game of Thrones’ best yet. In terms of narrative quality, however, the jury’s still out. Even as the season was showered with praise for highs like “Hardhome,” it caught a lot of flack for its uneven pacing and nasty twists. What Game of Thrones could really use right now is a valiant champion to fight for it in the court of public opinion....

‘Monster’ Review: Powerful Crime Drama Finds The Intersection Of Race, Justice, And Storytelling [Sundance] By Steven Prokopy/Jan. 24, 2018 2:00 pm EST Ever since its publication in 1999, author Walter Dean Myers’ award-winning novel Monster has be a favorite among young adults, providing them a glimpse into the world of Steve Harmon, a black teenager whose life is thrown into chaos when he is arrested and put on trial for taking part in a robbery gone wrong, resulting in the death of a Harlem bodega owner....

‘The Purge: The Island’ Will Tell The Story Of The First Purge Night By Jacob Hall/Sept. 7, 2017 10:30 am EST Last year’s The Purge: Election Year didn’t exactly close the door on the popular horror series, but it did conclude with things looking up for the nightmarish near-future America where all crime is legalized for one night each year. If it was the final film, it would have been a satisfying ending....

‘Zootopia’ Directors Explain How The Movie Evolved From A ‘James Bond’ Parody [Exclusive Interview] By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2016 9:30 am EST Earlier this week we told you how Zootopia was going to be a different movie, originally following Jason Bateman’s character Nick Wilde and featuring an more-in-your-face message. Well you might be surprised that the original idea for Zootopia was a James Bond parody featuring talking animals. How the that idea evolve into whats now on the screen?...

A Brief History Of The Spahn Movie Ranch, An Important Location In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ By Jacob Knight/May 11, 2018 8:00 am EST In 2000, The L.A. Times published a first-person account written by former census bureau trainee Virginia Leaper, who recalled a sunny California Day during the Spring of ‘70, where she’d been assigned (on the last day of training) to survey the infamous Spahn Movie Ranch, where the Manson Family had allegedly plotted the ritualistic murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others....

Christopher’s Top 10 Trailers Of 2013 By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 28, 2013 9:30 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 we look at the Top 10 trailers of 2013....

Could Marvel Replace Robert Downey Jr. With A Black Female Iron Man? By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2016 8:00 am EST A couple weeks back, Marvel Comics revealed that a black teenager named Riri Williams would be replacing Tony Stark as Iron Man in the comic books. But could Marvel Studios replace Robert Downey Jr. with a young black actress in Disney’s Iron Man movies? I know what you’re probably thinking, this is only the comics — they kill off characters all the time and they often take on storylines that would probably never make it to the big screen....