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‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Makes A Triumphant And Earnest Return By Karen Han/Aug. 18, 2017 8:00 am EST The Logan family is cursed with bad luck. Jimmy (Channing Tatum) can’t hold down a job due to the injury that derailed his future prospects as a football star, Clyde (Adam Driver) lost his hand in the process of returning home from Iraq, and there’s a history of mishaps and misfortunes in their family that seem too bad to just be coincidence....

‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Director Tobe Hooper Has Died At 74 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2017 7:45 am EST Tobe Hooper, director of one of the most revered horror films of all time, has passed away at 74. Best known for directing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974, Tobe Hooper would go on to become a respected and influential horror filmmaker who also dabbled with directing episodes of hit TV shows as well....

‘The Hunger Games’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Commands A Lightweight Dystopian Vision By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2012 8:41 pm EST There’s a great semi-futuristic story of brutal combat, in which a battered nation is captivated as two-person teams battle one another to the death in an ironic but potent allegory of public entertainment and government control gone wrong. A reserved but driven hero manipulates public perception to gain an edge in the games, and could ultimately become something more significant than a survivor....

‘The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’ Has Been Canceled By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 15, 2016 10:00 am EST The late night programming at Comedy Central was shaken up at the end of 2014 when The Colbert Report came to an end so host Stephen Colbert could move on to host The Late Show, which was about to be vacated by longtime host David Letterman. But Comedy Central attempted to keep the timeslot following The Daily Show with Jon Stewart rolling with some replacement political satire from a former Daily Show correspondent in the form of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore....

‘Veronica Mars’ And Jon Favreau’s ‘Chef’ Premiere At SXSW 2014 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2014 12:34 pm EST The 2014 Sundance Film Festival hasn’t even started yet and the second huge American film festival on the calendar is already announcing its lineup. That would be South by Southwest 2014, which takes place in Austin TX from March 7-15. The two biggest announcements so far are for opening night, which will feature the world premiere of Chef, directed by Jon Favreau, and the highly anticipated Veronica Mars film....

‘Westworld’ Review: ‘Kiksuya’ Longs For A Better World By Chris Evangelista/June 11, 2018 7:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly recaps of HBO’s Westworld. This Westworld review takes a look at the eighth episode of season 2, “Kiksuya”. Be warned: spoilers follow. Something New Well, that was unexpected!After several episodes that made Westworld feel as if it was stuck in its own loop, the series changes things up drastically with “Kiksuya”, which flips the script, fills in some missing pieces, and finds a way to make us empathize with the robot hosts more so than any episode before....

‘Westworld’ Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: Dreams Don’t Mean Anything…Or Do They? By Ben Pearson/March 29, 2018 12:30 pm EST This morning, HBO released a jaw-dropping new trailer for their returning sci-fi series Westworld, and it certainly looks as if the year-and-a-half wait between seasons will be worth it. In this Westworld season 2 trailer breakdown, we’ll take a closer look and see if we can uncover any secrets that may be hiding in plain sight....

‘Wormwood’ Review: Errol Morris’ Netflix Project Hauntingly Blends Fact And Fiction By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 15, 2017 11:00 am EST With Wormwood, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris creates his boldest, most thought provoking film yet. A delirious, haunting blend of talking-head documentary and narrative reenactment; a true crime saga that doubles as a government conspiracy polemic. A saga wrought with mystery, grief, scandal, and puzzlement. There’s never really been anything quite like this....

10 Things We Want To See In ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 2 By Monique Jones/Feb. 22, 2018 11:30 am EST The first season of Star Trek: Discovery has come and gone. So now it’s time to assess the pros and cons of season 1 and figure out how to make the second season even better. On the whole, I did like this first season; it was a bold, inventive way of approaching the Star Trek franchise and I feel like it completed its mission overall....

All 5 ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Movies Will Be Set In Different Cities By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 16, 2018 11:00 am EST The wizarding world of Harry Potter is about to get a whole lot bigger. While the original children’s fantasy franchise remained firmly in the close-knit magical community in Britain, its spin-off series, Fantastic Beasts, has made a concerted effort to move beyond the comfy confines of Hogwarts. First, the series went West, with the franchise setting foot on American soil for the first time in the New York City-set Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them....

David O. Russell Responds To The Internet’s Response To The Fact That He’s Making ‘Uncharted’ By David Chen/Feb. 19, 2011 7:30 pm EST I had the privilege to speak with director David O. Russell last week (Thanks to everyone who submitted questions!). The full audio and transcript of that interview will be up in the next day or two, but in the meantime, I thought I’d share some of David O....

Has The Fabled Undiscovered ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Easter Egg Finally Been Found? By Ben Pearson/May 8, 2017 4:00 pm EST Most of the easter eggs in Marvel Studios films are pretty easy for fans to pick out. Whether it’s a shout-out to a location or character featured in the comics on which the movie is based, or maybe just another Stan Lee cameo, it’s normally not long until a video like this one pops up to break down everything fans may have missed during their first theatrical viewing....

International Teaser For Disney’s Tangled Has Some Extended Footage By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2010 5:00 pm EST Yesterday we posted a new teaser trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ new film Tangled. StitchKingdom discovered an international traile (from the Netherlands) which features a few bits of extended footage. For the most part it is the same trailer, but I know a lot of Disney fanatics read /Film who might be interested in the few seconds of extra animation....

J.K. Rowling Supplies More ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Background With New Story By Jacob Hall/Oct. 6, 2016 11:30 am EST Speaking as someone who is just as likely to read a history book as a fantasy novel, J.K. Rowling has managed to find my sweet spot in the lead-up to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Although the trailers for director David Yates’ upcoming Harry Potter spin-off have certainly grabbed my attention, it’s been her stories about the history of the North American wizarding world that have really gotten me excited to return to this world....

Laurel And Hardy Live Again: BBC Films Taps Steve Coogan And John C. Reilly To Lead Biopic By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 18, 2016 4:00 pm EST Nowadays, in addition to our entertainment on TV and in movie theaters, people get their comedy from internet videos featuring cats scared of cucumbers or YouTube stars talking directly into the camera who end up getting deals at Netflix. But decades ago, from 1927 to 1950, one of the most reliable sources of laughter were the films of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy....

Martin Scorsese And Leonardo DiCaprio Officially Sign For ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2012 10:00 am EST We can stop wondering what Martin Scorsese will do to follow Hugo, and it won’t be his long-hoped for project Silence. Last month we heard that Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio would reunite to make their fifth film together: an adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir The Wolf of Wall Street....

Sequel Bits: ‘Fast & Furious 7’, ‘Dumb And Dumber To’, ‘Pitch Perfect 2’, ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ By Angie Han/June 17, 2014 5:00 am EST It’s theoretically possible that someday we’ll run out of sequel news to discuss. Today is not that day. After the jump: Chef’s Emjay Anthony also joins Insurgent Cam Neely isn’t sure if he’s in Dumb and Dumber To Here’s how you can be an extra in Pitch Perfect 2 Vin Diesel might be slowing down Fast & Furious 7 William Eubank has ideas for a The Signal 2 What was Guillermo del Toro’s contribution to How to Train Your Dragon 2?...

Sequel Bits: ‘Lego Movie 2’, ‘Party Down’, ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’, ‘Fight Club 2’ By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2015 10:00 am EST Aspiring actors, disillusioned suburbanites, and little plastic men figure in today’s edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump: The Fight Club comic book sequel launches in May China and France will get to see Taken 3 in 3D Pirates of the Caribbean 5 adds a few more mates Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has a new poster Martin Starr says a Party Down movie is “unlikely” The Lego Movie 2 will introduce Emmet’s sister Mark your calendars for Chuck Palahniuk’s return to Fight Club....

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 Teaser, Crossbones Maybe Alive & More By Ethan Anderton/July 5, 2016 5:00 pm EST Is there a chance Crossbones is still alive after Captain America: Civil War? Which star of the 1950s Superman television series passed away this past weekend? Is Charlie Kaufman up for writing a superhero movie? When will we see the first footage from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?...

VOTD: Brad Bird’s Annie Award Acceptance Speech And Winner’s List By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2011 12:00 pm EST The Vince Lombardi Trophy wasn’t the only piece of hardware handed out this weekend. The 38th annual Annie Awards took place as well with the DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon sweeping many of the regular awards (which was to be expected with Disney/Pixar boycotting the awards because of judging procedures they feel favor DreamWorks....