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/Answers: Our Favorite Movies To Watch During The Holidays By /Film Staff/Dec. 20, 2017 1:00 pm EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. In this week’s edition, we’re ushering in the season by sharing the movies we always watch during the holidays, whether they’re a holiday movie or not. Chris Evangelista: Eyes Wide Shut Is Eyes Wide Shut a Christmas movie? I suppose not in any conventional sense, but every holiday season I make sure to carve out 159 minutes to watch Stanley Kubrick’s final film....

‘Aquaman’ Villain Has A Lot In Common With Thanos & Killmonger, Trailer Release Date & New Logo Revealed By Chris Evangelista/June 15, 2018 2:55 pm EST Details on Aquaman have been hidden away in the murky depths for months, but now some new info is bubbling to the surface. A new interview with co-star Patrick Wilson has shed some light on Aquaman villain King Orm – a character who has a lot in common with recent Marvel villains Thanos and Killmonger....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Reactions & Review: Can A Tale As Old As Time Find New Life? By Angie Han/March 3, 2017 9:00 am EST Disney’s live-action-remake obsession continues this month with Beauty and the Beast, and it might be one of the trickiest adaptations they’ve tackled so far. Oh, sure, it’s an easy sell: the 1991 animated feature is one of the most beloved films in the studio’s catalogue, and nostalgia alone would’ve been enough to get some butts in seats....

‘Fargo’ Season Three Promo: Carrie Coon, Ewan McGregor, And Mary Elizabeth Winstead Just Chilling At The Diner By Jack Giroux/March 6, 2017 2:00 pm EST We don’t need to see much footage to convince us to check out season three of Fargo. At the end of the day, all we really need are Fargo commercials with air conditioners running and an inflatable Santa Claus deflating to get us excited about the return of Noah Hawley’s series, which takes the basic premise of the Coen brothers’ classic film and sprints with it....

‘Going Clear’ Is A Powerful But Disappointing Indictment Of Scientology [Sundance 2015 Review] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2015 7:00 am EST Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is a good primer for, and a very damning and powerful indictment of the church of Scientology. Unfortunately, the film provides little in terms of new revelations, and viewers who have researched the church will find most of the documentary to be familiar ground....

‘Iron Fist’ Is A Much Better Show If You Remove Iron Fist By Karen Han/March 22, 2017 8:30 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: Marvel’s new Netflix series, Iron Fist.) For the most part, Marvel’s latest Netflix foray, Iron Fist, has been critically panned....

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Photos - Let’s Over-Analyze The Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2014 6:00 pm EST Just hours after I called Mad Max: Fury Road my most anticipated film of 2015 (other staff members, such as Germain, have a different film in their top ranks) the new trailer dropped, and melted the face off the internet. This trailer is total visual overload, with very little indication of the story to come....

By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2015 1:14 pm EST Comic Con hasn’t even begun in San Diego and the Star Wars news is already starting to heat up. Earlier today we learned that Darth Vader will appear in Star Wars: Rogue One, and now we are hearing that The LEGO Movie directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord are developing a Star Wars Anthology stand-alone movie focusing on Han Solo. Hit the jump to learn about the Han Solo standalone movie....

‘The Gifted’ Trailer & Panel Recap: New Mutants, New Sentinels, No X-Men [Comic-Con 2017] By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2017 2:09 pm EST While Marvel Studios is preparing to play with their weak-sauce version of mutants in the form of Inhumans over at ABC (which doesn’t look very good at all), it looks like FOX might be the place to go if you’re looking for a better angle on people who just so happen to have superpowers....

Anne Hathaway To Play Judy Garland On Stage And Screen By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2009 2:04 pm EST The Weinstein Co has announced that Anne Hathaway will star as Judy Garland in the company’s stage and film adaptations of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. The book charts Garland’s rise to fame and her struggle with alcohol and drugs. The story was first leaked in the Cleveland Leader, where sources claimed that, “Anne dearly wants to do a musical and this could be her chance....

Batwoman Is Coming To CW’s Arrowverse – Could Batman Be Next? By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 17, 2018 4:30 pm EST Batwoman is making her small-screen debut. A Batwoman CW appearance will take place in the next Arrowverse crossover event between the CW DC superhero shows Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl. Fingers crossed it’s another musical. Ever since Arrow and The Flash had their first highly anticipated crossover two-parter in 2014, the Arrowverse — sometimes called the Berlanti-verse after its pioneering producer Greg Berlanti — has grown exponentially to encompass four shows, three web series, and dozens of superheroes and villains....

Five New Character Posters For The Sorcerer’s Apprentice By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2010 6:00 am EST All this week, Walt Disney Pictures has been revealing new character posters for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Jon Turteltaub-directed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The fifth and final poster, which is premiering EXCLUSIVELY on /Film, profiles Nicolas Cage’s character Balthazar Blake. We’ve also included all of the other posters after the jump as well, complete with character descriptions....

How Is ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Connected With ‘Avengers: Infinity War’? By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 18, 2018 9:15 am EST Ant-Man and the Wasp is about as far from the emotional and physical devastation of Avengers: Infinity War as you could get. There’s no mention of Thanos, destruction, or doom in the film’s trailers — but there is an ant playing the drums. So how does Ant-Man and the Wasp take the events of Infinity War into account?...

Interview: ‘Suicide Squad’ Stars Margot Robbie And Jai Courtney Talk Jared Leto’s Joker, Working With David Ayer, And The Possibility Of Sequels By Angie Han/July 11, 2016 11:30 am EST Suicide Squad is packed with characters and stars who could command a film on their own, but part of the fun is seeing this chaotic mess of personalities clash and come together and clash again. We had the opportunity on set to interview two of them together: Margot Robbie, who plays iconic fan favorite Harley Quinn, and Jai Courtney, who plays a version of Captain Boomerang that you’ve definitely never met before....

Let’s Celebrate The 20th Birthday Of The ‘Harry Potter’ Series By /Film Staff/June 26, 2017 1:00 pm EST Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was initially published in the U.K. on June 26, 1997. It migrated to the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone a few months later. It was a literary phenomenon and the movie adaptations become a cinematic phenomenon and then Universal Studios’ Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park lands made it a family vacation phenomenon....

Page 2: Tim Burton, Real Steel, Doctor Who, Inception, Captain America, Fight Club, Tron: Legacy, Harry Potter, Star Wars, James Bond, The Simpsons, Hunger Games By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2011 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Ralph McQuarrie Force Awakens Comparison Guide Warning: While this article doesn’t contain any known spoilers, it does make some observations based on the first Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer and how it was visually inspired by Ralph McQuarrie’s early unused concept art. Some of these comparisons could possibly suggest specific planets and creatures we may end up seeing in the film. That said, I consider this article to be pretty safe for those of you wanting to avoid spoilers....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Episode 8’ Rewrites, ‘Rogue One’ Aliens, The Return Of Darth Vader And Obi-Wan By Jacob Hall/Jan. 20, 2016 5:00 am EST Welcome back to Star Wars Bits, you source of news for everything Star Wars. Except for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. That thing has its own column. In today’s edition: Star Wars: Episode 8 may see a production delay to accommodate some rewrites. Rian Johnson speaks very highly of VFX wizard Chris Corbould....

Steven Spielberg To Discover Future Earth By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2010 8:00 pm EST Discovery Channel announced yesterday that not only are they working with Pixar on an upcoming special, but they’re also working with Steven Spielberg on a new mini-series which will imagine out sci-non-fi future. Future Earth aims to be an epic mini-series examining what life on Earth will be like in 25, 50 and 100 years. The mini-series will draw from a vast number of sources, including the leading futurists, scholars and great minds of today, to dramatize and explore how various facets of our daily lives – health and medicine, technology, the environment, the military, the economy and media – will evolve over the next century....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises Filming Ends, Man Of Steel, Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Black Widow By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 2:00 pm EST If you’ve been avoiding spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises, you can come out from under your rock now. Principal photography has been completed so no more set photos will be revealed. One cast member has put up a celebratory photo, though. Who is it? Also, what does Michael Shannon say General Zod won’t look like in Man of Steel?...