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The Fragile Masculinity Of The MCU (Or Why Captain America Shouldn’t Be Afraid To Cry) By Monique Jones/Aug. 3, 2017 9:30 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, and opinionated about something that makes us very happy…or fills us with indescribable rage. In this edition: a dissection of the fragile masculinity of Marvel movies, the overlooked homoeroticism of superhero stories, and how everyone can do better....

This New ‘Predator’ Reboot Poster Ain’t Got Time To Tease By Jacob Hall/Feb. 16, 2016 5:00 am EST If you haven’t revisited John McTiernan’s Predator recently, do yourself a favor and give it a watch. There’s a reason this franchise has survived beyond two weak sequels and two dire spin-offs that saw the title alien hunter facing off against the Xenomorphs from the Alien series. And that reason is simple: the original Predator is, for lack of a more elegant phrase, really goddamn great....

TV Bits: Eddie Izzard Is Grandpa In ‘Munsters’ Reboot, Plus: ‘Veep’, ‘Girls’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Magic City’, ‘Mad Men’, Jason O’Mara By Angie Han/March 21, 2012 6:00 am EST Yes, that Munsters reboot is still happening, and now it even has a star. After the jump: Eddie Izzard heads to Mockingbird Lane Mad Men messes up a tiny period detail Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is an actor now Terra Nova star Jason O’Mara finds a new job Starz has already renewed Magic City HBO has new posters for Veep and Girls Although AMC’s Mad Men is known for its painstaking attention to period-specific detail, even they make mistakes once in a while....

Where Does Marvel Studios Go After ‘Black Panther’? By Monique Jones/March 14, 2018 8:00 am EST Black Panther is Marvel’s greatest achievement. It’s my type of superhero film; one that’s deep, impactful, and still super cool and fun to watch with a bowl of popcorn. With its historical, social, and racial importance, Black Panther stands apart from other Marvel movies as an example of how reality can affect the comic book film world....

Where’s Hawkeye In ‘Avengers: Infinity War’? The Russo Brothers Have An Explanation By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2018 1:00 pm EST Where’s Hawkeye? It’s the resounding question that Avengers: Infinity War fans are asking as the new trailer and poster for the Marvel Studios film takes the internet by storm. Why is Hawkeye — a founding member of the Avengers and a fellow fugitive on the run with Captain America and Black Widow — nowhere to be seen?...

‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Starts Shooting; Samantha Morton Joins Cast By Angie Han/Aug. 17, 2015 7:30 am EST The Harry Potter franchise lives again. Warner Bros. has announced the start of principal photography on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a spinoff film set 70 years before the start of Harry’s adventures. And as cameras begin to roll, the David Yates-directed feature has made a couple of last-minute casting additions....

‘Ghostbusters’ Ecto Cooler Returns In May; New Empire Cover And Character Banners Revealed By Ethan Anderton/April 25, 2016 9:00 am EST Back in February, an image of a new can of Hi-C’s nostalgic drink Ecto Cooler, inspired by the Real Ghostbusters cartoon back in 1987, emerged online. This seemed to be confirmation that the Coca-Cola Company was going to revive the beloved flavor after it was discontinued in 2001. Now an official press release from the soft drink company has revealed when we’ll see Ecto Cooler return to shelves in honor of the new Ghostbusters movie hitting the big screen this summer....

‘It: Chapter 2’ Will Likely Make Use Of The Turtle – Here’s What That Means By Ben Pearson/Sept. 15, 2017 1:30 pm EST Anyone who read Stephen King’s It probably noticed a couple of small references to a turtle in director Andy Muschietti’s record-breaking movie adaptation, but the nods were so small that they almost certainly went over the heads of anyone coming into the story fresh. But according to the filmmaker, he’s planning on incorporating the turtle (a major figure in the novel’s bonkers mythology) in a much bigger way into It: Chapter 2....

‘Moana’ Directors Talk ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Influences And Taika Waititi’s Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2016 10:30 am EST Over the Summer, I got the great opportunity to talk with filmmakers Ron Clements and John Musker about their upcoming Walt Disney Animation Studios film Moana. Ron & Jon are animation legends, having worked on many great Disney animated movies over the years, including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet and The Princess and the Frog....

‘Nude’ Review: Art, Freedom, And One Of The Best Films Of The Year [New York Indian Film Festival] By Siddhant Adlakha/May 11, 2018 7:00 am EST A row of women, bent over on the river bank, uniform, toiling away at dirty laundry on the outskirts of their village. One of them, Yamuna (Kalyanee Mulay) breaks formation. She turns to dive into the water, and to free herself from the shackles of tradition and gendered expectation....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Is A Lot Of Fun (And A Little Confusing) For ‘Trek’ Newbies By Lindsey Romain/Sept. 25, 2017 1:00 pm EST (We are running two reviews of Star Trek: Discovery – one from an old school Star Trek fan and one with less experience in this iconic universe. Here is the second of the two reviews.)Star Trek: Discovery feels like J.J. Abrams’ Trek films. Your mileage may vary on whether or not that’s a good thing....

‘This Is The End’ Maze Coming To Halloween Horror Nights 2015 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2015 2:30 pm EST At San Diego Comic Con International 2015, Guillermo del Toro announced that there would be a Crimson Peak maze for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. It has since been revealed that Focus Features and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are teaming with Universal Studios in both Hollywood and Orlando to create all-new mazes based on the Insidious film franchise, and Halloween will come home with the Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home maze....

Avengers 2 Photos: Over 50 Images From Avengers: Age Of Ultron By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2014 11:30 am EST Last night Walt Disney Pictures released the first movie trailer for Marvel Studios/Joss Whedon’s Avengers sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. You can watch that awesome trailer here, in case you haven’t already or like me, want to watch it over and over again. And for those of you who really want to take in all of the visuals revealed in the Avengers: Age of Ultron teaser trailer, we have compiled a batch of high resolution images from the film to let you take in all the awesomeness one image at a time....

First Look: Dinosaur TV Project Reign Of The Dinosaurs By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2010 9:00 am EST Update: Discovery wanted us to post the following correction Reign of the Dinosaurs is being produced by Creative Differences for Discovery Channel. While we are privileged to have incredible artists who have worked with Pixar and Disney on the upcoming 2011 Discovery Channel series, Reign of the Dinosaurs, the production is not a Pixar project....

George Clooney And Grant Heslov Developing Smothers Brothers Biopic By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2011 7:00 am EST You might think of Tom and Dick Smothers as cute old guys; a quaint, genial and humorously argumentative duo that played folk songs flavored with comedy on variety TV shows and as the stars of their own show in the ’60s. And they were that, but there’s a history to the Smothers Brothers that is easy to miss with forty years removed between their popular heyday and today....

Interview: Harold Faltermeyer, Creator Of Soundtrack Themes To Fletch, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, And Kevin Smith’s Cop Out By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 26, 2010 1:00 pm EST Soon following “Axel F,” Faltermeyer crafted incredibly memorable and fun themes/scores for Fletch and Top Gun, rising to the occasion by sonically matching the unmatched charisma of Chevy Chase and Tom Cruise on screen in the mid ’80s. Reflecting on the three themes today, not to mention his work on actioners The Running Man and Tango & Cash, it’s difficult to express how Faltermeyer shaped the way audiences then and now remember the ’80s as a time of just-plain-exciting innocence and excess, a time when the buddy-cop formula and toothy superstar grins felt fresh....

Let The Right One In Remake Cast Announced By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 1, 2009 3:11 pm EST An official press release from Overture Films has named three stars of Matt Reeves’ Let Me In, adapted from the novel Let the Right One In. They are Kodi Smitt McPhee, Chloe Moretz and Richard Jenkins. There’s lovely for you. Reeves is quouted as saying “Kodi, Chloe, and Richard are my absolute dream cast. I couldn’t be more excited to be working with them....

Michael Shannon And Kevin Spacey Meet In Pleasant, Poignant ‘Elvis & Nixon’ [Tribeca Review] By Angie Han/April 21, 2016 8:30 am EST At first glance, the 1970 picture of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon shaking hands in the Oval Office looks flat-out bizarre. The flamboyantly attired musician makes for a striking contrast to the staid politician, and it’s a little jarring to realize that not only did these two people once inhabit the same universe, they actually crossed paths once....

Page 2: Muppets, Simpsons, Star Wars, Drive, Game Of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Men In Black 3, Hobbit, Piranha 3DD, Kristen Wiig, Indiana Jones, Louis C.K., Jurassic Park By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2012 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 48 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Page 2: Star Wars, BTTF, Sweeney Todd, Christmas Story, Walking Dead, Miyazaki, Ghostbusters, Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 14, 2013 1:00 pm EST 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 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....