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Jacob Hall’s Top 10 Movies Of 2016: Music, Magic, Heartbreak, And An Evil Goat By Jacob Hall/Dec. 28, 2016 10:00 am EST Let’s get one thing straight: 2016 was a great year for movies. It certainly didn’t feel that way in the doldrums of the June and July, when audiences found themselves staring down the barrel of the worst summer movie season in years. But while the larger movies fell on their faces, the smaller movies flourished, proving that the only people who think cinema is dead are people who only see movies with numbers and colons in their titles....

Movie Trailer: Industrial Light & Magic: Creating The Impossible By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2010 9:00 am EST Last month it was revealed that Encore would be airing a documentary about Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects company which has been around for thirty-five years now, after being started by George Lucas to create effects for Star Wars. The documentary is directed by Leslie Iwerks, the filmmaker who made The Pixar Story (an awesome documentary in its own right)....

Page 2: Star Wars, Game Of Thrones, E.T., Bond, Tim Burton, Walking Dead, Big Bird, Looper, Firefly, Inception, Jurassic Park, Anna Kendrick By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2012 8:00 am 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 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Randy “Comes Home” To The Christmas Story House For The Summer By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2010 10:00 am EST Believe it or not, A Christmas Story was the first film I ever saw in a movie theater. Which is probably one of the reasons I feel more of an attachment to the film than most. I would be afraid to add all the hours of passive viewings over the years. When I was younger, 24 Hours of A Christmas Story would remain on my television set, from the first airing, to it’s last – playing in the background for the entire Christmas holiday....

Revisiting The Many Failures (And Few Triumphs) Of Tim Burton’s ‘Planet Of The Apes’ By Monique Jones/July 13, 2017 8:30 am EST War for the Planet of the Apes has already received rave reviews, with many critics calling it the last great chapter in one of the best film trilogies of modern times. With so much goodwill, it almost makes fans forget about the dark point in history when it seemed like the Apes franchise was dead....

Rogue One Bits: Forest Whitaker Details, A Villain Revealed, And A Possible Meaning For The Title By Jacob Hall/Feb. 1, 2016 1:00 pm EST The deeper we get into the box office run of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the more prevalent the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story news becomes! In today’s edition of Rogue One Bits: A few toy codenames just gave away some interesting character points. Details on Forest Whitaker’s character, revealed!...

Sam Rockwell Dances His Way Through The First ‘Saturday Night Live’ Of 2018 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 14, 2018 9:00 am EST The first Saturday Night Live of 2018 featured Golden Globe winner Sam Rockwell making his hosting debut. Considering how disappointing the Christmas episode with Kevin Hart ended up being towards the end of 2017, the pressure was on for the writers and cast of the late night sketch series to come back with a vengeance....

Sequel Bits: ‘Fast 8,’ ‘Inferno,’ ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ ‘Pitch Perfect 3,’ ‘The Predator,’ ‘The Wolverine 3,’ ‘Finding Dory’ By Jacob Hall/May 11, 2016 7:00 am EST In today’s edition of Sequel Bits: Fast 8 brags about getting to film in Cuba. Inferno reveals a new poster. Pitch Perfect 3 gets a new release date. John Cho talks all about Star Trek Beyond. Shane Black teases a start date for The Predator....

TV Review: Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Premiere - What Did You Think? By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 18, 2009 5:27 pm EST After a torturous wait, Battlestar Galactica is back with the first of its final ten episodes. If you’re not caught up, or not watching the show for whatever reason, I suggest you get on it. Seriously folks, television isn’t supposed to be this good. Find my SPOILER FILLED review after the jump....

What Is ‘Thor: Ragnarok’? How Marvel’s Phase Three Movie Will Shake Asgard By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2014 8:00 am EST Dead gods, cyborg clones, and the end of Asgard — Ragnarok could be a big deal. Marvel recently announced that the third Thor movie, Thor: Ragnarok, is due for release in July 2017, with Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston returning to reprise their roles of Thor and Loki. But what is Thor: Ragnarok, exactly?...

‘BoJack Horseman’ Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg On How The Show Changes The Animation Game [Interview] By Fred Topel/July 3, 2018 7:00 am EST We’d previously covered Bojack Horseman’s fourth season, the one that is currently eligible for 2018 Emmy nominations, when it premiered in September. At the time of the launch, we didn’t want to spoil too much of the details of Bojack’s mother’s dementia flashback episode “Time’s Arrow” or the scathing reaction to mass shootings with Courtney Portnoy’s kickass action heroine movie delayed every time there was another shooting....

‘Castle Rock’: God Save ‘The Queen,’ The Best Episode Of The Series So Far By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 22, 2018 7:00 am EST Welcome to our spoiler-filled Castle Rock reviews, in which we explore Hulu’s new Stephen King-inspired series. (If you’re looking for a spoiler-free review of the show, click here). This week we look at episode seven, “The Queen”. The Queen Listen: Ruth Deaver has come unstuck in time. I worried Castle Rock was going to waste the considerable talents of Sissy Spacek, much like Netflix’s Bloodline....

/Film Is Thankful For… By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2008 1:22 pm EST I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I am Thankful for a lot of things this year. I am thankful for meeting up with David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley, they produce one of the best movie podcasts on the internet week after week. I wish I could take some credit, but I’ll publicly admit that I have absolutely nothing to do with the podcast other than saying “these guys are good, I wonder if they would do their thing on /Film” They deserve all the the credit....

‘Fruitvale’ Wins Top Honors At The 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Read The Full List By Germain Lussier/Jan. 28, 2013 7:00 am EST The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is over and Peter, Russ and I have all returned home. We’ll have some more coverage over this week wrapping up the massive event, but first, here’s the full list of films that won awards at the fest. Buzzed about films The Spectacular Now, Upstream Color and Dirty Wars all picked up honors, but it was Fruitvale (Russ’s review is here) that was the standout, winning both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards in the U....

‘Jason Bourne’ Early Buzz: An Unnecessary, Dumbed Down, Yet Thrilling Rehash By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2016 2:00 pm EST Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon return to the Bourne franchise with Jason Bourne, but is it as good as the previous trilogy of films based on Robert Ludlum’s novels? Hit the jump to read some selected spoiler-free excerpts from the first reviews and find out if Jason Bourne is worth seeing this week in theaters....

“Philosophy Of Film And Television Narrative”: How NBC’s ‘Community’ Shatters The Boundaries Between Reality And Fiction By Adam Quigley/Oct. 14, 2011 6:56 pm EST [The following contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Season 3 of Community.] Every year, I eagerly anticipate any film or TV series that will engage me in the trials of its characters, and encourage me to consider how its using those trials to communicate something perceptive, challenging or entertaining about the world around us....

‘Rise Of The Guardians’ May Be A Disaster For DreamWorks Animation By Germain Lussier/Dec. 4, 2012 2:08 pm EST A simple tweet expressing my love for Rise of the Guardians was a pretty good indicator the film was going to struggle. I loved the film, likening its action-packed team up idea to The Avengers, but the backlash against the movie was immediate. Critics, for the most part, liked the movie — it sports a solid 74% on Rotten Tomatoes — but with strong competition at the box office for all quadrants, and no real word of mouth, the film flopped....

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Tightens Its Grip And New Details Slip Through Its Fingers By Jacob Hall/Jan. 4, 2016 2:00 pm EST There will come a day when Star Wars fans are totally sick of hearing details concerning Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. On that day, fans will close their eyes and plug their ears to avoid that 27th TV spot. They will block certain keywords on social media to avoid egregious spoilers....

‘Skyscraper’ Trailer: The Rock Vs. Big Buildings [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 4, 2018 10:10 pm EST Update: After the Super Bowl TV spot, Universal debuted the full Skyscraper trailer on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Check it out below, and our original article follows. Nothing can stop Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, not even a really, really big building. In Skyscraper, Johnson plays a muscular man who assesses security for skyscrapers....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Review: ‘Into The Forest I Go’ Puts The Show On A Perfect Track (Just In Time For A Break) By Monique Jones/Nov. 13, 2017 12:00 pm EST The last 2017 episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “Into the Forest I Go,” has put several things to bed, while only keeping us gleefully agitated until the next half of the season. Let’s just hit spore drive and jump right into it....