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‘Cloak And Dagger’ Review: Freeform’s Marvel Pilot Promises A Great Superhero TV Show [SXSW] By Meredith Borders/March 12, 2018 11:00 am EST Freeform debuted the pilot of Cloak & Dagger, the new young adult Marvel series hitting small screens on Freeform in June, at SXSW today. An hour into this world, it’s clear that it’ll be among the upper echelon of Marvel television. Granted, that’s not a terribly high bar to cross, but Cloak & Dagger does so with style and powerful storytelling....

‘Ingrid Goes West’ Is The Best Movie Ever Made About The Internet (And Our Obsession With It) By Kyle Turner/Aug. 11, 2017 7:00 am EST The opening joke of Ingrid Goes West is a much about desire as it is disappointment and the inextricable nature of class in how it informs what we want, how we want, and how we get it. It’s deceptively simple: the audience is left with little else but a sandy beach, the deep blue sea, and the sound of whatever generic paradise can offer....

‘Lincoln’ Leads 65th Annual BAFTA Nominations, But Steven Spielberg Snubbed For Best Director By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2013 8:31 am EST The list of nominees for the 65th annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (also known as BAFTA) feel oddly familiar, yet throw a few curveballs. For example, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln leads the nominees with ten nominations, including nods for Best Picture, Actor, Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actor and Actress....

‘Preacher’ Review: How ‘Damsels’ Is Different Than The Original Comics By Alex Riviello/July 5, 2017 8:00 am EST (Each week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Preacher season 2 by examining the differences between the original comics and AMC’s television adaptation.) After last week’s episode of Preacher, which went off-book in some pretty significant ways, “Damsels” continues the trend. The story is going in the same general direction as the acclaimed ’90s Vertigo series, but the journey is taking a few unexpected twists and turns....

‘Victor Frankenstein’ Set Visit: A Different Spin On Mary Shelly’s Classic Story By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2015 3:30 pm EST Victor Frankenstein has been just about everything a man can be in the course of many film incarnations: inventor, scientist, madman, lover, villain. He’s not someone we often think of as a friend, however, and so the new film Victor Frankenstein might be pretty weird simply for indulging that concept. James McAvoy plays Victor in the movie, which co-stars Daniel Radcliffe as Igor, and features Jessica Brown-Findlay as a former circus performer named Lorelei and Andrew Scott as a Scotland Yard inspector suspicious of Victor’s projects....

Ben Lyons And Ben Mankiewicz Replaced On At The Movies By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2009 4:31 pm EST At The Movies, the ABC-produced syndicated movie review show made famous by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, is once again switching hosts. After Ebert and Richard Roeper were unable to come to terms with ABC, the network decided to take the show in a new direction. In 2008 they hired Ben Lyons (son of film critic Jeffrey Lyons) and Ben Mankiewicz....

Best Stories Of The Week: Ghostbusters, Mission: Impossible, Key & Peele, Gambit And More By Ethan Anderton/July 31, 2015 5:00 pm EST It hasn’t been the most exciting week in movie news, but we’ve still rounded up the Best Stories of the Week for you to catch up on. This time we’ve got stories on the line-ups for Fantastic Fest, the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, some conflicting reports on a Ghostbusters spin-off, the end of Key & Peele, and casting updates for Wonder Woman, Doctor Strange, Bourne 5 and Gambit....

Best Stories Of The Week: Men In Black Reboot, Prometheus 2, Furious 8 And More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2015 9:00 am EST It’s time for the latest edition of Best Stories of the Week! This time we’ve got stories about the New Girl season five, when we’ll see the Independence Day: Resurgence trailer, some new cameos and gossip about the Ghostbusters reboot, details on more Prometheus sequels, and a Men in Black trilogy reboot....

Box Office Tracking: Star Trek Could Reach $65M For 4 Days! Easily Biggest Trek Opening Ever! By Steve Mason/May 6, 2009 9:41 pm EST The all-new J.J. Abrams reboot of Star Trek (Paramount) will win the second weekend of the Hollywood Summer Box Office season by at least a couple of light years over Fox’s fast-fading X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but some of the astronomical numbers I’ve seen floating around in the blogosphere are very over-heated....

Danai Gurira Talks ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ And Why Okoye Isn’t Happy To See The Avengers [Set Visit Interview] By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2018 9:00 am EST During our discussion, we talked about how long she has to sit in the make-up chair to apply Okoye’s tattoos, how she got inducted into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, her relationship with the other women in the film, comic book research, and what Wakanda thinks about the Winter Soldier....

Disney-Owned ABC Pushed For Those New Academy Award Changes, Marking A Battle For The Oscars’ Soul By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2018 7:30 am EST Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced some new Oscar changes are on the way, including the creation of an entirely new category dedicated to celebrating “outstanding achievement in popular film.” The Academy has offered a brief clarification about that category, which you can read below – along with details about how ABC were the ones who had these changes instituted, and why that’s possibly a bad look for The Walt Disney Company....

Early Buzz: ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2’ By Germain Lussier/July 7, 2011 12:00 pm EST The most anticipated film of the year opens next week and the reviews have begun pouring in. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 won’t hit theaters until July 15 but as many of us plan marathons in anticipation of the opening, the first critics to see the film are mostly in agreement: The eighth and final Potter film is worth the wait....

Guillermo Del Toro Has An Unconventional Cameo In ‘The Shape Of Water’ By Ben Pearson/Feb. 19, 2018 3:37 pm EST Directors have been making cameos in their own movies since the early days of cinema, so it’s appropriate that The Shape of Water – which is at least partially a throwback to classic Hollywood – would include a cameo from its own filmmaker as well. It also seems appropriate that an iconoclast director like Guillermo del Toro wouldn’t have a traditional cameo in his movie; even if you were straining your eyes to look for him, you’d never see del Toro’s face on screen during the entire run time....

Has Lucasfilm Secretly Hired Women And People Of Color For New ‘Star Wars’ Movies? By Ben Pearson/Feb. 7, 2018 12:00 pm EST Lucasfilm has taken some flak for almost exclusively hiring white men to shepherd the Star Wars franchise, but is that era coming to an end at the studio? A new rumor indicates that the company has secretly hired women and people of color to shape the future of a galaxy far, far away....

Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of 2017 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 3, 2018 8:00 am EST 2017 was a rough year. As British comedian David Mitchell recently put it, the year was “personally adequate and internationally disastrous.” But there was one saving grace for me this year: movies. And I had quite a catalogue to choose from. 2017 offered one of the richest and most diverse offerings of films we’ve seen in recent years, with blockbusters daring to dream beyond their big-budget formulas and major films going in wildly audacious directions....

How ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Links To Original Trilogy And Matches Existing Canon By Germain Lussier/July 31, 2014 9:16 am EST One of the highlights of San Diego Comic-Con for me was Star Wars Rebels. Not only did I finally get to see and revel in the fantastic pilot, I got the chance to discuss it with two of its executive producers, Dave Filoni and Simon Kinberg. In a 15-year professional career, it was the first time I got to sit down and discuss Star Wars with people directly involved in Star Wars....

Live, Sequelize, Repeat: ‘Edge Of Tomorrow 2’ Taps ‘Race’ Writers [Updated] By Jacob Hall/April 8, 2016 7:30 am EST UPDATE: Christopher McQuarrie took to Twitter to correct Deadline’s original post. He will not be directing Edge of Tomorrow 2. Doug Liman will return to helm the sequel. The original article follows. Edge of Tomorrow didn’t make my top 10 of 2014, but I’ve certainly watched it more times than any other film that did make the list....

The Best Movies Streaming Right Now mother! Now streaming on Hulu Release Date: 2017Genre: Weirdo What-The-FuckeryDirector: Darren AronofskyCast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffermother! is, without question, a polarizing film. You’ll either love how absolutely batshit it is, or you’ll despise every second of it. I’m in the former category. Darren Aronofsky’s horror movie meditation on tortured artists and their toxic self-importance isn’t for everyone, but I know it’s for me....

Page 2: Alien, Star Wars, WALL-E, Samuel L. Jackson, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Roger Deakins, Miyazaki By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2013 9:00 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 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....

Paul Thomas Anderson Testing 65mm Cameras For Next Film? By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2011 6:00 am EST Over three years have passed since the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s last film, There Will Be Blood, and we’re at the point now where any shred of news on his future projects is of interest to someone. We know that he is prepping two films, an adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel Inherent Vice and a film about a religious/cult leader that has been dubbed The Master....