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Melissa McCarthy Returns As Sean Spicer On ‘Saturday Night Live’, Watch The Best & Worst Sketches By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2017 9:00 am EST This weekend’s Mother’s Day episode of Saturday Night Live brought Melissa McCarthy back as host for the fifth time. She’s made several appearances on SNL this season as White House press secretary Sean Spicer, adding some variety to the political satire that the late night sketch show has made even more prominent since Donald Trump became president....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch After ‘Ghost In The Shell’ By Scott Beggs/March 29, 2017 9:30 am EST (Welcome to Movie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition: Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell.) Elon Musk is on the verge of shoving AI into our brains, and Scarlett Johansson hits theaters this week to sell us on how cool becoming a cyborg can be....

Narcos Season 3 Cast Announced, But Will Boyd Holbrook Return As Agent Steve Murphy? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2016 2:00 pm EST We know that Netflix has plans for at least two more seasons of its hit crime drama Narcos, but with the big bad transitioning from Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) and the Medellin Cartel to Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Damian Alcazar) and the Cali Cartel. Now that Netflix is beginning to announce the cast for Narcos season 3, we wonder if Boyd Holbrook’s character agent Steve Murphy will be reuniting with Pedro Pascal’s Javier Pena in the new season....

Page 2: Goonies, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Pacific Rim, Doctor Who, A Christmas Story, Jurassic Park By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2013 2:00 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....

Page 2: Nightmare On Elm Street, Goonies, Transformers, MST3000, Avatar, Frankenstein, Community, Moonrise Kingdom, Machete, Toy Story, Breaking Bad, Star Trek, Bob’s Burgers By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 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....

Preview The New ‘Star Tours’ Sequence: ‘Force Awakens’ Jakku Escape By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2015 10:00 am EST At D23 Expo 2015, Disney announced that a seasonal Star Wars promotional event called Season of the Force would be coming to Disneyland in California and Disney Hollywood Studios in Florida. In California, the event would bring a new Star Wars skin of Space Mountain called Hyperspace Mountain, an updated version of the Jedi Training Academy show featuring the characters from Star Wars Rebels, an interactive meet-and-greet and experience area called Star Wars Launch Bay, and a new Force Awakens Star Tours experience....

Rumors Debunked: Han Solo Isn’t In ‘Rogue One’, Jason Todd Is Not The Joker In ‘Suicide Squad’ By Angie Han/July 27, 2016 12:00 pm EST When Lucasfilm announced earlier this month that Alden Ehrenreich would lead the Han Solo anthology film, they were just confirming what fans already knew — the trades had revealed the casting months ago. But not every report and rumor pans out so nicely. For example, there’s been a lot of speculation that Ehrenreich’s Han Solo could cameo in this winter’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story....

Sequel Bits: ‘Mission: Impossible 6’, ‘Insidious: Chapter 4’, ‘Beauty And The Beast 2’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2017 5:30 am EST For this round of Sequel Bits, we’ve got: A first look at Henry Cavill on the set of Mission: Impossible 6 Chris Pratt debunks a popular Jurassic World theory Insidious: Chapter 4 gets pushed back to 2018 Dan Stevens talks Beauty and the Beast 2 possibilities The ABC TV movie Life-Size is finally getting the overdue sequel Alien: Covenant gets a VR experience this month...

Spider-Man 4 Villains Revealed? By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2007 6:01 am EST Some websites are claiming to have the inside word on what villains will be included in Spider-Man 3. FreezeDriedMovies claims that The Lizard, Carnage, and Black Cat will be featured in the upcoming fourth film. Call me a little skeptical, but I think this is bogus. From what I’ve heard, no development has even begun on the fourth film (even though the studio was in talks with David Koepp to write the script)....

Star Wars Bits: Darth Maul’s Comic, ‘Star Wars’-Inspired Laser Tag, And The ‘Clone Wars’ Spin-Off That Almost Happened By Jacob Hall/Nov. 30, 2016 9:00 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Darth Maul is getting his own comic book miniseries. A Star Wars: The Clone Wars season five storyline was almost its own movie. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown would like to play Princess Leia. New Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich has not met Harrison Ford yet....

Superman V The Golden Age: How Henry Cavill’s Man Of Steel Compares To The Original Character By Jacob Hall/March 30, 2016 10:00 am EST Over the past few days, many people (myself included) have taken Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to task for how it chooses to portray its title characters. The superheroes played by Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck don’t act like the characters we know and love. Take them out of those classic duds and they’d be unrecognizable....

This Week In Trailers: 2 Girls 1 Cake,The Sunnyboy, Suburbanite, Memphis, The Immaculate Reception By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 11, 2014 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

What Is Genre Cinema Is 2018? Final Notes From The Fantasia Film Festival By Sarah Foulkes/Aug. 21, 2018 11:00 am EST From the first time you sit in that crowded theatre and hear the collective murmurings, you know that you’re up for a special experience. Genre fans are some of the most passionate and knowledgeable film fans out there. And for these fans, Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival is like a pilgrimage....

‘Game Of Thrones’ – The 10 Most Important Moments In “Battle Of The Bastards” By Jacob Hall/June 20, 2016 9:00 am EST HBO hasn’t been shy about letting everyone know that “Battle of the Bastards” would feature the biggest battle we’ve seen on Game of Thrones and for the most part, it delivered. However, this episode wasn’t just about the action. The bloody showdown between House Stark and House Bolton marked a huge turning point in the fortunes for many of the show’s most important characters and a few major characters were wiped off the game board entirely....

‘How To Change The World’ Shows The Power Of Media-Savvy Activism [Sundance 2015 Review] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2015 8:00 am EST Being too young when the group was in its initial firebrand incarnation to understand, much less appreciate the early activism of Greenpeace, I’ve ended up simply dismissive of the organization as a whole. That’s despite knowing nothing about the group’s founding. The Sundance doc How to Change the World is a good way find a path back through the group’s history....

‘Rogue One’: A Spoiler-Free Reaction To 28 Minutes Of Footage From The ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff By Jacob Hall/Dec. 5, 2016 7:30 am EST While no audience outside of Disney and Lucasfilm has actually seen the entirety of director Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story quite yet, we were among those invited to a sneak preview of 28 minutes of footage from the upcoming Star Wars spin-off…and what we saw was often spectacular....

‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ Is Likely To End The Skywalker Saga By Ben Pearson/Nov. 29, 2017 9:00 am EST We’re now less than a month away from the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but as is often the case, we’re looking even further ahead in the future of the Star Wars franchise and wondering what lies in store for us in a galaxy far, far away. And though there’s been speculation about the Skywalker saga extending beyond the boundaries of this current trilogy, it now seems like Star Wars: Episode IX could mark the definitive end of the story of Luke Skywalker....

‘The Cabin In The Woods:’ Exclusive Interview With Director Drew Goddard, And Behind The Scenes Blu-Ray Clip By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2012 7:00 am EST Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods, co-written with Joss Whedon, hits DVD and Blu-ray today. I loved the film when it was in theaters, and was excited to take another look on disc. The movie is a playful horror-comedy funhouse that escalates into world-threatening madness....

‘The Commuter’ Review: Liam Neeson’s “Old Man Action Hero” Thing Still Works By Karen Han/Jan. 12, 2018 7:00 am EST At this point, Liam Neeson movies are practically a genre unto themselves, and Liam Neeson-Jaume Collet-Serra movies are quite possibly their apex. The Commuter is one of the best of the bunch. Even though it’s not really anything you haven’t seen before, Neeson’s commitment to the role and Collet-Serra’s at times inspired direction make for a movie that’s hell on wheels....

‘The Post’ Assembles The Spielberg/Hanks/Streep Dream Team For One Relevant Story By Jacob Hall/March 6, 2017 1:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg has always done a fine job of rotating between his entertainments and his more serious pictures. After all, we’re talking about a filmmaker who somehow managed to release Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List in the same year. Note how he balanced The Adventures of Tintin with War Horse and Bridge of Spies with The BFG....