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/Answers: Our Favorite Female Badasses In The Movies By /Film Staff/May 31, 2017 12:00 pm EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. This week’s edition, tying in with the release of Wonder Woman, asks “Who is your favorite female badass in the movies?” As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team. If you’d like to share your pick for your favorite female movie badass, please send your thoughts to slashfilmpitches@gmail....

‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 Is A Box Of Chocolates With Dark Filling [NYCC 2017] By Candice Frederick/Oct. 8, 2017 11:00 am EST “We are in competition with the news,” Charlie Brooker, writer/creator/executive producer of the Netflix series Black Mirror, addressed the uncomfortable truth about the drama’s darkest themes Saturday night at New York Comic Con in front of a standing room-only audience. I always thought it was funny when folks would remark on how far the dystopia would go on the show....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’: Did Bradley Cooper Just Spoil Star-Lord’s Father Or Is He Just Confused? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2015 1:30 pm EST One of the mysteries left open-ended in Guardians of the Galaxy is the matter of who Star-Lord’s father is. We’ve gotten hints in interviews over the years, but a seemingly spoiler-y new interview with actor Bradley Cooper (who voices Rocket Raccoon in the films) is going viral today....

‘Star Wars Imperial Assault’ Details Revealed At GenCon 2014 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2014 6:00 am EST GenCon is like the Comic-Con or E3 of the board gaming world. 50,000 gamers travel to Indianapolis, Indiana to attend the largest gathering of tabletop gamers in the United States. New games are released by popular designers and the major publishers hold presentations to announce new games, many of which no one was expecting....

‘The Final Girls’ Director Explains Intense Personal Inspiration And ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ Influence By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2015 4:30 pm EST Today we saw the first trailer for The Final Girls, wild and very entertaining movie that successfully blends scares, comedy, and character stories to offer a great perspective on horror films and family relationships. I’d enjoyed the film at SXSW, where it premiered in March; today I spoke with director Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) about the Wizard of Oz influence on the movie, and the very personal experiences that make it more than a simple blend of horror and comedy concepts....

‘The Terror’ Review: ‘The C, The C, The Open C’ Has An Old Friend For Dinner By Chris Evangelista/May 15, 2018 9:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly recaps of AMC’s historical horror show The Terror. This The Terror review takes a look at the ninth somber episode, “The C, The C, The Open C”. Spoilers follow. In this week’s episode: Everything is bad, and everyone is dying. The Best Of A Bad Situation R....

‘Twin Peaks’ Production Starts In September, Episode Count And Premiere Still TBD By Fred Topel/Aug. 11, 2015 10:24 am EST Showtime Networks President David Nevins spoke to the Television Critics Association today, and the premium network’s plans for a Twin Peaks revival was a significant part of his announcements. When he started taking questions, I asked him specifically what happened with writer/director David Lynch’s tweets in April, when the creator of the show said the Showtime series was moving on without him....

‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 Blu-Ray Will Have Over 3 Hours Of Special Features By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 11, 2017 11:00 am EST It seems like only yesterday that David Lynch and Mark Frost broke everyone’s brain with their weird, wild Twin Peaks revival. Some loved it while others thought that perhaps Lynch was pulling a prank on the audience. Either way, it was one of the most original pieces of TV in quite some time....

20 Years Later, ‘Dark City’ Remains One Of The Smartest Sci-Fi Films Ever Made By Meredith Borders/Feb. 27, 2018 10:00 am EST Alex Proyas’ Dark City turns 20 today, a science fiction masterpiece that is at once undeniably influential in its field yet still overlooked by many fans of the genre. That commercial neglect may be due in part to the theatrical version, which opened with a studio-mandated voice-over narration that compromised Proyas’ vision – as well as that of his co-writers, Lem Dobbs and David S....

2009 Comic-Con: Thursday Schedule Updated, Friday Events Announced By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2009 11:53 am EST Wednesday, July 22 – Preview Night6:00-9:00 Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings Comic-Con and Warner Bros. Television proudly present exclusive pilot premiere screenings of some of the most buzzed-about new TV series of the 2009/2010 season: Human Target, V, and The Vampire Diaries, as well as an exclusive preview trailer for additional upcoming shows. Human Target Based upon the popular DC Comics title and starring Mark Valley (Fringe), Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies), and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), the highly anticipated Human Target is an action-packed thrill ride about a mysterious private contractor who will stop at nothing, even if it literally means becoming a human target, to keep his clients alive....

6 Things We Learned About ‘Phantom Thread’ From Paul Thomas Anderson’s EW Interview By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 3, 2017 3:00 pm EST Before this year is over we’re going to be treated to a new film from Paul Thomas Anderson. Not only that, but Anderson’s film, Phantom Thread, will reunite him with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day-Lewis in what is to be Day-Lewis’ final performance before retiring. While we’ve received a trailer for the film, most of the details about Phantom Thread have been kept under-wraps....

Andrew Stanton Outlining ‘John Carter’ Sequel, Would Consider Directing And Much More By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2012 4:00 pm EST The first major interview with John Carter director Andrew Stanton has landed and, fittingly, it’s with Harry Knowles from Ain’t It Cool News. Knowles himself produced the property with four different directors over seven years before Paramount lost the rights and Stanton scooped them up. So he’s got a pretty good grasp on the material....

Christopher McQuarrie Could Make An ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’ Sequel An Easier Sell By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2015 12:00 pm EST Christopher McQuarrie is a smart filmmaker who is enjoying being in business with Tom Cruise. He wrote Valkyrie and the later drafts of Edge of Tomorrow, and did script duties and also directed Jack Reacher and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Recently, Tom Cruise suggested there’s at least an idea for an Edge of Tomorrow sequel....

Does This ‘Avengers: Infinity War Toy’ Reveal A Deleted Scene For The Hulk? By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 1, 2018 12:30 pm EST When Avengers: Infinity War hit theaters this past weekend, fans immediately noticed a few stark differences between the trailers and the Marvel film. Whole scenes were nowhere to be seen in the movie, and several characters were not where they were supposed to be. But were some of these just cases of classic Marvel marketing misdirection?...

Dunkirk Early Buzz: What Do The Critics Think About Christopher Nolan’s War Movie? By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2017 10:25 am EST The press junket for Christopher Nolan’s new film Dunkirk happened over the weekend, and the social media reactions have begun to be revealed on Twitter. What did the first critics to see Nolan’s war movie think? Hit the jump to read the first Dunkirk reviews/reactions. The First Dunkirk Reviews On Social Media...

Four ‘Game Of Thrones’ Spin-Offs In Development – Here’s What They Could Be About By Jacob Hall/May 4, 2017 1:08 pm EST We’ve been hearing rumblings of HBO wanting a Game of Thrones spin-off for years now, but with the network’s flagship series ending in 2018, those rumblings have been getting louder. And now they’ve reached a dull roar…and by dull roar, I mean it has been revealed that not one, but four spin-off series are currently in development, with four different writing teams leading the charge....

Harvey Dent’s Dentmobiles Visiting Cities Across The United States Starting Today By Hunter Stephenson/March 13, 2008 10:28 am EST The campaign dates for Gotham D.A. hopeful Harvey Dent’s “Dentmobile” tour have been revealed on The Dark Knight character’s official site. We’ve posted the tour’s city dates, which kicked off today in New York City, Houston, Columbus (Ohio), Chicago, and Los Angeles and treads both coasts but leaves the Midwest a little ignored, after the jump for your convenience....

Here Are Three Alternate Versions Of ‘The Running Man’ We Almost Saw By Fred Topel/March 2, 2017 9:30 am EST Before Paul Michael Glaser directed The Running Man, four other directors worked on Stephen King’s big screen adaptation. Here are the three The Running Man alternate versions we almost saw. Earlier this week, Alamo Drafthouse Los Angeles presented a 30th-anniversary screening of The Running Man. Yes, it’s 30 years old this November....

Interview: Robert Redford By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2007 1:21 pm EST Last month we had the chance to sit down with director/star Robert Redford at a roundtable to discuss his new film Lions For Lambs. In Lambs, Redford stars alongside Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise in “a powerful and gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war....

Is The Dark Universe Dead? Alex Kurtzman And Chris Morgan Depart Universal’s Monster Films By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 8, 2017 6:51 am EST It was supposed to be a brave new world of gods and monsters, but Universal’s Dark Universe might be shuffling back to the tomb from whence it came. After the critical and box office failure of The Mummy, Dark Universe masterminds Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan are departing the franchise, leaving the future of the Dark Universe uncertain....