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The Water Cooler: David Blaine Live, Brian Grazer’s Book, And An Incredible Korean TV Series By /Film Staff/June 7, 2017 10:30 am EST Welcome to The Water Cooler, a new weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In our first edition: a David Blaine live performance, producer Brian Grazer’s book, the latest album from The New Pornographers, Ben Schwartz’s improv show, a wonderful Korean television series, and the joys of recording a movie podcast....

These ‘Justice League’ Reshoots Drastically Altered The Final Film By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 20, 2017 2:30 pm EST Justice League is now playing in theaters everywhere and if you went into the film hoping to see all of the flashy stuff on display in the multiple trailers, you might’ve been disappointed. There are numerous moments from the previews that aren’t in the final film, which, when combined with talk of the extensive reshoots that happened after Zack Snyder left and Joss Whedon took over, implies there’s a drastically version of the film floating around out there....

This Week In Trailers: Dave Made A Maze, California Typewriter, Patti Cake$, A Life In Waves, Apollo Gauntlet By Christopher Stipp/July 8, 2017 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Ten Years, The Seeker, Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life, L’Attesa, KISS Rocks Vegas By Christopher Stipp/April 10, 2016 8:00 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 Does Kurt Russell’s Ego Mean For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’? By Angie Han/March 2, 2017 8:00 am EST The latest Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer offered our first look at Kurt Russell’s Ego the Living Planet in real, live, flesh-and-blood form. As we’ve known since Comic-Con last year, Ego is the biological dad that Peter has been searching for. But now that the mystery of Star-Lord’s parentage has been solved, we’re left with still more questions about the guy....

What To Expect When The Avengers Meet The Guardians Of The Galaxy In ‘Infinity War’ By Ethan Anderton/April 20, 2017 2:30 pm EST We still have four more movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that will hit theaters before The Avengers: Infinity War. But with the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 making the publicity rounds and production on Infinity War happening right now, there have been a slew of new details about the Avengers sequel that have come to light....

Why The Animation In ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Looks So Revolutionary By Monique Jones/Sept. 3, 2018 11:00 am EST Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has shot to the top of my must-see list this winter. The film, which follows Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) as he becomes acclimated to his new spider powers and is mentored by the forever-broke Peter Parker (Jake Johnson), looks like it’ll be charming, heartfelt, and poignant, especially with the smattering of father-son dynamics the film provides (with Brian Tyree Henry playing Miles’ police officer father, Jefferson Davis)....

Wild And Unsettling Comics You Should Read After Revisiting ‘Fight Club’ By /Film Staff/Aug. 31, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Comic Book Drive-In, a series where comic and movie fans Jazmine Joyner and Rosie Knight recommend brand new, ongoing, and completed comic book series that tie into classic films and new releases.) Welcome back to Comic Book Drive-In! Thanks for joining us on our journey through celluloid and sequential storytelling....

‘Captain Marvel’ Trailer Breakdown: She’s The Hero We Need Right Now By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2018 9:30 am EST This morning finally brought the first trailer for Captain Marvel, the latest release from Marvel Studios. Brie Larson plays the titular superhero, an Air Force pilot who became endowed with incredible cosmic powers and left behind her life on Earth to join a team known as Starforce. This first teaser trailer sets the stage for her return to Earth, and it appears the life she left behind is a mere memory glimpsed through quick flashbacks....

‘Inherent Vice’ Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hilarious Choose Your Own Adventure Tale [Movie Review] By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2014 7:00 am EST Paul Thomas Anderson never ceases to amaze. He makes a rain of frogs look plausible, turns Adam Sandler into an actor, and makes an iconic image out of drinking milkshakes. He’s always doing something surprising and wonderful. Anderson’s latest film, Inherent Vice, is two hours of those moments loosely strung together with a detective narrative....

‘Legion’ Spoiler Review: Thoughts On ‘‘Chapter 3’’ By Jacob Hall/Feb. 23, 2017 9:00 am EST Legion announced itself as a new kind of superhero show with its pilot episode and the third episode continues to run with that torch. Here is an hour of comic book-inspired television that feels like it was mined from the bizarre, niche corners of the X-Men universe, sidestepping every obvious choice to really dig into the addictive weirdness of fringe superhero stories....

‘Song To Song’ Is Pure, Undiluted Terrence Malick, For Better And Worse [SXSW] By Jacob Hall/March 13, 2017 7:00 am EST Late in Song to Song, a character strums an old guitar, noting that she could play the same chord for hours straight. Read it as another odd musing in a film filled with them or read it as director Terrence Malick summoning a nugget of self-awareness. Whatever it is, this moment sums up this film (and Malick’s recent output): this is the work of an artist willing to do the same thing over and over and over again, not because it makes a crowd-pleasing song, because it pleases him....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: BB-8 Is A Practical Effect; Mark Hamill Hated His Beard By Germain Lussier/Dec. 12, 2014 1:45 pm EST Lucky for us, Mark Hamill has a lot of other things going on besides returning to Star Wars. It means there’s plenty of opportunities to ask him about Star Wars! The actor recently completed shooting on J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens and gushed about how it made him feel to see such a huge reaction to the first trailer....

‘The Deer Hunter’ And ‘Heaven’s Gate’ Director Michael Cimino Has Died At 77 By Ethan Anderton/July 3, 2016 10:00 am EST This weekend brings sad news of an Academy Award-winning filmmaker passing away as The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate director Michael Cimino has died at 77 years old. Police discovered Michael Cimino dead in his home Saturday after friends had attempted to reach him with no response. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux posted (in French) that Cimino died in peace surround by those close to him and the two women who loved him....

Cosplay Dragon Con is the mecca of cosplay, and Expanse lovers have loved costuming since the beginning. Past fan efforts include holding a cosplay contest, where some participants were invited to visit the show’s set when it was on SyFy. Expanse fans brought their cosplay A-Game to Dragon Con as well; several people at the fan meetups, which were also great opportunities to meet other Expanse fans, came dressed as if they were part of the crew on Tycho Station (AKA the station run by the Belters) or the Martian Congressional Republic Navy (AKA the MCRN, which is especially known for their badass suits of armor)....

‘The Expendables 3’ Review: Plenty Of Dumb Action As The Franchise Matures By Germain Lussier/Aug. 15, 2014 6:00 pm EST The Expendables 3 is a mostly successful blend of the franchise’s first two films. It’s filled with the wanton mayhem and destruction of the second film, but also plenty of terrible dialogue and overall cheesiness of the first movie. Despite those flaws, the Patrick Hughes sequel works because it’s constantly fun and features a story that builds off the fact the franchise was in danger of getting stale, leading it into a new era....

‘The Walking Dead’ Renewed For Thirteen-Episode Second Season By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2010 2:30 pm EST The debut episode of The Walking Dead was the highest-rated broadcast in AMC’s history, with 5.3 million viewers taking in the opening salvo of Frank Darabont’s vision of life in America after a zombie apocalypse. The second episode was broadcast last night to excellent numbers: 4.7 million people saw one of Michael Rooker’s less pleasant roles and a stomach-churning use for churned zombie stomachs....

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Set Visit: ‘‘It’s The Super Bowl Every Day’’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2016 7:00 am EST We’ve already run through all the new story details and character information from Transformers: The Last Knight in the first part of our report from our visit to the sequel’s set last summer. But that doesn’t convey just what it’s like to be on the set of a movie directed by Michael Bay....

‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Video Game Coming From Spil Games By Jack Giroux/Oct. 12, 2016 2:00 pm EST A trailer has yet to drop for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. But the sci-fi adventure, based on the French comic book series from writer Pierre Christin and illustrator Jean-Claude Mézières, debuted footage a few months ago at San Diego Comic-Con. The various environments, the alien designs, and the costumes had Besson’s fingerprints all over them....

10 Things We Learned From “Breaking Bad” S5E09 “Blood Money” By Joanna Robinson/Aug. 12, 2013 12:53 am EST As we promised in “The Ones Who Knock” Kickstarter, I will be doing weekly recaps here of each episode of Breaking Bad. For those of you unfamiliar with my recapping style, it’s less of a straightforward plot summary and more a distillation of the most interesting elements of each week’s episode. The recaps will spoil everything up through the current episode (S5E09 “Blood Money”), but won’t spoil any future episodes or even scenes from the “Next Time” segments of the show....