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This Week In Trailers: 12 O’Clock Boys, Blackfish, Laurence Anyways, The Giant Spider, We Always Lie To Strangers By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 15, 2013 4:00 pm 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: Actors Of Sound, Tilt, Survivors Guide To Prison, Marrowbone, The Trade By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 17, 2018 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: Dear Coward On The Moon, Patti Cake$, Long Strange Trip, Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter, WHITNEY ‘Can I Be Me’ By Christopher Stipp/May 20, 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?...

TV Bits: ‘Munsters’ Remake In Development; ‘Warehouse 13?, ‘In Plain Sight’, ‘Suits’, And ‘Leverage’ Renewed; ‘Dexter’ Season 6 Poster Revealed; Kurt Sutter Talks AMC By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2011 12:00 pm EST We’ve got lots of odds and ends for you in today’s TV bits, including renewals, a remake, and a rant by notoriously rant-y Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. After the jump, read about: NBC’s remake of The Munsters The new poster for Season 6 of Dexter Kurt Sutter’s thoughts on the AMC debacle Renewals for USA, TNT, and SyFy shows There’s no word on whether del Toro might return as well (given his very busy schedule, I’d guess not), but either way, I’m pretty curious to see what Fuller will come up with....

Weekend Weirdness: Black Devil Doll, Gone With The Pope, Altitude, And Hausu By Hunter Stephenson/Nov. 15, 2009 9:48 am EST It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are all thankful for movies, new and old, that offer proof. After the jump, we’ll examine trailers stuffed with images and ideas so nuts they could make a turkey turn crimson. For example, one for the new independent film, Black Devil Doll, about a murderous black power enthusiast who is deep-fried in prison, only to return by way of Quija Board in the shape of an anthropomorphic, horny dummy....

‘Channel Zero’ Is The Scariest Show On TV – So Why Aren’t You Watching It? By Vanessa Bogart/Oct. 3, 2017 12:30 pm EST The Halloween season is upon us. You know the signs. Pumpkin everything, the coveted trip to Target’s seasonal section, and of course, the horror movie marathons. Horror is more popular than ever – look the long-running and massively popular anthology series American Horror Story. Look to the box office returns for It....

‘Fandry,’ A Rural Tale Of Caste Oppression, Paints A Necessary Portrait Of India By Siddhant Adlakha/July 11, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to A Passage to India, a new series where we explore great works from all over South Asia for unacquainted viewers, all of them available to stream.) Nagraj Popatrao Manjule seems like a born filmmaker, though he only gravitated towards the profession in his early thirties. His reason, in part, was to reflect his own experiences, those oft unaddressed by the Indian mainstream....

/Film UK - A Special Screening Of Moon, An Alice In Wonderland Controversy Exclusive, And Much, Much More By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 19, 2010 10:16 am EST Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK....

‘Michael Moore In TrumpLand’ Early Buzz: A One-Man Show That Isn’t Really About Donald Trump By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 19, 2016 11:00 am EST Last night brought the surprise premiere of Michael Moore in TrumpLand, a film that was put together in seven weeks after staging a one-man-show about the 2016 election at a theater in Wilmington, Ohio, a town known for being on the right side of the aisle. At only 73 minutes, it turns out that this project (which Moore had just finished cutting yesteray morning) isn’t a documentary about Donald Trump, but rather a one-man show that feels more like a commencement speech or stand-up routine featuring Michael Moore explaining why you should vote for Hillary Clinton rather than why you shouldn’t vote for Donald Trump....

‘Star Wars Rebels’ Bits: Darth Vader, The A-Team, And Lightsaber Development By Russ Fischer/Oct. 3, 2014 5:00 pm EST The animated series Star Wars Rebels premieres on the Disney Channel tonight (at 9 ET/PT) and will then bounce to Mondays on Disney XD, beginning October 13. The show is set in the period between episodes three and four — so between Revenge of the Sith and the original Star Wars — and features some original trilogy vibe as it tracks the rise of the Rebellion....

‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ Sweeps The 2018 SAG Awards By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 22, 2018 6:30 am EST Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has jumped to the front of the Oscar race again, scooping up three wins at the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night. Check out the complete list of winners below. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won three out of the six awards in the motion picture categories at the 2018 SAG Awards, which aired on TNT and TBS on Sunday night....

‘Toy Story That Time Forgot’ Is A 1980’s Nostalgia Bomb That You’re Gonna Love [Comic Con 2014] By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2014 1:34 pm EST At Comic-Con, I usually spend most of my days camped out in the big convention hall Hall H (some people call it “Hall Hell”) but this year I spent Thursday pursuing some Pixar and Disney presentations in some of the smaller halls. First up was a presentation on Pixar’s upcoming holiday special Toy Story That Time Forgot....

‘Uncharted’ Screenwriter Joe Carnahan Is Saying All The Right Things By Jacob Hall/Nov. 1, 2016 11:30 am EST The long-gestating film adaptation of the popular (and for good reason) Uncharted video game series has been a revolving door of talent for years now. Cycle through the /Film archives and you’ll find writers and directors boarding and exiting the project with a frequency that boggles the mind. Despite its inherently cinematic premise, Uncharted has proven itself to be a tough nut to crack....

2009 Sundance Award Winners Announced By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2009 7:57 pm EST 2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARDS We Live in Public, Push, Rough Aunties and The Maid (La Nana) Earn Top Jury Prizes; Audience Favorites Feature Afghan Star, An Education, The Cove and Push Park City, UT–The jury and audience award-winners of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony hosted by actor Jane Lynch in Park City, Utah....

Angie’s Most Anticipated Films Of 2015 By Angie Han/Jan. 1, 2015 1:00 pm EST Even as I scramble to get in a few more 2014 releases before I close the book on this year, I’m looking forward to 2015. Next year promises to be huge for Hollywood, packed as it is with big-name sequels like Star Wars 7 and Avengers 2. But it also looks like a good time for movie lovers, not just movie studios....

Best Stories Of The Week: Die Hard, Thor: Ragnarok, Indiana Jones And More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 17, 2015 7:00 am EST Best Stories of the Week is a round-up of the previous week’s best and biggest stories, from news to editorials to trailers. In this edition, we’ve got word on Donald Trump hosting Saturday Night Live, an actress lined up to play Batgirl in the LEGO Batman movie, a new stop-motion film from Wes Anderson, two versions of The Hateful Eight, new details on King Kong meeting Godzilla and a prequel to Die Hard....

Boyd Holbrook Calls ‘The Predator’ A Western-Sci-Fi Hybrid [Set Visit Interview] By Jacob Hall/May 28, 2018 10:00 am EST Boyd Holbrook is blowing up. Although he’s been steadily working since breaking through in 2008’s Milk, he has finally taken several large leaps toward “leading man” status. First, he anchored the first two seasons of Netflix’s Narcos. And then he faced off against the Wolverine himself as a memorable villain in Logan....

DreamWorks Signs Distribution Deal With Disney By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2009 1:15 pm EST As was rumored last week, Dreamworks has found a new home at Disney. The two companies have entered into a long term distribution agreement which will include six films a year. You can read the full press release after the jump. The Walt Disney Studios Enters Exclusive Long-Term Distribution Agreement With DreamWorks Studios; Steven Spielberg & Stacey Snider Align With Disney to Distribute and Market Their Live-Action Motion Pictures BURBANK, Calif....

Early Buzz: Ben Affleck’s The Town By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2010 4:00 pm EST The first reviews for The Town, the Ben Affleck-directed big screen adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel The Prince of Thieves, have hit the internet. I, like many others, was extremely impressed by Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, and it looks like he may have stepped up his game with his The Town. So how is Affleck’s second feature?...

Extended Video Interview: Vincenzo Natali, Director Of Splice By David Chen/June 10, 2010 10:10 am EST A few weeks ago, after Splice screened in Boston for the first time, I had the opportunity to sit down with director Vincenzo Natali for a lengthy, 35-minute long interview. Vincenzo spoke about how he first got his start directing films, his attitude towards the Cube sequels, the themes of Splice, and his approach towards adapting Neuromancer and High Rise....