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‘Barry’ Season 2 Teaser: Bill Hader’s Pitch-Black, Pitch-Perfect Hitman Comedy Is Back By Jacob Hall/Jan. 28, 2019 8:00 am EST With its first season, Barry took a potentially hacky premise (“A hitman wants to become an actor!”) and transformed it into the darkest, funniest, most intense crime show since Breaking Bad. Even with the comedy at the forefront, Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s series bottled some kind of lightning – it was hilarious and it was intense and it was charming and it was horrifying....

Child’s Play Clip Artificial intelligence takes a horrifying turn in Child’s Play. Find out what makes the new Chucky so terrifying in this exclusive clip. Get tickets for Child’s Play now: https://t.co/J755qBeIYM 🔪 #ChildsPlayMovie pic.twitter.com/rA3A2Ln02U — Child’s Play Movie (@ChildsPlayMovie) June 13, 2019 “Chucky evolves more and more…but not in a good way.” So says Gabriel Bateman, the actor who plays Andy in the new Child’s Play. We’ll find out next week if the Child’s Play remake proves its worth, but for now, all we have to go on are clips like this....

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Scores Lowest U.S. Box Office Opening For A ‘Harry Potter’ Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 19, 2018 10:30 am EST Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald managed to score not only the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score in the history of its franchise, but it also had the lowest-grossing opening for a Harry Potter film. Raking in an estimated $62 million at the domestic box office on its opening weekend, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald still managed to take the No....

‘Honey Boy’ Review: Shia LaBeouf Is Astounding In This Deeply Personal, Autobiographical Drama [Sundance] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2019 11:00 am EST In recent years, Shia LaBeouf has become well-known for wild publicity stunts, tabloid-worthy behavior, perplexing performance art, and more. But with his autobiographical film Honey Boy that he scripted himself, the actor not only illustrates the struggles he dealt with as a child star thanks to his abusive, alcohol and drug addicted father, but also proves that he’s still an incredible actor....

‘Honeyland’ Trailer: The Sundance Award-Winning Documentary Reveals The Secret Life Of Beekeepers By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 5, 2019 5:00 pm EST NEON invites you take a trip to Honeyland, the documentary darling that swept the Sundance awards ceremony with a whopping three awards — making this little Macedonian documentary about the ancient art of beekeeping the most-awarded documentary at the lauded film festival. Watch the Honeyland trailer below. Honeyland Trailer Bees may be disappearing from the world at an alarming rate, but Hatidze, the woman at the center of the documentary directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, is keeping her village’s ancient beekeeping traditions alive....

‘Howard The Duck’ From Kevin Smith, ‘M.O.D.O.K.’ From Patton Oswalt, And Other Marvel Animated Shows Coming To Hulu [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Feb. 11, 2019 9:00 am EST Hulu announced to the Television Critics Association a new partnership with Marvel for four animated series and a standalone special. This follows Hulu’s partnership with Marvel on the live-action Marvel’s Runaways. The four series are Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K., Marvel’s Hit-Monkey, Marvel’s Tigra & Dazzler Show and Marvel’s Howard the Duck....

‘Legion’ Season 3 Trailer: Noah Hawley’s Hallucinatory Show Returns For One More Season By Ben Pearson/May 7, 2019 12:30 pm EST Legion, creator/showrunner Noah Hawley’s trippy, hallucinatory exploration of the inner workings of a mutant’s mind, wasn’t made for casual viewing. It’s the type of show that demands your attention, rewards you with things you’ve never seen on TV before, and makes you appreciate the executives at FX who signed the checks for Hawley to make something so bonkers....

‘Pacific Rim’ Anime Is Coming To Netflix To Cancel The Apocalypse By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 8, 2018 6:30 am EST Things are bad out there, and sometimes it feels like the actual apocalypse could be knocking on our doorstep at any second. So it’s good then that a Pacific Rim anime is coming to Netflix to cancel it. The streaming giant has announced the development of five new Netflix anime titles, led by Pacific Rim and Altered Carbon, both anime adaptations of live-action properties....

‘Pet Sematary’ Screenwriter Jeff Buhler On Changing, And Staying True To, Stephen King [Interview] By Chris Evangelista/April 4, 2019 12:00 pm EST It’s no small feat to try to adapt the words of Stephen King. Many have tried, and many have failed – and failed spectacularly. When it came time to adapt King’s Pet Sematary to the screen for the first time, King took it upon himself to pen the script....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Adds A Building Block To Its New Season With “Point Of Light” By Monique Jones/Feb. 4, 2019 1:00 pm EST At first I thought this week’s Star Trek: Discovery episode, “Point of Light,” was a little all over the place. But the more I reflect on this, I think this episode should be thought of as a building block. Did it make a lot of narrative sense? Maybe not....

Cool Stuff: ‘Wayne’s World’ Funko POPs! Party Time! Excellent! By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2018 6:00 am EST Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar are two of the most iconic faces of the ’90s thanks to their public access program Wayne’s World that broadcast on Saturday Night Live. In their signature torn jeans, the duo talked about babes, Aerosmith, hockey and whatever topical Top 10 list they could come up with. And now you can bring them home in the form of two totally excellent Funko POP figures....

Funimation Just Traded Crunchyroll For Hulu In Exclusive Anime Streaming Deal By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 4, 2018 3:30 pm EST Hulu just got a leg up over Netflix in the streaming wars. The streaming platform just landed a landmark first-look deal with Funimation, the anime distributor which earlier this fall made news for ending its longtime partnership with the niche anime streaming service Crunchyroll. Now it seems like Funimation has traded up for Hulu, giving the latter more ammunition in the increasingly fraught war for anime content....

Interview: How ‘Legend’ Director Brian Helgeland Made Two Tom Hardys Believable By Jack Giroux/Nov. 24, 2015 8:00 am EST Set in the 1960s, Brian Helgeland’s Legend opens with East London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray already at the top of the food chain, avoiding the typical rise-and-fall structure we see in most biopics. Everyone knows the gangsters, and not just because they’re two bulky, hard-hitting twins. Everyone loves Reggie, a charming, friendly face with a sense of panache....

Joel Coen Will Direct ‘Macbeth’ Starring Denzel Washington And Frances McDormand By Chris Evangelista/March 28, 2019 11:49 am EST Beyond that, I’m incredibly pumped about this. While there have been plenty adaptations of Macbeth – including one as recently as 2015, with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard – the prospect of a Coen-infused take on Shakespeare, with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in the leads, is too good to ignore....

Netflix’s ‘Carmen Sandiego’ Animated Series Gets A January 2019 Premiere Date And Teaser Images By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 11, 2018 7:30 am EST Netflix announced that Carmen Sandiego will premiere on the streaming service on January 18, 2019. The 20-episode season will be split between Carmen’s present-day heists and her mysterious past that led to her becoming the world’s most renowned thief. Netflix announced the date in a tweet with some key art from the series featuring the elusive thief herself, voiced by Jane the Virgin and Annihilation star Gina Rodriguez....

New ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Photo Teases An Alliance With Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio By Ben Pearson/April 25, 2019 1:30 pm EST When the world last saw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, he was dusted away in Avengers: Infinity War and left plenty of dusty eyes in theaters around the globe thanks to his emotional exit. Disney is being coy about whether or not he appears in Avengers: Endgame, but we’re only two months away from the release of Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, the sequel to 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming....

New ‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Trailer Reveals What Happens Right After The End Of The First Movie By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2018 10:00 am EST The LEGO Movie 2 marketing so far has really been playing up the post-apocalyptic side of the world of Bricksburg following the end of the first movie. For those who may not recall, after Lord Business was stopped, Master Builder Emmett (Chris Pratt) and all his friends suddenly had to face the prospect of aliens from the planet Duplo....

The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - Black Mirror Deep Dive With Dan Trachtenberg By Slashfilmcast/Nov. 4, 2016 4:00 pm EST David and Jeff have an in-depth conversation with director Dan Trachtenberg about his episode of Black Mirror, “Playtest.” You can watch Playtest on Netflix now. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, like us on Facebook! Download or Play Now:Subscribe to the /Filmcast:...

The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - Game Of Thrones: Season 1 By Slashfilmcast/June 23, 2011 10:30 am EST In this episode, Dave, Devindra, and Myles McNutt (from Cultural Learnings) discuss the brilliant first season of the HBO original series Game of Thrones. Have any questions, comments, concerns, feedback, or praise? E-mail us at slashfilmcast@gmail.com or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Your browser does not support the audio element....

The Women Of Marvel Deserved More In ‘Avengers: Endgame’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Avengers: Endgame doesn’t honor its female characters in a way that actually carries weight.) There’s no question that Marvel has a women problem. In the past decade and over the course of its 22 movies, only one of them was led by a woman, and one had a woman sharing the title....