Decoding Westworld S2E08 - Kiksuya By Slashfilmcast/June 11, 2018 7:05 pm EST Decoding Westworld is a weekly podcast recapping the HBO original series Westworld. In this episode, Joanna and David discuss the eighth episode of the second season, “Kiksuya.” Be sure to check out Chris Evangelista’s review of the episode and Joanna Robinson’s recap of the episode. Thanks for listening to this season of Decoding Westworld. Have your own crackpot theory?...
Guillermo Del Toro’s Long-Awaited ‘Pinocchio’ Will Finally Become A Real Stop-Motion Movie At Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 22, 2018 9:30 am EST It’s been eight years since del Toro first announced his plans to develop the beloved Italian fairy tale Pinocchio into an anti-fascist stop-motion animated movie, but maybe wishes really do come true. The Oscar-winning director’s passion project seemed fated to development hell like many of del Toro’s failed film announcements, but the wave of goodwill following the critical and commercial success of The Shape of Water has proven to be the fairy godmother that Pinocchio needed....
Javier Bardem Is Really Excited About ‘Dune,’ Loves Those Sandworms By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 22, 2019 4:30 pm EST The cast for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming adaptation of Dune grows in number and attractiveness by the minute, making each new announcement an exciting event for fans of the Frank Herbert novel. But none are as excited as the cast themselves, including Javier Bardem, who spoke of his admiration for Villeneuve and the rest of the impressive cast of Dune, as well as his love for sandworms....
John Cho, Rebecca Hall, And Daniel Dae Kim Lead The ‘Mirai’ English Voice Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 26, 2018 5:30 am EST GKIDS has landed a talented set of actors for the Mirai English voice cast. The latest Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars) film, Mirai is a critically acclaimed surreal family drama that has already made waves at the Cannes Film Festival and the Japanese box office....
Patrick Stewart’s Return To ‘Star Trek’ Almost Brought Writer Alex Kurtzman To Tears By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2019 10:30 am EST Cameras aren’t yet rolling on the forthcoming Star Trek series that will bring Sir Patrick Stewart back to the final frontier as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. However, writer/producer Alex Kurtzman was already brought to tears by the return of the Star Trek: The Next Generation character, one of the most beloved Starfleet officers in the history of the sci-fi franchise....
Seeing Double: ‘Cannonball’ And ‘The Gumball Rally’ Go Head-To-Head Across America By Rob Hunter/April 25, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to Seeing Double, a series where two strangely similar films released around the same time are put head-to-head. This time, we rev our engines and hit the asphalt with movies about high-speed, fun-filled car races across America.) If someone mentions having seen a movie about a wild and highly illegal cross-country car race you’d most likely think they were referring to 1981’s The Cannonball Run....
The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 150 - Preparing For Neuromancer (GUEST: Director Vincenzo Natali) By Slashfilmcast/June 12, 2011 2:00 pm EST The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient audio file....
The Morning Watch: ‘Mission: Impossible’ Video Essay, Teens Fact-Check High School Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/April 30, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a video essay explores the Mission: Impossible franchise’s place in the history of action cinema....
White Lies And Dark Truths: How ‘The Farewell’ And ‘The Last Black Man In San Francisco’ Explore Gentrification Onscreen By Kalyn Corrigan/July 9, 2019 12:00 pm EST It’s not a comparison most would make, is it? After all, what could two movies that are seemingly as vehemently opposed as The Farewell and The Last Black Man in San Francisco possibly have in common? One is a story about a Chinese American woman dealing with her grandmother’s illness, and the other is an account of a young African American man attempting to reclaim a childhood home he can no longer afford....
By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 1, 2019 2:14 pm EST Leigh Whannell is keeping busy. The writer and filmmaker behind Upgrade was recently announced as the director of Universal’s Invisible Man remake. Now, he’s also closed a deal to write the Escape from New York remake. There’s currently no deal in place for Whannell to direct theremake of the John Carpenter classic, but the option is there if he wants it.THR broke the news about Whannell writing the Escape From New York remake, and I honestly don’t know how to feel about this....
/Filmcast Ep. 173 - Haywire (GUEST: Joanna Robinson From Pajiba) By Slashfilmcast/Jan. 24, 2012 6:00 pm EST This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam argue about the quality of Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior, offer praise for this season’s Justified (check out the new JustifiedCast here!) and wonder what the hell the MPAA is doing these days. Special guest Joanna Robinson joins us from Pajiba. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....
/Filmcast Ep. 419 - Alien: Covenant By Slashfilmcast/May 22, 2017 10:49 pm EST David, Devindra and Jeff delve into the new Twin Peaks and get impressed by the Seattle International Film Festival’s 2017 program. Also: Come see Stephen Tobolowsky and David Chen live this Sunday, May 28th! Details here. 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:...
‘Speed Kills’ Trailer: John Travolta Loves Running Drugs With Fast Boats By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 10, 2018 2:30 pm EST Just when you thought John Travolta had reached the pinnacle of bad movies with this year’s release of Gotti, the trailer for a new crime thriller called Speed Kills comes in at the last minute in an attempt to steal the glory. Speed Kills is supposedly inspired by a true story and finds John Travolta playing Ben Aronoff, a speedboat racing champion and boat manufacturuer who has made quite the luxurious life providing vessels for both the US Coast Guard and drug smugglers....
‘Warm Bodies’ Series In Development As Part Of Lionsgate’s New Deal With Jonathan Levine By Ethan Anderton/May 2, 2019 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Remember Warm Bodies? It was the original zomcom, focusing on Nichols Hoult as a zombie known only as “R,” who is slowly becoming more self-aware and less undead-like. When he encounters a living girl (Teresa Palmer) from a nearby group of survivors, she’s the only one who sees that some of the zombies seem to be turning less monstrous as time goes on....
‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Series Teaser Announces Premiere This Spring On FX By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2019 7:30 am EST What We Do in the Shadows is one of the best comedies of the decade. The mockumentary released back in 2014 followed Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, and Jonny Brugh, as a group of longtime vampire roommates who recruit Cori Gonzalez-Macuer as a new bloodsucker into their crew. Now the basic premise for the comedy is being turned into a comedy series on FX and a new teaser has announced the show’s arrival this spring....
‘Zombieland 2’ Screenwriters Call The Sequel A “10 Year Anniversary Present”, Can’t Comment On Those ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Rumors By Fred Topel/Oct. 29, 2018 2:15 pm EST Reese and Wernick spoke with /Film early about Wayne. When the subject of Zombieland 2 came up, they acknowledged that their story has changed over the decade its been in development. “Yeah, it has changed,” Reese said. Wernick added, “It’s evolved I think....
Another ‘Stranger Things’ Tie-In Book Will Focus On The Origins Of Chief Hopper By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 9, 2019 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The first Stranger Things tie-in novel arrived in stores this week, and Netflix is wasting no time promoting the next book linked to their hit sci-fi series. The first book, Suspicious Minds, focused on Eleven’s mother, Terry Ives, and how she got caught up in the experiments of a secret government organization in the 1960s....
Book A Stay At The Continental In A ‘John Wick 3’ Immersive Experience In New York By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 7, 2019 1:30 pm EST The Continental may no longer welcome John Wick inside its venerated walls, but it is welcoming everybody else in a special John Wick 3 immersive event. Lionsgate is opening the doors to the special assassin’s hotel in anticipation of the release of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum....
How Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Edgar Wright, Guillermo Del Toro And More Came Together To Save FilmStruck By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2018 3:00 pm EST Boutique streaming service FilmStruck is still shutting its doors before November ends, but thanks to the efforts of a group of notable filmmakers, along with a popular petition, some semblance of the service will live on – the Criterion Collection, currently exclusive to FilmStruck, will launch their own independent streaming service in 2019....
Listen: 27 Months Ago, /Film Tried To Predict The Future Of The Marvel Movie Universe By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 6, 2014 12:30 pm EST This story and podcast was published on May 17th 2012, just after the release of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. I thought it would be fun to take a look back at our predictions from 27 months ago to see how things are panning out for phase two and three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....
