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‘Arthur’ Gay Wedding Episode Gets An Alabama Screening Thanks To A Methodist Church And LGBTQ Film Festival By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 4, 2019 2:30 pm EST Reaching out to an audience with a positive message about gay marriage isn’t hard when you’ve got an Alabama Methodist church and an LGBTQ film festival playing their part. Following the Alabama Public Television’s refusal to air an episode of the beloved children’s program Arthur that featured a gay wedding of a major character, the First United Methodist Church of Birmingham is hosting a wedding-themed screening of the episode....

‘Bill And Ted 3’ Cast Adds Brigette Lundy-Pain And Samara Weaving As Bill And Ted’s Daughters By Chris Evangelista/June 5, 2019 11:00 am EST Update: The original press release inaccurately stated which roles the actresses were playing. An update was sent our way and we have updated accordingly. If you needed more proof that Bill and Ted 3, aka Bill and Ted Face the Music, was finally happening, here’s some casting news....

‘Pokemon: The First Movie’ Gets A Sleek CGI Remake In ‘Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution’ Trailer By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2019 3:30 pm EST The second-best Pokemon movie is getting a CGI remake and a fancy new title in the upcoming Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution. The CGI remake of the simply-named Pokemon: The First Movie celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon Company’s very first feature film, which marked the beginning of the franchise’s ascendancy to global phenomenon status....

‘The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance’ Trailer: Jim Henson’s Puppet Fantasy World Makes A Stunning Return By Ethan Anderton/May 30, 2019 9:00 am EST The Dark Crystal is one of those cult favorite fantasy movies from the 1980s that kids grew up on and still love to this day. Netflix is hoping they’re eager to cash in on that nostalgia with a return to the world of Thra and a story set before the events of the original movie in the upcoming series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance....

‘The Outsider’ Series, Based On A Stephen King Novel, Lands At HBO With Ben Mendelsohn By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2018 12:00 pm EST HBO wants in on that sweet, sweet Stephen King action. So they’ve given a series order to The Outsider, based on the horror-mystery book King published this summer. Extraordinary and very busy character actor Ben Mendelsohn will produce and star in the 1o-episode series, in which a murder investigation turns up strange, and downright impossible results....

‘Triple Threat’ Trailer: Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, And Scott Adkins In The Same Movie? Sign Us Up By Ben Pearson/Feb. 16, 2019 12:00 pm EST If you asked a group of diehard genre fans to make a list of the four best martial arts movie stars in the world right now, I imagine an overwhelming majority of the results would include these names: Tony Jaa (the Ong Bak trilogy), Iko Uwais (The Raid films), Tiger Chen (Man of Tai Chi), and Scott Adkins (Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning)....

‘Welcome To Marwen’ And When Creative License Goes Wrong By Andrew Todd/April 9, 2019 11:00 am EST Adapting true stories into feature films is a tricky task. It’s even more difficult when audiences have already seen the actual subject – in documentaries, for example. More difficult again is the process of adapting a story that does not conform to conventional story structure. Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen, which arrives on Blu-ray and DVD today, is a prime example: a film with admirable intent and concept, but devastatingly clumsy execution that does a disservice to its subject material....

Adult Swim Is Finally Getting Its Own Channel…in Canada By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2019 1:30 pm EST If you love watching Cartoon Network’s late night, grown up programming block called Adult Swim, you’ll probably be happy to hear it will finally get a channel of its own. But you might not be as happy to hear that you’ll have to live in Canada if you want to take advantage of it....

How The ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Directors Assembled The Most Star-Filled Shot In Marvel History By Ethan Anderton/May 1, 2019 1:30 pm EST Avengers: Endgame is an unprecedented blockbuster event for a number of reasons. But one of the most impressive moments in the film brings together one of the largest Hollywood ensembles in the history of cinema for a single shot. At a recent Q&A in Washington DC, directors Anthony & Joe Russo and producer Kevin Feige talked about the challenges of pulling off this particular shot (naturally, this is your warning about some major spoilers lying ahead), as well as the epic Avengers Endgame final battle....

Jason Momoa Is The Latest Attractive Person In The ‘Dune’ Cast By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 14, 2019 3:24 pm EST This is starting to get ridiculous. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune cast seems to grow every single day, and every single announcement features another fine looking specimen. The latest: Jason Momoa, who recently rode box office waves in Aquaman. Momoa is in talks to take on the role of Duncan Idaho, a “fierce swordsmaster....

Report: Christoph Waltz Returning As Blofeld For James Bond 25 By Ethan Anderton/July 12, 2019 7:30 am EST Back in the fall of 2017, when fans were still waiting patiently to see what would happen with the James Bond franchise, Spectre co-star Christoph Waltz seemed rather confident that he would not be returning as Blofeld. The character was revealed as being the mastermind behind the titular international criminal organization, as well as James Bond’s adoptive brother, so it was a real shame that after his survival at the end of the last mission, he wouldn’t be coming back....

Superhero Bits: Alternate Mysterio Designs, The Difference Between The Blip And The Snap & More By Ethan Anderton/July 9, 2019 6:00 pm EST What did Kevin Smith think of Spider-Man: Far From Home? Did you know there’s a difference between The Snap and The Blip? Why was “Peter Tingle” used to describe the Spider-Sense? Want to see some alternate designs for Mysterio? What other weird hairstyles were considered for Aunt May in Spider-Man: Far From Home?...

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 64 - Moviehopping, The Hollow, And More Inglourious Basterds Talk By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 30, 2009 6:34 am 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 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen From Black Directors By Rob Hunter/Feb. 11, 2019 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. This week we give a nod towards Black History Month with a look at some of the best, little-seen films from black filmmakers.) Great films and filmmakers are worth celebrating all year round, but we live in a world that likes to categorize and quantify, meaning February has been designated as Black History Month (and Women in Horror month too for those of you keeping track)....

The Morning Watch: ‘John Wick’ NES Game, ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale Easter Eggs & More By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 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, check out a video game version of John Wick as if the movie was adapted for the original Nintendo....

The Morning Watch: ‘LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars’, Kevin Costner Career Retrospective & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 13, 2018 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, watch the first animated shorts from the new LEGO Star Wars: All Stars web and TV series from Disney XD....

‘Aquaman’ Clip: Willem Dafoe Has A Trident He’d Like To Sell You By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2018 9:30 am EST Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, has a lot of work to do if he wants to become both the king and hero of Atlantis. First step: get a shiny new trident! In this Aquaman clip, Jason Momoa’s undersea superhero meets with Willem Dafoe to learn all about taking control of his destiny....

‘Burning’ Is A Haunting Mystery About The Stories Men Tell And The Lives They Destroy [NYFF] By Siddhant Adlakha/Oct. 17, 2018 1:00 pm EST The mysteries in Lee Chang-dong’s Burning frustrate, but with purpose. Loosely based on the Haruki Murakami’s 1983 Japanese short Barn Burning, part of his The Elephant Vanishes collection — the English translation by Philip Gabriel appeared in The New Yorker in ‘92 — South Korea’s Oscar hopeful is a winding trail about the stories that men tell themselves about women and other men, and how these tales are exacerbated by our inertia....

‘Candyman’ Director Nia DaCosta Says Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Is Not Replacing Original Candyman Tony Todd By Chris Evangelista/March 25, 2019 4:00 pm EST Director Nia DaCosta has confirmed something we theorized about earlier this month: reports of Yahya Abdul-Mateen II taking over Tony Todd’s role of Candyman in the Candyman reboot were not entirely accurate. The news of Abdul-Mateen II joining the film came with the claim that the Aquaman actor was the new Candyman, but according to DaCosta, that’s not correct....

‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Director S. Craig Zahler Doesn’t Want You Spoiling His Movies [Interview] By Jack Giroux/March 20, 2019 1:00 pm EST With only three movies, writer/director S. Craig Zahler has established quite a voice for himself. The Brawl in Cell Block 99 director’s first three films are wholly uncompromising and polarize audiences in a time when so many filmmakers default to playing it safe. Few people are walking out of Zahler’s violent pictures shrugging their shoulders without a strong opinion, that’s for certain....