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/Filmcast Ep. 233 - Monsters University And World War Z By Slashfilmcast/June 20, 2013 10:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Dave, Germain, and Laremy (author of Film Critic) discuss this weekend’s box office contenders, Monsters University and World War Z. 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 in your Browser:...

/Filmcast Ep. 366 - High-Rise By Slashfilmcast/May 16, 2016 9:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss the principle of finders keepers, losers weepers; talk about the difficulty of choosing a baby name; and delve into the scourge of eating during movies. In the After Dark, we discuss the Assassin’s Creed trailer and Dave unburdens himself about Kimmy Schmidt. Check out Paul Baker’s Summer Movie Wager board and read up on other racial issues in Kimmy Schmidt....

/Filmcast Ep. 444 - Lady Bird (GUEST: Kristy Puchko From Riot Material) By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 6, 2017 6:00 pm EST Devindra and Jeff team up with Kristy Puchko to discuss Lady Bird. Also, they try to figure out if The Disaster Artist is any good, pontificate on the point of method acting, and consider what a Tarantino Star Trek would be like. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Happy!’ Season 2 Trailer: Syfy’s Offbeat Hitman Comedy Is Back By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2019 9:30 am EST Happy! is returning with its second season just in time to — as one of its characters says in the new trailer — make Easter great again. Syfy has set the season 2 premiere of the dark crime comedy starring Christopher Meloni as an alcoholic ex-cop with a cartoon imaginary friend (Patton Oswalt) for March 27, 2019....

‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Zombie Comedy Lacks Bite [Cannes] By Jason Gorber/May 15, 2019 11:00 am EST The Dead Don’t Die is Jim Jarmusch’s love letter to George Romero. The iconoclastic indie director twists his usual sardonic gaze upon the common tropes of zombie films (the mantra is “kill the head” as a way of vanquishing the foes), and Jarmusch’s goal is to set a desiccating look at the underpinnings of undead mythology....

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Enlists ‘The Good Place’ Actor Manny Jacinto By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 28, 2018 6:30 am EST Top Gun: Maverick has enlisted another rising star to its crew. Filipino-Canadian actor Manny Jacinto, who can currently be seen on the riotously good NBC comedy The Good Place, has joined the Top Gun: Maverick cast as a pilot. He’ll be joining a star-studded cast that includes Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Ed Harris, and Jennifer Connolly....

‘Toy Story 4’ Trailer: The Toys Go On A Physical And Existential Journey By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2019 6:04 am EST Woody, Buzz, and the gang are back, but in Toy Story 4 they find themselves grappling with a concept they have never faced before: existential crises. Picking up where Toy Story 3 left off, Woody and the toys are happily living with Bonnie, who has created a brand-new toy out of a spork that has some terrifying implications for the world of Toy Story....

Dave Bautista’s Family Comedy ‘My Spy’ Pushed Back To 2020 By Ethan Anderton/July 11, 2019 12:30 pm EST This weekend, you can see Dave Bautista having a blast with Kumail Nanjiani in the action comedy Stuber. And originally, there was going to be even more laughs with Dave Bautista in the family comedy My Spy, slated for released towards the end of August. But now STX Entertainment has decided to push the movie back to a release in 2020, but their reasoning apparently doesn’t have anything to do with the film’s quality....

Director Edgar Wright Breaks Down His ‘Colors’ Music Video And How It Got Made [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Oct. 9, 2018 10:00 am EST Edgar Wright made his most colorful piece of spectacle yet with the music video for Beck’s “Colors.” The Baby Driver and Hot Fuzz director crafted a music video jammed full of joy and it has been steadily making people happy (and dazzling their senses) since it debuted last year....

Hollywood Is Not Happy About Oscar Ceremony Cuts – Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron And More React [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Feb. 15, 2019 11:50 am EST Update: The Los Angeles Times reports that yesterday, “several prominent members of the cinematography community, including American Society of Cinematographers president Kees van Oostrum and cinematographers Hoyte van Hoytema (Dunkirk), Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant) and Rachel Morrison (Black Panther), requested an urgent meeting with academy chief executive Dawn Hudson to attempt to get the decision reversed....

Jeff Bridges To Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award At The Golden Globes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 17, 2018 7:30 am EST Jeff Bridges will be the next recipient of the Golden Globe’s Cecil B. DeMille Award, which honors those with “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.” Bridges will receive the award at the upcoming 76th annual Golden Globe Awards, set to air in January. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that Jeff Bridges will receive the 2019 Cecil B....

Millarworld’s ‘Reborn’ To Become A Netflix Movie, Sandra Bullock Producing And May Star By Ben Pearson/Jan. 23, 2019 12:00 pm EST Netflix acquired comic writer Mark Millar’s company Millarworld in 2017, and today they announced what may be their highest-profile film adaptation yet. The streaming service will produce an original film version of Millar’s sci-fi fantasy comic Reborn, with Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie) directing and Oscar winner Sandra Bullock producing....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch After You See ‘Overlord’ By Scott Beggs/Nov. 7, 2018 9:00 am EST WWII-era body horror is not a crowded subgenre. The blood gets thinner when you account for quality. But even though German Nazism has been tied to the occult since long before Indiana Jones tried to stop them from getting the Ark of the Covenant, it’s not that surprising that jackbooted sci-fi horror isn’t more popular....

Netflix Series ‘Criminal’ Will Be Set Entirely In A Police Interrogation Room By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 28, 2018 5:00 pm EST Almost every police procedural show features scenes set in a dark and atmospheric interrogation room, where we watch a furious cop question a sweaty suspect. But Netflix plans to take things to the next level with Criminal, a new series set entirely in interrogation rooms. The show will tell 12 individual stories set in 4 different countries....

Superhero Bits: Krysten Ritter Responds To ‘Jessica Jones’ Cancellation, Early ‘Venom’ Concept Art & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 19, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see the opening credits for Doom Patrol even if you don’t have DC Universe? Who is voicing Wonder Woman in a new DC Comics animated movie? Which character might make a surprise appearance on the final season of Jessica Jones? What are the origins of the famous comic panel of Batman slapping Robin?...

‘Avengers: Endgame’ 3D Trailer Reveals Villains Removed From Key Sequence By Ethan Anderton/March 28, 2019 8:30 am EST Directors Anthony & Joe Russo already admitted that we can’t entirely trust what we’re seeing in the trailers for Avengers: Endgame. The directing duo has confirmed that some shots in the film’s marketing either won’t be in the movie or have been manipulated with visual effects to include or remove certain elements to mislead audiences....

‘Black Monday’ Trailer Takes You Back To The Worst Stock Market Crash Wall Street History By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 21, 2018 12:00 pm EST Showtime is ready to take you back to 1987, where Wall Street saw the worst stock market crash in its history, with Black Monday. The new series looks a little like The Wolf of Wall Street Meets The Big Short: The TV Show, and that might just be enough to draw in a crowd....

‘Captain Marvel’ Trailer Breakdown: Captain Marvel Goes Full Binary And More Details You Missed By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 4, 2018 9:00 am EST The new Captain Marvel trailer dropped last night, revealing more about the highly anticipated Marvel Studios movie. Though much of the movie still remains a mystery, we’ve picked up more clues about Captain Marvel’s plot and its hero, played by Brie Larson. The film follows Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot who became endowed with incredible cosmic powers and is now part of a cosmic team known as the Starforce....

‘Close’ Trailer: Noomi Rapace Is A Female Bodyguard In Netflix’s Newest Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 3, 2019 2:30 pm EST Netflix seems to be getting into the bodyguard business, with the BBC series Bodyguard becoming a small phenomenon and international star Noomi Rapace starring in the upcoming feature film about a female bodyguard, Close. Watch the Close trailer below. Close Trailer Directed by Vicky Jewson, Close follows Rapace’s Sam, a female bodyguard hired to protect a spoiled heiress named Zoe (Sophie Nélisse) in what seems like a fairly straightforward job....

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Extended Cut Is Coming To Blu-Ray And Digital HD By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2019 1:00 pm EST Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald arrived in theaters last year to mixed reviews. Critics and fans alike took issue with the plot, the characterization, and the pacing, and were left wanting for something to recapture the magic of Harry Potter. One thing they weren’t wanting was a longer version of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel....