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The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 72 - Deconstructing Law Abiding Citizen (GUESTS: Katey Rich From Cinema Blend And Stephen Tobolowsky) By Slashfilmcast/Oct. 25, 2009 5:19 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....

‘Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale’ Trailer: Christmas Just Got A Whole Lot Creepier By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 5, 2018 6:30 am EST Christmas is coming early at the Spellmans’ household, with Netflix dropping the first trailer for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale. The holiday special for the wildly popular Satanic Sabrina TV series takes the “chilling” in its title seriously, conjuring up some creepy demons and an evil Santa for the upcoming episode....

‘Doctor Who’ Gives Us B-Horror Movie “Arachnids In The U.K.” While Mr. Big Channels Trump By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2018 7:00 am EST Doctor Who has never really done Halloween-themed episodes (despite the scary bent of many of its episodes, Christmas is more this show’s speed), but it seems fitting that the BBC sci-fi show’s Halloween-adjacent episode has all the hallmarks of a B-horror movie: corrupt businessmen, science gone horribly wrong, and big-ass spiders....

/Filmcast Ep. 132 - Enter The Void By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 1, 2011 8:40 pm EST This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, Russ Fischer, and Adam Quigley discuss some of the best films at Sundance 2011, react to this year’s Academy Award nominations, and deconstruct Kevin Smith’s controversial remarks at the Sundance Red State screening. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us for our next live broadcast on Sunday, February 6 at Slashfilm’s live page at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST, where we’ll be reviewing Dogtooth....

‘Maleficent 2’ Footage Introduces Us To The ‘Mistress Of Evil’ [CinemaCon 2019] By /Film Staff/April 3, 2019 4:35 pm EST While Disney has been remaking their animated films for years, their recent animation-to-live-action craze was kicked-off with two films: Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland, and 2014’s Maleficent. Maleficent retold the story of Sleeping Beauty from the point of view of the villain, played by Angelina Jolie. Now, a sequel is arriving: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil....

‘Midway’ Trailer: Roland Emmerich Does World War II By Chris Evangelista/June 27, 2019 8:30 am EST At some point, Independence Day director Roland Emmerich must have watched Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor and thought, “I can do that.” And so he did! The result is Midway, which might as well be called Roland Emmerich’s Pearl Harbor Remake. The visual aesthetic of the film, right down to the digitally enhanced destruction and oversaturated lighting, looks nearly identical to Bay’s WWII flick....

‘Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels’ Will Continue The ‘Penny Dreadful’ Saga In 1930s Los Angeles By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 1, 2018 9:00 am EST Penny Dreadful lives! Sort of. A new sequel series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, will continue the saga in a new setting – 1930s Los Angeles. The original show was a gothic delight, featuring infamous horror characters mingling about in Victorian-era London. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels promises to create “new occult myths and moral dilemmas within a genuine historical backdrop....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Gives Peter Parker A More Classic Spidey Suit By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 12, 2018 11:30 am EST With Spider-Man: Far From Home still in production, details about the sequel have been surfacing online here and there, mostly thanks to set photos being captured by on-lookers and paparazzi. Now that shooting is commencing in Spidey’s hometown of New York City, another detail about the sequel has been revealed, and it involves another new suit for the webslinger, and not the one that was already spotted on set a little while back....

‘The Image Book’ Trailer: French Director Jean-Luc Godard Returns With A Fascinating Deconstruction Of Cinema By Ben Pearson/Dec. 21, 2018 3:30 pm EST Iconic filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, a figurehead of the French New Wave movement which pushed the envelope of cinematic storytelling methods back in the 1960s, has spent much of his career experimenting with form. That experimentation continues in the 88-year-old’s latest cinematic effort, The Image Book, which played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival....

Political Motivation As Bay writes, The Last Jedi was the “first Star Wars film of the Trump presidency,” and thus came with a certain emotional baggage. Even though “Star Wars movies, books, video games, tv shows and comics have consistently attempted to convey left-leaning values,” there’s a certain contingency of fandom that thinks Star Wars is, and always should be, politically neutral. The Last Jedi “took a no-holds-barred approach to address issues of gender discrimination, class warfare, the destructive character of masculine aggression and war profiteering, while still working within the left-of-center frame constructed by George Lucas in 1977,” which apparently infuriated some conservative-minded viewers....

‘The Powerpuff Girls’ Gets The Dark And Gritty Treatment In Adi Shankar’s Bootleg Universe Short Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 30, 2018 2:00 pm EST If you were itching for a dark and gritty reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, you’re in luck. No? You never wanted one in the first place? Well too bad, because Adi Shankar has made it part of his “Bootleg Universe” which includes the likes of his famously violent Power Rangers fan film, and the The Punisher: Dirty Laundry, which brought Thomas Jane back into the role....

Exclusive: ‘Django Unchained’ Director’s Cut Coming After Quentin Tarantino Finishes ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ By Jacob Hall/April 30, 2019 2:40 pm EST At 165 minutes, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained already feels like an epic. And now, his grand and bloody revisionist western is about to become even more super-sized. The Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds director has confirmed to /Film that he is working on a director’s cut of the Oscar-winning film, which he intends to release after he has finished Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....

Exclusive ‘Assassination Nation’ Vinyl Soundtrack Debut: You Asked For It, America By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 21, 2019 7:30 am EST The sure-to-be-cult-film Assassination Nation burned up the festival circuit last year before hitting theaters in September 2018. One key element to the film was the electronic film score courtesy of former Passion Pitt keyboardist Ian Hulquist. Now, Hulquist’s Assassination Nation soundtrack comes to vinyl, and we have an exclusive debut of the release....

New Charlie Kaufman Movie ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’ Loses Brie Larson, Gains Toni Collette By Chris Evangelista/March 27, 2019 3:00 pm EST I’m Thinking of Ending Things has ended its relationship with Brie Larson, but all is not lost – Toni Collette is coming aboard. Larson was set to star in the new Netflix movie from Charlie Kaufman, but it appears actress Jessie Buckley has taken her place. Joining Buckley are Collette and David Thewlis, with Jesse Plemons still attached to star....

Nicolas Cage Will Encounter H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Colour Out Of Space’ For Director Richard Stanley By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 23, 2019 9:30 am EST Fresh off his rave reviews in Mandy, Nicolas Cage is joining forces with frequently foiled filmmaker Richard Stanley for an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space. One of Lovecraft’s most terrifying stories, The Colour Out of Space follows a surveyor trying to uncover the cause of mysterious events terrorizing a patch of land in the wilds of Massachusetts....

Now Scream This: Beat The Heat With These Summer Horror Movies By /Film Staff/June 6, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: This week’s theme on “Now Scream This” is brought to you by New Orleans’ melting heat. As both Chris and myself attended the Overlook Film Festival last weekend, perspiration dripped early, often, and whenever we wandered outdoors....

Seth Rogen Will Be Pickled For 100 Years (In His New Movie) By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 28, 2018 3:30 pm EST Hollywood has heard the cry of the people. “We demand a Seth Rogen pickle movie!” came the shouts from the masses. “We relent!” shouted Hollywood. “We shall give you your Seth Rogen pickle movie!” And there was much rejoicing. Rogen has signed on to produce and star in a movie about a pickle maker who falls into a vat of pickles and gets brined for 100 years....

Stephen King Movie ‘The Long Walk’ Finds Its Director In André Øvredal By Chris Evangelista/May 22, 2019 7:30 am EST A little over a year ago, word broke that Stephen King’s The Long Walk would be strutting its way onto the big screen. Now, The Long Walk movie has found its director. André Øvredal, who helmed The Autopsy of Jane Doe and the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, will bring King’s dystopian story of teens forced to compete in a deadly marathon....

‘Bumblebee’ Screenwriter Christina Hodson On Making A Timeless ‘Transformers’ Movie [Interview] By Fred Topel/Dec. 19, 2018 2:00 pm EST The Transformers spin-off Bumblebee is very different from the five Michael Bay films. Notably, there are fewer Transformers – it’s mainly Bumblebee and the two Decepticons who chase him to Earth in 1987. The heroic Optimus Prime only has a cameo. Bumblebee also spends most of its time in the small Northern California town of Brighton Falls, where Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) buys a fixer upper automobile, only to discover it’s actually a transforming robot....

‘Driven’ Trailer: Go Back In Time For A Film About The Fall Of John DeLorean By Ben Pearson/July 3, 2019 5:30 pm EST Hollywood suddenly seems interested in John DeLorean, the charismatic creator of the DeLorean Motor Company and the car that became iconic after appearing in Back to the Future. Earlier this year we saw the release of Framing John DeLorean, a blend of fact and fiction that cast Alec Baldwin in the lead role....