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Rumor: Mickey’s Runaway Railway Ride Coming To Disneyland By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2018 11:00 am EST Mickey Mouse is set to make his solo theme park attraction debut with Walt Disney World’s Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway. And according to the latest rumor, Disney Parks may be planning to expand their beloved corporate icon to even more theme parks across the world. It seems that the new attraction may be heading to California’s Disneyland as well, suggesting a brighter future for both the iconic mouse and for Disney’s thought-to-be-doomed Toontown....

Superhero Bits: Wolverine Podcast Second Season Details, ‘Hellboy’ Test Screening Reactions & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2018 6:00 pm EST Will Batman have any part in the Elseworlds crossover coming to the Arrowverse? What do early reactions from a test screening of Hellboy have to say? Want to see Roger Corman’s awful adaptation of Fantastic Four? Why didn’t Superman use his powers to find Martha in Batman v Superman? What can we expect from the second season of the Wolverine podcast?...

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Almost Made Janet Van Dyne The Villain By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 9, 2018 3:30 pm EST Michelle Pfeiffer has played her fair share of slinky villains on the big screen, so it was refreshing to see her as a bonafide superhero in Ant-Man and the Wasp. But admit it: you would still pay big bucks to see Pfeiffer chew the scenery as the Big Bad once again. And that’s almost the way it turned out for the Ant-Man sequel, according to director Peyton Reed....

Arrested Development Season 5 Part 2 Trailer Halfway through this trailer, a title card pops up on the screen that reads “It’s not over ’til we say it’s over.” Honestly, that sounds like a threat at this point. I don’t want to spend this entire post trashing Arrested Development, but it can’t be denied that the once-great series has lost its luster. When Netflix revived it, fans – like myself – were thrilled....

‘Creepshow’ TV Series Casts Adrienne Barbeau, Giancarlo Esposito And Tobin Bell For Stephen King Adaptation “Grey Matter” By Chris Evangelista/April 3, 2019 10:30 am EST The hype is real for Shudder’s Creepshow, which will take its inspiration from the horror film from Stephen King and director George A. Romero. The series will use the works of several other writers beyond King, but it wouldn’t be Creepshow without at least one King-driven tale....

‘Doctor Who’ New Year’s Special Teaser Reveals The Return Of The Show’s Most Iconic Monster By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 26, 2018 12:30 pm EST Doctor Who has been changing things up all season, introducing new monsters, new universes, and a new sense of social relevance on top of the game-changing first female Doctor played by Jodie Whittaker. Showrunner Chris Chibnall has lived up to his promise that none of the classic monsters from the show’s 55-year run are showing up, though the writers started slowly introducing familiar elements in later episodes....

/Filmcast Ep. 32 - Top 10 Movies Of 2008 And The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Review By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 31, 2008 3:23 pm EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, and Adam count down their top 10 movies of 2008 and review David Fincher’s beautiful film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. There will be NO /Filmcast next week, but keep your eye out soon for a special After Dark episode where we chat about the endings of The Wrestler and Doubt....

‘Goldie’ Review: Model Slick Woods Makes A Dynamite Debut In A Scrappy And Stylish New York Drama [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 14, 2019 1:00 pm EST Goldie writer/director Sam de Jong comes from the world of music videos, and fittingly, the music video is both the driving narrative and visual inspiration of his debut feature film. But this is not some fairy-tale vision of New York: de Jong’s grainy, sun-kissed ode to the city of hustlers highlights the gritty, unforgiving world from which Slick Woods’ titular Goldie is trying to break free....

‘Paradise Hills’ Review: Emma Roberts Leads This Vibrant Vision Of Sci-Fi Fantasy [Sundance] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 29, 2019 7:00 am EST A stunning, vibrant fairy tale tinged with suspense and packed with riveting ideas, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills is one of the most visually spectacular movies of the year so far. Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up in an unfamiliar room, with servants doting on her and calling her “mademoiselle.” Understandably freaked out, she immediately makes a break for it, only to discover she’s trapped on a small, beautiful island called Paradise – an expensive, twisted facility overseen by the Duchess (Milla Jovovich) and designed to strip any individuality from the young women sent there before they’re returned to society as “improved” versions of their former selves....

‘Pet Sematary’ Prequel A Possibility, According To Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2019 2:30 pm EST Pet Sematary isn’t out in theaters yet, but people are already asking about sequels. While author Stephen King never wrote a follow-up to this terrifying book, there was a sequel film made to the original 1989 film adaptation – 1992’s Pet Sematary Two. According to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, this new adaptation likely won’t follow in its predecessors footsteps and make a sequel....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Trailer: Peter Parker Seems To Be Feeling Just Fine By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 15, 2019 6:03 am EST It’s been a week full of Marvel Studios mania. The week kicked off with a new trailer for Captain Marvel and it wrapped up with the mysterious teaser for Avengers: Endgame. However, let’s not forget that there are three movies coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year, and the first trailer for the third and final one has been released....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Featurette: Inside The Dark Designs Of Section 31 By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 4, 2019 7:30 am EST When Section 31 was first introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s sixth season, the clandestine organization was cloaked in secrecy. But as the secret group has made more appearances — first in the alt-timeline “Kelvin” reboot movie Star Trek Into Darkness, and most recently Star Trek: Discovery — more light has been shed on what exactly Section 31 is....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Solves Its Biggest Mystery And Rewrites ‘Trek’ History With “The Red Angel” By Monique Jones/March 22, 2019 12:00 pm EST What’s dead is alive and what’s old is new again in this week’s game-changing episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “The Red Angel.” The circular storytelling was paramount, since the entire series has taken us right back to where we started – the day Michael’s entire world changed when her parents were killed by the Klingons....

Star Wars: Episode 9 Wraps Filming It feels impossible, but today wrapped photography on Episode IX. There is no adequate way to thank this truly magical crew and cast. I’m forever indebted to you all. pic.twitter.com/138AprtFuZ — JJ Abrams (@jjabrams) February 15, 2019 The image finds the trio behind Rey, Finn, and Poe sharing an embrace in the middle of the desert with a small army of crew (and maybe an extra or two?...

‘The Climb’ Review: One Part Bro Comedy, One Part ‘Touch Of Evil,’ All Hilarious [Cannes] By Jason Gorber/May 21, 2019 2:00 pm EST The Climb begins, as most Sisyphean tasks do, with a schlepp up a hill. Instead of rolling a boulder up like the original myth, here we meet tragic figures of a different kind. Two Americans, a svelte and athletic Mike (writer/director Michael Angelo Covino) and Kyle (co-scribe Kyle Marvin) biking in the mountains of Southern France....

‘The Lion King’ Featurette: See Donald Glover, Beyonce, Billy Eichner, And More Recording Their Lines By Ben Pearson/July 14, 2019 1:00 pm EST Disney’s remake of The Lion King is arriving in theaters next week, and the studio has released a featurette that gives you a behind the scenes look at its all-star cast – Donald Glover, Beyonce Carter-Knowles, Billy Eichner, Seth Rogen, and more – recording some familiar dialogue....

‘The Secret Life Of Pets 2’ Review: A Slight And Scattered Sequel That Doesn’t Have Much To Say By Josh Spiegel/June 5, 2019 8:00 am EST It took the Walt Disney Company only five years after its first fully animated feature film to release what they dubbed a “package” film: a series of shorts strung together to feature length. In Disney’s case, package films were a necessity to ensure that they could make money during the war-torn 1940s....

By Ben Pearson/June 5, 2019 1:00 pm EST Transparent Finale Trailer “There are no words, no way to go back to a plain old season 5 and try to repair by going back,” Soloway said previously. “We dared ourselves, took all the songs [my sister] has been writing. She’d already been writing songs for a possible Transparent musical on Broadway five years down the line…The show isn’t necessarily ending. It’s transitioning into a musical....

Cool Stuff: Marvel’s ‘Iron Man’ Mark I Helmet Masterworks Prop Replica Is A Work Of Genius By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2019 6:00 am EST The legacy of Iron Man began back in 2008, when Marvel Studios took a chance on sparking the creation of an entire universe where their comic book characters could exist together and finally assembly as The Avengers. But without Tony Stark’s first foray into armored suits, we might never have seen these heroes together....

Daily Podcast: Mindy Kaling’s Ms. Marvel, Dark Phoenix, Steven Spielberg’s Quibi Show, And More By Ben Pearson/June 10, 2019 2:55 pm EST On the June 10, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including the troubles with Dark Phoenix, Mindy Kaling talking with Marvel Studios about Ms. Marvel, Fox’s abandoned X-Men vs Fantastic Four film, Steven Spielberg writing a new show for the upcoming streaming service Quibi, and more....