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The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 62 - Should You Ever Lower Your Movie Expectations? (GUESTS: Laremy Legel From Film.com, Matt Singer From IFC News) By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 14, 2009 3:14 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 /Filmcast: After Dark - Episode 2 By Slashfilmcast/June 6, 2008 9:33 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 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: ‘Searching’ Video Essay, Making Movie Stars Into Action Figures & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 27, 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, take a look at how Searching takes the thriller genre and repurposes it with a unique and mesmerizing device....

Watch The First Episode Of ‘Miracle Workers’ With Daniel Radcliffe On YouTube For Free By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2019 5:00 pm EST If you want to watch original programming from TBS, you usually need a subscription to a cable provider or an online TV streaming service. But the cable channel has made the first episode of their latest comedy series easily available for everyone to watch. Miracle Workers is a new series from Man Seeking Woman creator Simon Rich focusing on a lowly angel named Craig (Daniel Radcliffe) who must stop God (Steve Buscemi) from destroying Earth....

Will Ferrell Is Returning As ‘Anchorman’ Legend Ron Burgundy, This Time With A Podcast By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2019 6:00 am EST There was a time when Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues was one of the most anticipated sequels. Of course, that meant it was never going to live up to the hype, and it was going to have a hard time living up to the original Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy....

‘21 Jump Street’ And ‘Men In Black’ Crossover Is Dead By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2019 11:00 am EST Back in 2014, when one of the biggest stories of the year was a huge hack of sensitive information from Sony Pictures, details on a potential crossover between the 21 Jump Street and Men in Black franchises came to light. In the years since, updates have been sparse with the exception of a title reveal calling the movie MiB 23....

‘Black Mirror’ Season 5 Trailers And Episode Titles Revealed By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2019 9:00 am EST Just a week after Netflix dropped the first Black Mirror season 5 trailer with the surprise reveal that the star-studded season would consist of only three episodes, the streaming giant has released three new trailers. Each trailer teases one of the individual episodes from the fifth season of the Charlie Brooker techno-horror anthology series, along with the official titles for the episodes....

‘Dead To Me’ Trailer: Christina Applegate’s Misery Finds Company In Netflix’s New Dark Comedy Series By Ethan Anderton/April 1, 2019 3:30 pm EST Dealing with the death of a loved one is always difficult. But after Jen (Christina Applegate) loses her husband in the new Netflix series Dead to Me, her cynical attitude and grim sense of humor doesn’t jibe well with the touchy feely remorse that everyone around her is feeling....

‘Doom Patrol’ Review: This Wacky DC Comics Show Is Just What The Superhero Genre Needs By Trey Mangum/Feb. 13, 2019 10:00 am EST Once DC Comics’ streaming service, DC Universe, announced that it was developing several live-action comic book adaptations, many were leery. However, the young upstart streamer defied the odds and delivered the polarizing Titans which, regardless of how you felt about the series, you had to admit that it wasn’t what we were expecting....

‘Dora The Explorer’ Movie Casts Benicio Del Toro As The Villain, Swiper The Fox By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 14, 2018 2:00 pm EST Benicio del Toro will be swiping more than hearts with his new role in the Dora the Explorer movie. The Sicario: Day of the Soldado actor is joining the Dora the Explorer cast as the villain Swiper the Fox, a fox famous for, well, swiping things.Deadline reports that Del Toro will provide the voice for the villainous fox who always tries to undermine the titular young explorer....

/Filmcast Ep. 11 - The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (GUEST: Stephen Tobolowsky) By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 5, 2008 6:47 pm EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, and Adam debate the merits of 2D animation, weigh in on a Monsters Inc. sequel, and spend more time than humanly thought possible destroying The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Legendary actor Stephen Tobolowsky (from Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party) joins us to re-enact The Matrix Reloaded and to show us exactly how film criticism is done....

‘Grease’ Prequel ‘Summer Loving’ Gearing Up At Paramount With Writer John August By Ben Pearson/April 9, 2019 2:00 pm EST 41 years after the mega-popular musical Grease first cruised into theaters and 37 years after its sequel debuted, a Grease prequel is in development at Paramount Pictures. John August (Big Fish, Go) is writing the screenplay, which will focus on the initial meeting between the slick, leather-jacket-clad “greaser” Danny Zuko (played by John Travolta in the original) and the innocent high school student Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John)....

‘Sopranos’ Prequel Cast Adds ‘Hamilton’ Star Leslie Odom Jr. By Chris Evangelista/March 20, 2019 5:00 pm EST What’s that? You thought casting on the Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark was over and done with? Think again! Leslie Odom Jr., who won a Tony award for playing Aaron Burr in Hamilton, is the latest name to climb aboard the movie. As has been the case for most of the casting surrounding this film, Odom Jr....

‘The Secret Life Of Pets 2’ Playing Two Weeks Early With Fandango VIP Screenings By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2019 5:00 pm EST Blockbuster sequels aren’t just limited to big action bonanzas like Avengers: Endgame, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Family films are getting the sequel treatment this summer too, and one of them will be hitting the big screen much sooner than anticipated....

Charlie Cox Signed A Petition To Save ‘Daredevil,’ Talks Season 4 Plans Before Cancellation By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 23, 2019 4:30 pm EST Charlie Cox is as sad about Daredevil’s cancellation as you are. Like many fans of the blind superhero, the star of the Marvel-Netflix series was caught by surprise by the cancellation by Netflix. And you can’t blame Cox for being certain that Daredevil season 4 would happen — writers were already pitching and planning storylines for the next season, some of which Cox got wind of....

Danny Glover Joins The ‘Jumanji’ Sequel Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 16, 2019 6:30 am EST The Jumanji sequel cast keeps getting bigger and better. On the heels of Danny Devito and Awkwafina joining the cast of the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel, Danny Glover has now been announced to board Jumanji 3 in an undisclosed role. Variety reports that Danny Glover is joining the cast of the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel in a role that is being kept under wraps, much like the still-secret storyline....

Harrison Ford Doesn’t Want Chris Pratt To Replace Him As Indiana Jones By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2018 2:00 pm EST A rumor about Guardians of the Galaxy actor Chris Pratt taking over the mantle of Indiana Jones from star Harrison Ford first popped up in 2015. Since then, Pratt has both denied the rumor and later acknowledged it, basically leaving the door open to the possibility should anyone at Disney or Lucasfilm come calling with an actual offer for him to play the whip-cracking archeologist....

How Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Series Can Beat The Anime Adaptation Curse (And What It Can Borrow From Marvel And ‘Star Wars’) By Monique Jones/Jan. 2, 2019 11:00 am EST Anime fans around the country clutched their chests in fear as they read the fateful words that Netflix is planning on adapting Cowboy Bebop into a 10 episode live-action miniseries. If you’re an American anime fan like me, then you’ve probably been a person who has had to suffer through several horrible live-action adaptations....

Lionsgate’s ‘Chaos Walking’, Starring Tom Holland And Daisy Ridley, Is “Unreleasable”, So They’re Spending Millions More On Reshoots By Ben Pearson/April 23, 2019 3:30 pm EST Chaos Walking, the film adaptation of Patrick Ness’s young adult book trilogy, has been in development since 2011. Director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) and actors Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland came on board in 2016 and it started filming the next year, with an intended release date of March 1, 2019....

Nick Robinson And Jason Mitchell Team Up In Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ PUBG Short Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 6, 2018 9:00 am EST Both Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Nick Robinson have come a long way since their breakout hit The Kings of Summer, but the director and star are reuniting again for a short film. Joining Robinson is Kong: Skull Island actor Jason Mitchell and the short is based on the video game Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds....