/Filmcast Episode 2 - Rambo By Slashfilmcast/June 4, 2008 4:30 am EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, Adam, and Peter, debate the merits of Sex and the City, lament the Universal fire, pore over the Lost finale, and discuss the nihilistic themes of Rambo. Special guest Myles McNutt joins us from Cultural Learnings and Alex Billington joins us from Firstshowing. Have any questions/comments/suggestions? Feel free to e-mail us at slashfilmcast@gmail....
‘For All Mankind’ Trailer: Apple TV+ Show Imagines What Would Have Happened If The Space Race Never Ended By Ben Pearson/June 3, 2019 12:30 pm EST Desire can be a powerful thing, but the desire to be the best can push people to achieve legendary accomplishments. That desire is what drove the United States to win the space race by putting a man on the moon after the Soviets were the first to put a human being in space....
‘Knights Of The Old Republic’ Project In Development, Kathleen Kennedy Confirms By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2019 8:30 am EST The Star Wars universe is only going to get bigger after Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker closes out the Skywalker Saga this December. And for Lucasfilm, that means returning to a few beloved stories that have never yet been adapted to the big or small screen. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, in a somewhat uncharacteristically frank answer, confirmed that a long-rumored Knights of the Old Republic project is in the works....
‘Rim Of The World’ Trailer: Netflix Does ‘Stranger Things’ With McG By Chris Evangelista/May 6, 2019 5:00 pm EST Stranger Things is a huge hit for Netflix, so it makes sense that they’d want to try to recreate that success elsewhere. Enter Rim of the World, a new sci-fi movie that looks a lot like Stranger Things. Kids on bikes? Check. Some sort of paranormal event? Check. The aforementioned kids banding together to save the day while putting their lives together?...
‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Photos: School May Be Out, But Evil Isn’t On Vacation By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2019 9:30 am EST As the summer heats up, the third season of Stranger Things isn’t too far off. The new episodes will attempt to pull you away from the incessant fireworks that will be going off on July 4, but before we get a chance to binge the latest adventure in Hawkins, Indiana, a new batch of photos has arrived from Netflix showing Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin), Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo), and Max (Sadie Sink) mostly enjoying the summer....
‘Swamp Thing’ Trailer: There’s Something In The Water In The DC Universe By Ben Pearson/April 24, 2019 12:30 pm EST The comic book character Swamp Thing hasn’t appeared in film or television in a significant way since the 1990s, but that’s about to change when he gets his own live-action series on the DC Universe streaming service this summer. We caught a quick glimpse of the character in a brief teaser last week, but now there’s a full trailer for the upcoming show that leans into the horror angle and capitalizes on the fact that James Wan (The Conjuring, Insidious) is executive producing the series....
Disney Could Spend Up To $500 Million On ‘Star Wars’ And Marvel Content For Disney+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 29, 2019 4:30 pm EST The Walt Disney Co. is planning to spend “real money” on its original Star Wars and Marvel titles for its upcoming streaming service Disney+. The highly anticipated streaming platform already has titles like The Mandalorian and the Loki and Scarlet Witch shows under its umbrella, but Disney may reportedly spend up to $500 million on original programming this year....
Joe Russo Says ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Has “More Spoilers” Than ‘Infinity War’, But What The Hell Does That Mean? By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2019 11:10 am EST Marvel Studios is doing everything they can to keep the secrets of Avengers: Endgame intact so the theatrical experience can be as enjoyable as possible for all audiences. So far all the trailers and TV spots have used footage from the movie sparingly, keeping anything from the second or third acts out of sight....
A Shield From Criticism Marvel’s incongruous political outlook is owed, in major part, to the series starting out as government propaganda. Like hundreds of Hollywood films, early Marvel movies like Iron Man and Iron Man 2 were produced with U.S. military assistance, which means they were also locked-in to scripts approved by the Department of Defense.The Avengers was eventually turned down for this assistance, though it certainly attempted to appease the Pentagon at some point during its production (U....
Road To Endgame: ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Is A Metaphor For Its Own Massive Problems By Siddhant Adlakha/April 3, 2019 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Endgame, where we revisit all 22 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask, “How did we get here?” In this edition: Thor: The Dark World defines Marvel’s “villain problem” but doesn’t do much else.)Thor: The Dark World plays like Marvel’s first truly troubled production....
Sci-Fi Movie Casting: Colin Farrell Teams Up With Kogonada For A24’s ‘After Yang;’ Mahershala Ali Signs On To ‘The Sovereign’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 1, 2019 3:30 pm EST Prestige sci-fi films are all the rage these days, and two of our best working actors have just signed on to two more. Colin Farrell has just teamed up with Columbus director Kogonada to star in the A24 sci-fi family drama After Yang, while Mahershala Ali is following up is recent Oscar win by signing on to star in The Sovereign, an independent sci-fi flick from the producers of Arrival....
Sequel Bits: ‘The Accountant’, ‘Alien’, ‘Jumanji’, ‘John Wick’, ‘Avatar’, ‘Bad Boys’ By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2019 5:30 pm EST Remember The Accountant? That absolutely wacky movie with about ten different subplots, centered around Ben Affleck as an Autistic assassin? It was a surprise hit, and talk of a sequel surfaced soon after release. But we’ve yet to have anything official regarding The Accountant 2. But Ben Affleck still wants to make it happen....
Steven Spielberg Quibi Series Will Be “Creepy” And “Super Scary”, So Hide The Kids By Chris Evangelista/June 10, 2019 8:00 am EST Quibi, the strangely-named streaming service that will specialize in short-form content, is lining-up some heavy hitters – and they don’t come any heavier than Steven Spielberg. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the mogul behind Quibi and close personal friend of Spielberg, revealed that the blockbuster filmmaker is writing something “creepy” and “super scary....
Superhero Bits: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Has Third Highest Monday, ‘Guardians 3’ Shoots Next Year & More By Ethan Anderton/April 30, 2019 6:00 pm EST What problem did Ray Fisher have with Cyborg in Justice League? How did the numbers for Avengers: Endgame on Monday stack up at the box office charts? Is James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad inspired by a specific run of comics? Who is the most popular of the Avengers in each state?...
The Final ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Trailer Wants You To Trust Love All The Way By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 27, 2018 7:00 am EST Barry Jenkins’ beautiful, heartbreaking and altogether wonderful If Beale Street Could Talk gets a final trailer to hold you over until December. Jenkins, the director of Moonlight, has once again created one of the year’s best films – a gorgeous adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel of the same name....
The Morning Watch: The Motion Capture Of ‘Mowgli’, Why Disney Killed ‘Roger Rabbit 2’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 28, 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, find out why Disney has consistently killed plans for a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit....
‘Alita: Battle Angel - Passport To Iron City’ Immersive Experience Transports You To A Cyberpunk Dystopia By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 18, 2019 8:00 am EST A man sporting a Hawaiian shirt and a strong Cockney accent berates me for me slow work in the scrapyard, which isn’t really a scrapyard but a small booth filled with piles of metal scrap and hidden clues. Find the most valuable piece of scrap and win the most credits is the game, and it’s easy to get caught up in it....
‘Aquaman’ Swims To The Top Of The Weekend Box Office For The Second Week By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 31, 2018 12:00 pm EST The final weekend of 2018 came and went, and Aquaman continued to sit at the top of the box office. January tends to be a dumping ground for studios, so it’s unlikely that James Wan’s submerged superhero will be washed away anytime soon – unless audiences really get a craving for Escape Room....
‘Call Of Duty’ Movie Already Has A Sequel In The Works From ‘Black Panther’ Screenwriter Joe Robert Cole By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 28, 2018 8:30 am EST Remember the Call of Duty movie? It’s based on the Activision video game franchise of the same name, which focuses on a team of soldiers completing missions in the dangerous battlefield of war. No, of course you don’t remember it, because the Call of Duty movie hasn’t been released yet....
‘Cloak And Dagger’ Takes A Rare Dip In Quality With “Rabbit Hold” By Monique Jones/April 22, 2019 3:00 pm EST Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like this week’s Cloak & Dagger episode, “Rabbit Hold,” was missing something. The problem is I that I don’t know what it could be missing, since it hit all of the same beats a usual Cloak & Dagger episode. But somehow, the heart of the episode was lost....
