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‘Hanna’ Featurette: How Esme Creed-Miles Became The Teen Assassin By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 30, 2019 12:00 pm EST Hanna Featurette Created and written by David Farr and directed by Sarah Adina Smith, Hanna follows the titular young girl who has been brought up all her life to be a trained assassin. She grows up isolated from society until one event sets off a chain reaction that sends her fleeing from a pursuing CIA agent and searching for the truth of her identity....

Disney Villains Show ‘Book Of Enchantment’ Coming To Disney+ By Ben Pearson/Feb. 27, 2019 12:30 pm EST Memorable villains can often be more interesting than a story’s protagonist, and The Walt Disney Company has created a whole host of baddies over the years. So it’s not surprising to hear that a Disney villains show is in the works for their upcoming streaming service, Disney+. Learn more about the new show, which will be called Book of Enchantment, below....

How ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Wraps Up The Threads Of Previous Films In The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Joshua Meyer/May 3, 2019 7:00 am EST After 11 years and 22 movies, Marvel Studios has finally brought a definitive end to the Infinity Saga—the retroactive name for its first long, ambitious cycle of interconnected films. While the upcoming Spider-Man: Far from Home will officially conclude Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that movie promises to be more of an epilogue to Avengers: Endgame....

Hulu Is Now Planning To Run Ads When Users Pause Videos By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2019 12:30 pm EST Hulu is planning to roll out a new advertising format. The streaming service will soon start testing ads that play when users pause the video, an attempt to target binge-watchers who have begun to cut the cord for linear TV in favor of digital streaming. But it probably won’t gain them any fans among users who turn to streaming services explicitly to get away from commercial breaks....

Ian McShane In 2018: One Of Our Best Living Actors, In Great Projects And Trash Alike By Josh Spiegel/May 22, 2019 12:00 pm EST With some actors, it’s all in the eyes. Some performers need dialogue to boost their work, and others are able to use their physicality to get across some emotion, whether it’s happiness or sadness or fury or anything in between. But an actor who can just use their eyes to communicate a world’s worth of information is hard to find, and hard to top....

Kevin Hart Steps Down As The 2019 Oscars Host By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 7, 2018 7:00 am EST The actor-comedian was met with outcry over resurfaced anti-gay tweets and comments he had made during stand-up routines nearly 10 years ago. He then responded with a defiant Instagram response that only earned him more hostility. Rather than apologize for his comments and for his non-apology, Hart decided to step down, leaving the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in search of a new Oscars host....

Superhero Bits: Chris Hemsworth Vandalizes ‘Avengers’ Posters, Neil deGrasse Tyson Addresses Thanos Theory & More By Ethan Anderton/April 9, 2019 6:00 pm EST Why is Chris Hemsworth vandalizing Avengers: Endgame posters? What’s the story behind two certain cameos in the Shazam! movie? Was there some drama behind the scenes during the making of the Captain Marvel score? What does Neil deGrasse Tyson say about that gross Thanos and Ant-Man theory? Would Michelle Pfeiffer play Catwoman again?...

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 135 - Culturally Specific Films And The Decline Of Film Audiences (GUESTS: You) By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 27, 2011 2:02 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 Case For Cersei Lannister, The Ruthless And Effective Queen Of The Seven Kingdoms By Ben Pearson/May 9, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to Debate of Thrones, where a panel of Citadel-trained experts explain why someone deserves, or doesn’t deserve, to sit on the Iron Throne. In this edition: all hail Cersei Lannister, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.) Frankly, I’m not sure why we’re having this “debate” in the first place....

Watch The First Five Minutes Of George R.R. Martin’s ‘Nightflyers’ Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 26, 2018 4:30 pm EST Alien first popularized the tagline “In space, no one can hear you scream,” but the upcoming Syfy series Nightflyers takes that mantra to heart within the first 5 minutes of the first episode. The network has released the Nightflyers opening scene that made shockwaves when it was teased at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con....

‘Bond 25’ Shooting Back On As Daniel Craig Undergoes Ankle Surgery For On-Set Injury By Chris Evangelista/May 23, 2019 3:30 pm EST Double-oh-ouch. A rumor popped-up earlier this month that Bond 25 filming was on hold due to an ankle injury star Daniel Craig suffered on set. Now, we have an update. Craig was indeed injured, and will now undergo knee surgery, but Bond 25 will continue shooting in the meantime....

‘Deadwood: The Movie’: Molly Parker Talks Alma’s Return, Addiction, And David Milch [Interview] By Jacob Hall/June 6, 2019 10:00 am EST If you watch television with any regularity, you’ve seen Molly Parker. She’s been on House of Cards, the new Lost in Space, Goliath, Dexter, Shattered, and so much more, vanishing into her characters with a chameleon quality that allows someone as talented as her to be called underrated. But like so many other veterans of HBO’s greatest show, she’s probably best known for her work on Deadwood....

‘Holmes And Watson’ Reviews Earn The Film A Dreaded 0% On Rotten Tomatoes By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 26, 2018 3:00 pm EST When a studio avoids screening a movie for critics, it’s usually a bad sign. Holmes and Watson, a comedy that reunites the Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, hit theaters on Christmas Day, and not a single early review surfaced before that. Some committed critics ventured out to catch the flick on the holiday, though, and they clearly were not pleased with what they saw....

‘Ma’ Review: Octavia Spencer Does Everything She Can With A Scattered Horror Villain By Josh Spiegel/May 29, 2019 11:00 am EST It’s rare to see a movie that is so ballsy as to literally introduce a gun in the first act, only to potentially refuse to have that gun go off, defying the law of Chekhov’s Gun in fiction. Such may be the case, though, with Ma, a strange new thriller that eventually tips into straight-up horror....

‘Mary Queen Of Scots’ Review: Saoirse Ronan And Margot Robbie Rule In A Progressive, But Stale, Period Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 7, 2018 10:00 am EST The era of the progressive period piece is surprisingly tedious. Led by two powerhouse performers and backed by a radically diverse cast, Mary Queen of Scots seems to promise the evolution of the period piece — one anchored around two fascinating women ahead of their time and not limited by the crusty perceptions of stuffy historical dramas....

‘Run’, A New Thriller From ‘Searching’ Director Aneesh Chaganty, Hits Theaters In 2020 By Ben Pearson/Jan. 31, 2019 3:00 pm EST Aneesh Chaganty, the co-writer/director of last year’s computer screen mystery Searching, is following up that movie with a more traditionally-filmed thriller called Run. Sarah Paulson (Glass, American Horror Story) stars opposite newcomer Kiera Allen, and now Lionsgate has unveiled the movie’s official release date. Find out the Run release date below, and why it’s good news for the filmmaking team....

‘Shazam!’ Funko POP Toys Spoil A Key Plot Point And Confirm Rumor By Ben Pearson/Jan. 22, 2019 3:30 pm EST When Warner Bros. and DC gave Aquaman a December 2018 release date, it was clear that the focus would be on that film for the final part of the year. But it’s been over a month since that film splashed down in theaters, and attention is slowly turning back to Shazam!...

‘The Boys’ Trailer: Karl Urban Fights Tooth And Nail With Not-So-Super Superheroes By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 24, 2019 10:30 am EST The Boys Trailer — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 24, 2019 “Job one is supporting the Seven brave heroes who put themselves in harm’s way each and every day for us,” says a soothing voice that sounds a lot like Elisabeth Shue’s Vought Vice President of Hero Management Madelyn Stillwell, who we met in the last trailer....

‘The Mandalorian’ Is “A Phenomenal Achievement” According To Werner Herzog, Who Has Never Seen ‘Star Wars’ By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2019 10:30 am EST Fans who were lucky enough to attend Star Wars Celebration last month were treated to a bunch of footage from the upcoming live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian. The new show will be debuting with the Disney+ subscription streaming service in November, and it’s taking us back to the style of the original Star Wars trilogy in many ways....

Chris Evans Goes ‘Infinite’ With Potential New Science Fiction Franchise By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 12, 2019 4:30 pm EST Chris Evans is leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Avengers: Endgame, which means he’s going to have some free time. Rather than take a long vacation, the actor is already looking for new projects – one of which is the sci-fi film Infinite, based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers. As is the case with most big movies these days, there’s franchise potential here, which means Evans might be jumping from one franchise to another....