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Film Festivals Are Failing Disabled Attendees – Here’s How They Can Fix It By Kristen Lopez/March 26, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: film festivals treat disabled attendees as an afterthought – and that needs to change.)When it comes to the state of disability access, one thing is for certain: we are an afterthought....

Rejected A Star Is Born Song I want to go on the record here and say I am very pro-A Star Is Born. I’m not particularly interested in awards season shenanigans, but I really do think Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut got the shaft last year. It’s an emotional saga featuring two remarkable performances: Lady Gaga proves she’s a movie star, and Cooper gives perhaps the best performance of his career (yes, even better than Midnight Meat Train)....

Josh Brolin And Peter Dinklage Are ‘Brothers’ In New Comedy From ‘Tropic Thunder’ Writer By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 28, 2019 3:00 pm EST Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito played brothers in the 1988 comedy Twins? Well, we’re about to see that comedy formula put to the test again with a new comedy called Brothers at Legendary Entertainment. The film will see Avengers: Infinity War co-stars Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage playing a pair of unlikely siblings....

K-2SO Might Return In ‘Rogue One’ Prequel Series For Disney+, According To Alan Tudyk By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2019 3:00 pm EST K-2SO, one of the many fussy droids in the Star Wars universe, met an untimely end in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, along with pretty much every other character. But we may not have seen the last of him. There’s a Rogue One prequel series headed to Disney+, and according to Alan Tudyk, the actor who performed motion capture and voice work for K-2, the droid might pop up in some capacity....

Listen To The Entire ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ Soundtrack Online Now By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2019 7:00 am EST You can’t enter a clash of kaiju titans without a little music, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters has a soundtrack to match its earth-shuddering spectacle. The soundtrack for the upcoming Legendary monster movie has been released online, along with highlights of the solo themes for the three new kaiju monsters who will be butting heads with the King....

Netflix Testing New Random And Top 10 List Features, But What They Still Need Is Playlists By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 2019 3:30 pm EST Netflix has become such an integral part of our entertainment livelihood that most subscribers don’t even care when the streaming subscription service raises their prices a little bit. Thankfully, they’re finally coming around to giving their users new ways to find programs to watch, as well as making it easier for them to pick something to watch on a Saturday night....

Sequel Bits: ‘Creed II’, ‘John Wick 3’, ‘Glass’, ‘Big Trouble In Little China’, ‘The LEGO Movie 2’, ‘Kingsman’ By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 2, 2018 9:00 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Clubber Lang was almost in Creed II. John Wick 3 has wrapped shooting (both his guns and the movie). M. Night Shyamalan is finally done working on Glass. No, Kurt Russell won’t be in the Big Trouble in Little China reboot....

Star Wars Bits: The Return Of Jyn Erso, The Episode IX Rumors Begin, And Mark Hamill Protects Us From Lightsaber Fraud By Rosie Knight/Jan. 3, 2019 6:30 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Felicity Jones teases the potential return of Jyn Erso You can finally own an officially licensed Aurebesh keyboard The Episode IX rumor mill has begun… is that a new title we smell? One of Luke Skywalker’s original lightsabers is going up for auction And much more… Jyn Erso is one of many new additions to Star Wars canon and the strong willed Rebel leader has quickly become a beloved character in the galaxy....

The Best Fight-Heavy Action Movies You’ve Never Seen By Rob Hunter/Jan. 9, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. This week we go toe to toe and foot to face with some of the best fight-filled action movies you’ve never seen.) Action movies come in all shapes and sizes, but while big stunts can be truly thrilling when done right few sequences are more impressive than a beautifully choreographed, filmed, and edited fight scene....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In April 2019 By Chris Evangelista/March 20, 2019 2:00 pm EST Spring is almost here, and with the warmer weather comes new movies. Next month, Netflix will be releasing several great titles that you really shouldn’t miss, including the never-before-released Roadshow cut of The Hateful Eight! Check out the best new TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in April 2019....

The CW’s ‘Elseworlds’ Is An Epic Superhero Crossover Done Right By Siddhant Adlakha/Dec. 12, 2018 8:00 am EST At the end of this week’s Elseworlds, the three-part event unfolding across The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl, The CW’s crossover continuity teased a major event straight out of DC comics. It’s been hinted at ever since The Flash debuted in 2014 and now it’s official: the 1985-86 landmark Crisis on Infinite Earths will finally make its way to screens in the Fall of 2019....

‘Captain Marvel’ Super Bowl Trailer: It’s Time To Go Higher, Further, And Faster By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 3, 2019 4:17 pm EST Marvel Studios didn’t just tease the arrival of Avengers: Endgame during the Super Bowl. Let’s not forget that before the Avengers (or what’s left of them) assemble, we’re getting the big screen debut of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel. Following the debut of the first clip from the cosmic superhero movie over the weekend, the Captain Marvel Super Bowl trailer goes higher, further and faster than any of the other superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Kingdom’ Trailer: Zombies Cut A Bloody Swath Through Medieval Korea By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 2, 2019 5:00 pm EST The last few trailers for Netflix’s buzzy zombie K-drama Kingdom have built up a grim, moody atmosphere fitting for the genre. But this is about zombies after all, and a it is a series coming from the country that produced the most high-octane zombie film from this century. So the newest Kingdom trailer amps up the action and bloodshed, depicting the outbreak of zombies that threaten to take over Joseon Korea....

‘Mr. Robot’ Season 4 Will Be One Long Christmas Special, According To Sam Esmail By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 29, 2019 7:30 am EST Nothing says Christmas like an antisocial hacker dealing with existential dread and vicious alternate personalities. But Mr. Robot is nothing if not a TV series that loves to upend our expectations. The Emmy-nominated USA TV series created by Sam Esmail and starring Rami Malek will be wrapping up its fourth and final season during the happiest time of the year in what Esmail calls “one very long Christmas special....

‘She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power’ Creator Talks Darker, Shorter Second Season And More Cameos [WonderCon 2019] By Fred Topel/April 2, 2019 12:00 pm EST She-Ra and the Princesses of Power creator Noelle Stevenson and the voice cast of the animated series were on a WonderCon panel for the upcoming second season. Speaking with reporters in a pressroom roundtable, Stevenson discussed some of the changes coming to She-Ra.Stevenson’s re-imagining of the Masters of the Universe spinoff was met with love from new fans and grown-ups who grew up with She-Ra (and some who, ahem, saw He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword in theaters), so why change a thing?...

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Sees Characters Rehabilitate Or Regress, For Better Or Worse, In “Under His Eye” By Caroline Cao/July 3, 2019 11:00 am EST Little is getting better in Gilead, which is pretty much the norm for The Handmaid’s Tale. But things are getting better for the selected few. Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) is touring a potential new house in D.C. It’s an unrestored house littered with the remnants –smiling photos of a nuclear family, a crib, broken glass – of another family life, evidence of seizures....

‘The Things They Carried’ Movie Coming From ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Director Rupert Sanders By Chris Evangelista/March 6, 2019 3:00 pm EST The Things They Carried, a book I’m sure many of us read in a high school Lit class, is getting the big screen treatment. Rupert Sanders, director of Snow White and the Huntsman and the ill-received live-action Ghost in the Shell, will direct a film based on Tim O’Brien’s book of short stories about the Vietnam War....

By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 2019 1:00 pm EST Here’s what Ben Edlund posted to Twitter on Friday: After much door-knocking we have found no new home for the Tick series in this current market. #SaveTheTick & #LunaTickArmy I’m sorry we could not reward your glorious support with better news. I am so proud of the show, of the cast and crew and writers, and so warmed by the fans — ben_edlund (@ben_edlund) June 14, 2019...

As Demand Increases, Conditions Are Getting Worse For Hollywood Stunt Performers By Ben Pearson/Nov. 1, 2018 4:00 pm EST We’re approaching 2019, and Hollywood stunt performers are still some of the most under-appreciated workers in the entertainment industry. But the lack of recognition at the Academy Awards seems to be the least of their problems. With the increased demand for content comes an increased need for competent stunt people, and with many of them stretched thin, a new report says productions are cutting corners, resulting in dangerous working conditions and therefore more injuries and deaths for stunt people than in years past....

Ep. 433 - It By Slashfilmcast/Sept. 12, 2017 9:17 pm EST This week, David, Jeff, and Devindra discuss the challenges of seeing Hamilton, the sadness of The Orville, and wish they could see T2 in theaters without the 3D. Be sure to read Peter’s essay on getting into the Magic Castle and Devindra’s review of T2. To enter our Big Sick contest, email slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com with subject line “Big Sick Contest” and let us know your worst moviegoing experience with a date or significant other....