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Water Cooler: Magic, Golden Globes, DVD Shelves, Star Wars Archives, Tidying Up, Escape At Dannemora, Vice, If Beale Street Could Talk, Shirkers, Pitchstorm, Perfume, Keyforge By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2019 5:30 pm EST On the January 7, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista, to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler....

‘Alternatino’ Review: Comedy Central’s New Sketch Comedy Series Is Like ‘Key & Peele’ For The Age Of Trump By Caroline Cao/June 18, 2019 12:00 pm EST You might know Arturo Castro from Broad City and Narcos. Now he’s at the center of his own comedy sketch show on Comedy Central called Alternatino and it has Key & Peele vibes. Interlaced with sketches is a fictionalized Arturo dealing with his unlucky social life and acting career as a Latino man in New York City....

/Filmcast Ep. 210 - Silver Linings Playbook By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 15, 2012 10:00 am EST Dave, Devindra, and Adam chat about David O. Russell’s latest film, Silver Linings Playbook. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: /Filmcast Ep. 210 - Silver Linings Playbook By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 15, 2012 10:00 am EST Dave, Devindra, and Adam chat about David O....

/Filmcast Ep. 96 - Kick-Ass (GUEST: Jeff Goldsmith From Creative Screenwriting Magazine) By Slashfilmcast/April 20, 2010 8:10 pm EST In this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley praise the virtues of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, and lament the state of a Hollywood that doesn’t allow a James Bond movie to be made. Special guest Jeff Goldsmith joins us from Creative Screenwriting Magazine and its podcast. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Premiere Date Revealed In Ominous New Teaser By Ben Pearson/Jan. 13, 2019 6:10 pm EST Can you feel the chill in the air? Winter has come, and that wind from an ice dragon’s wings is cutting straight to the core of Game of Thrones fans everywhere. After nearly seventeen months of waiting for a new episode of the beloved fantasy series (suffering through our own version of author George R....

‘House Of Hummingbird’ Review: A Sublime Coming-Of-Age Movie That Lingers On The Mind And Heart [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 27, 2019 1:00 pm EST Nostalgic coming-of-age movies have become the order of the day as of late, but House of Hummingbird, which follows a lonely 14-year-old girl named Eun-hee as she navigates adolescence in ’90s South Korea, eschews the rose-colored glasses in favor of a magnifying glass. Directed by Bora Kim in her feature film debut, House of Hummingbird digs deep beneath the shine and luster of the rapidly industrializing Seoul of the ’90s and instead focuses on the cracks that were beginning to form under the surface, and the people who fell through those cracks....

‘Lost City Of Z’ Director James Gray Has Had It Up To Here With Cannes By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 11, 2018 5:30 am EST The Cannes Film Festival won’t be sending director James Gray a nice Edible Arrangement anytime soon. The We Own the Night and Lost City of Z filmmaker has some harsh words for the fest, claiming that the folks running Cannes are stuck in the past, and “protectors of the status quo....

‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Arrives In August By Chris Evangelista/May 8, 2019 2:30 pm EST Fans – like me! – have been waiting patiently, and not-so-patiently, for Mindhunter season 2. The first season debuted on Netflix all the way back in 2017, and confirmation of a second season came soon after. But all has been quiet on the Mindhunter front since then. Now, Charlize Theron, who is one of the producers on the serial killer series, has confirmed we can expect further mindhuntin’ this summer, as Mindhunter season 2 arrives in August....

‘NOS4A2’ Is The Best New Horror Series Of 2019 – So Why Isn’t Everyone Talking About It? By Meagan Navarro/July 3, 2019 10:00 am EST Halfway through the inaugural season of AMC’s NOS4A2, the series is ramping up the personal stakes and danger for its central characters. Last week’s episode, “The House of Sleep,” opted for full blown taboo breaking terror with a harrowing peak into the twisted past of 135-year old vampire Charlie Manx’s righthand man, Bing Partridge (Olafur Darri Olafsson)....

‘One Cut Of The Dead’ Coming To Shudder, Will Give You Another Reason To Subscribe To This Horror Streaming Service By Ethan Anderton/April 9, 2019 8:30 am EST It can sometimes be difficult for movies on the film festival circuit to drum up enough buzz to capture the moviegoing public’s interest. But after playing Fantastic Fest last fall, appearing at over 100 other film festivals, and becoming a box office hit in Japan, the Japanese horror comedy One Cut of the Dead has become an indie sensation....

‘Sadako’ Trailer: The Director Of The Original ‘Ring’ Returns To The Cursed Video Series By Chris Evangelista/July 11, 2019 5:30 pm EST Hideo Nakata, director of Ringu, the movie that inspired The Ring, is returning to the franchise with Sadako. Once again, that darn long-haired ghost girl is messing with people’s lives after her curse is reborn. But since the era of VHS is a thing of a past, the cursed video is now going viral thanks to being uploaded online....

‘The Batman’ Villains Revealed: A Half-Dozen Bad Guys Rumored To Join Matt Reeves’ Reboot By Chris Evangelista/May 17, 2019 2:48 pm EST Who will Robert Pattinson’s Batman be brawling with in The Batman? A new report specifically singles out both the Penguin and Catwoman, and adds that the Matt Reeves flick could have up to “half-a-dozen” villains in the movie. Would one Bat-film be able to sustain so many baddies? And why re-team the Batman Returns duo of Penguin and Catwoman again?...

The Kid Who Would Be King Clip Joe Cornish made waves with his directorial debut Attack the Block, but his upcoming feature The Kid Who Would Be King remains a bit baffling. Is it a Harry Potter knock-off that got lost in time? How did they get Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Ferguson to sign on to this? What on earth is the kid playing Merlin doing? Imrie, who is best known for his role in BBC Radio 4’s long-running drama serial The Archers, gets the spotlight in this clip, where he makes some…acting choices....

Christopher McQuarrie Weighs In On ‘Man Of Steel 2’, Turning Down ‘Green Lantern’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 2, 2018 3:30 pm EST What will Christopher McQuarrie do next? The Mission: Impossible – Fallout director has a lot of clout now, but two projects he won’t be tackling are Man of Steel 2 and Green Lantern. Which is a shame, because he’d likely knock both out of the park. In a new interview, McQuarrie reveals that the chances of him directing Man of Steel 2 are unlikely, and that he actually already turned down a Green Lantern movie once before....

Cool Stuff: Waxwork Records Releases ‘The Warriors’ And ‘Krampus’ Soundtracks On Vinyl By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 26, 2018 6:00 am EST If you’ve still got some money leftover after Black Friday (and now Cyber Monday), then you might want to head over to Waxwork Records to pick up a couple new vinyl soundtrack releases for two very different movies. The Warriors is getting a special edition deluxe double LP that has both the original 1979 soundtrack and the complete score by composer Barry DeVorzon....

Disney+ Movies: A List Of Everything Announced (And Rumored) For Disney’s Streaming Service By Jacob Hall/April 11, 2019 5:02 pm EST Disney+ is arriving this year and it already looks like a major competitor in the streaming market. In addition to a line-up of promising new television shows, the service will premiere a number of original Disney movies – some of which sound like they could have been full-fledged theatrical releases just a few years ago....

Exclusive ‘The Sisters Brothers’ Clip Goes Behind-The-Scenes Of The Best Movie You Didn’t See In 2018 By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2019 11:30 am EST The Sisters Brothers is the best movie you didn’t see in 2018 – a strange, melancholy postmodern Western starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal. If you missed the film in theaters (and there’s a good chance you did), The Sisters Brothers is hitting digital this week, and Blu-ray next month, and you should really make an effort to see it....

First Look At The Realistic ‘Magical Creatures’ Of Hagrid’s Motorbike Ride Opening Soon At The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 15, 2019 10:30 am EST The magical creatures of the Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure ride are looking more realistic than ever. Universal Orlando Resorts released the first look at one of the titular creatures in the upcoming ride at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter land at Universal Orlando, which fans may recognize — though it looks decidedly un-fluffy as a giant animatronic puppet....

Kate McKinnon Will Play Elizabeth Holmes In Hulu Series ‘The Dropout’ By Chris Evangelista/April 10, 2019 3:19 pm EST Holmes’ story has been covered in the book Bad Blood, and the recent HBO documentary The Inventor. The story was also the focus of the podcast The Dropout, and that podcast will now serve as the basis for a Hulu series of the same name. Deadline reports Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon will play Holmes in the series, which is expected to run between 6 to 10 episodes....

Oprah Winfrey Announces ‘After Neverland’, A TV Special Following HBO’s Michael Jackson Documentary Premiere By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 27, 2019 4:30 pm EST When Oprah Winfrey was still hosting her daytime talk show, she had the respect and admiration of millions of viewers. That’s because she always shined a light on controversial and sensitive subjects and came away with powerful revelations, moving stories, and challenging perspectives. And she’ll be doing the same with a new TV special that will follow the premiere of the Michael Jackson sexual abuse documentary Leaving Neverland....