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How Will AppleTV Plus Stack Up Against Other Streaming Services? By Chris Evangelista/March 25, 2019 12:19 pm EST The above video is emotional and rousing, featuring an incredible group of creators offering up powerful speeches about the nature of storytelling. Sounds great, right? But what about the programs on AppleTV+ themselves? How will they achieve the masterful storytelling everyone is talking about here? There are pros: the service will be ad free; it will be available on the AppleTV app, and all Apple devices; and perhaps best of all, everything will be available to download and watch offline....

Kevin Smith Needs Redbox To Replace ‘Clerks’ Locale RST Video In ‘Jay And Silent Bob Reboot’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2019 1:30 pm EST Yesterday afternoon, Kevin Smith revealed why Jay and Silent Bob Reboot needs Redbox: Dear @redbox: I’m making a movie called #JayAndSilentBobReboot and we’ve been trying to get in touch with you so we can feature a Red Box in the flick as the replacement for RST Video....

Lightsaber Dueling Is Now Recognized As An Official Sport In France By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 20, 2019 5:00 pm EST France is light years ahead of the rest of the world. The country has now recognized lightsaber dueling as an official sport, in an attempt to bring fencing to a younger generation raised on Star Wars. But France may get more applicants to lightsaber duels than they bargained for — young and old generations alike are probably eager to wield those special illuminated blades....

The Case Against Daenerys Targaryen, A Tyrant In Sheep’s Clothing By Vanessa Bogart/May 8, 2019 10:00 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: Daenerys Targaryen looks like a savior, but she will destroy us all.) The Mother of Dragons! The Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea! The Breaker of Chains!...

The Morning Watch: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ 16-Bit Final Battle, ‘Murder Mystery’ Scene Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/June 20, 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, watch the final battle from Avengers: Endgame recreated as if it were a retro 16-bit video game....

The Morning Watch: ‘Toy Story 4’ Trailer Easter Eggs, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Animated Trailer & More By Ethan Anderton/April 2, 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, check out some of the Easter eggs hidden in the most recent Toy Story 4 trailer that you might have missed....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Adds ‘The Mindy Project’ Star Chris Messina As DC Comics Villain Victor Zsasz By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 11, 2018 8:56 am EST The cast of the upcoming DC Comics movie Birds of Prey continues to take shape. Margot Robbie is reprising her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn while Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell are joining the DC Extended Universe as Huntress and Black Canary respectively. Meanwhile, Ewan McGregor is taking the role of the villain Black Mask, and now we have word he’ll be working with another recurring bad guy from DC Comics....

‘High Flying Bird’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh Tries To Take Down The NBA In New Netflix Movie By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 17, 2019 8:38 am EST Director Steven Soderbergh was “retired” once, but those days are long in the past. Now, he has a new working relationship at Netflix that is kicking off with his latest film, a sports drama that threatens to break the system that is professional basketball. High Flying Bird follows sports agent Ray Burke (André Holland) as he sets out on some kind of bold plan to take down the NBA as we know it and put control of the game back in the hands of those who play it....

‘Holmes & Watson’ Review: This Uninspired Parody Arrives Several Years Too Late By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 26, 2018 11:00 am EST The warning signs come early in Holmes & Watson that this will be a painful experience. The cinematic reunion of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, a decade removed from Step Brothers, should be triumphant and hilarious, as opposed to a desperate, sweaty mess. But there are implications that the final product has been through the editing room multiple times, leaving a movie with no comedic rhythms or consistent tone....

‘Jurassic World: The Ride’ Trailer: Try And Survive The Adventure By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2019 1:30 pm EST Jurassic World is about to enter our world. Jurassic World: The Ride will open its doors at Universal Studios Hollywood this summer, revamping the original Jurassic Park: The Ride. But more than adding a few new fancy dinosaurs from the recent Jurassic World films, Jurassic World: The Ride will reportedly “fuse 21st century technology and astounding special effects with new dinosaurs from the Jurassic World film....

‘Our Time Machine’ Review: An Amazing Documentary About Fathers, Sons, Memory, And Science Fiction Puppet Theater [Tribeca] By Caroline Cao/May 3, 2019 11:00 am EST The beginning of Our Time Machine arrests on birth imagery, a sonogram of wiggling mass within a womb. Directed by Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang, this documentary is an ode to the mortality of the mind of an artist and his relationship with his artist father....

‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ International Trailer Has Plenty Of Brand Awareness By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 10, 2018 5:00 pm EST Hey kids, do you like brands™? Then you’re going to love Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Wreck-It-Ralph. Every single trailer for the film has played up the fact that the animated sequel is chock-full of brand awareness, including this new international trailer. There’s also some new footage here, so it has that going for it as well....

‘Skin’ Trailer: Jamie Bell Is A Skinhead Who Wants A Clean Slate By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 19, 2019 4:00 pm EST Based on the true story of former Neo-Nazi Bryon Widner, Skin stars Jamie Bell as a skinhead who turns FBI informant against his white supremacist group. Set to be released by A24, Skin dramatizes the story of removing Widner’s removal of his tattoos and breaking out of his white-power group that was the subject in the 2011 documentary Erasing Hate....

By Ethan Anderton/June 11, 2019 10:00 am EST With J.J. Abrams back behind the camera for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, details on the final installment of the Skywalker saga are scarce. We still don’t have many details about the movie beyond the first teaser trailer and the recent influx of details from the extensive Vanity Fair cover story. But now we know that the film has taken J.J. Abrams out of his comfort zone a little bit by doing something he’s not accustomed to on the film’s set....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Trailer: One Summer Can Change Everything By Chris Evangelista/June 20, 2019 7:13 pm EST We’re mere days away from a new season of Stranger Things, and while Netflix has managed to only release one trailer so far, the streaming service decided to throw us a bone with a new look at season 3. The kids of Hawkins are back again, looking a bit older and dealing with even more danger and mystery....

‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Trailer: A Young Man With Down Syndrome Just Wants To Wrestle And Shia LaBeouf Helps Him By Ethan Anderton/June 20, 2019 2:30 pm EST The Peanut Butter Falcon is a movie about a young man with Down syndrome (Zack Gottsagen) who escapes his residential nursing home to follow his dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. As our own Jacob Hall astutely pointed out earlier this year, that might sound like the premise for a movie you might find in 30 Rock, but if the first trailer is any indicator, this actually looks like an uplifting, wonderful indie gem that will steal your heart....

Toy Story 4 Teaser Trailer Meet Ducky and Bunny, the newest toys to meet Woody, Buzz, and the gang in Toy Story 4. Apart from being super cute and fluffy, Ducky and Bunny seem to hold special powers — they imitate exactly the banter and rapport of comedy duo Key and Peele, and they seem to know they’re in a movie. At least, in this “Teaser Reaction,” they know they’re in a movie....

Now Scream This: ’90s Horror Gems, The Greatest Horror Comedy Ever, And The Best ‘Resident Evil’ Movie By /Film Staff/Jan. 16, 2019 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: This week on “Now Scream This,” our theme is “Matt’s Really Tired And Needs Something Easy....

Superhero Bits: More ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Toy Leaks, ‘Hellboy’ Is Coming To ‘Brawlhalla’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 26, 2019 6:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Which actor has starred in the most comic book movies? Are you ready to play as Hellboy in Brawlhalla? Want to see a Kree pilot version of Carol Danvers that wasn’t used in Captain Marvel? Want to see what Hulk may look like in Avengers: Endgame?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Captain Marvel’ Easter Eggs, Decoding The Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline & More By Ethan Anderton/March 11, 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, get a load of a bunch of Captain Marvel Easter eggs you might have missed on your first viewing....