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‘Brittany Runs A Marathon’ Review: An Inspiring, Uproarious Crowdpleaser Turns Jillian Bell Into A Star [Sundance] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 4, 2019 11:00 am EST Brittany Runs a Marathon follows Jillian Bell (22 Jump Street, Rough Night) as a 27-year old woman who has a clearcut schedule. She spends her nights clubbing with friends, her mornings recovering from the night before, and her afternoons waking up and shuffling off to work at a nearby improv club before doing it all over again....

/Filmcast Ep. 297 - The Babadook By Slashfilmcast/Dec. 1, 2014 9:18 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss all the films they watched over the break, explain why Ridley Scott could’ve been more sensitive in discussing the casting of Exodus: Gods and Kings, and review Jennifer Kent’s impressive debut, The Babadook. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, like us on Facebook!...

/Filmcast Ep. 378 - Suicide Squad (GUEST: Vince Mancini From FilmDrunk) By Slashfilmcast/Aug. 7, 2016 5:02 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Vince Mancini from FilmDrunk to discuss the newest Warner Brothers/DC Comics film written and directed by David Ayer. Be sure to read Vince’s review, Mike Ryan’s review, Angie’s Review, and Walter Chaw’s review, as well as Owen’s reflections on Frozen. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Howard The Duck’ Honest Trailer: The First Marvel Comics Movie Was Truly Fowl By Ethan Anderton/April 26, 2019 6:00 am EST Marvel Studios may be the king of comic book movies right now, but when the first Marvel Comics title hit the big screen back in 1986, it was anything but good. In fact, it’s probably one of the most perplexingly bad movies ever made. It’s hard to believe that the wisecracking, inappropriate Howard the Duck was considered to be the most viable Marvel Comics character to get the big screen treatment first....

‘Level 16’ Trailer: You Probably Shouldn’t Attend Dystopian Boarding Schools By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 19, 2019 12:00 pm EST Has there ever been a movie about a nice all-girls boarding school? Any time a story is set in one of these institutions, things go terribly wrong. Someone dies, or goes crazy, or there’s some sort of gothic melodrama. Moral of the story: you shouldn’t check into an all-girls boarding school. And you really shouldn’t check into the school featured in the Level 16 trailer, which looks dark, foreboding and possibly deadly....

‘Them That Follow’ Trailer: Snake Handler Horror Abounds In This Appalachian Gothic Drama By Chris Evangelista/June 6, 2019 4:00 pm EST Them That Follow is a slow-burning blend of religious mania and body horror, featuring a phenomenal cast. Set in Appalachia, the story concerns a community of snake handlers that finds itself being torn apart due to unexpected circumstances, secrets and lies. Unbearable tension, shocking gore, and lots of scenes of snakes hissing, follow....

‘Veronica Mars’ Recruits Dawnn Lewis As Neptune’s New Chief Of Police By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 6, 2018 4:00 pm EST Rob Thomas has recruited a member of his iZombie crew to join the Veronica Mars cast in a new role for the eight-episode Hulu revival series. Dawnn Lewis has been tapped as the new police chief of Neptune, which is a new role for the series and a new position for Neptune, which has finally gone from being a small California town to an incorporated town....

A Brief History Of Pepper Potts’ Rescue Armor, Which May Or May Not Be In ‘Avengers 4’ By Donna Dickens/Oct. 31, 2018 8:00 am EST In the year of a thousand years — also known as 2018 — you’d be forgiven if you’d already forgotten Avengers: Infinity War came out in April. Somehow that seems impossible. Surely it came out last year? Or the year before? But no. There will only be slightly over a year between when Infinity War hit theaters and when Avengers 4: Avenger Harder (not the official title, but we can dream) drops on May 3, 2019....

Cool Stuff: Set The Mood For The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale With A Bleeding Joffrey Candle Holder By Ethan Anderton/April 24, 2019 6:00 am EST We’re two episodes into the final season of Game of Thrones, and the battle for Winterfell is nearly upon us. After this weekend, we’ll be halfway through the end of HBO’s fantasy series, so there’s no better time to light a candle in the show’s honor....

Daily Podcast: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Spoiler-Free Early Buzz And Interview With The Russo Brothers By /Film Staff/April 23, 2019 9:05 am EST On the April 23, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta gives his spoiler-free reaction to Avengers: Endgame and shares an interview with Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo.You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it)....

J.K. Rowling May Have Been Teasing That ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ Twist Since 2016 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 3, 2019 10:30 am EST Love or hate the big twist at the end of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, you can’t deny that J.K. Rowling is a master of foreshadowing, even if it’s planting Easter eggs that no one will discover until two years later. The Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald twist involving Credence (Ezra Miller) was one that no one saw coming — except for perhaps a few internet sleuths who dug through Rowling’s personal website and found a clue hinting at said twist all the way back in 2016....

Oscar Isaac Wants To Star In ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie, And Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts Is Into It By Ben Pearson/March 4, 2019 11:30 am EST Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) has been attached to direct a Metal Gear Solid movie for several years, but movement on the project has been slow. The film technically doesn’t have an official greenlight from Sony yet, but here’s something that may get the ball rolling: Star Wars and Inside Llewyn Davis actor Oscar Isaac says he wants to star in the movie....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jumanji 3,’ ‘Aquaman 2,’ ‘Mamma Mia 3,’ ‘Rambo 5,’ ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Reboot By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 27, 2018 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Jumanji 3 begins shooting in January. James Wan knows where he’d like to take Aquaman 2. What Mamma Mia 3 should be about, according to the cast. Johnny Depp may not appear in Pirates of the Caribbean reboot. Sylvester Stallone gives a glimpse of the “Heartstopper” knife on the set of Rambo 5....

VOTD: See The Marvel Cinematic Universe Without Visual Effects By Ethan Anderton/March 1, 2019 3:00 pm EST Over the years, we’ve featured plenty of visual effects breakdowns for blockbusters movies. Many of the most impressive displays come from Marvel Studios, especially when it comes to creating entire environments from scratch, turning blue screen covered streets and scaffolds into a completely different location. Entire characters are created using a mix of visual effects and motion capture technology....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Writers Confirm Captain America Fan Theory By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2019 7:36 am EST It’s been more than two weeks since Avengers: Endgame was released in theaters, but the internet has been abuzz with speculation about the Marvel Studios film and its characters’ fates. To answer some of these Avengers Endgame fan theories, writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely attempted to smooth out some of the logistical wrinkles and answered questions about the Infinity Gauntlet’s true powers....

‘Bodyguard’ Trailer: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Richard Madden Leads Explosive Netflix Series By Ben Pearson/Oct. 15, 2018 12:30 pm EST What happens when a secret service agent is assigned to protect someone with political views he absolutely despises? That’s the elevator pitch for a new TV drama called Bodyguard, which is coming to Netflix in just over two weeks. The show, which stars Richard Madden (Robb Stark from Game of Thrones) and Keeley Hawes (High Rise, MI-5), is already a smash hit in the United Kingdom, and it’s easy to see why: the trailer for the first season makes it look like an explosive series that could easily become the subject of your next binge session....

‘Captain Marvel’ Trailer Hints At An Infinity Stone Connection To ‘The Avengers’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2018 2:51 pm EST The most recent Captain Marvel trailer was packed full of new footage, but it didn’t really give us much in the way plot details. We know the movie finds Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), a human turned Kree, as she’s caught up in a war with the shapeshifting alien race known as Skrulls....

/Filmcast Ep. 499 - The Top 10 Films Of 2018 By Slashfilmcast/Jan. 3, 2019 7:00 pm EST Read about the top five box office lessons in 2018 by David Chen and the power art in Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse by Siddhant Adlakha. Listen to David’s other podcast Write Along with writer C. Robert Cargill and Devindra’s new podcast Know More Tech, answering your question on the latest gadgets. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

‘Pet Sematary’ First Look Resurrects A Stephen King Classic By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 4, 2018 10:30 am EST The thirst for Stephen King adaptations is real, and the latest King classic to find its way to the screen is Pet Sematary. The terrifying novel about a burial ground that raises the dead was adapted into a film once before in 1989, but a new take on the material offers a twist and an update on King’s text....

‘Sesame Street’ Movie, Starring Anne Hathaway, Has Been Delayed By Ben Pearson/June 13, 2019 12:00 pm EST The film will be a musical about beloved characters like Big Bird, Ernie & Bert, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, and more members of the long-running PBS children’s series as they find themselves lost in New York City, unable to find their way back to Sesame Street. That’s when they meet Sally Hawthorne (Hathaway), the host of a history show who is on a quest to prove once and for all that Sesame Street actually exists....