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‘A Quiet Place’ Test Audiences Couldn’t Stop Laughing At John Krasinski Playing The Monster By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2018 2:30 pm EST A Quiet Place may elicit nothing but screams and terrified shushes now, but once upon a time, it made audiences laugh. And not intentionally. John Krasinski’s riveting horror film wasn’t exactly a nail biter for test audiences, who saw A Quiet Place before most of the VFX was finished....

Dark Phoenix Clips - Quicksilver Astronaut Rescue This first scene knocks out what has become one of the more anticipated scenes in the new X-Men movies. Evan Peters plays Quicksilver in the franchise, and his sequences of super speed result in some wholly entertaining slow-motion action sequences. Honestly, it makes us wonder why he doesn’t just use this power all the time. Here, he uses his super speed to rescue astronauts aboard a space shuttle damaged by some kind of solar flare, and what’s cool is that Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) starts teleporting before he even gets all of the astronauts near him, and you can see it all unfold in gorgeous slow-motion....

/Filmcast Ep. 404 - Rings By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 7, 2017 10:41 pm EST David, Devindra and Jeff discuss the joy of Lego Batman and the surreal experience of watching the Super Bowl this year. Also, Peter Sciretta joins us to discuss the title for Star Wars: Episode VIII. Be sure to check out the Nerd Crew’s analysis of the new Star Wars title. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993....

/Filmcast Ep. 502 - The Kid Who Would Be King And Serenity By Slashfilmcast/Jan. 29, 2019 7:00 pm EST You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook. Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)What We’ve been Watching: (~4:00)David – Dark Season 1, Bumblebee Devindra- Hi Score Girl, Sex Education, Good Girls Jeff - Escape at Dannemora HT Bui – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Feature (~40:00)The Kid Who Would Be KingSpoiler (~1:00:40)After dark (~1:20:00) Serenity Credits: Our music sometimes comes from the work of Adam Warrock....

‘London Fields’ Director Admits His Movie Deserved To Bomb By Ben Pearson/Oct. 31, 2018 12:30 pm EST If you read that headline and thought, “Wait, London Fields was adapted into a movie?”, you’re not the only one. A film version starring Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, and Jim Sturgess was released in theaters this past weekend, made only $168,575, and received a rare 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes. That puts it in the not-so-esteemed company of movies like Gotti, The Ridiculous 6, Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2....

‘Narcos: Mexico’ Trailer: The Netflix Series Goes Back To The ’80s By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2018 9:44 am EST Narcos: Mexico, a spin-off/new season of Netflix’s Narcos, takes you back to the 1980s, exploring the origins of the modern drug war. Starring Michael Peña and Diego Luna, the new series doubles as season 4 of Narcos while also rebooting things with a whole new story. Watch the Narcos: Mexico trailer below....

‘Parasite’ Review: Director Bong Joon-Ho Is Back With A Bloody, Twisted And Hilarious Morality Tale [Cannes] By Jason Gorber/May 22, 2019 10:00 am EST For decades now, South Korea has generated some of the strongest, most original cinema in the world. With a pantheon of directors that seamlessly draw from a myriad of genres, their films manage to be deeply provocative, with grand themes and subtle character moments interspersed with broad shifts in tone....

‘Rocketman’ Spoiler Review: A Standard Biopic That Works Best When It Lets Its Freak Flag Fly By Josh Spiegel/June 3, 2019 10:00 am EST In a perverse way, it makes sense that there are two films fighting for dominance in the middle of the musical biopic Rocketman. This story of the life and times of Elton John, sanctioned by the man himself, is unable to figure out whether it’s either a straightforward biopic in the vein of films like Walk the Line and Ray, or if it’s going to be a fantastical take on the English rocker’s songs, the same way that Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe re-contextualized the music of The Beatles....

‘Toy Story 4’ Poster Teases Woody And Buzz’s Adventure To A Carnival By Ben Pearson/Nov. 28, 2018 11:30 am EST The most recent teaser for Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 featured new characters voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele hanging out at a carnival, and now a newly-released poster gives us more clues to the highly-anticipated sequel’s plot. Check it out below. Toy Story 4 Poster As you can see, Woody’s pose in this poster mimics the one from the first teaser poster that was released earlier this month – but this one literally has Woody walking into the sunset....

A “Leaked” ‘Detective Pikachu’ Movie Will Dance Your Worries Away By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 8, 2019 10:30 am EST On Tuesday, Detective Pikachu star Ryan Reynolds posted a link to a “leaked” version of Detective Pikachu which had been posted to YouTube under the channel “Inspector Pikachu.” In his tweet, he called attention to the film’s official Twitter account as if flagging the video. “Um…ATTN,” he wrote in his tweet. But curiously, this “leak” had the watermark “R....

A Cast Of Kings S8E2 - A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms By Slashfilmcast/April 23, 2019 6:36 am EST It’s the night before the storm. David Chen and Joanna Robinson watch the second episode of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.” Find out about the meaning behind Podrick’s song here. Read Jacob Hall and Ben Pearson’s recap of the episode here. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter....

Disney Celebrates Lunar New Year With Chinese Posters For ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ ‘Toy Story 4,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 5, 2019 1:00 pm EST Disney must count itself lucky that one of its characters from one of its most anticipated 2019 feature films is a pig. Because today is Lunar New Year and it rings in the Year of the Pig — which means that Hamm is front and center of the Chinese-inspired Toy Story 4 poster....

Disney Scraps Fox’s ‘Mouse Guard’ Two Weeks Before Production Begins By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 18, 2019 7:30 am EST Directed by The Maze Runner’s Wes Ball, Mouse Guard was set to star Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and Sonoya Mizuno, in a motion-capture animated film that would bring to life Petersen’s vivid Eisner Award-winning illustrations. However, it seems those plans have been halted by Fox’s new parent company, Disney. Producers Matt Reeves, Ross Ritche, and Stephen Christy are being allowed to shop the project to other studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with several studios expressing interest....

Exclusive: Hear Two Tracks From Hulu’s ‘Catch-22’ Soundtrack By Chris Evangelista/May 16, 2019 2:30 pm EST Lakeshore Records will release Catch-22 – Music From the Original Series digitally on May 17, coinciding with the premiere of the new Hulu miniseries from George Clooney and Grant Heslov. Ahead of that debut, we have two exclusive tracks from the Catch-22 soundtrack below, composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams and Harry Gregson-Williams – marking the brothers’ first collaboration together....

First Look At ‘Game Of Thrones’ Ice Spiders, Which May Appear In The Final Season By Ben Pearson/Dec. 14, 2018 9:30 am EST In George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, he wrote a scene in which Bran Stark’s nanny, who’s nicknamed Old Nan, tells the little lord a story about The Long Night, a deadly period of Westerosi history in which a cold, hard winter fell that was “endless beyond all memory of man....

Kevin Smith Got Redbox To Appear In ‘Jay And Silent Bob Reboot’, Which He Says Contains One Of His Funniest Sequences By Ben Pearson/March 4, 2019 12:00 pm EST In Kevin Smith’s breakout debut film Clerks, which launched an interconnected series of movies set in the “View Askewniverse,” one of the main characters worked at a video rental store. The movie was set in the mid-1990s, so that occupation made sense....

New Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ Show Announced, Diego Luna To Reprise His Role As Cassian Andor By Ben Pearson/Nov. 8, 2018 2:12 pm EST Move over, The Mandalorian – you’re no longer the only live-action Star Wars show in Hollywood. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Diego Luna will reprise his role as Cassian Andor in a new live-action series for Disney+, the new Disney streaming service. The show begins filming next year....

Road To Endgame: ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Is Marvel’s Long-Term Payoff To A Political, Personal Post-9/11 Narrative By Siddhant Adlakha/April 10, 2019 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Endgame, where we revisit the first 22 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask, “How did we get here?” In this edition: Captain America: Civil War pays off years of build-up by injecting politics with personal impulse.)The Marvel Cinematic Universe tries to re-invent itself every few years, albeit within a limited narrative formula....

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 69 - Theater War Stories And Public Displays Of Affection By Slashfilmcast/Oct. 4, 2009 7:51 am 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 15 Best Movies We Saw At The 2019 Sundance Film Festival By /Film Staff/Feb. 1, 2019 11:00 am EST The Sundance Film Festival often sets the tone for the entire year in film – it arrives early and plants a flag to announce “these are the first great and most promising movies of the next 12 months.” The /Film team was on the ground in Park City, Utah for the 2019 edition and we saw and reviewed a ton of movies....