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The Daily Stream: Kotaro Lives Alone Is An Endearing Gut-Punch That Treats Children Like Humans Netflix By BJ Colangelo/March 24, 2022 10:29 am EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Kotaro Lives Alone” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Kotaro Satо̄ is a 4-year old boy who moves into the apartment next door to Shin Karino, an unsuccessful manga artist....

The Daily Stream: Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Is Science Fiction With A Beating Heart CBS By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 22, 2021 7:59 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “The Twilight Zone” (1959-1964) Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Rod Serling’s seminal science fiction anthology series follows astronauts, soldiers, businessmen, criminals, housewives, and countless other everyday people as they encounter scenarios which boggle the mind and test the limits of imagination....

The Flight Attendant Season 2 Trailer: Kaley Cuoco Gets Caught Up In Another Wild Mystery HBO Max By Shania Russell/April 4, 2022 2:53 pm EST After a soaring first season, “The Flight Attendant” is ready to touchdown with its grand return. The buzzy new series is on its way back, set to arrive on April 21, 2022, meaning you have just enough time to binge through the chaos of its first outing....

The Mortal Kombat Set Got A Little Too Gruesome For Lewis Tan’s Tastes Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/May 3, 2022 2:04 pm EST There’s a special, generational magic to “Mortal Kombat.” The original 1992 video game was released through Midway (and subsequently most home gaming platforms), challenging its players to test their might in one-on-one deathmatches. The martial arts tournament that made up the game’s structure always ended in bodily damage – even if both opponents are standing at the end of a timed round, the one with more health damage would suffer an official loss (a well-timed combo as the clock runs down has won many a match, and lost many a friendship)....

The Terrifying Florence Pugh Scene That Still Gives Us Nightmares A24 By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 13, 2022 9:02 pm EST In Ari Aster’s hypnotic 2019 film “Midsommar,” a group of anthropology students visits a remote Swedish commune, where a series of ritualistic horrors unfold in the harsh light of day. The group includes Florence Pugh’s Dani, a grief-numbed young woman whose family just died via a gruesome murder-suicide. Strange, dark, and even funny, “Midsommar” follows Dani’s surprisingly healing journey into a culture that confronts death head-on....

Tom Holland Admits His James Bond Pitch Was ‘Kind Of A Stupid Idea’ Sony Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 25, 2022 12:24 pm EST Peter Parker, Nathan Drake, Jip the lurcher — what do they all have in common? The answer is that Tom Holland has played all three of these characters in one or more films before. (Jip, of course, being the most iconic of the trio.) Of course, if the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Uncharted” actor had gotten his way, he might have ended up playing another, albeit much more obscure individual by the name of James Bond....

Uncharted Trailer To better put things into perspective: the “Uncharted” movie has taken so long to happen, original Nathan Drake actor Mark Wahlberg ended up aging out of the role. Instead, the hamburger salesman co-stars as Victor “Sully” Sullivan, the surly, “wise-cracking” thief who teams up with a younger, “street-smart” Nathan Drake (Holland) to find “the greatest treasure never found,” as the film’s official synopsis describes it. What exactly is that treasure?...

Underrated Buddy Comedies That You Should Really Check Out Magnet Releasing By Scott Thomas/April 4, 2022 2:55 pm EST The world is full of aphorisms about the power of pairs: It takes two to tango, two heads are better than one … Hollywood gets this. The movie industry thrives on pairing actors together, whether for romantic comedies, action films, or searing dramas. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover....

Venom 3: Everything We Know So Far Sony Pictures Releasing By Natalia Keogan/June 16, 2022 12:32 pm EST In the spirit of Pride Month, it’s time to set our sights on everything we know about the much-anticipated “Venom 3.” If you were previously unaware of the Marvel/Sony anti-hero’s LGBTQ+ leanings, you clearly didn’t watch “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” closely enough. So, what’s next for journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and the alien symbiote who possesses him (also voiced by Tom Hardy)?...

What The Heck Is Howard Stern’s Secret Marvel Project? An Investigation Netflix By Ryan Scott/June 29, 2022 4:59 pm EST The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe feels somewhat ill-defined at this point in time. Sure, we know that the multiverse is going to be a big part of things in no small part thanks to “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Even so, the future feels far less clear than it once did....

Where You’ve Seen Every New Cast Member In Stranger Things Season 4 Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 23, 2022 8:29 am EST “Stranger Things” is back, and it’s bigger than ever. The Netflix juggernaut will air seven episodes of its super-sized fourth season on May 27, 2022, with the last two movie-length chapters dropping July 1. The new season includes more fresh faces than ever as our favorite characters go beyond the borders of Hawkins for the first time....

5 Elizabeth Olsen Movies To Watch After Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Marvel By BJ Colangelo/April 23, 2022 9:50 am EST If you would have told me in 1994 that the little sister who randomly appeared in my straight-to-VHS Mary-Kate and Ashley movies would become the bigger Hollywood star, I wouldn’t have believed you. Then again, I was also four and still wearing velcro shoes because “loop, swoop, and pull” was beyond my baby brain....

Walk and talk with a legend A24 One thing we do know about the “Camelot” revival is that it will be Sorkin’s second collaboration with director Bartlett Sher, who also worked with him on adapting “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the stage back in 2018. Sher was nominated for a Tony Award for his direction of “Mockingbird,” in fact, the play netted a slick nine nominations, including a win for Celia Keenan-Bolger who played Scout Finch....

Apple Series City On Fire Adds Chase Sui Wonders To The Cast HBO Max By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 23, 2022 1:00 pm EST A new crime drama from the team who brought us “The O.C.” and “Gossip Girl” has just landed its lead. Chase Sui Wonders has been tapped for a major role in the upcoming Apple series “City on Fire,” per Variety. Though she may not be a household name yet, Wonders’ filmography to date is composed of interesting projects, from Sofia Coppola’s “On The Rocks” to Crystal Moselle’s skater girl series “Betty” to the teen-penned HBO Max drama “Generation....

Breathed on film IDW While “Bloom County” ended its official run in 1989, it was revived as a Sunday-only strip later that year under the title “Outland,” featuring Opus, some of the “Bloom County” folks, and several new characters in a new, surrealist setting. “Outland” ran until 1995. “Opus,” also a Sunday-only strip, launched in 2003 and lasted until 2008. In addition to the 2015 strip, Breathed also worked on new comics featuring Calvin and Hobbes, the beloved stars of Bill Watterson’s own long-running newspaper strip....

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: The Harder They Fall, The French Dispatch, Police Story, American Vandal, And More Netflix On the November 9, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior writer Brad Oman to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: Brad went to California for a wedding, hung out in Los Angeles for a bit, made custom Funko POPs, started a Saturday Night Live podcast....

David Fincher Breaks Down That Censored Chinese Fight Club Ending The saga of the censored “Fight Club” ending continues. Director David Fincher has now spoken out about the decision to excise footage from the end of his oft-misinterpreted 1999 film. It happened like a reverse Tyler Durden move, except this act of splicing mayhem was on the Chinese streaming service, Tencent Video, and not in a projection room with cigarette burns appearing over the Brad Pitt character’s cannonball shoulder....

Overall HBO “American Dream” contains a lot of readily available clips from Carlin’s standup work, and those who had been following Carlin’s career for any span will likely be familiar with large portions of Carlin’s story; it will serve less as an education for many, and more of a reminder. “American Dream,” which runs nearly four hours in toto, attempts to be thorough and is careful to give each stage of Carlin’s career its due without ever falling completely into the trap of hero worship....

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande Director Sophie Hyde On Directing Sex And Intimacy [Interview] Hulu By BJ Colangelo/June 16, 2022 4:00 pm EST Australian director Sophie Hyde has quite an impressive resume of films highlighting the complicated ways sex, gender, and relationships shape our day-to-day lives. Her debut fiction film, “52 Tuesdays” is a stunning story about a teenage girl coming of age as one of her parents undergoes gender transition, which earned Hyde the Directing Award at Sundance the year of release....

How Romancing The Stone Got Robert Zemeckis Fired From Cocoon 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 22, 2022 10:52 am EST There are few directors who have innovated special effects while advancing the art of populist filmmaking like Robert Zemeckis, the tech-whiz behind the “Back to the Future” trilogy, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” and “Forrest Gump,” among other landmark movies from the 1980s and ’90s. That may also be why his first two feature-length films — 1978’s “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and 1980’s “Used Cars” — are often overlooked; on top of being financial duds, they lacked the bells and whistles that would come to define his later work (though not always in a good way)....