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Our Flag Means Death Trailer: Taika Waititi Is Blackbeard In HBO Max’s Pirate Comedy Series HBO Max By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 16, 2022 1:53 pm EST If you could do with a bit of Taika Waititi-style silliness between now and the release of “Thor: Love and Thunder” (as well as whenever “Next Goal Wins” reaches theaters), then you may want to give “Our Flag Means Death” a look judging by the newly-unveiled official trailer....

Pixar Characters Who Deserve Their Own Spin-Offs Like Lightyear Pixar Animation By Shania Russell/June 23, 2022 2:00 pm EST “Lightyear” is officially out in theaters, giving space ranger Buzz Lightyear a $200 million moment in the spotlight. Earning comparisons to “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” and other triumphant journeys into space, “Lightyear” is a sci-fi epic that shoots for the stars, using the “Toy Story” franchise as a jumping-off point to tell an entirely new story....

Scream Directors Didn’t Kill A Character Because They Loved The Actor So Much Paramount Pictures By Shania Russell/Jan. 24, 2022 12:49 pm EST This post contains major spoilers for the new “Scream.” Surviving a Ghostface attack is no easy feat — just ask the thoroughly traumatized heroine, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). The franchise final girl never walks away unscathed, but she still has an undeniable talent for living. So what about everyone else?...

The Daily Stream: Screenlife Horror Unfriended Is The Underappreciated Gem Of The Sub-Genre Universal Pictures By Lex Briscuso/June 3, 2022 4:00 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 Movie: “Unfriended” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: The 2014 screenlife horror shows us a night in the life of a teenager named Blair (Shelley Hennig), who spends an evening at home on her computer video-chatting with her group of snarky, biting friends....

Valley of the moon (or sometimes Mars) Columbia Pictures Sometimes, the setting feels like a character in itself, and few locations deserve half as much attention as Wadi Rum, a desert valley located in Jordan. The middle eastern country is also home to Petra, the famous archaeological site that appeared in films like “The Mummy Returns” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” but Wadi Rum has also become a popular filming location in its own right....

Time for The Stath to Fight Another Giant Shark Warner Bros. Statham, AKA “The Stath,” starred in “The Meg” as Jonas Taylor, a semi-retired rescue diver who’s called back into action after a group of scientists (including Li’s oceanographer Suyin) encounter a 75-foot-long Megalodon shark while venturing into a previously-unexplored region of the Mariana Trench. “The Meg” scribes Dean Georgaris, Erich Hoeber, and Jon Hoeber also penned “Meg 2: The Trench,” with Wheatley taking over as director from “The Meg” helmer Jon Turteltaub....

The Missed Opportunities Of Castle Rock Hulu By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/April 24, 2022 7:09 pm EST All good things must come to an end, but how soon is too soon? In the case of “Castle Rock,” many viewers felt that the show’s cancellation after season 2 was premature. The Hulu series was based on horror master Stephen King’s expansive body of work, and although the show ended by tying up some major loose ends, fans were left wanting more....

When and where to watch The Old Guard 2 Netflix “The Old Guard 2” will stream as a Netflix exclusive after, most likely, playing in select U.S. theaters for a limited period of time, as has become customary for Netflix’s Original movies. Back in June of 2021, Theron said the sequel has a completed script and would start production by the first quarter of 2022. However, as of May 2022, shooting has yet to begin and has clearly been pushed back to allow Theron to reprise her role as Cipher for “Fast X....

The Original Plan For Cowboy Bebop Was Nothing More Than A Cash Grab Funimation By Andrew Housman/April 12, 2022 11:38 am EST “Cowboy Bebop” is essential anime, a carefully blended concoction of genres that add up to a fiercely original space adventure. The series has received acclaim far outside the confines of anime fandom particularly because it travels outside the confines of anime conventions and tropes for its influences. It’s ironic, then, that this irreverent, existential show started off as a way to sell spaceship toys....

The Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Of Dune Do Something Fresh – They Create Scale Warner Bros. Pictures By Collier Jennings/March 27, 2022 9:35 pm EST “Dune” has been on a hot streak at this years’ Oscars ceremony, scooping up technical awards left and right. Its latest win is for Best Visual Effects, and it’s definitely deserved — those effects help sell the scale of the universe within Frank Herbert’s original novel. Not an easy feat, especially for a novel that has lived inside so many imaginations for so long....

These Were Netflix’s Most Watched Movies Last Week - Which Should You Check Out? Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 4, 2022 4:58 pm EST The holiday season is in the rearview, and the Netflix top 10 has been given a mild shakeup. All of the Christmas movies have been kicked off the list and replaced with new-to-the-Netflix-lineup films, but the typical rules of what winds up on the top 10 list are still holding strong....

Why Archive 81 was great Netflix The reasons why “Archive 81” elicited great promise as a gritty horror show are multi-pronged: it incorporated some really cool mixed medium to propel its gripping storyline, allowed its characters to grow without hopping on immediately to the next big thing, and offered compelling lore about the mysterious demon, Kaelego. Now, I love a good demon storyline — the more bonkers, the better — and “Archive 81” managed to set up the right mix of dread and insurmountable anxiety, especially via the many cults devoted to the 14th-century deity, who is clearly up to no good....

Where Kate Bishop Stands After That Big Hawkeye Reveal, According To Hailee Steinfeld Disney+ By Jenna Busch/Dec. 17, 2021 5:56 pm EST Spoilers for “Hawkeye” episode 5 ahead. So much happened in the penultimate episode of Marvel’s “Hawkeye.” We got some delicious banter between Yelena Belova (the always charming Florence Pugh) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), a tease about Laura (Linda Cardellini, who is clearly a vampire because she does not age....

Amadeus – Antonio Salieri (1984) Orion Pictures One of the greatest movies of all time, “Amadeus” tells the completely fictional story of the rivalry between Italian composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). But perhaps ‘rivalry’ is understating it a bit. Salieri hates Mozart. In fact, he hates him so much that in our fictional 1823, he’s committed to a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide, and confessing that he killed the legendary composer....

Woke Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More Hulu By Natalia Keogan/March 25, 2022 9:37 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Fans of poignant, socially conscious comedy, rejoice! After having first premiered during the summer of 2020, Hulu’s “Woke” is officially coming back to us for a second season nearly two years later....

Aaron’s Imitation of Life FX/Hulu The episode begins with a seemingly white young man playing a video game called “Flame Thrower 2.” After receiving a text from his girlfriend who has been accepted into college, he quickly becomes upset and takes his anger out on the Black guys he’s playing with, dropping a hard “r” and making monkey noises while telling them to eat bananas. We quickly learn that Aaron (Tyriq Withers), the young man in question, is actually a white-passing Black teenager who is being raised by his unambiguously Black father....

Carrie-Anne Moss Wants To Team Up Again With Keanu Reeves — In The John Wick Movies Warner Bros. Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 30, 2021 10:17 am EST We aren’t the only ones who are feeling Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves’ delightful reunion. The duo became an iconic team starring as Neo and Trinity in “The Matrix” and it’s nice to see them back together and kicking ass in “The Matrix Resurrections....

Elvis Music Executive Producer Elliot Wheeler On Living A Composer’s Dream [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/June 30, 2022 1:30 pm EST There are only two minutes without music in “Elvis.” Baz Luhrmann’s epic is wall-to-wall jams that bridge the past and the present. The biopic uses Elvis’ classics not as wallpaper, but as storytelling. Right from the beginning, a new spin on “Suspicious Minds” blasts a sound of doom. The nearly three-hour drama is such an audibly immersive experience....

Every Grain of Sand by Bob Dylan Disney+ “Moon Knight” showcases its musical taste right off the bat, with a cold open that introduces the series villain in suitably disturbing fashion. Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow is performing some sort of ritual, one he appears quite accustomed to given the ease with which he flattens out some fabric, sips from a glass of water, then neatly smashes said glass so he can preserve the shards to… put in his sandals....

Every Song We Heard In Peacemaker Episode 7 HBO Max By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 10, 2022 8:17 am EST This article contains spoilers for “Peacemaker” episode 7. Proceed with caution. It’s time to take a break from tongue-kissing hot babes and smoking pot all day because there’s a new episode of “Peacemaker” on HBO Max. This season’s penultimate episode hits you right in the feels thanks to some huge revelations about White Dragon and Peacemaker’s past....