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The Boys Presents: Diabolical Creators Reveal Their Favorite Episodes Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/March 4, 2022 10:56 am EST The beauty about anthologies (or episodic TV, really) is being able to just pick and choose which episode to watch next just based on what looks coolest. In the age of streaming and binge-watching, it gives the viewer some control back over their watching habits. This is just one of the things that makes the upcoming animated anthology “The Boys Presents: Diabolical” a great show....

So what happens in Cruising again? United Artists Body parts are washing up in the Hudson River and, after a young man is found brutally stabbed to death, the NYPD fears that a serial killer is on the loose. The victims all appear to be members of the heavy leather scene within the city’s gay community, and all fit a certain profile. In an attempt to lure out the murderer, tired police Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) summons rookie cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) with a new job offer....

The Daily Stream: Finding The Cinema Of Conversation In My Dinner With Andre New Yorker Films By Mike Shutt/May 25, 2022 3:00 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: “My Dinner with Andre” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max, Criterion Channel The Pitch: Wallace Shawn, playing himself, is a struggling playwright and actor living in New York....

The Last Of Us: First Look At Pedro Pascal As Joel And Bella Ramsey As Ellie Naughty Dog By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 9, 2022 4:38 pm EST It’s here. Don’t panic, fellow “The Last of Us” fans, but it’s here. The first look at the long-awaited HBO adaptation of Naughty Dog’s phenomenal game has arrived, courtesy of Summer Games Fest. Series co-creator Craig Mazin shared the photo of Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie on Twitter, with the caption “When you see it…”...

The Man Who Fell To Earth Teaser: Chiwetel Ejiofor Is Here To Change The Future Showtime By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 17, 2022 1:27 pm EST After moving from Hulu to CBS All Access (before that service was rebranded as Paramount+) and then to Showtime, the TV series version of “The Man Who Fell to Earth” is finally ready to invade homes this year. The show is loosely based on the 1963 sci-fi novel of the same name by “The Queen’s Gambit” author Walter Tevis, which itself was famously turned into a film starring David Bowie in 1976....

The Setup Shudder Rini’s (Tara Basro) family resides on the outskirts of Jakarta, which some might consider countryside seclusion. Mother Mawarni (Ayu Laksmi) is bedridden by an unknown disease that gives her a ghoulish complexion, a bell by her bedside to communicate. Father Bahri (Bront Palarae) can barely collect enough money to pay the bills. Rini and her brother Tony (Endy Arfian) keep little siblings Bondi (Nasar Annuz) and Ian (M....

Tom Cruise’s Space Movie Will Only Partially Be Shot In Space Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 28, 2022 4:23 pm EST Life is full of disappointments, and that goes double when it comes to the movie industry. Sometimes you get stuck with a movie you never wanted to direct in the first place, other times just one (1!) throwaway line of dialogue in a popular miniseries will land you in court with an expensive lawsuit on your hands....

Universal Orlando Announces Seasonal Attraction Universal Monsters: Legends Collide For Halloween Universal Studios By Jenna Busch/May 17, 2022 2:26 pm EST As a self-proclaimed fraidy cat, I tell you this news with fear (and yes, some excitement). Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood are shortly going to be infested with classic movie monsters. I know they do Halloween Horror Nights every year, but they often change it up, and this time around, we’re going back in time....

The cape isn’t as efficient as you think Warner Bros. As we’ve established, Batman’s suit wouldn’t be the same if Bruce decided to lose the cape. It does more than just intimidate the criminals hiding in Gotham’s underbelly — it has defensive and aerodynamic capabilities that are essential to Batman’s survival. Batman’s superhero abilities have been built over the years with the support of comic book lore and an entire universe of Batman cartoons and movies....

X-Men: First Class Was Almost A Magneto Prequel Instead By Collier Jennings/March 2, 2022 2:20 pm EST I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men” film franchise. The “X-Men” comics contain some of my favorite superhero characters in history (most notably Kitty Pryde) and contain a wealth of material that would have been perfect on the silver screen. On the one hand, we’ve gotten great films including “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Logan,” but on the other hand, there are films I’d love to have wiped from my memory Doctor Strange-style, especially “Dark Phoenix,” which remains the perfect example of getting a second chance to do justice to a beloved story and completely botching it....

Zola Star Taylour Paige Has Joined The Cast Of Tony Kaye’s The Trainer A24 By Kaylee Dugan/March 30, 2022 9:06 am EST The cast list for Tony Kaye’s (“American History X”) newest project has grown one name longer. “The Trainer” might have been floating around Hollywood for the last 10 years (and it may keep on floating, you never know what will happen these days), but its cast is starting to feel surprisingly modern....

Hubie Halloween Netflix Is “Hubie Halloween” good? Is it bad? Does it matter? This Adam Sandler movie is goofy as heck, but exhibits a genuine love for Halloween and the surrounding season. In it, Sandler plays Hubie Dubois, an autumnal enthusiast who gets involved in a seriously scary mystery that takes over his small town of Salem, Massachusetts, one of the spookiest towns in the United States. Although he is often the butt of pranks and the victim of bullying from his neighbors, Hubie gets the last laugh when a Halloween threat turns out to be real, and only Hubie is able to save the day....

14 Shows Like Justified That Are Definitely Worth Watching FX By Jeremy Herbert/Jan. 6, 2022 1:03 pm EST Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens represented a full-circle union for Elmore Leonard. Here was a hero that could’ve sauntered straight out of the Wild West pulp he wrote as a young man and into the paperback crime that later granted him immortality. In his debut appearance, the 1993 novel “Pronto,” Givens cut a willfully anachronistic figure....

A Man Called Otto: Release Date, Cast, And More Nordisk Film By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Feb. 28, 2022 9:11 am EST Swedish author Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel “A Man Called Ove” is being adapted into another movie. Previously, Swedish filmmaker and screenwriter Hannes Holm turned the story into a 2015 film of the same name (it released a year later in the U.S.), which earned two nods at the 89th Academy Awards in the best foreign language film and best makeup and hairstyling categories....

Amy Pascal & Kevin Feige Explain How Spider-Man Ended Up In The MCU Disney By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 19, 2021 1:39 pm EST Once upon a time, in ye olde 2014, the movie rights to Spider-Man belonged to Sony, and Marvel Studios couldn’t bring the arachnid hero to the big screen without setting off a torrent of lawsuits. Somehow, Sony president Amy Pascal and Marvel president Kevin Feige came to an understanding, sharing Spidey across their respective properties in an IP-lending move that had never really been done before....

An Original Cast Member Joins Rob Zombie’s The Munsters Universal Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 4, 2022 11:04 am EST A cast member from the original “The Munsters” sitcom has joined Rob Zombie’s upcoming reboot of the horror-comedy (via Bloody Disgusting). Pat Priest, who played the role of Marilyn Munster from episodes 14 – 70 of the show (she replaced Beverly Owen, who originally played Marilyn), has officially joined Rob Zombie’s “The Munsters” cast, although details about her role have been not been revealed yet....

Arnaud Desplechin On The Dissolution Of Hatred And Magic In Realism In Brother And Sister [Interview] Le Pacte By Lex Briscuso/May 23, 2022 10:58 am EST With a Cannes Film Festival slate filled with familial trauma, Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister” — also known as “Frère et Sœur” in France — fits in like a glove. The film follows two estranged siblings, Marion Cotillard’s Alice and Melvil Poupaud’s Louis, who haven’t spoken to one another in over 20 years....

Benjamin Bratt Joins Natasha Lyonne And Rian Johnson’s Peacock Mystery Series Poker Face Daniel Smith/FOX By BJ Colangelo/April 21, 2022 12:02 pm EST Rian Johnson is really out here making us happier and happier, isn’t he? His first ever television series, “Poker Face,” is set to star Natasha Lyonne (“Russian Doll,” “Orange is the New Black”) and has been quickly assembling a supporting cast full of genre fan favorites. In addition to the previously announced Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”), David Castañeda (“The Umbrella Academy”), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“Snowden”), Variety reports that Benjamin Bratt (“Law & Order”) has now joined the cast as well....

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: The Northman, Russian Doll Season 2, Strongroom, And More Focus Features By Ben Pearson/April 12, 2022 4:14 pm EST On the April 12, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to. Opening Banter: At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: What we’ve been Reading:...

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Clip: The Doctor Is In (A Brawl With Gargantos) Marvel By Danielle Ryan/April 28, 2022 1:38 pm EST “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is almost here, debuting in theaters worldwide on May 4, 2022, and the folks at Marvel are doing everything they can to get fans excited and headed to their local multiplexes. On top of showing the first 15 minutes of the movie at CinemaCon and offering 35 mm screenings in locations like Los Angeles’ The New Beverly, they’ve also just dropped a new clip online for everyone to enjoy....