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The Black Phone Trailer: Answer The Call For Scott Derrickson’s New Horror Movie Universal Pictures By Lex Briscuso/April 26, 2022 12:29 pm EST It’s time to get scared about Ethan Hawke again. The second trailer for the upcoming horror film “The Black Phone” — in which Hawke plays a terrifying villain who abducts children and wears an unsettling mask — has arrived, and it continues to frame this terrifying new story as a mental battle of epic proportions....

The Brothers Sun: Everything We Know So Far About The Michelle Yeoh-Led Gangster Drama A24 By Kaylee Dugan/June 13, 2022 7:27 pm EST Just when you think you’re out, Netflix pulls you back in with another huge series that makes you renew your subscription (even if you curse their name at the same time). This time they’re injecting some sweet cash action into “The Brothers Sun,” a gangster drama with an all-Asian cast and writer’s room that was ordered to series in January 2022....

The Daily Stream: Addams Family Values Is Not Only A Darkly Wonderful Family Film, It’s Also A Truly Great Sequel Paramount Pictures By Eric Vespe/Jan. 27, 2022 12:00 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: “Addams Family Values” (1993) Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: On paper, a sequel to an adaptation of a 1960s TV series should be a lifeless, by-the-numbers stale cash-in, but “Addams Family Values” took the success of the first movie and used that to up the pitch-black humor and weirdness to a level that most likely had movie execs sweating in their suits....

The Daily Stream: IT Turns 5 Years Old And Has Its Young Cast To Thank For Its Continued Popularity Warner Bros By Eric Vespe/June 25, 2022 2:00 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: “It” (2017) Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: This year sees the fifth anniversary of “It” making all the money in theaters and ushering in a new golden era of Stephen King adaptations....

The Daily Stream: Parker Posey Finally Experiences The Big Oh In The Oh In Ohio Cyan Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 25, 2022 2:00 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: “The Oh in Ohio” Where You Can Stream It: Peacock, The Roku Channel The Pitch: Priscilla Chase (Parker Posey) is the hottest, most magnificent woman in Cleveland, Ohio, and married to miserable public high school teacher, Jack (Paul Rudd)....

The Morning Watch: How Spider-Man: No Way Home Should Have Ended, Scoring West Side Story & More YouTube By Rafael Motamayor/March 11, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.)...

This Sopranos Star Actually Played Two Different Roles HBO By Devin Meenan/March 1, 2022 1:01 pm EST “The Sopranos” is one of the best cast TV shows ever made. I think the late great James Gandolfini’s performance as Tony Soprano is the best ever TV lead performance, and even he had stiff competition thanks to Edie Falco as his wife, Carmela, or Michael Imperioli as his protégé, Christopher Moltisanti. Drea de Matteo as Christopher’s girlfriend, Adriana La Cerva, is a particular stand-out; she takes what could be a one-note character and infuses Adriana with pathos (spoiler alert) all the way up to her tragic end....

Torn Hearts Director Brea Grant On Making A Colorful Country Music Horror Movie [Interview] Blumhouse By Jack Giroux/May 23, 2022 2:44 pm EST Never meet your heroes, they say … “Torn Hearts” is about two rising artists in the country music world, Jordan Wilder (Abby Quinn) and Leigh Blackhouse (Alexxis Lemire), meeting the woman who inspired them, the legendary Harper Dutch (Katey Sagal). They drink, they sing, and they even live together....

Vecna From Stranger Things Season 4 Is An Allegory For Depression Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/May 28, 2022 1:00 pm EST Warning: there are spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4 below. “Stranger Things” season 4 is here — and it’s bigger, more ambitious, and the scariest chapter set in Hawkins yet. Vecna, the sci-fi show’s latest big bad, is the most terrifying monster in the show’s history — and makes the previously introduced Demogorgons and Mind Flayers look like lackeys....

Why Christopher Lee Almost Never Spoke In His Dracula Movies Hammer By Devin Meenan/May 28, 2022 9:46 am EST On May 27, 2022, we celebrated what would have been Sir Christopher Lee’s 100th birthday. Although the legendary actor is no longer with us, he lived a life that “remarkable” doesn’t even begin to cover. After a tour as an intelligence officer in the British Royal Air Force during World War II, Lee appeared in over 250 films....

You Can Thank Robert De Niro For Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver Role Columbia Pictures By Bill Bria/March 16, 2022 1:35 pm EST Filmmakers appearing in their own movies is a time-honored tradition. Most tend to make small cameo appearances in the style of Alfred Hitchcock, the suspense filmmaker who made such a staple out of sneaking into his films so often that directors still refer to such brief appearances as a “Hitchcock cameo....

Armin Shimerman Hoped Quark Could Correct A Major Star Trek Misstep Paramount By Witney Seibold/April 20, 2022 10:59 am EST In the first few episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the Ferengi were spoken of in hushed tones. A new, mysterious, malevolent species had come to power in the span between “Star Trek” and its 1987 sequel series, and they promised to be a galactic threat on the level of well-known Trek baddies like the Klingons or the Romulans....

Could single-day engagements help save theaters? Warner Bros. “BTS: Permission To Dance On Stage” could also be a bellwether for the future when it comes to ticket pricing. While reports of theaters experimenting with different price points for “The Batman” polarized moviegoers, single-day events are much more exclusive than ongoing engagements, making higher ticket costs justified. Tickets for the BTS event came at a premium of $35, a more than reasonable amount for enthusiastic fans who are hungry for new content from the global phenomenon....

Danny DeVito’s Taxi Audition Could Have Ended In Disaster Paramount Television By Jeremy Smith/June 20, 2022 10:08 pm EST Often when an actor is up for a part that could launch their career they’re a bundle of nerves. They might believe with every fiber of their being that they’re the only person who can nail the role, but that confidence can vanish in an instant with the wrong look or word from the casting director....

Disney’s Animated Science Fiction Movies Ranked Disney / IMAX By Mike Shutt/June 16, 2022 7:00 pm EST When we think of the history of Disney animation, we think of fairy tales, princesses, musicals, animals, fantasy, and adventure — and for the most part, that is accurate. Disney and even Pixar, to some extent, have their lane and usually try to stay within it. In the 21st century, however, Disney has tried to do some branching out with a smattering of science fiction films....

Everything We Know About The Secret Origin Of Grogu Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Feb. 2, 2022 11:43 am EST Warning: this post contains major spoilers for “The Book of Boba Fett.” Proceed with caution. “The Mandalorian” introduced not only one of the most popular characters of the modern “Star Wars” era with Grogu (aka Baby Yoda), but perhaps one of the most popular characters in the history of … history? Time will tell if that popularity can endure, but the mysterious nature of the cute little Force user may well help with his longevity....

HSMTMTS Release Date and Where To Watch Disney+ As Disney now has a thing for releasing big news via Twitter, they also used social media to let us in on the latest “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” updates. According to the Disney Music Twitter account, we can expect to see the Wildcats back on our screens in 2022. No official date has been announced, but whenever the show finally arrives, its release will probably follow the same pattern as the previous seasons....

Mistrust of teachers Lionsgate In a 2014 interview with The Flashback Files, Zombie talked about his distinct lack of education, and how he kind of felt around himself to discover filmmaking from within. As one may predict, a strong-willed iconoclast like Zombie never took well to authority. He admits to ignoring his teachers, preferring to work at his own pace (something that doesn’t seem to have been encouraged by his school)....

How Minx Creator Ellen Rapoport Went From Law To Screenwriting [Interview] HBO Max By Jack Giroux/March 22, 2022 4:05 pm EST Ellen Rapoport is the creator and executive producer behind the new HBO Max critical darling, “Minx.” Rapoport takes viewers back in time to the ’70s to show the rise of a new porno magazine for women. The series is a bit of a buddy comedy between writer Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) and her publisher, Doug (Jake Johnson), two ambitious people with two different approaches to art and business....

Humphrey Bogart’s Constant Smoking Served A Practical Purpose Warner Bros. Pictures Humphrey Bogart is practically impossible to recognize without a cigarette hanging from his lip. The actor was inseparable from his prop, which gave him a cool and disaffected image. His signature behavior — smoking — supplemented every scene he was in and gave the audience something to look at. Tragically, the very vice that made him a star would eventually be the cause of his death....