Pete Davidson and "Saturday Night Live" know what the people want: movies under two hours. While some directors are allowed to go as long as they want (lookin' at you, Martin Scorsese), many big tentpole films have just gotten ridiculously overlong. Three-hour long epics used to … | Continue reading
Thirteen years after their collaboration on "Precious" wowed audiences and garnered six Oscar nominations, performer Mo'Nique and writer-director Lee Daniels are reuniting for a new project. The news comes via Deadline, whose reporting notes that the pair were estranged for more … | Continue reading
Frog Lady! I'm sorry, but that deserves to be yelled, which I just did in my house. Misty Rosas, the actor who played the Frog Lady in season 2 of "The Mandalorian," has revealed that she will be returning for season 3. However, since Rosas specializes in physical performances un … | Continue reading
After being delayed somewhat from its release date of July, 2020, the living vampire movie "Morbius," starring Jared Leto as the titular living vampire, has finally been set loose in theaters. You've probably heard about it, and it might not be nice things that you've heard. At t … | Continue reading
Oh, April Fool's Day. A cursed occurrence that comes around every year, no matter how hard us prankees try to will everyone on earth to forget about it. Admittedly, many of this year's jokes seem to have been pretty harmless. Bruce Campbell (we think) pretended that he'll cameo i … | Continue reading
If the first episode of "Moon Knight" is any indication, Marvel's latest superhero series is going to be marching to the beat of its own drum. Press leading up to the show has made it clear that the Oscar Isaac-starrer stands apart from other Marvel properties, with deep cut infl … | Continue reading
(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: "Dunkirk" Where You Can Stream It: Netflix, HBO Max The Pitch: Christopher Nolan's war epic takes place … | Continue reading
Paramount+ has dropped a teaser for the third episode of "Halo," and it features a glimpse of a certain blue AI, who may be familiar to fans of the Xbox video games on which the series is based. That's right: it looks like Cortana is about to make her live-action debut on the nex … | Continue reading
"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" will hit theaters on May 4, 2022, and today we have a new teaser trailer with a new line of dialogue and what appears to be a smidge more footage? I'm not going to say that I'm 100 percent sure; even though I've been watching every si … | Continue reading
The Disney+ era of live-action Marvel series is now five for five: "Moon Knight" has officially reached Certified Fresh status on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The show joins "WandaVision," "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier," "Loki," and "Hawkeye" in the designation, wh … | Continue reading
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) Movie lovers were dealt a massive blow this week when it was announced that cinematic icon Bruce Willis, the star of … | Continue reading
Part of Harrison Ford's appeal as an action movie star is that his characters are constantly getting hurt, stumbling, panicking, or otherwise failing to keep up their facades of being rugged, unflappable badasses. This not only gives them richer personalities, it helps create ten … | Continue reading
"The Sting" is a classic film that beat out both "American Graffiti" and "The Exorcist" at the Academy Awards for Best Picture of 1973. However, even though stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford had led another bona fide classic, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," for the same … | Continue reading
It is not an exaggeration to say that Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" is one of the most captivating and emotional space movies ever made. Starring Sandra Bullock (Dr. Ryan Stone) and George Clooney (Matt Kowalski), the sci-fi movie follows two astronauts who are hit by high-speed spa … | Continue reading
AMC's "The Walking Dead" may be wrapping up its 11-season run this year, but Samantha Morton's character, Alpha, will live to fight zombies (and perhaps wear their skin?) another day. The upcoming anthology series, "Tales of the Walking Dead," will feature characters new and old, … | Continue reading
The Hollywood machine has been trying its hardest to reboot "The Crow" for the better part of a decade now. Yes, this town loves IP, but you have to admit that the original comic and its 1994 adaptation have earned their place in pop culture at this point. The trick is that so m … | Continue reading
According to Variety, Will Smith has said he will resign from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. During the Oscars ceremony on March 27, Smith walked on stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock after he had made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith's shaved head (the actr … | Continue reading
"Death Note" is among the most famous Japanese manga series in the world. It has sold over 30 million copies in Japan and was adapted into an anime television show that became popular with American audiences. Created by Tsugumi Obata and Takeshi Obata, "Death Note" has a sinister … | Continue reading
One of the best shows of 2021 is spawning two more series, although they're not sequels: according to a New Yorker profile, the team behind HBO Max's heart-rending limited series "Station Eleven" are set to adapt two more novels by "Station" author Emily St. John Mandel. Mandel p … | Continue reading
Over the years, "The Crow" has become an undisputed classic. The 1994 film was directed by Alex Proyas ("Dark City") and starred Brandon Lee, who tragically lost his life in an on-set accident while filming. This senseless and horrific event will always cast a long shadow over "T … | Continue reading
April's slate of film and TV releases isn't fooling around. The month ahead features new movies from iconic auteurs, Nicholas Cage going meta, and David Simon's return to HBO crime dramas set in Baltimore. Those projects alone should be cause for excitement. And yet, there's mor … | Continue reading
Based on his 1986 novel "The Hellbound Heart," Clive Barker's 1987 film "Hellraiser" is one of the best and most striking horror films of its decade. Predicated on lust, infidelity, and supernatural acts of sadomasochism, "Hellraiser" plays like a blood-soaked, myth-heavy renditi … | Continue reading
Everything would have been fine if only those Norwegians hadn't blown up the ice that buried a 100,000-year-old alien spaceship. But, like most of humanity, curiosity got the better of them and they unleashed an alien species hellbent on taking over the world. On a superficial le … | Continue reading
Gillian Jacobs has been busy. From co-starring in Tarik Saleh's new thriller "The Contractor" to making her feature directorial debut with "More Than Robots" to appearing in the forthcoming Netflix series "Transatlantic" (currently shooting in France), her recent filmography is l … | Continue reading
Let's cast our minds back to the distant, fleeting, and downright quaint days of ... the early 2000s. Okay, 20 years isn't that long ago in the grand scheme of things (really, it's not!), but consider quite a few differences between now and then. At the time, the term "shared uni … | Continue reading
(Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they're completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) Oftentimes, a sequel just can't help but pale in comparison to its inaugural cinematic ins … | Continue reading
(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: "Look Who's Talking" Where You Can Stream It: Hulu, Paramount+, The Roku Channel The Pitch: Director Am … | Continue reading
The name "Kung Fu Kenny" is probably most recognizable to fans of the rapper Kendrick Lamar, but believe it or not, he wasn't the first to coin the moniker. Lamar's alter ego owes a lot — everything, really — to actor Don Cheadle. In "Rush Hour 2," the actor plays Kenny, the Cant … | Continue reading
1990 was a perfectly fine year for horror: "Jacob's Ladder" twisted our minds, "Childs Play 2" proved Chucky was more than a trend, and "Tremors" and "Arachnophobia" brought horror-comedy back on the scene in a big way. But for my money, nothing on screen in 1990 was scarier than … | Continue reading
(Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through … | Continue reading
"West Side Story" breakout star Rachel Zegler is set to voice the lead role in the upcoming Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation musical feature film "Spellbound." Zegler will play the role of Princess Ellian. She's described as a "tenacious princess who must go on a darin … | Continue reading
Originally slated for release in July of 2020, but delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel Espinosa's film "Morbius" was finally released in theaters today. Sony's "Morbius" is the latest film in what was formally named the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, or … | Continue reading
There really was nothing more exciting than that final six-episode run of "Game of Thrones." Over ten million viewers were tuning in live to each episode, blowing pretty much every other show on TV out of the water. At the time, if you needed to make small talk with a complete st … | Continue reading
(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of "Nosferatu," which turns 100 this year.) Lust and desire are themes that are often associated with vampire movies. When we covered them in … | Continue reading
When Disney bought out Fox for $71.3 billion back in March of 2019, it caused, in addition to a renewed conversation as to the effectiveness of antitrust laws, a spate of cognitive dissonance among film fans. Disney has always been careful of its own branding, often gearing its m … | Continue reading
This post contains spoilers for episode 4 of "Pachinko." "Pachinko" tells a sprawling story of one family's fight for survival over the course of 70 years. Had the new Apple TV+ series gone the route of the best-selling novel it's based on, audiences would've started at the very … | Continue reading
"Battlestar Galactica" is not only the rare reboot that manages to surpass the original source material, but it's also the rare "grim and gritty" reboot that actually plays into that aesthetic without feeling like it's embarrassed of its genre. Part of that is due to series creat … | Continue reading
Five years after its first season, the FX anthology series "Feud" is finally set to return. According to Variety, a second season of the show about famed fights of history will tell the story of author Truman Capote and socialite Barbara "Babe" Paley. Naomi Watts is set to star a … | Continue reading
On the April 1, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news, including "Obi-Wan Kenobi," "Morbius," and Bruce Willis. Opening Banter: It's April Fools Day! In the Water C … | Continue reading
The 1985 season of "Saturday Night Live" was probably its strangest. As happened several times throughout the show's history, NBC was considering canceling "SNL," and it might have gone to taped segments rather than being live. To rebuild the "SNL" legacy, original producer Lorne … | Continue reading
Well, Marvel fans, the time is finally upon us, and those who have been curious for literally years at this point can finally head to a theater to see "Morbius." The latest Marvel Comics adaptation from Sony Pictures, given the green light in the wake of the success of "Venom," h … | Continue reading
Tarik Saleh's "The Contractor" drops in theaters today, telling the story of former Special Forces soldier James Harper (Chris Pine), who gets more than he bargained for when he enters the messy world of private military contractors. He unknowingly makes a rhetorical devil's barg … | Continue reading
Haunted houses are part and parcel of the horror genre. The very first narrative horror movie ever filmed, George Méliès' "Le Manoir du Diable" ("The House of the Devil") from 1896, is arguably a haunted house movie. From there, Gothic, labyrinthian structures such as castles and … | Continue reading
I still remember not being able to remove myself from my seat after seeing "1917" in theaters for the first time. I felt a mixture of overwhelming exhaustion and awe over the story Sam Mendes had laid out for us in nearly real-time. I had also gone into the film relatively ignora … | Continue reading
Acting legends Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman are reuniting on the big screen by teaming up for a thrilling dark comedy named "The Kill Room" (via The Hollywood Reporter). Jackson and Thurman starred together in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 "Pulp Fiction," and made a joint appeara … | Continue reading
Based on the bestselling novel from Min Jin Lee, "Pachinko" traces a family history through three generations, largely revolving around the life of Sunja, the prized daughter of a proud family who believes she will carry on their legacy. Set against the backdrop of war, with Sunj … | Continue reading
It's official: If you're a white cis-male actor in Hollywood, you're required to join the cast of Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer." But all kidding aside, Nolan's upcoming biographical film about the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" is stacked with top-notch acting talent, with Nolan … | Continue reading
We here at /Film have a proud history of deciding not to recognize April Fool's Day in any way, shape, or form. That's not only because today has to be the absolute dumbest "holiday" ever invented by humanity, shamelessly pandering to the lowest common denominators among us and l … | Continue reading