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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Moves To Summer 2021, ‘Don’t Breathe 2’ Arrives In August

October 21, 2020 6:37 pm

As release date Jenga continues its domino effect, films moved to 2021 ages ago by early-bird studios like Sony, are having to push forward again. Sony Pictures, who moved all their 2020 movies to 2021 in the ...

Jared Leto Will Reprise Role As Joker In ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’

Edward Davis

October 21, 2020 3:18 pm

News

He who laughs last, laughs best, and thus Jared Leto might be cackling right now. In yet another twist in the Zack Snyder/ “Justice League” saga, Leto has been tapped to reprise his role as the Joker in the cu...

Mark Webber On Directing ‘The Place Of No Words,’ Jim Jarmusch’s Stewardship & More [Podcast]

Chance Solem-Pfeifer and Noah Ballard

October 21, 2020 2:38 pm

Interviews, News, Podcasts

You may clock Mark Webber as the talent, the creep, or the kid from cult favorites like “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” “Green Room” or “Broken Flowers.” What you might not know is that the well-traveled ch...

Quibi Confirms Shutdown Only Months After Launch

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 2:23 pm

News, Television

Back in April, a little more than six months ago, everyone at Quibi thought they had the next big thing on their hands. The infant streaming service had earned $1.75 billion in capital and promised to revoluti...

Universal Pushes Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ To August 2021

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 2:10 pm

Box Office, News

Sadly, even if you go in front of a mirror and say his name five times, the “Candyman” film written by Jordan Peele and directed by Nia DaCosta isn’t going to appear anytime soon. In fact, the film is going to...

The Essentials: The Films Of Sofia Coppola

Nicholas Laskin

October 21, 2020 1:56 pm

Features, News

To some degree, it’s become too easy to criticize Sofia Coppola. She’s the daughter of Hollywood royalty, she makes movies about an extremely narrow and generally well-to-do portion of society, and over the co...

David Gordon Green & Seth MacFarlane Team Up For ‘Smokey & The Bandit’ TV Series

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 1:35 pm

News, Television

If David Gordon Green can reinvigorate the “Halloween” franchise after years of terrible sequels, maybe the filmmaker and his buddies can do the same for “Smokey and the Bandit?” Well, that’s the idea, at leas...

Lea Thompson Looks Back At 35 Years Of ‘Back To The Future’ [Interview]

Ally Johnson

October 21, 2020 1:17 pm

Interviews, News

Since its initial release, the “Back to the Future” trilogy has had an undeniable influence on generations of filmmakers and audiences. It’s been 35 years since the original film first hit theaters and to cele...

‘Memories Of Murder’ Exclusive Clip: A Rare Song Might Be Evidence In Bong Joon Ho’s Masterpiece Re-Released By NEON

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 1:04 pm

News, Trailers, Video

With “Parasite” just arriving last year, we’re still going to have to wait a bit longer for a new Bong Joon Ho feature film. That being said, NEON has decided that now is the best time to re-release Bong’s cri...

‘Borat 2’: Wa Wa Wee Wa, ‘Subsequent Moviefilm’ Is Very Niiice… Not! [Review]

Rodrigo Perez

October 21, 2020 12:08 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Lightning rarely strikes twice in life, even less frequently in the realm of comedies. And in the case of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” a sequel to his “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...

‘The Witches’: Anne Hathaway Casts An Exasperating Spell In Robert Zemeckis’ Dull Film [Review]

Andrew Crump

October 21, 2020 12:00 pm

Features, News, Reviews

There are children’s movies, and then there are movies that are straight-up childish. Robert Zemeckis’ “The Witches,” the second adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name arriving 30 years after Nicola...

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Netflix Releases Yet More Crazy Numbers Touting The Success Of ‘Enola Holmes,’ ‘Project Power’ & More

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 11:51 am

News, Television

Netflix is in the business of spending lots of money on big projects with massive talent associated with them to entice you to pay its ever-rising monthly subscription fee. And then, once they get you, the ser...

‘The Donut King’ Trailer: A Cambodian Man Lives The American Dream In New Doc From Producer Ridley Scott

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 11:26 am

News, Trailers

For decades, we’ve heard stories of immigrants arriving in the United States in search of the American Dream. Sadly, for many of them, the dream never comes to fruition. However, for Ted Ngoy, not only did the...

Ron Howard Thinks The Movie Theater Experience Will Be More Like Broadway After The Pandemic

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 11:14 am

Box Office, News

What will the film industry look like in 10 years? Hell, what will it look like next year? No one really has any idea what to expect after everything settles down and the pandemic is in our rearview mirror. Ho...

‘Fast & Furious’ To End With 2 More Films Directed By Justin Lin

Charles Barfield

October 21, 2020 10:56 am

News

All good things must come to an end. Or as Dominic Toretto might say, “Quarter miles don’t last forever…family…Brian…ten-second car…muscles” I don’t know, I haven’t seen a ‘Fast & Furious’ film since “Fast...