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The Morning Watch: ‘Felicity’ And The Mystery Of J.J. Abrams, LEGO ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 21, 2018 5:00 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, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

VOTD: Experience The True Sundance Film Festival In ‘Escape From Park City’ Doc Short By Ethan Anderton/April 18, 2017 5:00 am EST We’ve been covering the Sundance Film Festival for years, watching and reviewing dozens of independent films, most of which are playing for audiences for the first time anywhere. Personally, I’ve been to the annual cinematic showcase in Park City, Utah seven years in a row, and even though it’s always exhausting, it never gets old....

Watch Dozens Of ‘Space Ghost: Coast To Coast’ Episodes For Free In Honor Of C. Martin Croker By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2016 10:00 am EST Before Cartoon Network created their late night programming block called Adult Swim, they already realized that grown ups liked staying up late and watching more mature animated programming. One of the shows that Cartoon Network produced for the late night hours was Space Ghost: Coast to Coast....

Zack Snyder Had A Cameo In ‘Batman V Superman’ By Angie Han/Jan. 2, 2017 11:41 am EST You can feel Zack Snyder’s fingerprints all over Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — for better or for worse, it really feels like a Zack Snyder film, right down to the fact that most of the characters seem to share Snyder’s taste for vests. But you probably didn’t know that Snyder is actually, physically in the movie....

‘Annabelle: Creation’ Trailer: Learn How The Creepy, Demonic Doll Came To Be By Ethan Anderton/April 2, 2017 10:00 am EST Even though The Conjuring spin-off Annabelle showed us one of the earlier supernatural frights created by the doll that eventually ends up in the hands of paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed (Patrick Wilson) Warren, we still don’t know much about where the creepy toy came from. But we’ll find out late this summer....

‘Aquaman’ Villain Rumors: Creepy Sea Creatures May Be The Trench By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 12, 2017 7:30 am EST Aquaman’s villain roster is in serious danger of overflowing. Not only will Jason Momoa’s Aquaman be facing off against Black Manta, Ocean Master and King Nereus, he will reportedly have to fight off the carnivorous critters known as The Trench. If that name doesn’t sound familiar, that’s because these sea creatures are a fairly new addition to the DC Comics canon — playing a pivotal part in Aquaman’s New 52 relaunch....

‘Bao’ Clip: A Piece Of Food Adorably Comes To Life In Pixar’s New Short Film By Ben Pearson/April 12, 2018 2:00 pm EST Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2 arrives in theaters this June, but before we reunite with the superheroic Parr family, we’ll be treated to a brand new Pixar short film called Bao. Now the first Bao clip has made its way online, and if there’s such a thing as a trigger warning for cuteness, I’m implementing it now....

Black Mirror Season 4 Trailer Black Mirror has consistently proven itself to be one of the grimmest pieces of entertainment ever made, a show so bleak and black-hearted that watching a single episode can be an emotionally pulverizing experience. It seems like the most pessimistic science fiction series of all time has set its sights on the most optimistic. “U.S.S. Callister” clearly borrows the basic design concepts of Star Trek and its many spin-offs, with that twisting camera actively quoting J....

‘Conan’ Returning To San Diego Comic-Con With ‘The Predator, ‘Glass,’ ‘Aquaman’ Casts & More By Ethan Anderton/July 3, 2018 1:30 pm EST Conan O’Brien has made a tradition of coming to San Diego Comic-Con for a series of Conan episodes recorded straight from the center of the geeky action. This year he’s keeping the tradition alive with a new round of episodes featuring some of Comic-Con’s most anticipated attendees and movies....

‘Deadpool 2’ Stars Say The Sequel Is Funnier Than The First Film By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2017 1:00 pm EST When it comes to 20th Century Fox’s surprise smash hit Deadpool, I’m in the extreme minority of people who just didn’t think the R-rated superhero comedy was very funny. Yes, I know you probably loved it, but comedy is super subjective, and for some reason it just didn’t work for me....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 3, 2018 1:00 pm EST Neil Gaiman is stepping up his TV game. The author has been gradually making his way over to the small screen, first executive producing the Starz adaptation of his magnum opus novel, American Gods, then taking on the role of showrunner for the BBC adaptation of Good Omens. Now, he will be teaming up with Akiva Goldsman to develop a TV adaptation of fantasy novels that he had no part in writing....

‘Mary Magdalene’ Trailer: Rooney Mara And Jesus Are BFFs By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 29, 2017 1:30 pm EST Rooney Mara and her best friend Jesus are about to hit theaters together in Mary Magdalene, a new film from Lion director Garth Davis. Mara plays the Biblical heroine who committed her life to following Jesus Christ, played here by Mara’s real-life boyfriend Joaquin Phoenix. The first Mary Magdalene trailer has just arrived to give us a taste of the holy drama to come....

‘Mother!’ Clips: Jennifer Lawrence Makes A Shocking Discovery By Ben Pearson/Sept. 7, 2017 3:30 pm EST Early buzz for Darren Aronofsky’s horror thriller mother! has been largely positive since its Venice Film Festival debut earlier this week, even if many of the responses include a variation on “WTF?” along with their praise. Paramount has released some truly unsettling trailers for the Jennifer Lawrence/Javier Bardem vehicle so far, and now they’re at it again with a couple of new mother!...

‘The Mummy’ Teaser & Poster: Tom Cruise Uncovers An Ancient Evil By Angie Han/Dec. 1, 2016 6:55 am EST After a false start with Dracula Untold, the Universal Monsters franchise is ready to get going for real with its first big release, The Mummy. Directed by Alex Kurtzman, the film stars Tom Cruise as the hero who gets mixed up in some kind of trouble involving an ancient, wronged, and very pissed-off princess (played by Star Trek Beyond’s Sofia Boutella)....

‘The President Is Missing’: Showtime Adapting Bill Clinton & James Patterson’s Thriller Novel Into A TV Show By Ben Pearson/Sept. 22, 2017 3:30 pm EST 2013 was a big year for fictional movie thrillers involving the President of the United States, with Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down both blasting into theaters within three months of each other. Those were simpler times when movies about the president didn’t pale in comparison to the hellish nightmare of the behavior of the actual leader of our country....

8 Movies That Inspired ‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ By Angie Han/Oct. 7, 2016 7:00 am EST War for the Planet of the Apes is a sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and a prequel to Planet of the Apes. But when it came time for Matt Reeves and Mark Bomback to write the script, the Apes movies were far from the only ones they looked to for inspiration....

A Walmart Streaming Service Could Exist Soon, Because Life Is Weird By Chris Evangelista/July 19, 2018 4:00 pm EST Recently, YouTube got into the game as well, launching YouTube Red (which later became YouTube Premium). Apple is currently hard at work on their own streaming service, and have lined-up an impressive roster of talent to create new originals, including J.J. Abrams, M. Night Shyamalan, Steven Spielberg, Ronald D. Moore, Damien Chazelle, and more....

Amanda Knox Trailers: Did She Do It? Or Is She Innocent? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2016 11:30 am EST Today, Netflix released the two trailers and the key art for their anticipated Netflix original documentary, Amanda Knox. The documentary should excite the same audience who enjoyed movies like The Imposter, Netflix’s series Making A Murderer or HBO’s recent fictionalized show The Night Of. The film takes a look at Amanda Knox who was twice convicted and twice acquitted of brutally murdering her roommate....

Ben Wheatley’s New Film Revealed As ‘Happy New Year, Colin Burstead’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 29, 2018 4:00 pm EST Over the past few years, Ben Wheatley has proven himself to be one of the most exciting — and efficient — British directors working today, pumping out new movies on the regular. But after the release of High Rise in 2016 and Free Fire a year later, Wheatley went quiet. That is, until an inconspicuous Instagram post revealed that Wheatley was midway through shooting a new project tentatively titled Colin You Anus....

Check Out Paul McCartney In ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2017 10:00 am EST We’ve known since last year that Pirates of the Caribbean was bringing another legendary rock star into the high seas franchise after having Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards play Jack Sparrow’s father previously. This time, it was the British imported band The Beatles having one of their members turned into a pirate, and now we get to see what he looks like....