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‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Clip And Featurette Offer A Taste Of Sundance 2012’s Most Talked-About Hit Forget costumed heroes, vampire hunters, rogue assassins, and ’80s action stars — the summer flick I’m really dying to see centers around a six-year-old girl.Beasts of the Southern Wild, a fantasy drama from first-time directorBenh Zeitlin, flew almost completely under the radar before it hit Sundance in January. In the months since, however, it feels like no one’s been able to stop raving about it....

‘Everybody Wants Some’ Trailer: Richard Linklater Welcomes You To The ’80s Few filmmakers have showcased the consistency ofRichard Linklater, whose worst movies tend to be significantly more interesting than that best movies from many of his peers. Right now, he’s coming off one of the hottest streaks of his career so far – how exactly does one go about following up the one-two gut-punch ofBefore MidnightandBoyhood? The answer is simple: return to your roots and make another genial slacker comedy....

‘Fighting With My Family’ Trailer: Florence Pugh Heads To The WWE With The Rock As Her Mentor Did you ever dream of becoming a professional wrestler when you were a kid? Well, in the new comedyFighting with My Family, British siblings Paige (Florence Pugh) and Zak (Jack Lowden) certainly did, and it’s not something that they’ve given up even as they’ve grown into adults. It just so happens that dreams sometime come true, even in 2018, because they get the call from the WWE to come try out for the big leagues....

‘For All Mankind’ Season 2 Trailer: The Alternate-Reality Space Race Continues On AppleTV+ Shows about space seem to be all the rage these days, butBattlestar GalacticaandOutlanderveteranRonald D. Moore’s AppleTV+ seriesFor All Mankindtakes a different approach than all of its contemporaries: it’s set in an alternate reality where the Russians beat the United States to the moon, and the Space Race never ended. The new streaming service launched the firstFor All Mankindseason 2 trailer during the show’s Comic-Con virtual panel this past weekend, and you can watch it below right now....

‘God Particle’ Looks To Cast John Krasinski, Glances At Camera, Smirks John Krasinskihas brushed his shoulder against movie stardom a few times now. Although best known for playing the affable goofball Jim Halpert on the NBC version ofThe Office, Krasinski almost played Captain America for Marvel Studios. When that didn’t work out, he landed the role of a different kind of American soldier in Michael Bay’s13 Hours, but that film fizzled at the box office....

‘Heroes & Villains’ Will Be A New Take On Superheroes From ‘Under The Silver Lake’ Director David Robert Mitchell David Robert Mitchell, director ofIt FollowsandUnder the Silver Lake, is setting his sights on the world of superheroes. Mitchell will directHeroes & Villainsfor MGM, which is being described as “a new take on superheroes.” Make of that what you will! Knowing Mitchell’s work, the end results are likely to be very interesting, even if they’re not 100% successful....

‘Midsommar’, The New Horror Film From ‘Hereditary’ Director Ari Aster, Has A Very ‘Wicker Man’-Like Teaser Ari Aster, the filmmaker behind the terrifyingHereditary, is reuniting with A24 for one more fright flick. That film is calledMidsommar, and A24 just released a tantalizing teaser. There’s no actual footage, but instead some animated art for the movie. And while the teaser doesn’t provide much in the way of plot, it does throw off some seriousWicker Manvibes, giving us a good hint of what type of story Aster is telling here....

‘Rogue One’ Almost Had A Very Different Ending, Reveals Director Gareth Edwards In very broad strokes, we’ve always known howRogue One: A Star Wars Storywould end. It’s right there in the opening crawl of the originalStar Wars, which reveals the Rebels successfully stole the Death Star plans. But everything else about the finale was left up to the filmmakers and the Lucasfilm team to figure out. And as directorGareth Edwardsrevealed in a recent interview,Rogue Onealmost had a very, very different ending....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Gives Spidey’s Suit An Upgrade That Fans Will Love This past weekend brought Comic-Con Experience 2016 to Brazil, and with it came the debut of theGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2trailer (whicharrived online shortly thereafterfor our viewing pleasure). But another Marvel Studios trailer was shown that we haven’t seen yet, and likely won’t see until next week when it debuts withRogue One: A Star Wars Story. Spider-Man: Homecominghad the first trailer debut at CCXP 2016, and some details have been hitting the web since then....

‘The Flash’ Pilot Review: The CW Scores With A Breezy ‘Arrow’ Spin-Off [Comic Con 2014] The CW’s pilot forThe Flashroars to life in a way that announces a show that has found its feet even before airing. Perhaps that’s because this is a spin-off from the increasingly popularArrow, andThe Flashinherits some ofArrow’s sensibility and DNA, despite being clearly intended as a brighter and more easy-going companion to that show. This is a series that can experiment with all the overly “comic book” elements that have been part of Flash stories: the concept of super-speed; bad guys with names like Weather Wizard and Mirror Master; and time travel....

‘The Last Laugh’ Trailer: Chevy Chase And Richard Dreyfus Embark On A Geriatric Comedy Tour Even though a lot of people in Hollywood have horror stories about working with the comedy legend that isChevy Chase, apparently that didn’t scareRichard Dreyfusfrom getting together for a comedic two-hander on Netflix. The Last Laughfollows Chevy Chase as retired talent manager Al Hart who finds himself reunited with his first client, a comedian named Buddy Green (Richard Dreyfus) who left the business 50 years ago to become a podiatrist....

‘Trust’ Trailer: Danny Boyle’s FX Show Puts A Stylish Spin On A Familiar Story It took a tremendous amount of restraint for me not to include the words “Brendan Fraser” and “cowboy hat” somewhere in the headline of this article, and after you watch this trailer for the new FX seriesTrust, you’ll see what I mean. Danny Boyle, the director of movies likeTrainspotting,Slumdog Millionaire, and127 Hours, is heading to television to tell the story of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, a true story that’s now familiar to anyone who’s seenRidley Scott’sAll The Money in the World....

‘Us’ Explains Itself Too Much – And That’s A Big Problem (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Jordan Peele’sUsexplains itself too much and that’s a big problem.)Note:Ushits Blu-ray and DVD today, but this article assumes you have already seen it.Spoilersahead.Mysteries are hard to write. A good mystery needs a compelling opening hook and a satisfying or shocking conclusion, but more importantly, it needs to parcel out the right amount of connecting information, at the right pace....