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The Morning Watch: Adam West Stars In The Batman, Creating The Weapons Of Halo & More (The Morning Watchis 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.) In this edition, watch as Adam West, the star of the classic 1966 “Batman” TV series is inserts into “The Batman” along with the retro versions of The Penguin, The Riddler, and Catwoman....

These Are Guillermo Del Toro’s Favorite Horror Films Of All Time Watch enough movies directed by Guillermo del Toro, and you will quickly notice two things: 1) The"Pan’s Labyrinth"and"Nightmare Alley"filmmaker loves monsters, ghosts, and other fantastical beings, no matter how threatening they are, and 2) There’s nothing scarier to him than the living. Fittingly, these tenets also hold true for del Toro’s personal top five horror movies, which he revealed in an interview withWiredin 2015....

TV Bits: Vince Gilligan, Dan Harmon, ‘Girls’, ‘The Newsroom’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘Happy Endings’, ‘Falling Skies’ Sony is apparently eager to hear whatDan Harmonhas to say aboutCommunity’s fourth season. Also after the jump: Walt and Jesse’s story ends one way or another this fall, but Saul (Bob Odenkirk) could live on yet if that rumored spinoff gets picked up. Although it may be a younger version of Saul than we’re used to — showrunnerVince Gilliganexplains that he’s still trying to figure out exactly how the new show would fit into that universe....

TV Bits: Viola Davis Circling HBO Series, CW Considers ‘Sex And The City’ Prequel, Comedy Central Announces Fall Premiere Dates, Childrens Hospital Renewed Seeing as she’s currently enjoying Oscar buzz for her powerful performance inThe Help, the announcement of a potential new project forViola Daviscouldn’t come at a better time. The actress is reportedly eyeing the lead role in an untitled half-hour HBO drama which will focus on a city’s corruption as seen from the perspective of a prep school headmaster with big ambitions....

VOTD: How David Fincher Hijacks Your Eyes; Plus, Meet The Real Ed Kemper What makesDavid Finchersuch an acclaimed filmmaker? What is it about his style and grasp of material that makes some cinephiles go nuts and sing his praises? A new video may have just discovered Fincher’s secret: he hijacks your eyes with the use of camera movement. Watch the David Fincher video essay below. David Fincher seems to be everywhere lately, thanks to his new Netflix seriesMindhunter....

We’ve Got The Prower: Why Tails Is The Best Part Of Sonic The Hedgehog Growing up poor meant that my family could never afford a gaming system, which means my entire exposure to playing video games until last year is rooted in playing my friends' consoles during play dates, the handheld Gameboy when visiting the orthodontist, the hand-me-down Playstation 2 we snagged at a garage sale long after it was considered outdated, and hanging out in dorm rooms once I went to college....

What Do Those Creepy ‘WandaVision’ Commercials Mean? WandaVisionpremiered today toplenty ofrave reviewsbut even more questions. Why are Wanda and Vision living in this strange suburban sitcom? Who are those people behind the monitor? And what is up with those creepy commercials? The fakeWandaVisioncommercials that appear at the halfway mark of every episode initially appear to just be a satire of classic ’50s or ’60s ads. Or are they?Spoilersahead, of course....

‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ Season 2 Trailer: Things Get Worse Have you gotten used toPatrick Warburton’s dulcet tones soothing you as a fictionalized version of Lemony Snicket? Well too bad, becauseNeil Patrick Harris' deliciously devious Count Olaf takes the reins in the newA Series of Unfortunate Eventsseason 2 trailer. A Series of Unfortunate Events Season 2 Trailer Things get even more unfortunate for the Baudelaire siblings in the Netflix adaptation of the best-selling children’s series....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Honest Trailer: Save The Android Poetry For ‘Blade Runner’ This summer brought usAlien: Covenant, but so much time has passed, so many movies have come out since then, and the movie was so subpar that it feels like it could have been years ago. While the movie attempted to get back to the roots of the Alien franchise with a parade of blood and gore brought on by new creatures called neomorphs, which are merely predecessors to xenomorphs, it also went back to the freshman philosophy class roots ofPrometheus, making for one confused sci-fi story....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Interview: Michael Douglas May Have Said Too Much Last fall, the legendaryMichael Douglasenters a conference room in a sound stage a few feet from where he was just filming a scene with hisAnt-Man and the Waspco-starPaul Rudd. Douglas, who plays the brilliant scientist/engineer Hank Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is in a pleasant, upbeat mood, asking myself and the handful of other journalists if we’re enjoying our lunch....

‘Arrested Development’ Season 5 Trailer Announces May Premiere Date We’ll be seeingArrested Developmentseason 5 sooner than expected. A lot sooner – as in this month. Netflix just released anArrested Developmentseason 5 trailer which reveals a May 29 release date. Netflix dropped a surpriseArrested Developmentseason 4 remixover the weekend, but that’s not the last we’ll see of the Bluths this month. The officialArrested Developmentseason 5 trailer is here, and it reveals aMay 29, 2018premiere date....

‘Artemis Fowl’ Teaser Trailer: A Boy Genius Breaks Bad In The Long-Awaited Fantasy Adaptation A boy genius is on his way to fill the hole that a certain boy wizard left seven years ago. ThoughArtemisFowl,based on the popular series of the same name byEoin Colfer,has long deserved a big-screen adaptation in its own right. The newest live-action film from Disney andMurder on the Orient ExpressdirectorKenneth Branagh, Artemis Fowlis a magical urban fantasy that follows a 12-year-old Irish boy genius who hatches an impossible scheme: to kidnap a fairy and ransom it for gold....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Directors Revealed Who Died And Who Survived Offscreen Fans are still reeling from the end ofAvengers: Infinity War, but they will have a few more answers to hearten them while they wait forAvengers 4in 2019.Joe and Anthony Russoare still on their post-Infinity Warpress tour, answering pressing questions and debunking fan theories. Now they have a few more things to say about theInfinity Wardeaths and survivals that we didn’t see onscreen....