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The Desperate Hour Trailer: Negotiating With A School Shooter Is your blood pressure okay? Your stress level? Maybe check those before you watch the new trailer for the upcoming film “The Desperate Hour.” The Vertical Entertainment film starring Naomi Watts (“Mulholland Drive,” “King Kong”), Colton Gobbo (“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” “Titans”), and Sierra Maltby (“Jupiter’s Legacy”) is going to upset you in ways that no horror movie ever could....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’, ‘The Mandalorian’ Episode 3 Easter Eggs & More The Morning Watchis 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. In this edition, the VFX artists at Corridor Crew take a look at scenes fromX-Men: Days of Future Past, Edge of Tomorrow, Swordfish, and more....

The Toy Box: Preacher, Rick & Morty, Back To The Future, TMNT, Star Trek, Batman & More The Toy Boxis a new weekly feature at/Filmthat will round up some of the newest and coolest collectibles, decorations, gadgets and other memorabilia that you nerds might want for your shelves. This week we’ve got some good stuff from Adult Swim’s fantasticRick & Morty, AMC’s adaptation ofPreacher, several newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlescollectibles, a few cool items fromStar WarsandStar Trek, a bloody newFriday the 13thfigure and much more....

This Week In Trailers: Make Up, Clapboard Jungle, Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, Tiny Creatures, Broken Law Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Tribeca Movie Review: A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory The following movie was screened at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory World Documentary Competition 2006, U.S.A Dir: Esther B. Robinson The infamous and enigmatic Any Warhol accrued many a hanger-on during his career, and most notably, during the Factory Years. While the Factory raged on, many of those that found themselves in his tight nit crew laid claim to being artists as well....

Trivia: Just What Did David Say To The Engineer In ‘Prometheus’? On the grand list of Big Questions left byRidley Scott’sPrometheus, one item that probably falls somewhere down in the lower third is “what the hell did David say to the Engineer?” Well, we can’t tell you specifically what the black goo is, or what it has to do with the green goo, or what the sea monkey in Holloway’s eye was all about, but we can answer that burning lower third mystery....

Two Great New Indie Horror Movies Join Hulu’s ‘Huluween’ Collection It’s the most wonderful time of the year! If you think I’m talking about Christmas, then you are sorely mistaken. October is right around the corner, the weather is sort of cooler (at least here in Texas), and horror programming is getting announced left and right in preparation for Halloween. Now in its fourth year, “Huluween” is “Hulu’s annual Halloween event with a full slate of nail-biting programming, and an online immersive experience for fans to enjoy from home....

Visiting Weta: An Exciting Look At The Making Of ‘The Adventures Of Tintin’ I admit to having been pretty skeptical when I first sawthe trailerforThe Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. We’ve seen on several occasions how advanced motion capture technology can fail even the most talented of directors, and the teaser trailer did nothing to assuage my fears that this would happen again withTintin. But then I heardgood buzz about the film coming out of Comic-Con, and I started to get excited by this Spielberg/Jackson collaboration....

Watch Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ Remade As A Classic Video Game This is a pretty neat little thing. We’ve seen the trailer(s) forRian Johnson’s third filmLooper, which featuresBruce Willisas the older version of a futuristic hitman played byJoseph Gordon-Levitt. Time travel enables JGL’s character to make a small fortune bumping off mob targets, but it also puts his older self into own crosshairs. Naturally, problems ensue. Now we can experience the film as it might have been incarnated for the Super Nintendo game console....

Weekend Box Office: ‘1917’ Knocks ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Out Of The Top Spot Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeris no longer in first place. The weekend box office numbers are in, and it appears that Sam Mendes' World War I epic1917has dethroned the final entry in the Skywalker Saga to be number one. Elsewhere in box office land, Kristen Stewart’s fun sea monster movieUnderwaterfailed to swim and instead sank, which is a serious bummer because that movie deserves better....

West Side Story History Lessons From Music Producer David Newman [Interview] It’s almost as if destiny brought composer David Newman to Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” Newman, who composed “Anastasia,” “Galaxy Quest,” and Danny DeVito’s films, first worked on “West Side Story” as a teenager. Since then, the Broadway show and the 1961 film adaptation have been a major part of his career and life. When the time came to work on Spielberg’s film as a music producer and score arranger, he was more than ready for the mammoth task....

What Really Drew George Takei To His Star Trek Role Long beforeErnie Reyes Jr.,Jacob Batalon, and other Asian or Asian American entertainers were out there representing their cultures in film and television, there wasGeorge Takei. Just like his"Star Trek"co-star Nichelle Nichols did for the Black community, the Japanese actor and activist was out there being a champion for diversity and representation when those things were practically unheard of in Hollywood. And both stars were able to do this thanks to the vision of the series creator Gene Roddenberry....

Why ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Is A Metaphor For Sony’s Mishandling Of The Franchise While watching the newSpider-Man: Homecomingtrailer, it occurred to me how the story being presented to us seems to mirror Sony’s relationship with Marvel Studios. While it’s clearly not intentional (or is it?), this movie could act as an interesting lens to view the past, present, and future of the Spider-verse. The trailer begins withTom Holland’s Peter Parker askingRobert Downey Jr....