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‘Ghost In The Shell’ Review: An Adaptation As Cold And Lifeless As A Machine The live-action remake ofGhost in the Shellis a cinematic cubic zirconia that thinks it’s a diamond. The real thing exists, and is much easier to recognize; even at its gloomy, stylish best, this version is a poser unable to hide its true nature. The 2017Ghost in the Shellis itself a ghost, a trace of something familiar left behind that can’t quite replicate the sense of being introduced to a strange new world that feels disturbingly close to our own....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ Teaser Coming Soon, Original Movie’s Teaser Almost Got Scrapped This week saw thedebut of the trailer forThe Belko Experiment, a bloody action thriller written and produced byGuardians of the GalaxydirectorJames Gunn. With the arrival of that trailer, James Gunn sat down for a quick interview about how crafting a trailer for a movie like the forthcomingGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2proved harder than trying to market the aforementioned film that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year....

‘Happy!’ Showrunner Brian Taylor On His Twisted New Series And the ‘Twisted Metal’ Movie You’ll Never See [Interview] Just in time for Christmas comes a raunchy, bloody show from one of the creators ofCrank.Happy!, based on the comic from Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson, stars Christopher Meloni as Nick Sax, a disgraced cop who has a near death experience that allows him to see “Happy,” a blu-furred, flying horse creature. Voiced by Patton Oswalt, Happy is the imaginary friend of a kidnapped girl and only Sax can help save her....

‘Run’ Canceled By HBO After One Season, So Sorry About That Cliffhanger Ending Domnhall GleesonandMerritt Wever’s journey is coming to an end. HBO has canceled theVicky Jones-created seriesRunafter one season, nixing the second season that had been in discussions for the past month and a half. Deadline reports that HBO is getting off theRuntrain, canceling the romantic thriller after one season. The network will not be going forward with a proposed second season following “lengthy back-and-forth discussions” which had taken place since the series wrapped its seven-episode first season a month and a half ago....

‘Snowpiercer’ International Trailer: “Is It Time?” We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After several months, the battle betweenBong Joon-hoand The Weinstein Company over the U.S. release ofSnowpiercerremains unresolved. At this point, it’s anyone’s guess when Stateside audiences will finally get to see the film, or what shape it’ll be in when it gets there. But folks in other countries have been luckier, and today we have a new trailer from Japan that shows a bit of new footage....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Featurette: Meet The Crew Of Scoundrels Ready For A Galactic Heist Tonight bringsSolo: A Star Wars Storyto a bunch of theaters around the country as sneak preview screenings kick off the Memorial Day weekend. If you don’t have your tickets forSoloalready, you might find it hard to get into a screening. So for those of you who maybe have to wait a day or two (or longer) before you see the movie, a new Solo featurette has arrived online with some new footage to hold you over....

‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Went To Netflix Because Paramount Didn’t Want A Box Office Failure While it’s usually the commercials that dominate water cooler chatter the day after the Super Bowl, this year, movie lovers had something else to talk about. The Cloverfield Paradox, the third installment in what has become a makeshift sci-fi franchise featuring a series of vaguely connected stories from Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures, surprised everyone by debuting on Netflix immediately after the big game instead of coming to theaters in April as originally planned....

‘The Duke Of Burgundy’ Clip: ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ Director Returns Berberian Sound StudiodirectorPeter Stricklandreturns withThe Duke of Burgundy, but this film offers a fairly different sort of experience. There’s still a hazy, less-than-real aesthetic and sense of place, but this movie has a more focused and recognizable story at its core. The short synopsis of this movie is very simple: “Peter Strickland’s dark melodrama follows the intense relationship between two women....

‘The Last Black Man In San Francisco’ Review: A Poetic Tale Of Gentrification And Friendship [Sundance] At last year’s Sundance Film Festival, bothBlindspottingandSorry to Bother Youweaved Oakland’s gentrification into their underlying stories. At this year’s fest, co-writer/director and fifth generation San FranciscanJoe Talbotaddresses the subject in an even more direct way with his memorable debut film,The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Jimmie (an excellentJimmie Fails, who has a “story by” credit on the script and plays a character inspired by his own life) and Mont (a superbJonathan Majors) have been best friends for years, riding through the streets of San Francisco on a shared skateboard and struggling to stay afloat in a city that’s rapidly leaving them behind....

‘The Lego Movie Sequel’ Gets A New Director Phil LordandChris Millerwrote and directedThe Lego Movieto massive hit status, and created a legitimately good movie at the same time. We knew a sequel was in the works, but theLego Batmanspin-off movie (to be directed byThe Lego Movie’s director of animationChris McKay) recently took over the release date once meant for the sequel. McKay was also set to direct the proper Lego sequel, and him moving to the Batman movie created an empty director’s chair on the sequel....

‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Series From David E. Kelley And Starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Pulls Up At Netflix Netflix is taking the wheel on a newThe Lincoln Lawyerseries. The streaming giant announced a series order forThe Lincoln Lawyerseries adaptation from executive producer and writerDavid E. Kelley(Big Little Lies), who will be penning theManuel Garcia-Rulfo-starring series with showrunnerTed Humphrey(Wisdom of the Crowd). Hot off his HBO dramaThe Undoing, David E. Kelley will be tackling a new mystery withThe Lincoln Lawyerseries, which has been picked up to order by Netflix....

2016 Golden Trailer Awards Nominations Announced I’ve always loved good movie trailers. To me a trailer represents the promise of an exciting new story, our first introduction to a concept and world we’ve never seen before. When edited together artfully, a movie trailer can become its own work of art. Every year, theThe Golden Trailer Awardsare held to award the year’s “most outstanding achievements in motion picture and television marketing.” The 2016 Golden Trailer Awards nominations have been revealed, find out which trailers and marketing campaigns were chosen for the 17th annual competition....

2018 Independent Spirit Awards Winners: ‘Get Out’ Wins The Night With the Oscars just around the corner, it’s almost time to wrap up awards season. But before Hollywood has its biggest night, theIndependent Spirit Awardsalways take the time to honor some of the smaller, indie movies. In this case, some of these movies have already made quite a run during awards season, were distributed by a major studio and ended up with a bunch of Oscar nominations, but they were also independently financed....