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This Week In Trailers: Getting Up: The TEMPT ONE Story, Terra Blight, Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes), Maurizio Cattelan: All 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Thor: Love And Thunder Is A ‘Midlife Crisis Film,’ Taika Waititi Says Odin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is (inJean Ralphiovoice) “the wo-o-o-orst,” so it’s only natural both of his sons, Thor and Loki, are now in the midst of personal crises (despite being well over 1,000 years old). In the case of Loki, the entire multiverse has been left to deal with the mess his dad helped create, and will continue to do so when the “Loki” seriesreturns for season 2on Disney+....

VOTD: Gen Ip’s Year-End Retrospective ‘Filmography 2013’ We see a lot of year-end movie mashups, but for a couple years running some of the best have been from LA-based editorGen Ip,who we talked to back in 2010. ForFilmography 2013, she’s put together a seven-minute edit of scenes from 2013 films, organized around a core group of themes. Plenty of other people have done similar projects, but this one is a bit more gentle than some....

With Season 3, ‘Documentary Now’ Continues To Be The Best (And Most Sorely Overlooked) Television Comedy For Cinephiles A mysterious cult taking up roots in a small American town. A perceptive look at a daring and bold performance artist. A moment or two in the life of a prickly jazz musician in a foreign country. A warts-and-all behind-the-scenes look at the recording of a Broadway cast album. These topics have all made for insightful, attention-grabbing documentaries, but they’re all also the subjects of one of the most precise and sharp parodies on any television network....

‘Flight’ With Denzel Washington Next For Robert Zemeckis; Drops ‘Replay’ With the amount rumor running around Hollywood, it’s hard to believe a movie is actually getting made until a filmmaker calls “Action” on set. That said, it seemsafter consideringanumber of projects, Oscar-winning directorRobert Zemeckishas settled on his next film and it’ll be one of the many he waspreviously attached to. That film is calledFlightand starsDenzel Washingtonas a pilot who saves his plane after a malfunction and is labeled a hero (Think Sully Sullenberger)....

‘Frozen’ Casts Idina Menzel As Snow Queen, Hires ‘Book Of Mormon’ Co-Writer Robert Lopez To Write Original Music An animated adaptation of theHans Christian Andersenfairy taleThe Snow Queenhas been in the development at Disney on and off for about a decade now, but a few encouraging signs suggest we’re finally getting pretty close to seeing the story hit the big screen. Well, relatively speaking. Late last year, the studioannouncedaNovember 27, 2013release date for a revampedCG versionof the project, and followed up a few months later bycastingKristen Bellin a lead role....

‘Fyre’ Trailer: Netflix’s Documentary About The Music Festival’s Legendary Failure Where were you in April of 2017? For your sake, I hope you weren’t on a private island in the Bahamas attending the infamous Fyre Festival, but if you did happen to be there, maybe we’ll see you in the background ofFyre, a new Netflix documentary that provides a first-hand account of the legendarily terrible music festival. Organizers promised attendees they’d be a part of an epic, unforgettable experience, and they certainly were – but far from the one they expected....

‘Krypton’ Cast Adds Brainiac And Superman’s Great-Grandmother Krypton, the Syfy series that will serve as a prequel to the story ofSuperman, just announced a new cast member:Blake Ritsonwill be taking on the part of the villainous Brainiac.Paula Malcomsonhas also been added to the cast as Superman’s great-grandmother. They join a growing cast that includesCameron Cuffe,Georgina Campbell,Elliot Cowan, andShaun Sipos. We’re all familiar with the origin story of Superman – an alien sent to earth by his parents as their home planet, Krypton, was in the midst of being destroyed....

‘Legends Of The Hidden Temple’ Revival Is Coming To Quibi – And This Time, It’s For Adults One of these days, we’re all going to have to face reality and come to grips with the fact that Quibi is a real, actual thing and not just an elaborate joke.Jeffrey KatzenbergandMeg Whitman’s mobile-only platform, which will distribute “quick bites” of entertainment in episodic chunks that don’t run longer than ten minutes each, already has the support of every major Hollywood studio, but now might have the support of ’90s kids who grew up watching Nickelodeon....

‘Mr. Robot’ - The 10 Biggest Questions From “Handshake” Oh boy, oh boy. Where to even begin? Let’s spiral around the issue at hand this week. That strikes me as the only way to make some sense of what’s going on in “Handshake.“Beware spoilers! I want to talk about something that struck me while watching this episode, before the twist shook everything up. I want to talk about audience intelligence. I’d like to start with what is maybe a pretty controversial assumption: audiences are smart....

‘Murder Mystery,’ ‘Stranger Things’ Are The Most Popular 2019 Titles On Netflix, According To Netflix’s Very Specific Parameters Netflixhas long been averse to releasing viewership statistics for its original titles, but the streaming giant is never reluctant to toot its own horn when it comes to “popularity.” And with the streaming field set to become more splintered than ever before in 2020 — with newcomers like Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, and Quibi poised to threaten the current dominion held by Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu — it’s fitting for Netflix to make a show of strength with its annual “most popular” list....

‘RoboCop’ Viral Campaign Reveals The New ED-209 That image above is a shot of the redesigned ED-209 automated security sentry drone from OmniCorp — you may remember the original ED-209 as the roaring, bullet-spitting hulk that went haywire in a boardroom demonstration and lead to the funding of RoboCop. (The funding of the fictional project/character, that is, not the funding of the original film.) This image and the video that lies below the jump were revealed today as part of the early viral marketing campaign forJose Padilha’s newRoboCop, which will starJoel Kinnaman,Gary Oldman,Samuel L....

‘Stranger Things 2’ Spoiler Review: The Problem With Sequels… (In ourSpoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: the second season Netflix’s highly anticipatedStranger Things.) What was it that madeStranger Thingsseason 1 such a hit? Was it the nostalgia factor, with the abundance of 1980s charm drawing viewers in?...