Employee Picks: A David Cronenberg Masterpiece, A Pretty Good Tarantino Rip-Off, And Some Underrated Sam Peckinpah We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome toEmployee Picks, a series where Jacob Knight uses his day job expertise as a video store manager to recommend unique and often overlooked alternative options to the big movies hitting theaters and home video.) Hello and welcome back to Employee Picks! We’re on our last round of video releases for the summer (before switching back over to theatrical alternatives in September)....

Ethan Hawke Directing Documentary About Paul Newman And Joanne Woodward Actor and sometimes filmmakerEthan Hawke is set to direct a documentary about Hollywood couplePaul NewmanandJoanne Woodward. Newman met Woodward while they were both working on the Broadway productionPicnic, and the two married in 1958, and would remain married for 50 years until Newman’s death in 2008. Woodward is still alive as of the writing of this story. Deadline is reporting that Nook House Productions has tasked Ethan Hawke with a directing a Paul Newman Joanne Woodward documentary....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Actor James Hong On Being A 93-Year-Old Action Star [Interview] You probably recognize his face, or at least know his voice from the hundreds of movies, TV shows, video games, animated movies that he’s appeared in. In fact, James Hong might be the most prolific actor many people don’t know the name of. Appearing in over 500 films and TV shows, Hong has been steadily working since the 1950s and has worked alongside the greats like Gene Wilder, under the great filmmakers like Ridley Scott, and has voiced every other Asian character you probably grew up with — Mr....

Fantasia Film Festival Dispatches: ‘Slaxx’, ‘The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw’, ‘Lucky’, ‘Tezuka’s Barbara’, ‘Detention’, ‘Bleed With Me’ Usually, the genre-heavy Fantasia International Film Festival is held annually in Montreal, but with things the way they are this year (terrible), the festival has gone virtual. This year,Chris EvangelistaandMatt Donatoare covering Fantasia for /Film, firing off dispatches featuring capsule reviews of the titles we’ve watched from the safety of our own homes, all while dreaming of poutine....

Germain’s ‘Jurassic World’ Review: Nostalgia And Action Mask A Weak Script And Characters For a few scenes inColin Trevorrow’sJurassic World, I was transported back to 1993. I was 13 years old, sitting with huge popcorn on my lap, watching Steven Spielberg’s originalJurassic Parkfor the very first time. Unlike the last two sequels in the series,Jurassic Worldhas a handful of those wondrous moments in it and, for that reason alone, I found more to like than dislike about the movie....

Get A First Look At Judd Apatow’s Netflix Series ‘Love’, Premiering In February After directingTrainwreckstarring and written by Amy Schumer last year,Judd Apatowdoesn’t have a comedy feature coming up just yet. But that’s mostly because he’s been busy with his new Netflix seriesLove, which has just been given a premiere date next month along with a teaser and a couple of first-look photos. Find out more about the new series below!...

Is Sony’s Amazing Peter #3 Trailer Just A Fun Joke Or A Stealth Tease For Amazing Spider-Man 3? For far too long, Andrew Garfield has beenthe most unsung interpretation of Peter Parker, buried beneath the nostalgia-laden love for Tobey Maguire and the more recent buzz for the boyish charms of Tom Holland. And while there’s no denying the talents of his fellow live-action Spider-Men, the world has been too quick to ignore the amazing web-slinger....

Kevin Feige Teases The Future Of The Avengers In The MCU Few individuals working in the business right now are more talented thanKevin Feigewhen it comes to speaking a lot of words without ever reallysayinganything. This has been the case for a while now, but all the interviews made possible by the imminent release ofShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsare making this fact even truer. But we’ll take whatever we can get at this point, especially when it comes to the future plans for theAvengers....

LOL: Captain “Sully” Sullenberger Stars In ‘Hanks’, A Tom Hanks Biopic This weekend brings the true storySullyto the big screen. The film directed byClint EastwoodstarsTom Hanksas real life airline pilotCaptainChesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the man who landed a passenger plane in the Hudson river after something went terribly wrong shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport. The movie has been received fairly well with an 83% on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing (though our ownDavid Chen didn’t find it wholly compelling), but it appears there may be a more interesting biographical drama on the horizon....

Marvel’s Next ‘Avengers’-Level Team-Up Is “Well Underway,” Kevin Feige Says Avengers: Endgamewas the culmination of 10 years worth of storytelling, the final team-up of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes after dozens of solo outings and film crossovers, to face off against the ultimate foe. And we’re about to start that cycle all over again. As the Marvel Cinematic Universe heads into its Phase 4, Marvel Studios has pulled back on the big event team-up films, focusing instead on solo films and cosmic adventures....

Minions: The Rise Of Gru Footage Reaction: Yep, This One Has A Cheese Gun [CinemaCon 2022] We’re barreling through footage from upcoming films at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and our own Ben Pearson is on the ground taking notes so it feels like we’re right there in the audience with him. The next film in the footage parade is Illumination Entertainment’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru.” The film was supposed to hit theaters in July of 2020, but the pandemic delayed it a year … and then another....

Neill Blomkamp’s Mysterious ‘AGM Heartland’ Teaser Trailer In WiReD Magazine Thanks to a tip from /Film reader Vradst, we have discovered a weird unexplained video credited toDistrict 9filmmakerNeill Blomkampincluded in the latest iPad digtial version of WiReD Magazine (issue number 18.12). The video appears on the splash page before the big Tron: Legacy cover story, and is credited simply as “Video By: Neill Blomkamp”. Could this be a viral teaser trailer for Blomkamp’s next project?...

Netflix Will Air New Versions Of ‘Inspector Gadget’ And ‘Danger Mouse’ Apparently, Wednesday is “remake cartoons from the Eighties day.” Earlier, news broke thatDisney is remakingDuckTales. Now,Netflixhas announced they’ve exclusively picked up the US rights to a brand new version ofInspector Gadgetthat has already debuted in Europe. The episodes will start airing in March. They’ll also premiere a brand new, revived version ofDanger Mousein 2016 along with three other shows. Read more about Netflix’s newInspector Gadgetcartoon and others below....