Pop Culture Imports: ‘Climax,’ ‘Millennium Actress,’ Shinichiro Watanabe’s New Anime, And More (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) Now that we’re in the height of film festival season and coming off a festival in Venice, no less, this week seems like a perfect week to highlight foreign films that made a splash at festivals, isn’t it? Wrong! We’re surprisingly anime-heavy this week, though that wasn’t certainly intentional....

Russo Brothers Producing Marvel Vs. DC Docu-Series ‘Slugfest’ For Quibi In all the excitement for Disney+ (and the lack of excitement for Apple TV+), we forgot aboutQuibi! The short-form content streaming service is still headed our way, and it continues to line up interesting concepts and talent. The latest:The Russo Brothers, famous for directing multiple Marvel movies and then doing press tours where they explain what happened in those movies, are set to produce a Marvel vs....

Seth Meyers Returns To ‘Saturday Night Live’ And Gets Back Into His Old Groove Seth Meyershas been hostingLate Nightover at NBC for years now, but this weekend was the first time he returned to his old stomping grounds atSaturday Night Liveas host. So how did the late night sketch show fare with one of their own as host? Well, it played out in very much the same way an episode would when Seth Meyers was a cast member and head writer....

She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Trailer Breakdown: She’s Big, She’s Green, And She’ll Step On You Well, nobody can accuse Marvel Studios of not having their finger on the pulse! Sometimes this can goalittletoo far, as at least one major sequence in the recently-released “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ended up carrying a whiff of fan-pleasing desperation (to be fair, Marvel isn’t alone inresorting to these measures). But otherwise, this mostly just proves that Kevin Feige and his team of storytellers have crunched the numbers and figured out the formula to ensure an unparalleled degree of fandom loyalty and pop culture dominance....

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Footage Reaction: We Saw The First 15 Minutes Of The Must-See Sequel [CinemaCon 2022] “Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)” is no more. Say hello to “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and its sequel, “Beyond the Spider-Verse.” Back in 2018, Sony Pictures Animation surprised and delighted the world by releasing “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Rather than focusing on the story of Peter Parker once again, the studio swerved left and instead introduced audiences to Miles Morales....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Dark Knight Rises, Kick-Ass 2, Daredevil, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier How can you appear inCaptain America: The Winter Solider? Want to watch videos of Mother Russia training forKick-Ass 2? DoesMarion Cotillardregret lying about her role inThe Dark Knight Rises? Where can you see more behind the scenes images and clips from theDark Knight RisesBlu-ray? Has a dangerous stunt from the set ofThor: The Dark Worldbeen captured on video?...

Superhero Bits: Which ‘Daredevil’ Star Auditioned For Captain America, Mysterio May Be Married & More WhichDaredevilstar originally auditioned forCaptain Americaover 10 years ago? Want to see howBatmanlooks in the series finale ofGotham? Did a school really send out a warning letter to stop kids from spoilingAvengers: Endgamefor others? IsMysteriomarried inSpider-Man: Far From Home? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits. NY Collector Cavecomic shop inAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district, turner her into aWonder Womanvariant....

Superhero Bits: Zac Efron Is Ready To Join The Marvel Universe, X-Men ‘97 Might Be MCU Canon & More (Superhero Bitsis a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.) In this edition of Superhero Bits: “X-Men ‘97” may (or may not be!...

The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Trilogy Will Tell One Complete Story We knew the third volume ofGuardians of the Galaxymay spell the end for the teamas we know it, but it looks like it will wrap up the loose ends before dismantling everything. James Gunnis planning to make hisGuardians of the Galaxytrilogy one complete story. The Guardians willmake an appearance inAvengers: Infinity Warbefore their third outing as a team, but then that may be the last we see of this iteration of the Guardians of the Galaxy....

The Bizarre Reason Disney’s The Reluctant Dragon Was Censored The House of Mouse has long prided itself on providing wholesome entertainment for the masses with its feature films. Yet, as you might expect, there have been plenty of exceptions to that rule dating back to the company’s early days — from Disney movies that featured racially and/or culturally insensitive depictions of certain people and places (like"Song of the South"and “Peter Pan”) to films that included grisly acts of violence (like 2013’s “The Lone Ranger,” where one of the villains is a cannibalistic outlaw)....

The Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Alternate Ending That Thankfully Wasn’t Used One of the key jobs of a director is tone management. You could argue it is the most important. Making sure nothing that occurs in a film feels outside the bounds of what the vibe of the picture is meant to be can be enormously difficult. One false move could really sink the entire thing, and this is especially true of an ending....

The Daily Stream: Interview With The Vampire Brought Anne Rice’s Undead Characters To Life (Welcome toThe Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie:“Interview With the Vampire.” Where You Can Stream It:HBO Max The Pitch:The first book in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles gets a big, glitzy Hollywood adaptation – and it’s damn good!...

The Daily Stream: Never Forget ‘Colossal’, Anne Hathaway’s Brilliant Kaiju Movie (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie:ColossalWhere You Can Stream It:HuluThe Pitch:We all have our demons — our inner monsters if you will. But imagine your biggest flaws, the ones you’re still struggling to work through today, grew giant legs and monster bodies and wreaked havoc on a city of 9 million people....