The Adam Project: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) At some point in our lives, everyone wishes they could go back in time to change something in their past. Whether it’s a missed opportunity, a dream job we never landed, or the one who got away, there’s alwayssomething....
The Best & Worst Sketches From Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ It’s the last episode of the show before the 2016 election finally comes to an end, and while viewers might have expectedSaturday Night Liveto pull out all the stops when it comes to skewering the candidates, it was a rather tame episode. Yes, there was political satire to be had, but it just didn’t feel quite as biting as the preceding four episodes of the season....
The Crazy (And Stupid) Ways Weather Tries To Kill Humankind In The Movies As you undoubtedly already know by now (because you have been counting down the days!), today is the day Gerard Butler’sGeostormfinally hits theaters. The blockbuster-to-be is about weather satellites – not ones to measure weather, but ones that control it – that are turned against us and used to create massive storms that wreak havoc on humanity until Butler decides it’s time to start fighting back....
The Daily Stream: The Purge Is Still Relevant, Still Scary, And Still As Eloquent As Ever (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 may stream it.) The Film:“The Purge” Where You Can Stream It:HBOMax The Pitch:A totalitarian political party called the “New Founding Fathers of America” are voted into office following an economic collapse in 2014....
The Water Cooler: ‘Star Wars Battlefront 2,’ Netflix’s ‘American Vandal,’ And Some Damn Good Barbecue Welcome toThe Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everythingexceptthe movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Ethan Anderton checks outStar Wars Battlefront 2, Ben Pearson eats some delicious barbecue, Hoai-Tran Bui bingesAmerican Vandal, Peter Sciretta attends a “Strolling Magic Showdown,” and Jacob Hall reads two very different books about filmmakers....
TV Bits: ‘Euphoria’ Special Episode, ‘Freaks And Geeks’ On Hulu, ‘Saved By The Bell’ Season 2, And More In this edition of TV Bits: Following the success of its first pandemic-filmed special episode,Euphoriais releasing its second special episode, titled “F*ck Anyone Who’s Not A Sea Blob,” early on HBO Max. The special episode, which is directed byEuphoriacreator Sam Levinson and centers around Hunter Schaefer’s Jules “over the Christmas holiday as she reflects on the year,” is set to hit HBO Max on January 22 at 9 P....
TV Bits: ‘F Is For Family’, ‘Hedy Lamarr’, ‘Step Up’, ‘Diary Of A Future President’, ‘Tuca And Bertie’, ‘Lucifer’ In this edition of TV Bits: F is for Familyis an animated series that has been on Netflix forfour seasons! This is surprising to me, because I can’t remember the last time I saw anyone talking about this thing. But clearly it has an audience, and that audience will be thrilled to check out the trailer above....
Viggo Mortensen Had One Big Problem With The Evolution Of The Lord Of The Rings And The Hobbit “The Lord of the Rings” is one of the all-time great movie trilogies, and you’d be hard-pressed to come up with many others that managed to maintain the same consistent level of quality throughout all three films. “Toy Story,” for instance, is technically no longer a trilogy since the release of"Toy Story 4,“and even “Star Wars” had a bit of a drop-off after “The Empire Strikes Back,” with the critical consensusnot favoring “Return of the Jedi"as much as its two predecessors (even if the word on the street from fans is still that it’s thesecond best “Star Wars” movie)....
Walker Scobell Was Uniquely Prepared To Play The Adam Project’s Young Ryan Reynolds “The Adam Project” is a sweet, sad, time travel-laced family adventure that you’re going to be hearing about non-stop for the next week or so. The film, directed by Shawn Levy (“Stranger Things,” “Free Guy”), is chockablock filled with stars, including Ryan Reynolds, Zoe Saldaña, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and Catherine Keener, and is aiming for that perfect family niche....
Walt Disney World Plans To Begin A Phased Reopening Starting In July In a completely unprecedented move, The Walt Disney Company shut down their theme parks around the world back in March following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve been losing millions every day the parks stay closed, but now that restrictions limiting public gatherings are starting to lift, Disney has begun reopening their theme parks, starting with Shanghai Disneylandearlier this month....
Warner Bros. To Remake Swedish Thriller ‘Snabba Cash’ With Zac Efron Starring Not long ago, a bidding war erupted in Hollywood over the rights to remake a Swedish crime thriller calledSnabba Cash(Easy Money). Now there is a winner: Warner Bros. The studio will remake the film withZac Efronproducing and starring. THR’s report suggests that the studio has to get on this one, as the remake deal has a clause that allows the original producers to take back the rights if the studio doesn’t move too quickly on the remake....
Why The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Might Not Be A Bad Box Office Bet There has been much discussion in recent days for various reasons regarding Andrew Garfield and his tenure as Peter Parker in “The Amazing Spider-Man” movies. Without getting into spoiler territory, much of this has to do with the release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which has been on a record-shattering tear at the box office. To that point, it seems like now more than ever Sony Pictures will look to double down on the “Spider-Man” franchise, and that might require getting creative....
Why You Won’t See Ash Ketchum In ‘Detective Pikachu’ Ash Ketchum famously declared that he would catch ‘em all, but the one thing he won’t catch is a front-row seat to the first live-actionPokémonmovie. Detective PikachudirectorRob Lettermanconfirmed that the TV series’ famous protagonist won’t be appearing in the film — which technically is in line with the premise of the video game upon which it’s based, which features an entirely new lead character....
