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‘Shrek Forever After’ Director Mike Mitchell To Helm Next ‘Alvin And The Chipmunks’; May Not Be In 3D With ‘Squeakquel’ no longer a part of the title, my feelings of disdain towardthe prospectof anAlvin and the Chimpunkssequel lessened considerably. Credit for that was surely due to the current allure of 3D, as putting ‘3D’ in the title seemed to satisfy the studio’s need for gimmicky wordplay just fine. Now there’s word that the latest entry in the franchise may not be in 3D after all, which is worrying if only because it means there’s a greater likelihood that we’ll instead be subjected to some god-awful pun....

‘Silence’ Reviews Round-Up: Is Martin Scorsese’s Passion Project Worth The Wait? DirectorMartin Scorsesehas been trying to get his adaptation of Japanese authorSh?saku End?’s novelSilenceoff the ground for over 20 years. Now the film is finally hitting theaters later this month, and the first reviews have hit the web. The film isn’t in line with the kind of movie more casual moviegoers are used to getting from Martin Scorsese, who is better known for movies likeThe Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, Gangs of New York, Raging Bull, Taxi DriverandGoodFellas....

‘Splash’ Remake In The Works; Channing Tatum To Play Mermaid Opposite Jillian Bell It’s surely just a matter of time before Disney gets around to making a live-action remake of its animated classicThe Little Mermaid, but in the meantime they’re diving headfirst into a different project about fish people. Disney’s remake ofSplashhas just caughtChanning TatumandJillian Bell, who previously co-starred in22 Jump Street. But there’s a twist: Tatum will be the one playing the mermaid, and Bell will be the human....

‘Standing Up, Falling Down’ Trailer: Ben Schwartz And Billy Crystal Pal Around In A Small Town If you putBen Schwartz(Parks and Recreation) andBilly Crystal(When Harry Met Sally) in a room together, comedic magic will happen. A new film calledStanding Up, Falling Downbets big on this basic idea, and according to our review from last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the film succeeds largely because of their standout performances. Check out the trailer for the indie comedy below....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Review: ‘Choose Your Pain’ Puts The Crew In A World Of Hurt Okay,whatwas with that ending of the latestStar Trek: Discoveryepisode? Did “Choose Your Pain” turnStar Trekinto a horror show? “Choose Your Pain” is, as the title suggests, filled with tons of pain, including the minor pain of seeing another Stamets continue to look in his bathroom mirror while the real Stamets walked away. The only levity found in this episode, aside from the first usage of the f-word inStar Trekhistory, was Rainn Wilson’s highly enjoyable Harry Mudd....

‘Star Wars’ Novel Reveals Luke Skywalker (Maybe, Possibly) Pulled Down A Star Destroyer With The Force Just how powerful is Luke Skywalker? Apparently,verypowerful. In a new canonicalStar WarsnovelThe Legends of Luke Skywalker, it’s revealed that Luke once used the Force to pull-down a massive Star Destroyer like a boss. This reveal makes one wonder if we’ll be seeing any of that massive power inThe Last Jedi. Probably not, but we can dream....

‘Tall Girl’ Trailer: The Netflix Teen Rom-Com Reaches New Heights Of Cheesiness There are some titles that are too vague and opaque to truly get the meaning of what the film is about.Tall Girlis not one of those titles. Netflix’s latest in its slew of teen romantic-comedies gets straight to the point withTall Girlwhich, you guessed it, is about a tall girl whose height has become quite the obstacle for her love life....

‘The Grudge’ Reboot Casts John Cho Alongside Andrea Riseborough The Grudgereboot cast has a new addition:John Cho. TheStar Trekactor will star alongsideAndrea RiseboroughandDemian Bichirin a new take on horror franchise about a curse surrounding a haunted house. As much as I’d like to just ignore aGrudgeremake, the talented involved with the project is too good to pass up.The Eyes of My MotherdirectorNicolas Pesceishelmingthe film, and Andrea Riseborough waspreviously announcedto star. Now,Varietyreports John Cho has joined the cast as well....

‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ TV Spots: Batman Has All The Good Ideas While DC Comics fans are patiently waiting to see what Ben Affleck can bring to the big screen with his first outing as director, co-writer and star of a new solo Batman movie, this spring will bring the Dark Knight to theaters in a much different way. The LEGO Batman Moviebrings back the building block version of the Caped Crusader (voiced byWill Arnett) that debuted inThe LEGO Moviea little while back, but this time all of his comic book counterparts are on the scene too, includingMichael Ceraas Robin,Ralph Fiennesas Alfred andRosario Dawsonas Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl....

‘The Queen Of Versailles’ Trailer - Hit Sundance Doc Tells A Riches-To-Rags Tale At a time when the economic recession is making it difficult for many families to even put food on the table, it’s a challenge to muster up much sympathy for a billionaire couple who find they can no longer afford their 90,000 foot square home — complete with two tennis courts, thirty bathrooms, ten kitchens, an ice-skating rink, and a full-sized baseball field....

‘The Secret Garden’ Trailer: The Literary Classic Gets A New Edition David Heyman, the producer of theHarry PotterandPaddingtonmovies, is ushering another literary classic to the big screen withThe Secret Garden, the fourth cinematic adaptation of author Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel. Check out the colorful, magical new trailer below. The Secret Garden Trailer Last year, I caught up with the 1949 version ofThe Secret Gardenfor the first time, and I ended up finding a lot to like about it....

‘World War Z’ Could Die Without More Money; Marc Forster Agrees To PG-13 It seems like a no brainer, pun intended.Brad Pittproducing and starringin aMarc Forsterdirected adaptation of a popular book about a global zombie apocalypse featuring huge, innovative action scenes uncommon in your typical zombie film.World War Zhas beenkicking around Hollywood since beforeauthorMax Brooks(son of Mel Brooks) even published his book and, as it stands now, Paramount figures it will cost about $125 million to truly make theMatthew Carnahanscriptthe right way....

/Answers: The Greatest War Movie Scenes Every week in/Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. Tying in with the release ofDunkirk, this week’s edition asks"What is the greatest war-related scene in a movie?“As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team. Hoai-Tran Bui: The Dunkirk Tracking Shot in Atonement The World War II evacuation of 400,000 British soldiers off the beaches of Dunkirk, France may seem like an obscure battle to American audiences, but it is one that is greatly remembered in British history — hence Christopher Nolan’s aptly namedDunkirktackling the topic this weekend....