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Weeds Session: Is Episode “Van Nuys” The Nice Calm Before Another Botwin Storm? Monday’s Episode Is Set Six Months Later The previous three episodes ofWeedswere the breeziest of the season and decidedly welcome after the brick-cold start. However, by now viewers are conditioned to expect another hellish crescendo to fall upon the resilient Botwins. It’s like dysfunctional clockwork. And these days, even the lighthearted eps dance inside an atmosphere of widespread murder and violent threat....

Will There Be A Sequel To The Grudge Reboot? Here’s What We Know It never forgives. It never forgets. No, not Film Twitter, I’m talking about “The Grudge,” which stumbled back onto our screens in 2020 with a new reboot. It was 16 years after “The Grudge” first haunted American audiences, and while the reboot may havefailed to make an impression, it might not be long before the long-standing horror franchise crawls back into theaters....

Will Thor: Love And Thunder Officially Pass The Torch To Natalie Portman? We were recently treated to a new, full-lengthtrailer for “Thor: Love and Thunder"which, as that somewhat silly title implies, looks pretty wild. Director Taika Waititi is back for a follow-up to his much-beloved “Ragnarok” and this time, he’s bringing Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to take up the mantle as The Mighty Thor. But does that mean this movie is going to pass the torch to her for the future of the franchise?...

Will Twilight Ruin This Year’s Comic-Con? Update:Comic-Con has partly responded to fan concerns by moving the Avatar panel until after the Twilight presentation.Unfortunately, the Disney 3D panel (Tron 2, Burton’s Wonderland) remain before the Summit panel. I’m not aTwilighthater. We wrote about the first film a few times, and received a ton of extra traffic as a result. But I learned quickly that it just wasn’t my cup of tea. Not only that, but it isn’t something most /Film readers are interested in....

‘A Town Called Panic: Double Fun’ Trailer: One Of The Strangest (And Best) Animated Movies Ever Gets A Follow-Up We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When I first sat down to watchA Town Called Panica few years ago, I knew that it was the feature film adaptation of a well-liked series of Belgian stop-motion animated comedy shorts and nothing more. So I spent the next 75 minutes being blown away by this endlessly inventive, hilarious, and surreal thing that honestly felt like it had to right to exist....

‘Avatar 2’ Test Footage Screened At Siggraph For years,James CameronandJon Landauhave continued to assure the publicAvatar 2is coming. The writer/director has been locked awayworking on the scriptand the producer has been out and aboutgiving us brief updates. This week, for the first time, Landau came out in public and showed some test footage for the film. It showed a “noticeable improvement” in the virtual camera techniques, with higher quality output in a scene that featured a human and Na’vi walking on the surface of Pandora....

‘Children Of The Corn’ Remake Getting Ready To Walk Behind The Rows Again Children of the Corn, theStephen Kingstory that spawned approximately ten zillion movies, is heading to the screen yet again.Kurt Wimmer, director of the Christian Bale gun-fu flickEquilibrium, is helming aChildren of the Cornremake in Australia, and has actually managed to keep filming even though most productions have been shut down due to coronavirus.THRhas a story about how certain film productions across the globe have found ways to keep shooting, even while the majority of film and TV work has been halted as a result of the coronavirus....

‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ Featurette: Meet J.K. Rowling’s New Hero In some ways, the setting ofFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Themshould seem familiar. We’ve already spent eight movies in that universe, after all. But this prequel unfolds 70 years and an ocean away fromHarry Potter. And as a newFantastic Beastsfeaturette reveals, the American wizarding world of the 1920s is something else entirely. Oh sure, the wands and the spells and the CG creatures are still there....

‘Green Lantern Corps’ May Be Directed By David S. Goyer Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment already haveAquamanshooting this year,taking the December release datevacated byAvatar 2. But they also hope to have another piece of the DC Expanded Universe in front of camerasbefore the end of the year. One of the less likely options wasGreen Lantern Corps, a film that doesn’t have a director (just likeThe Flash), but there may be one waiting in the wings....

‘Mama’ Set Visit: A Surprise Around Every Horrific Corner With Guillermo Del Toro And Jessica Chastain All preconceived notions about the supernatural thrillerMamafly out the window whenJessica Chastainwalks in the room. Before that moment, the film could be an archetypal supernatural thriller with little girls, a spectral being and a strong female lead like Naomi Watts inThe Ring, Nicole Kidman inThe Othersor Mia Farrow inRosemary’s Baby. But when Chastain strolls into a conference room at Pinewood Studios in Toronto, Canada in October 2011, it’s immediately clearMamais not that....

‘Marriage Story’ Trailer: Adam Driver And Scarlett Johansson Are Getting A Divorce Writer and directorNoah Baumbachis no stranger to dysfunctional relationships, having been behind the scripts and camera for movies likeThe Squid and the WhaleandWhile We’re Young. But now he’s back withMarriage StorystarringAdam DriverandScarlett Johansson, and some critics are calling his best work as a director yet. The film follows a couple as their marriage disintegrates and distance comes between them, both figuratively and literally....

‘Molly’s Game’ Review: Jessica Chastain Gives Another Dynamite Performance [TIFF] Aaron Sorkinhas had some trouble when it comes to his female characters. It’s not that Sorkin has never written a good female character; he has – C.J. Cregg onThe West Wingimmediately springs to mind. But more often than not, Sorkin has a tendency to reduce women to roles in which their biggest character trait is how well they stand beside powerful, smart men....

‘Rampage’ Director Brad Peyton Explains How You Adapt A Video Game With No Plot Adapting a video game with no story must be simultaneously freeing and terrifying, a chance to use a few basic building blocks to tell the story you want to tell while also having no established foundation to build upon. Maybe that’s whyit has taken five yearsfor a movie based on the 1986 arcade semi-classicRampageto come together – giant monsters destroying cities is an inherently cinematic concept, but there is literally no story present here beyond “giant beasts punch skyscrapers into dust....