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Superhero Bits: Batman V Superman, Thor: Ragnarok, Arrow, Deadpool, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, The Flash And we’re back from Comic-Con with a super-sized Superhero Bits! Want a new look at Batman’s costume inBatman v Superman? OrArrow’s new outfit for Season 4? Will Lady Sif be inThor: Ragnarok? How couldAgent Cartertie intoDoctor Strange? What are people saying about theLuciferpilot? WillFantastic Fourbe in 3D? Were thoseBryan CranstonLex Luthorrumors ever true? How’sJon Bernthallooking on the set ofDaredevil?...

Teaser Trailer: The Polish Brothers' Oz Hollywood is going crazy withWizard of Ozsequels, prequels, reboots and re-imaginings. Earlier this week it wasconfirmedthatSam Raimihad signed on to direct theWizard of OzprequelOz The Great and PowerfulstarringRobert Downey Jr. It has been previouslyrumoredthatDrew Barrymoreis planning to direct aWizard of Ozsequel titledSurrender Dorothy. Meanwhile, Universal have their Wicked film (based on the Oz-related musical of the same name) somewhere along the pipeline. And I’m sure there are others in various stages of development....

The Daily Stream: Cecil B. Demented Is John Waters' Riotous Ode To People Who Love Movies (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:“Cecil B. Demented” Where you can stream it:Free with ads onTubi The Pitch:John Waters, thefilthy mindbehind such subversive films as “Pink Flamingos” and “Female Trouble,” sets his satirical skills on the subject he loves most: movies and the people who make them....

The Daily Stream: Garden State Captures The Heartache Of Growing Up We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Movie:“Garden State” Where You Can Stream It:Prime Video The Pitch:Zach Braff, the guy everyone got to know as J.D. in “Scrubs,” wrote and directed a movie in 2004 about a young man named Andrew (Braff), a struggling wannabe actor who gets a phone call one morning that his mother has died....

The Funniest Fan Theory The Coen Brothers Have Ever Heard The Coen Brothers are often cagey about the meaning of their films, and in the case of"Barton Fink"— their uncategorizable 1991 film starring John Turturro and John Goodman — perhaps there is no grand unifying message to it. That hasn’t stopped critics and academics from analyzing the movie to death, and there are now long Wikipedia sections about its symbolism and themes....

This Week In Trailers: Risk, Whose Streets?, The Recall, Naples ‘44 Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we amble through the fog of war, wonder how many months of rentWesley Snipeswas able to get out of his new movie, wonder aloud whetherJulian Assangeis just a silver haired twat muffin, and rememberMike Brownas the spark for a revolution....

Tilda Swinton Hopes You’ll See Her 2008 Film ‘Julia’ [Trailer] Do you want to disappointTilda Swinton? No, of course you don’t. Over the weekend, the actress took part in a Reddit AMA to promote her new filmSnowpiercer. During the session she gave many charming and informative answers to a wide variety of questions. Asked about an unappreciated movie of hers that she hopes more people might see, she wrote enthusiastically aboutErick Zonca’s 2008 filmJulia....

VOTD: Original ‘Paranormal Activity’ House Used For An Incredible Prank Next week brings what is supposedly the final installment of theParanormal Activityfranchise. The found footage horror sensation began in 2009, when a little Slamdance film garnered so much buzz for being flat-out scary that it became a surprise horror hit. It spawned what will be five sequels whenThe Ghost Dimensionarrives. And since this is the final chapter of the film series, the marketing team behind the films wanted to have one final bit of fun with some unsuspecting strangers....

Watch A Clip From Pixar’s Photorealistic New Short ‘The Blue Umbrella’ One of the reliable highlights of any Pixar release is the short film that plays in front of each feature. Not only are they invariably sweet, funny, and inventive, they’re often a great way to check out the studio’s rising talents. WhenMonsters Universityopens this summer, we’ll be seeing the Pixar directorial debut of technical artistSaschka Unseld, who helmed the six-minute shortThe Blue Umbrella....

Watch The Short ‘Glory At Sea,’ From ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director Benh Zeitlin As I’ve started to read about the Sundance filmBeasts of the Southern Wild(check our review here), what keeps coming to mind is something like the early films of David Gordon Green filtered through the sensibility of author China Mieville. The film shows us the world through the eyes of a six-year old girl, but that world isn’t quite ‘real....

Why ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ Feels Like A Different Franchise [Movie Review] Note: This review was original published on November 10. We’ve bumped it up now that the film is in theaters. It’s a shameThe Hunger Gamesseries gets filed into the “young adult” category. Sure, there’s some dystopian young romance in there, but with each subsequent film, the series proves it is about much more than unattainable love with sporadic action....

‘3Below’ Season 2 Review: Guillermo Del Toro’s Animated Netflix Show Reaches A Satisfying But Uneven Conclusion Netflix has released the second season of3Below, a sci-fi Dreamworks CGI animated series overseen by fantasy maestroGuillermo del Toro.3Belowis the second series installment of del Toro’sTales of Arcadiaanimated trilogy, following the critically acclaimedTrollhunters. Season two concludes the3Belowsaga, but is it a worthwhile finale? What is 3Below about? After an attack on their home planet of Akiridion-5, two royal extraterrestrial siblings Aja and Krel (Tatiana Maslany and Diego Luna, sharing a strongrapport) and their glory-obsessed bodyguard (Nick Offerman)are exiled to a planet so obscure that nobody would will find them: Earth....

‘Anonymous’ Trailer: Roland Emmerich, Shakespeare, And Radiohead For his latest film,Anonymous,Roland Emmerichdeparts from his established world-busting pattern…or does he? While the film doesn’t feature scenes of overt global destruction as per2012andIndependence Day, the movie does seek to drop a bomb on the literary world by taking seriously the conspiracy theory that says the works ofWilliam Shakespearewere in fact penned by someone else. The cast is quite good (Rhys Ifans,Vanessa Redgrave,Joely Richardson,David Thewlis,Xavier Samuel,Sebastian Armesto,Rafe Spall,Edward Hogg,Jamie Campbell BowerandDerek Jacobi) and now you may get a taste of how this particular dramatic experiment plays out by checking out the trailer below....