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This Week In Trailers: T2 Trainspotting, Homo Sapiens, Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, Actor Martinez, Animals Season 2 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?...

TV Bits: Renewals, Reunions, Sports Docs, And More In this edition of TV Bits: Let’s start with some positive news, shall we? Several shows have been renewed, and that’s good news for anyone who happens to like any of these shows. Congrats everyone, we did it! Here’s what’s coming back: Netflix has announced the return date forThe Politician, the ambitiousRyan Murphyseries that follows Payton Hobart (Benn Platt), with every season revolving “around a different political race his character is involved in....

Werner Herzog’s ‘Into The Abyss’ Continues As TV Series ‘On Death Row’ As controversial as the death penalty is, I think the one thing we can all agree on is that it’s a huge, complicated topic. Too big, definitely, for just one film, which may be whyWerner Herzogis now expanding his upcoming death row documentaryInto the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Lifeto a limited television series titledOn Death Row, which will air on the cable chanel Investigation Discovery later this year....

What Happens After You Get A Short Film Into Sundance? I first learned about the work of director Bobby Miller when he e-mailed me in 2009. The subject line of his e-mail read “Hi Dave! Long Time Listener, first time…uhhhhhh” and he was contacting me to share with me his work from his amusing video show “The Best Short Films in the World.” Not too long afterwards, I heard rumblings about a short film that Bobby was writing and directing calledTub....

With ‘Luca,’ Pixar Is Moving Away From Realism And Toward “The Hand Of The Artist” The team behindLucawere facing a unique challenge: water. It wasn’t a matter of making the water in the upcoming Pixar film look realistic and detailed — Pixar animators could probably create photorealistic water in their sleep. It was a matter of making itlessrealistic. It’s a strange problem for Pixar to have, right? The animation studio had perfected 3D animation to such a degree that their films have started to look almosttoorealistic....

Woody Allen’s Next Has A Title: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger Sounds like the punchline to a joke about a carnival fortune teller.Woody Allenhas been quietly making his next film, and as per usual we’ve known almost nothing about it up until now. (Even his casts sometimes don’t get full scripts during production; Allen is quite good at keeping his films locked down.) Along with the titleYou Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, we also have a brief synopsis, which you may find right after the jump....

Yes, All The Dead ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Characters Are Still Dead InAvengers: Endgame, there’s a fine line to be drawn between death and disintegration. While those who went up in smoke following the Snap inInfinity Warceased to be, they didn’t reallydie– not technically, anyway. As for those who suffered non-dusting fates, well, that’s a different story. So how doesEndgamego about approaching this? Are the dead still dead? If so, how do some of the actors have contracts for future films?...

‘Audrey’ Trailer: A Documentary That Hopes To Show The Real Audrey Hepburn The new documentaryAudreywants to go beyond the famous image of Hollywood starAudrey Hepburnand show the real person underneath. To do so, a hybrid of rare footage and interviews mixes with scenes of three different dancers playing Hepburn at different points in her life. It’s an unconventional twist that might elevateAudreyabove the standard talking-head documentary that has become so prevalent....

‘Black Panther 2’ Will Start Filming In July 2021, Adds ‘Narco: Mexico’ Actor To Cast In the wake ofBlack PantherstarChadwick Boseman’s surprising and tragic death, we assumed that Marvel Studios and directorRyan Cooglerwould put the plannedBlack Panther 2on the back burner while they grieved and figured out the best way to move forward with the sequel to the billion dollar hit. But apparently they’ve already figured things out – or at least to such a degree that a production start date has already been set....

‘Brand New Cherry Flavor’ Trailer: ‘Mulholland Drive’ Meets ‘The Neon Demon’ In This ’90s Horror Series From Netflix Rosa Salazarwants revenge in the brand newBrand New Cherry Flavortrailer. The stylish-looking Netflix series comes from creatorsNick AntoscaandLenore Zion, and Antosca’s involvement immediately catches my eye because he also created the great, underratedChannel Zero. In the upcomingBrand New Cherry Flavor, “A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge – and kittens....

‘Galaxy Quest’ Director Dean Parisot Heads Up ‘Red 2’ Screenwriters? Check.Release date? Check. NowRed 2, the sequel to the 2010 comic book adaptation starringBruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John MalkovichandHelen Mirrenhas an all-important director as well.Dean Parisot, the director ofGalaxy QuestandFun With Dick and Jane, will helm the sequel which is expected to return all four of those stars. WritersJonandErich Hoeberwere hired to write the script last January and Summit announced August 23, 2025 as the film’s release date....

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Will Return In 2020 Without Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt Shia LaBeoufwon’t inherit be the heir apparent toHarrison Ford’s whip-wielding archaeologist after all. LaBeouf’s character Mutt Williams, who was the secret son of Indiana Jones andKaren Allen’s Marion Ravenwood, won’t appear inIndiana Jones 5at all after the character’s lackluster reception in the widely malignedIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.Now it’s a matter of finding out how long Ford is willing to continue donning the fedora, or whether a new “successor” will be introduced — one who doesn’t have quite a grating energy....

‘Mortal Engines’ Featurette Promises Something You’ve Never Seen Before “How often do we go to the movies today and see things that we’ve genuinely never seen before?” Producer and co-writerPeter Jacksonwants to give audiences a fresh new spectacle withMortal Engines, Universal’s film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s popular young adult novel. And Jackson is actually delivering on that promise, showing us a post-apocalyptic world in which cities roam across a barren wasteland andeat other cities....