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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Season 7 Trailer Goes Retro As Holt Becomes A Patrolman Again Brooklyn Nine-Nineis returning for a seventh season on NBC next month, and the first trailer with new footage from the season premiere has finally arrived. It’s a throwback to cop shows of the 1980s, which feels appropriate since Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) has to go back to his early days as a patrolman after his nemesis Madeline Wuntch (Kyra Sedgwick) learned he only spent a month as a uniformed patrolman before becoming a detective....

‘Fandry,’ A Rural Tale Of Caste Oppression, Paints A Necessary Portrait Of India (Welcome toA Passage to India, a new series where we explore great works from all over South Asia for unacquainted viewers, all of them available to stream.) Nagraj Popatrao Manjule seems like a born filmmaker, though he only gravitated towards the profession in his early thirties. His reason, in part, was toreflect his own experiences, those oft unaddressed by the Indian mainstream....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Is Done Shooting, Confirmed For Comic-Con Appearance Even though it won’t hit theaters for over a year, we’re a little bit closer to seeingGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2because production just wrapped on the sequel after shooting in New Orleans. DirectorJames Gunnrecorded a video on Facebook live announcing thatChris Pratthad finished all his shooting as Star-Lord and later in the day officially announced on Twitter that production overall was also complete....

‘Horse Girl’ Trailer: Alison Brie May Or May Not Be Plagued By Aliens Alison Brie’s Sarah is just a normal girl who loves horses. She’s a bit awkward, sure, and may be more happy interacting with horses and crime shows than people, but who isn’t these days? But then Sarah begins to have strange lucid dreams that start to trickle into her real life, and Sarah becomes convinced that she has been abducted by aliens....

‘Joker’ Video Reveals Joaquin Phoenix In Full Clown Make-Up Todd Phillipsjust gave us our first look atJoaquin PhoenixinJokermake-up. Maybe. The teaser video definitely shows Phoenix made-up to look like a clown, but is this his final Clown Prince of Crime look, or just a taste of things to come? Watch theJokervideo below. A post shared by Todd Phillips (@toddphillips) And just like that, I’m…kind of sold on theJokermovie? Look, even though Todd Phillips has assembled an incredible cast for this thing – Joaquin Phoneix,Frances Conroy,Zazie Beetz,MarcMaron,Robert De Niro,Shea Whigham,Bill Campand more – the idea of a standalone Joker movie always struck me as a dumb idea....

‘Knight Rider’ Movie Speeds Back Into Development With James Wan Knight Rideris one of those properties Hollywood can’t seem to ever fully shake. The notion of a crime fighter using an artificially intelligent, technologically advanced car is evidently just too enticing to let comfortably settle into the ether of ’80s nostalgia, and for the past decade, studios have been trying to make aKnight Ridermovie. But after several false starts, a new version is now in the works....

‘Mission: Impossible II’ And The Final Bastion Of Hollywood Villains Being Coded As Gay (Welcome toQueering the Scene, a series that explores LGBTQ themes and content in films of all kinds…especially where you least expect it.)Queer representation in cinema has often been problematic. As a result of queer coding, the LGBTQ+ community was often portrayed as violent, threatening, and abhorrent, an active threat to civilized heteronormative society. But queer coding isn’t a new concept....

‘Never-Ending Man’ Trailer: Hayao Miyazaki Just Can’t Retire Hayao Miyazakiis one of the best living filmmakers in the world, in and outside of animation. So it was a loss for us all when he announced he would retire in 2013 — and a perplexing but exciting gain for us when he nixed that retirement and stated that he was coming back todirect a feature-length CGI animated film. And because we got a lovely, melancholy documentary following the end of the last phase of his career — if you haven’t seen 2013’sThe Kingdom of Dreams and MadnessbyMami Sunada, do so now — we’re getting yet another documentary on Miyazaki titledNever-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki, which follows his newfound passion for CGI animation and the making of the film bringing him out of retirement,Boro the Caterpillar....

‘Paranormal Activity’ Reboot Will Be Directed By ‘Underwater’ Filmmaker William Eubank In an interview last year,Paranormal Activityreboot writerChristopher Landonsaidhe was “super excited” about the yet-to-be-announced director who would be shepherding that vision to the big screen. “I can’t say who it is because they won’t let me. He’s a get. He’s awesome! I think people are going to be really surprised by where we’re taking this thing.” Now that mystery has been solved....

‘Star Wars’ Producer To Adapt Sci-Fi Short Film ‘R’Ha’ Rick McCallumwas the face ofStar Warsfor almost two decades. He was the lead producer on the Special Editions, the Prequel Trilogy and, unlike George Lucas, was the guy talking about the films in public. Now, theformer Lucasfilm employeewill shepherd a totally new vision in sci-fi:R’Ha.R’Hais based ona short film of the samedirected byKaleb Lechowski, who is attached to direct the feature. While the short centers on an interrogation between a non-human alien and an enemy machine (think Goro fromMortal Kombatvs....

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Will Continue John Connor’s Story, James Cameron Says It was the question on everyone’s lips after the first trailer forTerminator: Dark Fatehit: Where is John Connor? The prophesied leader of the resistance against a war against Skynet and the savior of the world is seemingly nowhere to be seen in the newestTerminatorfilm, despite the return of familiar franchise facesLinda Hamiltonas Sarah Connor andArnold Schwarzeneggeras the T-800 cyborg....

‘The Exorcist’ Reboot Reportedly Coming To Theaters In 2021 Pazuzu rides again! Buried at the end of a recent Deadline article comes the news that a reboot of William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classicThe Exorcistis being developed for theatrical release in 2021 by the folks at Morgan Creek Productions. Hang on to your holy water as we attempt to parse through what’s going on here. This sentence was at the bottom of a Deadline article this afternoon, and it has sent a ripple of confusion through the horror community: “Current Morgan Creek projects includeStay Tunedat AMC, with a planned theatrical reboot ofThe Exorcistin the works for 2021....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Team Up With Old Enemies And Lost Allies In “Power Broker” Hello, and welcome to your weekly recap ofThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier. These are meant to be read after watching, so they will go deep intospoilerterritory. You have been warned! Previously On… In “The Star Spangled-Man,” Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) fought the Flag Smashers in Munich alongside the new Captain America (Wyatt Russell)and Battlestar (Clé Bennett), but were unsuccessful in their attempt to thwart the anarchist group’s heist....