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The Daily Stream: Cure Will Give You The Creeps (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 Film:“Cure” Where You Can Stream It:The Criterion Channel The Pitch:Kenichi Takabe (Kōji Yakusho), an eerily calm police detective, is investigating a series of strange, seemingly connected murders. In each case, the victims were killed with a large X carved into their throats....

The Kids In The Hall Trailer: The Sketch Comedy Revival Arrives In May It’s been almost 30 years since “The Kids In The Hall” TV series went off the air and Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson went off to fulfill solo careers. They may not be kids anymore, but the Canadian kings of sketch comedy are back. In the years following the end of their eponymous show, they put out the film “Brain Candy,” have reunited a handful of times for tours and comedy festivals, and in 2010 released the eight-part miniseries, “Death Comes to Town....

The Mystery Team Solves The Case Of The Haunted Hotel The DERRICK Comedy group, aka the folks behind the movieMystery Team, did a killer panel at recently Comic Con. One of the highlights was a new Mystery Team short calledThe Case of the Haunted Hotel, which showed just how the comedy group packs some really sick jokes into an unsettlingly friendly atmosphere. Now the short is online to help promote the roadshow rollout of the feature prior to its nationwide opening in October....

TV Bits: ‘Warrior’ Renewed For Season 3, ‘In Treatment’ Season 4 Trailer, ‘The Boys’ Spin-Off Casting, And More In this edition of TV Bits: I have not yet seen the Cinemax seriesWarrior(I know, I’m part of the reason the show was on the bubble), but its fans will be pleased to know that the series has officially been given a greenlight for season 3 and that it has moved over to HBO Max....

Walt Disney World’s Entertainment Offerings Are Back In Action Next Month The magic of theDisneytheme parks is that there is genuinely something for everyone. If you’re a fan of the characters, they’re more than easy to spot. If you love good food, there’s options aplenty. And some people love a good show, whether it’s nighttime fireworks or daytime interactions with computer-animated turtles. Disney’s slow ease back into normalcy is finally dragging the live-entertainment side of things back into the spotlight, as they finally announced the return of some big live-entertainment favorites....

‘Captain America: Civil War’: Martin Freeman’s Role Confirmed, New Images Revealed Captain America: Civil Warbrings back what feels like every MCU character we’ve ever met (save Thor and Hulk, who’ll be off on their own buddy adventure next fall). But it also introduces a bunch of new ones, some of whom are more mysterious than others. One that’s been a big fat question mark up to this point is the government agent played byMartin Freeman....

‘Dave’ Season 2 Featurette: Getting A Record Deal Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be FXX’s comedy seriesDaveis telling the story of rapperLil Dicky, or at least the fictionalized version of himself thatDave Burdplaying on the show as he finds his footing in the hip-hop world. The first season became the network’s biggest comedy last year at the start of the pandemic, and now the pressure is on to take the show to the next level in season two....

‘Dual’ Will See Karen Gillan Fight Her Own Clone In A Court-Ordered Trial-By-Combat Riley Stearns, the director ofFaultsandThe Art of Self-Defense, is set to make a satirical sci-fi thriller – and he’s lined-up an interesting cast. In Stearns' upcomingDual, a woman who undergoes a cloning procedure – and lives to regret it. The film will starKaren GillanandAaron Paul, with Jesse Eisenbergset to make “an appearance.” How’s this for a premise: inDual, “After receiving a terminal diagnosis, a woman (Karen Gillan) opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family....

‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ Trailer: A Teen Dreams Of Being A Drag Queen In This Musical Adaptation Over the weekend, the LGBTQ community celebrated National Coming Out Day, spreading awareness and encouraging lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer people to “come out of the closet” and reveal who they really are. In honor of this special day, 20th Century Studios released the first trailer forEverybody’s Talking About Jamie, an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name about a 16-year old boy who dreams of being a drag queen, and it looks wonderful and fabulous....

‘Evolution’ Teaser: A Mysterious Film About A Strange Island I’ve quietly heard some very good things aboutEvolution, the new film fromLucile Hadžihalilovic, but even if there hadn’t been whisperings of it being terrific I would be excited to see the new film from the director of 2004’sInnocence. It’s a shame thatInnocencenever really gained traction in the US, and because of that Hadžihalilovic is probably better-known here for her creative partnership with and marriage to director Gaspar Noe, of films likeEnter the VoidandLove....

‘Guns Akimbo’ Review: A Gaming Satire That Indulges In What It Critiques [TIFF] “You like this?!” asks Daniel Radcliffe’s Miles to a covert camera live streaming his misfortunate adventures as he fights for his life. It’s a breaking point for him as a character inGuns Akimbo, and he launches into quite the screed about the cowardice of the viewers who cheer on imperiling people from behind the remove of their screen but could never face a similar situation in their own lives....

‘Howard’ Trailer: Meet The Lyricist Behind The Classic Songs Of ‘Aladdin’, ‘The Little Mermaid’ & More You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t know the songs from Disney’s animated classics likeAladdin,Beauty and the Beast, andThe Little Mermaid. However, you may have a harder time finding is someone who knows the name of the man who wrote those songs. Howard Ashmanis the lyricist behind such memorable tunes as “Under the Sea,” “Friend Like Me,” and “Be Our Guest,” and unfortunately, his musical genius was cut short after he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS....

‘Into The Dark’ Teaser: Get A Glimpse Of Hulu’s New Horror Anthology Series There’s a whole sub-genre of holiday-themed horror, but Blumhouse and Hulu take it to another level withInto the Dark. Sure, there are the usual suspects — Halloween and Christmas — but what about all the holidays in between? Can you imagine an Easter horror story? Well,Into the Darkcan. An anthology series inspired by a holiday in every month in which its released,Into the Darkis an experiment in horror storytelling that will air 12 episodes over the course of a year....