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‘The Trip To Greece’ Review: Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon’s 10-Year Food Odyssey Comes To A Bittersweet End Few could have guessed that a simple BBC travelogue series that followed two British comedians riffing and doing Michael Caine impressions would take off, but theTripmovies have been a comforting part of our pop culture landscape for the past decade. Like a warm blanket. Or a nicely grilled scallop. For 10 years,Steve CooganandRob Brydonhave been traveling across Europe, feasting on local delicacies while exchanging hilarious banter and ponderous musings about life and aging....

‘The Walking Dead’ Will Lose Danai Gurira After Season 10 In the pages of Image Comics’The Walking Dead, Rick Grimes and Michonne are among the longest-surviving major characters and their war against the zombie apocalypse continues through the latest issues. However, the AMC television adaptation is about to feature a very different line-up. Following Andrew Lincoln’s departure from the show earlier this season,Danai Gurirais set to exit as well. The news comes to us viaThe Hollywood Reporterand follows the recent announcement thatThe Walking Deadwould return for a tenth season....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Won’t Feature Stellan Skarsgard, Allowing Dr. Erik Selvig A Much-Needed Day Off The blockbuster as we used to know it died in 2008 when the credits rolled on the first screening of Jon Favreau’sIron Man. When Samuel L. Jackson popped up as Nick Fury to recruit Tony Stark into the Avengers, the shape of mainstream, populist cinema changed. The shared cinematic universe became the thing every single movie studio chased....

‘Tom And Jerry’ Trailer: The Game Of Cat And Mouse Comes Into The Real World Tom and Jerryare undoubtedly television’s most famous cat and mouse duo, but for all their fame on the small screen, they’ve yet to be given a a blockbuster movie on the big screen. (No, we won’t talk about the animated movie in 1993 where Tom and Jerry talked extensively, going against everything that was great about the original animated shorts)....

/Film Is Hiring A News Writer! Do You Have What It Takes? Do you like reading /Film? Do you voraciously consume any film news you can get your hands on? Do you enjoy writing? Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of film that borders on creepy or annoying? Do you have an interesting perspective on film news that you are able to articulate in an interesting and eloquent way? If the answer to any or most of these questions is “Yes,” you may have what it takes to be a writer for /Film!...

2016 Emmy Winners: ‘Game Of Thrones’ & ‘The People V. O.J. Simpson’ Win Big At The 68th Annual TV Awards Last night, the68th Annual Emmy Awardshanded out trophies to some of the best talents working in television today. Broadcast live on ABC, the 2016 Emmys really showed off their diversity, not only with their large roster of presenters, but also with those who took home awards last night. The show’s host Jimmy Kimmel said at the top of the show that if your show didn’t have a dragon or a white Bronco in it, you should just go home, and the winners pretty much made that true....

AMC Theatres Now Offering Open Captions For Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Audiences Today in “news about things that probably, no, definitely should’ve happened a long time ago,” AMC Theatres revealed that it would be expanding its captioning services throughout the nation. The chainmade the announcementon October 19 and revealed that its captioning services — also called open captions by the company — will expand to more than 240 locations throughout the United States....

Another ‘The Mandalorian’ Spin-Off Series Announced, Will Arrive In December 2021 The second season finale ofTheMandalorianpremiered on Disney+ today, and aside from the mind-blowing ending to the episode, there was a post-credits scene that came with even more surprising news. To be specific would mean venturing intospoilers, and it’s far too early to go into details right here. So what we will say right now is that a thirdThe Mandalorianspin-off was announced after a post-credits scene....

Bob Odenkirk And David Cross Doing New Sketch Comedy Show Before they were Saul Goodman and Tobias Funke,Bob OdenkirkandDavid Crossco-created one of the funniest shows ever. It was calledMr. Show(or, more fully,Mr. Show With Bob and David) and it ran four seasons on HBO, from 1995 to 1998.Mr. Showhelped give the comedians a huge cult following and major pop culture cachet. Since then, each has gone off on their own, becoming very successful in different ways....

Coen Brothers: Five Favorite Westerns, Plus Their Joke About Remaking ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’ True Gritis poised to cross the $100m mark in the US. While the movie is theJoel and Ethan Coen’s widest open to date (1100 more screens than their last greatest domestic success,No Country For Old Men) that doesn’t lessen the fact that this is still their biggest domestic gross ever. Celebrate their achievement by checking out the brothers' list of their favorite Westerns, and then puzzle over comments about making a new shot for shot version ofGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner....

Cool Stuff: This Life-Size ‘Joker’ Bust Of Joaquin Phoenix Is Eerily Realistic “When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?” If you have the cash to spend on this meticulously crafted life-size bust ofJoaquin PhoenixasThe Joker, you’ll be the one introducing your friends to Arthur Fleck. That’s not a still from Joker in the image above, that’s the life-sizeJokerbust created by Infinity Studios, and you won’t believe how detailed it is....

Dark Knight Viral Updates: Harvey Dent Smeared; The Joker On April Fools /Film reader Addict sent us word that he received another phone call from Harvey Dent, as part of the continuing viral campaign for The Dark Knight. Here is what Harvey’s message said: “Hello, this is Harvey Dent. Weeks ago, I asked for your support… Concerned Citizens For A Better Gotham have started a smear campaign against me. Their claims are absolutely untrue, and while their lies show just how nervous my campaign makes the criminals and the corrupt, their attacks can destroy our chances of taking Gotham back....

David Fincher Close To A Financing Deal With Media Rights Capital; ‘The Goon’ And ‘Heavy Metal’ To Follow? Media Rights Capital is turning into a film funding juggernaut, and one of the moves the company is making is to enable name-brand directors to make new movies under their own auspices. Just earlier today we talked about theM. Night Shyamalan-produced seriesThe Night Chronicles, which MRC has been funding. NowDavid Fincheris close to signing a two-film deal with MRC to produce two films (possibly more) of a yet to be defined character....