The Quarantine Stream: ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Is A Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Distraction In Troubled Times (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series:Curb Your EnthusiasmWhere you’re able to Stream It:HBO Go/HBO NowThe Pitch:Television writerLarry David, playing a fictionalized version of himself, bumbles his way through modern day Los Angeles, hanging out with his wife (Cheryl Hines) and manager (Jeff Garlin) and often letting his bristling personality get him into ludicrous (and hilarious) situations....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Tombstone’ Is An Eminently Quotable Western Featuring Val Kilmer’s Best Performance (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:TombstoneWhere you may Stream It:Amazon Prime VideoThe Pitch:Former lawman Wyatt Earp and his brothers move with their families to Tombstone, Arizona to make it rich. But when a gang called The Cowboys starts terrorizing the area, the Earps and their old pal Doc Holliday decide that they can’t just stand by and watch, setting up a massive conflict which erupts into violence during a famous showdown at the O....

This Week In Trailers: Baskin, The Meddler, Francofonia, Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures, Zim High 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 wonder what is up with Turkey, get in touch with our more maternal side, marvel at the world of art and Nazis, peep Africa’s first teen movie and take in some licentious photos that some say should be labeled as filth....

This Week In Trailers: S#!%house, Ghost Tropic, The Swerve, Kingdom Of Silence, Succor 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 go back to school, drift in and out of reality, wake up at the end-of-the-line at the wrong time of night, go back to college for some fun, and go looking for love in a dating app....

Tom Clancy Adaptation ‘Without Remorse’ Release Date Delayed Two Weeks AfterJack Ryan: Shadow Recruitfailed to make much of an impact at the box office, Paramount is gearing up to venture into another corner of that fictional universe withWithout Remorse, a new film focused on a character that was also created by author Tom Clancy. The spy thriller, which starsMichael B. Jordan(Creed,Black Panther), was initially set to hit theaters this September, but now Paramount has bumped it into the release slot previously held byVenom 2(before that superhero film gained itsglorious new title)....

Tom Cruise Signs For Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ At Universal Joseph Kosinski’s post-Tron Legacyproject,Oblivion, is now a ‘go’ picture. Months after Disneyput the movie into turnaround, a PG-13 version ofOblivionnow hasTom Cruisesigned to take the lead role, “a soldier who’s stuck alone on the planet, repairing the drones that patrol and destroy a savage alien life form. He encounters a beautiful woman who crashes in a craft, and their experience together forces him to question his world view....

VOTD: A Hollywood Stuntman Reacts To ‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’, ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ & More Imagine being able to work alongside Hollywood’s biggest stars, but no one knows your name and almost never sees your face. This is the life of a stuntman, and if they do their job right, then you end up believing that your favorite movie stars just jumped onto a train, got smashed through a window, or flipped a car on the highway....

VOTD: What If Werner Herzog Directed ‘Ant-Man’? With the release ofAnt-Manearlier this month, we’re officially done with releases from Marvel Studios for 2015. Despite the trouble behind the scenes before the film started shooting, with Peyton Reed replacing Edgar Wright as director, it actually turned out to be a pretty decent comic book flick. But one fan thinks that movie could have been infinitely better if famed documentarian andJack ReachervillainWerner Herzogwas behind the camera instead....

WTF: Do All Animated Female Disney Characters Have The Same Face? Leave it to the Internet to find controversy in the most unlikely place. Specifically, the faces ofDisneycharacters. A few blogs have noticed that in the past several years, specifically in Disney and Pixar’s computer animated films, animators have used the exact same face shape for every single female character. That’s opposed to the male characters who have wildly varied facial constructions....

‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’ TV Spot: The Mad Hatter Is Still Creepy As Hell At last year’s San Diego Comic Con, I was shocked by the amount of people dressed up asJohnny Depp’s loud and frightening take on the Mad Hatter. I’m always surprised by how much some people love the character, but then again,Tim Burton’s adaptation ofLewis Carroll’s book made over a billion dollars at the box office, so audiences clearly have a fondness for this world....

‘Alien: Covenant’ Behind-The-Scenes Footage Shows Off Practical Sets And Spaceships When Ivisited the set ofAlien: Covenantlast year, I couldn’t help but be bowled over by the sheer scale of the production. It’s one thing to hear about a movie that costs far north of $100 million to produce, but it’s another thing to actually see what that cash is paying for. In the case of the sixth movie in the science fiction/horror franchise that directorRidley Scottkicked off back in 1979, much of that cash seems to have been spent on elaborate, detailed, and utterly enormous sets....

‘Deadpool’ Is One Year Away And Ryan Reynolds Offers A Tease This Valentine’s Day weekend, you can choose between BDSM and spies. Next year, it’s a wisecracking superhero in a skin tight costume.Deadpool, directed byTim Millerand based on the ultra popular mutant Marvel character, hits theaters one year from Thursday, June 20, 2025.Ryan Reynoldswill play the character, a deadly assassin with superhuman healing abilities and a penchant for breaking the fourth wall....

‘Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise’ Is A Bruce Lee-Inspired Martial Arts Stage Musical From Sia And The Writers Of ‘Kung Fu Panda’ Touted in ads as a “futuristic kung fu musical”,Dragon Spring Phoenix Riseis an imaginative premature hatchling at its world premiere at The Shed in Manhattan Hudson Yard. It has creative parentage in Chinese opera and film director Chen Shi-Zheng (Dark Matter) andKung Fu Pandawriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, with Sia as the songwriter....