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This Week In Trailers: Marley, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, Last Days Here, ID:A, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Watch As We Try To Eat EVERYTHING At Disney’s Festival Of Holidays In the latest Ordinary Adventures vlog, Peter & Kitra visit the 2019 edition of Disney’sFestival of the Holidaysat Disney California Adventure. Their mission: to eat everything at the eight booths, and also consume some of the Holiday drinks as well. This means they had to eat 18 separate dishes over the course of one afternoon. Hit the jump to watch the video....

Why The Jurassic World Series Can’t Capture The Spielbergian Magic Of Jurassic Park Aprologuefor the upcoming “Jurassic Park Dominion” arrived this week, and it wasn’t half-bad. The first part of the prologue takes us back 65 million years to when dinosaurs ruled the earth, giving us a human-free world where dinos were large and in charge. It then cuts to the current timeline in the “Jurassic World” series where we see a T....

‘Ant-Man’ Credits Scenes: Watch Both The Wasp And ‘Civil War’ Teaser Clips Right Now We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Marvel Studios superhero heist filmAnt-Manwill hit home video on December 8th, and it should make for a good Christmas gift for the Marvel fan in your life. But if you can’t wait until then, a couple key scenes from the movie have been officially released online for you to watch over and over again....

‘Candyman’ Director Nia DaCosta Shares A Juneteeth Message In New Featurette RememberCandyman? We’ve been excited about directorNia DaCosta’s modern take on the 1990s horror classic for years, and after being delayed due to the pandemic, we’re finally only a couple of months away from being able to see it for ourselves. The film doesn’t come out until the end of August, but to celebrate Juneteenth, Universal released a newCandymanfeaturette in which DaCosta talks about what the newly federally recognized holiday means for the Black community and how some of those feelings are explored in her new take on this property....

‘Collide’ Trailer: Anthony Hopkins Destroys Worlds X-Men: ApocalypseisNicholas Hoult’s most high-profile release in the near future, but he has a slew of other projects coming up as well. TheMad Max: Fury Roadco-star is inDrake Doremus' (Like Crazy)sci-fi dramaEquals,Owen Harris' (Black Mirror)Kill Your Friends, and a movie that few of us knew about,Collide. See the firstCollidetrailer after the jump.Eran Creevy’s (Welcome to the Punch) action movie, written by the director andF. Scott Frazier(The Numbers Station), has a very respectable cast....

‘Colossal’ Trailer: Anne Hathaway Is A Giant Monster Giant monster movies have been around for a long time, and so have indie movies about thirtysomethings trying to get their life together. Somehow, one movie has managed to combine both of those subgenres into a single movie that is refreshing, entertaining and positively great. ColossalfollowsAnne Hathawayas a young socialite who isn’t doing anything valuable with her life. She’s just drinking the night away with her friends, and her boyfriend (Dan Stevens) is sick of it....

‘Creed II’ Featurette: Everyone Is Out For Revenge While getting back together with your family could make for an awkward reunion this Thanksgiving, there’s no way it will be more tense than the reunion between Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) and Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) when Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) and Viktor Drago (Florian “The Big Nasty” Munteanu) go head-to-head in the ring inCreed II. With Turkey Day just around the corner, studios are making their final pushes for some of the big holiday releases that will be clamoring for your family’s attention this Thanksgiving, and a newCreed IIfeaturette certainly does a good job of tapping into the nostalgia they might feel when they recall the events ofRocky IV, which loom large in this latest boxing sequel....

‘Deadpool 2’ Will Bring Back Some Of The Merc With A Mouth’s Buddies Just yesterday, we learned thatDeadpool 2would still very much be a solo adventure for the Merc with a Mouth. But co-writersRhett ReeseandPaul Wernickdid promise that it would still be populated with “a lot of characters.” We know that a couple of those characters are supposed to be Marvel Comics favorites Cable and Domino, but there’s also room for some of the characters from the first movie to return....

‘Elvis & Nixon’ Trailer: Michael Shannon Has The Steel Claws Of A Tiger “Everybody loves Elvis.” Everybody also lovesMichael Shannon, so who better to play the King than the99 Homesstar? Shannon is playing the rock icon inElvis & Nixon, withKevin Spaceyplaying the latter role. Today’s Presley’s birthday, so to celebrate, Amazon released a trailer and poster for directorLizaJohnson’scomedy. After the jump, watch theElvis & Nixontrailer. In addition to Shannon and Spacey, the film also starsColin Hanks,Evan Peters,Ashley Benson,Alex Pettyfer,Tate Donovan, andJohnny Knoxville....

‘Final Destination’ Reboot Coming From ‘Saw’ Franchise Writers Keep a close eye on your Rube Goldberg machines, watch your back around sharp objects, and avoid roller coasters at all costs: aFinal Destinationreboot is coming to kill us all. OK, maybe notus, but just like the existing movies, Death will certainly be out to kill this film’s characters in creative and ludicrous ways. Learn more about the reboot below. The Hollywood ReportersaysPatrick MeltonandMarcus Dunstanwill be handling the script for theFinal Destinationreboot, making the jump from a different long-running horror franchise that was running around the same time....

‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ Character Guide: Who’s Who In This Sprawling Cast American Crime Storyis taking a couple of steps back from murder this season to address the extremely scandalous saga ofPresident Bill Clinton’s impeachment. While these events happened just a cool 23 years ago, time has really broken down as a construct, so you may find yourself needing a little refresher course. Not to mention the fact that the scandal spans a few years and involves several major players....

‘Luke Cage’ Panel Recap: “The World Is Ready For A Bulletproof Black Man” [Comic-Con 2016] On Thursday, Marvel TV took over Comic-Con’s second biggest venue, Ballroom 20, to present their next new Netflix series,Luke CagestarringMike Colter. Fans were first introduced to the indestructible bartender in last year’sJessica Jones, but this fall he’ll branch out on his own to become the hero of Harlem. Marvel TV’sJeph Loebwas on hand to moderate the panel, with showrunnerCheo Cokerand actors Mike Colter,Mahershala Ali,Alfre Woodard,Frank Whaley,Theo Rossi, andSimone Missickall onstage to tell you whyLuke Cagecould be your next new favorite show....