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The Daily Stream: A Knight’s Tale Is A Delightfully Anachronistic Comedy With A Great Message Sony Pictures Releasing By Jenna Busch/July 24, 2022 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The 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 Movie: “A Knight’s Tale” Where You Can Stream It: Starz The Pitch: Can we change our stars?...

The Scariest Moments In The Sandman, Ranked Netflix By Michael Boyle/Aug. 5, 2022 3:30 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the first season of “The Sandman,” and the first two volumes of the comics, “Preludes and Nocturnes” and “The Doll’s House.” Neil Gaiman’s beloved comic series “The Sandman” is filled to the brim with disturbing moments, and the first season of the Netflix adaptation has followed suit. Adapting most of the first two volumes, season 1 features plenty of the darkest scenes of the source material and even creates a few new scary scenes of its own....

Albie is the nicest character … for now HBO The cast of “The White Lotus” season 2 all agree that Albie is the nicest character. “We must protect Albie,” Aubrey Plaza told Rotten Tomatoes. “We must protect his innocent, boyish smile.” Albie is definitely the most naive character, but is he truly the kindest? Theo James, who plays Cameron, wasn’t totally sure. “I would say Adam [DiMarco]’s character Albie is the purest, but maybe he’s … yeah,” James said, trailing off before giving too much away....

When enough is never enough Paramount Pictures From Paramount’s perspective, there is no reason not to try and squeeze a little more juice from this downright miracle of a movie. They held onto it for two years during the pandemic expecting it would be a hit and man, were they right. Director Joseph Kosinski’s sequel to the ’80s classic decimated any and all expectations. Heck, if the movie had made $716 million worldwide (which it made domestically alone), it would have been considered a success....

Why Arcane’s Emmy Win Is Such An Ironic Comment On The State Of Netflix Animation Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 14, 2022 4:00 pm EST This year’s Emmy season has come and gone, and amongst the historic wins for Sheryl Lee Ralph, Quinta Brunson, and Lee Jung-jae, Netflix also took home the statue for Best Animated Program for the very first time. The streaming giant has been nominated in the past for “Big Mouth” and “BoJack Horseman,” but it was “Arcane” that finally brought home the gold, and made Netflix the first streamer to ever take home the award....

Middle sister act: Back in the writing habit Universal Pictures While speaking to Cinema Daily, Laura Carmichael spoke about how happy she was to be in the company of friends again. It makes sense, given that she’s been working alongside this company of actors for over six seasons of television. But more than that, Carmichael was excited by what the script for “A New Era” had in store for Lady Edith:...

Zach Braff Thinks This Scrubs Episode Is One Of The Series’ Greatest NBC By Sandy Schaefer/July 11, 2022 2:07 pm EST Look up any list of the saddest TV episodes of all time, and you’re likely to come across a few entries over and over. Usual suspects include “Papa’s Got a Brand New Excuse,” the episode of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” in which Will Smith delivers perhaps the most heart-breaking line in his career (“How come he don’t want me, man?...

After Adam Sandler Bombed A Stand-Up Set, Robin Williams Gave Him Some Encouragement Universal Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 7, 2022 4:44 pm EST One of the keys to becoming a successful stand-up comic — aside from, y’know, being funny — is perseverance. The high of your first good set, even if it’s five minutes at an open mic, will wear off quickly. You’ll have many off nights. You will absolutely bomb....

Avatar: The Way Of Water Costume Designer Deborah L. Scott On A Brand New Frontier [Exclusive Interview] 20th Century Studios By Jack Giroux/Dec. 23, 2022 6:33 pm EST Deborah L. Scott is pushing the envelope in the world of costume designing. Scott, who previously worked with filmmaker James Cameron on “Avatar” and “Titanic,” built all the costumes for “Avatar: The Way of Water.” While the physical versions of these costumes never appear on-screen, all of the actors were fitted so they would know how their characters would move underneath the weight and feel of the costume; Scott calls the process “virtual fittings....

The hierarchy of the October box office has shifted Warner Bros. Whether that impression will be a favorable one or not remains to be seen: the film hasn’t gotten the most glowing feedback from critics by any means. It currently sits at a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, meaning fewer than half of critics included in that site’s aggregation liked it more than they didn’t. The overall reaction to the story of reawakened antihero Teth-Adam (Dwayne Johnson) and the Justice Society of America has been fairly lukewarm for a superhero film....

The king we need Marvel Studios Of course, just because he is sensible and smart doesn’t mean M’Baku isn’t still a mighty warrior and formidable commander of armies. After all, he is the quickest to call Wakanda to action against Namor, the one to lead the Wakandan forces, and the first to go up and fight Namor one on one. M’Baku also shows the power of the MCU to tell stories across different movies, even if they don’t have a prominent role in all of them....

The return of Cosmo Marvel Studios In Marvel Comics, Cosmo started life as a test animal within the Soviet space program. The pooch was eventually launched to space and, after getting off course, arrived on Knowhere, a place familiar to fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We actually got a little glimpse at Cosmo in the Collector’s chambers in the first “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie, but it was nothing more than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo (with a bit of hostility between Cosmo and Rocket)....

Chucky Season 2 Ending Explained: It’s A Ho-Ho-Horrifically Fun Finale USA and Syfy By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 24, 2022 12:00 pm EST Sometimes it seems like the entirety of “Chucky” season 2 was just one, giant, collective hallucination by the fans. The season kicked off with a Halloween special, threw the main tweens into Catholic school for some fun (with a weirdly hot priest played by Devon Sawa), and gave Jennifer Tilly a “Bound” reunion/solo episode that allowed her to remind the world why she’s an Academy Award-nominated performer....

Cobra Kai Season 5 Trailer: Pain Does Not Exist In This Dojo Netflix By Jenna Busch/Aug. 16, 2022 12:03 pm EST Spoilers ahead for “Cobra Kai” through season 4. No mercy! It’s time to grab your gi and your dojo’s branded headband because the new “Cobra Kai” season 5 trailer is here! When we last left our karate heroes, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) of Miyagi Do Karate and his longtime rival Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), formerly of Cobra Kai, and now sensei of Eagle Fang, teamed up to beat the version of Cobra Kai run by “The Karate Kid Part III” villain Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) and John Kreese (Martin Kove), the original big bad of the films....

When and where to watch Enola Holmes 2 Netflix “Enola Holmes 2” is officially scheduled to begin streaming globally on Netflix starting on November 4, 2022. Whereas the first movie in the series was developed by Legendary Pictures with the intention of being released theatrically by Warner Bros., the “Enola Holmes” sequel was greenlit by Netflix and will likely only play in select theaters for a week or so prior to hitting the streamer....

Every Main Character In Smile, Ranked Worst To Best Paramount Pictures By Jessica Scott/Sept. 30, 2022 4:12 pm EST Major spoilers for “Smile” follow. Horror movies often explore the fear and discomfort that arise from difficult subjects. Some, of course, do so more successfully than others. Unfortunately, writer-director Parker Finn’s debut feature, “Smile,” tries and fails to explore mental health issues with any nuance or sensitivity. The film concerns a string of mysterious suicides that might actually be caused by an evil entity that stalks its victims with a large smile on its face....

First Blue Beetle Movie Poster Unveiled In Surprise Panel At CCXP DC By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 3, 2022 1:52 pm EST The first poster for DC’s upcoming superhero flick “Blue Beetle” is here, and it should come as little surprise that it prominently features, well, a blue beetle. According to Collider, the poster debuted at the fan convention CXPP this weekend, at the studio’s surprise panel in São Paulo. With this year’s major release, “Black Adam,” now on digital with a home video release around the corner, the DC Universe is looking ahead to 2023....

For All Mankind Season 4: Everything We Know About The Return Of Apple’s Sci-Fi Series Apple TV+ By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 31, 2022 8:52 am EST Apple TV+ science fiction drama series “For All Mankind” has been endlessly inventive throughout its three-season run. The series explores an alternate timeline in which a Soviet cosmonaut becomes the first human to land on the moon, devastating the morale at NASA and, in turn, impacting their efforts to catch up....

How Andor Creator Tony Gilroy Kept His Crew’s Star Wars Fandom In Check On Set Lucasfilm By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Nov. 1, 2022 4:41 pm EST In a franchise that’s experiencing an extreme identity crisis between the old and new, “Andor” is the freshest “Star Wars” has felt in a very long time. Its entire attitude as a series has been unconcerned with filling the time with tie-ins and cameos and instead focused on telling a nuanced story about the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance and a character study into how Cassian Andor (the wonderful Diego Luna) became the hardened renegade we meet in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story....

The inflection point Cinema has reached a similar inflection point, and the people at TrueCut Motion are aware of it. Modern digital film cameras can now shoot at higher frame rates and contain more visual information than ever. But when that new store of visual information is projected through a standard theater projector, it causes some visual issues. 24 frames per second, it seems, is now no longer adequate to handle the crisper, sharper, digital films like “Avatar....