Defying the fates, the gods, and a bunch of people who presumably said “Really? Dumbo?” along the way, Tim Burton’s live-action/CGI recreation of the 1941 Disney classic has now reached the “Well, here’s a full trailer” stage of production. And indeed: Here’s a trailer, showing off Burton’s latest attempt at…

As an actor, Dwayne Johnson has become a chameleon who disappears into his roles, whether he’s playing an awful CG scorpion man-monster, a mean man with big muscles, or a nice man with big muscles, but he’s completely unrecognizable in this trailer for the new WWE film Fighting With My Family. The movie is a biopic…

Previous trailers for Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel—the Desperado mastermind’s first full directorial outing since 2014's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For—have emphasized the human side of its titular anime robot girl’s troubles, showing her fighting with father figure Christoph Waltz and angsting about her…

Given that it’s a show based entirely around finding the borders and barriers of polite society, then dumping a bowl of soup all over them while loudly yelling “Fuck!” in front of their kids, it’s not surprising that the marketing for Curb Your Enthusiasm might explore that same transgression-friendly territory.…

Of the various Louis CK-adjacent people it’s presumably been no fun to be over the last year—former colleagues, fellow stand-ups facing uncomfortable questions, women—we can probably count the producers of the Secret Life Of Pets franchise right up there near the top. After all, Illumination had to face the fact that…

Taika Waititi’s What We Do In The Shadows remains a high point in the world of comedy horror, a goofy, occasionally sad, frequently funny look at how much it would suck (sorry) to be a bunch of 300-year-old dead roommates arguing over household chores and trying to fit in to the modern world. Waititi (and co-director…

It’s not every day that we come across a trailer quite as baffling as the latest one for Bridey Elliott’s new film, Clara’s Ghost. Is the movie—which stars Elliott, her sister (and former Saturday Night Live star) Abby, her dad (and former Saturday Night Live star) Chris, and her mom, acting newcomer Paula Niedert…

A Quiet Place scared the shit out of a lot of people. The idea of not being able to make a sound—indeed, of your entire existence being predicated on the inability to so much as drop a glass of water, lest you be ripped apart by giant monsters—is a horrifying one. So let’s apply that theory to your eyesight; unsettled…

There’s a school of thought—one supported by careers like those of Robin Williams, Bill Murray, and even Adam Sandler—that says that any great comic actor has all the tools to be a great dramatic actor already at their disposal. But does the opposite hold true? Is a terrible comedy star doomed to be equally inept when…

The L.A. Times’ Dirty John was a minor podcasting sensation last year, one of the most easily consumed of the wave of glossy, tightly edited true crime podcasts that the first season of Serial inadvertently left in its wake. Centered on an affluent Newport Beach interior decorator with borderline-apocalyptic taste in…

We were fans of Destroyer, director Karyn Kusama’s followup to her 2015 thriller The Invitation, when it made its North American debut at this year’s Fantastic Fest. At the time, we said that what made this particular variation on the rogue-cop movie special was the “collaboration between actress and director that…

The Good Place thrives on a sense of manic improvisation, both from its characters, and from itself. Nobody embodies that sense of “Screw it, let’s try the next plan/idea/iteration of the planet Earth” better than Ted Danson’s Michael, who’s been scrabbling for three seasons now, first to keep Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani,…

It’s been decades since Adam Sandler last did stand-up on a regular basis, preferring to deliver his laughs in a format more conducive to filmed (and paid) family vacations. So when Netflix announced that it was extending its relationship with Sandler into a big-budget comedy special this year, there were questions…

Ensuring that those of you excited to get a good look at its new live-action Aladdin movie are just going to have to sort of stay excited, Disney released the first teaser for the Guy Ritchie-directed film tonight. And we do mean teaser; unless you were really jonesing to get a look at CGI Iago, there’s not much more…

We’ve been cautiously optimistic about Neil Gaiman’s adaptation of Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with late Discworld author Terry Pratchett, for a while now. That’s mostly on the strength of its cast, and specifically David Tennant and Michael Sheen, who seemed perfectly picked to take on the roles of the book’s…

One could easily argue that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have already been definitively portrayed at some point in the history of cinema, but that’s only because the world has yet to properly witness Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s Holmes And Watson. Finally, the two weirdos from Step Brothers are starring in a…

The crummy X-Men: The Last Stand gestured toward the iconic “Dark Phoenix Saga” from Chris Claremont’s run on the X-Men comics, with Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey turning vaguely evil and wearing a bunch of red clothing. But Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix—a sequel to Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse—has set itself up…

It’s been more than a decade since Harvey Birdman, Esquire last had his day in court, defending a variety of deranged Hanna-Barbera characters from the firm but ladylike hand of justice. Earlier this year, Adult Swim announced that the beloved series would soon be coming back, though, with a half-hour special in which…

Much as Riverdale has successfully deflected (and transcended) all the “sexy Archie” jokes the internet could throw at it, the first teaser for Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina—the new series from Archie Comics chief creative officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and his fellow Riverdale EPs—confirms that they…