‘Stranger Things 3’ Almost Didn’t Have That Amazing ‘NeverEnding Story’ Reference Stranger Things 3is available on Netflix now, but you probably know that sinceover 40 million people reportedly watchedthe new season over the holiday weekend. Needless to say, there are plenty of new references and homages made to beloved movies of the 1980s, especially now that it’s 1985 in the series. But there’s one reference that is bigger and more satisfying than all the others, and it involvesThe NeverEnding Storyfrom 1984....

‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Zombie Comedy Lacks Bite [Cannes] The Dead Don’t Dieis Jim Jarmusch’s love letter to George Romero. The iconoclastic indie director twists his usual sardonic gaze upon the common tropes of zombie films (the mantra is “kill the head” as a way of vanquishing the foes), and Jarmusch’s goal is to set a desiccating look at the underpinnings of undead mythology.With an all-star cast that includes Jarmusch regulars and newcomers alike, including Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Iggy Pop, RZA, Sara Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Selena Gomez, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Danny Glover, Steve Buscemi, and (perhaps the most effective in the cast) Tom Waits....

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2’ Trailer: “Snow Has To Pay” The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2trailer is here; it’s your first look at the finale of one of the biggest franchises out there. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) will finally storm the Capitol to right the wrongs done by President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and everyone else who has created a world where kids kill each other for entertainment. Directed byFrancis Lawrence, the highly anticipated sequel opens November 20....

‘The Shape Of Water’ Behind-The-Scenes Feature Reveals New Footage Of The Sexy Fish-Man Guillermo del Torois one of our best living filmmakers, and he’s about to release his masterpiece,The Shape of Water. A Cold War romance about a woman falling in love with a fish-man,The Shape of Wateris a lovely monster movie the likes of which only del Toro could make. In a new behind-the-scenes feature, the acclaimed filmmaker talks a bit about the film while new footage is revealed....

‘The X-Files’ Animated Series In The Works At Fox The X-Filesis about to get animated.The X-Files: Albuquerquewill be an animated comedy series spun-off from the iconic cult series, and before you ask, no – it doesn’t feature Mulder and Scully. Instead, the series is taking aStar Trek: Lower Decksapproach and will be a comedy focusing on new, bumbling characters who just happen to inhabit theX-Filesworld. So before I go any further, I have to ask: does anyone think this is a good idea?...

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Release Date Jets Off To December While ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Relocates To September The coronavirus has obliterated the movie release calendar as we know it. Studios are quickly pulling or pushing release dates as the situation continues on, with movie theaters across the globe currently shut down. Today, Paramount has announced some more shuffling for two of their upcoming sequels:Top Gun: MaverickandA Quiet Place Part II....

‘Twister’ Director Jan De Bont Once Tried To Make A ‘Godzilla’ Movie Before The 1998 Version There are so many movie projects that could have been — whole documentaries have been made about some of them, whole cult followings have risen up around axed movies — but every now and then, we get a failed film that might have spared us a little pain in the long run. One such one wasJan de Bont’s failedGodzillaproject, which theTwisterandSpeeddirector was developing before Roland Emmerich’s infamously disliked 1998 version....

‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Season 3 Teaser & Premiere Date: Titus Does His Best Beyoncé Impression Netflix announced a whole bunch ofupcomingreleasedateslast week, but leave it to Titus Andromedon to be fashionably late. On the bright side, this means he gets to capitalize on the renewed buzz surrounding Beyoncé’sLemonadefollowing her showstopping performance at the Grammys last night — because, naturally, the firstUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidtseason 3 teaser has him doing his very best knockoff rendition of “Hold Up....

‘Unicorn Store’ Review: Brie Larson’s Directorial Debut Is A Charming, Honest Film [TIFF] “The most grown-up thing you may do is fail at things you really care about,” impartsJoan Cusack’s Gladys to her daughter,Brie Larson’s Kit, towards the close ofUnicorn Store. It’s the perfect nugget of wisdom for a tale of stilted, prolonged adolescence. But the film, Larson’s debut behind the camera, is a world away from the Seth Rogen-style manchild so prevalent in the past decade of comedy....

‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Podcast Will Creep You Out In 2021 Craving even moreUnsolved Mysteries? The Netflix revival just returned with new episodes, but if that’s still not enough, here’s good news: there’s anUnsolved Mysteriespodcast on the way. The weekly podcast, which comes from the company behind the hit series, will feature new “unsolved cases and take a deep dive into a specific story.” And yes, that iconic, terrifyingUnsolved Mysteriestheme music will be played at the start of the episodes....

/Film’s Top 15 Movies Of 2019 Over the past week, we have published individual Top 10 Movies of 2019 lists for each member of the /Film staff. And behind the scenes, we’ve been crunching the numbers to determine a list that represents the site as whole, with all of our most treasured films from the past year featured. And while not every beloved film made our final Top 15 of 2019 list (The Lighthousemissed it bythismuch!...

14 Awesome Horror Movies That Never Got Sequels In these days of abundant sequels and prequels, it’s rare when a horror movie is not part of a franchise, but there are films that break the mold. In some cases, the movie promised a sequel that never came. In others, the follow-up was either canceled or wasn’t viable due to the original’s poor box office receipts for the original. Sometimes, sequels end languishing in development hell, trapped in a maze of convoluted arguments over rights....

Alec Baldwin In Talks For ‘Mission: Impossible 5’ [Updated] Mission: Impossible 5will be bringing several familiar faces back to the screen, includingTom Cruise,Jeremy Renner, andSimon Pegg.Naturally, it will introduce some new names as well. One of those will beAlec Baldwin, who’s now in talks to join theChris McQuarrie-directed film. (Update:Rebecca FergusonofThe White Queenis alsoreportedlylikely to join the film as the female lead, who is an assassin of some sort.) And that’s not all for Baldwin....