The Daily Stream: ‘Crimson Tide’ Pits Denzel Washington Against Gene Hackman, And The Audience Wins (Welcome toThe 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:Crimson TideWhere You Can Stream It:Amazon Prime VideoThe Pitch:When an American nuclear submarine receives a partially obstructed order to fire upon a threatening Russian sub, the ship is divided into two factions: the hard-nosed half who support the veteran captain (Gene Hackman) who wants to launch immediately, and the more cautious half who side with the ship’s up-and-coming executive officer (Denzel Washington), who wants to follow the proper procedure and attain clear confirmation before firing....

The Daily Stream: Halt And Catch Fire Teaches Us How To Live With Failure (Welcome toThe 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 Series: “Halt and Catch Fire” Where You Can Stream It: AMC+ The Pitch: “Halt and Catch Fire” explores the early days of the personal computer market in the 1980s and the rise of the World Wide Web in the ’90s....

The Morning Watch: Secrets Of Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’, ‘The Conjuring’ Presents A Life In Demonology & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a featurette onThe Conjuringuniverse dives into the lives, faith, research and investigative career of theEd & Lorraine Warren....

This Week In Trailers: Thale, Ultrasonic, Gangs Of Wassypur, Juko’s Time Machine, Daylight Savings, Ill Manors 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 A Clip Of A ‘Rogue One’ Character On ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Storyintroduces us to a whole new roster of characters who are key to the rebellion against the Empire. And while we know that those characters don’t have a role in the original trilogy that followsRogue One’s storyline, that doesn’t mean we won’t see them pop up elsewhere. As we learned before the weekend,Felicity Joneshas a sequel option in her contract(which doesn’t spoil whether she lives or dies inRogue Onewith the wayStar Warsmovies jump back and forth in time), and now we have word of anotherRogue Onecharacter’s future (or rather past) in the saga....

Watch Director Michael Bay Act In Five Movies And Two TV Shows You probably knowMichael Bayfor his work behind the camera as a blockbuster action director of films such as theTransformersandBad Boysmovies,The Rock, andArmageddon.Did you know that he’s actually appeared on screen more than a handful of times? Notably, Michael Bay appears on screen in a brief speaking role inKinka Usher’s 1999 superhero comedy filmMystery Men, which starredBen Stiller, Hank AzariaandWilliam H....

Why Martin Campbell Didn’t Return To Direct Any Bond Sequels Martin Campbellbreathed fresh life into the Bond franchise twice. WithGoldeneyeandCasino Royale, he kicked off two new chapters in the long-running franchise to great success. The filmmaker made the character vital again, both for audiences in the ’90s and the 21st Century. While the sequels with Pierce Brosnan drastically departed from the tone Campbell established, there are still echoes of the filmmaker’s work in the most recent Daniel Craig-led films....

Why Martin Scorsese Nearly Walked Away From Hollywood Martin Scorsese set off a perfect storm of online Discourse withhis infamous commentsabout superhero films in 2019. The funniest part of the whole thing, even when it happened, was that anybody wasthatshocked to learn the director of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” wasn’t the world’s biggest “Thor: The Dark World” fan. It’s not as though Scorsese has ever been too concerned with the flavor of the day when it comes to popular genre fare: his idea of “going commercial” was to direct 1986’s “The Color of Money,” the sorta sequel to a gritty, adult drama released 25 years earlier....

‘Aladdin’ Clip: Will Smith Puts On A Show-Stopping Performance Of ‘Prince Ali’ Brush up your Sunday salaam, becauseWill Smithis performing his show-stopping version of one ofAladdin’s most beloved songs:“Prince Ali.“But we’ll leave it up to your interpretation as to whether that’s a good or bad version of show-stopping. Watch the newAladdinclip below. Aladdin Clip Watch Will Smith perform “Prince Ali” in this new clip from#Aladdin!pic.twitter.com/T24OzFl3bf — IGN (@IGN)July 01, 2025...

‘Borat 2’ Will Debut On Amazon Prime Video Next Month Sacha Baron Cohen’sBoratsequel, which was filmed and editedin secretearlier this year, now has a release date. Well, it’s actually more of a releasewindow, since the official date hasn’t been revealed quite yet.Borat 2, which just received its own ludicrously long title in keeping with the 2006 original film’s official title, will be dropping on Amazon Prime Video in time for the 2020 presidential election....

‘Chernobyl’ Trailer: HBO Paints A Haunting Picture Of The Worst Nuclear Disaster In History Just the name “Chernobyl” is enough to evoke a sense of dread. The new HBO miniseriesChernobylis diving deep into why that dread exists. Written and executive produced byCraig MazininThe Hangoverwriter’s first foray into drama, and starringJared Harris, Stellan SkarsgardandEmily Watson,Chernobylis a five-part miniseries that dramatizes the 1986 nuclear disaster that devastated the small, now-abandoned Ukrainian town of Pripyat and released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe....

‘Cloak And Dagger’ Finds Its Footing Again With “Blue Note” Okay, so after all of my complaining over last week’s episode, I am happy to say that this week’sCloak & Daggerepisode, “Blue Note” was actually very good. I still have some issues, which maybe just more of a personal thing, and my personal qualms will be the basis for this week’s review. With that said, let’s dive into what worked and what still made me uneasy this week....

‘Fearless’ Trailer: Netflix Takes You Into The World Of Professional Bull Riding The late Roger Ebert famously called movies “empathy machines,” writing on how they allow you to experience other lives and new perspectives in a fashion that most other art forms cannot. I find this to be especially true with great documentaries, which can take subject matter that doesn’t seem like it would interest you at all and blow your mind wide open with the details of a world you would normally never think about....