https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6veDL2tlvMY So, you can't wait to see the new Downton Abbey movie BUUUUT you were never able to schedule that 6-season marathon rewatch you promised yourself or were even able have another go at the series finale. Or, God forbid, you've never even seen a single solitary episode in your life?! Well, no matter. Focus Features [...]
https://youtu.be/xv5AQDntIcI The long-awaited theatrical release of the Downton Abbey movie is almost here, which makes it a perfect time to resurrect this feature story by CBS Sunday Morning from 2013. (Click through with the "Watch this video on YouTube" option after pushing play.) It tells the history of Highclere Castle, a.k.a. the real Downton Abbey, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7kbVvpOGdQ They're back...and they're everywhere. Working as a segue between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and the upcoming Jurassic World 3, the new 8-minute short film Battle At Big Rock is the first example of what the end of Fallen Kingdom teased: dinosaurs have escaped island quarantine and are now spreading out across the U.S. mainland and [...]
AMC Theaters invites you to be their guest for a Disney Princess marathon, back on the big screen. Starting Friday September 6, the nationwide multiplex chain kicks off their “Dream Big Princess” series. In it, four of Disney’s modern classics will each have a one-week theatrical run. The month-long event is in partnership with Walt [...]
It's time to pivot your plans, Friends fanatics, because an upcoming Fathom Event is far from a moo point. To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of this enduring pop culture staple, Fathom Events and Warner Bros. will be screening Friends 25th: The One With The Anniversary, a three-night event playing only in movie theaters. Each night, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqkdBjI6ew Reworking movies into trailers for different genres is what the internet does, but this one for Tim Burton's 1989 Batman is the best I've seen in awhile. As the "Time Warp" designation suggests, it doesn't transform the dark Keaton-Nicholson blockbuster into a different genre (like goofing it into the camp of the 1960s TV [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2SMng4u1k George Lucas is infamous for constantly retooling and updating his Star Wars movies, not just the OT Special Editions but even the prequels for their blu-ray releases (such as replacing puppet Yoda in Phantom Menace with digital Yoda). Controversial though they may be (particularly since the changes aren't always effective), the notion isn't without [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w0g0Oq8flM Stephen Colbert hosts the panel discussion for Star Wars: Episode IX, held on April 12, 2019, at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago. It includes director J. J. Abrams, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, and nearly the entire lead cast, capped off with the debut (and crowd reaction to) the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: [...]
You can read my reaction to the panel here. Sabers up, Padawans. The Jedi Council is about to speak. Well, the real world equivalent of it. Today, Friday April 12, from the Star Wars Celebration convention in Chicago, the official Star Wars: Episode IX panel will stream live. It starts at 11 AM Central time, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECdQ6OV-rkU&feature=youtu.be If you're an Avenger, perhaps the worst part about having survived the Infinity War dusting is that you now have to do all of these press junkets and interviews so as to maintain the illusion that all of those dusted actors aren't coming back. Uh huh. Well, the legion of diehard Marvel fans are [...]
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