The Morning Watch is 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, watch a 16-bit video game version of the teaser trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Plus, learn about the history of slasher movies, from early classics of the black and white era to the deconstruction of the genre with Scream and much more. Finally, watch a Back to the Future rap recap recounting all the finer points of the trilogy. Read More »
What’s in the latest update for Marvel’s Avengers? Who has just joined the cast of Superman & Lois? Could Marvel be hinting at an origin change for Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver‘s powers? Who might be the frontrunner to play Cyclone in Black Adam? Is Amber Heard partaking in Zack Snyder’s Justice League reshoots? Does John Walker get the Captain America moniker in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits. Read More »
Joss Whedon‘s return to the small screen — and his old stomping grounds of supernaturally gifted female leads saving the world — was already exciting enough. But now, The Nevers cast member Nick Frost is adding more fuel to the hype train. Frost teased that The Nevers is a “complicated and fresh” sci-fi series that befits Whedon’s promise that this show could be the “most ambitious narrative” of his entire career thus far.
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Remember two years ago, when reports of a surprise Crocodile Dundee sequel surfaced? And then it all turned out to be part of a Super Bowl ad? After all the hoopla and excitement for what turned out to be an elaborate Australian tourism ad, it seems that Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan clued in to the nostalgia for the Australian crocodile hunter, staging his comeback in the upcoming meta-comedy The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee. Watch The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee trailer below.
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Picture this. The clock has just ticked over from October 31 to November 1, 2020. You’re sitting on the coach, stuffed from eating all of the Halloween candy that was supposed to be for neighborhood children, but that you secretly knew you were going to eat the whole time. It’s just days before one of the most significant American presidential elections in history. Instead of doomscrolling, you decide to fire up Amazon Prime Video so you can watch something to take your mind off the madness.
You’ve made an excellent choice. Now all that’s left is to pick something to watch, and you have another excellent choice locked and loaded: you’ve pulled up this very article, which provides a list of recommendations for the best shows and best movies coming to Amazon in November 2020. Man, you are really killing it tonight. Well done.
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Aside from an occasional appearance on Saturday Night Live, a cameo on Entourage, and some voiceover work for shows like Robot Chicken, Oscar-nominated actress Scarlett Johansson has not worked in television. But that’s about to change.
Johansson is set to produce and star in Bride, which is being described as a “genre-bending” series from A24 and AppleTV+. Get details about the first significant Scarlett Johansson TV show below. Read More »
Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron) is about to step on a train…the only problem is that the train is full of assassins.
The former Kick-Ass star is the latest cast member to hop on board Sony’s Bullet Train, an assassin film which has Oscar winner Brad Pitt headlining and former stuntman and Deadpool 2 director David Leitch behind the camera.
What’s that, you ask? What is Taylor-Johnson’s character’s name going to be? I’m so glad you asked. According to a new report, he will playing a guy named Tangerine. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
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The long-awaited Battlestar Galactica movie has a new writer: Simon Kinberg. Kinberg will also produce the project, which is coming from Universal. The Battlestar movie has been kicking around for so long that at one point now-disgraced filmmaker Bryan Singer was attached to helm, and a revolving list of writers – including Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy – have been involved with the script. Now it’s Kinberg’s turn.
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From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back hits bookshelves this November, marking the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars sequel. And ahead of the anthology book’s release, StarWars.com is teasing new details of Episode V‘s From a Certain Point of View, including a brand-new excerpt from the book and the cast of the audiobook.
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Bryan Cranston can’t stop breaking bad. In the Emmy-winning actor’s return to the crime drama, Cranston stars in the 10-episode limited Showtime series Your Honor as a judge whose principles are shaken when his son gets involved in a hit-and-run accident involving an organized crime family. Watch the Your Honor trailer below.
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