#MovieFlips

A curated movies & film magazine of the best articles, including videos, audio and #FilmFriday or #MovieFriday posts, from around the Web.

By Kol Tregaskes

Brad Pitt
‘Ad Astra’ Review: A Science Fiction Masterpiece Anchored By Brad Pitt’s Best Performance in Years
slashfilm.com - Josh Spiegel
Two years ago, writer-director James Gray took the epic, true-life adventure story The Lost City of Z and turned it into a dark treatise of obsession …
4 days ago
Lana Wachowski
Keanu Reeves & Carrie-Anne Moss To Return To ‘The Matrix’ For 4th Movie From Lana Wachowski
geektown.co.uk - Dave Elliott
Keanu Reeves & Carrie-Anne Moss To Return To ‘The Matrix’ For 4th Movie From Lana Wachowski Keanu Reeves & Carrie-Anne Moss are returning to ‘The …
August 31
Universal Cancels ‘The Hunt’ Release After Mass Shootings, Political Controversy, and Uproar
slashfilm.com - Ethan Anderton
It hasn’t even been two weeks since Universal Pictures released the first trailer for the satirical action thriller The Hunt, but the studio has …
August 11
James Cameron Congratulates 'Avengers: Endgame' For Beating the 'Avatar' Box Office Record
slashfilm.com - Chris Evangelista
There’s a new box office champ in town: Avengers: Endgame finally surpassed previous all-time record holder Avatar to become the highest-grossing movie …
July 29
Dave Bautista Has “Tried Everything” to Star in the ‘Gears of War’ Movie
slashfilm.com - Ethan Anderton
Even though Dave Bautista has become a notable star since taking a role in movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Blade Runner 2049, it sounds like …
July 29
New Movie Review App to Stop Trolls By Quizzing Users on a Film’s Content Before Allowing Ratings
slashfilm.com - Chris Evangelista
The internet has a serious troll problem, something movie review sites like Rotten Tomatoes know all too well. Recently, Rotten Tomatoes had to adopt …
July 20
Policing
Night Call Review
GameSpot - David Wildgoose
The taxi cab is refitted as a confession booth in Night Call, a noir-styled visual novel that interweaves a series of murder mysteries through the tales of dozens of ordinary Parisians, the threads of
July 18
‘Happy Death Day 3’ Isn’t Happening, and That’s Disappointing
slashfilm.com - Chris Evangelista
The Happy Death Day franchise has been a pleasant surprise. What could’ve been a dumb Groundhog Day knock-off has instead turned into a consistently …
July 18
Robert Pattinson
‘The Batman’ Isn’t an Origin Story, But is Set Very Early in the Dark Knight’s Career
slashfilm.com - Chris Evangelista
Now that Robert Pattinson is officially the new Dark Knight, some details about the film – including how Pattinson landed the gig – are starting to …
June 9
Movies
‘I Am Mother’ Director Grant Sputore on Creating That Amazing Robot, How the Story Evolved, and More [Interview]
slashfilm.com - Ben Pearson
When I saw I Am Mother at Sundance earlier this year, I was blown away by the believability of the sci-fi film’s robot. So I jumped at the chance to …
June 9
Trolling
How MovieChat dethroned IMDb as the go-to place to talk TV and films
Wired UK - Amelia Tait
On February 20 2017, hundreds of thousands of comments were permanently removed from film fan site the Internet Movie Database, more commonly known …
May 30
Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi’s ‘Akira’ Film Rides Into Theaters in 2021
slashfilm.com - Ben Pearson
Warner Bros. has been trying to make a live-action Akira movie for years, and so many talented filmmakers have cycled through its development that I …
May 25
No, the Wachowskis Are Still Not Involved With ‘The Matrix’ Reboot [Updated]
slashfilm.com - Hoai-Tran Bui
Update: A representative for Chad Stahelski has reached out and let us know that the initial report was inaccurate. His comments were in response to …
May 11
Disney is Killing Multiple Fox Films, Heavily Scrutinizing Others
slashfilm.com - Chris Evangelista
While some film fans were ecstatic over the prospect of Disney buying Fox, others cautioned that this move could end up being bad for movies. Sadly, …
April 26
‘Us’ Box Office Results in the Best Opening for a Live-Action Original Film Since ‘Avatar’
slashfilm.com - Chris Evangelista
It’s official: audiences love Us. Jordan Peele‘s strange, terrifying and hilarious horror movie is a smash-hit, resulting in the best opening weekend …
March 27
Comic Books
‘Danger Girl’ Movie in the Works from ‘Kick-Ass 2’ Director Jeff Wadlow
slashfilm.com - Ethan Anderton
Even though Marvel Studios and DC Entertainment have been dominating the comic book movie scene for years now, there are a lot of other comic books …
March 21
James Gunn
James Gunn Reacts To His Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Reinstatement
GameSpot - Chris E. Hayner
The Guardians of the Galaxy will, indeed, live to fight again with director James Gunn at the helm. Well, at least some of them probably will. Who knows what's going to happen in Avengers: Endgame? However,
March 16
Sorry, Warner Bros. Isn’t Playing Your Silly “Remove the Rat from ‘The Departed’ Game”, Internet
slashfilm.com - Chris Evangelista
The collective Internet hive-mind had themselves a good laugh over a recently launched Kickstarter. That Kickstarter’s aim? To remove the rat that …
March 3
Chinese New Year
‘The Wandering Earth’ Review: China’s First Sci-Fi Blockbuster is a Spirited But Overlong Spectacle
slashfilm.com - About the Author
The Wandering Earth plays like a sci-fi movie made by an algorithm. You’ve got your doomsday premise, your seedy post-apocalyptic world, your scrappy …
February 27
BAFTA Awards
Vue Cinemas in the UK Childishly Threatens to Boycott BAFTAs for Rewarding ‘Roma’
slashfilm.com - Ethan Anderton
Vue Cinemas is one of the biggest movie theater chains in the United Kingdom, and they are not happy with the BAFTAs, the British equivalent of the …
February 23
‘A Quiet Place 2’ Bringing Back John Krasinski to Direct, Emily Blunt Will Appear
slashfilm.com - Ben Pearson
Update: The Hollywood Reporter says Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe, the actors who played the children in the first A Quiet Place, are in talks to …
February 22
One of Solo: A Star Wars Story's Giant Explosions Was Inspired By the Slow Mo Guys on YouTube
io9 - Andrew Liszewski
Digital tools like 3D animation and motion capture helped revolutionize the visual effects industry, but there’s still plenty of room for practical …
February 21
Prospect: release date and new images from indie sci-fi starring Pedro Pascal
scifinow.co.uk - Poppy-Jay Palmer
Pedro Pascal searches for gems in these new images from anticipated indie sci-fi Prospect
February 21
World War Z 2 Might Be On Hold Indefinitely, According To Report
GameSpot - Jordan Ramée
Paramount has announced that it's halting preproduction on the sequel to the World War Z movie. The sequel was originally scheduled to go into production this year. According to The Hollywood Reporter,
February 7
'Deadpool 2' is Now the Highest-Grossing 'X-Men' Movie
slashfilm.com - Ben Pearson
I don’t envy the Hollywood big shots tasked with reading the internet’s tea leaves to try to deduce if a movie will become a pop culture phenomenon. …
February 6
Movies
Captain Marvel Won't Come To Netflix, Nor Will Any 2019 Disney Movie After It
GameSpot - Jordan Ramée
Disney has announced that Captain Marvel, scheduled to premiere in theaters on March 8, will be the first of the company's films to not come to Netflix. Instead, sometime after exiting theaters, Captain
February 6
Our 12 Most Anticipated Sundance Movies of 2019
slashfilm.com - /Film Staff
This week, three members of the /Film crew are heading to Park City, Utah for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. We’ll have reviews and reactions galore …
January 26
Why Joe Cornish Turned Down ‘Star Trek Beyond’
slashfilm.com - Hoai-Tran Bui
In 2013, Joe Cornish was primed to be the next successful indie director who would make the leap to the big-budget blockbuster. J.J. Abrams had just …
January 26
Studio Producers Wanted Alfonso Cuarón to Give Gravity a Much More Comforting Ending
io9 - Julie Muncy
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning sci-fi thriller from 2013, has a distinct, powerful ending. And if the studio had had its way, it would have …
January 20