Fans craving more from the original Netflix sci-fi fantasy series “Shadow and Bone” are in for a treat; Netflix is finally revealing the trailer for season two. For those unaware, “Shadow and Bone” is a live-action series based on the books by Leigh Bardugo, where a young soldier Alina, knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold – a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters– unleashes a dormant magic she never knew she possessed.

Continue reading ‘Shadow And Bone’ S2 Trailer: Netflix’s Mythical Fantasy YA Series Returns March 16 at The Playlist.

Any film noir lover knows the names of novelist Raymond Chandler and his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, go hand in hand with the film genre. And over the decades, there’s been several timeless renditions of Marlowe onscreen, from Humphrey Bogart and Dick Powell‘s seminal performances in “The Big Sleep” and “Murder, My Sweet” to Elliott Gould‘s off-beat take in 1973’s “The Long Goodbye.” Now Liam Neeson takes a crack at the character, in his 100th film role, in “Marlowe,” in theaters this Valentine’s Day weekend.

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Lars von Trier made a triumphant return to filmmaking at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month with “The Kingdom Exodus” as he battles Parkinson’s disease. Now, MUBI has a date set for the third season of von Trier’s series for its exclusive release on the streamer: November 27, with restored versions of the previous two seasons of the show premiering in the weeks beforehand.

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Who knows what happens in Stephen King’s mind, the author of such horror classics as “IT” and “The Shining.” It’s a mystery as to how King can conjure up such horrific tales, whether that be a lengthy novel or a short story. King’s latest big-screen adaptation comes from John Lee Hancock’s “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” a cautionary tale based on an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a reclusive billionaire in his 80s. 

Continue reading ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Trailer: John Lee Hancock Directs A Supernatural Stephen King Story Starring Jaeden Martell & Donald Sutherland at The Playlist.

“Sons of Anarchy” actor Charlie Hunnam will star in Apple Tv+’s newest series “Shantaram.” The 12-episode series is based on the best-selling novel written by Gregory David Roberts and follows the thrilling epic adventure of one man’s journey to redemption through a country that changes his life. Co-created, written, and executive produced by Steve Lightfoot, “Shantaram” will see Bharat Nalluri in the director’s chair.

Continue reading ‘Shantaram’ Trailer: ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Actor Charlie Hunnam Set To Star In Apple TV+’s Drama Series at The Playlist.

“A Friend of the Family” showrunner and executive producer Nick Antosca is no stranger to the gritty world of true crime, having previously been a writer for the Hulu series “The Act.” Antosca’s latest project comes in the form of a web series based upon the popular 80’s horror franchise “Chucky” and is currently in its second season.

“A Friend of the Family” is based on the tragically true story of the Broberg family.

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Lebanon is a country with a complicated political situation and a deep history and culture. However, it’s not a country known for its heavy metal music. Let alone heavy metal music made by women. Maybe the upcoming documentary, “Sirens,” will help change that perception.

“Sirens” follows an all-female metal band as they wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal stars. They’ll also have to deal with the weight of being the first and only female group to come out of Lebanon.

Continue reading ‘Sirens’ Trailer: Lebanon’s Only Female Metal Band Are Coming To The Big Screen In New Doc at The Playlist.

What do you get when you cross creepy paintings and suspicious town folk? The answer is Blumhouse’s “The Visitor.” Between a deal with EPIX and Blumhouse Television, the studio will be creating eight films set for streaming, one of these being “The Visitor.”

From director Justin P. Lange, best known for his work on the horror movie “The Seventh Day,” “The Visitor” will follow Robert and his wife Maia as they return to her childhood home.

Continue reading ‘The Visitor’ Trailer: Finn Jones Stars In Blumhouse’s New Psychological Horror at The Playlist.

Based on the Italian cartoon “Winx Club,” the initial first season of the 2021 live-action teen drama adaptation, “Fate: The Winx Saga” on Netflix was met with quite a lot of backlash from fans and critics of the original show. The teen drama, akin to “Riverdale,” was developed by Brian Young who also acted as the showrunner and executive producer. Still, the live-action series also took things to a more supernatural level.

Continue reading ‘Fate: The Winx Saga’ Season 2 Trailer: Netflix’s YA Fantasy Series Returns In September at The Playlist.

You know Allison Janney from dozens of critically-acclaimed performances, including the Academy-Award-winning performance in “I, Tonya,” and Emmy-winning performances in series like “The West Wing” and “Master of Sex.” But you’ve maybe never seen her do anything like the upcoming Netflix action-thriller, “Lou.”

READ MORE: 2018 Oscar Winner Allison Janney Is Heartbroken She Wasn’t Invited To Present This Year

In “Lou,” Jurnee Smollett plays a mother whose landlady is Janney, the eponymous loner of the film.

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Set in Malta in the 1980s, veteran director and accomplished actor Valerie Buhagiar’s latest film outing “Carmen,” will focus on a woman finding a new start in life through romance. The titular character Carmen spends most of her life serving the church. However, when her brother passes, she realizes her own mortality and leaves her life behind to compensate for lost time.

Although a well-versed actor, Buhagiar is no stranger to the directing chair.

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What best describes Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper‘s latest film, “Vesper“? Earth is no longer sustainable; society has collapsed, and humanity is forced to rely on its survival skills. Add in a father-daughter dynamic and an outside chance of an alternative future, and that’s the gist.

READ MORE: ‘Vesper’ Trailer: Survival Is Everything For New Drama Premiering At Karlovy Vary Starring Eddie Marsan & Raffiella Chapman

“Vesper” follows a 13-year-old girl played by “His Dark Materials” actress Raffiella Chapman, who, along with her father played by “The Mandalorian” star Richard Brake, uncover remnants of a strange and dangerous world.

Continue reading ‘Vesper’ Trailer: Humanity’s Future Hangs In The Balance In Post-Collapse Adventure Coming September 30 at The Playlist.

What happens when you cross Hitchcock with high school? When you mix budding friendships crossed with grand gestures of revenge? Well, you get Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s “Do Revenge” starring “Stranger Things” actress Maya Hawke and “Riverdale” star Camila Mendes.  Robinson, along with co-writer Celeste Ballard, planned to make a thrilling high school comedy, taking inspiration from movies such as “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Jawbreaker.” 

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The American director is best known for movies such as co-writing the recent Marvel hit “Thor: Love and Thunder,” and the 2019 movie “Someone Great” starring Gina Rodriguez.  “Do Revenge” will see popular sweetheart Drea (Camila Mendes), whose sex tape was leaked by her boyfriend, and transfer student Eleanor, who was outed in her last school, come together to deal with each other’s bullies and dish out some much-deserved revenge. 

Speaking to ELLE.com, Robinson said: “I think there are different points where everyone’s the villain, and everyone’s the hero in this story.

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We all look back on our high school years differently, and Hollywood has no end of coming-of-age stories, from “Ferris Buller’s Day Off” to Marvel’s “Spider-Man” franchise starring Tom Holland. Netflix is no stranger to the high school tropes, with shows like “Stranger Things” and “American Vandal.”

Initially released in 2020, Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever” follows the coming-of-age tropes mixed with some comedy and drama.

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It’s been something of a minute since we heard from former provocateur and playwright turned filmmaker Neil LaBute. His last film was 2015’s “Dirty Weekend,” a film we described as kinder and gentler than some of the previously more blistering works that earned him a reputation of something of an enfante terrible.

While LaBute has been keeping himself busy writing—he’s written episodes of the upcoming “American Gigolo” TV reboot—he’s finally returning with his first feature-length film in seven years.

Continue reading ‘Out Of The Blue’ Trailer: Neil Labute’s Toxic Look At Romance Stars Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson & Hank Azaria at The Playlist.

Earlier this year, indie filmmaker Ti West (“The Innkeepers”) released the indie horror hit “X,” set in 1979, and centered on a group of young filmmakers who set out to make an adult film in rural Texas. But when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast finds themselves fighting for their lives. Starring Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, and more, “X” was a fairly big hit for A24, but what audiences didn’t really know at the time was that West, in secret, had shot a whole other film, a prequel starring Mia Goth.

Continue reading ‘Pearl’ Trailer: Ti West’s Prequel To 70’s-Inspired Indie Thriller ‘X’ Arrives In September, Premieres In Venice at The Playlist.

Known for his sketch comedy and podcast series “Who’s This Now?” (2014), stand-up comic, Chris Estrada, has mostly been something of an underground cult sensation in comedy. But that’s about to change with “This Fool,” a new series he co-created for Hulu, inspired by his life, his stand-up, and how he dealt with relationships, high school, money, and more. A half-hour comedy with a cinematic single-camera comedy lens, “This Fool” is set to have ten episodes and centers on Julio Lopez (Estrada), a 30-year-old who still lives at home.

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In a world where we rely heavily on technology, hackers get smarter and wiser and can crumble entire countries if they choose. But what happens when these cyber attacks happen? Who is there to stop them? What happens when you cross technology with a thriller? Well, you get the Peacock original series “The Undeclared War.” 

From renowned BAFTA winner Peter Kosminsky (“Warriors,” “The Government Inspector”), “The Undeclared War” shows the fear a cyber attack can bring on a country and its government, and it’s down to a leading team of analysts to ward off a series of attacks that only exist in the digital world.

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Originally premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, “True Things” starring Ruth Wilson (“Luther,” “The Affair”) and Tom Burke (“The Souvenir,” “Mank”) is finally coming out in the U.S. this fall. Written and directed by Harry Wootliff, “True Things” tells the story of Kate played by Wilson, a girl who sleepwalks through life when an encounter with a stranger awakens her.

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Flying a plane is no easy task, and when dealt with an unfortunate hand in life, the captain and crew must take it upon themselves to do whatever they can to save as many lives as possible. Just like in Han-Jae-Rim’s upcoming movie “Emergency Declaration” starring “Parasite” actor Song Kang-ho and “Squid Game” actor Lee Byung-hun.

READ MORE: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tahar Rahim & ‘Parasite’s’ Song Kang-ho Join Spike Lee’s Cannes Film Festival Jury

“Emergency Declaration” will focus on the Korean Authorities’ attempt to capture a suspect from a recent terrorist threat that went viral online.

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From “After We Fell,” director Castille Landon comes the fourth film in the romantic YA “After” franchise, “After Ever Happy.” And if you haven’t really heard of it, we wouldn’t really blame you, but the films are successful on their own terms. Landon has built a name for herself with the “After” franchise, with her most recent movie “After We Fell” gaining $21.6 million at the box office.

Continue reading ‘After Ever Happy’ Trailer: Josephine Langford & Hero Fiennes Tiffin Return For The 4th Installment Of The YA ‘After’ Franchise at The Playlist.

The spy game can get complicated and thorny when love and sex get involved, and trust turns into dark betrayals. That’s essentially the set-up of “Rogue Agent,” a new IFC Films thriller starring Gemma Arterton, James Norton, and Sarah Goldberg, who many will recognize from “Barry.” The story is essentially about con men, seduction, and deception—a rogue agent (Norton), who masquerades as an M15 agent, and the woman (Arterton)—initially seduced by his charms—who brought him down.

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Fans of Disney+‘s “Loki” may need to wait a while for the premiere of season two, but Owen Wilson‘s next superhero adventure will be out before the summer is over. And this time, Wilson gets to be the one with the superpowers.

READ MORE: Paramount+ Announces ‘Halo’ Getting A Second Season Ahead Of Its Debut Next Month

Wilson stars as a father on the mission in the new original Paramount+ movie “Secret Headquarters.” Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the duo behind the recent Netflix superpower-adjacent actioner “Project Power,” direct the straight-to-streaming movie about a kid who suspects his dad, played by Wilson, might be a superhero.

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Based on the highly praised Broadway musical, “13: The Musical,” Netflix has announced its adaptation is coming to their platform on August 12. Directed by Tamra Davis, best known for “Billy Maddison” (1995), “Half Baked” (1998), and “Crossroads” (2002). Tamra has dozens of directorial titles to her name and has worked with stars such as Adam Sandler, Britney Spears, and Drew Barrymore. 

Continue reading ’13: The Musical’ Trailer: Tamra Davis’ New ‘Glee’-Esque Netflix YA Film Premieres In August at The Playlist.

Whether it’s romantically-tinged or comedically-flecked, the YA genre is alive and strong on Netflix. Next in line on the more romantic/dramatic end of things is “Purple Hearts” from director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, most prominently known for her work on television shows such as “Pretty Little Liars” (2019), and “Empire” (2018). 

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“Purple Hearts” is a film adaptation of the book released in 2017 by Tess Wakefield and is written by Kyle Jarrow (“Star Trek: Discovery”) and Liz Gracia (“Dawson’s Creek”).

Continue reading ‘Purple Hearts’ Trailer: Sofia Carson Stars In Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum’s New Romantic Drama Coming To Netflix at The Playlist.