If you removed all of the social commentary from Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s charming and thoughtful documentary The Truffle Hunters, you’d have an oddly serene picture about old Italian men and their dogs digging for truffles. I could have watched that alone for hours on end. But to the credit of the directors, they expand their view to show how this modest living has only become harder as competition increases, market forces exert their influence, and the ones actually hunting for truffles only want modest gains while those who trade in truffles are raking in thousands of …

NEON has released the trailer for Francis Lee’s upcoming drama Ammonite. Set in 1840s England, the story follows fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet), who takes a melancholy young woman (Saoirse Ronan) as an apprentice and the two begin to fall for each other. In a different year, it would be interesting to see how this played in the awards landscape. Ammonite still plans to make the rounds at Telluride and TIFF after being selected for Cannes, but it’s hard to build buzz for your movie when the physical festival has been largely obliterated. Would the film fare …

The beloved '90s kids series Wishbone is getting a feature adaptation, as Oscar winner Peter Farrelly has signed on to produce a live-action movie about the iconic Jack Russell terrier for Universal Pictures and Mattel Films, the studio announced Wednesday. Wishbone ran on PBS from 1996 through 2001 and followed an adorable dog as he whisked viewers into some of the most famous and cherished literary moments. Mattel Films will reboot the property into a modern, four-quadrant comedy that will be aimed at families. Roy Parker, whose script This House Is Not for Sale appeared on the 2019 …

It turns out Scott Derrickson has been hinting that he wasn't pleased with Doctor Strange 2 for a while.

AMC has released yet another trailer for The Terror: Infamy, the second chapter of AMC's historical-horror anthology series. While season 1 centered around the doomed members of a British Royal Navy ship stranded in the Arctic, Infamy focuses on a small Japanese-American community during World War II plagued by mysterious deaths and the malevolent force behind them. Max Borenstein (Godzilla) and Alexander Woo (Manhattan) have come aboard to pen the new story, with Woo serving as showrunner. It'll be interesting to see how this creative team juggles the real-life terrors with the horrors from beyond …

The weekend played out mostly as expected with the release of Shazam! from Warner Bros. and New Line securing the top spot in both the domestic and worldwide marketplace while Paramount's release of Pet Sematary scored the second largest opening for a Stephen King adaptation. STX's The Best of Enemies, however, fell a bit below expectations as April is off to a solid start, but it won't be until the release of Avengers: Endgame at the end of the month that we'll be able to see whether this...