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The Stunning Official Website For Mr. Nobody Launches I’ll never forget my initial reactions toJaco Van Dormael’s debut feature,Toto the Hero. I stumbled out of the cinema, genuinely warmed-up by what I had been watching, and wandered back to reality. Reality seemed, for a few minutes at least, rather wanting, and from that day forward I held Van Dormael’s work rather close to my heart. SinceToto, he’s only directed one more released feature film, the romantic fantasyThe Eighth Day....

VOTD: ‘Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut’ Let’s take a break from the flood of Sundance news and all the Oscar talk to look at one of the weirder indie projects out there: the crowd-assembledStar Warsremake.Star Wars Uncutis a project that started over two years ago when Casey Pugh invited Star Wars fans to do their own recreations of specific scenes from the 1977 filmStar Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Fifteen seconds at a time, fans made their own version of the ‘77 film, the most special of all editions....

Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ Will Open In Theaters In October, After Playing Cannes And The New York Film Festival Wes Anderson’sThe French Dispatchhas a new release date: October! The latest Anderson ensemble was due out last year, but we all know how things turned out for most films due out in 2020. Anderson’s pic was also supposed to play at the Cannes Film Festival last year, but when Cannes got Cannes-celed, those plans went down the toilet as well....

Where Can You See ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Prologue With ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’ On December 16? /Film readerswere the first to knowa 6-minute prologue toThe Dark Knight Riseswould be appearing exclusively in front of IMAX prints ofMission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. It was then revealed the prologue wouldn’t be at all IMAX locations showingBrad Bird’s film,just the 70mm ones, which cuts the number down drastically. Warner Bros. has finally fessed up to the fact that this is happening and they’ve released a full list of theaters that will be showing the prologue toChristopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated film....

Your Westworld Logistical Questions Answered Westworldpremiered this week on HBO, and I very much enjoyed the first episode ofJonathan NolanandLisa Joy Nolan’s expensive and beautiful small screen adaptation. But I was left with many questions, though not many of the plot-specific mysteries that Jacob Hall brings up inhis extensive Westworld spoiler review. I’m more interested in his first question: How does this park actually operate? I Have a Lot of Westworld Logistical Questions I was leftwondering about the nerdy logisticsof how such a “theme park” operates....

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Live-Action TV Series In The Works At Netflix, Animated Spin-Offs To Follow Every few years, Hollywood will attempt yet again to adapt a video game for the screen, and you don’t even need every finger on one hand to count the number of times it has worked out well. One example of when it did work: Netflix’sThe Witcher, the hit Henry Cavill-led fantasy adventure series based on both the popular video game franchise and books by Andrzej Sapkowski....

‘Batkid Begins’ Review: An Uplifting And Important Documentary About Everyone’s Favorite Batman On August 02, 2025, an event happened that showed the best of what this tech-crazed, celebrity obsessed world can do. Ironically though, the person the event was about had no idea what he’d inspired. That’s the story ofBatkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World, which tells the incredibly story of Miles Scott, a young California boy diagnosed with Leukemia whose one wish was to be the real Batman....

‘Captain America 3’ Will Finish The Story, But Will Chris Evans Pass The Shield? We don’t know plans for theCaptain America 3ending, and frankly wouldn’t say if we did. The film is still two years away and hasn’t started production yet. WithThe Winter Soldiercoming to Blu-ray, however, theRusso Brothersjust happen to be talking about the film. Some of the biggest questions they’re fielding surround the fate ofChris Evans' character. The last film gave him two formidable characters to whom he might pass the Captain America shield:Sebastian Stan’s Bucky andAnthony Mackie’s Falcon....

‘Censored Eleven’ Looney Tunes To Hit DVD? Possible, But Warner Home Video Says Not Yet Warner Archiveis fast becoming one of the more valuable facets of the DVD landscape. the company is Warner Bros.' method for direct-marketing the DVD and digital release of many films that have artistic and cultural value, but no great commercial prospects. Is Warner Archive now poised to bring a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons packed with racial caricatures, the so-calledCensored Eleven, to DVD?...

‘Deadpool’ Panel Highlights And Footage Description: Five Things We Learned [Comic-Con 2015] For years comic book lovers have been clamoring for aDeadpoolmovie, and earlier this movie it finally started shooting. Today, fans at Comic-Con got a first look at actual footage from the R-rated superhero pic, which starsRyan Reynoldsas the Merc with a Mouth. Reynolds also took the Hall H stage to talk about the movie, along with his co-starsMorena Baccarin,T....

‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Early Buzz: Mel Gibson’s War Drama Is Powerful, Grisly But Also Traditionalist & Unsubtle There’s some big buzz surrounding another anticipated premiere out of the Venice Film Festival. This time, it’sMel Gibson’s return behind the camera for the first time in 10 years that is garnering plenty of attention. Hacksaw Ridgeis a war drama based on the true story of Desmond Doss, a young Seventh Day Adventist who drew criticism from his fellow soldiers for sticking to his Pacifist beliefs and never picking up a weapon during his time serving in the military during World War II....

‘Happy Death Day 2U’ Review: Jessica Rothe Delivers Another Killer Performance In This Pitch-Perfect Sequel Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An unlucky person finds themselves living the same day, over and over again, in a continual loop. If they happen to die, they have to start the day all over again. And things are exactly the same…except when they aren’t. Sounds pretty familiar, right? It should. It’s the plot ofGroundhog Day, but it’s also the plot of several other notable titles:Edge of Tomorrow, the recent Netflix seriesRussian Doll, and of course,Happy Death Day, the clever slasher flick from 2017....

‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ TV Spot: The Monsters Are Bigger And So Are The Fights The premise ofPacific Rim Uprisingfeels like the sequel toGuillermo del Toro’s gleeful mecha-anime homage is saying, “Anything you’re able to do, I can dobiggerand withmore bombast.” And the latest extended TV spot only serves to hammer that in, with the movie promising the biggest Kaiju we’ve seen yet. But if anyone is up to the task, it’s Stacker Pentecost’s (Idris Elba) son Jake Pentecost (John Boyega)....