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‘Side Effects’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Diagnoses Paranoid Fears In His “Final” Theatrical Outing Steven Soderbergh, so often adventurous over the course of his career, closes out his theatrical run with the relatively conventional thrillerSide Effects.Though the ideas within are familiar, a winding narrative path keeps predictability out of sight, and prevents Soderbergh and screenwriterScott Z. Burnsfrom ever falling back to one simplistic message. Soderbergh’s own skill with the form allows him to pursue that path at length, without losing the plot....

‘Spider-Man’ Producer Announces ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie Sony has officially announced that they will be bringing Konami’s hit videogame franchiseMetal Gear Solidto the big screen. Deja Vu?Yes, I did write this exact storyin February 2007, butproducerMichael De Lucanever got it off the ground. This time the announcement was made to video game fans attending the Metal Gear Anniversary event in Tokyo. Banners on display read “Metal Gear Solid Hollywood Movie”, and featured the Columbia Pictures logo....

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “Decommissioned” This post containsmajor spoilersfor the latest episode of the series. The protagonists ofThe Bad Batchremain on Ord Mantell at Cid’s in the latest episode, “Decommissioned.” Tech and Wrecker take it upon themselves to train Omega in the use of an energy bow when Cid interrupts them with a new mission. She wants them to head to Corellia to steal a tactical droid from a decommissioning facility....

‘Tenet’ Scores $20 Million At U.S. Box Office, While Disney+ Downloads Spike With ‘Mulan’ Release Warner Bros.‘Tenetand Disney’sMulanhave been hand-in-hand for most of the summer — they were both being primed to be the first big blockbusters that would reopen movie theaters amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, they were both delayed three times each, they were both major tentpoles starring a POC lead. But the studios ended up going in very different directions as August neared and the pandemic’s end was nowhere in sight....

‘The American Dreamer’ Mondo Poster: A Long Lost Dennis Hopper Documentary Inspires Some One-Of-A-Kind Art Dennis Hopperis one the most fascinating figures in American cinema, a vital artist who rose so fast and fell so hard that his story has taken on a tragic aura. What would have become of the directorEasy Riderif his second film wasn’t a failure? Would he still be in the same conversation as the likes of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, and the rest of their peers?...

‘The Break-Up’ Screenwriter To Rewrite New Line’s ‘Police Academy’ Reboot Like so many other properties from our childhoods,Police Academyis roaring back to life in the form of a brand-new reboot. The project got set up at New Line since 2010, and has since acquired a director in the form ofScott Zabielski(Tosh.0). Now it’s also about to pick up a fresh draft of the screenplay, courtesy ofThe Break-UpwriterJeremy Garelick. More details after the jump....

‘The Journey Of Walter White:’ A Spoiler-Filled ‘Breaking Bad’ Fan Video Vince Gilligan, the creator ofBreaking Bad, has long said his aim with the AMC show was to demonstrate how a seemingly normal person could slowly become Scarface: a cold-blooded, millionaire drug dealer. Most of us fit into that first category. We live our lives, go to work or school, have a family, hang out with friends and that’s it. Think about the things that would need to happen to turn you into one of the most dispicable, evil people alive....

‘The Secret History Of Hollywood’ Podcast Is Becoming A Movie – Here’s Why This Is Cool News I stumbled acrossAdam Roche’sThe Secret History of Hollywoodpodcast back in 2017, and it quickly became one of my favorite podcasts of all time. Roche has explored different Hollywood figures over the course of multiple seasons, painting incredibly vivid pictures of people like Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, James Cagney, and more through highly entertaining, immersive narrative episodes which are all heavily researched and wonderfully performed....

‘Vampire Chronicles’ TV Series Finds New Life At AMC, Brings The ‘Mayfair Witches’ Along For The Ride A potential TV series based onAnne Rice’sThe Vampire Chronicleshas been searching for fresh blood for a few years now, and it looks like it’s found it at AMC. The network just scored the rights to bothThe Vampire Chroniclesand Rice’sThe Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and plans to develop TV shows and even films around both....

11 Things You Didn’t Know About DC’s Beast Boy If you were a kid anytime from 2003 forward, you likely grew up with green-skinned shapeshifter Garfield Mark “Gar” Logan, who first joined the New Teen Titans under the alias Changeling but who’s better known, especially to 21st-century TV audiences, as Beast Boy. DC introduced a shapeshifter named Beast Boy in September 1964’s “Adventure Comics” #324. That incarnation was as an alien from the planet Lallor who turned villain, then hero, before being killed off in “Adventure Comics” #339....

2014 Golden Globe Nominees Include ‘12 Years A Slave’, ‘American Hustle’ While most of the West Coast was still curled up in bed,Aziz Ansari,Zoe Saldana, andOlivia Wildegot up bright and early this morning to announce the nominees for the 71st annual Golden Globes. 12 Years a SlaveandAmerican Hustleled the film nominations, with an impressive seven each. The latter didn’t get nearly as much recognition at yesterday’s SAG awards announcement, but the former is crystallizing its status as the one to beat this year....

8 Marvel Comics Storylines That Could Inform ‘Avengers 4’ And Phase 4 Of The MCU Avengers: Infinity Waris driving a lot of speculation right now about what next year’s follow-upAvengersmovie and the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe could look like. Part of that speculation draws from what we know — or think we know — based on movie news, but fans are also looking to comics history for possible indicators of where the story might go....

Brad Bird On Why “Video Games Are A Bad Influence For Storytelling” We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Brad Bird(The Incredibles, Ratatouille) came to San Diego Comic-Con International 2016 for a preview ofThe Giant’s Dream: The Making Of The Iron Giant, which will be included on theupcoming Blu-ray release of the filmthis fall. The documentary by Anthony Giacchino is a beautiful and heartbreaking look at the Hollywood animation process, a must see....