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First Full Clip From Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ Doesn’t Want To Talk Time-Travel ThoughRian Johnson’s sci-fi filmLooperdoesn’t open for a month, you’re soon going to be hearing a lot about it. It has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next week and /Film will be on the scene. The film, which stars bothJoseph Gordon-LevittandBruce Willisas a character named Joe, takes place in a world where time-travel was invented but quickly made illegal....

First Look: Ray Winstone And Temuera Morrison In Tracker I’ve been hoping to seeTemuera Morrisonget a role where he could be as intense and amazing as he was inOnce Were Warriors.Star Warssure didn’t provide it; nor didCouples Retreat. CouldTrackerbe the one to do it? With Morrison working oppositeRay Winstonein a chase film set at the turn of the century in New Zealand, I’m hoping so. Empirehas two new character portrait shots of Winstone and Morrison as the two leads of the film....

Frank Miller Can’t Even Watch Batman Movies For better or worse,Frank Millerhelped define superheroes in the ’80s with his grim and often violent stories featuring Marvel’s Daredevil and DC’s Batman. His work on those books had an influence that is felt in comics and film today, 30 years after the publication of some of Miller’s work. The most recent run of Batman films, directed by Christopher Nolan, bore significant Miller influence, not least being the titleThe Dark Knight....

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Joins Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Gugu Mbatha-Rawis the newest actor to boardAva DuVernay’sA Wrinkle in Timeadaptation. The actress delivered great, emotional breakout performances inBelleandBeyond the Lights. Since those dramas hit theaters, we’ve seen Mbatha-Raw inConcussion,Free State of Jones,The Whole Truth, and a personal favorite of our own Angie Han,Jupiter Ascending. The actress is now set to play Mrs. Murry in DuVernay’s adaptation ofMadeleine L’Engle’s classic fantasy novel....

Halle Berry To Star In And Direct MMA Drama ‘Bruised’ Halle Berryhas spent the past few years putting in appearances in high-profile sequels likeKingsman: The Golden CircleandX-Men: Days of Future Pastand low-budget thrillers likeThe CallandKidnap. But now the Oscar winner is set to make her directorial debut with a new movie calledBruised, an mixed martial arts drama in which she’ll also play the lead role of a disgraced former fighter who’s forced to get back in the game once again....

How ‘Loki’ Freshened Up That ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Flashback With New Footage Marvel’s newLokiseries begins with the sequence inAvengers: Endgamewhere Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) struggle to get their hands on two of the three Infinity Stones that happen to be in New York at the same tie in 2012. In their mishandling of the time heist, the Tesseract falls into the hands of Loki (Tom Hiddleston), allowing him to make a quick escape and leading us into his own series on Disney+....

Jenny Slate Reuniting With ‘Obvious Child’ Director And Writer For ’90s Comedy ‘Landline’ The delightfulObvious Childcame seemingly out of nowhere in 2014 to win us over. In our defense, it was the first-ever feature by directorGillian Robespierre, and the first screenwriting credit forElisabeth Holm, and starJenny Slatehadn’t yet established herself as a movie star. But now that we’ve all seen and lovedObvious Child, there’s no chance of the gang’s next team-up flying so far under the radar....

Joss Whedon And Marvel Studios Announce ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ As Sequel To ‘The Avengers’ Joss Whedontook the stage at Hall H today to intro a brief teaser clip for a new film. The footage featured animated close-ups of metal being pounded into shape as we hear clips of dialogue fromThe Avengers. But as the metal object revolves and the camera pulls back the head of Ultron is revealed. Smash cut to title:The Avengers: Age of Ultron....

Keegan-Michael Key Is Exactly The Kind Of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Host You Love To See Keegan-Michael Keyhas decades of experience in improv and sketch comedy, so it should come as no surprise that he excelled stupendously when hostingSaturday Night Livefor the first time. This is exactly the kind of host you want to see take the stage, and the result was an episode that was full of mostly fantastic sketches. Even the fact that the sketches ran a little longer than usual didn’t hurt the show....

LOL: Bill Hader Returns To ‘Saturday Night Live’ As Anthony Scaramucci For ‘Weekend Update’ Even as a die hardSaturday Night Livefan, I’m not entirely sure that we need a summer edition ofWeekend Updatefor a few weeks before the full 43rd season of the late night sketch series kicks off on September. But after last night’s first episode ofWeekend Update: Summer Editionbrought back one of the best cast members to ever appear on the show, I’m so gladColin JostandMichael Checame back to end the summer with some laughs....

Matt Damon Turned Down ‘Avatar’ And A Metric Ton Of Money Thought you were having a bad day? Boy, do I have the pick-me-up for you. When it comes to “missed opportunities,” it’ll be all but impossible to topMatt Damon’spersonal story of roads not taken and should-have-beens. While speaking at a Cannes Film Festival masterclass, Damon explained howJames Cameronhimself offered Damon a lead role and a sizable percentage of a film’s gross…only for the actor to have to say no, due to scheduling conflicts....

MondoCon 2019 Recap: The Beloved Art Convention Is Bigger And Better Than Ever In its fifth year, MondoCon is bigger than ever. In the convention’s program, co-founder and creative director Mitch Putnam mentioned this year’s con is “the first time it actually feels like we’ve hit our full potential.” Honestly, I couldn’t agree more. Movie, music, and comic book fansloveMondo for all of the rad collector items they make. Hell, I’m one of them....

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