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‘Alita: Battle Angel’ VFX Breakdown Reveals The Magic Behind Cyborg Enhanced Characters It’s a shame that not enough people gaveAlita: Battle Angela shot when it hit theaters earlier this year. It’s a stunning spectacle with incredible visual effects, an intricately created sci-fi world, and some of the most impressive action sci-fi has seen outside of superhero movies. For those of you who have seen the movie, you can see how some of the cyborg-enhanced supporting characters were created with impeccable digital effects, as well as the thrilling rollerball sequence, an action-packed bar fight, and more....

‘Army Of One’ Trailer: God Calls Up Nicolas Cage For A Favor During a recent Q & A forPaul Schrader’sDog Eat Dog,Nicolas Cagesaid he wanted to play the film’s often unhinged, coke-snorting, Humphrey Bogart-quoting, baby-napper crook because, to paraphrase, he was exhausted from playing wacky characters. That should give you some idea of what to expect from his high-energy performance in directorLarry Charles' (Bruno)Army of One, in which he plays a modern-day Don Quixote hunting Osama Bin Laden....

‘Arrival’ Early Buzz: Denis Villeneuve’s Sci-Fi Drama Is Smart, Chilly, And Fantastic Arrivalheld its world premiere at theVenice Film Festivalearlier today and the first wave of reviews forDenis Villeneuve’s new science fiction drama have been nothing short of glowing. It seems that Villeneuve, who has previously directed terrific movies likeEnemy,Prisoners, andSicario, is adept at smart genre filmmaking as he is at intense human drama (which bodes well forthatBlade Runnersequel he’s currently filming)....

‘Deadpool 2’ Mid-Credits Scenes Are The Best Gag Of The Franchise, But They Also Raise Some Questions Deadpool 2is in theaters right now, and thankfully the trailers and marketing haven’t spoiled all of the surprises in store for fans heading to see the irreverent superhero comedy this weekend. One of the biggest surprises comes from the sequel’s two mid-credits scenes. Since this is Deadpool we’re talking about, they’re not really trying to blow fans' minds by setting up future sequels, but rather delivering more meta gags as the Merc with a Mouth is wont to do....

‘Doctor Who’ Gives Us B-Horror Movie “Arachnids In The U.K.” While Mr. Big Channels Trump Doctor Whohas never really done Halloween-themed episodes (despite the scary bent of many of its episodes, Christmas is more this show’s speed), but it seems fitting that the BBC sci-fi show’s Halloween-adjacent episode has all the hallmarks of a B-horror movie: corrupt businessmen, science gone horribly wrong, and big-ass spiders.“Arachnids in the U.K.“sees the Doctor and her companions return to Earth in an episode that recalls the classic show and gives us a creepy crawler that — in trueDoctor Whofashion — made me feel more emotions than just fear....

‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Novel Is Called ‘The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ This past summer, we learned Lionsgatewas already keenon returning to the world ofThe Hunger Gamesby adapting the forthcoming prequel novel from authorSuzanne Collins. Now we have more specifics on the story this book will tell, and we also have a title:The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Set 64 years before the events ofThe Hunger Games, the prequel story focuses on the events of the 10th Hunger Games as Panem is still recovering from the war that happened 10 years before....

‘In The Heights’ Trailer: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Other Award-Winning Musical Heads To The Big Screen We all know whoLin-Manuel Mirandais: the guy fromMary Poppins Returns! Oh, he also wroteHamilton, a billion-dollar Broadway sensation that’s become a cultural touchstone. But before there wasHamiltonthere wasIn the Heights, Miranda’sotheraward-winning musical. And now it’s headed to the big screen.Crazy Rich AsiansdirectorJon M. Chuhelms the film, which is set over the course of three sweltering summer days in Washington Heights in New York City....

‘In The Tall Grass’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘Cube’ Takes On The Stephen King And Joe Hill Story In the Tall Grass, the considerably nasty short story fromStephen Kingand sonJoe Hill, just dropped its first trailer – and what an effective trailer it is. In the best horror tradition,In the Tall Grasstakes something innocuous – in this case, an overgrown field – and makes it terrifying. Watch the incredibly creepyIn the Tall Grasstrailer below....

‘Just Mercy’ Made Available To Rent For Free Through June To Help Educate On Systemic Racism In the wake of the widespread Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the nation, Warner Bros. is seeking to educate audiences on systemic racism. The studio is makingJust Mercy, the 2019 legal drama starringMichael B. Jordanas the real-life civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, available to rent for free through the month of June. “We believe in the power of story,” Warner Bros....

‘Justice League’ Villain Steppenwolf Revealed Through (You Guessed It) Merchandise We haven’t seen much of Steppenwolf’s not-so-pretty mug from theJustice Leaguemarketing. The big bad of the film is played via motion-capture byCiarán Hinds, sothe littlewe’ve seen of villain’s face has been blurry, probably unfinished visual effects. And because toys and other merch always seem to outpace their own movies, a new mask gives a slightly better idea of Steppenwolf’s grizzled face looks like....

‘Luke Cage’ Clip: Mike Colter Dishes Out Some Serious Hurting It’s September, which means that our focusshouldbe drifting away from comic book superheroes and toward the film festival circuit, where the movies we’ll be talking about for the next four or five months will be making their debuts and building their buzz. And while our own Angie Han is currently at the Toronto International Film Festival to bring you reviews of new films from the world’s most exciting and eclectic filmmakers, Netflix is doing an excellent job of diverting our attention from the arthouse to the streets of Harlem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Narcos’ Trailer: Wagner Moura Is Netflix’s Pablo Escobar After a blood-splattered, cocaine-dusted first teaser, Netflix’sNarcoshas come back with its first full-on trailer.Wagner Mouraplays legendary drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, andBoyd HolbrookandPedro Pascalthe DEA agents who attempt to take him down in the 1980s. Watch theNarcostrailer after the jump. If there’s one major problem with theNarcostrailer, it’s that there isn’t nearly enough Pedro Pascal. He has a major role as Steve Murphy’s DEA partner Javier Peña, but you wouldn’t know it from the promo, where he appears only in brief shots and gets just a line or two....

‘Ocean’s Eight’ Adds Anne Hathaway, Rihanna & Rapper Awkwafina To The Heist Over the past couple months, the cast of theOcean’s Elevenspin-offOcean’s Eighthas slowly been filling out.Sandra Bullockwas the first name attached to the project, and we later learned that she would be playing Danny Ocean’s sister, who also happens to be a charming ex-con just like her brother. Since then, the cast has addedCate Blanchett,Helena Bonham CarterandMindy Kaling, but now three more names have just been added to the roster....