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A tense, and final, Operation Finale trailer presents the true story of the Mossad’s hunt for, and capture of, Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann. Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley star, and based on this trailer, both of them are acting their heads off, to the point that it might end up giving you anxiety. Watch the Operation Finale trailer below.

Operation Finale Trailer

In the 1960s, Israeli agents traveled to Argentina, where many Nazis had fled after World War II. They had one specific target in mind: Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who was in charge of the mass deportation of Jews to concentration camps. The agents captured Eichmann, and then had to deal with the problem of smuggling him out of Argentina to stand trial in Israel.

This true story gets the big screen treatment in Operation Finale, an intense new thriller from director Chris Weitz. Weitz seems like an odd fit for this subject matter – his previous directing credits include Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Golden Compass and the first American Pie film. He also co-wrote Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. While those credits might not suggest a film of this nature, this trailer looks promising.

At the very least, Operation Finale is going to be a showcase for Oscar Isaac, playing Mossad agent Peter Malkin, and Ben Kingsley, playing Eichmann. The subject matter, and the performances, suggest the type of movie studios love to push towards the end of the year for awards season. But Operation Finale is arriving at the tail-end of summer. Make of that what you will.

Operation Finale also stars Lior Raz, Melanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, Joe Alwyn, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Aronov, Ohad Knoller, Greg Hill, Torben Liebrecht, Mike Hernandez, Greta Scacchi and Pêpê Rapazote, with a script from first-time screenwriter Matthew Orton.

Operation Finale opens on August 29, 2018.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures’ razor-sharp thriller, Operation Finale, brings to life one of the most daring covert operations in modern history. Starring Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s List) and Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ex Machina), the film vividly captures the ingenious and brilliantly executed mission to capture Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. Fifteen years after the end of World War II, acting on irrefutable evidence, a top-secret team of Israeli agents travel to Argentina where Eichmann (Kingsley) has been in hiding together with his family under an alias Ricardo Klement and execute an extremely dangerous abduction. In attempting to sneak him out of Argentina to stand trial in Israel while being pursued by the country’s right-wing forces, agent Peter Malkin (Isaac) is forced to engage Eichmann in an intense and gripping game of cat-and-mouse with life-and-death stakes.

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In the wake of digital animation, the art of stop-motion (or stop-frame) animation has been relegated to the furthest reaches of the animation spectrum, despite the fact that its handmade quality gives the entire production a warmth and tangible quality that is nearly impossible to capture in a computer-born creation. And while animation houses like Aardman and Laika Entertainment are still kicking and putting out a feature every few years (in addition to commercial work and the occasional short films), but even they use digital assistance to smooth out action and erase lines where they aren’t meant to be.

So imagine the sheer delight at seeing a film like Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (courtesy of the newly created British house Animortal Studio) on the big screen using old-school stop-motion techniques that combine the feel of the artist’s fingerprints on the creation with high production value that you’d expect to get from much more established studios.

Writer/director Michael Mort spent many years working for places like Aardman (he’s credited with directing several episodes of the Shaun the Sheep television series, among other things) and learning his crafted before he created the 2013 Chuck Steel short Raging Balls of Steel Justice, which served as something of a test run for the Trampires feature. Like the short, the feature is an unapologetic tribute to ’80s-era action and horror films. The references—both subtle and not so much—tap everything from Lethal Weapon and Die Hard to Evil Dead and The Thing, complete with dated, exceedingly non-PC opinions/jokes about everything from male/female relationships to excessive police violence. While Chuck Steel (voiced by the director) is the star of the film, he’s certainly not meant to be looked at as anything but an ill-tempered, misogynistic blowhard.

Set in 1986, the story revolves around Steel during changing times. Many of his fellow officers have been seeing the department psychiatrist, the beautiful but chilly Dr. Alex Cular (Jennifer Saunders), who has turned the L.A. police force soft, in Steel’s opinion (one gag involves an officer changing the name of the squad’s Most Wanted poster to Most Misunderstood). And this shift in attitude couldn’t have come at a worst time, when the city is on alert after a series of strange disappearances of some of its high-profile citizens. The crime scenes are soaked in blood but no bodies are ever found, and usually the disappearances occur right after the victim has left a party.

When Steel goes to interview a woman who survived one of these attacks, he’s met by a seemingly insane old man, Abraham Van Rental (also voiced by Mort), who warns him that a growing army of Trampires (that’s “tramp” as in homeless people) are grabbing up these drunken partiers because they feed on the blood alcohol content of their victims, which results in a fresh crop of new Trampires, threatening to overrun the city under the control of their mysterious leader.

As an action movie, Night of the Trampires features some impressive visual moments, including deliriously paced action sequences, explosions galore, shootouts, and even a perpetually angry police captain, Jack Schitt (voiced by Mort once again), who is always threatening to fire Steel but never does because he considers him “the best goddamn cop on the force.” On the horror side of things, the movie is loaded with blood and guts and melting faces that feature a level of detail that makes it impossible not to wonder how the animators accomplished it and how long it took them. A great number of sequences will make you wonder such things, since Mort and his team don’t shy away from larger set pieces featuring crowd shots with dozens of characters in a single frame, each with unique looks and movements.

The film’s crowning achievement is a massive-scale climactic battle set at a circus, during which the Trampires disguise themselves as clowns, poised to attack revelers and take out the governor, nicknamed The Puritan (Dan Russell), who doesn’t believe in drinking and wants to reduce the hours of bars and clubs, which of course would threaten the livelihood of the bloodsuckers. Paying homage to everything from the films of Ray Harryhausen to Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the epic final sequence of Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires is pure, barely controlled mayhem, throwing in giant, unspeakably gross monsters in the mix just to add to the fun. Mort and the folks at Animortal spent nearly four years working on this, and every bit of their their blood, sweat and fingertips is on the screen.

The film’s comedic elements leave something to be desired at times, but that’s only because they seem somewhat juvenile compared to the much deeper understanding Mort gives to the action and horror aspects of the film. Even still, the humor isn’t any less mature than something like the South Park movie or Sausage Party. Night of the Trampires would slot in nicely on the midnight-movie circuit. And while I’m sure aesthetic of the film (matched perfectly by a killer synth soundtrack by Joris de Man and a handful of deep-cut heavy metal songs) would suit home viewing, ideally, this is something you’d see with a couple hundred of your nearest and dearest, like-minded cult movie fanatics in an actual theater.

The film is audacious, unashamed, sleazy and has no issues taking shots at everyone, most especially Chuck Steel himself. In a cinematic world where we’re about to get our first R-rated muppet movie, one can hope there’s a place for more than one bit of tasteless fun.

/Film Rating: 7 out of 10

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It appears that Apple is in the process of closing a bid to secure the rights to turn Terry Gilliam‘s Time Bandits film into a tv series, which they are actively planning on developing.

It’s been a tough and yet awesome year for Gilliam fans, as his almost 30-year epic quest to finish and release The Man Who Killed Don Quixote came to a conclusion with the flick screening during 2018’s Cannes Film Festival despite multiple legal hurdles.

Time Bandits remains a classic of his signature style of humor and directorial style, perhaps the most mainstream and widely beloved title in his filmography (I mean, 12 Monkeys maybe had more financial success). In the original film, Kevin (Craig Warnock) is visited (or invaded, however you want to look at it) by six dwarves in possession of a map which details holes in the fabric of time. They’re thieves and adventurers, using the map to steal treasures from different historical eras.

Gilliam will be a non-writing executive producer, and we’ll of course let you know as soon as more information about this becomes available.

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If you love pop culture, odds are you’ve got a soft spot for action figures. Problem is, even with more companies than ever making figures from weirder and weirder properties, there are simply some movies and shows that will never get the figure treatment. That is, unless an artist does it themselves.

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Fans of Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘s Veep should keep their spring 2019 viewing calendar open, as HBO president of programming Casey Bloys confirmed the timeframe for the show’s seventh and final season during the cable giant’s Television Critics Association (TCA) session on Wednesday. When asked for an update on the series’ return, Bloys responded, “Writers are now getting together, with shooting scheduled to begin this fall, and the final season 7 airing sometime this spring.”

This seems to confirm comments from Veep co-star Matt Walsh (Upright Citizens Brigade) from January 2018. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Walsh revealed that Louis-Dreyfus has completed chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer and has been participating in table reads for the upcoming season. At the time, Walsh expected production on season 7 to begin by the end of the summer, with new episodes airing in 2019:

“Veep is on hiatus, we’ll start filming in August and it will air in 2019. We’ve known for about a month. We’ve seen [Julia], she’s done some table reads, she’s doing well, she’s finished her last chemo, she’s in recuperation. Her prospectives have remained excellent throughout. She’s very well loved; she’s a tremendous person.”

In February, she posted a photo of herself after surgery with the caption. “Hoorah! Great doctors, great results, feeling happy and ready to rock after surgery. Hey cancer, ‘F*ck you!’ Here’s my first post-op photo.”

It was on September 28th, 2017 — less than two weeks after she took home her record sixth Emmy for her role as Selina Meyer –– that Louis-Dreyfus took to Twitter to reveal to her followers and the public that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Just when you thought… pic.twitter.com/SbtYChwiEj

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) September 28, 2017

Louis-Dreyfus was actually diagnosed the day after the Emmy Awards, and all parties made it clear that her diagnosis had nothing to do with the decision to end Veep‘s run with the seventh season. Less than two months after the reveal came word that production on the HBO series’ seventh and final season had been put on hold while the actress underwent cancer treatment.

Veep stars Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, the former vice president and “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” president, who struggles to navigate uncharted political territory. The ensemble cast also includes Walsh, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole and Sam Richardson.

Deadline Hollywood

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Roger Black and Waco O’Guin (co-creators, Brickleberry) are set to join Netflix‘s impressive slate of adult animation (including Big Mouth, BoJack Horseman, and Tuca & Bertie) with their take on small-town, “backwater Southern-fried” law enforcement Paradise P.D. — and now we’re getting our first look through both the official trailer for and official stills from the series.

Set to arrive later this year with an order of 10 half-hour episodes, Paradise, P.D. is produced by Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment with animation courtesy of Bento Box. Check out the official Netflix trailer below:

They’re bad cops. Not bad like no nonsense. Not bad like cool. Bad like shitty. Paradise PD: They’re the worst responders. From the creators of Brickleberry, Roger Black and Waco O’Guin, comes an outrageous 10-episode adult animated comedy about a backwater Southern-fried, small-town police department. Paradise PD premieres on Netflix on August 31, 2018.

Featuring “Chief Randall Crawford” by Tom Kenny (Spongebob), “Gina Jabowski” by Sarah Chalke (Scrubs, Rick & Morty), “Stanley Hopson” and “Dusty Marlow” by Dana Snyder (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies), “Gerald Fitzgerald” by Cedric Yarbrough (Speechless), “Kevin Crawford” by Dave Herman (Brickleberry, Bob’s Burgers), “Bullet” (dog) by Kyle Kinane (The Standups), and “Mayor Karen Crawford” by Grey Griffin (Brickleberry).

Paradise PD’s 10-episode season arrives on Netflix on August 31, 2018.

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Even Christmas classics are not immune to the reboot treatment, as apparently Ryan Reynolds is looking at a Home Alone ‘revisit’ called Stoned Alone.

Deadline says that Reynolds is attached to produce and potentially play a role in Stoned Alone for FOX, with Augustine Frizzell set to direct from a Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider script.

The outlet goes on to say the story originated from an idea by Matt Reilly, with a description (of sorts):

Stoned Alone is reminiscent of that hallowed comedy classic. It centers around a twenty-something weed growing loser who misses the plane for his holiday ski trip. He makes the best of things by getting high. Paranoia sets in and he believes he hears someone break into his house. Turns out thieves have broken in. Fully stoned and fueled by paranoia, he tries to thwart the thieves and defend his castle.

We’ll let you know when we learn any additional information about the film.

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Nearly two months after it was reported the streaming service was in direct negotiations to acquire the project, Netflix has officially announced a 10-episode adaptation of writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez‘s comic book series Locke & Key from Carlton Cuse and IDW Entertainment.

Hill and Cuse are set to be joined on the creative team by Aron Eli Coleite and Meredith Averill. The first new episode will be written by Hill and Coleite, and Cuse and Averill will serve as showrunners. Netflix is not moving forward with the existing pilot, which Hulu surprisingly passed on in March 2018, and will also be redeveloping the scripts and re-casting the new series.

so, now IT'S official…#LOCKE&Key #Netflix pic.twitter.com/GxEXV4yNTn

— Gabriel Rodríguez (@GR_comics) July 25, 2018

thanks to everyone for all your good wishes and good vibes regarding the #LOCKE&Key on #Netflix news. We hope it'll be fun.

Thanks and congratulations to the hard work of @IDWEntertain @davidozer @CarltonCuse and #JoeHill that fought hard to make this finally happen :)

— Gabriel Rodríguez (@GR_comics) July 25, 2018

It‘s Andy Muschietti directed Hulu’s pilot, but work on It: Chapter Two will keep him from directing the Netflix version. Muschietti and Cuse will serve as executive producers, along with Barbara Muschietti, Cuse, Hill, Averill and Coleite. Genre Arts’ Lindsey Springer, IDW Entertainment’s Ted Adams and David Ozer, and David Alpert and Rick Jacobs via Circle of Confusion will also executive produce.

Hulu’s pilot cast included Frances O’Connor, Megan Charpentier, Jackson Robert Scott, and Jack Mulhern.

Following their father’s gruesome murder in a violent home invasion, the Locke children return to his childhood home of Keyhouse in secluded Lovecraft, Massachusetts. Their mother, Nina is too trapped in her grief—and a wine bottle—to notice that all in Keyhouse is not what it seems: too many locked doors, too many unanswered questions. Older kids Tyler and Kinsey aren’t much better. But not youngest son Bode, who quickly finds a new friend living in an empty well and a new toy, a key, that offers hours of spirited entertainment. But again, all at Keyhouse is not what it seems, and not all doors are meant to be opened. Soon, horrors old and new, real and imagined, will come ravening after the Lockes and the secrets their family holds.

Deadline Hollywood

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Bruce Willis recently woke up from one of his lengthy naps to attend The Comedy Central Roast Of Bruce Willis, where friends and well-wishers took to the stage to insult him. Willis then stepped up to the podium himself and committed the ultimate faux pas: he declared that his classic action film Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. You’re wrong, Bruce Willis.

Comedy Central continues to perform their infamous “roasts”, where audiences marvel as celebrities get utterly wasted on hard liquor and insult each other for a few hours. The celebrity roast is a time-honored tradition, going all the way back to the Friars Club of the 1940s, and Comedy Central has inexplicably kept it going well into the 21st century. The latest bigwig to get roasted is none other than Bruce Willis, an actor you might remember from the hit film Mercury Rising.

The Willis roast doesn’t air until the end of the month, but The Hollywood Report has some details about what went down. For instance: basketball person and nuclear war negotiator Dennis Rodman was there, and was promptly booed by the audience after he made a joke about his bff Kim Jong-un. There were also plenty of jokes about Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, all of which I’m sure were side-splitting.

But the biggest joke of all came from Willis himself. At the end of every roast, the roastee gets to take the stage and defend themselves through slurred speech and bitter rage. Willis stepped to the podium and delivered some barbs, and then he decided to take things to the extreme and declare that Die Hard, arguably his most famous film, is in fact not a Christmas movie.

I know it’s July, and talking about Christmas right now feels utterly pointless and silly, but let me just say this: Bruce Willis is wrong. Yes, I know – he starred in the film, and all of its sequels (all of which are bad except Die Hard With a Vengeance), so I suppose he has some insider perspective. But let’s get real here: Die Hard is a Christmas movie. So is Die Hard 2, which takes the whole Christmas thing even further and adds snow. In both films, Willis’ character John McClane learns the true meaning of Christmas: saving his family by killing people.

Of course, Willis was likely just having a laugh and ribbing his fans. In the grand scheme of things, I doubt he even cares about how audiences classify Die Hard. If you were to walk up to Bruce Willis on the street and say, “Hey, Bruno, Die Hard is actually a Yom Kippur movie!”, he’d likely say, “Sure, great, whatever floats your boat.”

The Comedy Central Roast Of Bruce Willis airs on Comedy Central July 29, 2018.

The Comedy Central Roast Of Bruce Willis

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With less than two months to go before It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia opens Paddy’s Pub for a 13th season, FXX is sharing a new teaser and key art ahead up the upcoming season premiere on Wednesday, September 5th, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. In the artwork, Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, Danny DeVito, and Kaitlin Olson are pictured in an 80’s-style summer camp/slasher setting, running terrified from a secluded cabin and an ax-wielding, hockey mask-wearing maniac…who might just be Dennis (Glen Howerton)? Hmmm…clues…

Fear Sunny the 13th. #SunnyFXX #FridayThe13th pic.twitter.com/VC4o62jPTe

— It's Always Sunny (@alwayssunny) July 13, 2018

The teaser spotlights a number of the show’ supporting players huddled around a campfire under the tagline “After 12 seasons, we have a lot of stories to tell”: Gregory Scott Cummins‘s Luther, Artemis Pebdani’s Artemis, Lynne Marie Stewart‘s Bonnie, Andrew Friedman‘s Uncle Jack, Lance Barber’s Bill Ponderosa, Thesy Surface’s Margaret McPoyle, Mary Elizabeth Ellis’ Waitress and Sandy Martin as Mac’s mom.

After 12 seasons we have a lot of stories to tell. #SunnyFXX #FridayThe13th pic.twitter.com/RsTLohpsT7

— It's Always Sunny (@alwayssunny) July 13, 2018

With Howerton’s NBC sitcom A.P. Bio being renewed for a second season (and an expected early 2019 airing), most were expecting the actor to have a scaled back role on the series due to conflicting filming schedules. With that said, there’s always the possibility that this is a big swerve on the part of FXX and the cast/crew of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; and that Howerton may be back for more episodes than any of us expect.

Here’s a look back at the official Twitter announcement of the upcoming 13th season’s premiere date, as well as FXX’s official season synopsis – and if you believe what you’re reading, Dennis is going to be spending some serious “Daddy Dennis time” in North Dakota. So unless Dennis plans on lodging some serious “frequent flyer” miles back and forth to the bar, Howerton may be MIA for a decent chunk of the season.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Paddy’s… #SunnyFXX pic.twitter.com/ZiGtQxmsZb

— It's Always Sunny (@alwayssunny) June 28, 2018

The Gang Returns… mostly…. in the 13th season of the FXX original comedy series It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Frank (Danny DeVito) return to their duplicitous, scheming ways at Paddy’s Pub, while Dennis (Glenn Howerton) takes on the new role of father in North Dakota.

Even without Dennis Reynolds, the Gang has its hands full as Charlie hopes to have a child with The Waitress, Mac sets out to understand his newfound sexuality, Dee takes feminism to new heights, and Frank goes to great lengths for the Gang to experience the greatest moment in Philadelphia sports history – an Eagles Super Bowl victory.

Deadline Hollywood

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Super7 is hosting their second activation of the week in San Diego. That’s right, second. After the success of Hordak’s Lair, they had a tough act to follow. Luckily they had the right stuff to do it. The Universal Monsters Boodega was the big coming out party for their new line of products based on the classic supernatural beings.

Right from the outside, with it’s old barbershop-style window art, Monster Kids like myself feel welcome and right at home. When you walked inside, a center table contained the liited to only one pair in each size shoe being offered. Four were available, and they sold out pretty dang fast. Also on the table were four awesome Ed Repka prints featuring The Bride, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, and The Mummy. Each of those was limited to only 50 of each.

The staff a Super7 also goes above and beyond customer service-wise. Not only were they fun and engaging, but my bag broke inside and they taped a box for me no questions asked. Shout-out to talking about figures and helping me out of a bind there guys.

My favorite items I got in the Boodega however are the Monster Soda and Retro Creature From the Black Lagoon mask. The soda was bottled in three different flavors for four different Universal Monsters: Dracula, Invisible Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon, and Metaluna. I got the Invisible Man “Invisabubble” citrus soda, and the Creature ” Amazon Apple” soda. Both were quite tasty, and it makes me sad I will never have them again.

The retro mask is where its at though. It comes in a vintage-style box, and invokes the classic masks of old. Creature is fine, but I wish their had been a Wolfman. It is made of really cool plastic, just like the old days, and is a must-have for collectors.

Pins, pennants, and the variant colorways for the first four figures in their new ReAction line, and you have the makings of one of the coolest takeovers at SDCC this year. Check out everything below, and if you are in San Diego you still have time to stop today. The Boodega will be open 11-5 on Sunday. 701 Eighth Ave. San Diego, CA 92101

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Even if the feature film debut from writer/director Robert D. Krzykowski was the single worst film of the year, it would still win the award for the greatest and most honest title of any movie ever: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot. While this may seem like the title of a winking, silly send up of adventure movies, it is in fact a quite ambitious and straight-ahead action work that also finds ways to weave in more contemplative ideas on aging, missed opportunities, and painfully broken dreams.

Set not so much in an alternative reality, but more in a less polished version of history, the film tells the life story of American war veteran Calvin Barr (played in the “present” by a particularly surly Sam Elliott). He’s living out what he assumes will be his final years in an isolated New England town, drinking a bit too much in the local pub and allowing his memories of younger days to occupy his mind to the point where he almost goes catatonic at his barstool. The few people in his life that might notice his drifting in and out begin to worry, and we would too, except that the things he’s remembering are the stuff of legend.

As the film’s title suggests, during World War II, Calvin (played as a younger man by Aidan Turner of The Hobbit trilogy) pulled off the ultimate mission as the war was winding down and the Third Reich was in chaos. He managed to impersonate a Nazi officer, evade tight security that checked him for weapons, and get into a room with Adolf Hitler, whom he then assassinated. The sequence is so perfectly and economically rendered that we almost think there’s a catch, and for a time, we even wonder if the older Calvin is fantasizing the events rather than remembering them. But as we eventually discover, at least in this secret history of the world, Calvin Barr shot Hitler in the chest, and both the Germans and the Americans decided that a fiction about a suicide in a bunker was the version of events the outside world should be spoon fed.

By having a title as specific as The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot, it’s entirely sensible that the movie is actually not only about Calvin’s adventures. The film also focuses on his personal life, which was entwined and often hindered by his chosen profession. The love of his life, Maxine (Caitlin FitzGerald, from Masters of Sex), is left waiting behind for him, never knowing what he’s doing or how dangerous his missions are or even if he’ll return from them. As the older Calvin, Elliott so beautifully and achingly captures the melancholy of a man who willingly gave up the love of his life and has embraced the bitterness of the decision, blaming no one but himself. The one tie he is able to rekindle later in life is with his brother Ed (a surprisingly nuanced performance from comedian Larry Miller), and the scenes between them are the secret second heart of this movie.

Still struggling with how his heroic legacy ruined a great deal of the rest of his life, later-day (circa 1987, to be precise) Calvin is approached by a CIA agent (Ron Livingston) and a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Rizwan Manji) to assist them in hunting down and killing a creature living in the Canadian wilderness and carrying a deadly virus that kills everything it infects. It just so happens that the creature in question is Bigfoot, and no one in the film bats an eye at the suggestions that this supposedly mythological creature is real and only now must be slaughtered. Admittedly, keeping the movie’s title in mind, all anyone really wants to see is Sam Elliott scrap with Bigfoot, and boy, do we get that, in all of its brutal, bloody, and sometimes grotesque glory. But even in what one might believe is a cut-and-dry killing for the sake of the national security of two countries, there is regret and mournful hesitation as Calvin contemplates making this unique beast extinct. Whether we realized it or not, we’ve been waiting for Elliott to play this type of emo action hero for decades, and he gets a couple of chances to lay out some baddies in this film, including a three-against-one fight with some would-be carjackers early in the film.

In so many ways, filmmaker Krzyowski has done the impossible: constructed a glorious action-adventure piece that takes out the boring parts of all action movies (the exposition) and replaced it with a character study about a broken ex-soldier, looking back on his life with a deep sense of loss and disappointment – not at his actions as a soldier, but at the things he had to give up to be one. One of the biggest shocks about The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot are some of the names that appear in its credits, including producers Lucky McKee (May, The Woman); Oscar-winning special effects guru Douglas Trumbull (who also provided some of the seamless effects for this movie); and the godfather of independent cinema John Sayles, whose gift of adding depth to B-movie storytelling is evident throughout this movie (taking nothing away from Krzyowski’s wonderfully nuanced screenplay).

From its world-weary hero to its no-nonsense, casual swapping of fiction for fact, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot uses action and something like science fiction to deliver an wholly entertaining, yet poignant message about aging, memories, and the seemingly endless possibilities of placing Sam Elliott at the helm of a genuinely solid action movie. Now excuse me, while I spend the next several months praying that this gets decent distribution and that audiences get to enjoy the beautiful landscapes of both the hinterlands and the distinguished lines in Elliott’s face on the big screen.

/Film Rating: 8 out of 10

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Jonah Hill has had a remarkable career arc. When he started out as a mainstay in crude comedies and broke out with the wildly raunchy Superbad, no one really expected him to go on to become an Oscar nominee — let alone a two-time Oscar nominee. Now Hill is stepping behind the camera with his directorial debut, Mid-90s. Based on a script penned by Hill, Mid-90s is a coming-of-age film set in — you guessed it — the ’90s. See the first trailer below.

Mid-90s Trailer

Mid-90s is Hill’s ode to ’90s skater culture, following Stevie (The Killing of a Sacred Deer’s Sunny Suljic), a 13-year-old growing up in LA who falls in with a group of friends he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. The movie takes place over the summer as Stevie navigates between his own troubled home life and the home lives of his new friends.

Mid-90s also stars Lady Bird‘s Lucas Hedges as Stevie’s older brother and Katherine Waterston as their mother.

The movie trailer feels very much like a love letter to the ’90s, with its grainy resolution and its Movietone aspect ratio. It’s less like an inspirational coming-of-age drama and more like a gritty, lived-in film befitting its A24 label. Suljic delivers a subtle performance after his breakout in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, while Hedges plays against type with a violent, hypermasculine turn as his older brother.

Waterston doesn’t appear in the trailer, but the Fantastic Beasts actress recently heaped praise on Hill’s directing skills, telling Metro, “He is a brilliant director. The cast was incredible. Sunny Suljic plays my son, and he is one of the most extraordinary little creatures I have ever met. He is incredibly talented, very young and an amazing skateboarder and just a cool kid.”

She summarized the plot as well, which remains fairly vague in official synopses, saying, “It is about a skateboarding kid, there’s also the family story that’s very intense and painful and complicated. I play the mum. But she’s not a typical mom. Lucas Hedges is my other son.”

Mid-90s opens in theaters on October 19, 2018.

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The Deadwood movie has gone through fits and starts for over 10 years. Now, it’s finally happening. HBO has officially given the greenlight to the film revival of the Western series that ran from from 2004 to 2006. Tell your god to ready for blood.

I want to temper my excitement here, because a part of me won’t believe the Deadwood movie is real until I’m watching it. But during today’s TCA summer press tour, HBO Programming president Casey Bloys confirmed the long-awaited Deadwood movie was finally, officially happening. “All of these people worked hard to get this together,” Bloys said (via Variety). “It’s been a logistics nightmare getting all the cast members’ schedules together but we are there. It is greenlit.”

Bloys added:

“I wanted a script that would stand on its own … I’m happy to say that David [Milch] totally delivered on that. It’s a terrific script.”

Deadwood was one of HBO’s best shows – a dirty, violent, Shakespearian Western that ran from 2004 to 2006. Despite critically acclaim, the ratings just weren’t quite there, and HBO pulled the plug after three seasons. At the time of the cancellation, creator David Milch said he hoped to wrap-up any lingering storylines with two movies. But those movies never happened. Then, in 2017, word broke that one Deadwood film would probably be happening. The script was ready, the cast was ready to sign on, and all seemed right in the world. Then, more delay. Now, it’s happening. For real. We swear.

Just the other day, Robin Weigert, who played the constantly intoxicated Calamity Jane on the series, confirmed as much. “It’s safe enough to say it’s happening this fall,” Weigert told the Los Angeles Times. “There’s a set being built and tax incentives to get it done. A lot of [actors] have signed on. There’s a 90% chance it’ll finally happen.” I guess with Bloys; statement, we can now bump that 90% up to 100%.

Earlier this year, the Deadwood movie just received a $4.195 million California tax incentive. As previously reported, “According to the California Film Commission regulations, a film or a TV series generally has to start principal photography within 180 days of being approved for a tax credit in order to receive it, though exceptions are being made in special circumstances. That means that Deadwood should start filming by the beginning of October.”

Still, I won’t be 100% convinced this is real until I actually sit down and watch it. Back in March of this year, Timothy Olyphant, who played rage-monster Seth Bullock on the series, was right there with me. The actor said, and I quote: “There’s no fucking way it will ever happen.” Olyphant went on to add:

“I am hopeful. I mean I’m … I’m… I’m a huge fan of David Milch. The man means the world to me. It’s one of the most amazing creative experiences I’ve ever been able to be apart of, and I’d love to be … you know when you do these things you really miss the people. It would just be a lovely excuse to get all those people back together…”

After Olyphant’s quote made the rounds, HBO released a statement of their own, claiming that despite Olyphant’s pessimism, the Deadwood movie really is going to happen:

“We are continuing to try and bring this group of actors together. With varying schedules, it is a challenge, but we are committed to finding a way and making the film.”

Olyphant has a role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is filming right now. One can only hope and assume he’ll have his scenes for that movie wrapped in time to start shooting the Deadwood movie in the fall.

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From Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan comes an action-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas, “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa in the title role. The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime—one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be…a king.

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Get ready to ride with the boys again. FX has dropped the new Mayans MC trailer ahead of the Sons of Anarchy spin-off’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. Mayans M.C. picks up right where Sons of Anarchy left off, following Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes (J.D. Pardo), a former golden boy turned ex-convict who becomes the newest prospect for the Mayans M.C. charter operating at the border between Mexico and California.

Mayans MC Trailer

Co-created by Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter and Elgin James, Mayans M.C. is a thrilling new motorcycle drama that attempts to carve its own identity away from the popular FX predecessor — just as its main protagonist tries to forge his own identity. While previous teasers have payed tribute to Charlie Hunman’s Jax Teller, the new Mayans M.C. trailer is all about EZ Reyes.

Reyes is a former convict who finds himself torn between his old world and the enticing world of the outlaw motorcycle club, Mayans M.C. But when his old girlfriend (Sarah Bolger) gets threatened, those two worlds may soon collide.

FX released this trailer ahead of the Mayans M.C. Comic-Con panel at Hall H on Sunday, where the cast and writers will make an appearance. Sutter and James will be at the panel, along with executive producer/director Norberto Barba and stars J.D. Pardo, Sarah Bolger, Clayton Cardenas, Edward James Olmos, Michael Irby, Carla Baratta, Antonio Jaramillo, Raoul Max Trujillo, Richard Cabral, Danny Pino, Emilio Rivera, Frankie Loyal, Joseph Lucero, and Vincent Rocco Vargas.

Here’s the official synopsis for Mayans M.C.:

Mayans M.C. is a drama series from Kurt Sutter and Elgin James, and is the next chapter in the Sons of Anarchy saga. Set in a post-Jax Teller world, EZ Reyes is a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he once was the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp. Produced by Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions.

Mayans M.C. premieres on FX on September 4, 2018.

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Revealed just now at the Toys That Made Us panel at SDCC, the episode subjects for the upcoming season 3. There are some heavy-hitters here, and may turn out to be their best overall batch of episodes.

The panel began with a lively crowd cheering our heroes on the panel. Collectors have been wanting a show like this for so long, this panel felt like a victory lap of sorts. Every question during the Q&A was started or finished with “But how do we get more?” Hey, Netflix: you can make as many episodes of The Toys That Made Us as possible and it still would not be enough!

From there we were actually shown their presentation video they pitched to Netflix that had never been seen publicly before. It consisted of shots of toys from Star Wars and such from the first couple episodes, including interviews that were not aired. It ended with a hilarious montage of toys falling over and not being able to stand. It really goes to show that their sense of humor was a part of the concept from the beginning.

After some banter and questions about how they produced the episode came the main event: the announcement of the next four episode subject matters. In order as they appeared: Power Rangers (after swearing they would never do one during the panel), My Little Pony, Wrestling (old LJN figures were shown, hopefully it covers so much more), and the big one: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Those are four heavy hitters, but I have to say I am most excited for wrestling. Wrestling figures have a long, rich history in multiple countries, but for collectors LJN and Hasbro were two of the most beloved toy lines of all time. In-depth interviews on these two lines will warm my heart.

Oh, they also revealed how they will handle the theme song. Like Star Trek, this is no longer “an eight-part documentary series”. No, The Toys That Made us is now an ONGOING documentary series.

Hopefully forever.

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It’s Amazon Prime Day — a Black Friday that Amazon gets to have all for its very own self, as a way to get people on the Amazon Prime hook for TV and film streaming too. Though right now it appears to be acting like Comic-Con. An exclusive Transformers Nemesis Prime over here (get it?), and now…

An exclusive Cabin in the Woods whiskey glass. Pretend that you are one of the old ones, eagerly awaiting your sacrifice as dictated by the social and cultural mores of the people below you, as you swill your single malt back and forth, catching their screams in the glint of the dark amber waves within.

And then bring your hands smashing down upon it when the Fool finds a way to save the Virgin…

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A Sundance movie is looking to make the jump to the mainstream audience with Assassination Nation. The movie, which is getting a Hall H panel at Comic-Con International, was one of the breakout hits of the festival this year and got picked up by Neon for a massive $10 million deal. The first red and green band trailers for the movie have hit and it still looks like a ton of fun.

If you’re curious our review of the Sundance screening is right here. It’s very positive but even without that there are plenty of reasons to get excited about this one.

Summary: High school senior Lily and her crew of besties live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies, and chats—just like the rest of us. So when a provocateur starts posting details from the private digital lives of everyone in their small town of Salem, the result is a Category 5 shitstorm. We’re talking browser histories, direct messages, illegal downloads, secret text chains, and way, way, way worse. People get angry. Like, “rampaging murder posse” angry. And Lily finds herself right in the middle.

Assassination Nation, directed by Sam Levinson, stars Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, and Joel McHale. It will be released on September 21st in the USA and November 23rd in the UK.

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Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright have a long working history together, from the TV series Spaced to the Cornetto Trilogy. The duo haven’t teamed up since 2013’s The World’s End, but according to Pegg, it’s only a matter of time before they’re together again.

Pegg and Wright have come a long way since their first big movie together, 2004’s Shaun of the Dead. While they continued to work together with Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, their careers also branched off into different directions. Pegg joined both the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchise, and Wright helmed the surprise blockbuster Baby Driver.

So will we ever see a Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg film again? According to Pegg, the answer is yes. In a recent interview with Coming Soon, the actor says that the only reason the two haven’t worked together is due to timing and scheduling:

“Oh yeah, that’s like a given. The only reason we haven’t is just timing. Me and Edgar and Nick [Frost] are not colleagues, we’re friends. We go back a long time and we have a relationship that transcends work, but if only to hang with each other for an extended period we’ll make another film again. It’s just with our various commitments we have to find the time to write and make it. Me and Edgar talk about it all the time, and whenever we’re together we start brainstorming and we have certain ideas we want to develop. It’s just a question of ‘when,’ not ‘if.'”

This is very good news. While I’m fine with Pegg and Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy standing on its own, and while I think The World’s End was a perfect conclusion to said trilogy, I’d love to see them work together again. In addition to starring in the three entries of the Cornetto Trilogy, Pegg co-wrote those films with Wright. Wright directed Spaced, the British sitcom written by Pegg and Jessica Stevenson – a series that also featured Cornetto Trilogy cast member Nick Frost.

We’ll just have to be content with Pegg and Wright’s individual projects while we wait for them to reunite. Pegg will next be seen in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, hitting theaters July 27, 2018. Wright, meanwhile, is working on a documentary about the band Sparks. In addition to that, there’s a good chance Wright might be working on a Baby Driver sequel in the not too distant future.

Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg on Hot Fuzz

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This is not ‘This Is America’. Childish Gambino, aka rapper/singer/writer/actor/enigma Donald Glover, dropped two new songs on streaming services Wednesday morning that scream (or rather, leisurely utter) “summer vibes”. Which makes sense, since the tracks are called ‘Summertime Magic’ and ‘Feels Like Summer’, with the EP’s title being Summer Pack. Have you heard that it’s summer?

The two songs also bear a striking auditory resemblance to some of Gambino’s earlier work, sounding like they’d be right at home on his 2014 EP Kauai.

‘Summertime Magic’ is an instant earworm and absolutely radio-ready. This will no doubt take over every club in America by the end of the month. It’s sweet, melodic, and makes you want to move.

The second, ‘Feels Like Summer’, is a little less of a banger, but no less enjoyable for the ear-holes. Roll your windows down and put this bad boy on.

Those who know Gambino for ‘This Is America’ might be surprised by the sonic departure of these new tracks, but he’s never been afraid to experiment with his sound. In fact, some fans were disappointed with his most recent album, Awaken, My Love!, as it veered away so much from his rap-heavy earlier work and psycho-futuristic previous album Because the Internet. But no matter what Gambino does, even if it doesn’t land right away, it grows on you.

Unfortunately for Childish Gambino lovers, it looks like his next album will be his last. He announced as much last year at Governor’s Ball Music Festival in New York City, later telling HuffPost he’s retiring Childish Gambino because he doesn’t think it’s “necessary” anymore:

“There’s nothing worst than like a third sequel, like a third movie and we’re like, ‘again?’ You know, I like it when something’s good and when it comes back there’s a reason to come back, there’s a reason to do that.”

Speaking of movies, you might recognize Glover’s mug from this year’s Solo: A Star Wars Story as the aggressively charismatic young Lando Calrissian, or from last year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming as Aaron Davis (aka Miles Morales’s uncle, aka Prowler — well, not yet with that one). He’s also set to voice Simba in 2019’s The Lion King from director Jon Favreau.

Glover cleaned up with this year’s Emmy nominations too, announced this morning. He nabbed directing, writing, and lead acting noms for his FX series Atlanta, as well as for hosting SNL. Atlanta was also nominated for best comedy.

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After that wild twist at the end of Split, we’ve been waiting for ages to see what M. Night Shyamalan could do when it came to smashing together James McAvoy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Bruce Willis for the Unbreakable sequel no one saw coming. And so far, the results are sinister and weirdly gorgeous.

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Samuel Jackson has been playing Nick Fury again, in the nineties-set Captain Marvel movie. And now that the film is wrapped, he is sharing Nick Fury’s business cards with the internet, by posting to Facebook ‘Back to the familiar, the comfortable, the lovably fierce! Loving today’s mood! #Can’tkeepagoodmandown#deliriouslyfurious’.

It is possible however that these business cards won’t actually be seen on the screen…

What is it you say you mustn’t do with the Mouse?

That address. 525 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, is for the SGI-USA World Peace Ikeda Auditorium in Santa Monica, which does look like a possible nineties SHIELD base… and is a Buddhist event space. Would their philosophies be compatible with those of SHIELD?

Sadly the phone line on the business card since then has been disconnected. Does anyone have a fax machine on them?

The zip code however, is off for that location, however – but 90017 is in the ISBN code 978-1-302-90017-5 which is the code for Jim Starlin‘s Captain Marvel trade paperback. And appears to be the only Marvel title with that number in its ISBN.

Man, they went deep with this one.

 

Jackson is a sharing man, and also showed off his cast and crew hoodie recently that backs up his business cards…

Captain Marvel is scheduled to be released in the United States and the UK on March 8th 2019. The film is written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, with Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Liz Flahive, and Carly Mensch also contributing to the screenplay.

Brie Larson stars as Carol Danvers, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, Mckenna Grace, Clark Gregg and Jude Law.

Set in the 1990s, the story borrows elements from the 1971 “Kree–Skrull War” comic book storyline. and follows Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after the Earth is caught in the centre of an intergalactic conflict between two alien worlds.

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People with anxiety can be good to have around in an emergency. Since anxious people are often waiting for something to go wrong, they’re also more vigilant about monitoring their surroundings. This makes them faster at detecting and reacting to threats, and they’re much more likely to warn others without delay. Source

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