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Clive Owen Returns As The Driver In New BMW Short Film Directed By Neill Blomkamp BeforeThe KnickorChildren of MenorInside Manor evenThe Bourne Identity,Clive Owenwas best known to U.S. audiences as The Driver, the nameless and unflappably cool hero of BMW’s short film seriesThe Hire. The projects yielded eight installments in total, released from 2001 to 2002, and attracted a variety of high-profile filmmakers from Ang Lee to Alejandro González Iñárritu....

Cool Stuff: The Dark Knight Trilogy Print Set, Beauty And The Beast Replicas, Star Wars, Robocop, Guardians & More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cool Stuff is your geek-a-rific Holiday Shopping Guide published all year round. In today’s edition we take a look at an awesome three-poster screenprint forChristopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knighttrilogy, the Egg Attack Darth Vader statue fromRogue One: A Star Wars Story, a limited edition fine chine tea set replicating Mrs....

Cool Stuff: Todd Slater’s Star Wars Print “Great Warrior” The next print in Mondo’s LucasFilm-licensedStar Warsart print series isTodd Slater’s “Great Warrior”. The image uses leaves, sticks, ferns and other flora found in the swamps of Dagobah to create Yoda’s face. Here is what Slater said about the print onOMG: “From the first time that I saw Star Wars, I was captivated by the mystery of Yoda’s species and home world....

Denzel Washington Did More Than Act On The Tragedy Of Macbeth Set William Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth,” believed to be first performed around 1606, is a play about a weak-willed thane in Scotland and his ambitious wife who take advantage of a rare opportunity to commit regicide and usurp the throne. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are then karmically, legally, and capitally punished for their crime, realizing a deep nihilism about the world on the way down....

Disney Censors ‘Overtly Gay Affection’ In Movies, According To Pixar Employees Employees at Pixar have penned a letter alleging that Disney corporate executives censor “nearly every moment of overtly gay affection” in projects from the studio. The letter, which was acquired byVariety, is attributed to “the LGBTQIA+ employees of Pixar, and their allies” and is the latest in a wider reaction toa memo sent to all Disney employeesby CEO Bob Chapek earlier this week....

Don’t Expect Christopher Nolan To Be Involved In Future DC Movies It wasChristopher Nolan’sBatman Beginsthat set a new course for the DC film franchise following Joel Schumacher’s disastrousBatman and Robin. He stuck with the franchise through two more movies and helped kick off the new, cohesive DC Universe withMan of Steel, and is now helping to usher in a new Bat-era as an executive producer onBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice....

Don’t Expect To See Sam Neill In ‘Jurassic World 2,’ Because Alan Grant May Be Dead Just over the weekend, we got word fromSam Neillthat herecently spent a couple dayson the set ofThor: Ragnarok, shooting some kind of small role in the Marvel sequel. And with Jeff Goldblum already having a role in the film as The Grandmaster, that means Marvel is hosting a mini Jurassic Park reunion. Sadly that might be as close as we get to Neill and Goldblum getting back together....

Easter Eggs You May Have Missed In The Book Of Boba Fett Episode 7 Friends, we’ve made it to the end of"The Mandalorian" season 2.5"The Book of Boba Fett"! There weren’t as many Easter eggs in this week’s episode as some of the others, but there were still quite a few. As always before we begin, let me warn you aboutSPOILERS! I’m holding nothing back here, so if you haven’t watched the episode yet, go do it now....

Exclusive Vinyl Art Premiere: ‘It’s Always Blue: Songs From ‘Legion’ “It’s Always Blue: Songs FromLegion” is a new soundtrack album full of covers of classic songs featured in the mind-bending FX seriesLegion. The music hails from composerJeff Russoand series creatorNoah Hawley, and we have an exclusive vinyl art debut of the album below. “It’s Always Blue: Songs FromLegion” arrives early next year. Above you can see the debut of the artwork for the “It’s Always Blue: Songs FromLegion” vinyl....

Exclusive: Joe Carnahan Wants ‘Death Wish’ Back; Updates On ‘Stretch’ Last week, I had an epic conversation withJoe Carnahan. Which is pretty much how all conversations go when you’re talking to Joe Carnahan. The director ofThe Grey, Smokin' AcesandThe A-Teamis one of the most honest and outspoken directors in Hollywood, never shy about telling people what’s what. That’s why he sometimes burns bridges, leaves projects he’s not passionate about, and signs up for films that may never get made....

Expect A Bloodier Unrated Cut Of ‘The Wolverine’ On DVD/Blu-Ray Though the comic book world can be a very dark place, what with all those evil supervillains and bloody battles and heroic deaths and whatnot, a comic book movie director can only show so much of that stuff without risking the film’s commercial prospects. Mainstream superhero tales will push the constraints of the PG-13 rating as far as they’ll stretch, but it’s very rare that they’ll actually break through them....

Guardians Of The Galaxy Easter Eggs: Over 50 Trivia, References, Callbacks, Cameos And More Guardians of the Galaxymight be Marvel’s most elaborate film to date when it comes to easter eggs. I’ve watched the film twice now and have noticed a ton of inside jokes, references to characters from the comic books, 1980’s callbacks and more.I attempted to compile the most complete listing ofGuardians of the Galaxyeaster eggs, including (possible spoilers teased in the following):...

Have The Directors Of ‘Boys State’ Predicted The Future Of American Politics? “That’s politics … I think,” remarks Robert MacDougall, one of the subjects ofBoys State, to the filmmakers off-screen. The line encapsulates the dual nature of the documentary, now streaming on Apple TV+, as both a potential microcosm for American political campaigning … or just a discrete experience worth examining for its own merits. Documentarians Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s observed and narrativized feature examines the eponymous citizenship program, a week-long conference of mock governance and electioneering, during its 2018 iteration with Texas teenage boys....