The same could be said about the original Scarface. Studio filmmakers saw producer Howard Hughes as a rich interloper, bullying his way onto the lot with too many guns blazing. Conversely, Brian De Palma’s Scarface is about excess, and how success depends on it. Oliver Stone’s screenplay for the ‘80s movie used a gangster as an allegory for the Reagan administration’s war on drugs and the capitalistic greed of the era....
Disney at first optimistically rescheduled Soul for November 20. But with the virus still raging and potential audiences staying mostly away from the films that did manage to circulate in whatever theaters around the country were operating (hello Tenet), the Mouse House got out in front of the situation by pulling Soul off its theatrical release perch and announcing a Christmas Day premiere on Disney+, which has accrued some 86 million subscribers in the past year (as of two weeks ago)....
If anything, House of the Dragon could end up feeling as epic or more so than Game of Thrones despite adapting a smaller section of George R.R. Martin’s source material. Interestingly enough, however, the showrunner behind it originally had a much smaller, more intimate vision of Martin’s Westeros. House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal (formerly of Colony and Rampage) has a lengthy history with George R.R. Martin’s epic novels....
While many people were quick to call this remaster “fake” or merely a fan-made tribute, recent evidence strongly suggests that this is the remains of an official attempt to remaster GoldenEye 007. Naturally, that information has left many people wondering why such an incredible remaster of such a beloved game never saw the light of day despite the fact that it appears to be nearly finished. The answer to that question is complicated, controversial, and heartbreaking for legions of GoldenEye 007 fans who have been waiting for the chance to play one of the best multiplayer experiences ever released on a Nintendo console....
She-Hulk, aka Jennifer Walters, made her entrance in the pages of Marvel Comics in February 1980, when her debut book, The Savage She-Hulk, hit the stands. In the book, Walters is a criminal defense attorney who runs afoul of a crime boss with a beef against her father, a Los Angeles County Sheriff. The boss orders a hit on Jennifer, who is gravely wounded and in need of blood. It just so happens that her cousin, Dr....
The first thing they got right: They found a splashy replacement for Fox Mulder by casting Terminator 2 star Robert Patrick as FBI agent John Doggett. Tasked with finding a missing Fox Mulder, Doggett stepped into the hardened skeptic role. Scully had her defenses up initially, but soon developed a rapport with Doggett and strengthened her relationship with Skinner in Mulder’s absence. There was genuine conflict and respect between Scully, Doggett, and Skinner, a dynamic that was a positive development for the show’s characterization....
1 Month – $10.99 3 Months – $29.99 6 Months – $59.99 That last comment is an interesting one that goes well beyond the borders of console wars and fanboyism. This price hike isn’t just a loss for Microsoft from a PR standpoint; it’s a big win for Sony that they scored without really needing to do anything. After all, Xbox Live Gold is Microsoft’s equivalent of PlayStation Plus. Both allow you to access online multiplayer for games, both allow you to download free games every month, and both allow you to access an array of deals....
Well, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, as it’s now called, is here. And if more content is what you really want, you’re about to be submerged up to your eyeballs in it. With a running time of just over four hours, the Snyder Cut is four minutes longer than Gone with the Wind and nearly 15 minutes lengthier than Lawrence of Arabia. One suspects Snyder hopes this is considered a cinematic epic on that scale....
The sound quality is excellent, the separation gives the multitude of instruments and voicings enough space to hear what is going on very clearly, though the music is still very dense. The players included Ian Underwood on keyboards and woodwinds, George Duke on keyboards and trombone, drummers Aynsley Dunbar and Jimmy Carl Black, with Ruth Underwood on an orchestra drum set. Zappa plays guitar and bass, because there was a change in personnel, between bassists Jeff Simmons and Martin Lickert, partway through recording and filming....
Who’d be a vampire? Yes, the eternal youth, fashion, cars, French castles and beautifully wallpapered Mayfair abodes are one thing, but oh the guilt and inflexible hierarchy that goes with it. Matthew de Clermont should be spending this time dancing sexy tangos with his magical wife and deciding on nursery décor for the twins, but no. He’s got DNA to harvest, a disease to cure, a scion to form, and the not-insignificant task of coming out to a roomful of human PhDs who are definitely about to ask him if he can turn into a bat....
Despite the initial trepidation, most of them have been a success. They do follow some general rules, though: for early entries, the Star Trek movie rule applies, where every other one is good. This pattern stops holding true around Gods & Monsters – after that, they’re mostly at least adequate, but the bad ones are giant turds. Also, the quality of the movie is almost always in proportion to the quality of the comic it was based off of....
Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this guy. Spider-Man 2099 appeared in the post-credits of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, voiced by Oscar Isaac, and it’s hinted that he may have had more to do with the movie’s plot than a teaser gag referencing an internet meme. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) Trailer While he initially looks like a threat, Spider-Man 2099 seems to be more about protecting Miles than anything else....
For even as other streaming services toil away on a bottomless pit of original programming and films, Prime is often more likely to offer up fifty new VHS rips from the archives, or twenty low budget horror movies you’ve never even heard of – and if you haven’t yet stumbled across its collection of old public service films, holy mackerel are you in for a treat. New TV Tales From the Loop – 3rd AprilFuture Man (Season 3) – 3rd April...
From executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and director Matt Thompson (Archer), America: The Motion Picture is a gory, loud, and exceedingly stupid animated comedy that stretches the one-note joke of “what if the Founding Fathers were dude-bros?” into a numbing 98 minutes. Using a tone similar to Archer, but without the clever quips and genre takedowns, America may have worked as a silly short YouTube video or a half-hour pilot, but stretched to feature length it is grating and far too self-satisfied with its own crass toilet humor....
James Wan seems to be signaling that his once-unlikely comic book movie franchise, Aquaman, is getting an injection of genre themes that only a directorial maestro of movie scares such as himself can administer. Indeed, while little to nothing is known about the 2022-scheduled sequel outside of its titular reference to a “Lost Kingdom” (more on that in a moment), his name-drop, made in an interview with Total Film, evoking the seemingly-random Planet of the Vampires certainly feels like a wild, left-field tease, especially for a sequel that has been described in the past as having a more serious tone than its predecessor....
What makes it all the more interesting is that Snyder didn’t direct the movie either: Schweighöfer did. A director and producer in his native Germany as well as an actor, Schweighöfer finds himself helming his first major international production for streaming giant Netflix under the production banner of Zack and Deborah Snyder, who are coming off both the success of Army of the Dead and the massive publicity behind their restoration of Zack Snyder’s Justice League....
The mark of a good TV show is to make every season finale feel like a series finale. And through three years of superb storytelling, no TV show has embodied that virtue better than HBO dark comedy Barry. The story of hitman-turned-actor Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) seemed as though it could have ended in the first season when Barry committed the ultimate sin of killing Detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome)....
But fortunately for those people, there’s a new chance to see Jon and Damian goof off: Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons, the new animated feature film coming to digital, Blu-ray and other home media formats on Oct. 18. And with its premiere coming at New York Comic Con at a main stage panel moderated by Den of Geek’s own Mike Cecchini, we’re thrilled to be able to give you a sneak peek at one of the scenes....
If you’re wondering how to get your hands on one of these consoles as well as what accessories and games you absolutely need to get, Den of Geek has you covered. Here are the must-buy Xbox products of Holiday 2020: Xbox Series X $499.99 The Xbox Series X is an absolute beast of a console, targeting 4K performance at 60 fps for most new games. If you have the right TV to support it, some games will even run at 120 fps....
Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, the masterminds and showrunners of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, have a keen appreciation for fan service. By all accounts the two men and the writing staffs they’ve assembled are unfailingly kind and polite individuals and those qualities carry into their respective relationships with the shows’ fandoms. That’s why Gilligan and Gould were uncommonly forward in announcing well ahead of time that Breaking Bad lead characters Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) would appear in Better Call Saul’s final season....
