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The A.V. Club FilmUSAJames Watkins says he “auditioned the hell out of” Tom Rhys Harries for Clayface DC Studios’ latest film, Clayface , is attempting to nail a few things at once: A supervillain origin story, a body-horror movie, and a crowd-pleasing October release, besides.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSANorm Macdonald didn’t want to be defined by his SNL firing, but it informed everything In Norm: The Tale Of Norm Macdonald, director Judd Apatow lovingly identifies and helps to explain the moment that, for many, wound up defining the former Saturday Night Live comedian’s career.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSASteven Soderbergh to pitch in and help finish The Batman: Part II Last week , we reported that Matt Reeves’ long-gestating The Batman: Part II had been put on pause, as Reeves stepped away from the film to deal with what’s been referred to in press statements as an…

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The A.V. Club FilmUSADenis Villeneuve wanted to return to direct Dune 3 because he’s “tired” of the material Denis Villeneuve is returning to Arrakis one last time, and then he’s bidding the desert sandworms farewell for good.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAJason Statham and his bees are back in The Beekeeper 2 teaser Jason Statham is back as a badass with a soft spot for beekeeping in the first official teaser trailer for The Beekeeper 2 .

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAJohn Goodman had fun making The Monuments Men, Blues Brothers 2000, which is nice When an actor reflects on their entire career, it’s only natural that the duds should come up in conversation.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSACinderella gets the Wicked treatment in the first trailer for Netflix’s Steps Everybody knows that, in the classic story, Cinderella’s two stepsisters were terrible, evil, spiteful creatures who only tormented their downtrodden sister because they felt like being jerks.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAPeter Safran doesn’t need two Batmans running around the DCU right now DC Studios’ new supervillain movie Clayface premiered at the Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, and everyone in attendance seemed to be in a Gotham City state of mind.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAAfter she’s done with Dune, Zendaya will team with Alex Garland for more sci-fi Needless to say, Zendaya has had a pretty major year, appearing in the two highest-grossing films of the year, with the forthcoming Dune: Part Three likely to make some decent bank as well.

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The A.V. Club FilmUSAJohn Turturro had to stop New Yorkers from coming into his fake pawn shop New Yorker John Turturro has represented the city in dozens of movies throughout his decades-long career.

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo