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‘Without Remorse’ Review: Michael B. Jordan Deserves Better Than This Bland Tom Clancy Adaptation The vast bibliography of the late Tom Clancy has inspired countless film and TV adaptations, but it’s also led to massively successful video-game series likeSplinter CellandGhost Recon. Those games, and many other military-driven shooter games, feel like the true inspiration for the new straight-to-streaming filmWithout Remorse. Ostensibly, this actioner starringMichael B. Jordanis meant to inspire a potential long-running franchise with the tough-as-nails John Kelly taking down bad guys worldwide without any…well, just read the title....

‘Wrath Of Man’ Trailer: Jason Statham Is Out For Ruthless Revenge In Guy Ritchie’s New Movie Jason Stathamis back to put bullets in bodies again inWrath of Man, the latest film fromSnatchandThe GentlemendirectorGuy Ritchie. It should come as no surprise that this movie features heists, double-crossing, organized crime, and plenty of casualties, and you can see what is driving Jason Statham’s ruthless quest for revenge in the firstWrath of Mantrailer below....

/Answers: Our Favorite Biopics Of All Time Every week in/Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. Tying in with the release ofProfessor Marston and the Wonder Women(which tells the story of how William Marston, Elizabeth Marston, and Olivia Byrne created Wonder Woman), this week’s edition asks"What is your favorite biopic, or movie about the life of a real person?" Ethan Anderton: Man on the Moon Andy Kaufman was one of the most unique talents in the history of comedy, so it only makes sense that the biopic telling his life story follows suit....

Adult Swim Orders Spin-Off Shows For ‘Rick And Morty’, ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’ & More Adult Swim is already breathing new life into some of their canceled showsby ordering moviesforThe Venture Bros.,Aqua Teen Hunger Force, andMetalocalypse. Now they’re expanding their shows even with an order of four new animated digital short spin-offs inspired byRick and Morty,Robot Chicken,Aqua Teen Hunger Force, andYour Pretty Face Is Going to Hell. First up, Adult Swim has ordered aRick and Mortyspin-off calledThe Vindicators....

AMC’s Best Christmas Ever Is Going To War With Freeform’s 25 Days Of Christmas Sure, it’s not even Halloween yet, but cable channels are already looking ahead in the calendar to get ready for Christmas, and AMC is looking to take on Freeform’s popular and long-running 25 Days of Christmas slate of programming with a big holiday line-up of their own. AMC has snagged the broadcast rights to three big holiday movies away from Freeform....

Ang Lee’s 3D ‘Thrilla In Manila’ Back On Track, Two Stars Eyed For Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier It’s been a couple of years since we heard aboutAng Lee’s 3D boxing drama that was said tofocus on the boxing world in the 1960s and 1970s, when heavyweights like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier ruled the ring and grabbed people’s attention. The project was set up at Universal, but ended up taking a backseat so Lee could directBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walkinstead....

Animal House Was Once A Completely Different Movie About Charles Manson In High School “National Lampoon’s Animal House” seems like a no-brainer idea in hindsight, a “slobs vs. snobs” comedy that jumped on the ’50s/’60s nostalgia wave of the ’70s while being generic enough to remind several generations of their wild college days. However, as the flagship theatrical effort from the National Lampoon brand, “Animal House” was hardly written overnight....

Casting Notes: Michael Fassbender Fires A Single Shot; William H. Macy And More In Dirty Girl; Goth Icon Peter Murphy Cameos In Twilight 3 It’s casting notes time again! First up,Michael Fassbender, the British film critic lieutenant fromInglourious Basterds, has been cast in the thrillerA Single Shot, working under directorDavid Jacobson. He’s appearing alongside a great cast:William H. Macy,Thomas Haden Churchand a newly slimForest Whitaker. (Seriously, check outthis picof Whitaker inThe Experiment....

Commercial Director Nic Mathieu In Talks To Make ‘Robotech’ At Warner Bros. It was only a couple weeks ago that a trailer for fan-madeRobotechmoviecropped up online. At the time, we mentioned that Warner Bros. had been developing a live-action adaptation of Robotech for a while, but things had been quiet on that front for many months. While it may seem that interest in the fan film that spurred WB back to action with an adaptation of the fan-favorite anime series, in fact the studio has been chugging along with the property for a while, and trying to hire a director since last fall....

Cool Stuff: New ‘Ghostbusters’ Action Figure Two-Pack Ruins Louis Tully’s Tax Deductible Party Hasbro is now in possession of the license forGhostbusterstoys, and theystarted things off with a bangthis year by introducing the “Plasma Series” of figures inspired by the original 1984 movie. Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore were all included, along with a possessed Dana Barrett and the flat-topped Gozer the Gozerian. If you collected all of the figures, you could then build one of Gozer’s terror dogs....

Early Buzz: ‘Dumb And Dumber To’ Few imagined we’d ever see a sequel toDumb and Dumber,but come November it’s happening.The Farrelly Brothershave begun to test screenDumb and Dumber To, theirtwo-decades-in-the-makingsequel starringJim CarreyandJeff Daniels. One of those screenings took place last night, and some attendees took to Twitter to air their reaction to the first public screening of the film. Read their comments below. Here are some Twitter reactions forDumb and Dumber To:...

Errol Morris Crafting Donald Rumsfeld Interview Documentary? The Fog of War, theErrol Morris-directed documentary featuring former Secretary of DefenseRobert McNamara, is one of the most valuable works Morris has produced. While some might argue that McNamara’s history would have been better revealed through a set of forceful interviews rather than the Morris style of gentle prodding, the fact is that the film is a significant political and cultural document in which one of the prime architects of the Vietnam War reflects upon, and in some cases regrets his past....

First Look: ‘Upside Down’, A Sci-Fi Romance Starring Jim Sturgess And Kirsten Dunst A man and a woman fall in love but are separated by two different dimensions. No, it’s not only plot toThe Lake House, it’s also the plot toUpside Down, the topsy turvy sci-fi romance written and directed byJuan Diego Solanas, which starsJim SturgessandKirsten Dunst. The pair were officially cast in the filmway back in October of 2009and over the summer, we posteda short set visit video....