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As a resident of Western New York, the weather can get a little dicy this time of year. It's dark, cold and we typically cannot go anywhere when we get hit with at least a foot a snow a week. So, I choose to embark on watching Star Wars: The Bad Batch with my 8-year-old daughter.

Following up on her introduction with the series' trailers, we started in the beginning with the opening episode, "Aftermath." From the beginning, Brooklyn, my daughter was hooked. She particular fell in love and related instantly to the character of Omega. My wife and I also both loved the addition of Omega to the clone group's dynamic.

As the Bad Batch worked for the Empire at the start of the series, Brooklyn started asking, "They aren't bad guys, right?" She was very worried if the Batch themselves would work for the Empire or choose to the right side.

The Bad Batch is a cohesive story with deep foreshadowing throughout its seasons, leading to a satisfying narrative conclusion. Every episode has value, debunking the idea of filler content in the series and showcasing the interconnected nature of the storytelling. Characters like Omega and Crosshair undergo tragic arcs, while Wrecker emerges as the emotional core of Clone Force 99.

I decided to rewatch Star Wars: The Bad Batch from start to finish now that the series has come to a close, and it caused me to notice a few key details about the animated Star Wars series that I hadn't fully picked up on before. The Bad Batch has been a favorite of mine ever since it started in 2021, which means that I've already rewatched seasons 1 and 2 a few times each. After The Bad Batch season 3's ending, however, I knew it was time to go back and watch this story as a complete narrative.

"Juggernaut" sees the return of an old enemy of The Bad Batch, though circumstances have turned Admiral Rampart into an ally. Admiral Rampart played a prominent role as an antagonist throughout the first two seasons of The Bad Batch. Ultimately, the Imperial admiral was betrayed by his Emperor, leading to his imprisonment in an Imperial labor camp.

The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 3, Episode 11, "Juggernaut," now streaming on Disney+.

Episode 11 of Star Wars: The Bad Batch's third and final season, "Juggernaut," saw Clone Force 99 tasked with once again recovering Omega from Mount Tantiss. Omega was previously imprisoned at the Empire's secret research facility, where Dr Royce Hemlock is conducting experiments in cloning, at the end of Season 2. While Omega and Crosshair managed to escape the facility together in the first half of The Bad Batch Season 3, they were still left without any indication of...

Cinema fans have been familiar with Michael Berryman for decades. He made his first screen appearance in the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, following that up with a role in the Best Picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Next up was his most iconic role, that of the desert-dwelling cannibal Pluto in Wes Craven’s 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes, a role he reprised in the messy 1984 sequel The Hills Have Eyes Part II. He has gone on to rack up over one hundred more credits, including roles in films like Deadly Blessing, Invitation to Hell, Cut and Run, Weird Science, My Science Project, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, The Guyver, Beastmaster 2, Wizards of the Demon Sword, Teenage Exorcist, The Devil’s Rejects, Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield, The Haunted Casino, The Lords of Salem, and Death House.

Fans of Alex Cox’s Straight to Hell will be delighted to know that Jim Jarmusch has re-entered the universe of the Pogues–tangentially, at least. The Only Lovers Left Alive director has helmed the music video for Cat Power’s cover of A Pair of Brown Eyes, the 1985 single from the punk band.

Boasting quite a behind-the-scenes crew, the video was shot by Jarmusch and David Lynch collaborator Frederick Elmes and edited by Affonso Gonçalves, also a frequent collaborator with Jarmusch as well as Todd Haynes. Coming from Cat Power’s latest album Covers, the video captures a stripped-down performance with a fittingly hazy vision.

Watch below, along with a conversation from last fall featuring Jarmusch discussing his latest art exhibition.

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The Clash will mark the 40th anniversary of their penultimate LP Combat Rock with a new reissue featuring unreleased songs, demo and outtakes recorded in the lead-up to the 1982 album.

Ahead of the May 20 release of the Combat Rock/The People’s Hall special edition of the album, a pair of the band’s unreleased collaborations with the English Beat singer Ranking Roger have been released, with the late toastmaster contributing his rapid-fire vocal stylings to the hit “Rock the Casbah” and “Red Angel Dragnet.”

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Noah Jupe and Laura Dern have boarded Justin Kurzel’s sci-fi drama ‘Morning’ for Hanway.

Plot details state the project is set in a near-future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.

Dern takes on the role of the ambitious and driven Cathy who is an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny – played by Jupe – pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank -played by Cumberbatch – she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life.

Jake Gyllenhaal is one of the rare actors who is able to successfully put one foot in the world of prestige drama films and the other in action, spectacle blockbusters. This is the guy who can wow people in films like “Nightcrawler,” “Nocturnal Animals,” and “Wildlife,” while also showing up as a mustache-twirling supervillain in “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” And it would appear he’s going to keep that trend going with his new film “Cut and Run.”

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According to THR, Jake Gyllenhaal has signed on to star in and produce a new heist action film, “Cut and Run.” Here’s the official description of the film:

“A group of thieves using high-powered speedboats to rob superyachts steal the wrong thing from the wrong group of people.”

The film is written by John Glenn.

Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in the heist thriller ‘Cut and Run’ at New Republic Pictures.

The project focuses on a group of thieves who use high-powered speed boats to rob super-yachts. Their caper takes a turn when they steal the wrong thing from the wrong group of people.

John Glenn wrote the spec scripts. Gyllenhaal will produce the film through his company Nine Stories Productions. New Republic founder Brian Oliver and president Bradley Fischer will also produce alongside Glenn.

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Gyllenhaal most recently starred in Antoine Fuqua’s Netflix thriller ‘The Guilty’, as well as the Universal animated film ‘Spirit Untamed’, Jon Watts’ ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’, Dan Gilroy’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’, Jacques Audiard’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’ and Paul Dano’s ‘Wildlife.’

Glenn is a writer, director and exec producer whose credits include...

New Republic Pictures has won the rights to John Glenn’s spec Cut and Run in a bidding war, with Jake Gyllenhaal (The Guilty) coming aboard to produce and star, Deadline has confirmed.

The film is billed as a heist thriller about a group of thieves using high-powered speedboats to rob superyachts, who steal the wrong thing from the wrong group of people.

Gyllenhaal will produce under his Nine Stories Productions banner with Glenn, New Republic’s Founder Brian Oliver and its President Bradley Fischer.

Gyllenhaal is an Oscar and Golden Globe nominee who most recently starred in Antoine Fuqua’s Netflix thriller The Guilty, as well as the Universal animated film Spirit Untamed, Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Far from Home, Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw, Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers and Paul Dano’s Wildlife.

Glenn is a writer, director and exec producer whose credits include Eagle Eye, Seal Team,...

Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in “Cut and Run,” a heist thriller about a group of thieves who use high-powered speed boats to rob super-yachts. Their caper takes a turn when they steal the wrong thing from the wrong group of people.

New Republic Pictures won rights to the spec script, written by John Glenn, after a bidding war with several potential buyers.

In addition to starring, Gyllenhaal will produce the film through his company Nine Stories Productions. New Republic founder Brian Oliver and president Bradley Fischer will also produce alongside Glenn.

A veteran showrunner, film and television writer, Glenn’s credits include “Eagle Eye,” “Law Abiding Citizen” and “Clash of the Titans.” On the TV side, he’s currently adapting “The House on Hoarder Hill” for Sam Raimi and Wiip Studios.

New Republic Pictures is a production and financing company run by Oliver and Fischer. The company recently...

“Habit” stirred controversy (and a petition to block its release) last year when conservatives caught wind that Paris Jackson was cast as a female Jesus Christ in it, with a purported lesbian coupling adding to the blasphemous offense. Well, it turns out that was much ado about almost nothing: There is no such sex scene in the film’s release cut, if indeed there ever was, and Jackson’s appearance is little more than a silent cameo.

On the other hand, fears that Janell Shirtcliff’s debut feature “ridicules people of faith” are closer to the mark. For those viewers curious enough to investigate, however, what may truly offend about “Habit” isn’t any sacrilegious content so much as the fact that it’s so infantile in that regard — and every other. This candy-colored dress-up excuse for a bunch of slumming models, rock musicians and miscellaneous scenesters might be termed a “Bratz” version of “Faster,...

Kathy Griffin has joined the cast of “Search Party” for its fifth season, Variety has learned exclusively.

Griffin will recur in the HBO Max comedy as Liquorice Montague, a conspiracy theorist who takes Chantal (Clare McNulty) under her wing as a “co-dependent apprentice.”

“Working with Kathy was a huge life moment for us. She brought so much warmth, humanity and professionalism to set, and delivered a performance that will delight the world,” showrunners Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers said in a joint statement.

The fourth season of “Search Party” ended with Dory’s (Alia Shawkat) friends thinking she died in a house fire after she was held prisoner in that house’s basement. However, in the final moments of the episode, she awoke on a medical gurney, gasping for air and saying she “saw everything.”

It looks like it won’t take long for her to reunite with her friends,...

This post contains spoilers for the second episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, titled “Cut and Run.” As the Bad Batch make their way from Kamino following the events of the first episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, they need somewhere to hide and lay low for a while. We heard them speak […]

The post ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Breakdown: The Details and History That Enrich “Cut and Run” appeared first on /Film.

The last time we saw them in the premiere episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Hunter and the Bad Batch (Dee Bradley Baker), sans Crosshair, had become guardians to the child clone Omega (Michelle Ang), an ingenue to the galaxy. In this second episode, titled “Cut and Run” (directed by Steward Lee and written […]

The post ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Takes a Breather With an Old Ally in “Cut and Run” appeared first on /Film.

Welcome to this week’s Mlw: Fusion review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel it’s time to dance in our under-pants while the bants cants the mants like a gants ain’t never bever than pever gever. Y’all ready to watch some muthafukken ‘rasslin’? Then stop reading this review and do. I mean, this is writing. You can’t see the wrestling here. I ain’t YouTube! I like you and s—t, but this ain’t HBO. Tony Curtis ain’t fighting a mini-dick demon Indian in a hospital now God damn it. We’ve got to talk wrestling here! Commence the discussion of professional wrestling!

Match #1: Gino Medina def. Zenshi The following is courtesy of mlw.com:

Gino and Zenshi trade off their unique styles and as the unorthodox Zenshi goes to utilize the ropes, Gino bails out of the ring to reassess and deliver some mind games.

Courtney Love claims she quit acting after experiencing several #MeToo moments. After releasing Hole's breakthrough album, Live Through This in 1994, Love set her sights on acting, which is something she did well before forming the band. Love appeared in supporting roles in Alex Cox movies Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987), but didn't pursue the Hollywood route. Love notes that it was director Milos Forman that brought her back into the world of acting.

Before teaming up with Milos Forman for The People vs. Larry Flynt in 1996, Courtney Love appeared in the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat and the drama Feeling Minnesota. She played Larry Flynt's late wife Althea in Forman's movie opposite Woody Harrelson, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. "For a few years, because of Milos Forman, I was a professional actress and a movie star," recalls Love in a new Instagram post. "It was fun as hell.

Courtney Love, who earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role in The People vs. Larry Flynt, is reminiscing on her screen roles and has said “a bunch of #MeToos” were responsible for her exit.

“I sure do miss acting sometimes. To the tune of a great director. One of the greatest experiences, as a woman you can have, I think. All the glamour that comes after that is fun, flamboyant, gorgeous. But the trust one can achieve with a great director? It’s one of the most profound things I’ve ever known,” she wrote on Instagram.

“For a few years, because of Milos Forman, I was a professional actress and a movie star. It was fun as hell,” she added. “I was nominated for best actress, for a Golden Globe. One day I might talk about it. I love acting… I stopped being capable of it after a bunch of #metoos.

Ruggero Deodato’s 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust is a horror classic. It pioneered what would become known as the found footage genre, which eventually spawned classics like The Blair Witch Project, Rec and the Paranormal Activity movies. It tells the tale of an American film crew becoming lost and brutally murdered in the Amazon rainforest, with the footage being discovered later.

Cannibal Holocaust is notoriously violent, with the gore being so realistic that authorities assumed that Deodato made a real snuff film. He was even charged with the murder of cast members. His defense wasn’t helped by the fact that the cast had agreed to lay low for a year so the director could make audiences believe in the movie’s fiction. Fortunately, he managed to get in touch with them before he was convicted and got them to confirm that they hadn’t actually been fed to cannibals.

Anyways,...

On “Ordinary Man,” the lushly sentimental title track of Ozzy Osbourne’s latest album, the Godfather of Heavy Metal has the audacity to sing, “I don’t wanna die an ordinary man.” It’s a puzzling lyric because for the past half-century he’s been anything but average — he’s been the Iron Man, the Blizzard of Ozz, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel — but he sings the line from the heart, showing how deep down inside he still feels like he still needs to prove himself. That’s because in the past year or so,...

Ozzy Osbourne and Post Malone have reunited for a new song, “It’s a Raid,” set to appear on the metal legend’s upcoming album, Ordinary Man, out tomorrow, February 21st.

The odd couple previously partnered for “Take What You Want” off Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding. On the thrashy new track, Osbourne takes the lead with Malone appearing for a few lines at the one-minute mark (“Oh lord, I’m running out of cigarettes,” he sings) before serving as Osbourne’s backup singer and hype man for the rest of the track.

The amalgamation of a bedazzled black cane, bowler hat and purple-tinted, rounded lenses can only mean one thing: Ozzy Osbourne is sitting in front of you. At SiriusXM’s new West Hollywood studio space, a selection of Sirius subscribers and Osbourne fan club members fill a short cascade of bleachers for an intimate playback of Ordinary Man, Osbourne’s new album and first in a decade set for release on February 21st.

Radio personality Jose Mangin makes it clear that “we are gathered here today to honor our lord and...

Have you ever wanted a bloody, headless bat permanently etched onto your bicep? How about the Alamo with a yellow blotch in the middle? Well, in celebration of the Prince of Darkness’ upcoming album, Ordinary Man, Ozzy Osbourne is offering fans a chance to get an “Ozzy-inspired” tattoo at a number of ink parlors around the world on February 20th, the day before the album release.

The singer has posted to a list of tattoo parlors to his website where fans will get the opportunity to hear the record early...

Music Video: Ozzy Osbourne – Straight To Hell The Ordinary Man album will arrive on Feb. 21. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here. Ordinary Man will be available as a standard CD, deluxe CD, black vinyl, deluxe gatefold swirl-color vinyl, picture disc and digital album. All physical copies will include a code that can be entered into a …

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The first real trailer for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is finally out and it is sending us straight to Hell! (Last week, Netflix released a funky pop song actually called "Straight to Hell" which featured a lot of disjointed footage of Part 3, and now with the new trailer, fans can start putting

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina returns for Part 3 next Friday, Jan. 24, and in a just-released new trailer — which you can watch above — our favorite teen witch is consumed with thinking about H-e-double hockey sticks… mostly because her boyfriend Nick is suffering down there with Madam Satan looking on. Everything’s out of balance back on Earth, too, so Sabrina has to head down to the underworld to set things right by asserting her royal authority. “Hell’s under new management now,” she growls.

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Bad news, citizens of Los Angeles — Joe Goldberg isn’t going anywhere. You will return to Netflix for a third season, TVLine has learned.

Both Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti will return for the 10-episode season, which is expected to premiere sometime in 2021. Co-creators Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti are also returning as executive producers, with Gamble serving as showrunner.

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In today’s TV news roundup, Hulu has set a premiere date for ‘Utopia Falls’ and AMC has released a trailer for “Better Call Saul” Season 5.

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“The Soup” will return to E! Network on Feb. 12. Complete with its new host Jade Catta-Preta, the latest season will feature the comedian and actress’ hot takes on the buzziest clips of the week. Those will cover entertainment and social media such as the latest competition series, daytime and late night talk shows, reality favorites like “The Real Housewives” and “The Bachelor,” award shows, popular scripted series, and sports programming.

“Utopia Falls” will launch on Feb. 14, Hulu announced in partnership with Sonar Entertainment. Set in a reimagined future, the series follows a group of teens chosen to compete in the prestigious Exemplar performing arts competition in the colony of New Babyl. When they stumble upon a hidden archive of cultural relics, the kids...

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Hail Satan. The Dark Lord reigns as Netflix conjures a release date for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 3.

It’s not a tornado that’s coming. It’s something much, much worse. The witches are coming. Despite what the false god and its propaganda machine would have you believe, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 3 and Season 4 will be delivered by Netflix.

“Praise Satan! I’m so grateful to my partners at Warner Brothers, Netflix, Berlanti Television, and Archie Productions for supporting this darker vision of the world’s most famous teen witch," creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who is chief creative officer of Archie Comics, said in a statement via Variety. "And I’m thrilled to be continuing to tell Sabrina’s chilling adventures with our incredible cast and crew, led by the unstoppable Kiernan Shipka.”

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