When “Common Ground” opens, it flaunts the scale and flavor of a Clone Wars episode sans Tom Kane’s narrated montage. It begins not on the Bad Batch (Dee Bradley Baker) pondering an issue, but on a planet in peril and a worried senator, Avi Singh (Alexander Siddig), looking over his civilians in an Imperial gunpoint situation. This time, we’re witnessing the post-Republic era where the Republic-turned-Empire is the antagonist with the clone army unambiguously serving the oppressors in a tyrannical occupation. And this is the first Bad Batch episode where a Separatist plays an active supporting role.
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This summer, Neill Blomkamp, the father of Chappie, is back with Demonic, a mysterious new horror movie. After his big budget efforts, Demonic has Blomkamp working with a smaller budget, and the results look…intriguing, but vague. The fact of the matter is we still don’t know a whole lot about Demonic. But I’ve done my best to round up all the info you need before you see the flick this summer.
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Actor David Dastmalchian is a true comic book fan. And a few years ago, he fulfilled a life-long dream by collaborating with Dark Horse Comics to create his own series.
The actor and writer, known for his roles in the Ant-Man movies, Blade Runner 2049, and The Suicide Squad, had been imagining the story of Count Crowley for 30 years. The four-issue limited comic book series, titled Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter, follows a struggling investigative journalist-turned-creature-feature-host-turned-reluctant-monster-hunter. It’s as fun as it sounds…but also more personal than it sounds.
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Tom Cruise has been known to hang off the side of planes and even HALO-jump out of them on occasion. In Top Gun: Maverick, he’s moved from the side of the plane to the cockpit — and the camera has gone with him.
A new video sheds some light on the Rialto, a camera extension system developed specifically for this movie, which enabled the filmmakers to put not one but six cameras in a fighter jet with Cruise.
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In this edition of Star Wars Bits:
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron finds writer in Matthew Robinson
- Star Wars: The High Republic Wave 2 is here
- Del Rey adds to Star Wars Legends Essentials Collection
- Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader’s Castle haunts Halloween
- The Clone Wars receives Emmy nominations
- And more!
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The history behind one of cinema’s best sequels is a wild one. In an oral history of Terminator 2: Judgment Day for The Ringer, director James Cameron, star Arnold Schwarzenegger, and others shared some previously-unheard tidbits about the making of the action classic.
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You’ve got to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. And sometimes, you’ll meet an alternate-reality version of yourself and fall in love with both yourself and them because they’re you. In Loki, now available to stream on Disney+, we’re told that it could break reality when two variants of the same person form a romantic relationship. I mean, sure, it’s taboo, but this is 2021, people. Live and let live and let Loki love Loki. That’s the general philosophy that the show’s cast and crew seem to espouse.
Here’s what they have to say about the latest developments in Loki’s self-love life.
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Any theme park fan worth his or her salt knows that July 17 is a significant date for the Disney theme parks. It’s the day that Disneyland Park opened its doors for the first time in Anaheim, California. And this July 17, Disney is celebrating in…a kind of inexplicable way, frankly. They’ll be welcoming a scene from Pixar’s Coco to the Mickey’s PhilharMagic show at Disney California Adventure and at Disneyland Paris.
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Monsters at Work is set to premiere on Disney+ soon and fans will be happy to know that the series serves as a direct follow-up to Monsters, Inc., the beloved 2001 Pixar film, which has maintained a presence at Disney Parks around the world with attractions like Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor and Monsters Inc. Ride & Go Seek. The movie already gave rise to a prequel, Monsters University, but after two full decades, the burgeoning franchise has finally returned in true sequel form. The link between the plot of a Disney animated series and the coronavirus pandemic may seem tenuous, but according to executive producer Bob Gannaway, COVID-19 and its effect on society were very much a factor in developing Monsters at Work.
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This post contains major spoilers for the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
The Empire has occupied Raxus, the former capital of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Captain Bragg, the Imperial tasked with pacifying the planet, makes a very public show of strength and solidarity, using their Senator, Avi Singh, as a puppet to tell them it will all be okay. Singh, though initially agreeing to collaboration with the Empire, decides mid-speech to turn on the Empire. After a public display of defiance, the senator is arrested.
His droid, GS-8, enacts a protocol pre-installed by the senator to hire mercenaries to free him in such an eventuality, and that leads to Cid. Naturally, Cid sends the Bad Batch—minus Omega who is left behind because there’s too much heat on her—to the Confederate capital to effect a rescue.
The clones of the Bad Batch are forced to face their prejudices as their job rescuing a Separatist senator is antithetical to their programming. They rendezvous with GS-8 and try to put politics aside as they work to extract Senator Singh. Over the course of the mission, they’re forced to trust the senator, challenging their beliefs to their core.
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