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As Colin Farrell explained recently on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Collider), putting on weight for Andrew Haigh’s AMC+ series “The North Water” didn’t exactly inspire him to want to gain the pounds all over again. And so, the Farrell you see in “The Batman” is actually fitted into a cleverly designed fat suit as opposed to the more method approach of weight gain. “Mike Marino is a genius,” Farrell said of the makeup artist working on the film....

The NBC sitcom, which concluded in 2015, starred Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Donald Glover, Jim Rash, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Danny Pudi, and Chevy Chase as a group of community college students and faculty members. While the show’s cult status clashed with network directions for the series, the Emmy-winning show bounced from NBC to Yahoo! Screen for its sixth and final season. Series creator Dan Harmon confirmed to Newsweek that after years of rumors (and hopes and dreams), a “Community” movie is coming soon....

By now, everyone knows that “Cyberpunk 2077” did not live up to audiences’ expectations or the publisher’s effusive marketing claims. The video game released on December 10, 2020 after numerous delays and immediately caused a public relations disaster for CD Projekt. “Cyberpunk 2077” essentially did not work on the old PlayStation and Xbox consoles — constant crashes, slowdowns, and innumerable bugs permeated every aspect of the experience. The situation wasn’t much better on the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles....

Jonathan Groff, who plays Kristoff in the films, took the opportunity to bring up how Disney and “Frozen” allowed him to embrace his identity. “As a young gay boy growing up in the late-’80s/early ’90s, Disney VHS tapes were my primary source of escape and self-expression,” Groff said, adding that as a child he dressed up as everyone from Peter Pan to Mary Poppins. “My Mennonite grandparents called me ‘Mary,’ without a hint of irony....

Kaluuya’s win for “Judas and the Black Messiah” marked one of six nominations the Shaka King-directed historical drama received at the 93rd Academy Awards. In addition to its two Best Supporting Actor noms, “Judas” also earned nominations for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song, and Best Cinematography. The movie’s nomination for Best Picture made history for featuring an all-Black producing team. To play Fred Hampton, fiery orator of the Black Panthers, Kaluuya told IndieWire earlier this Oscars season that he immersed himself in Hampton’s Chicago neighborhood, Mayhood, and reached out to his family....

“I sort of felt I’d done that already with ‘Shivers’ and ‘Rabid,” the filmmaker told IndieWire during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival, while sitting on a hotel balcony at the Cannes Film Festival, referencing movies he made four decades ago. “Of course, the whole ‘body is reality’ thing is very real for me. Things that affect the human body are very basic, primitive and essential.” “Body is reality” is one of many provocative lines from “Crimes of the Future,” the 79-year-old auteur’s first feature in eight years, which premieres in Cannes this week....

Where to Watch “Detroiters”: Paramount+ I could spend paragraphs explaining why “Detroiters” is one of the best comedies of the past decade. There would be plenty of discussion of the on-screen best-friend chemistry of Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson (here as Sam and Tim, co-heads of upstart Detroit-area ad agency Cramblin Duvet) and an explanation of why this show is the best argument for giving some of the funniest people on the planet the resources to make what they want....