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3 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

This post contains spoilers for all of "Andor" season 2. "Andor" is now officially over, and while we've said it before, it's truly incredible that this series made it to the screen with this level of consistent quality throughout. "I can't begin to get my head around all the things that we had to make up in five years," creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy told me in a recent conversation.

4 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

Can anything truly worthwhile be achieved without at least a little bit of pain? That's the question at the heart of a terrific new documentary called "Wick is Pain," which chronicles the unlikely journey of "John Wick" from a spec script called "Scorn" into an indie movie that nearly didn't get made, then into a film that almost went direct-to-video, and finally into a game-changing action franchise that has multiple spin-offs on the way and a fifth entry in the works.

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Michael Mann's classic crime thriller "Heat," which famously saw legendary actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro appear in the same scene together for the first time despite having previously co-starred in "The Godfather Part II." The "Heat" diner scene, in which Pacino's world-weary cop, Vincent Hanna, sits down across from De Niro's stoic thief, Neil McCauley, has been an obsession for a certain type of cinephile for years, and has been the subject of...

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

"Havoc," the new action film from writer/director Gareth Evans, has been on /Film's most anticipated movies of the year list for about four years. When we first learned Tom Hardy would be teaming up with the filmmaker behind "The Raid" for a movie about a journey into a corrupt underworld, we were thrilled. But thanks to Covid, the strikes, and some good old fashioned scheduling issues, it's taken much longer than we expected to actually see the movie.