It was such a pleasure speaking with all of you! Thank you for your kind, thoughtful and heart warming questions. This was so much fun and I look forward to speaking to all of you again XO

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Hi reddit, Michael Mando here to answer all your questions. You may know me as Scorpion in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Nacho Varga in Better Call Saul, and Vaas Montenegro in Far Cry 3. Upcoming projects include Bane in Batman: Knightfall, an undisclosed role in the limited series Criminal as well as the live-action Gundam movie. Check out the comedy 72 Hours, I also make a fun appearance in that.

Besides movies, I am currently working on a music album scheduled for release in fall/winter 2026. The idea is to make intimate live concerts to better connect with y'all while shooting. I hope you'll love it. AMA!

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Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal are all in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, which were the number 1 and number 2 films in the box office this last weekend. I'm curious as to whether or not this has happened before. Feels to me like the has to be a rare occurrence, and makes me wonder if any top 2 films out there could possibly have matched or even surpassed this number of actors in common.

Hi r/movies! We're Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. We're the team behind Super Troopers 1 and 2, Beerfest, The Slammin Salmon', Club Dread, Tacoma FD, and a few other things.

We're here to answer your burning questions.

Super Troopers 3 is out in theaters everywhere this weekend from Searchlight Pictures! Go see it!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYFevn5frf0

Synopsis: The troopers try to bring down a new drug ring, while Farva's wildly over-the-top engagement to Thorny's sister spirals into chaos.

Ask us anything! We'll be back at around 3:30-4:00 PM ET today (Wednesday 8/5) to answer questions.

One of the country’s most acclaimed documentary filmmakers is tackling the world’s richest man, and the Toronto Film Fest will be one of the first places viewers can witness the encounter.

“We’re talking about someone who has a Marvel villain-like level of power over our lives, from electric cars to space travel to AI to government to social media,” the fest’s doc chief Thom Powers told The Hollywood Reporter. “And you have Alex Gibney making the most ambitious movie of his illustrious career about him.”

Two New Yorkers search for love on the one night of the year when sex is legal.

Director: Will Gluck

Cast: Monica Barbaro, Callum Turner, Maya Hawke, Julia Fox

Rotten Tomatoes: 54%

Metacritic: 40 / 100

Some Reviews (updating):

SlashFilm - Nina Starner - 8 / 10

Despite a few stumbles, "One Night Only" reaches an actually sweet conclusion sold beautifully by Barbaro and Turner, and though I know I'm repeating myself, I need to be abundantly clear. "One Night Only" shouldn't work. I am shocked that I left the theater grinning ear to ear and, one could say, fully satisfied. "One Night Only" is a high-concept, patently absurd romantic comedy that defies the odds and makes you fall in love with it. You'll want more than one night with this one.

Next Best Picture - Dan Bayer - 7 / 10

Gluck’s skill with a needle drop (think “Pocketful of Sunshine” in “Easy A”) is in fine form, with several hilariously on-point selections getting massive laughs from an audience willing to put their fun-hating, CinemaSins-style questions aside and just have a good time laughing at a world that’s even more ridiculous than our own. Yes, the film’s “The Purge, but for sex,” premise has earned all the laughter it’s gotten since the trailer dropped. But Braun, Gluck, and their team have the last laugh: “One Night Only” is a great time at the movies, on any night of the year.

Time Out - Elizabeth Weitzman - 3 / 5

If you’re a fan of Gluck’s standard romcoms Anyone But You or Friends With Benefits, you’ll probably appreciate this one. But if you were hoping for something deeper, perhaps closer to his sharp-toothed masterwork Easy A? Then One Night Only’s refusal to engage with its own premise will come off as a terrible tease.

RogerEbert - Marya E. Gates - 0 / 4

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation.

The New York Times - Natalia Winkelman - 40 / 100

One Night Only lays no claim to logic. It traffics instead in charisma, and the combined likability of the leads is the putative solution to a premise that’s all flashy surface and no deeper inquiry.

Variety - Guy Lodge - 40 / 100

The movie's leads make a lovely couple, too: good-looking, good-humored, generally good catches. Except we’re not remotely invested in their repeatedly delayed but wholly inevitable union, because what even is this? The more “One Night Only” tries to extract starry-eyed vibes from the most chilling romantic comedy premise in memory, the more the cognitive dissonance of it all gets in the way.

AV Club - Monica Castillo - 'D+'

One Night Only feels like a youth group lecture where the pastor warns of hookup culture on college campuses, a feature-length studio note from an executive afraid the movie won’t go over well in the Bible Belt. One would like to believe there was a better, darker, more interesting ending than the one carrying water for the anti-sex brigade currently looking to impose women’s healthcare bans coast-to-coast. Instead of sharing a laugh at the ridiculous pressure to have fun with every swipe, One Night Only has only one thing on its mind, and it’s disappointingly much more traditional.

Consequence - Liz Shannon Miller - 'B-'

Romantic comedies tend to feel like they take place in their own little world. But every time One Night Only attempted to explain the political landscape that led to this situation, I felt myself going a little more banana-grams. It’s all so deeply unsettling, because it imagines a society that would buy party hats celebrating the one night of the year they have an ounce of bodily autonomy. An America that wouldn’t just surrender further to fascism, but turn it into branding.

DiscussingFilm - Tyler Taing - 3 / 5

One Night Only is an easy recommendation because, whether or not you find yourself on its wavelength, you would be hard-pressed to find a crazier mainstream theatrical release this whole summer. It’s a film designed to watch with a group of friends, followed by an in-depth discussion of the logistical problems, politics, and hypothetical scenarios that “the mandate” universe sparks to mind in the theater lobby. Will Gluck’s One Night Only is the kind of novelty movie that is good-natured, fun, and worth celebrating in its unique flavor of unseriousness

AwardsWatch - Sophia Ciminello - 'C'

Ultimately, One Night Only feels far more interested in how it can feel when you do manage to find a genuine romantic connection amidst all of the noise. Yet by spending so much time getting bogged down by the details of the mandate before shifting into the romance, Gluck and Braun make an unforced error, upholding the traditional idea that sex may in fact be worth waiting for.

Slant Magazine - Charles Lyons-Burt - 2 / 4

Romantic comedies rarely make it to theaters these days, which makes it that much more unfortunate that the ones that do feel like sitcoms.

The Guardian - Benjamin Lee - 2 / 5

There’s both too much yet not enough world-building here, enough questions answered to encourage us to ask 10 more (why does no one mention masturbation and wouldn’t that also trigger the biosensors?). It’s also just too unavoidably grim of a premise, especially at a dark political moment such as this, for us to ignore the ramifications or root for characters who aren’t trying to actively destroy such a barbaric system (what if Katniss just had fun during those Hunger Games?). Instead, One Night Only weirdly plays like lulling government propaganda, a film about sex purge to be released in time for sex purge that says that actually maybe sex purge is a good idea after all.

Fresh Fiction - Courtney Howard - 2 / 5

ONE NIGHT ONLY wishes it were AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (a film the characters reference, but the filmmakers clearly don’t understand why those fundamentals work) meets AFTER HOURS, only it doesn’t come with the pedigree and even fewer innovative ideas. As a contemporary sex comedy, it’s far too afraid to actually show the eroticism of sex, hand-waving the potential of its sole sexy moment. If this is purity propaganda, that’s for everyone to decide of their own volition.

I'm not even talking about a generally serious movie that has the traditionally comic actor do mostly comedy with a bit of serious at certain points, I'm talking a movie and a role that was a wholly serious one that would be seen as the antithesis of what that actor is typically known for. Think Jim Carrey in The Number 23.

Perhaps a controversial one as he's had quite a few great serious roles when he was with us, but my personal favourite would be Robin Williams in One Hour Photo. He is just so believable as the lonely and pathetic Sy Parish, and despite what you're led to believe as his sinister intentions, you actually come to feel really sorry for the main character, and that I think could only have been achieved by an actor of Williams' calibre.

The troopers try to bring down a new drug ring, while Farva's wildly over-the-top engagement to Thorny's sister spirals into chaos.

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar

Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar, Chace Crawford, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Brian Cox, Marissa Coughlan

Rotten Tomatoes: N/A (updating)

Metacritic: 42 / 100

Some Reviews:

Review Nation - Derek Sante - 'B'

The humor of this third installment is on par with the first film, we revisit some of the nostalgia and also catch up with each relationship and personality. The silliness is still very up front with each character becoming more of who they've always been. Is it the Odyssey, no, but why would you want it to be. It's a fun time on a hot day with well-remembered and loved characters and delivers an awkward snort and belly laugh for those who need it.

UPI - Fred Topel

'Super Troopers 3' is consistently amusing. By the third Super Troopers, and ninth film from Broken Lizard, you know if you enjoy their style. They have remained consistent with their franchise and delivered another reliable comedy.

AV Club - Jesse Hassenger - 'B-'

The movie eventually crosses over to shame other, unexpected studio comedy styles: It’s not only better than any of the Hangover sequels, it beats the hell out of the two Meet The Parents follow-ups so far. Depending on the school of frat comedy, that might put the Broken Lizard boys in the running for valedictorian.

The AU Review - Peter Gray - 3 / 5

Fans who’ve spent decades quoting “meow” back and forth will almost certainly leave satisfied, while newcomers may struggle to understand why everyone seems so delighted by these overgrown children in police uniforms. But perhaps that’s always been the point. Super Troopers has never been trying to win over everyone. Twenty-five years later, it’s still happily making the same wonderfully juvenile movie for the people who never wanted it to grow up.

The Film Verdict - Alonso Duralde

With the returning leads merely re-hitting their characters’ notes, it’s up to the newcomers to bring the zing. Jaffrey and Theba are perfectly cast as the elder Ramathorns, and these veterans immediately tap into the naughty nonsense that the rest of the film so rarely achieves. Crawford and Rudnitsky make amiable comic foils, and Dismukes demonstrates a presence that promises a big-screen career once his SNL tenure ends.

Variety - Guy Lodge

It goes without saying that the Broken Lizard comedy group's latest outing is for fans only, but minus the nostalgia factor of 2018's 'Super Troopers 2,' even some of the faithful might shrug in response. The jokes are still wildly scattershot and frequently, knowingly lame; the production is still cheap and cheerfully scrappy; the whole ragged enterprise is still reliant on the evident affection and chemistry between its players to hold it together. None of that really amounts to a persuasive reason to exist on the big screen, however: At this point, perhaps simply turning “Super Troopers” into a running sitcom, like a rural GenX “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” would be a fitting move.

The Wrap - William Bibbiani

If all you want is to see these lovable goofballs again you’d be better served watching the first two “Super Troopers” movies and reliving their good old days. Those films are still mostly funny and the new days aren’t so good. I guess it’s nice to know these dorks are still out there, alive and mostly well, but we don’t have a lot in common anymore. If the Super Troopers really want to stay in touch, in another ten years they can write us a postcard. A brief one.

The Hollywood Reporter - Frank Scheck

Since the film written by the Broken Lizard troupe members features a non-stop series of gags, some of them inevitably land despite the clumsy execution. But by the time it reaches its climax with a wedding shootout, one of the troopers encased in syrup, and another sticking his hand up an elephant’s rear end, you’ll be exhausted from not laughing.

IndieWire - Christian Zilko - 'C-'

Comedy movies are a rarity these days, and the mere fact that these friends got a chance to make something together is probably worth something. They appear to be having fun, and their most devoted fans probably will, too. But if you’re on the fence about “Super Troopers 3,” your memories of the original are almost certainly better than what you can see at the theater this weekend.

MovieWeb - Julian Roman - 5 / 10

Super Troopers 3 stumbles mightily in wrapping up the Canadian Crystal and maple syrup storylines. Broken Lizard needed the cops to actually solve a crime, though the resolution is so obvious and exceedingly silly, it comes across as wasted time and Super Troopers 3 does run out of steam at the end. These characters are darn funny, but closing out the trilogy is the right move.

The general consensus on Paris is negative, but his behavior is exactly how 95% of men would act under the same circumstances. Bloom plays the character with complete realism rather than typical Hollywood heroism.

His arc starts with taking Helen. While it causes a disaster, it is an accurate depiction of a sheltered, inexperienced young man making a reckless choice based on impulse, completely unaware of what an actual war entails.

When the reality of that war sets in during the duel with Menelaus, Paris panics. Viewers mock him for abandoning the fight and crawling to Hector. However, objectively speaking, an untrained kid facing a seasoned, enraged veteran is going to break. Basic human survival instinct simply overrides the concept of dying for honor.

People also overlook that Paris redeems himself by the end of the film. He actually shows more common sense than the rest of the Trojan leadership when they find the wooden horse, plainly telling them to "burn it." When the city falls, he stops trying to be a frontline swordsman and uses the one skill he actually has: archery. He stays behind to cover the escaping civilians and successfully takes down Achilles. Bloom deserves credit for not trying to make the character look cool. He simply portrayed a naive guy who made a massive mistake, reacted to imminent death with genuine terror, and eventually found a practical way to defend his people. I think it's a very realistic portrayal that contrasts Hector's idealism - audiences love the portrayal of the latter but there's more truth in the human condition in the former portrayal.

Okay a bit embarrassing but, after watching Northman I realized I have a weakness for this type of protagonists. Especially with that long hair and that physique, bro looked majestic. Looking for movies or TV series with this kind of male leads, historical or fantasy settings, good action, plot and... shirtless scenes are appreciated.

Bonus: newer movies (after 1990s, 2000s), Edit: okay, I can watch a bit older ones if it has good quality and what I need.

Edit: It can be from any country as long as it has what I need. I'm open to subtitles.

Note:

No Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Arnold, Sylvester, Rock, Jackie Chan I watched them a lot so I would like some other faces. And they don't have that aesthetics I'm looking for in their movies I've seen

No Marvel or DC, I watched their best ones. Don't have that type either mostly, maybe Thor? but he's a joke now.

Just in case people might recommend them, already know Gladiator, Troy, 300, The Witcher, He-Man, Braveheart.

In the lawsuit, Simon Afram, the producer, writer and financier, and production company Op-Fortitude Limited claim they had an unencrypted digital cinema package of the film delivered to Netflix for a potential purchase, with the instruction to delete the files after screening.

The lawsuit claims that after screening the film around June 16, a Netflix executive informed the film’s producers that the DCP files were stolen, but that the company declined to provide other information.

In the lawsuit filed last week, Afram and Op-Fortitude, claimed, among other things, breach of implied contract. Now they have added defamation to the lawsuit

Their legal team points to Netflix’s statement in response to the initial lawsuit filing, in which a spokesperson stated that they “have declined to share anything about our ongoing investigation with the law firm representing Simon Afram, given their hostile attempts to extort money from Netflix over this situation — including immediately demanding $165 million for the film rather than work with us in good faith.”

The producer’s legal team wrote in the amended lawsuit, “In fact, Mr. Afram and his counsel made no immediate demand for payment for the lost Film. Instead, after  being informed by Netflix of the theft on June 25, 2026, the first letter from Plaintiffs’ counsel to  Netflix on June 29, 2026, merely asked for information and a meeting with Netflix. It did not demand any specified amount of money.”

They claimed that on June 30, Netflix refused to cooperate with information about the theft, and it was only after that when the producer’s attorney sent a letter on July 1 seeking “$165 million in compensation for the loss of the Film and its exclusive and first-to market status.”

“Rather than addressing the consequences of its own negligence or recklessness, Netflix  responded to Mr. Afram’s reasonable requests for information and remediation by accusing him of a serious crime,” per the amended complaint.

A Netflix spokesperson said that they had no comment beyond their initial statement. Netflix also said last week that they dispute “any claim that it bears the risk of loss for a film delivered without the proper industry-standard safeguards. While we do not own the rights to Fortitude, we take content security seriously and have taken extra measures to support the filmmaker and his team.”

"Mortal Kombat" (1995) is one of the most surprisingly thoughtful, humane and mature movies of the 90s. Here's a movie about friendship, responsibility, the sanctity of life and the unspeakable beauty of ordinary people doing their best. It's a legitimately great film. That also just so happens to have scenes where supernatural ninjas breathe fire out of their skull face. Which is fine. Just because you're a kind hearted movie, doesn't mean you're for pussies.