‘Heart Of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot’s Dull, Disposable Netflix Actioner Has No Heart, Soul Or Identity

UPDATED, 5:45 AM: Netflix has dropped the first-look teaser for Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (official title), its upcoming anime series based on the classic graphic novels and 2010 film starring Michael Cera. Cera reunites with many of the film’s cast including Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and more who lend their voices to the series, which will premiere November 17. Watch the teaser above.

Sophia Scorziello editor Michael Cera reunites with Sex Bob-Omb — this time in animated form — for Netflix’s upcoming anime “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.” The eight-episode series is helmed by animation studio Science Saru, and follows the cult-favorite story of bass-playing title character Scott Pilgrim and his battle of the bands and the exes. The new Netflix show follows Edgar Wright’s 2010 action rom-com “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World,” which was based on the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley.

Barbie has been banned in multiple countries following its release.Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, the fantasy comedy has become the second highest-grossing film of 2023 worldwide behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie, passing the $1billion mark earlier this month at the box office.The film’s success also crossed another milestone, becoming the highest-grossing live-action movie solely directed by a woman.Ahead of its release in July, Barbie was banned in Vietnam due to a scene featuring a map depicting China’s contested territorial claims in the South China Sea.As reported by Reuters, the scene shows “an offending image” of the “nine-dash line”, which is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over large areas of the South China Sea, which is contested by Vietnam.A number of films have recently been banned in the country for the same reason, including Sony’s Uncharted and Dreamworks’ animated film Abominable.Kuwait subsequently banned Barbie after the film promoted “ideas and beliefs that are alien to the Kuwaiti society and public order”, according to Lafy Al-Subei’e, an under secretary of the Ministry for Press and Publication in the country (via the New York Times).Around the same time (August 9), Lebanon’s culture minister, Mohammad Mortada, made moves to ban Barbie, saying that the film was found to “promote homosexuality and sexual transformation”.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is “heartbroken” over Hawaii’s “complete destruction.”

Gal Gadot‘s new Netflix movie Heart Of Stone have been reacting to a character spotted wearing an old Middlesbrough FC football shirt.It comes after a scene in the new spy thriller, which was released on Friday (11 August), shows Gadot being chased by a gang in Senegal bribed by her MI6 colleague Parker (Jamie Dornan).During the scene, many viewers noticed that one of the locals chasing the Wonder Woman actress was wearing a Middlesborough FC shirt from the 2009/10 season.“Not often you see a ⁦@Boro shirt on a bad guy in a movie,” wrote one user while another called it a “wild inclusion”, adding: “Did not expect to see an old @Boro shirt in #HeartOfStone.”Another added: “Watching ‘Heart of Stone’ on Netflix with Gal Gadot and the bad guy in it is wearing a Boro top. Howling.”Did not expect to see an old @Boro shirt in #HeartOfStone.

Dwayne Johnson is speaking out about the devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii.

Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson is speaking out about the tragic wildfires that have been ravaging the island of Maui, Hawaii, since last week.The action star took to Instagram on Sunday to share a slideshow of snapshots showing firefighters, first responders and civilians doing what they can to fight the wildfires and help in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.«Heartbroken but our faith and mana is strong,» Johnson wrote. «First responders, health care teams, hotels, locals businesses, boots on the ground organizations and all our local heroes, stay strong — we love you and appreciate you.»«All our local families, our ohana, our aiga, stay strong thru this devastating time,» he continued. «Resilience resolve is our DNA.

Inspired by E.L. James‘ novels of the same name, the Fifty Shades of Grey film franchise made serious moves in Hollywood!

It’s turning out to be quite a summer for superspies and supercomputers.

fans; it seems like the third installment isn't coming so soon after all.Despite Gal Gadot's recent claims that James Gunn and Peter Safran — the new heads of DC Studios — have spoken with her about a threequel being planned under their direction, ET has learned there are no current plans for 3 or any new project aside from the prequel series at Max, the latter of which was announced in January 2023 as part of DC Studios' Chapter 1 plans.Gadot stoked fans' flames when she first suggested Diana Prince could make a comeback while chatting with ET at Netflix's Tudum: A Global Fan Event, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in June, ahead of the SAG-AFTRA strike, where she hinted at hope for the franchise. «Things are being worked behind the scenes,» Gadot told ET at the time, «and once the right moment arrives, you'll know about it.»Then, in an interview with ahead of the SAG-AFTRA strike and published on Aug.

Gal Gadot and Arnold Schwarzenegger are Netflix’s newest action icons. The video shows Gadot, who stars in the upcomming Netflix movie “Heart of Stone,” as she runs into Schwarzenegger, who has some useful action tips to impart.Arnold Schwarzenegger teaches grandkids to raise his farm animals: ‘Such a fun time’Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrates birthday with his pets, asks fans to ‘keep pumping’The clip kicks off with Schwarzenegger manning an espresso machine and wearing the appropriate attire. Gadot spots him and seems shocked by his new duties.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Given the $1 billion success of “Barbie,” it’s hard to picture anyone in the title role other than Margot Robbie. But the actor explained to Vogue back in May that it was actually Gal Gadot who was her first choice to star as Barbie. Robbie is a producer on “Barbie” and did not immediately envision herself in the role.

Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor has said a drug he is taking to treat his prostate cancer has extended his life by five years.Taylor, 62, opened up about living with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer during an interview back in January. He had been diagnosed with the disease around four years prior.

Netflix‘s action-packed Heart Of Stone arrives on Netflix today (Friday, August 11) – you can find details regarding its runtime below.In the film Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot takes on the role of a global guardian once more (minus superpowers), playing Rachel Stone an intelligence operative. Put in an unenviable position, Stone finds herself as the only one standing between her powerful global peacekeeping organisation and the loss of its most valuable and dangerous asset.In its review, NME.com said Heart Of Stone is “plenty of fun and far slicker than a lot of recent Netflix content”.

Netflix is clearly determined to play the major studio game of big star-driven action franchises. Extraction and its current sequel, The Gray Man (with the promise of more), Red Notice, and many others represent big screen type entertainment designed ultimately for people to watch on their couches at home. This kind of stuff, while skillfully and expensively executed still works best at IMAX rather than your living room but the streamer is convinced they will goose subscriptions so expect more of it, and movies like Heart Of Stone , a convoluted spy thriller loaded with James Bond-style action set pieces but with a wonder woman in the name of Gal Gadot in the center of it all. Taking a cue from Charlize Theron’s Netflix franchise, The Old Guard, this is a female-driven enterprise where the men, namely Jamie Dornan’s complicated bad guy, take a back seat for the most part. In fact this is a Gadot vehicle all the way.

DC fans have really been through the wringer in the last 12 months. There was recent hope for fans who loved the previous DC Extended Universe created by filmmaker Zack Snyder: Gal Gadot had teased that she and James Gunn—the new co-head of DC Studios—had discussed and maybe even confirmed a “Wonder Woman 3” film (a project that had been put on hold earlier this year when Gunn rejected filmmaker Patty Jenkins’ treatment).

Sandra Bullock's longtime partner, Bryan Randall, died on Saturday after a private battle with ALS, and in the wake of his tragic death at age 57, actor Josh Holloway is remembering his friend. The Yellowstone actor posted a photo on Instagram of the two smiling and holding the fish they caught.«My friend, my brother, my fishing buddy, I love you bro,» the star captioned the pic. «Thank you for the good times.

Rob McElhenney is reflecting on his, relatively new, friendship with Ryan Reynolds.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director As the summer movie season winds down in theaters this month, streaming is heating up as some of Hollywood’s biggest movies of 2023 make their debuts on various platforms. Families are in luck as “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” arrives on Peacock after becoming a box office sensation in the spring with over $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

Sammi «Sweetheart» Giancola and Deena Cortese hope to one day clear the air with Ryan Reynolds after they allege that the star was «rude» to them. The cast of were guests on Thursday's episode of and were asked about the rudest celebrity encounter they ever had. «Me and Deena encountered a rude celebrity once, but we don't want to say who it is,» Sammi said, nervously.

Gal Gadot and Alia Bhatt are throwing on their bulletproof vests and gearing up to release their new action-packed spy-thriller, “Heart of Stone”, which hits Netflix on August 11.