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Riz Ahmed thinks Shakespearean scholars don’t get what makes Hamlet tick. The Danish prince, he

says, isn’t on the verge of suicide in his “To be or not to be” soliloquy — he’s trying to man up.

“It’s not ‘Should I end it all?’” says Ahmed, who speaks the iconic lines in a new “Hamlet” that debuted at the Telluride Film Festival and will screen at the Toronto Film Festival. “It’s about ‘Are we willing to live under injustice? Do you fight or do you give up?’”

Nor does Ahmed accept the usual portrayal of Hamlet as a man plagued by indecision. On-screen,

his Hamlet is a coiled ball of outrage waiting for the right moment to avenge his father. “He’s continuously active,” Ahmed says. “He’s investigating, strategizing, gathering evidence while he psyches himself up to do the unthinkable.”

This adaptation of “Hamlet” breaks with tradition in other ways,...

Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was born and bred San Francisco Giants baseball. Named after one of the most significant Giants in major league history––back when they were the New York Giants, a clever nod from writer Charlie Huston, who adapted his own novel for the screen––high school Hank leaned into his legacy with enough bravado to go pro, a surefire first round pick. But a leg-splitting car crash brought his athletic career to a screeching, permanent halt.

Now, as a sensually disheveled 20- or 30-something drunk, he doesn’t let life in New York hamper his daily devotion to the game, even if his connection to it still...

William Shakespeare left no instructions as to the right way future dramatists should tell “Hamlet.” We have only the text, which reveals fresh insights each time someone new recites it. With director Aneil Karia’s interpretation, we get the great Riz Ahmed in the role, which is reason enough for the film to exist — but it’s perhaps the only one in a remake that might better have chosen not to be.

Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a wealthy family of South Asian heritage, Karia’s version preserves the original text, albeit abridged, reordered and occasionally spoken by different characters entirely. Screenwriter Michael Lesslie oversaw this adaptation, which carries with it unfortunate relics of an earlier time — not the iambic pentameter, which is sacred, but references to kings and lords and a royal society that doesn’t translate one bit to the modern corporate world.

Here, Elsinore...

This latest version of Hamlet begins with a death ritual. Riz Ahmed, as the title character, washes his father’s body, surrounded by his uncle, Claudius, and other men as a Hindu priest recites from the Bhagavad Gita. That scene instantly and viscerally grounds you in the title character’s overpowering grief. It’s an inspired addition to Shakespeare’s play, and proof of how illuminating it can be to tweak one of the world’s masterpieces.

Unfortunately, Aneil Karia’s film gets rockier from there. Setting the story in a South Asian community in London works beautifully. Here the play-within-a play that acts out Claudius’ murder of Hamlet’s father is a dance by a South Asian troupe, an eloquent touch. It’s the details of transporting the play to the present day and trying to make it cinematic that are often jarring and clumsy. One of the cringey...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new version of “Hamlet” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday, because this particular Shakespeare tragedy seems to be in the air these days. Most notably, Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet,” another Telluride premiere and one of the most anticipated films of the fall, deals with the writing of the play after the death of his young son, Hamnet – making note of the fact that in Shakespeare’s time, the two names were more or less interchangeable.

Beyond that, actor Patrick Ball, one of the stars of the breakout TV series “The Pitt,” starred this spring and summer in the title...

It’s been nearly a decade since Rogue One: A Star Wars Storyhit theaters. The movie has been an audience and critical favorite following its 2016 release, but one of the film’s actors didn’t have the best time on set.

Riz Ahmed, who played Bodhi Rook in Rogue One, opened up about his experience filming the Gareth Edwards-directed movie in an episode of Penn Badgley’s Podcrushed podcast, per The Hollywood Reporter. The actor who portrayed a former Imperial pilot said that filming the Star Wars movie landed him in the hospital.

Ahmed shared that he had a “very intense” health scare while making Rogue One.He said...

There is a distinct ’70s sheen to the Criterion Channel’s September lineup: a decades-spanning Robert Altman retrospective with everything from Nashville and The Long Goodbye to That Cold Day in the Park and The Company; a highlight of the decade’s best thrillers; and a Klute–Parallax–President Alan J. Pakula set all mark the month, while even “Nunsploitation” program primarily stems from the decade. Retrospectives are rounded out by a Jodie Foster retrospective that gives one chance to reconsider The Beaver.

Criterion Editions include Grey Gardens, The Wind Will Carry Us, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Sorcerer, Altman’s Tanner ’88, and Olivier Assayas’ Carlos, a film that would probably rank higher in estimations of his career were it more regularly streaming. Restorations of Undercurrent, Fresh Kill, and City of Ghosts make their debut, while you can say you watched The Crow (a new addition to ’90s Soundtracks) in a high-class way.

David Corenswet might be soaring through the skies as Superman now, but James Gunn first saw his potential while he was lurking in the shadows, quite literally. The Superman director recently revealed that he discovered Corenswet while watching Ti West’s 2022 indie horror Pearl, where the actor played a cryptic, slightly pompous projectionist opposite Mia Goth.

Gunn shared in a candid, cinephile-driven conversation during his 30-minute guest spot on Jm Video Club (via Konbini).

I saw a character whose name is just The Projectionist, and I went, ‘That guy looks like he could possibly be Superman’. I looked up his name on IMDb and said, ‘Can you bring this guy in?’

Let that sink in: a $10 million arthouse slasher, blood-soaked, psychological, and brimming with unhinged energy, helped cast the next Man of Steel. Wow! During the same appearance, Gunn rattled off a wildly eclectic list of favorites: from Kung Fu Hustle...

Oscar winner Riz Ahmed and Baby Driver star Lily James star in the first trailer for next month’s dazzlingly clever high-concept thriller directed by David Mackenzie, best known for helming the critically acclaimed, Taylor Sheridan-penned neo-Western Hell or High Water. The 2025 thriller follows a reclusive middleman for would-be whistleblowers seeking to settle with corporate malefactors and has already been met with rave reviews from critics after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival in September last year.

Titled Relay, the thriller stars Avatar actor Sam Worthington alongside Ahmed and James and is all set to hit theaters on August 22, 2025. Relay director David Mackenzie promises that the thriller “is a tense New York thriller which is very much of the now but has echoes of the great soulful paranoid thrillers of the '70s.”

“It's a film about an outsider trying to do the right thing, it's about loneliness and the raw,...

Riz Ahmed is carving out a niche in the action-thriller space. After leading “The Night Of” series, the Oscar-nominated actor (he won for his short film “The Long Goodbye”) is expanding his action chops with David Mackenzie’s “Relay.” The critical darling film debuted at TIFF 2024 and was later acquired by Bleecker Street.

Ahmed stars as a world class “fixer” who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and individuals threatening to expose them. A nameless character, he keeps his identity a secret by using a message relay service called Relay, which is usually used by people with a hearing or speech disability to make and receive telephone calls via text. Yet when a message arrives from a potential client (Lily James) who needs his protection just to stay alive, Ahmed’s character abandons his own ironclad rules of communication.

“It was just the idea that this person is...

Stormzy, the multi-award winning British rapper, singer and songwriter and the most recognizable name to come out of London’s grime scene, has moved into film and TV production with the launch of #Merky Films.

The new venture — which follows on from Stormzy’s #Merky branded book imprint and sports scholarship — has set a purported mission to “champion new voices, fresh, powerful narratives and innovative forms of expression within British cinema and television” and “create projects that connect communities, celebrate culture and inspire meaningful change.”

Alongside launching #Merky Film, Stormzy has also unveiled the company’s debut project, the short film “Big Man.”

Produced in association with Apple and shot entirely on an iPhone, the film is directed by Aneil Karia, winner of the best live action short film Oscar in 2021 for “The Long Goodbye” alongside Riz Ahmed and who recently wrapped a feature-length modern adaptation of “Hamlet” also starring Ahmed,...

Exclusive: Award-winning British musician Stormzy, who fell in love with movies as a kid watching Titanic and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit with his mother, says he wants to “learn from the best.” He is launching his #Merky Films shingle with a starring role in short film Big Man, directed by Oscar-winning The Long Goodbye filmmaker Aneil Karia and produced in association with Apple. He reveals to Deadline that #Merky Films has entered into a development deal with Netflix.

There are, he says, plans with Netflix for a television drama series and a biopic of a “powerful figure.”

“We have a few projects developing with Netflix,” but he’s not allowed to discuss them in any detail.

”But they’re really exciting,” Stormzy says. “I’m bursting at the seams to talk about them. … It’s fair to say it’s Black stories, Black experiences depicted through the screen.

Chicago – “Breakfast of Champions” was a film that was critically reviled when it was released, and became one of those box office “mega bombs.” But the adapter/director of the film, Alan Rudolph, is getting the last laugh. “Breakfast of Champions” is being re-examined in a new 4K Uhd restoration through Shout! Studios and Films We Like as a film decidedly ahead of its time.

Breakfast of Champions

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“Breakfast of Champions’ (1999) tells the story of car dealership titan Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), the most respected man in Midland City. His smiling face appears on every local channel and billboard , as a shining symbol of the American Dream. But Dwayne Hoover is not smiling inside. Nor can he be trusted. Dwayne’s shady prosperity, picture-frame family, and small mind are cracking.

His television commercial-addicted wife (Barbara Hershey) may or may not be physically...

Chicago – Alan Rudolph is a filmmaker icon from the last twenty years of the 20th Century and beyond. He had an unprecedented string of critical darlings from the 1970s through the ‘90s, a run that is acknowledged in the Criterion Channel’s June 2025 Spotlight Alan Rudolph’s Dramas of Desire.

The Criterion Channel description for Alan Rudolph’S Dramas Of Desires: “Alan Rudolph’s cinema is a constellation of dreamers, drifters, and disenchanted romantics. A protégé of Robert Altman and a singular voice in independent film, Rudolph has long been a maverick, eschewing convention in favor of elliptical storytelling, painterly compositions, and jazz-inflected rhythms. His films – including the tour-de-force Geraldine Chaplin thriller “Remember My Name” and the surreally stylish neo-noir “Trouble In Mind” – that invites us into richly textured worlds where emotional logic supersedes plot, and the ephemeral becomes eternal.”

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On June 5, the IndieWire Honors Spring 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for some of the most impressive and engaging work of this TV season. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the creators, artisans, and performers behind television well worth toasting. We’re showcasing their work with new interviews leading up to the Los Angeles event.

A conversation with Natasha Lyonne is to experience a gravel-voiced one-woman film school with a carousel of cultural references that range from “The Long Goodbye” to Lou Reed to quantum physics.

But what makes Lyonne singular (and why she’s being recognized with the Maverick Award at this season’s IndieWire Honors) is more than her encyclopedic mind or her distinct creative stamp. It’s her ability to turn lived experience into genre-busting, soul-searching, radically original storytelling.

In a TV landscape dominated by serialization,...

Creative execs with backgrounds working with Gordon Ramsay, Channel 4 and Yorgos Lanthimos are launching a UK-based company working in “the intersection of brands, entertainment and talent.”

Former Channel 4 and Conde Nast exec Lynsey Atkin has teamed with Chris Watling and Rebecca Lewis, the latter of whom worked for celebrity chef Ramsay, to form Baby Teeth.

Watling and Lewis are known for work with the likes of Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos and Solange Knowles, while Atkin worked at Channel 4’s in-house agency 4creative and as Head of Creative for Conde Nast Video UK.

Lewis was instrumental in setting up several Gordon Ramsay projects, such as setting up his Idiot Sandwich brand and his Formula One partnership and working with Fox to launch culinary lifestyle network Bite. Watling, meanwhile, helped establish the film division of Somesuch, which made Riz Ahmed’s short film The Long Goodbye.

Though the trio are from ads backgrounds,...

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With her signature Bs detector and a “voice like a rusty clarinet”, casino worker and whodunnit-solver Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) is back in search of new mysteries to solve, making a very welcome return in Rian Johnson’s other detective-fiction franchise. This time around, Charlie is looking for somewhere to hide: on the run again, this time from Rhea Perlman's mobster, who wants her dead following the events of last season.

But a few things have changed this season. Lyonne’s inquisitive road-tripper is trying to quit smoking, for one, with dubious help from a cotton candy-flavoured vape. After directing and co-writing one episode in the first run, Lyonne also steps up to helm more instalments of this expanded 12-episode run. That calls for a bigger, somehow even more impressive guest list for Season 2, which duly includes Melanie Lynskey, Kumail Nanjiani, Giancarlo Esposito,...

Peacock released the official trailer for Poker Face Season 2 on Wednesday and as fans get ready for the highly anticipated series to return, star Natasha Lyonne tells Gold Derby how it all began.

“We sat at a diner booth. It was a classy diner, but it was still a booth. And we talked about all the things we love,” Lyonne says of her initial meeting with the show’s creator, Rian Johnson. Those things included 1970s classics such as Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and California Split, John Huston's Fat City, and the Peter Falk procedural Columbo. “The relaxation and the ease they have on them — that was really how we found the way in,” Lyonne explains of her character, Charlie, who has an inherent lie-detecting ability.

But after the famous diner booth meeting, Lyonne says she didn’t hear from Johnson for a few months. Luckily when he did reach out,...

Before Hailey Gates made her Sundance-winning feature film “Atropia,” the young filmmaker was attempting to make a short film, “Shako Mako,” based on the real-life military training village she ended up depicting in the feature. The fashion brand Miu Miu, as part of its Women’s Tales filmmakers series, helped make it happen. The brand provided clothing, some financing, and other resources, but — above all — was hands-off with the creative.

An Afghanistan War satire might not seem like a particularly relevant brand association for an upscale fashion line, but for Miu Miu, just being in Gates’ orbit makes an impact. Jett Steiger and Lana Kim, who produced “Atropia” via banner Ways & Means, said it’s all about brands trying to find authentic ways to engage with consumers: making content their customers would want to watch, dispatching cool female filmmakers to parties, and using those connections to fuel good PR.

We’ve always loved setting trends at The Film Stage and are accordingly chuffed that, nine months after we screened a 35mm print at the Roxy, Roman Polanski’s late-career triumph The Ghost Writer comes to the Criterion Channel in next month’s Coastal Thrillers, a series that does what it says on the tin: The Lady from Shanghai, Key Largo, The Long Goodbye, The Fog, and the other best film of 2010, Scorsese’s Shutter Island. It pairs well with Noir and the Blacklist featuring films by Joseph Losey, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, and so on. Retrospectives are held for Terry Southern, Kathryn Bigelow, Jem Cohen, and (just in time for Caught By the Tides) Jia Zhangke, while Spike Lee gets his own Adventures In Moviegoing.

For recent restorations, Antonioni’s Il Grido and Anthony Harvey’s Dutchman appear. Criterion Editions include The Runner, Touchez pas au grisbi, Godzilla vs.

Reader, you have been lied to! Film history is littered with unfairly maligned classics, whether critics were too eager to review the making of rather than the finished product, or they suffered from underwhelming ad campaigns or general disinterest. Let’s revise our takes on some of these films from wrongheaded to the correct opinion.

In a recent interview, Steven Soderbergh referred to “The Good German” as the “most reviled” film he’s ever made, claiming no one has ever brought it up to him in a positive manner. Soderbergh remains baffled by the response, and justifiably so. While the World War II drama was poorly reviewed and failed to find an audience in 2006, it’s one of the director’s most fascinating, original, and, for viewers able to get on its wavelength, emotionally devastating films.

Adapted by screenwriter Paul Attanasio from a novel by Joseph Kanon, “The Good German...

Late New Hollywood legend Robert Altman (Gosford Park, M*A*S*H), late master of violence Sam Peckinpah, and Dogme 95, the Danish avant-garde movement led by directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round), will get the spotlight treatment at the 15th edition of the Beijing International Film Festival

“To commemorate the 130th anniversary of world cinema,” the Beijing fest has curated a retrospective program “to document the history of film and envision its future,” organizers said. “With a curated selection of cinematic classics, the festival blends nostalgia with new perspectives, drawing inspiration from the past to ignite future creativity.”

Among the offerings will be “Endless Waves: 30 Years of the Dogme 95.” The Dogme 95 Manifesto expressed a commitment to create movies focused on storytelling, acting, and theme rather than the elaborate use of special effects or technological tricks. One of its key goals was to empower directors as artists. The...

Seth Rogen's new comedy series might feel fresh, but it's not exactly original. The Studio, which is streaming on Apple TV+, follows a fictional studio executive as he meets with real-life actors in a show with the main purpose of satirizing Hollywood. The Studio is not the first show or movie to do this, as The Player had a near-identical premise but with a plot that makes it much more like a thriller than a comedy. The Studio even makes at least one reference to the film.

The Player was based on a hit book and received critical acclaim when it came out, with 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film might have gone under a few people's radars as it was distributed by a small studio that was absorbed by Warner Bros. However, it's now streaming on Max, and it's worth checking out.

'The Player' Is Hollywood Satire...

Arthur Penn’s Night Moves is one of the great revisionist noirs, taking its place alongside Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. Like those films, it not only brazenly subverts the tropes of the classic Hollywood private eye film, but also uses the genre’s pervasive aura of moral corruption and social anomie to comment on the American scene in the wake of political scandals and the collapse of the 1960s counterculture into the rampant self-absorption of the Me Decade. All three films eschew pat resolutions, let alone the comforts of a return to status quo order.

Night Moves cadges elements from classic noir films. It lifts basic plot points about the search for the runaway daughter of a moneyed family from Howard Hawks’s The Big Sleep, and emulates that film’s excessively labyrinthine narrative, though here you probably don’t need to pay...

It’s a good time to be an Alan Rudolph fan. Last fall, Shout! Studios released a gorgeous restoration of Rudolph’s unjustly maligned satire “Breakfast of Champions,” and this month Rudolph enters the Criterion Collection with a new 4K Uhd edition of his deliriously romantic and unclassifiable “Choose Me.”

A hypnotic noir-inflected fever dream following the intersecting love stories of a group of strangers who frequent the same smoky bar, “Choose Me” is vintage Rudolph: hyper-stylized, hilarious, and concerned with universal ideas expressed in the most idiosyncratic possible manner.

When Rudolph came to write and direct “Choose Me” in 1984, he was at a crossroads in his career, having made two excellent but unpopular movies (“Welcome to L.A.” and “Remember My Name”) outside the system and two studio pictures (“Roadie” and “Endangered Species”) on which Rudolph felt suffocated after his liberating apprenticeship as an assistant director under Robert Altman on “The Long Goodbye” and “Nashville.

The Academy saluted Hollywood — still standing despite the terrible wildfires in January — with a montage featuring some of the most magical moments from movies filmed in L.A., including two from “La La Land,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Chinatown,” “Straight Outta Compton” and “Mulholland Drive.”

You can watch the video below, titled “The Oscars Love L.A.” and read on for the list of movies that go all the way back to 1973’s “The Long Goodbye.”

The clip begins with Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) saying, “There’s no place like home,” and a shot of the Hollywood sign.

“F9”: Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and crew look out over downtown Los Angeles “Mulholland Drive”: Aspiring actress Betty Elms arrives in Los Angeles via taxi in David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive.” “The Long Goodbye”: Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) at the beach in Robert Altman’s existential noir.

“Anora,” the story of a sex worker who marries the pampered son of a Russian oligarch, triumphed at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning five Oscars, including the prize for best picture. Its victory capped a tumultuous awards season, one that cycled through frontrunners at a dizzying pace with contenders like “Emilia Pérez” and “The Brutalist” seeing their fortunes rise and fall as controversies over everything from offensive tweets to the use of AI upended their campaigns.

It was also a race that unfolded during one of the worst natural disasters in Los Angeles history, something that the Oscars reflected with tributes to the firefighters who worked to save communities engulfed by the wildfires, as well as with a montage highlighting the many films shot in the city, from “The Long Goodbye” to “Licorice Pizza.”

Sean Baker, the maverick behind “Anora,” was recognized for producing, directing, editing and writing the film’s original screenplay,...

When actor Fred Williamson and director Jack Arnold came together to make “Black Eye” in 1974, it wasn’t an obvious match.

Williamson was the retired pro football player who, after making his feature film debut in Robert Altman’s “M*A*S*H” in 1970, had skyrocketed to blaxploitation stardom in “Hammer” and a pair of Larry Cohen knockouts, “Black Caesar” and “Hell Up in Harlem.” Arnold was a reliable Hollywood journeyman best known for directing Universal sci-fi flicks like “It Came From Outer Space,” “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” and “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” before spending the 1960s knocking around from studio to studio, genre to genre, with a financially lucrative but creatively static sojourn in episodic television.

Williamson was a rising star of the New Hollywood and Arnold a more or less discarded remnant of the old, but their collaboration yielded one of the most underrated films of its era. A...

Many fans of the genre will vehemently argue that Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West is the greatest spaghetti western ever made. Audiences will soon have the opportunity to revisit the classic film on a free streaming platform.

Once Upon a Time in the West will arrive on Tubi on March 1. The legendary movie stars the iconic Charles Bronson opposite Henry Fonda's villain. The revenge-western follows Bronson's character, Harmonica (a role originally intended for Clint Eastwood), as he tracks down Fonda's outlaw Frank to right a past wrong. The movie's ensemble includes Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Gabriele Ferzetti, Paolo Stoppa, Marco Zuanelli, Keenan Wynn, Frank Wolff, Lionel Stander, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Al Mulock, Benito Stefanelli and Aldo Sambrell.

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German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s mesmerizing, mostly English-language “Islands” opens with a scene that for many would mark “rock bottom” — reason to check oneself into rehab — as Sam Riley’s Tom awakens in a field of sand dunes. He could have been dropped from heaven or belched up from below, but most likely just passed out … again. The camera pans left, and there in the distance is the luxury hotel, big as a cruise ship, where Tom works as a tennis coach for visiting tourists. But mostly, Tom has been living a life of revelry without responsibility, sleeping wherever he can.

Over the course of a lean but revealing film of unexpected existential heft, we witness his wake-up call, as a family of three arrives in Fuerteventura, the largest of the Canary Islands, and gives Tom reason to reassess his life choices. Right from the start, there’s a neo-noir...

Lauren Garroni made her name commenting on the fashions of “Sex and the City” as one half (with Chelsea Fairless) of the genius minds behind the Every Outfit on Sex and the City Instagram account but her heart doesn’t just belong to television. She’s also a film buff who has a poster for Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” on her wall — which of course means that she has her Letterboxd Top 4 answers locked and loaded. One is “The Long Goodbye.” Another is “Cruel Intentions.”

That one-two punch is telling. “Sugar Baby,” her feature film debut as director and co-writer, is a wily erotic thriller that plays with audience expectations as much as it presents a refreshingly candid look at sex workers. Garroni wanted to craft a movie that, just like her favorites, would be specific while telling a broader story.

”One of the goals, I would say...

Good storytellers understand that realism doesn’t mean that the storytelling needs to be the most boring thing imaginable, while the worst storytellers make the mistake of associating blandness with realism. For example, David Fincher is probably one of the best directors working right now who has delivered some of the greatest crime dramas ever, e.g., Se7en, Zodiac, and Mindhunter. Now, Fincher rarely resorts to over-the-top action or melodramatic acting to spice up his narratives. He usually keeps things low-key, to the extent where some accuse his work of being “emotionless,” and yet manages to keep things engaging and thrilling. And even when some of his stories don’t reach a cathartic and climactic conclusion, the journey feels worthwhile. The same can be said about Memories of Murder, Blow Out, The Silence of the Lambs, Insomnia, The Long Goodbye, Ugly, Dahaad, and more. Then there’s this year’s The Breakthrough,...

The first season of “Only Child” wraps up with a finale full of bittersweet farewells and carefully guarded secrets. As Ken meticulously plans a fitting send-off for Jean’s ashes, his son Richard grapples with a dilemma of his own. A big break in Norway beckons, but Richard’s keeping mum about his impending departure, leaving Ken […]

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After a long and storied career, James Gunn has become an iconic and well-regarded name in Hollywood. He began his career as a writer and associate director for the black comedy Tromeo and Juliet in 1996, but his career has taken surprising turns. The acclaimed director went on to write for 2002's Scooby-Doo, direct and write for 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, and produce 2019's Brightburn. Popular franchises are central to his storied career, largely because nearly everything he touches becomes popular.

Gunn recently signed on to serve as the co-ceo of DC Studios, serving alongside producer Peter Safran. He has been tasked with developing the new DC Universe.

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Thriller movies are a wide and varied genre that can range from single-location chamber pieces all the way to sprawling decade-long epics, but there is one aspect present in every single one. The goal of the thriller is to get the audience on the edge of their seat, uneasy and anxious. While cinematic standards have changed drastically over the past century, that one fact has remained true. Whether it's through classic film noir stylings or a more distinctly modern flair, the thriller genre pumps out gems every single decade.

One specific, highly controversial hidden gem comes from 1955. From the studio that eventually brought iconic thrillers like Carrie, The Long Goodbye, and Thief came The Night of the Hunter. While the...

One of the world’s most prestigious short film festivals, HollyShorts, is coming to London.

HollyShorts will hold its first-ever London edition as part of the L.A.-based festival’s 20th anniversary year and, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal, will present HollyShorts Honoree Awards to a slew of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated British and Irish short filmmakers.

Recipients of the HollyShorts Honoree Award include Tom Berkeley and Ross White, who won an Oscar in 2023 for their short film An Irish Goodbye; Chris Overton, who won an Oscar in 2018 for The Silent Child; Misan Harriman, who was nominated for an Academy Award this year for The After; and Jamie Donoughue, who was nominated in 2016 for Shok.

The event will also present a special Trailblazer Award to actor James Martin, whose pivotal role in An Irish Goodbye led to him being the first star with Down Syndrome to win at the Academy Awards.

The Eagles have added four more shows to their residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas going down on April 4th, 5th, 11th, and 12th, 2025.

The new dates come two months after Eagles opened their Sphere residency in September, and one month after they extended their residency with four more dates in March 2025. Now, they’ve added yet another quartet of shows taking place the first two weekends of April 2025. The weekend concerts at the Sphere serve as part of their farewell tour, “The Long Goodbye.”

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Tickets for the new Eagles shows will first be available via an artist pre-sale running on the band’s official website, where you can sign up for pre-sale access to each individual date. The artist pre-sale opens on Tuesday, December 3rd at 10:00 a.m. Pst. Meanwhile, a Live Nation pre-sale will kick off on Thursday, December 5th at 10:00 a.

Idris Elba (via his 22Summers production company) and Chiwetel Ejiofor have signed on as executive producers for “The Brown Dog,” a short animated film commissioned by WeTransfer. The film stars the late Michael K. Williams in his last featured performance.

Williams, who memorably portrayed Omar Little in “The Wire” and Chalky White in “Boardwalk Empire,” died in 2021. He was 54. In honor of Williams’ birthday (the actor would have turned 58 on Nov. 22), “The Brown Dog” is now available to stream on WeTransfer’s YouTube channel.

“When I was approached to come on board as an executive producer for The Brown Dog, it felt like a natural, emotional connection to Michael K. Williams, my dear friend and co-star,” Elba said in a statement about his involvement.

“Michael had such a unique gift — he brought soul, depth, and honesty to every role he played, and it’s an honor to continue his legacy through this film,...

Real cinephiles know that Letterboxd, where you can log movies you've watched and discuss them, is the best social media site, and one of the best things Letterboxd does is ask celebrities to list their four favorite movies. Before the release of her romantic comedy "No Hard Feelings," Letterboxd caught up with Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence to ask about her four favorite movies, and the entire concept seemed to deeply stress her out.

"Oh my god, that is so much pressure, because I'm really bad at remembering the titles," Lawrence exclaimed in the YouTube short before remembering the titles of three different movies. "I mean, 'Jurassic Park,'" she began, shouting out Steven Spielberg's beloved science fiction adventure flick, before naming Renée Zellweger's romantic comedy "Bridget Jones's Diary" next. Third on her list? Director Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Pride & Prejudice" featuring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen,...

In 2011, Matthew McConaughey led a mid-level legal drama called The Lincoln Lawyer, based on Michael Connelly's 2005 novel (a spin-off from the Bosch universe). It did decently well, making $87 million off its $40 million budget and getting pretty good reviews, but that was that. It didn't have much cultural impact, and there were no sequels of anything. So it's surprising how a television version of the same character's story could become such a big hit for Netflix. The Lincoln Lawyer co-showrunner, writer, and executive producer Dailyn Rodriguez spoke with MovieWeb about the character of Mickey Haller in all his formations, and why the TV iteration is more faithful to the book's original character than the movie could be (by no fault of its own). She told us:

"In the books he's a half Mexican, half American white guy. His mom's Mexican, his dad's Irish-American from LA. Because we cast Miguel [Garcia-Rulfo], who is actually native of Mexico,...

James Gunn is a curious figure in popular culture. As a young man, just rising in the film business, Gunn co-wrote the witty and disgusting Troma epic "Tromeo & Juliet" with Lloyd Kaufman, and it featured kinky sex, a bisexual Juliet, cow monsters, mutant penis creatures, and an opening narration by Lemmy from Motörhead. After that, Gunn took the piss out of the superhero genre with "The Specials," a low-low budget film about what superheroes — petty jerks, mostly — do on their day off. He stayed aloft in Hollywood writing the screenplays for two surreal "Scooby-Doo" movies, and Zack Snyder's remake of "Dawn of the Dead" before making his directorial debut in 2006 with "Slither," another gross movie about body-invading worm monsters and wacko mutants.

Gunn then deconstructed superheroes even further with "Super" in 2010, a film that hypothesizes that superheroes are mentally ill and addicted to extreme violence. "Super" is bleak,...

The latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," titled "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel," takes place on the Cosmic Duchess, a massive, massive vacation cruise ship that has been outfitted with multiple enclosed, environmentally controlled vacation biomes. The ship includes a ski resort, a beach resort, a tropical river, and a slot machine-encrusted casino. The Duchess looks a lot like Earthship Ark from the short-lived 1973 Harlan Ellison sci-fi series "The Starlost," but it's unlikely anyone will understand that reference.

Early in the episode, Lieutenants Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (Jack Quaid) enthusiastically read a list of the Duchess' amenities. Mariner notes that they have 240 24-hour spas, an indoor water park, and, perhaps bafflingly, an underwater dry park. No one knows what an underwater dry park is, but they're eager to try. Boimler also notes that one of the space casinos has a bunch of Dixon Hill slot machines.

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Alan Rudolph with Anne-Katrin Titze on Robert Altman considering Johnny Carson and Peter Falk to be cast as Dwayne Hoover (played by Bruce Willis) in Breakfast Of Champions: “He would cast his movies before they were written.”

In the first instalment with Alan Rudolph, we discuss Robert Altman’s early connection to Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast Of Champions, the roles played by Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney, and Owen Wilson, plus working with Willis and Demi Moore on Mortal Thoughts. Now, with the help of Ron Mann, director of What We Like, producer David Blocker, cinematographer Elliot Davis and Shout Factory, there is a 4K Digital Restoration of Breakfast of Champions available to screen in cinemas, on streaming platforms and Blu-ray DVD for the 25th anniversary of this very prescient film. Alan Rudolph was an assistant director on Altman’s Nashville, California Split, The Long Goodbye, and appeared as himself in The Player.

Some movie formulas have proven themselves to be forever infallible. While certain subgenres prove themselves to be more of a flavor of the week than a mainstay, one subgenre has stood the test of time more than any other. The murder mystery is a pitch-perfect formula because while the structure is often the same, the results are always different. From Rear Window to Scream to Knives Out to episodes of Family Guy, the genre prevails. In nearly every corner of the entertainment world, a murder mystery can be found, but what does it take for one to stand out?

With Rian Johnsons Knives Out franchise taking over the cinematic landscape, fans are itching for some clever takes on the reliable formula. The first two films in the franchise delighted fans with their innovative method of revealing information. While the first Knives Out didnt succeed only due to the nuance of revealing the twist halfway through,...

Goodbye Hotel California, hello The Sphere! Iconic rock band The Eagles have announced a residency at the spherical Las Vegas venue as part of their farewell tour, “The Long Goodbye.” The classic rockers kicked off their stint on Friday, September 20th, and will play weekends until Saturday, March 15th, 2025.

Purchase your tickets here, and read on for more details, including how to get access to sold-out shows. Update: Due to overwhelming demand, Eagles have announced four new shows at the Sphere taking place in March 2025. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 25th. Find more details below.

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What Is The Eagles’ Sphere Residency?

The Eagles’ residency at The Sphere follows in the footsteps of other legendary rock acts that have recently made a temporary home out of the $2.3 billion venue, like U2, Phish, and Dead & Company. For their part, The Eagles’ residency is set to last for 14 weekends,...

No 1970s car exudes more Hollywood allure than the Ferrari 365 Gtb/4, known colloquially as the “Daytona.” Not only was it coveted by movie stars and rock gods, but it had several memorable screen appearances itself. One played a significant role in Robert Altman’s Elliott Gould-starring ode to Film Noir, The Long Goodbye. Perhaps most famously, a convertible version starred in 1976’s A Star Is Born, with Kris Kristofferson at the wheel and Barbra Streisand in the passenger seat.

Now, just as that movie inspired an acclaimed remake a few years back, the 365 Gtb/4 is having a revival. Ferrari design head Flavio Manzoni likes to suggest that all cars from the Italian exotic automaker are of-the-moment, reflecting their time. But he has not been shy in discussing the historical inspiration for the brand’s new, $459,000 two-seater, the 12Cilindri. Manzoni has said quite clearly that the front end and overall shape echo the Daytona.

Prime Video’s “Killer Heat” is a new mystery thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Nick Bali, a private investigator. It shows Nick traveling to Greece to investigate the shocking death of a wealthy man named Leo Vardakis. Nick is hired by Penelope, Leo’s identical twin brother’s wife. The film takes place entirely on a scenic island and relies on the moodiness of the setting as it unravels new bits of information. It seems heavily inspired by the Hollywood noir classics that redefined the genre conventions decades ago. Fans of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and movies like “Killer Heat,” featuring slow-burn mysteries, can check out this thriller on Prime Video.

This 2024 film is based on Jo Nesbø’s short story – “The Jealousy Man.” The film is directed by Philippe Lacôte, known for directing “Night of the Kings,” a critically acclaimed fantasy drama. Besides Gordon-Levit, the film also stars Shailene Woodley and...

The Eagles have once again extended their residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere. See the newly added dates and get information on how to secure tickets below.

The classic rock band kicked off their residency at the $2 billion performance space on September 20th. Initially, they were poised to play weekend shows through December 14th before the band added January shows due to demand. Now, they are extending the run even further with four new dates — February 14th, 15th, 21st, and 22nd.

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Tickets for the Eagles’ newly announced dates at Sphere start at $175 (including fees), with an artist presale taking place on Tuesday, October 8th via Seated. A Live Nation presale then follows on Thursday, October 10th at 10:00 a.m. Pt (use code Tempo). Finally, the public on-sale launches on Friday, October 11th at 10:00 a.m. Pt via Ticketmaster.

The Eagles’ current lineup features Don Henley,...

Gang of Four have announced a North American farewell tour set to kick off in Spring 2025. The highly influential UK post-punk legends will play their iconic 1979 debut album Entertainment! from front to back, as well as a second set of favorites from the rest of their discography.

The outing, dubbed “The Long Goodbye,” launches April 20th in Somerville, Massachusetts (Boston area), and runs through a May 29th show in San Diego. Along the way, Gang of Four will hit such markets as Toronto, New York City, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, among other towns.

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Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday (October 4th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster and the band’s official website.

“2025 will be the 45th anniversary of the release of Entertainment! in the US, and will be our final year as a band,” stated...

Jo Nesbø adaptation Killer Heat is the latest in a long line of detective films, from Chinatown and The Long Goodbye to the Knives Out series

The private detective film will always be the slinkiest and sexiest of thriller subgenres – minus the strictures and/or corruption of police procedure, crime-solving can feel as alluringly shadowy and illicit as the crime itself. Relatively few of us have ever encountered, let alone hired, a private eye; far more of us, I’d wager, have at some point entertained the fantasy that we’d be quite good at the job ourselves.

Newly out on Amazon Prime, Philippe Lacôte’s Killer Heat isn’t exactly a classic entry in the Pi canon. Based on a Jo Nesbø short story and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a moody detective investigating a sordid love triangle involving twin brothers (Richard Madden and Richard Madden) against attractive Greek island scenery,...