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Technically it’s 21, because the Smothers Brothers did it twice. Sue us.

20 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

The 11th episode of Season One was the first double-hoster, featuring the duo behind Pete and Dud, a wildly popular British satirical odd couple.

19 Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss

Benjamin had hosted solo earlier in his career, but Prentiss’ career took off in its own right, the two had a CBS sitcom called He & She, and they became the first married couple to host SNL in 1980.

18 The Smothers Brothers

Tommy and Dick Smothers graced Studio 8H twice, in 1982 and 1983.

17 Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas

Moranis and Thomas rode their Canadian bro characters, Sctv’s McKenzie Brothers, to an SNL appearance in 1983, multiple commercials and their own movie.

16 Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges

The bros joined up for, among other things, a moderate-to-severely homophobic sketch where a guy comes in for a massage...

The Gold Standard is a Gold Derby series where we speak to legendary figures in Hollywood who take us through their award-worthy greatest hits. Here, Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominee Christina Ricci talks about her most iconic roles, including her current role as Misty Quigley on Showtime's Yellowjackets. Watch the video below.

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Ricci made her film debut at the age of 9 in the 1990 Orion Pictures comedy alongside Cher, Winona Ryder, and Bob Hoskins. In the film directed by Richard Benjamin, Ricci plays Kate Flax, the youngest daughter of Rachel (Cher), an unconventional single mother who relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963.

I remember being flown to Boston for my final audition, meeting Cher and Winona in the production office, and then going and having an audition with them. Noni [Ryder] and I talked about sharks because I have a lifelong fear of sharks,...

We’ve discussed three of Michael Crichton’s biggest adaptations with Congo, Sphere, and of course Jurassic Park but we also covered a bit more of the man and his career in the sections about the stories themselves. While the wunderkind could write novels and screenplays, create TV shows, and even program his video game releases, he wasn’t given the chance to direct often. While he has some fun ones like Runaway and Coma, he also has some genuinely great ones like The Great Train Robbery and Looker. While I enjoy all of those, I think one that is fun, good, and actually really important to pop culture is Westworld. It would invariably lead to Jurassic Park and be more of a precursor to The Terminator franchise than it gets credit for as well as a TV series that I think we can all agree ran on for too long.

Clint Eastwood is American cinema royalty, and everyone loves his mean, squinting standoff in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly to his gravelly voice in Dirty Harry. He’s not just an actor but a brand, and like many legends of his caliber, Eastwood has seen towering highs and inexplicable lows.

But here’s the thing: the ones who soar the highest, crash with the loudest thud, and that’s what happened with the actor in the 1980s. Find out why Eastwood’s promising movie underperformed and what chaos ensued behind the curtains.

Creative differences in the Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood starrer City Heat Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds in City Heat | Credits: The Malpaso Company

The early ‘80s were somehow a strange and experimental time for Clint Eastwood. The actor had already cemented himself as a leading man who could carry movies like Magnum Force and High Plains Drifter.

Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend but even actors and directors of his stature have had their share of missteps. Eastwood's best roles represent truly seminal characters in cinema history. His worst, however, are no better than any others. Well, maybe better than John Travolta, who has a full seven total failures with a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes. According to that same website, Eastwood's worst film, with a lowly 13% Rt score, is 1955's "Revenge of the Creature," followed by 1980's "Any Which Way You Do."

His third worst, according to the Tomatometer, is 1984's "City Heat," and it seems Roger Ebert would be in violent agreement with this ranking. In fact, the celebrated critic would likely argue that "City Heat" deserves to be the lowest-rated of all Eastwood's projects, as he wrote a scathing review of the film upon its release in which he seemed genuinely upset that the...

Bringing two movie stars together to do a buddy action flick has been one of Hollywood's greatest traditions. The appeal of these movies is watching personalities butt heads with each other until differences lead to a genuine comradery in the end. "48 Hrs," "Lethal Weapon," "Hot Fuzz" and "The Nice Guys" are but a few examples of the kinds of chaotic screen duos that we still talk about today. You would think that a gangster buddy flick starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds would be more fondly remembered, but it currently exists as an oddity that never took off in the way either of them wanted it to.

On paper, the 1930's-set "City Heat" sounds like a fun idea. Eastwood plays Speer, a Kansas City police Lieutenant who finds himself in quite a predicament when Reynold's Mike Murphy, a cop turned private eye, waltzes back in his life. The gist...

The term "underrated" can be a bit nebulous in its definition, and that's especially the case when referring to art forms like films. Some people might say it refers to movies that received lukewarm responses from audiences despite deserving far more love. Others could suggest the term applies to great movies that not enough people have seen or even heard about. For our purposes here, we're going to take a little from column A and a little from column B to create something of a primer on great, underrated crime thrillers.

Of course, that leads us to having to define what exactly counts as a crime thriller. At its most basic (and obvious), a crime thriller -- a subset of the much larger thriller genre of which there are plenty of exquisite examples -- is an emotionally propulsive story with a criminal act at its center. Audiences are witness to...

In the early- to mid-1970s, a number of prominent filmmakers found modest success with star-studded whodunnits. In 1972, Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in a splendid adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's intricately plotted play "Sleuth." A year later, Herbert Ross directed the wickedly clever "The Last of Sheila," a mystery concocted by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, and featuring such marquee names as James Coburn, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin, Raquel Welch, and James Mason. Then in 1974, moviegoers got a double dose of Agatha Christie with Sidney Lumet's "Murder on the Orient Express", and Peter Collinson's "And Then There Were None".

There was no cultural development driving this sudden spate of whodunnits; it was just a reminder that people love to watch a bunch of great actors get thrown into the same location where foul play has been committed, and then try to work out...

When Jim Nabors found out that his Gomer Pyle character from The Andy Griffith Show was getting a spin-off in which the filling station attendant becomes a U.S. Marine, he researched how to act like a young recruit. “I started visiting Marine bases in Southern California,” Nabors told the Chicago Tribune, as reported by MeTV. “I studied training manuals as though the drill instructor were really looking over my shoulder.”

Getting advice from actual Marines makes sense. But Nabors also got some unexpected training from the guy who played Barney Fife, the deputy who carried a bullet in his pocket because he couldn’t be trusted with a loaded pistol. “I had to learn how to handle a rifle,” Nabors revealed. “You'll never guess who gave me pointers — Don Knotts, good old Barney Fife from the Griffith Show. Don was an army drill instructor during World War II and...

Quick LinksWhat is The Last of Sheila About?Sondheim and Perkins' Script Adds Layers to the Typical WhodunitThe Last of Sheila is An Absolute Must-Watch For Whodunit Fans

Whodunits have been a popular mystery subgenre for decades. From Clue to Knives Out, audiences love to follow the clues and find a killer for themselves. The Last of Sheila, produced and directed by Herbert Ross, is a '70s-era gem that unfortunately has been sorely underrated. The movie has all the makings of a classic whodunit, but one of the most interesting parts of the film is that it was co-written by one of cinema's greatest killers.

The Last of Sheila features Sheila (Yvonne Romain) and her husband, Clinton Greene (James Coburn) who are causing a scene at a party. Sheila leaves and a car pulls out of nowhere, ripping down the road. Sheila is killed, and the driver takes a...

Stanley R. Jaffe, the Oscar-winning producer and studio executive known for films such as “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Fatal Attraction,” has died at his home in Rancho Mirage at the age of 84. His daughter, Betsy Jaffe, confirmed his passing.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, Jaffe was the son of Columbia Pictures chairman Leo Jaffe, who received the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1979. He pursued a career in the entertainment industry, earning an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1962 before starting at Seven Arts as an assistant to co-founder Eliot Hyman.

Jaffe’s early success as a producer came with “Goodbye, Columbus” (1969), based on Philip Roth’s novella. The film, directed by Larry Peerce and starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, became a hit for Paramount and led Gulf & Western president Charles Bluhdorn to offer Jaffe a leadership role at the studio.

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Stanley R. Jaffe, the veteran producer and studio executive who won the Best Picture Oscar for “Kramer vs. Kramer,” has died at his Rancho Mirage home at the age of 84, according to his daughter, Betsy.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, Jaffe was the son of Columbia Pictures chairman Leo Jaffe, who received the Film Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award in 1978. The younger Jaffe decided from an early age to follow his father in showbiz and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1962 before getting his start at Seven Arts as an assistant to studio co-founder Eliot Hyman.

Jaffe’s first film as a producer was the 1969 romantic drama “Goodbye, Columbus,” which stars Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw as an army vet who ends up in a turbulent relationship with the daughter of an entrepreneur who struck it rich.

Directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth,...

Stanley R. Jaffe, the producer and studio executive who won an Oscar in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer and shepherded other acclaimed films like Fatal Attraction, Goodbye, Columbus and The Bad News Bears, died Monday. He was 84.

Jaffe died peacefully at his home in Rancho Mirage, his daughter Betsy Jaffe announced.

A son of Leo Jaffe, an executive who spent more than a half-century at Columbia Pictures, Jaffe also received an Academy Award nomination for Fatal Attraction (1987), which he produced alongside Sherry Lansing during their fruitful eight-year partnership at Jaffe-Lansing Productions.

At age 29, Jaffe was named executive vp and COO of Paramount Pictures in October 1969, becoming the youngest head of a major studio in Hollywood history. Before he departed as president in August 1971 to return to independent producing, he greenlighted such films as Love Story (1970) and The Godfather (1972), projects also championed by chief of production Robert Evans.

Jaffe returned to the...

It is probably no accident that among Matthew Shear’s acting credits are no less than four movies directed by New York filmmaker extraordinaire Noah Baumbach, or that one of his most recent is another angst-ridden Jewish comedy, Between the Temples. Clearly he has spent his downtime on those sets soaking up the atmosphere and the comedic beats in preparation for his writing-directing debut Fantasy Life, premiering at SXSW today in the Narrative Feature competition.

Assembling a dream cast of actors who know how to deliver this kind of New York Jewish-centric character-driven comedy that Woody Allen trademarked and others like Baumbach have also travelled in so successfully, Shear actually seems to me to be more of a modern-day Richard Benjamin who also turned into a fine filmmaker in his own right. That seems to be the trajectory here except Shear is clearly cribbing from his own life and experience with depression,...

Since 1975 nearly a thousand hosts have graced the stage at Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center for “Saturday Night Live.”

Actors, comedians, musicians and even politicians have taken the stage to make America laugh on Saturday night for 50 seasons. Twenty five of these hosts have been inducted into the “Five Timers Club.” The club was first introduced during Tom Hanks’ 1990 monologue, featuring Steve Martin, Elliott Gould and Paul Simon.

During Martin Short’s December 2024 appearance, several Five Timers Club members popped up on the show to welcome him into the club, including Emma Stone, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig and more, to give him the ceremonial robe.

Alec Baldwin has hosted the show 17 times, the most in the series’ history, with Martin, Hanks, Buck Henry and John Goodman following close behind.

As the show celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, we have rounded up every person who has hosted the sketch show.

Noah Pritzker’s Ex-Husbands is about how things end: relationships, marriages, chapters in lives, and lives themselves. It’s also about things not ending—the way marriages and marital problems roll on and parents remain flawed, fallible people. And whichever side of this equation Ex-Husbands is musing on, it’s full of memorably mellow humor.

New York dentist Peter Pearce (Griffin Dunne) is nonplussed to learn that his father, Simon (Richard Benjamin), has decided to file for a divorce after some six decades of marriage. Delivered in a disarmingly matter-of-fact manner, their conversation sets the comedic tone for the rest of the film. Ex-Husbands is the sort of funny movie that has few actual jokes. It makes us laugh just by having characters spell out the absurdities they’ve encountered in the simplest terms, like a man in his 80s talking about how excited he is to get back in the dating game.

Warner Bros. has released 31 full-length feature films across the company’s YouTube channels, per Variety. Of the 31 films, one is 1984’s action-crime-comedy City Heat. The movie stars cinema icons Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds and is available to stream in its entirety on Warner Bros. Classics YouTube channel.City Heat also stars Jane Alexander (The Ring), Madeline Kahn (Clue), Richard Roundtree, and Robert Davi.

Released on Dec. 7, 1984, City Heat earned $38.3 million against a budget of $25 million. The film was directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Blake Edwards and Joseph Stinson.

The official description of City Heat reads: “When a hotshot cop and a wise-guy detective get together, the heat is on! Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds star as a by-the-book police lieutenant and a fast-talking private detective in Depression-era Kansas City who must work together to unravel a knot of underworld extortion, kidnapping and murder in City Heat. Once partners,...

Social media is inundated with Family Guy memes, and a particular one involving The Godfather resurfaces occasionally.

Seth MacFarlane, creator and star of the long-running animated series, recently took to social media to explain the origins of the “it insists upon itself” meme that fans quote.

“Since this has been trending, here’s a fun fact,” MacFarlane shared on X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter. “‘It insists upon itself’ was a criticism my college film history professor used to explain why he didn’t think The Sound of Music was a great film. First-rate teacher, but I never quite followed that one.”

In Season 4, Episode 27, titled “Untitled Griffin Family History,” Peter Griffin shares with his family that he did not care for The Godfather.

“How can you even say that, Dad?” Peter’s son Chris asks.

Lois adds, “Peter, it’s like the perfect movie.”

“And this is what everyone always says,...

"As you guys get older, you're gonna have to work harder to find time for each other – but it is well worth the effort." Greenwich has debuted an official trailer for an indie awkward dramredy called Ex-Husbands, arriving for release starting in February 2025. This initially premiered back at the 2023 San Sebastian Film Festival and toured to many other fests including last year's Palm Springs & Sarasota Film Festivals. Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette were last seen together in the film After Hours, the 1985 dark comedy from Martin Scorsese, though they're time together in this new one is brief. When Peter Pearce flies to Tulum, crashing his son Nick's bachelor party, Peter realizes he's not the only Pearce man in crisis. The indie film stars Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette, along with Richard Benjamin, Miles Heizer, & James Norton. Most of this takes place in Mexico where Dunne messes with his son's party and his friends.

Author Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22 ironically created the perfect example of the very paradox with which it shares its namesake. The book etched a legacy that demanded further exploration through future adaptations, and yet, that same legacy was nearly impossible to uphold, begging the question of whether any adaptation could truly do justice to its original predecessor. Enter director Mike Nichols, who (with the help of screenwriter Buck Henry) translated Heller's savage critique of war and bureaucracy from page to screen in 1970.

The film adaptation of Catch-22 boasts an ensemble cast that includes Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins (of Psycho fame), Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, and Orson Welles. Under the direction of Nichols, these actors deliver what's still considered by many to be one of the darkest and most compelling World War II satires ever brought to the silver screen.

Related Every Clint Eastwood War Movie,...

As Hollywood adjusted to the whims and desires of Baby Boomer moviegoers heading into the 1970s, studios found themselves making fewer and fewer Westerns. Long one of the most reliably profitable genres, younger viewers who'd come of age rebelling against much of what their parents held dear were turned off by this continued mythologizing of how America pursued its manifest destiny. They rejected John Wayne, but turned out for Italian-produced Spaghetti Westerns, especially those starring Clint Eastwood. As a result, the only semi-traditional Hollywood Westerns Boomers would embrace tended to feature Eastwood in the starring role (e.g. "High Plains Drifter" and "The Outlaw Josey Wales").

One notable exception to the Eastwood rule was Michael Crichton's sci-fi/Western blend "Westworld." The 1973 film stars Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as a pair of buddies who take a vacation to an adult amusement park called Delos to live out their dreams...

Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired Ex-Husbands, a dramedy starring Oscar nominee Griffin Dunne, which the company will release in approximately 50 markets in the U.S. and Canada and on home entertainment platforms early next year.

Written and directed by Noah Pritzker, Ex-Husbands follows Peter Pearce (Dunne), a Manhattan dentist wryly floundering in a late midlife crisis, as he tries to stay close with his directionless sons and chart a new course in life. Peter is stunned when his elderly father (Richard Benjamin) tells him he’s decided to divorce Peter’s mother after 65 years with the unlikely prospect of taking one last shot of finding true love. Six years later, with his father in a nursing home, Peter is decorating his own bachelor pad, finding himself out on his ear at the behest of his wife (Rosanna Arquette) of 35 years. His eldest, under achieving, self-defeating...

As huge as Cher is behind the mic, she also had one hell of a movie career, even earning two Oscar nominations and a win. Cher was surprisingly talented on the screen but she also had several big-time directors supporting her like Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and George Miller. Of course, as with any actress, Cher ran into some real jerks on the set…and she’s not afraid to name names.

As far as who made Cher want to turn back time and reconsider which contracts she signed, she cited two in particular: “There are only two directors I didn’t like: Peter Bogdanovich and the guy from The Muppets,” referring to Frank Oz. “I actually got the guy from The Muppets fired. I said, ‘Either you’re going or I’m going,’ which is a shame because he’s a really good director, but he had a thing about me.

In the 1980s, Cher appeared in a number of films that have since gone on to be regarded as classics. The Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck, and, of course, Mask, the true story of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, a young man with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia who was portrayed by the phenomenal Eric Stoltz. Cher played his overprotective mother in the movie, which earned her the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress. However, things behind-the-scenes were no fun according to the actress, who recently called director Peter Bogdanovich an "a**hole."

Speaking with The Times to promote her new book, Cher: The Memoir Part 1, the singer/actress slammed the late director, who passed away in 2022 due to complications from Parkinson's disease. "He was an a**hole. He was not nice to the girls in the film and he was so f**king arrogant," she told the outlet before adding for emphasis, "I really,...

Originally published in 1897, Bram Stokers Dracula became one of the most important horror novels ever conceived, introducing arguably one of the most prolific villains of all time, and he then moved on to the best Dracula movies for over a century. Dracula remains iconic thanks to cinema, and the debate over which interpretation did the greatest justice to the Lord of all Vampires will likely last forever. Over a century since the novel was first published, Dracula remains one of the most enduring monsters of all time and the contenders for best Dracula movie exemplify why.

The best Dracula movies have a strong mixture of charisma, potent sex appeal, and a timeless Machiavellian stereotype that continues to entertain and frighten fans of vampire flicks related to Stoker's Dracula novel. Dracula continues to get the silver screen treatment over 100 years after Bram Stoker immortalized the character in his 1897 novel. As far as movie villains go,...

The Criterion Channel’s at its best when October rolls around, consistently engaging in the strongest horror line-ups of any streamer. 2024 will bring more than a few iterations of their spooky programming: “Horror F/X” highlights the best effects-based scares through the likes of Romero, Cronenberg, Lynch, Tobe Hooper, James Whale; “Witches” does what it says on the tin (and inside the tin is the underrated Italian anthology film featuring Clint Eastwood cuckolded by Batman); “Japanese Horror” runs the gamut of classics; a Stephen King series puts John Carpenter and The Lawnmower Man on equal playing ground; October’s Criterion Editions are Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Hunter, Häxan; a made-for-tv duo includes Carpenter’s underrated Someone’s Watching Me!; meanwhile, The Wailing and The Babadook stream alongside a collection of Cronenberg and Stephanie Rothman titles.

Otherwise, Winona Ryder and Raúl Juliá are given retrospectives, as are filmmakers Arthur J. Bressan Jr. and Lionel Rogosin.

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

This September, we’re celebrating Back to School Night with four midnight movies that aren’t just academically themed but also teach the lessons essential to understanding this school of cinema.

First, read the spoiler-free bait — a weird and wonderful pick from any time in film and why we think it’s worth memorializing. After you’ve watched the movie, come back for the bite — a breakdown of all the spoiler-y moments you’d want to unpack when exiting a theater.

The Bait: Happy New World Pictures Day!

“It Gets Bad On Friday The 13th,” reads the inscription in an ancient book with enough power to rule the world. “But It Gets Worse On Saturday The 14th!”

That’s all you really need to know before watching writer/director Howard R. Cohen...

Jay Kanter, agent to superstar Hollywood clients including Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly, died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 97.

His son, Adam Kanter of Independent Artist Group, remembered his father as someone who conducted his entire career with “integrity and kindness.”

Kanter also inspired Jack Lemmon’s character in Billy Wilder’s classic comedy “The Apartment.”

Jay Kanter served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and started out working at McA, with mentoring help from Lew Wasserman. At just 22 years old, he was sent to pick up Brando at the train station and they became friends, with Brando becoming his longtime client.

He went on to represent stars including Warren Beatty, Gene Kelly and Ronald Reagan.

Kanter relocated to London when McA bought Universal, where he oversaw production for the studio in Europe. When the studio shut down European operations, he founded a production...

As Pawn Stars continues, the show's blend of comedy and drama keeps audiences engaged and rooting for the colorful cast of characters. Chumlee, once a comedic foil, has evolved into a trusted expert on the show while other cast members handle negotiations and development. The mainstream popularity of Pawn Stars has led to a surge in celebrity appearances, but some viewers feel the show has lost its initial authenticity.

Since its 2009 debut, the reality television series Pawn Stars, which follows the business dealings and interpersonal conflicts at a family-owned Las Vegas pawnshop, became the History Channels highest-rated show and the second most popular reality show on television, behind Jersey Shore.

The shows primary setting, the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, was opened in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1989 by Pawn Stars patriarch Richard Old Man Harrison and son Rick Harrison, who jointly operated the store until the elder Harrison died...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most talked about and controversial topics of our time as it is quickly being developed by organizations like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. People are afraid that it will take their jobs and in some cases it already has, it was also a big part of the 2023 writers and actors strike but don’t forget that AI has also been the topic of some of the greatest films ever made more recently it became the main villain in Tom Cruise‘s action-adventure film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1. So, we compiled a list of the 10 best films featuring AI that show us artificial intelligence in different lights including villainous and sympathetic roles.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence Credit – Warner Bros.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a sci-fantasy film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on a 1969 short story titled Supertoys Last All Summer Long by author Brian Aldiss,...

Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green, who played Willow and Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, recently reunited to celebrate Green's birthday. Green and Hannigan have previously worked together outside of Buffy, including an episode of How I Met Your Mother and the film My Stepmother Is an Alien. The chemistry between Willow and Oz on Buffy has left a lasting legacy, with hopes for another on-screen reunion between the actors.

The stars of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green, have a mini-reunion. In the early seasons of Buffy, Willow (Hannigan) and Oz (Green) were one of the most popular Buffy couples. Even though Oz exited the show by season 4, while Willow entered into a fan-favorite relationship with Tara Maclay (Amber Benson), Oz remained one of the more fondly remembered and underutilized characters in the entire Buffyverse.

Recently, Hannigan and Green recently united to celebrate Green's birthday.

Shortly after the end of his parents’ 35-year marriage, writer-director Noah Pritzker found comfort in the written word. What resulted is now known as Ex-Husbands, a drama-comedy about Griffin Dunne’s Peter Pearce, a New York dentist who’s still reeling from his parents’ divorce six years earlier. Peter must now also come to terms with his dying father (Richard Benjamin) and his own impending divorce from Maria (Rosanna Arquette).

Serving as the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s closing night film on Jan. 13, Pritzker’s second feature follows Peter to Tulum, Mexico, where he reluctantly crashes the bachelor party that his youngest son, Mickey (Miles Heizer), organized for his oldest son, Nick (James Norton). Together, the trio must find a way through their own individual problems as their family begins anew. Pritzker recently spoke with THR about working out his own familial struggles on the page and screen and...

The featured monster in Damien Leone's "Terrifier" movies is Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton), a perhaps-supernatural Halloween spirit who appears every now and again to torture, mutilate, and murder people for no reason other than he seems to greatly enjoy it. Art is a creative murderer, happy to slice victims up in a fashion that communicates a certain effort and passion for the act. 

The character quite clearly taps into a widespread fear of clowns that seemingly persists throughout the modern media. Back in the 1950s, famous clowns like Bozo (Pinto Colvig) and Clarabell were common, and clowns appeared in TV commercials regularly, often presented to children as whimsical vagrants or playful weirdos whose antics were meant to inspire laughter. Something about the face eyebrows and pasted-on smiles, however, seemingly terrified and traumatized a generation; it's no coincidence that Stephen King, a child of the '50s, wrote...

You could be forgiven for feeling as though you’ve stepped back in time while watching Noah Pritzker’s middling, middle-class, midlife crisis comedy. There’s a sweet-hearted but dated dad rock quality to this tale that revolves around the men in a single family and their relationship woes that transports you to the mid-90s era of Billy Crystal vehicles.

The plot revolves around the family of Peter Pearce (Griffen Dunne), who, in a prologue-of-sorts, is seen trying to convince his elderly father (Richard Benjamin) not to divorce his mother, while his older son Nick (James Norton) is enjoying a meet-cute moment with his co-worker Thea (Rachel Zeiger-Haag). Fast-forward six years and Peter is the one with no ring on his finger, his father’s intentions to “play the field” for 25 years have crashed against the reality of dementia and Nick is about to tie the knot with Thea.

The Mill is a sci-fi mystery drama film directed by Sean King O’Grady from a screenplay by Jeffrey David Thomas. The Hulu film follows the story of a businessman who wakes up in an open-air prison cell with an old grist mill. He’s forced to work there but now he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child. The Mill stars Lil Rel Howrey in the lead role with Pat Healy and Karen Obilom starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved The Mill here are some similar movies you could watch next.

The Belko Experiment Credit – Orion Pictures

Synopsis: Welcome to Belko Industries, a normally calm workplace that’s about to devolve into a blood-soaked battle royale and a shocking case study of bone-crunching horror! When 80 Americans are suddenly locked in their office building in Bogotá, a mysterious voice on the intercom orders them...

After a world premiere at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and its North American premiere over the weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Noah Pritzker’s (Quitters) second film goes for a mix of Woody Allen, John Cassavetes, Paul Mazursky, Noah Baumbach and other white male filmmakers, past and present, who enjoy basking in the midlife marital crisis in which many guys find themselves trapped. While not on the level of those acclaimed filmmakers, in this case, Pritzker manages to cast his net wider into an early-, mid-, and late-life crisis over three generations of the men in the Pearce clan.

The result is an engaging indie exercise that’s for sale to any distributor who finds promise in a premise that might be a tough sell for mainstream buyers despite a game cast that lifts it up a notch or two. Art houses would seem to be its theatrical future,...

Noah Pritzker’s San Sebastian competition feature ‘Ex-Husbands’ stars Griffin Dunne and James Norton

Luxbox has picked up international sales rights to Noah Pritzker’s San Sebastian competition feature Ex-Husbands and has sold the film to Avalon in Spain and September Films in Benelux.

UTA is handling North American rights for Pritzker’s second feature about three generations of men in the same family simultaneously experiencing marital disappointment.

Griffin Dunne stars as a man floundering after his father (Richard Benjamin) leaves his mother after 65 years of marriage and his own wife (Rosanna Arquette) leaves him after thirty-five. With the wedding...

Perhaps deciding that the relationship tribulations of white, coastal-American men of medium-to-high class-privilege levels — which were well-served on the big screen in previous decades — have been rather overlooked of late, writer-director Noah Pritzker goes back to the well of male midlife neurosis for his sophomore feature and dredges up not quite enough to fill up one amiable indie dramedy. Powered largely by the affability of Griffin Dunne playing a reluctant pending-divorcé whose aging father has recently left his aging mother and whose adult son is having woman troubles of his own, “Ex-Husbands” which world-premieres at the San Sebastian Film Festival, is likable enough in intention, but flounders en route to its destination. Not unlike its befuddled protagonists, who can’t seem to translate meaning well into doing well.

We meet Peter Pearce (Dunne), a New York dentist, in the Walter Reade Theater in New York’s Lincoln Center — like...

Noah Pritzker’s bittersweet father and sons tale Ex-Husbands (aka Men Of Divorce) world premieres in Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday as one of the few U.S. productions to be accompanied by its cast this year thanks to its SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.

Griffin Dunne co-stars as a New York dentist who is reeling from his wife’s demand for a divorce after 35 years of marriage, opposite James Norton and Miles Heizer as his sons.

In search of some respite, he unwittingly travels to the Mexican resort of Tulum the same weekend as his oldest son’s bachelor party, where it emerges that he is not the only one suffering a life crisis.

The mainly Spanish press gave the warm-hearted picture – exploring family bonds and questions about love, life and death – an enthusiastic reception at a packed 8.30 am screening on Sunday morning ahead of a gala screening this evening.

Former “Saturday Night Live” star, Jane Curtin, was taken by surprise by the longstanding show’s humourless early episodes.

Curtin, who served as one of the original “SNL” cast members, recently rewatched the award-winning comedy show’s earliest sketches with her family and was shocked by the absent laughter.

“We were sent the five year compilation video of ‘Saturday Night Live”s first five years a few years ago, and I gave one to my daughter,” Curtin, 75, recalled to People. “We were out visiting her daughter one Christmas, and her husband said, ‘Have you ever watched any of these? And I said, ‘God, I haven’t seen them in a long time.’

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“He said, ‘would you mind if we watch one?’ And I said, ‘No, great! Pick one!'” she continued,...

Jurassic Park premiered on June 11, 1993, and not many knew it then, but the film would later turn into a multi-billion dollar franchise. Following the triumph of the 1993 movie, two sequels were made, which were slightly less successful but did well enough at the box office to warrant video games, comic books, theme park rides, and animated series based on the films. Plus, 14 years following Jurassic Park III, a sequel trilogy, Jurassic World, starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, kicked off. However, at the end of the day, the franchise's roots could be traced back to another science fiction movie that used a theme park as its backdrop.

Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg used the basis of the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton to create the story for the first movie. In fact, Crichton was hired as one of the co-writers for the film, and after its...

Oscar-nominated producer Lawrence Turman died Saturday at the Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital. He was 96. He had a stellar career not only as a producer of such seminal films as The Graduate (1967), The Great White Hope (1970), American History X (1998) and many more in a producing career that lasted six decades, but he also took a significant turn when he left his partnership with producer David Foster to head the prestigious Peter Stark Producing Program at USC in 1991, an association that continued until his retirement just two years ago.

His son, John Turman, confirmed the death to Deadline. “Our father Lawrence Turman passed away late yesterday,” he said. “It’s sad, but he had a long and storied life, and it’s the passing of an era.” He added that the MPTF is planning a memorial service as well as USC at a later date.

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Lawrence Turman, the principled Oscar-nominated producer of The Graduate who was behind other films including The Great White Hope, Pretty Poison, American History X and the last movie Judy Garland ever made, has died. He was 96.

Turman died Saturday at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his family announced.

A former agent, he and producer David Foster began a 20-year partnership in 1974, and the first film to come out of the Turman Foster Co. was Stuart Rosenberg’s The Drowning Pool (1975), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

They went their separate ways in 1991 when Turman left to begin an association heading the esteemed Peter Stark Producing Program at USC that lasted until his retirement in 2021.

However, Turman wasn’t done producing, and in 1996 he and John Morrissey launched the Turman-Morrissey Co., which made the Jamie Foxx-starring Booty Call (1997); Tony Kaye’s American History X...

Norman Steinberg, the Emmy-winning screenwriter who teamed with Mel Brooks on Blazing Saddles and My Favorite Year and wrote for the Michael Keaton-starring Mr. Mom and Johnny Dangerously, has died. He was 83.

Steinberg died March 15 at his Hudson Valley home in upstate New York, his family announced.

Steinberg also wrote Yes, Giorgio (1982), starring Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti in his feature acting debut, and co-wrote Funny About Love (1990), directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Gene Wilder and Christine Lahti.

The Brooklyn native and former lawyer won his Emmy very early in his career, for his work on a Flip Wilson variety show.

His TV résumé also included developing Marlo Thomas’ 1974 landmark kids special, Free to Be … You & Me (he brought Brooks in on that); serving as a writer and executive producer on the first two seasons of CBS’ Cosby; and creating the short-lived CBS sitcoms Doctor, Doctor and Teech.

Raquel Welch, the big-screen star of the 1960s and ’70s who gained fame in movies including Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C., Myra Breckinridge and many others, died today after a brief illness. She was 82.

Her death was confirmed by her reps at Media 4 Management.

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Welch’s career spanned more than 50 years, 30 films and scores of TV series and appearances, including about a dozen visits to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson spanning two decades. She also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Imagen Foundation in 2001.

From left: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence in ‘Fantastic Voyage’ (Everett Collection)

Born Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, Welch’s family moved to San Diego when she was a toddler. She attended San Diego State on a theater arts scholarship and got her start as a local TV weathercaster before starting to...

Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like “One Million Years B.C.” and “Three Musketeers,” died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a brief illness, her manager confirmed to Variety. She was 82.

She came onto the movie scene in 1966 with the sci-fi film “Fantastic Voyage” and the prehistoric adventure “One Million Years B.C.,” the latter of which established Welch as a sex symbol. The actor went on to appear in the controversial adaptation of Gore Vidal’s “Myra Beckrinridge,” “Kansas City Bomber” and Richard Lester’s delightful romps “The Three Musketeers” (1973), for which she won a Golden Globe, and “The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge” (1974). She was one of the first women to play the lead role — not the romantic interest — in a Western, 1971 revenge tale “Hannie Caulder” — an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” (2003), according to the director.

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Sitcom mastermind Kenya Barris knows his way around the witty rat-a-tat, as a writer and an occasional director. At the helm of his first feature, the Black-ish creator choreographs a who’s who of comic talent and lets them shine — key among them Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jonah Hill, who shares screenwriting credit with Barris. In their L.A. story, the 35-year-old son of affluent white Jews and the daughter of affluent Black Muslims fall in love. Let the comedy of discomfort begin.

You People revels in tipping sacred cows (the Holocaust, slavery, liberals, Black Lives Matter), and yet it fits quite comfortably within a time-tested rom-com formula. The Netflix comedy, receiving a limited theatrical release a week before its Jan. 27 streaming debut, abounds with well-etched characters, a good number of them lovably annoying or just plain ridiculous. It comes on like gangbusters and keeps generating belly laughs well past the halfway point,...

In a nutshell the brilliantly hilarious, pertinent, and wickedly smart new movie, You People is in some ways a new age Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, that landmark 1967 Tracy-Hepburn-Poitier Oscar winning comedy about the effect an interracial relationship has on the parents of the young couple. Of course back then it was a major social issue and even had trouble booking some southern theatres. The idea was switched in a Bernie Mac/Ashton Kutcher 2005 remake that all those years later did not have the same impact. With anti-semitism and racism back on the rise in 2023 America however the concept of an interracial/interfaith marriage, Black and White, Jew and Muslim, could not be more timely or needed, and in co-star Jonah Hill’s and director Kenya Barris’ whipsmart screenplay is also a knock-you-out-of- your-seat laugh riot. Ironically I saw it this week at its World Premiere at the same...

Bitchy, Bickering Bitches.

It’s been a pretty wild December, with us covering off-kilter films like the much-maligned Batman & Robin and the not-as-bad-as-you-think Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings. Now for a special holiday treat, we’re covering Herbert Ross‘ 1973 mystery The Last of Sheila, which not only inspired Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (review) and Glass Onion (review), but was also the only screenwriting collaboration between famous queers Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim!

In the film, movie producer Clinton Greene (James Coburn) invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht a year after his wife Sheila (Yvonne Romaine) was killed in a hit-and-run accident. While the plan is to have them play a scavenger hunt mystery game, it comes with a hidden agenda: exposing their worst secrets and possibly revealing one of them as Sheila’s killer. Is it Alice the actress (Raquel Welch), her...

Albert Brenner, a production designer and/or art director on such films as Bullitt, The Turning Point, Pretty Woman and Backdraft who racked up five career Oscar nominations, has died. He was 96. The Mirisch Agency told Deadline he died December 8 in his sleep.

A 2003 recipient of the Art Directors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Brenner scored Best Art Direction/Set Decoration Academy Award nominations for Beaches (1988), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), California Suite (1978), The Turning Point (1977) and The Sunshine Boys (1975).

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Born on February 17, 1926, in New York City, Brenner served in the Air Force during World War II. His training later at the Yale School of Drama proved invaluable when...