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Get ready for a packed week on Paramount+ as the streaming service rolls out an impressive lineup of movies starting September 1. From spine-chilling horror classics to gripping thrillers and heartfelt dramas, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Whether you’re in the mood for a sci-fi mystery, a slasher flick, or a romantic comedy, this week’s additions promise to keep you glued to your screen.

With over 100 titles dropping, including iconic franchises and hidden gems, Paramount+ is kicking off the month with a cinematic bang. The week features a mix of beloved favorites and lesser-known films, spanning decades and genres. Here’s a detailed look at every movie...

Here at JoBlo, we love the eighties. Heck, we even have a Facebook page and a YouTube channel called Loving the 80s— that’s how much we’re obsessed with the decade. However, when you think about all your favorite eighties movies, I’m willing to bet that for the majority of them, there’s a song that immediately comes to mind. That’s because the 80s were the heyday of movie soundtracks. Nowadays, movies just don’t have super popular songs associated with them the way they used to (which is why the Best Original Song category at the Oscars is so horrendous). It’s a shame, because there...

10 Demi Moore movies ranked from worst to best(Photo Credit –Instagram)

Over the years, Demi Moore has emerged as one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood. After a two-year hiatus, Moore returned to the spotlight with immense acclaim for her performance in the award-winning film The Substance. Let us revisit 10 of Demi Moore’s movies, ranked from worst to best per their Rotten Tomatoes score.

10. Striptease Streaming On: Prime Video, Apple TV+ Rt Score: 13% Director: Andrew Bergman

Striptease marked a milestone movie for Demi Moore’s career as the actress received a hefty salary of $12.5 million for her role. While her salary became the talk of the town, the...

Bollywood remakes of Hollywood films you didn’t know about. (Photo Credit – YouTube)

Here’s a comprehensive look at 8 Bollywood remakes of Hollywood films that might surprise you, featuring a diverse range of adaptations that have left an indelible mark on Indian cinema.

1. Sarkar (2005) – Remake of The Godfather (1972) IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 Director: Ram Gopal Varma Streaming On: Prime Video

Plot: Directed by Ram Gopal Varma and starring Amitabh Bachchan in a career-defining role, Sarkar is often cited as a loose adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary The Godfather. While not a scene-by-scene remake, the film explores themes of power, loyalty, and family dynamics within the murky world of Indian politics.

Jacob's Ladder (1990), directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Tim Robbins, arrives from StudioCanal on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray on October 13 in a Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD SteelBook. This psychological horror follows a Vietnam War veteran haunted by visions as he seeks the truth about his past and the fate of his unit. The releases feature a New 4K restoration of the film. Featuring DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1 and optional English Sdh subtitles. StudioCanal have only announced one extra, which is a new documentary, "On The Rungs Of Jacob's Ladder", by Didier Allouch with contributions from Adrian Lyne, Tim Robbins, and Bruce Joel Rubin. Release Contents: - New 4K Restoration of...

Joel Sill, a music supervisor for more than 150 movies, including such cinema classics as Easy Rider, Flashdance, Forrest Gump and An Officer and a Gentleman, passed away Aug. 23 at his home in Thousand Oaks after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 78.

Born in Santa Monica in 1946 to a musical family, Sill spent time as a teenager observing a young Phil Spector, who had been signed as a songwriter by Sill’s father, Lester Sill, as he was starting to build his career.

In 1967, after graduating from UCLA, Sill started work at Big-Three Music Publishing and eventually migrated to Dunhill Records where he produced the soundtrack for the 1969 film Easy Rider.

In his first professional milestone, Sill, then 24, was tasked with selecting the music for Dennis Hopper’s movie starring Peter Fonda at a time when the role of the music supervisor was not well established.

He packed Easy...

Erotic thrillers used to be big business. Explorers of late-night cable TV in the late '80s and throughout the '90s likely recall the cavalcade of nudity-infused neo-noirs that filled entire blocks of programming. Many of them starred Shannon Tweed. Because sex and sexuality hadn't yet been moved to the internet, erotic thrillers were vital for a generation exploring adult themes and sexual ideas, even if they were always presented as prurient. Erotic thrillers also proved to be big hits in Hollywood. Adrian Lyne made "9½ Weeks" in 1986 and "Fatal Attraction" in 1987, each of them enormous financial successes. Paul Verhoeven kicked the doors open wide with "Basic Instinct" in 1992, a film that made $353 million on a $49 million budget. Sex became a commercial powerhouse. 

In 1993, Paramount continued the trend with "Indecent Proposal," also a Lyne film, which dealt with the intersection of money and infidelity. In the film, Demi Moore...

The Cherry Lane Theatre, the historic Off-Broadway venue in New York City, will officially reopen this September, with a programming lineup that includes theater, film, comedy, and music events. As BroadwayWorld reported in 2023, the theatre was purchased by the film studio A24. The launch will kick off with a week of "Red Door Reopening" events from September 8-14, including the newly announced Sundays with Sofia, a series of film screenings hosted by celebrated director Sofia Coppola. The inaugural edition will be a showing of Adrian Lyne's Foxes, screening on September 14, followed by a block party. Other programming will be announced at a later time, but is expected to include multi-week theater productions, standup, film screenings, staged readings, and pop-up performances. Newly minted renovations include new seating,...

The Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre, now owned by A24, will reopen its doors in September, with plans to offer theatrical productions, film screenings and more.

The first official event will be Sundays with Sofia, a film screening series hosted by Sofia Coppola, which will also include a discussion afterwards. It kicks off Sept. 14 with a screening of Adrian Lyne’s Foxes and is expected to have additional events throughout the year.

The 167-seat theater will also include programming such as artist-led mainstage productions for multi-weeks runs, emerging talent presentations, including staged readings, standups and music performances, as well as well-known artists doing pop-up performances. The theater will also host events starting Sept. 8 in the leadup to Sundays with Sofia.

A24 is partnering with the team behind Frenchette, Le Rock and Le Veau to open a restaurant and bar, entitled Wild Cherry, at Cherry Lane.

The theater has also been renovated...

Celebrated UK film stills photographer David Appleby has died aged 77 at his home in Somerset.

London-born Appleby enjoyed a lifelong collaboration with filmmaker Alan Parker, with whom he first worked on Bugsy Malone, Parker’s first major feature film. They went on to work together on Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita and The Life Of David Gale.

Parker died in 2020.

Applebyalso shot stills for Ridley Scott’s debut featureThe Duellists, as well as 1492: Conquest Of Paradise, Kingdom Of Heaven and Robin Hood.

He was born in Wandsworth, London, in 1947, and developed an early passion for cinema and photography.

“Tell me you love me. You don’t have to mean it, but just say it.”

The old adage tells us that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Director John Polson adds age to this equation, asking if anything can be scarier than a teenage girl in love. His 2002 erotic thriller Swimfan places Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction within the walls of a modern high school and asks us to sympathize with a reckless young man.

Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford) is the star of his high school swim team anticipating a scholarship to Stanford and maybe a spot on the Olympic team. But as he’s preparing for an important meet, a new student splashes into his life. Wealthy and sophisticated, Madison (Erika Christensen) sets her sights on Ben and orchestrates a one night stand. When Ben chooses to stay with his girlfriend Amy (Shiri Appleby), Madison decides...

Gordon Gekko has (mostly) left the building. Michael Douglas made headlines over the weekend when he announced the he would be stepping back from acting during an appearance at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

"I have not worked since 2022 purposefully because I realized I had to stop," said the veteran actor and producer, who last appeared onscreen in 2023's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. "I had been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set. I have no real intentions of going back."

At the same time, Douglas acknowledged that — just like Sean Connery — he's going to be careful about never saying never again. "I say I’m not retired because if something special came up, I’d go back, but otherwise, no."

Douglas attended Karlovy Vary to screen a restored...

Jerry Bruckheimer, start your engines. The veteran producer's latest summer spectacle, F1: The Movie, races into theaters on Friday and is already expected to top the weekend box office courtesy of Brad Pitt's star power and the global popularity of the Formula 1 racing circuit.

Based on advanced looks, F1 also has the right stuff to appeal to Oscar voters — much like Bruckheimer's previous collaboration with director Joseph Kosinski, 2022's Top Gun: Maverick. That legacy sequel received six nominations, including Best Picture. That also happened to be Bruckheimer's first nod in a five-decade career.

"We got recognized for a terrific film and thanks to Tom Cruise, I'm here," the producer said at the time, adding: "I've been doing it for so long and haven't had the accolades from my peers. ... I finally got that which is kind of a completion for making movies for all these years."

While Top Gun: Maverick...

A promise made beneath cathedral oaks turns into a descent into terror in Bury Me When I’m Dead, which arrives on digital and VOD this 18 July. Writer-director Seabold Krebs delivers a gothic-tinged ghost story that fuses domestic tragedy with supernatural horror as Devon Terrell’s Henry struggles to honour his wife’s dying wish and unearths consequences darker than he could imagine.

When Catherine (Charlotte Hope) is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the couple retreats to her childhood estate. Henry swears to lay her to rest in a remote woodland clearing, but a secret liaison with their friend Rebecca (Makenzie Leigh) has him riven with guilt. Following Catherine’s sudden death, Henry abandons his vow, returning her body to the city under threat from her formidable father Gary. That final betrayal unleashes a sequence of increasingly disturbing events, leading him to suspect that Catherine has risen from the grave to exact revenge.

Hollywood is a strange place and sometimes actors can work with each other and know each other for years. Or in Demi Mooreand Billy Bob Thornton's case, Moore can forget that she'd known Thornton for a while when the two started working on the Paramount+ series Landmantogether. The new Taylor Sheridanseries puts us in Texas when a billionaire named Tommy Norris (Thornton) is trying to race against the other tycoons to get rich from the oil found there. Moore plays Cami Miller, and a good amount of her scenes are opposite star Jon Hamm, but she has worked with Thornton in the past.

But according to Moore at a recent FYC event for the series, she had to be reminded of knowing Thornton. Not only did Thornton work with Moore's ex-husband, Bruce Willis, on movies like Armageddonand The Astronaut Farmer, but he was in a film with Moore before...

Oscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas helped kick off the Taormina Film Festival here in Sicily, speaking candidly during a press conference ahead of accepting a Lifetime Achievement award on opening night.

A longtime activist, Douglas was spurred on to advocate for nuclear disarmament by his involvement in 1979’s China Syndrome. While he was in Taormina on Tuesday to reflect on his career and celebrate the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a question inevitably was posed to him about the state of the world today amid ongoing global conflicts.

Said Douglas, “Since this is a film festival and since it’s very difficult to spend five minutes not mentioning ‘the big T,’ I prefer not to get into this.” However, he continued, “I was born at the end of World War II, but in my lifetime, this is the worst time that I can ever remember.

Ana de Armas has been in a lot of spectacular pieces throughout her star-studded career, but there have also been some that just failed to fare well with audiences worldwide. While she is currently riding high on the tides of fame gifted to her by her recently released masterpiece Ballerina, some of her past projects seem to have wasted her true talent.

One of these very flicks includes her 2022 thriller mystery with Ben Affleck that brutally disappointed fans and critics alike: Deep Water. In fact, what makes that piece even more disappointing is the fact that the same filmmaker who tamed that movie also made a similar Kim Basinger flick that the Armas starrer couldn’t live up to: 9 1/2 Weeks.

Deep Water truly wasted Ana de Armas’ talent Ana de Armas. | Credits: Deep Water / Hulu.

When it was announced that filmmaker Adrian Lyne would be returning to the screens with...

It’s the rare pop star who doesn’t use his or her sexuality in some way. But the current moment, typified by stars like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli xcx, tends to be about showcasing one’s sexuality ironically, or with an acid flippancy, or from behind a mask, or with a certain cool stance of meta control.

Miley Cyrus never got that memo. In “Something Beautiful,” a 55-minute visual album comprised of music videos, co-directed by Cyrus (with Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter), of the 13 tracks from her just-released album, Cyrus struts and pouts and lets it all out, she throws her body around like a gymnastic weapon, and in a way she throws her beauty around, as though she were trying to sear the power of her erotic presence into our souls.

At the Tribeca Festival, where the “Something Beautiful” visual album premiered tonight, the audience cheered every femme fatale glower,...

Big casting news for Vince Vaughn‘s upcoming gangster thriller, The Bookie & the Bruiser, is upon us! Theo James is joining Vince Vaughn for the upcoming feature about living life dangerously in New York City in the 1950s.

The Bookie & the Bruiser finds Vaughn reuniting with S. Craig Zahler, who directed the actor’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete. Like the films above, Zahler will write and direct The Bookie & the Bruiser with Academy Award-winner Anthony Katagas producing via Keep Your Head Productions alongside Dave Caplan.

The Bookie & the Bruiser is set in 1959 New York City and features a pensive, Jewish fellow named Rivner (James) and an oversized Italian American tough named Boscolo (Vaughn). Having served in World War II, the two return as changed men, no longer fitting into their old lives. Unwilling to take orders or play by the rules of polite society,...

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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in May 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the 11 best movies coming to Shudder in May 2025.

Overlord (May 1)

Overlord is an alternate history action horror film directed by Julius Avery from a screenplay co-written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. The 2018 film is set in an alternate 1940s, towards the end of World War II, and it revolves around a group of American paratroopers on a mission to destroy a German radio tower. They soon find themselves in a...

Natalie Portman has spoken in detail about the impact of being sexualized as a young performer, describing her early years in the film industry as defined by what she called a “long Lolita phase.” Speaking with Jenna Ortega in a feature for Interview magazine, Portman reflected on the image projected onto her following her debut in Léon: The Professional, filmed when she was just 12.

“There’s a public understanding of me that’s different from who I am,” Portman said. “I’ve talked about it a little before — about how, as a kid, I was really sexualized, which I think happens to a lot of young girls who are onscreen. I felt very scared by it. Obviously sexuality is a huge part of being a kid, but I wanted it to be inside of me, not directed towards me.”

She described building a persona to protect herself from attention she didn’t want.

After making her onscreen debut at 11, Natalie Portman quickly learned to separate herself from her public image.

The Oscar winner recently opened up about being subjected to “a long Lolita phase” when she was “really sexualized” as a child actor, making her debut performance in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional.

“I think there’s a public understanding of me that’s different from who I am,” she told Jenna Ortega for Interview. “I’ve talked about it a little before—about how, as a kid, I was really sexualized, which I think happens to a lot of young girls who are onscreen. I felt very scared by it. Obviously sexuality is a huge part of being a kid, but I wanted it to be inside of me, not directed towards me. And I felt like my way of protecting myself was to be like, ‘I’m so serious. I’m so studious.

A number of dead bodies turn up in 1998’s Wild Things: Sam, Kelly, Ray, that random dude floating in the river…Wait, what? As it turns out, the deaths weren’t just happening on screen but also near the set, as the crew soon found out that sometimes people are exactly what they appear to be…

Kevin Bacon recently told Variety that one of the Florida locations for Wild Things brought some unique problems that brought a slight disruption to filming. “We were out in the swamp one night — a lot of mosquitoes, wow — and we were shooting some scene. I don’t remember what it was, by kind of a river. They had floated a raft out there so that they could put a light. All of a sudden I hear across the walkie-talkie: ‘Hey, uh, I think I just saw a floater.’ And it was a body that was floating by…...

Kim Basinger has been a part of numerous marvelous projects over the years, all of which have significantly impacted her acting career in making her more and more renowned in Hollywood’s entertainment industry.

But one of these projects really had the actress going through hell, which was also her riskiest movie to date, where she starred opposite Mickey Rourke. This one project was 1986’s erotic-romance flick 9½ Weeks, which was more or less the 1980s version of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Kim Basinger. | Credits: 9½ Weeks / 20th Century Studios.

To say the least, as deciphered from the details shared by director Adrian Lyne, that one risky project really had Basinger, who was in her early thirties at the time it was shot, going through some seriously hell-ish stuff for the sake of it.

Kim Basinger really had to go through hell while shooting 9½ Weeks

Back when 9½ Weeks originally came out,...

In a new edition of This Day That Year, Subhash K Jha rexamines Mahesh Bhatt-Anurag Basu’s drama Murder, which released in 2004.

On a wet, windy morning in Bangkok, the forlorn Indian housewife Simran (Mallika Sherawat) in a clinging blue chiffon sari waves frantically for a taxi, drops her shopping bags in the wet chaos and comes face to face with a sensuous silhouette. “Come to my apartment for a cuppa,” the smirking stranger tells the housewife. Face mirroring a repressed sexuality and challenged values, she refuses and then changes her mind…to plunge into a lustful liaison that brings her well-ordered life to a crashing crescendo…

Welcome to the second remake of Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful in a week. With a far better cast, production values, and music score than last week’s Hawas, Murder kills your murderous murmurs about exploitative adaptations in the bud.

Where you expect a sleaze-fest,...

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Glenn Close at the Oscars, awaiting on the verdict yet again

Welcome back to the boiling and bloody finale of our three-part retrospective of Adrian Lyne's classic thriller Fatal Attraction (1987). In part 1, Husband and father Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas in his best performance of 1987 -- sorry Wall Street) stumbled out of the pouring rain and straight into an even wetter two-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close in her most iconic role). Things start hot but end bloody with a suicide attempt. In part 2, Dan clings hard to his wife Beth and his daughter Ellen, desperate for normalcy again. He eagerly grants them their dream gifts: a new home in the suburbs and a pet bunny rabbit, respectively. As we return to the film, Beth and Ellen are still oblivious to the family's pregnant stalker.

One more thing: I realize this retrospective would have been less...

The Twilight Zone remains one of the most groundbreaking pieces of television ever made. Rod Serling's supernatural anthology series delivered dozens of classic episodes, cloaking moral lessons in clever twist endings, and ranging from the hilarious to the utterly terrifying. It lasted five seasons and was minted a masterpiece almost before it was off the air. In retrospect, it bowed out just in time, with its creative well running dry by Serling's own admission. It thus avoided jumping the shark, and several direct reboots have only fitfully found the magic that it delivered consistently from beginning to end.

The Twilight Zone famously received a little help from an outside source. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a supernatural anti-war movie which French filmmaker Robert Enrico shot in 1961, and appeared as an episode late in Season 5 as The Twilight Zone was wrapping up. It remains the only episode to come from an outside source,...

“They want crap,” Carolco executive Peter Hoffman once told the Los Angeles Times, “Every time people tell you they don’t, it’s bull. They want crap.” Hoffman was reflecting on the lackluster audience response to the Oscar-nominated Music Box (1989), while sci-fi action blockbusters such as Total Recall (1990) were filling coffers like mad.

Long before independent production houses like Skydance, A24, and Blumhouse were making waves alongside the major studios, Carolco made its name in Hollywood as a backer of lavish action films that included the Rambo series, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Cliffhanger (1993). Carolco’s rise and fall was as epic as one of their blockbuster action films.

It was known as “The Carolco Premium.” While rival indies TriStar and Orion had their share of respectable projects, Carolco led a rise of independent studios by creating and maintaining a blockbuster brand for making the most extravagant actions films of the era.

Three-Part Mini-Series

Every once in a blue moon we'll take a movie and baton pass it around the team and really dive in. This time Nathaniel's going solo. But if you like this approach to investigate a movie we've gone long and deep before on the following films: Rebecca (1940), West Side Story (1961), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Cabaret (1972), Silence of the Lambs (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Aladdin (1992), and  A League of Their Own (1992) -Editor

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Did you know/remember that Fatal Attraction was released in Paramount's 75th year? I did not but it's a detail that feels somehow right. Founded in 1912, the second oldest of Hollywood's few surviving major studios (Universal predates it) celebrated its diamond anniversary in zeitgeist style with one of its all time most profitable and leggiest hits. The Adrian Lyne thriller, which we'll discuss in three installments, was the second highest...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights is set against the backdrop of the sex industry. New Line’s marketing team had to find a way to sell it.

It was back in October 1997 that the American Film Information Council bestowed upon the movie Boogie Nights the prize of the best marketed film of that month.

Appreciating that it’s a fairly closed shortlist it’ll have been competing against, it was still up against Kiss The Girls, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Devil’s Advocate. Even so, it was still likely to have been something of a split decision. Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie was treading a fine line between the old adage of sex sells, and American censors grappling with material of a fruity nature.

Boogie Nights, if you’re unfamiliar, is a superb film. It’s an ensemble movie set against the backdrop of the American porn industry,...

Kevin Bacon has been plugging away in movies since making his big-screen debut in 1978's highly problematic comedy classic "National Lampoon's Animal House," and has been in so many different kinds of films over the last 47 years that there's a trivia game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, that essentially holds him as the center of the cinema universe. While you can't make as many movies as Bacon has without appearing in more than a few stinkers, I don't think I've ever seen the man give a poor performance. He's been believable as heroes, villains, creeps and milquetoasts, and, despite getting cast in numerous Oscar contenders, has never competed for an Academy Award himself. That's gotta change.

The only bad thing I can say about his most recent project, "The Bondsman," is that it won't get him off the Oscar schneid. That's because it's a streaming horror series for Amazon Prime...

Hollywood wasn’t always big on boundaries, and one Marvel star took things way too far. Back in the day, Kim Basinger found herself in a scene that went off-script, and not in a good way. The incident left her physically scarred and shook her to the core.

Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential | Credits: Warner Bros.

Had that happened today, the backlash would’ve been nuclear. But back then, it barely made waves.

A role in 9 ½ Weeks that left a mark on Kim Basinger – literally and emotionally Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2 (2010) | Credits: Marvel Studios

Kim Basinger walked away from 9 ½ Weeks with more than just a career boost; she left with a literal scar. The 1986 erotic drama, co-starring Mickey Rourke (who played Whiplash in Iron Man 2), wasn’t just steamy on screen. Behind the scenes, stuff got way too real.

The actress later revealed...

Kim Basinger is sharing her thoughts on intimacy coordinators.

In a new interview, the 71-year-old Oscar-winning actress said that she would not have wanted an intimacy coordinator on set while filming the steamy scenes with co-star Mickey Rourke in their 1986 movie 9 1/2 Weeks.

Keep reading to find out more…“I can’t imagine having somebody come up to me and say, ‘Do you mind if they put their hand here?’” Kim told Variety. “That’s just another person in the room. Either we work it out or we don’t. I don’t see all of this need for supervised visits.”

Kim went on to say that movie from director Adrian Lyne earned her a lot of loyal fans.

“It’s a very hard thing to shoot a beautiful love scene,” Kim explained. “You think it’s just lay down with a bunch of baby oil. It’s not.

Hollywood legend Kim Basinger has played every kind of character during her decade-long career. She's been the love interest of Batman, an unofficial Bond girl, and a Bdsm enthusiast, among many others. And while the actress has appeared as some sensual and provocative roles over her long career, she has a controversial view on the need for intimacy coordinators on movie sets.

The actor of films like Batman, 8 Mile, 9½ Weeks and L.A. Confidential, which earned her an Academy Award in 1998, opened up to Variety during a rare interview in which she spoke about her various roles. Basinger spoke about the experience of shooting 9½ Weeks, the steamy 1986 romantic drama co-starring Mickey Rourke where she plays a New York City girl who commits to a Bdsm-style relationship with another New Yorker. Think of an 80s version of Fifty Shades of Grey that didn't evolve from Twilight fan fiction.

RelatedAfter 'Anora,...

Hollywood is an industry where art and reality can often have blurred lines, but there are few films that have been accused of pushing the boundaries too much, and one of them is 9 ½ Weeks. The 1986 erotic drama starred Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke and became one of the most controversial films of its time.

Kim Basinger in 9 ½ Weeks | Galactic Films

There were many rumors about the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the two co-stars, and now, decades later, Basinger has finally opened up. So, let’s dive into the story and look at what the actress has to say

9 ½ Weeks director’s controversial methods that pushed Kim Basinger to the edge Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke in 9 ½ Weeks | Galactic Films

Adrian Lyne is known for creating erotic thrillers, and this time around, he didn’t just intend to direct 9 ½ Weeks like a movie but orchestrate it like an experience.

Kim Basinger “can’t imagine” what it’s like to work with an intimacy coordinator, despite the practice becoming a new industry norm.

Basinger, whose most recent onscreen role was in the 2017 film “Fifty Shades Darker,” told Variety that she doesn’t understand why intimacy coordinators are used on sets.

“I can’t imagine having somebody come up to me and say, ‘Do you mind if they put their hand here?’” Basinger said. “That’s just another person in the room. Either we work it out or we don’t. I don’t see all of this need for supervised visits.”

She continued, “It’s a very hard thing to shoot a beautiful love scene. You think it’s just lay[ing] down with a bunch of baby oil. It’s not. It can really work your nerves.”

Basinger noted that her own attitude toward sex onscreen is “more European” than “stuffy” American views.

Hollywood is jam-packed with stories of on-set feuds. While some of them are very true (George Clooney still despises David O. Russell), others get exaggerated over time, or simply turn out not to have any basis in reality whatsoever. One famous Hollywood feud that’s turned out to be nothing more than gossip was the rumoured discord between stars Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke on the set of 9 1/2 Weeks, which was directed by Adrian Lyne.

In a recent, lengthy interview about her career with Variety, Basinger set the record straight, with her saying the rumor is likely due to the fact that neither of them spoke on-set outside of filming. As per Basinger, this was at her request, as it was something she needed in order to get into the character. She says the scene where she meets him for the first time in the grocery store is...

Ben Affleck’s Hollywood career is a fascinating case study in terms of its erratic rise and fall over nearly 3 decades. Since his Oscar-winning debut in Good Will Hunting, Affleck has been a golden property for the industry despite his intermittent stretches of bad moviemaking choices mingling with the good.

Ben Affleck in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) [Credit: Warner Bros.]

The success of Good Will Hunting and Chasing Amy was followed by a drastic downfall due to Gigli and Daredevil. This, in turn, was once again turned into a success with Gone Baby Gone, Argo, The Town, and Gone Girl before Affleck’s career fell into a rut with Batman v Superman and Live by Night.

However, the 2010 film, The Town almost turned one of Affleck’s stretches of success into a bad call for all the actors involved.

Ben Affleck’s The Town was almost an erotic thriller...

Shark action specialist Renny Harlin is back this year with Deep Water, starring Aaron Eckhart. It now has a distributor in the US, and set for release in 2025.

Filming wrapped on Deep Water, the latest movie from action director Renny Harlin, in February 2024. Almost exactly a year later, it’s been announced that it now has a US distributor: Magenta Light Studios, which put out last year’s excellent horror thriller, Strange Darling. Deep Water is now set for release in US cinemas this year, which potentially means a UK appearance won’t be too far behind.

The disaster thriller sees Harlin return to the realm of sharks, having previously directed the batty cult favourite Deep Blue Sea in 1999. Starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley, Deep Water (not to be confused with the saucy Adrian Lyne film of the same title) is about an LA to Shanghai plane journey that goes awry,...

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Jan. 30, 2025 Marianne Faithfull, Grammy-nominated singer, actress, and muse of Mick Jagger, dies at 78

Marianne Faithfull, the British performer who traveled a bumpy road from fresh-voiced pop star (as well as muse and girlfriend of Rolling Stones‘ frontman Mick Jagger) in the 1960s to homeless heroin addict and ultimately a musical comeback in the late 1970s, died on Thursday in London. She was 78. No cause of death was cited.

“It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter, and actress Marianne Faithfull,” read a statement from her publicist. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.”

Faithfull emerged in the Swinging ’60s, plucked from obscurity by the Stones manager at 16 and in 1964 recorded “As Tears Go By,” becoming an overnight sensation with the Jagger-Keith Richards tune...

Not all Stephen King fans might be aware of the backstory to Stand by Me, the adaptation of his novella The Body, which was part of his 1982 collection Different Seasons. Perhaps some casual movie fans might not even know this film was based on his story. Many of Stephen King’s books have been adapted for the screen, and while he liked most of them, Stand by Me stood out as one of the author’s favorites alongside Shawshank Redemption. King has repeatedly spoken about the emotional impact in several interviews, stating that it was very much a personal story. In fact, it was so deeply personal that when he saw the finished film, he was overwhelmed with emotion and needed a few minutes to gather his thoughts.

Stand by Me was released in 1986, received enthusiastic reviews from critics and audiences alike, and became a commercial success. It's considered to...

When Demi Moore took to the stage to accept her rightful Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for "The Substance," the 62-year-old announced that it was the first time she'd ever received an industry honor of this caliber despite having been working for over 45 years. "30 years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress," she said, "and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn't something that I was allowed to have." She continued, "I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it."

She added, "Maybe I was complete, maybe I've done what I was supposed to do and as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script...

Sure, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson might be steaming it up now with Babygirl, but if you’re looking for a little throwback that’s part psychological, part erotic thriller, look no further than Paramount+, as Fatal Attraction is now streaming. The year was 1987, Michael Douglas was a silver fox and Glenn Close’s shoulder pads exuded enough sensuality to cause a car crash. It was then that filmmaker Adrian Lyne decided the world needed a little more raw eroticism and picked up James Dearden’s feature-length adaptation of his 1980 short, Diversion. What came to follow is one of the most intensely acted, sexually charged, psychological thrillers in cinematic history. Intrigued? You should be.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Venice Film Festival-premiering Babygirl, A24’s erotic thriller from writer-director Halina Reijn that stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. It hit theaters December 20.

In Venice, Kidman won the Best Actress prize for playing Romy, a high-powered CEO whose life is controlled by structure, tight scheduling and an all-too-keen awareness of how she’s perceived at the heights of a male-dominated field. The one thing she cannot control is her sexual urges that haven’t been fulfilled after 19 years of marriage to her husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas).

Romy, trapped in her suppressed desires, is quickly undone after she meets Samuel (Dickinson), an intern at her company who transgresses professional boundaries. This dynamic inadvertently fosters a dominant/submissive power play, providing Romy with an unexpected outlet to explore and indulge her kinks.

Through deliciously playful provocations,...

Ana de Armas managed to steal everyone’s heart with her onscreen charm and endearing roles in films, landing a spot among the most sought-after leading ladies in Hollywood. She achieved global fame for her appearances in Blade Runner 2049 and No Time to Die, and she continues to prove her versatility by engaging in various projects across genres.

Ana de Armas in Deep Water / Credits: Hulu

With this in mind, the actress found herself playing an evil seductress opposite Ben Affleck in Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water. Her character was so unlike her previous roles, and this caused a sense of distress in the star thinking she might lose her fans.

Ana de Armas feared her role in Deep Water would cost her career

After the highly successful outing of Daniel Craig’s No Time to Die in 2021, where Ana de Armas played Paloma, the 36-year-old star ventured a...

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Halina Reijn's Babygirl represents an erotic thriller that explores the balance of power and sexuality as a professional high-ranking CEO, portrayed by Nicole Kidman, engages in a forbidden affair with a younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson. The director has said that some of her inspiration for the film was the psychosexual thrillers of the '80s and '90s from directors like Paul Verhoeven and Adrian Lyne.

It's fitting then that after a trip to see Babygirl, moviegoers should revisit Lyne's 2002 erotic thriller, Unfaithful. While the director is known more for his Oscar-nominated hits Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal, Unfaithful's simplicity, as it explores a woman's need for the excitement that she seems to be missing, is its biggest strength.

I’ve been seeing variations on the question above on comment boards and social media, and the answer is inevitably a resounding “No. Fucking. Way.” But let’s be clear about what the question really is, since it’s actually two questions at once. The fundamental thing that’s being asked is: Could “Babygirl,” an enthralling high-kink corporate drama, in which Nicole Kidman plays a girlboss who secretly yearns to be dominated and debased, and plays this all out with one of her young male interns…could a male director have gotten away with making that movie today? The answer everyone seems to agree on, with an underlying note of look-how-far-we’ve-come cultural pride, is no. I don’t necessarily disagree — though actually, in a way, I sort of do.

“Babygirl,” written and directed by the volcanically talented Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn, is a gripping movie about a woman who...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Venice Film Festival. A24 releases “Babygirl” in theaters December 25.

The worst thing your partner could possibly say to you after sex, after you’ve said “I love you,” is the dreaded “love you.” No “I.” And that’s not the most demoralizing response Romy (Nicole Kidman) has for an amorous confession by her husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas) in “Babygirl,” writer/director Halina Reijn’s provocative erotic dramedy that begins and ends with an orgasm. One of them is faked, but in between, this perversely funny and absorbing new film explores the pleasure gap between men and women, and how our inability to talk about sex limits our ability to just do it.

And there’s lots of sex here, with Kidman going raw inside and out for one of her top performances in a career built on risk-taking. That’s...

Movies have been absolutely peerless when it comes to giving the world a chance to gaze at desirable females. What the seventh art has been notoriously bad at is exploring the concept of female desire, in all of its complexities and clandestine, dark-corner complications. This is where Babygirl comes in. An exploration of a charged sexual relationship between a female CEO and her young, male intern that ends up finding freedom in sub-dom dynamics, this drama from Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijns leans heavily into the power structures inherent in such December-May affairs.

Glen Powell seems to be at the height of his Hollywood career. It all started last December when he became a hit star after featuring in the sensational rom-com Anyone But You alongside Sydney Sweeney.

He followed that star power with his next romantic thriller, Hit Man, which he co-wrote and produced. The movie has now earned him his first Golden Globes nomination.

Glen Powell in Hit Man | Credits: Netflix

After Hit Man, the actor went ahead to star in Twisters, a reboot of the 1970s tornado adventure flick, which garnered not only great box office numbers but also met with critical acclaim.

Now, Powell is one of the top leading actors in Hollywood and has a string of upcoming films in his pipeline along with Homewreckers. In this article, we will discuss all that we need to know about the movie.

Glen Powell’s Homewreckers: Release date, cast, plot,...