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At last week’s “Coco” premiere at the El Capitan in Hollywood, John Lasseter had a look of sadness in his eyes. The usual gregarious charm didn’t come as easily. Maybe he was tired: he’d been running both Pixar and Disney Animation as chief creative officer for the last 11 years.

That was the explanation when Lasseter first stepped down as director of “Toy Story 4” earlier this year. Then came Tuesday’s shocking revelation of alleged unwanted advances, forcing the animation mogul — who was known for his warm hugs — to take a six-month leave of absence from the studios, apologizing for “missteps” in a memo to his Disney/Pixar staff.

Lasseter, by far the most powerful and influential figure in contemporary animation, joins a growing list of big-name players in Hollywood, the media, and politics accused of sexual misconduct (including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Charlie Rose). This...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Seasons 1 and 2 of “Stranger Things.”]

Steve Harrington was never supposed to be the hero or even the good guy on “Stranger Things,” and in fact was written to be the classic ‘80s bully. But when Joe Keery was cast, his natural charisma inspired the Duffer Brothers to give him a far meatier story arc. The turning point came at the end of Season 1 after Steve had a falling-out with his girlfriend Nancy (Natalia Dyer) after he slut-shamed her with graffiti all over town. By the big finale, however, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her to fight off the Demogorgon with a baseball bat.

Read More:‘Stranger Things’: All the Pop Culture References and Homages, Episode by Episode

This brings us to Season 2, in which Steve goes through a reset of sorts. As a popular senior in high school with a girlfriend, he should be feeling pretty good about himself. But the events from last year with the Demogorgon,...

As Marvel fans will know, Deadpool was originally created by Rob Liefeld back in the 1990s as a parody of DC’s Deathstroke. Hence the almost identical names – Slade Wilson/Wade Wilson. As the Merc with the Mouth’s popularity grew over the years, though, the character left behind his darker traits and pretty much became a hero, even serving alongside the Avengers. That’s all about to change, though, in his latest solo series.

First, let’s recap the tumultuous journey Wade went through in the recent Secret Empire event. As a double agent for the good guys, Deadpool worked alongside HydraCap to uphold the corrupted hero’s fascist regime while still feeding info to the underground resistance. The turning point came when he killed Phil Coulson under Steve Rogers’ orders. In an attempt to prove he was still on their side, Wade gave S.H.I.E.L.

Sylvester Groth shines in this East German movie about a luckless private in a Polish prison, thrown in with a group of defeated Nazi war criminals. For a country that usually paints the ideological divide in black and white red, Frank Beyer’s film of Hermann Kant’s semi-autobiographical story is surprisingly even-handed. An excellent addition to films from behind the old Iron Curtain.

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Starring: Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren, Matthias Günther, Klaus Piontek, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Alexander Van Heteren, Horst Hiemer, Günter Junghans, Krzysztof Chamiec, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Roman Wilhelmi, Andrzej Krasicki, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Andrzej Pieczynski.

Cinematography: Eberhard Geick

Film Editor: Rita Hiller

Original Music: Günther Fischer

Written by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Dieter Wolf from a novel by Hermann Kant

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Parting is such sweet sorrow and none more so than to see the end of the 2017 London Indian Film Festival. After a rollercoaster week’s worth of films, we saw the closing of the London portion of the festival at the BFI Southbank with the English premiere of Sexy Durga.

The night began with a star-studded red carpet event. BollySpice was on hand to mix with the movers and shakers of the Festival. In particular, we caught up with executive and programming director Cary Rajinder Sawhney who had promised at the beginning of the run that this year would be the best ever. We asked him whether he stood by that comment. “In terms of the films? Yes, this has been the best ever. We had such a good selection of films, many from other festivals where they have won awards.”

There were many famous names from the Festival line-up who graced the red carpet.

Sneak Peek Marvel Comics' "Daredevil" #22, available June 21, 2017, written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Goran Sudzuka, with a cover by Mike Deodato, plus take a look @ the best "Daredevil" fight scenes from the Netflix TV series:

"...'Supreme' continues to be the biggest case in the legal career of blind 'Matt Murdock'. 

"But in order to win it, his alter ego the superhero known as 'Daredevil' will have to take the witness stand. 

"The turning point that will kick off the next big phase for the 'Man Without Fear'..."

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“Watch the full episodes of We Lost 100 Pounds! now on the new People/Entertainment Weekly Network (Pen). Go to People.com/Pen or download the Pen app on your favorite device.

Hannah Jenkins says that she was never bullied for her size.

She reached her highest weight — 278 lbs. — when she was in seventh grade, but “growing up in the South, it wasn’t that out of the ordinary to be overweight,” she says. “We just had no idea that people ate any other way.”

Jenkins, now 22, says that overeating was just part of her daily routine. “Every day I would come home from school,...

Now here’s a piping hot package that’s beginning to coalesce at a brisk clip. According to Deadline, writer-director Michael Mann and Michael De Luca are joining forces for an eight-to-ten-hour miniseries based on Hue 1968: The Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam, the soon-to-be-published novel from scribe Mark Bowden.

If that name sounds familiar, it should; Bowden is also the creative mind behind wartime drama Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War – the same Black Hawk Down that Ridley Scott engineered into a taut, nail-biting thriller back in ’01. Set to release on June 6th, Hue 1968 takes place during the height of the Vietnam War, when napalm was the weapon of choice and Creedence Clearwater Revival blared out over the speakers.

Perhaps most intriguing of all, though, is the fact that Mark Bowden’s novel will present a no-holds-barred account of the Vietnam War, including...

Prepare for a Manniseries. Deadline reports that Michael Mann and Michael De Luca have purchased the rights to Mark Bowden’s forthcoming “Hue 1968: The Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam,” which they intend to adapt as an eight-to-10-hour miniseries.

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Mann has called “Hue 1968” “a masterpiece of intensely dramatic non-fiction” whose achievement “is in making ‘them’ into us.” Bowden is also the author of “Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War,” whose 2001 film adaptation was directed by Ridley Scott.

“We are them. There are no background people; people abstracted into statistics, body counts,” said Mann. “There is the sense that everybody is somebody, as each is in the reality of his or her own life. The brilliance of Bowden’s narrative, the achievement of interviewing hundreds of people on all...

The smiles were few and far between.

There is so much hurt and betrayal circulating on The Fosters Season 4 Episode 17. Just about every member of the Foster clan is in dire need of a hug.

There were some good things that happened during the installment, too.

Human trafficking is one of those hot button issues that we're fortunately becoming more and more aware of these days. Especially, if you live in one of the hot areas where it's prevalent and on the rise.

That's something I can relate to, and obviously the Adams-Foster family residing in California, means that Stef would encounter it too. Her first case on her first day at her new job was one involving a teen sex worker by the name of Diamond.

It can't possibly be the first time in Stef's long career as a cop, that she encountered a sex worker, let alone one who is a teenager.

At 481 lbs., Kaylee Bonnett could get through the day — but just barely. She was pre-diabetic with high blood pressure, and couldn’t enjoy vacations with her family.

“I dreaded going on family vacations because of all the activities I wouldn’t be able to participate in,” Bonnett, 24, tells People. “And all the nasty looks people would give me when I was out and about! Last summer my family and I went to Disneyland and I had to rent an electric wheelchair because I couldn’t walk the entire time we were there. It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life.

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How a two hour intervention from Tom Cruise saved Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels from going straight to video...

The film Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels helped launched several careers. Its director, Guy Ritchie, went on to make movies such as Snatch, Sherlock Holmes and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (his King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword is just around the corner). The mighty Statham, meanwhile, got his acting break in the film, as did Vinnie Jones.

Then there's producer Matthew Vaughn, who has since gone on to build an enviable film directing career, with movies such as X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Yet for some time, the fate of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels looked perilous. Vaughn, chatting to Mark Kermode last year for the Radio 4 programme The Business Of Film, admitted that the movie was struggling to find a distributor. The turning point,...

Are the darks days really over for Pearson Specter Litt?

That was addressed on Suits Season 6 Episode 11 when it became abundantly clear Harvey and Louis would be fighting to the death in order to save the firm following the departure of Jessica. 

For what it's worth, Harvey at least tried to keep it together by attempting to bring everyone back to the firm, but for Mike, he was over it. Donna stole the show when she told Harvey to make things right with his mother. 

He's been relying on his Psl family for far too long, so adapting to the change that's coming to the firm was always going to be difficult for him to process. 

You could tell he was hurting. The firm was a shell of its former self and that was horrible for him to watch.

Bringing Mike back in would have been like having the family back together,...

Food was only one culprit in Michael Lachowicz’s journey to ballooning up to 432 lbs.

“My addiction is food, booze and narcotics,” says the classically trained chef, 46, who was inspired to go to culinary school after living above his grandparents’ restaurant as a child. “Everything worked in tandem. Drugs and alcohol reduced my inhibitions, so I didn’t have a lot of remorse about eating ridiculous amounts of food.”

Although his specialties include venison and foie gras, the owner and executive chef of Restaurant Michael and George Trois in Winnetka, Ill. was never tempted by French cuisine. “For me it was about garbage food,...

The Hunger Games has nothing on Discovery’s new adventure series, The Wheel!

Contestants on the new ultimate survival challenge have to survive not one, but six lethal environments over the course of 60 days ( that’s if they make it that long). The six participants have to endure six distinctly grueling landscapes across South America, but with every turn of the wheel, each survivalist is then dropped into a new isolated location, where they are exposed to the world’s deadliest terrains including freezing tundra, rugged mountains and treacherous rainforest.

Speaking with People, contestant Lindsay Phenix opens up about her...

As Michael Keaton settles into the peak era of his acting career, his wizened features and melancholic gaze make him perfectly suited for subtle desperation. It was only a matter of time before he channeled the plight of a struggling salesman, and “The Founder” provides the actor with that ideal vessel.

As Ray Kroc, the McDonald’s executive who swindled the franchise’s founders out of their stake in the company, Keaton effectively swings from Willie Loman to Walter White. The movie gives him just enough material to elevate an otherwise straightforward drama that, while littered with smart and subtle moments, has all the depth of a Wikipedia entry. “The Founder” provides some intriguing backstory to a franchise largely taken for granted in American society, and Robert Siegel’s screenplay carries it along well enough through all the expected beats. Keaton, however, makes them credible. It’s his show.

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Sneak Peek footage, images and synopsis from "The Vampire Diaries" episode "The Turning Point", written by Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, Barbie Kligman and directed by J. Miller Tobin, that aired November 19, 2009 on The CW:

"...after reading the journal left by one of the 'Gilbert' ancestors, 'Jeremy' is inspired to return to his hobby of sketching fantasy creatures, a talent he had abandoned when his parents died.

"Much to the surprise of their friends, 'Matt' and 'Caroline' continue to hang out together. Then when 'Sheriff Forbes' tells 'Damon' there has been another attack, he offers to track down the killer and learns a startling piece of information about the town's founding families.

"'Alaric' steps in to help during an intense scene with Jeremy, 'Tyler' and 'Mayor Lockwood'.

"'Stefan' and 'Elena' come to a new understanding, but everything changes when Elena by mistake makes a devastating discovery..."

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In late 1976, with the Christmas season approaching and Star Wars nowhere near completion, director George Lucas was in a desperate state. 20th Century Fox had sunk $10 million into the project and had seen very few results for its money. Not even the movie’s own crew had seen much of it by then. The turning point was the production of a crude but effective, 107-second teaser trailer. The blog Episode Nothing tells how the promo was produced and how it was originally received in the article “The Story Of A Boy, A Girl, And A Universe: The Original Star Wars Teaser Trailer From 1976.”

Assembled over the course of three weeks at a cost of $3,915, the teaser was intended to appease the nervous Fox execs, get audiences excited about the film, and provide motivation for the beleaguered crew. On the last count, at least, it was ...

When we last left the Clark/Manawa family they were all running in their separate ways away from Celia Flores compound. After Travis realized his son Chris was mentally unstable to bring him back to the family, he decided to take his son away to try and find some normalcy again. Nick who had became a believer of Celia’s prophecy that this was all God’s will ventured out on his own after he felt betrayed by his mom. Madison took the rest of the family and friends away from Celia's burning compound with the hope of staying together to survive.

“Grotesque” was a Nick focused story that allowed us to understand his background a little more. Nick out of all the characters we have been introduced to in the entire Walking Dead Universe seems to be the one who is the most comfortable with the Walkers. This episode...

A selection of films from the 2016 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has been unveiled, with films by Jim Jarmusch, Maren Ade, Tom Ford, Paul Verhoeven, Damien Chazelle, and many more.Opening NIGHTThe Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)GALASDeepwater HorizonArrival (Denis Villeneuve)Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)The Headhunter's Calling (Mark Williams)The Journey Is the Destination (Bronwen Hughes)Jt + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)Lbj (Rob Reiner)Lion (Garth Davis)Loving (Jeff Nichols)A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona)Planetarium (Rebecca Zlotowski)Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair)The Rolling Stones of Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (Paul Dugdale)The Secret Scripture (Jim Sheridan)Snowden (Oliver Stone)Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann)Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)A United Kingdom (Amma Astante)Special PRESENTATIONSLa La LandThe Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon)All I See Is You (Marc Forster)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor)Asura: The City of...

The Toronto International Film Festival unviled a slew of new titles today including the tTIFF Docs program which will showcase works from such award-winning helmers as Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Fisher Stevens. Leonardo DiCaprio collaborated with the latter on climate change call to action, The Turning Point which will have its world premiere in Canada. Netflix has four films debuting in the section: Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer's Into The I…...

The Toronto International Film Festival has nearly completed its slate announcement this year — expect a few stragglers to be announced in the coming days, but this is about the size of it — rounding out its lineup with today’s announcement of its Docs, Midnight Madness, Vanguard and Tiff Cinematheque picks. And what a group this is, including plenty of returning favorites and some very exciting new names.

Tiff’s Docs section features a collection of works from award-winning directors including Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Leonardo DiCaprio even pops up for a “rousing call to action on climate change” in “The Turning Point,” made in collaboration with Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens and already picked up by National Geographic.

Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’

The beloved Midnight Madness section offers...

The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday announced its documentary and genre film slates, including the world premiere of Leonardo DiCaprio's climate change film The Turning Point, Steve James' U.S. banking scandal doc Abacus: Small Enough to Jail and Netflix's U.S.-Danish film Amanda Knox, a true crime doc about the American student accused of murder in Italy from directors Brian McGinn and Rod Blackhurst. Meanwhile, Ben Wheatley's hard-boiled 1970s-set thriller Free Fire from A24 — starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer — will open the Midnight Madness sidebar, which is set to close with

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As a companion piece to yesterday's Smackdown, a two-part podcast. If you missed Part One it's right here. Now we conclude our '77 festivities (did you enjoy or did we go to overboard?) with our panel, which includes Mark Harris, Guy Lodge, Nick Davis, Sara Black McCulloch, and Nathaniel R, discussing Tuesday Weld, Richard Dreyfuss, Diane Keaton, Looking for Mr Goodbar, The Turning Point and a few '77 extras.

Part Two Finale. Index (40 minutes)

00:01 One more anecdote on The Goodbye Girl 

04:45 Richard Dreyfuss' big year and Steven Spielberg's interest/disinterest in actors in Close Encounters of the Third Kind

15:30 Tuesday Weld's career and the divisive Looking for Mr Goodbar

24:00 The Turning Point and a female-heavy Best Picture lineup

32:15 Performances that weren't nominated from: Saturday Night Fever, Opening Night, Handle With Care, Roseland, and Three Women

39:00 Thank yous! 

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Best Shot 1977 Party, Finale

Julia Cinematography by: Douglas Slocombe (2nd of 3 nominations)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Cinematography by: Vilmos Zsigmond (1st of 4 nominations. His only win)

In case you missed our little Cinematography 1977 party we previously looked at the Oscar nominees Looking for Mr Goodbar, The Turning Point, and the little seen Ernest Hemingway inspired drama Islands in the Stream. Now that we're entirely out of time (Supporting Actress Smackdown Of 1977 Is Tomorrow!) here's a quick look at our final two nominated pictures. This time we'll do it in the abbreviated spirit we always intended for the series but could never manage due to longwindedness: a single image and why we claim it as "best".

Julia...

Viola Davis has been acting non-stop for three decades, yet some of that time was spent playing bit roles on movies for just two or three days at a time. It was steady work, but not the kind of gigs that would – in Davis’ words – “wake her up.”

Now, as her career explodes, Davis’ eyes are wide open. Next up, the star will be seen in Oscar contender “Fences,” the upcoming adaptation of August Wilson’s play directed by Denzel Washington. She’s in “Suicide Squad,” which comes out next week. And Season 3 of “How to Get Away With Murder,” in which she stars as Annalise Keating, is now in production.

Read More: The Ultimate Emmy Underdogs: Can Any One-Nomination Wonders Actually Win?

It wasn’t just her Oscar-nominated work in 2011’s “The Help” that Davis credits for bringing her to the next level. “Murder,” for which she’s just...

Bancroft & Maclaine reminisce in The Turning PointBest Shot 1977 Party. Chapter 2

The Turning Point (1977)

Directed by: Herbert Ross

Cinematography by: Robert Surtees

When The Turning Point is remembered today, on the rare occasion that you hear it name-checked, it is nearly always in connection to its status as Oscar's all time loser (11 nominations without a win). That "achievement" was later shared when Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985) met the same Oscar fate, entering the competition as a very big ticket and coming away empty-handed. It's surely no coincidence that both films are women's pictures. Oscar has grown increasingly wary of films about and for women over their 88 year history; that's not a mark on the films themselves but a stain on film culture and the Oscars. 1977 was in some significant ways, the very last Oscar year to be dominated by women. The sole "boys" movie up for the top prize was Star Wars,...

The Supporting Actress Smackdown Of 1977 is coming. You already met two of our panelists. And here are the other three (including me). 

Meet The Panelists 

Panelist: Sara Black McCulloch

Bio: Sara Black McCulloch is a Toronto-based researcher, translator and writer. She has written for i-d, cleo Journal, Adult, The Hairpin, Gawker, Bitch Magazine and The National Post. You can read more of her work here. 

Question: What does 1977 mean to you? 

1977 seemed to be steeped in so much disillusionment. I think that, like the years that signal the end of a decade but don't quite bookend it, it was...fraught. The year was packed with events that pointed to change and fueled uncertainty. It was the year the U.S. signed the nuclear-proliferation pact and the same year that the U.S. government voted against covering elective abortions through Medicaid. The Apple II computer hit the market and Jimmy Carter...

The Supporting Actress Smackdown Of 1977 Is Just One Week Away. Get your votes in by Friday early evening. This week will be a '77 blitz at the blog to get you in the mood.

The Nominees were...

Leslie Browne, The Turning Point

Quinn Cumming, The Goodbye Girl

Melinda Dillon, Close Encounters

Vanessa Redgrave, Julia

Tuesday Weld, Looking for Mr Goodbar

Readers are our final panelist for the Smackdown so if you'd like to vote send Nathaniel an email with 1977 in the header line and your votes. Each performance you've seen should be rated on a scale of 1 to 5 hearts (1 being terrible 5 being stupendous) -- Remember to only vote for performances that you've seen! The votes are weighted to reflect numbers of voters per movies so no actress has an unfair advantage.

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Reminder. At the end of the month the Smackdown returns with a look at the Supporting Actress Race of 1977 (The Turning Point, Julia, Close Encounters, The Goodbye Girl, and Looking for Mr Goodbar so get to watching so you can vote!).

To get you in the mid to late 1970s mood, if you lived through them, or just to engage your curiousity if you didn't, a collection of magazine covers from the year in question. Naturally we'll start with two Best Actress winners and then hit the general collections of showbiz covers...

Happy Birthday Arthur Laurents Laurents' first play, Home of the Brave, opened on Broadway in 1945, followed by many others. He wrote his first musical, West Side Story, in 1957, followed by Gypsy and others. His first screenplay was The Snake Pit in 1948, followed by others including Rope, Anastasia, The Way We Were and The Turning Point. His own play, Invitation to a March in 1960, was the first of several he directed. I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1961 was the first musical he directed, followed by others including La Cage aux Folles and Gypsy with Angela Lansbury, then Tyne Daly and most recently, Patti LuPone. He pased away in May 2011.

CBS’ Big Brother this Sunday drew 4.7 million total viewers and a 1.3 rating, slipping 19 percent in the demo on Fourth of July Eve yet edging out ABC’s $100,000 Pyramid for the nightly demo win.

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Over on ABC, Celebrity Family Feud (6.2 mil/1.1) suffered the night’s biggest drop, 31 percent, while the aforementioned Pyramid (6.6 mil/1.2) and the increasingly bawdy-for-bawdy’s sake Match Game (5.7 mil/1.1) were down 29 and 27 percent, respectively.

Pyramid delivered Sunday’s largest total audience.

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Over on NBC, the latest U.S. Olympics trials did...

Jennifer Nettles has a new gig - and she's very passionate about it. The singer is the new face of the new 4-h Club. Having joined the local 4-h club in fifth grade in her home state of Georgia, Nettles, 41, credits their local performing arts troupe, Clovers and Co., with helping her achieve her dream career. "It is not hyperbole that I would not be doing what I'm doing today with the level of success at which I'm doing it if it weren't for 4-h," Nettles tells People. "The turning point for me was when I was introduced to Clovers and Co.

Know a hero? Send suggestions to heroesamongus@peoplemag.com. For more inspiring stories, read the latest issue of People magazineMaria Rose Belding spent her middle and high school years being shoved into lockers, physically threatened and told she should kill herself to make the world a better place. But Belding had other plans about how she could improve the world. Almost as soon as she arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin pre-med studies at American University, she met and partnered with a tech-savvy George Washington University Law School student named Grant Nelson. Nelson took Belding's fledgling plans for a...

Know a hero? Send suggestions to heroesamongus@peoplemag.com. For more inspiring stories, read the latest issue of People magazineMaria Rose Belding spent her middle and high school years being shoved into lockers, physically threatened and told she should kill herself to make the world a better place. But Belding had other plans about how she could improve the world. Almost as soon as she arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin pre-med studies at American University, she met and partnered with a tech-savvy George Washington University Law School student named Grant Nelson. Nelson took Belding's fledgling plans for a...

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The Underwoods' single-minded pursuit of power is the story of House Of Cards season 4, which paves the way for a truly exciting season 5...

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There was a very telling moment towards the end of this season of House Of Cards. It involved Claire Underwood and a question that, were this real life, would have dogged her campaign to join her husband’s presidential ticket. It came from Hannah Conway who, as the wife of Republican challenger William, might have been better prepared to withstand pointed comparisons with the First Lady. "Do you regret not having children?", asked the younger woman. Claire’s response was politely acid. "Do you regret having yours?". It was a line that was meant to shock, which it did, but only because it broke one of our society’s mild taboos, in which procreation is seen as a universal good and choosing not to,...

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Sarah Wayne Callies chats to us about The Other Side Of The Door and The Walking Dead...

When I first spoke to Sarah Wayne Callies in 2014 for the release of the joyous disaster movie delights of Into The Storm, it took a while to adjust to the completely different persona she exudes in real life, compared to the often quiet and maternal characters she’s played over the years. Filled with a blunt and refreshing honesty, she’ll happily share experiences – good and bad, while punctuating the air with an occasional swear word, making her an incredibly easy person to talk to.

We caught up with her, complete with cold, to discuss her latest role in The Other Side Of The Door, a horror movie that is as much a tragic family drama, as it is a grisly ghost story. Directed by Brit Johannes Roberts, the story...

David here with some commiserations. The winners have been duly celebrated but what of those valiant souls who came, who sat, and who meekly applauded while silently ripping their pocket speeches to pieces? Are they over it by now?

Leonardo DiCaprio...

It’s been such a good year at the movies that I’m a little bit surprised by the degree to which I’m approaching tomorrow night’s Academy Awards ceremony with something resembling… disinterest. And again, it’s not necessarily the movies. It’s hard to remember a year when there wasn’t at least one obvious howler among the five, or now five-to-10 nominees—just by turning to random pages in Robert Osborne’s 70 Years of Oscar—The Official History of the Academy Awards I am reminded that The Turning Point, Midnight Express, Fatal Attraction and Mississippi Burning were all lauded by the Academy with Best Picture nominations. This year all eight movies nominated are, in my eyes, worthy of some measure of honor, including Room, my choice for the movie of the year. Yet I can’t remember the last time—could it have been 1991?—when I...

I'm beginning to have butterflies. You? Just for fun some random trivia surrounding the number 11 today. Links go to previous articles here at Tfe on these films or performers

• Pictures with exactly 11 Oscar nominations

Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Rebecca (1940), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Sunset Blvd (1950), West Side Story (1961), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Oliver! (1968), The Godfather Pt II (1974), Chinatown (1974), The Turning Point (1977), Gandhi (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), Amadeus (1984), A Passage to India (1984), Out of Africa (1985), The Color Purple (1985), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Aviator (2004), Hugo (2011), and Life of Pi (2012)

• Movies that won exactly 11 Oscars

That's the most any movie has ever won and it's a three way tie: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), The Lord of the Ring: Return of the King (2003). Currently Ben-Hur is being remade and is supposedly opening this very summer... wish them good luck because living up to such a...

Character actor Abe Vigoda, who played the dilapidated Detective Phil Fish in the 1970s series Barney Miller and a short-lived spinoff and mafia soldier Sal Tessio in the first two Godfather films, has died. He was 94. Vigoda’S daughter tells The Associated Press that he died Tuesday in his sleep at his New Jersey home. Vigoda began acting in New York theater and with small roles in television. The turning point in his career came in 1972 when Francis Ford Coppola cast…...

Character actor Abe Vigoda, who played the dilapidated Detective Phil Fish in the 1970s series Barney Miller and a short-lived spinoff and mafia soldier Sal Tessio in the first two Godfather films, has died. He was 94. Vigoda’S daughter tells The Associated Press that he died Tuesday in his sleep at his New Jersey home. Vigoda began acting in New York theater and with small roles in television. The turning point in his career came in 1972 when Francis Ford Coppola cast…...

It’s finally happened, the 616 Marvel Universe is dead and we know how it was eventually recreated. The reboot had booted, Secret Wars #9 of 9 hit stores and digital shops today.

Secret Wars started way yonder in May 2015 when we were still talking about Avengers: Age of Ultron and Furious 7 achieving box office dominance. We were a little shy of Jurassic World in June smacking down both pre-summer competitors and far off from the global blockbuster that is Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Just to give some perspective.

Secret Wars was supposed to kick off a Marvel Universe with recognizable characters in new status quo situations that could tempt more readers to the Marvel line as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continued to expand. Rather than line up the new universe with the McU in a direct way, Marvel also took the opportunity to continue some of their more progressive characters,...

'True Grit' 2010: Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges. 'True Grit' 2010 review: 'Far Superior' to 1969 John Wayne Western I've gotten to the point with the Coen brothers where I just expect something wonderful every time they make a movie. For me, that was the case even with an effort like True Grit. For others, however, it was different. When the Coens announced their plans to adapt Charles Portis' novel, heads turned and were scratched by many. After all, not only were the brothers going to adapt a book, something they had done only once before (twice if you count The Odyssey), but they were going to remake a movie made famous by John Wayne in 1969. To many, especially lovers of Westerns, touching True Grit was sacrilege. But the Coens weren't deterred, and thankfully so. Their adaptation of True Grit is not only far superior to Henry Hathaway's 1969 version, it...

The family of Robert Durst's long-missing first wife, Kathleen, has begun the process of filing a wrongful death civil suit against the imprisoned real estate heir and suspected murderer, New York Magazine reports.

Kathleen McCormack — who went by Kathie — disappeared in 1982 after a fight with her husband at their home in South Salem, New York. As recently chronicled in the HBO docuseries, The Jinx, Durst told police that his wife returned to New York City alone that night, but no reliable witnesses could corroborate the trip. Her body has never been found,...

By Patrick Shanley

Managing Editor

Director Steven Spielberg has been one of the most successful directors in Hollywood for four decades, with major commercial hits that have broken records at the box office. His latest film, Bridge of Spies, premiered Sunday night at the New York Film Festival and centers on an American lawyer (Tom Hanks) who is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a detained pilot from Soviet Russia.

Spielberg’s last collaboration to star Hanks, 2004’s dramedy The Terminal, failed to earn any nominations from the Academy, whilst their previous collaboration, 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, earned just two Oscar nominations (best supporting actor for Christopher Walken, best original score for John Williams) but was unable to take home either, despite positive reviews and large box office numbers.

Despite having won three Oscars in his career, and the multitude of iconic films that he has helmed,...

Good TV used to be an oxymoron. For many years, hour long shows were filled with situations that just didn't reflect what the viewing public wanted. Half hour shows weren't much better but at least they were funny. TV was seen as a graveyard. The place that actors went when their careers stalled. No serious director worked in this medium. Ever.

Then Reality TV happened and TV seemed to reach it lowest ebb yet. Whether it was couples searching for "true" love, or people getting $100 (after taxes!) for doing gross and disgusting things, it was one bad show after another. So you had bad episodic TV, bad half-hour TV and just awful Reality TV. Then something interesting happened...Cable TV and a little HBO show called The Sopranos.

Filled with real characters, violence, well written dialogue, and just about everything else that grabs viewers, The Sopranos showed that TV could be better than good,...

Theodore Bikel. Theodore Bikel dead at 91: Oscar-nominated actor and folk singer best known for stage musicals 'The Sound of Music,' 'Fiddler on the Roof' Folk singer, social and union activist, and stage, film, and television actor Theodore Bikel, best remembered for starring in the Broadway musical The Sound of Music and, throughout the U.S., in Fiddler on the Roof, died Monday morning (July 20, '15) of "natural causes" at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The Austrian-born Bikel – as Theodore Meir Bikel on May 2, 1924, in Vienna, to Yiddish-speaking Eastern European parents – was 91. Fled Hitler Thanks to his well-connected Zionist father, six months after the German annexation of Austria in March 1938 ("they were greeted with jubilation by the local populace," he would recall in 2012), the 14-year-old Bikel and his family fled to Palestine, at the time a British protectorate. While there, the teenager began acting on stage,...

Happy Birthday Arthur Laurents Laurents' first play, Home of the Brave, opened on Broadway in 1945, followed by many others. He wrote his first musical, West Side Story, in 1957, followed by Gypsy and others. His first screenplay was The Snake Pit in 1948, followed by others including Rope, Anastasia, The Way We Were and The Turning Point. His own play, Invitation to a March in 1960, was the first of several he directed. I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1961 was the first musical he directed, followed by others including La Cage aux Folles and Gypsy with Angela Lansbury, then Tyne Daly and most recently, Patti LuPone. He pased away in May 2011.

Going the Distance: Marques-Marcet Explores the Strain of Separation

An exploration of the effects an extended period of long distance has on the stability of a once functioning relationship the core of 10,000 Km. Its title suggests an arbitrary estimate of the distance between the two particular locales, but besides suggesting the rather unhelpful capabilities of staying connected via social media, Spanish director Carlos Marques-Marcet does little to enhance a basic scenario enlivened by vague characterizations of pretty young things unable to conquer the challenges posed by unavoidable time apart. What is of more interest is perhaps the particular effect the scenario seems to have on its audiences. Many of us can relate to similar relationship woes, where absence certainly makes the heart grow fonder, but absence without a concrete date of return can inspire the opposite effect. And thus, the general colorless palette of this heterosexual couple here allows...