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Deadpool & Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds have revealed their top four favorite films in a new viral video.

Via Letterboxd, Jackman and Reynolds were asked to participate in the viral trend of naming their favorite films, joining a long list of stars who have revealed their choices. Jackman chose the following films: Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, Singing in the Rain, The Deer Hunter, and Gallipoli. Meanwhile, Ryan Reynolds named Rebecca, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Gaslight, and Grosse Point Blank.

Four Favorites with #DeadpoolAndWolverine stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. @deadpoolmovie @marvelstudios pic.twitter.com/ngZiIf3pea Letterboxd (@letterboxd) July 15, 2024

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Catwoman's upgraded team of allies rivals Batman's Bat-Family in abilities and loyalty. Catwoman has developed her own successful network of companions to protect Gotham City. Preview for Catwoman #67 shows the Cat-Family ready to face their biggest challenge yet.

Contains a preview for Catwoman #67!

Following her recent power upgrade, Catwoman has also been upgrading her network of allies, rivaling Batman's Bat-Family. A preview for Catwoman #67 shows the team in action, briefly highlighting its abilities. With more time and appearances, Selina Kyle's team could prove to be an indispensable set of companions - and a true family for her the way Bruce Wayne's adopted family is for him.

Catwoman #67 has the creative team of Tini Howard and Carmine di Giandomenico. Recently, the titular antiheroine has been given a major power-up similar to her Batman Returns film universe counterpart. She has nine lives thanks to a meteor and has lost the majority of them.

Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight Screenshot: Fandango/YouTube 1944 signaled a high-water mark for film noir with the release of Double Indemnity. The film codified elements that we now think of as genre tropes: the detective delivering backstory via voiceover, the shadows of Venetian blinds on the wall. But,...

(from left) Angela Lansbury in Beauty And The Beast; Lansbury in Gaslight; Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote. Image: Todd Gilchrist/ Walt Disney Pictures; Warner Archive; CBS Television The late, widely beloved Angela Lansbury holds a unique place in the pop culture firmament as a performer who sustained a nearly eight-decade...

Rick Aiello, actor and son of Oscar nominee Danny Aiello, died of pancreatic cancer on Monday at a hospital in Warwick, N.Y., his niece Sydney Fingerhut told Variety. He was 65.

Fingerhut remembers him as a great uncle who was close to all his nieces and nephews, and a “strong guy.”

With more than 60 acting credits, Aiello followed in his father’s footsteps, appearing alongside him in Spike Lee’s 1989 classic “Do the Right Thing.” His father earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Salvatore “Sal” Fragione and Aiello played Officer Long, a role he’d reprise a couple years later in Lee’s “Jungle Fever.”

Aiello also starred in films, including Christian Maelen’s “Remedy” and George Gallo’s “29th Street,” and toplined the TV series “Dellaventura” and the movie “A Brooklyn State of Mind” opposite his dad. As a character actor, Aiello had roles in shows such as “The Sopranos,...

“It isn’t here, you must have dreamed you put it there. Are you suggesting that this is a knife I hold in my hand? Have you gone mad, my husband?”

Gaslight plays at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, Mo 63117) September 19th at 10:30am as part of their Classic Film Series

Greetings again from the darkness! Husbands were surely disliked in the 1940’s, at least by writers of movies! There is no shortage of films depicting the villainous husband targeting the unsuspecting and defenseless wife. A couple years prior to Gaslight we had Suspcion, and a couple years after, we had Notorious. The latter also features Ingrid Bergman who won her first Oscar for Gaslight, one of the more atmospheric of the psychological thrillers.

Gaslight is based on the Patrick Hamilton play Angel Street, which will be performed live, on stage at St. Louis’ own Rep Theater...

Ingrid Bergman ca. early 1940s. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial 'Gaslight' to the magisterial 'Autumn Sonata' Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, '15, TCM is focusing on another Swedish actress, three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. TCM has likely aired most of Bergman's Hollywood films, and at least some of her early Swedish work. As a result, today's only premiere is Fielder Cook's little-seen and little-remembered From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), about two bored kids (Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) who run away from home and end up at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Obviously, this is no A Night at the Museum – and that's a major plus. Bergman plays an elderly art lover who takes an interest in them; her...

"Performance" is the theme of the new issue of Screen Machine, with essays on Al Pacino in Michael Mann's Heat (1995) and Anton Walbrook’s in Thorold Dickinson's Gaslight (1940 and more. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Time Out's polled directors, scientists and authors for its list of the "100 best sci-fi movies." Plus Terrence Rafferty on Jacques Demy, Adam Schatz on Alain Robbe-Grillet, Laya Maheshwari's conversation with Park Chan-wook, Jessica Kiang's interview with William Friedkin—and Josh Horowitz has gotten Woody Allen to appear on his first podcast. » - David Hudson...

"Performance" is the theme of the new issue of Screen Machine, with essays on Al Pacino in Michael Mann's Heat (1995) and Anton Walbrook’s in Thorold Dickinson's Gaslight (1940 and more. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Time Out's polled directors, scientists and authors for its list of the "100 best sci-fi movies." Plus Terrence Rafferty on Jacques Demy, Adam Schatz on Alain Robbe-Grillet, Laya Maheshwari's conversation with Park Chan-wook, Jessica Kiang's interview with William Friedkin—and Josh Horowitz has gotten Woody Allen to appear on his first podcast. » - David Hudson...

1. The term "gaslight." The Ingrid Bergman thriller "Gaslight" -- released 70 years ago this week, on May 4, 1944, wasn't the original use of the title. There was Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play "Gas Light," retitled "Angel Street" when it came to Broadway a couple years later. And there was a British film version in 1939, starring Anton Walbrook (later the cruel impresario in "The Red Shoes") and Diana Wynyard.

Still, the glossy 1944 MGM version remains the best-known telling of the tale, with the title an apparent reference to the flickering Victorian lamps that are part of Gregory's (Charles Boyer) scheme to make wife Paula (Bergman) think she's seeing things that aren't there, thus deliberately undermining her sanity in order to have her institutionalized so that he'll be free to ransack the ancestral home to find the missing family jewels.

This version of Hamilton's tale was so popular that it made the word "gaslight"into a verb,...

★★★☆☆Austrian actor Anton Walbrook is perhaps best-known for his turn as ballet master Boris Lermontov in Powell and Pressburger's sumptuous The Red Shoes (1948). In that film, jealousy saw him prey on the fears and desires of Mora Shearer and eight years earlier he was causing similar mental anguish through manipulation in Gaslight (1940). Rereleased as part of the BFI's Gothic season, its narrative is also driven by an obsession over items of glimmering scarlet - on this occasion, some hidden rubies. Yet, it's a dearth of tension that ultimately lessens the impact of Thorold Dickinson's psychological drama.

The British Film Institute (BFI) is to launch a major project dedicated to Gothic cinema, which includes more than 150 films and around 1,000 screenings throughout the UK.

Running from August until January 2014, the Gothic project include the longest ever season at BFI’s Southbank venue in London, UK wide theatrical and DVD releases, an education programme, a new BFI Gothic book, a range of partnerships, special guests and commentators including project ambassador Sir Christopher Frayling.

Heather Stewart, creative director at the BFI, said: “Gothic has never been more potent or popular, reflecting the turbulent times we are living in, our deepest fears and hidden passions.

“The British discovered sex in vivid Technicolor through Gothic. With a new generation gripped by the post modern Gothic world of Twilight’s ‘vegetarian’ vampires, Harry Potter’s spells and El James’s 50 Shades, its meaning has mutated yet again. It’s now time to look back into the deep dark beating heart of...

"I'm not one of those people who sits in the dark, looking at their work from 70 years earlier," Angela Lansbury insists. "I'm really not."

Still, the widely loved stage and screen star is pleased that many of her films are about to be showcased by Turner Classic Movies. The channel has named the "Murder, She Wrote" television icon its Star of the Month for January, with Lansbury festivals running each Wednesday.

The titles range from her screen debut in 1944's "Gaslight" (Jan. 4) to her chilling portrayal of one of movie history's most manipulative mothers in 1962's "The Manchurian Candidate" (Jan. 18) -- both Oscar-nominated performances.

"When I see it now," Lansbury tells Zap2it of her "Gaslight" work, "I say, 'How did you ever have the chutzpah to play that role as you did, at that age?' I'm enormously interested in how I arrived at that performance, but I also...