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This story contains spoilers for the Nov. 26 episode of “Dancing With the Stars”

In Tuesday night’s Season 33 finale of “Dancing With the Stars,” the five final couples competed for the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy with a “redemption” dance assigned by the judges in which they tackled a style they had previously gotten wrong.

The second round featured several eye-popping freestyle routines, including the showstopper of Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong — the first Black duo in the finale — staging a multi-decade tribute to renowned African-American dancers like the Nicholas Brothers that had Carrie Ann Inaba saying, “You’ve changed the future for people to come!” While Kinney seemed a shoo-in to take home the top prize, she shockingly ended in third place.

And the winner of Season 33 was “The Bachelor” star Joey Graziadei and partner Jenna Johnson, with Olympian Ilona Maher and her partner Alan Bersten taking second. Super Bowl...

The Dancing with the Stars finale is airing tonight, and it’s a three-hour event on ABC!

There’s a lot in store this evening, including 3 dances for each of the remaining five contestants: Danny Amendola, Joey Graziadei, Chandler Kinney, Ilona Maher, and Stephen Nedoroscik.

We’re recapping all of the performers you will see throughout the night, as well as the songs the contestants and their pro partners will be dancing to this evening.

Head inside for the finale lineup…

Dancing with the Stars 2024 Finale Lineup

Performances:

DWTS Live 2025 Tour pro dancers perform “Rush” by Troye Sivan.

Mark Ballas and Derek Hough will dance to “Libertango” by Tango Bard.

Season 32 winners Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy will dance to “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan.

Redemption Round:

Danny Amendola and pro Witney Carson will perform a Tango to “I Had Some Help” by Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen.

Joey...

It's hard to believe that Season 33 of Dancing With The Stars is about to take its final bow, but the end is indeed nigh and while fans are quite sad to see it go, the network has a lot planned for its proverbial last dances.

DWTS Season 33 has been an absolute roller coaster, from the controversial decision to cast ex-con Anna Delvey to several shock eliminations, two preemptions, and at least one "fake out" send-off.

Speaking of non-eliminations, last week's semifinals entailed just that: after an extremely tense build up, viewers were shocked when no one was sent home during the reality TV competition's penultimate episode.

In our recap, we reported:

"After revealing which couples [were] safe, Ilona and Danny and Stephen and Rylee remain[ed] in jeopardy. Pitting the Olympians against each other was some sly work on behalf of DWTS producers, but ultimately, they announce[d] thatSURPRISEnobody [was] going home."

Again, DWTS...

Warning! This Article Contains Major Spoilers About The Dancing With The Stars Season 33 Finale!The Dancing With The Stars season 33 finale airs on Tuesday, November 26, and all of the exciting songs and dances that will be performed by the final five contestants have been revealed. During the DWTS season 33 semifinals, all five contestants advanced to the finale in a surprise twist. They include Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong, Danny Amendola and Witney Carson, Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson, Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten, and Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold.

According to an ABC press release, the three-hour DWTS season 33 finale will feature the final five couples doing two dances each. One dance will be assigned by the judges--Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli--while the other will be a freestyle routine. The episode will begin with an opening number to "Holiday" by Madonna, which was choreographed by Ray Leeper.

The DWTS Season 33 finale is nearly here! The exciting episode will be quite similar to Season 32’s finale — the episode will be three hours long and feature five finalists competing for the Mirrorball Trophy.

In addition to the final five’s routines, there will also be special guest performances fans can look forward to. Read on to see what to expect when the fun begins on Tuesday night.

The DWTS Season 33 Finale Features Several Special Performances

Although Season 31 champion Mark Ballas officially retired as a pro dancer, he still has plenty of love for Dancing With The Stars. This year, he appeared as a guest judge for an episode. Fans loved his appearance and said they’d love to see him return to the judges’ table full-time.

In the DWTS Season 33 finale, he will join his best friend Derek Hough for a special duet. The pair will dance to “Libertango...

With final Oscar balloting closed on March 7, we’re continuing with our sixth annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their unfiltered takes on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued in the 2023 award season. Interview edited for brevity.

Best Picture

Well, this year is the year of the repeat for me. I watched more movies a second time to try and figure out why I didn’t like them the first time.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” I watched three and a half times. I thought it was a generational thing. But then everyone else I know loved it. So I watched it once in the theater and I go, “I don’t really get it.” And I tried it a second time on the [Academy screening] portal. And I gave up halfway. And then it won all the awards. And I said to myself, “I’m not sure,...

Thrillers from the Vault – 8 Classic Films

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Mill Creek Entertainment

1941, 1942, 1943, 1951 / B&w / 1.33: 1 / Blu ray

Starring Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi

Written by Robert Andrews, Edwin Blum, Randall Faye, Arch Oboler

Directed by Edward Dmytryk, Lew Landers, Arch Oboler

This is part two of a review for Mill Creek Entertainment’s Thrillers from the Vault, 8 Classics Films. Part one can be found here.

The Devil Commands is a hell of a title, and it’s a pretty good movie too. Released in 1941, Edward Dmytryk’s spookfest stars Boris Karloff as Julian Blair, a scientist whose experiments are a family affair—his wife Helen is one of his subjects.

Blair achieves his goal—a machine that records thought processes—but on a night he should be celebrating, his wife is killed in a car crash. Something breaks inside Blair and when he discovers that Helen may continue to live on through his invention,...

It’s a very musical episode! Director and Tfh Guru, Allan Arkush, returns to talk about his favorite rock and roll movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

No Nukes (1980)

Amazing Grace (2018) – Dennis Cozzalio’s Oscar nominee reactions

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) – Eli Roth’s trailer commentary

Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) – ​​Jesus Treviño’s trailer commentary

Mister Rock And Roll (1957)

Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Hail Hail Rock And Roll! (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary

Hellzapoppin’ (1941)

Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Almost Famous (2000) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Wayne’s World (1992)

The Graduate (1967) – Neil Labute’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Scorpio Rising...

Most people smile just at the mention of this show … nothing is more healthy than an old fashioned laugh. Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams’ non-stop joke fest finds good fun in movie spoofery without malice, and is populated by a squadron of old pros that once made the originals fly right, no matter how clunky they were. All hail Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Peter Graves, the veterans of countless ‘keep a straight face and pretend it’s serious’ groaners. It’s a 40th Anniversary new restoration. Now, finally, do I park in the red zone or the white zone?

Airplane!

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Paramount Presents

1980 / Color / 1.78 widescreen / 87 min. / Street Date July 21, 2020 / 22.99

Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Barbara Billingsley, Ethel Merman, James Hong, Maureen McGovern, Kenneth Tobey, Jimmie Walker, Kitten Natividad.

Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc

Film Editor: Patrick Kennedy

Visual Effects: Robert Blalack,...

From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema

• Walter Murch: why movies need cinemas

In my days as an impecunious young cineaste, there was the Tolmer cinema in Euston, the cheapest picturehouse in London, or anywhere – two shillings a time. A converted church, it was filthy, decrepit and gloriously eclectic. It showed whatever they could find, new prints and old. The Leopard – the original version, no subtitles; Hellzapoppin’; Rashomon; Svenska Flickor I Franska Sexorgier. Incomplete prints, sudden random reels from other films, frames catching fire in the projector. Wonderful. An education in cinema. But you didn’t sit where the tramps peed themselves.

The star, Alexandra Daddario, the writer, Alan Trezza, and the director, Marc Meyers, of the terrific new film We Summon The Darkness walk us through some of their favorite movies.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

We Summon The Darkness (2020)

Burying The Ex (2015)

The Little Mermaid (1989)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

American Beauty (1999)

Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Ghostbusters (1984)

The Sound of Music (1965)

L.A. Story (1991)

Ghost Dad (1990)

Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)

Roxanne (1987)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

Fargo (1996)

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Psycho (1960)

Psycho (1998)

Defending Your Life (1991)

Modern Romance (1981)

The Jerk (1979)

Jaws (1975)

Notting Hill (1999)

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)

When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

Love Actually (2003)

Marley & Me (2008)

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

World’s Greatest Dad (2009)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Raging Bull (1980)

Mandy (2018)

Heathers (1988)

Ed Wood (1994)

Hellzapoppin’ (1941)

Fletch (1985)

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Batman Returns (1992)

Warlock (1989)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Star Wars (1977)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

The Swimmer (1968)

Sherman’s March (1985)

Amadeus (1984)

Amarcord (1974)

Hugo Pool (1997)

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills...

Here are many more movies to watch when you’re staying in for a while, featuring recommendations from Steven Canals, Larry Karaszewski, Gareth Reynolds, and Alan Arkush with special guest star Blaire Bercy from the Hollywood Food Coalition.

Please support the Hollywood Food Coalition. Text “Give” to 323.402.5704 or visit https://hofoco.org/donate!

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Kung Fu Mama a.k.a. Queen of Fist (1973)

Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974)

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019)

In The Mood For Love (2000)

Hunger (2008)

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Fargo (1996)

Night of the Lepus (1971)

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

Soylent Green (1973)

Silent Running (1972)

Canyon Passage (1946)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

The Professionals (1966)

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Carrie (1952)

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

Hello Down There (1969)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

The Trouble With Angels (1966)

Pollyanna (1960)

Tiger Bay (1959)

The Parent Trap (1961)

Endless Night (1972)

The Family Way (1966)

Take A Girl Like You (1970)

Freddy Got Fingered...

Mark Harrison May 19, 2017

From the currently playing Their Finest to the likes of Bowfinger and Boogie Nights, we salute the movies about making movies...

If you haven't caught up yet, Their Finest is currently playing in UK cinemas and it's a gorgeous little love letter to perseverance through storytelling, set against the backdrop of a film production office at the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War. Based on Lissa Evans' novel, Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy play characters whose access to the film industry has been contingent on the global crisis that takes other young men away from such trifling matters, and it's a real joy to watch.

Among other things, the film got us thinking about other films about making films. We're not talking about documentaries, even though Hearts Of Darkness, the documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now, may be the greatest film about...

Is satire obsolete? Our appalling present political reality has surpassed some of the wildest jokes in director Joe Dante's 'exaggerated, outrageous' 1997 cable movie. An immigration squabble snowballs until a renegade state governor closes his border and threatens to secede from the Union. It's a 'political idiocy' version of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ... and nineteen years later, we're stuck living it. The Second Civil War DVD (2005) HBO Video 1997 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 96 min. / Street Date August 30, 2005 / 14.98 Starring Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, James Coburn, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Peña, Denis Leary, Ron Perlman, Kevin Dunn, Brian Keith, Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller, William Schallert, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Jerry Hardin, Roger Corman, Rance Howard, Robert Picardo, Alexandra Wilson, Belinda Belaski, Jennifer Carlson, Sean Lawlor. Cinematography Mac Ahlberg Film Editor Marshall Harvey Original Music Hummie Mann Written by Martyn Burke Produced by Guy Riedel Directed by Joe Dante...

 C.S. Hanson: Charles Winn Speaks Directed by Lynn M. Thomson Living Arts Theater Company Cherry Lane Studio Theater

In Charles Winn Speaks,actor Christopher Kipiniak certainly speaks and speaks and speaks. The play consists of four acts, played with no intermission: two long monologs, followed a scene with another character, followed by a brief concluding monolog. In short, Charles Winn does a whole lotta speaking, and for the most part, engagingly so.

Christopher Kipiniak rattles on as Charles Winn, mostly solo for a full ninety minutes in his authentic Russian accent. Classic film aficionados would know this accent from the Russian actor Mischa Auer, who played supporting roles in films which ranged from Hellzapoppin' to Destry Rides Again. When he would appear on the screen, I would endure his grating voice until the stars of the film took over (luckily he was never the star). When it was apparent...

Tony Award-winning dancer Frankie Manning has died, aged 94.

A swing-era dance pioneer, Manning became a master of the Lindy Hop. He began his career in the 1930s in Harlem, New York's premier ballroom, the Savoy and was soon hired as a contract dancer at the famed Cotton Club. And his swift success took him on tours of Europe, New Zealand and Australia.

He also danced in Hollywood films including 1938's Radio City Revels and the film version of Broadway's Hellzapoppin' in 1941 and appeared in 1939 musical The Hot Mikado.

Manning took a hiatus from dance to serve with the U.S. Army in World War II, and was celebrated upon his return.

In 1989, he co-choreographed a Lindy routine for Alvin Ailey’s Opus McShann - the same year he shared the Tony for best choreography with Cholly Atkins, Henry LeTang and Fayard Nicholas for their contributions to the Broadway revue Black and Blue.

And in 1992, he returned to Hollywood, appearing in Spike Lee's Malcolm X - and was commissioned by the director to train Denzel Washington for a Lindy scene in the movie.

In addition to the Tony, Manning was also awarded the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2000.

Manning's death was announced by his companion, Judy Pritchett. No cause of death had been disclosed as WENN went to press.

He is survived by two sons, Charles Young, Frank Manning Jr., a daughter, Marion Price, a half-brother, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.