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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Squid Game season 2.

Squid Game season 2 star Lee Jung-jae explains Gi-hun's justification for sacrificing other players as the season progresses. Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the Netflix thriller show became a sensation in 2021, chronicling Gi-hun's journey through a series of deadly games to win a massive sum of prize money. Squid Game season 2 brought the show back in December with Gi-hun now working to take down the games, and the finale sees a number of his fellow players get gunned down as they make a violent push toward the control room.

During a recent Squid Game season 2 featurette shared by Netflix K-Content, Lee breaks down Gi-hun's state of mind heading into the games and how things shift over time. According to the star, the lack of progress the character is making in terms of saving lives and stopping the games leads to him becoming more ruthless and...

Spoilers from Days Of Our Lives episodes for the upcoming week. ( Photo Credit – Facebook )

The Salem, Illinois, based show has seen a flurry of dynamics in its long history. The new year has not brought the drama to halt whatsoever. Fans of the soap opera are excited for more but what do the writers have up their sleeves for the last two days of the year and the first three of the new year?

Here’s an overview of what to expect from the next week’s episodes. Other soap operas might have a few days of encore episodes but Days of Our Lives viewers have nothing to fret about. Since it streams on Peacock now, there will be a new episode each day of the week. Here’s what we know about the coming week’s slate of episodes and the drama they promise.

Days Of Our Lives Weekly Spoilers Monday,...

Kenya Moore & Kandi Burruss Image ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

The Real Housewives of Atlanta has been in the news for months, be it the cast shakeup or Kenya Moore’s controversial exit from the upcoming 16th season. There has also been another rumor related to the edition, a spinoff show called Ex-Wives Club. Here’s what Kenya and Kandi Buruss revealed about the show, including their current equation with Rhoa alum Nene Leakes.

Kenya Moore & Kandi Burruss On Rumored Rhoa Spinoff

During a Kandi hosted Amazon live session, she chatted with Moore, who was an invited guest. When the topic of the rumored spinoff came up, they said they had no idea about it and wouldn’t do the reported show even if they were asked to. “Nobody told me about that; I’ve not spoken to nobody about doing that; I would not even do that, so let’s stop,...

Taylor Ann Green’s Beach Bungalow ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

From amongst the many Bravo shows that have entertained viewers over several seasons, Southern Charm has managed to win its own set of fans. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, the reality series is currently airing its tenth season. In a recent episode of the popular Southern culture show, Taylor Ann Green gave the netizens a sneak peek into her beach bungalow.

Inside Taylor Ann Green’s Beach Bungalow Buying the house at 24 years of age

Taylor repurchased the Charleston house in 2021 and has been renovating and changing the place ever since. In the episode, she welcomes co-cast member Rodrigo Reyes into her bungalow and allows the cameras to film the details of her home. “My little beach bungalow,” she says, revealing that she bought the property when she was only 24 years old.”

“Dang, girl,” Rodrigo reacts. Taylor added that she wanted...

Dexter Original Sin show details ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Showtime wasted no time greenlighting Dexter: Original Sin after New Blood’s record-breaking finale. While fans were shocked by Dexter’s end, the network acted quickly, opting for a prequel instead of a direct sequel. How’s that for timing?

Showrunner Clyde Phillips was all set to dive into a sequel. “We wrote all 10 episodes of the sequel,” Phillips revealed, adding that things got a little wild when MTV Entertainment’s Chris McCarthy came on board. McCarthy, fresh off the success of Yellowstone’s prequels, wasn’t into sequels. He wanted Original Sin. He told Phillips, “I’m not in the sequel business; I’m in the prequel business,” just like that, a Dexter prequel was born. Phillips quickly pitched it, and McCarthy’s four-word response sealed the deal: “Phenomenal. I love it.”

And bam, production kicked off.

But there’s more.

Seong Gi-hun Squid Game Season 2 ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

The ending of Squid Game Season 2 has left the audience wondering about what’s next for this highly anticipated drama series. Soon after arriving on Netflix, Season 2 of Squid Game became the talk of the town. The comeback story of Seong Gi-hun consists of only seven episodes, which is fewer than the first season. However, the ending of the latest season has left the door open for endless possibilities.

How did Squid Game Season 2 end? Does Seong Gi-hun get his mission accomplished?

Season 2 of Squid Game ended on a cliffhanger when Seong Gi-hun failed in his mission to stop the game. This happened when Player 456 devised a plan to attack the base of the Pink Army and capture their leader. However, Gi-hun’s force includes Player 001, who is revealed to be none other than the Front Man himself. In the final moments,...

The following contains spoilers for Moana 2, now playing in theaters

Moana 2's big emotional moment in the film's climax carries on a longstanding meaning of Walt Disney Animation. Moana 2 is the latest entry to the canon of animated movies that's been going strong for almost a century. Over the course of 63 films, Walt Disney Animation has explored several different themes and settings, with a colorful collection of characters that reflect an ever-changing perspective on the world at large. Despite this wide variety, many of the films do ultimately share a lot of common elements.

Moana 2 pokes fun at elements like Disney Princesses, subverting long-standing aspects of the franchise. However, one of the film's most emotionally powerful moments has a deep-seeted connection to other entries in the series. Moana 2's ending highlights one of the most powerful recurring themes in Disney Animation, and elevates Moana's status as a hero.

The second season of Squid Game is all set to premiere on December 26 and Netflix released the first trailer. The trailer sees the show’s breakout star Lee Jung-jae return as Seong Gi-hun and surprisingly sees him become a participant in the games once again. However, there seems to be a twist.

The makers of the thriller series have hinted at new games being a part of the series. Despite promising to take down the organization at the end of season 1, Seong Gi-hun seems to be back as a participant but is trying to get other participants to unite and boycott the games. One fan theory seems to have guessed why the games have changed.

Squid Game Season 2 Trailer Hints At Seong Gi-hun’s Plans Lee Jung-jae in Squid Game | Credits: Netflix

When Squid Game was released back in 2021, it quickly became one of Netflix’s most-watched shows. The series focused on Seong Gi-hun,...

Girl Group challenge influenced by Covid pause was a standout moment in Drag Race UK S2. "UK, Hun?" surpassed expectations, topped charts, and boosted season's success. Unserious nature and silliness set "UK, Hun?" apart, contributing to its lasting impact.

RuPaul's Drag Race is not short of iconic main-stage challenges. From the Snatch Game to the Ball, these challenges help to formulate the identity of each season, often providing some of the most memorable moments. Despite the first of its kind appearing in the first ever season back in 2009, the Girl Groups only began to appear consistently after Season 14. However, they have appeared in all seasons of Drag Race UK, Down Under, and all but one season of All Stars, and remain one of the main challenges fans look forward to.

As each season produces a new group of songs for fans to enjoy, it only gets increasingly difficult to say definitively one is the best.

Nowadays, Shaquille O’Neal is best known for his work on Inside the NBA and as an Icy Hot pitchman, but he made his name as one of the most dominant basketball players of all time. This gave Shaq a leg up in pursuing rapping, and he released four albums in the 1990s. His third effort, You Can’t Stop the Reign, is now on streaming, and it notably features Jay-Z and Nas’ first collaboration.

The streaming version of “No Love Lost” marks the first time we’re officially hearing the original track. Apparently, Nas didn’t clear his verse for the album’s 1996 release.

Though Shaq had become a capable Mc three albums into his career and Lord Tariq is talented in his own right, Jay and Nas are obviously the main attractions on “No Love Lost.”

Both in their mafioso eras, neither artist disappoints, with Jay rapping, “We stepped it up,...

SXSW Film & TV Festival announced multiple categories for the 2024 event, including Opening Night TV Premiere, Centerpiece Screening and more.

Netflix’s “3 Body Problem,” executive produced and written by “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, along with “True Blood” writer Alexander Woo is set to debut as the Opening Night TV Premiere. The highly anticipated series, which stars Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Marlo Kelly, Benedict Wong and Jonathan Pryce, is an adaptation of the best-selling novel.

For the Centerpiece Screening, SXSW will debut the feature film adaptation of the 1980s series “The Fall Guy,” directed by “Atomic Blonde” helmer David Leitch, and starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Gosling portrays a battle-scarred stuntman sent back to work on his a film his ex-wife (Blunt) is directing, when the leading star goes missing. “The Fall Guy” is described as a “big-screen...

Prizes for ‘Explanation For Everything’, ‘Green Border’.

Slow, the second feature from Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze, has won the Crystal Arrow at the 15th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival in France.

The romantic drama receives a €20,000 digital promotional campaign for its release; Be For Films handles sales on the title, with Tandem distributing the film in France on March 6, 2024.

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A Sundance 2023 premiere, Slow follows a dancer and sign language interpreter who begin a relationship, building their own kind of intimacy.

It is a second feature for Kavtaradze after 2018 Toronto selection Summer...

The makers of Abhay Verma and Meera Chopra-starrer ‘Safed’ unveiled the teaser of the social drama on Thursday.

It showcases the victims of social oppression, and how the lead duo find solace, and redemption in each other, melting away their lonely existence.

Abhay, who is known for his work in ‘The Family Man’ and ‘Uljhe Hue’ is seen as ‘Chaandi’, while Meera Chopra, who has appeared in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films, and is known for projects like ‘Bangaram’, ‘Lee’, ‘Vaana’, ‘1920 London’ and ‘Section 375’ among others, is portraying the character of ‘Kaali’.

The film is a love story between a transgender (Chaandi) and a widow (Kaali).

The teaser opens with a message ‘Insaan Hun, Gaali Nahi… Kaali-Chandi’, along with a voiceover which says “Safed rang pehannne se vidhwa ho jate hain”, to which another voice replies “vidhwa hokar safed ho jate hain”.

It shows the face...

Submissions to the competition sections up 23% for this year’s festival.

Sudabeh Mortezai’s Europa is one of 10 feature world premieres set to screen in competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival next month (August 11-18).

Europa is the fifth feature from Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Mortezai, and follows an ambitious executive working at a mysterious corporation looking to expand into the Balkans. Mortezai’s previous feature Joy debuted at Venice in 2018; while her 2014 title Macondo premiered at the Berlinale.

Five of the 10 titles in the feature film competition are directed by women. Also having its world premiere in the feature film competition...

The selection also includes projects from Kirill Serebrennikov and Agnieszka Holland

David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is among 32 projects to receive a share of €8.3m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.

Cronenberg’s new feature, a co-production between Canada and France, received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. Vincent Cassel plays a widower who creates a device that allows you to connect with the dead. Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce also star in the thriller.

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The only other project to also receive €500,000 was Adrià Garcia’s animation The Treasure Of Barracuda,...

Nominations are in for the Virgin Media Must See Moment prize which will be handed out at the BAFTA TV Awards on May 8 in London. The field of six nominees includes moments from 2021 installments of Squid Game, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

In the mix are a Red Light, Green Light game clip from Korean hit Squid Game, Ant and Dec of I’m A Celebrity taking a jab at Boris Johnson and the so-called lockdown parties; a performance of “UK, Hun?” on RuPaul’s Drag Race; and Adele experiencing a blast from the past. Scroll down for the full list of nominees (along with a link to the videos).

The audience-voted award also gives a member of the public a chance to win two tickets to the ceremony and red carpet as well as a one-night stay at a five-star London hotel.

15 feature projects chosen from 164 submissions.

Silver Haze, the new feature from Dirty God director Sacha Polak, is among 15 feature projects in post-production selected for the 2021 edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival Work in Progress session.

The event is intended to help projects find sales agents, distributors and festival prremieres; it will run on Sunday, December 12 as part of the Industry Village at the 13th edition of the festival (December 11-18).

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Excerpts from the films will be screened to industry professionals, in a session moderated by the festival’s artistic director Frederic Boyer,...

Films include Emerald Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman’ and Blerta Basholli’s ‘Hive’.

More films than ever before are eligible for this year’s European Film Awards’ feature film and documentary film selection, with 40 feature films and 15 documentary films, and further feature film titles to be revealed in September.

Titles in the feature film selection include Blerta Basholli’s Sundance hit Hive and Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman. The latter is eligible despite being listed as a film of US origin. The European Film Academy (Efa) told Screen this was because the film reaches the number of points in...

Outliers in the music supervision field this Emmy season include “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which used songs by Ariana Grande, Janet Jackson and Britney Spears performed as the queens battle it out in epic lip sync battles, and “Ratatouille: The Musical,” the TikTok sensation.

Season 13 of “Drag Race” helped several songs surge on streaming, including “Rumors” by Lindsay Lohan, and also saw original numbers written for the contestants chart. “U.K, Hun?” was a No. 1 in the U.K after being featured in the Brit version of the show.

Writer-composer Freddy Scott says of the process: “We always start with what is the catchiest, most broadly infectious earwormy way to deliver lyrics and melody and then work backwards on how that fits into the context of each episode.”

“Ratatouille: The Musical” marks the first time that a TikTok sensation is eligible for an Emmy. Based on the Pixar film, the musical...

The race to find the UK’s next drag race superstar began pre-pandemic with 12 queens vying for the crown, but after a seven month lockdown break and a strong finish to the season, RuPaul Charles and her team of expert judges have narrowed the field down to four: Bimini Bon-Boulash, Ellie Diamond, Lawrence Chaney, and Tayce.

Tonight, “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” season 2 came to a spectacular conclusion with the finalists performing the house down with their own version of RuPaul’s hit song “A Little Bit of Love” and only one of them being named the Queen’s top queen. Read our recap below to see how it all shook out in ‘Grand Finale’:

To get to the final four, Ru shocked Ellie by awarding her the first and only double shantay of the season after her first time lip synching. She went head-to-head against Tayce, the season’s...

Co-production funds to support the directorial debuts of the two actresses.

The feature directorial debuts of actresses Charlotte Le Bon and Veerle Baetens and a drama about the Bataclan terrorist attack have secured a share of €4.1m ($5m) from European cultural support fund Eurimages.

The Melting is being directed and co-written by Baetens, who is best known internationally for her performance in Felix van Groeningen’s Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown.

The Belgium-Netherlands co-production has received €310,000 in Eurimages support, adding to a financial boost from Screen Flanders last week and the ARTEKino International Prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market earlier this year.

When A Chinese Ghost Story premiered in 1987, it was already part of a unique category – the fusion of horror, comedy, and Kung Fu. Asian horror films are known as jiangshi, which is the name of a specific spooky hopping ghost found in Chinese folklore that proliferates these films.

Part zombie, part vampire, jiangshi are corpses that are usually reanimated by demons or Daoist sorcerers. They hop along mindlessly with their arms outstretched like sleepwalkers, and feed on the life essence – or qi – of the living. Often a jiangshi is blind but can smell breath. This makes for great comic hijinks as hapless characters struggle to hold their breath while gruesome jiangshi shove their rotting noses close to their mouths trying to pick up the scent.

Comedy is a common horror film device. It releases tension and leaves the audience unguarded for the next jump scare. The addition of Kung Fu...

Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his role as Nick Fury for a new Disney+ Marvel TV series according to Variety. No details are currently available other than the fact that he’ll the popular McU super spy is indeed the headliner of the show and that Kyle Bradstreet (Mr. Robot) will write and executive produce the series.

The news comes just months after Agents of Shield wrapped its seven season run on ABC. While that show was ostensibly part of the broader McU continuity, and launched itself out of the events of the first Avengers film, it always felt a little disconnected from the Marvel Cinematic Universe proper, despite two brief cameos from Jackson himself relatively early on. And since it was always at the mercy of the bigger events happening on screen, it never really got to delve into the deeper history and machinations of the McU’s ultimate spy agency.

Even though 2020 seems to be very light on McU products thanks to the pandemic, Marvel Studios has quite a few things in development, with news coming relatively quickly over the past week regarding the various Disney+ series. Just recently, we learned that Tatiana Maslany is going to hulk out as the star of “She-Hulk” and we learned that Kat Coiro is going to direct the series.

Continue reading ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Directors & More To Helm Episodes Of The ‘Ms. Marvel’ Series On Disney+ at The Playlist.

Meet She-Hulk: Tatiana Maslany. The Orphan Black star has joined the Disney+ show as the eponymous green-hued lawyer/superhero. Maslany’s casting comes on the heels of the announcement that Kat Coiro would be directing several episodes of the show, including the pilot. Rick and Morty writer Jessica Gao is in charge of the writer’s room for the series, which Disney+ hopes to […]

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During the last week of his life, Tom Petty grew unusually wistful. Home after a tour with the Heartbreakers, he had his wife, Dana, call up his rarely seen 2002 “Fun in the Desert” video, in which he tooled around a barren landscape on a mini-motorcycle, then asked her to track down a high school girlfriend on social media. “He hated Facebook,” Dana Petty recalls. “But he got super-nostalgic. Looking back, it’s very strange.”

Little from his musical past tugged at him more than Wildflowers, the 1994 solo album that contained some of his most intimate,...

Exclusive: Veteran screen icon Malcolm McDowell is attached to lead cast in U.S. indie horror movie The Benefactor.

The A Clockwork Orange, Caligula and Mozart In The Jungle star is due to play a once-prolific painter who takes up an artist residency after the death of his wife. However, he soon fears that the house may be haunted and that its ghosts are driving him to madness.

David Carson, who directed McDowell in Paramount’s 1994 movie Star Trek: Generations, will helm and produce the feature from a script by feature debutants Mark and Anna Casadei who will also produce with manager Paul C.Escoll.

The production firms are LA-based Rowdy Rabbit Films and Center Mass Studios.

Golden Globe-nominee McDowell recently portrayed Rupert Murdoch in Oscar-winning drama Bombshell about the women who took on Roger Ailes and Fox News. Coming up he has Amazon comedy-horror series Truth Seekers with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost,...

She-Ra and The Princesses of Power season 5 has been heralded as an amazing finale to an already-revered Netflix show. While fans and critics alike adored it, the season didn't wrap up all the burning questions in Etheria. And not just nit-picky little curiosities, like how Catra will react to living in Brightmoon. No, there are big, concerning questions still left out in the open (that fans can only hope might be answered in spin-offs or movies). After all, the best friend squad still has to bring magic back to the galaxy, right?

Related: She-Ra: All The Princesses of Power, Ranked

While fans can live without some of these answers, other ones are just too crazy to leave open-ended.

Avengers: Endgame truly marked a turning point for the McU. For the first ten years, stories usually focused on the core Avengers team, but now everything is changing at Marvel Studios. Part of this is down to many of the cast coming to the end of their contracts, with Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. fulfilling their obligations with Endgame and Scarlet Johansson doing the same with Black Widow.

So, where are we going from here? Well, it seems that over Phase 4 we’ll see the mantles of these characters being passed down. We already know that Sam Wilson will become the new Captain America (though what we’ve heard about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier suggests it won’t be an easy transition) and that Jane Foster will take up Mjolnir in Thor: Love and Thunder.

But now, our sources – the same ones who told us Marvel was developing She-Hulk and Ms.

Not enough love is set aside for this ambitious, under-budgeted Lost Civilization epic. John Agar and Cynthia Patrick find love in an ancient albino race that worships a Death Ray and enslaves a race of Subterranean Humanoid Underground Dwellers — Mole Men, what else? It’s unconvincing and the production lacks polish, but it’s also got clever story gimmicks and sympathetic monsters, so it gets a warm reception at CineSavant Central.

The Mole People

Blu-ray

Scream Factory

1956 / B&W / 1.85:1 + 2:1 widescreen / 77 min. / Street Date February 26, 2019 / 27.99

Starring: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva, Phil Chambers, Rodd Redwing, Robin Hughes, Frank Baxter, Eddie Parker.

Cinematography: Ellis W. Carter

Film Editor: Irving Birnbaum

Mask Maker: Jack Kevan

Special Photography: Clifford Stine

Written by László Görög

Produced by William Alland

Directed by Virgil Vogel

“Mole Hole, Mole Hole — A land of renown!

Iraq is Up and Sumeria’s down!

Pop stars write closing credit songs all the time. But the story behind Elvis Costello’s moving song “You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way,” about an older woman’s complicated allure, is crazy. Producer Barbara Broccoli and Peter Turner went to see his show at the London Palladium and were shocked to see a photo of Gloria Grahame on the stage. When they went backstage, they asked Costello to write a song for “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” starring Annette Bening as the aging Hollywood actress who has an affair with younger actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell).

Read More:Annette Bening Finds the Truth in the Very Strange Tale of Gloria Grahame and ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’

Costello had hung out with Alan Bleasdale, the playwright of one of the plays Turner starred in during that period. But while Costello is a film buff...

Pop stars write closing credit songs all the time. But the story behind Elvis Costello’s moving song “You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way,” about an older woman’s complicated allure, is crazy. Producer Barbara Broccoli and Peter Turner went to see his show at the London Palladium and were shocked to see a photo of Gloria Grahame on the stage. When they went backstage, they asked Costello to write a song for “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” starring Annette Bening as the aging Hollywood actress who has an affair with younger actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell).

Read More:Annette Bening Finds the Truth in the Very Strange Tale of Gloria Grahame and ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’

Costello had hung out with Alan Bleasdale, the playwright of one of the plays Turner starred in during that period. But while Costello is a film buff...

The scrapped sequel to classic 1970s movie The Wicker Man was to star Joan Collins and Christopher Lee as evil cult leaders.

Collins reveals the production, which was due to start shooting in the Scottish Highlands this month, was to be directed by Robin Hardy, the man behind the original.

And she still hopes the film can go ahead. She tells Black Book magazine, "It's about two young people from America who are gospel singers. They go to a remote village in the Highlands to convert people to Christianity.

"They come in contact with an evil cult led by two people. One of them is Christopher Lee, and the other one is me."

Lee played the villain in the original film, which starred Edward Woodward.

The sequel was scrapped last month due to "financial difficulties".