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Billy Bob Thornton, the Academy Award winner, has amassed both critical acclaim and the audiences’ love. He’s a man of many talents, from acting, to singing, and even screenwriting. Thornton has proven himself through multiple projects like Sling Blade and Monster Ball, but one aspect of his life has been a little rocky.

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He’s been married six times now, and five of his previous marriages have ended in a divorce. But despite the highs and lows in his love life, Thornton has shown up for his children and co-parented them with his exes. After a few low-key and some high-profile romances, he seems to have found his happily ever after. So let’s take a closer look at the actor’s journey through love and heartbreak, which eventually led to a marriage that has now lasted for years.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, aka Pigs x7, have released the new single “Detroit,” the first new music from the UK band since their 2023 full-length Land of Sleeper.

The track is a five-plus-minute crusher that’s on the darker side for Pigs x7, slotting somewhere between the noise rock of The Jesus Lizard and sludge doom of the Melvins. A bludgeoning riff pounds away in repetition, setting up ominous bellowed vocals and a breakdown that slows things to a trudging pace. The payoff comes as the band gradually build the tempo back up in the second half of the track.

“’Detroit’ reflects on the worst manifestations of male jealousy and resentment,” stated singer Matt Baty, “and the ways in which a lack of accountability can lead to deflecting responsibility in exchange for blaming external forces like fate or God for perceived injustice.”

In other news, Pigs x7’s...

As has been the case in previous years, once again the short films of the London Film Festival continue to demonstrate the eclecticism of the festival programmers’ tastes. Despite being the UK’s largest film festival, the team behind this 68th edition of Lff aren’t afraid to have shorts from filmmakers of various backgrounds sitting next to each other. Watching through the programmes on offer, you’ll see student filmmakers next to established directors, horror shorts sitting alongside intimate documentaries, high budgets next to low budgets. It’s just a wonderful mix of films that are clearly put together without any sort of prejudice or preconceived assumptions. Below you’ll find a list of ten short films from the festival this year that we deemed recommendation-worthy but bear in mind the programme is very much worth your time across the board. So, once you’ve finished with this list,...

New month, new horror recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. This installment features five selections reflecting the month of October 2024.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include a Frankenstein anime adaptation, a K-Pop ghost story, and a pioneer of screenlife horror.

Pigs (1973)

Pictured: Pigs (1973)

Directed by Marc Lawrence.

It would be wrong to say Pigs‘ complicated release history is more interesting than the movie itself. Just don’t go into the movie expecting a simple story of sinister swine getting their fill of human flesh. Adjust your expectations as you watch Pigs for Hog Out Month.

Instead of pure hog horror, Pigs is far more concerned with the troubled interiority of its protagonist Lynn (Toni Lawrence). Something from her haunted past is making her uneasy. And the longer she...

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Joanne Koch, the longtime executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center who helped shape the culture of cinema in New York and around the world, has died. She was 92.

Koch died Tuesday in New York, a spokesperson for Film at Lincoln Center, as the organization is now known, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Koch, who worked at the home of the prestigious New York Film Festival from 1971-2003, also served as publisher of the society’s Film Comment magazine and co-produced 19 Chaplin Award galas, which honor a major film artist each spring as a major fundraising event. Her stretch began with Fred Astaire in 1973 and ended with Audrey Hepburn in 1991.

An insatiable lover of movies, Koch was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 19, 1929. She graduated from Goddard College in Vermont with a degree in political science in 1950, then landed a job that year...

The annual Palm Springs International ShortFest returns for its 28th edition from June 21 to 27, holding all of its screenings at the Camelot Theatres at the Palm Springs Cultural Center.

The festival will feature 51 programs that showcase 300 films. That list includes 38 world premieres, 17 international premieres, 35 North American premieres and 18 U.S. premieres.

The lineup features a robust list of celebrated film and TV actors. Some of the names among the programs include Eric Roberts in “Appendage,” Zachary Quinto in “Chaperone,” Peter Friedman in “Daddy’s Girl,” the voice of Brian Cox in “Five Cents,” Vicky Krieps in “Frida,” the voice of Isabella Rossellini in “Louis I. King of the Sheep,” Adjoa Andoh and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn in “The Last Days,” Stephen Fry in “Night of the Living Dread,” in addition to credits from Rose Byrne in “Shark,” directed by Nash Edgerton; Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski in “Skin & Bone,” Molly Ringwald in “Spa Day,...

Elisabeth Moss has never won an individual Screen Actors Guild Award. A 15-time nominee, she has won twice as part of the “Mad Men” ensemble but lost all six of her solo nominations, of which she earned two for “Mad Men” and and three for Hulu’s ”The Handmaid’s Tale” (2018-20) for TV drama actress, and one for “Top of the Lake” (2014) for limited Series/TV movie actress. It’s why I now ask of you, dear SAG Awards voters, to consider finally rewarding Moss individually for her career-defining work in “Handmaid’s'” Season 4.

The fourth installment picks up with Moss’ June Osborne on the run, and the actor juggles four discernible but inextricably intertwined sides of her character: a traumatized handmaid, a solicitous mother and wife, a vengeful, rage-driven rebel, and a guilt-ridden survivor. Take, for instance, the scene from the Season 4 opener, “Pigs,” in which June directs child...

The first of three 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies is underway, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. Have a look at the trophy recipients and the night’s remaining nominees below.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will hand out Emmys in 37 categories tonight, with this year’s second and third ceremonies set for 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday. All three will have limited audiences but no red carpet. An edited version of the Creative Arts Emmys will air at 8 p.m. Saturday, September 18.

Netflix’s The Crown and Disney+’s The Mandalorian come into the Emmys with a leading 24 noms apiece. Among platforms, as usual the fight is between HBO and Netflix, with the combined HBO and HBO edging the streaming giant in total noms 130-129. Disney+ has 71 noms, following by NBC with 46 — a strong showing for a broadcast network in the age of streaming.

Gold Derby’s Experts from major media outlets think someone from “The Handmaid’s Tale” is going to win the Emmy for Best Drama Guest Actress. But who? Five give the edge to Alexis Bledel, who won this category in 2017. But four instead think Mckenna Grace will prevail on her first career nomination. The last two forecast Claire Foy (“The Crown”) will win after previously proving victorious in the lead category. Sophie Okonedo (“Ratched”) and Phylicia Rashad (“This Is Us”) round out the category. Hurry and make your Emmy predictions before the Creative Arts ceremonies take place Saturday, September 11 and Sunday, September 12.

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Bledel’s submission for “The Handmaid’s Tale” is “Testimony,” which streamed June 2 on Hulu as the eighth episode of Season 4. She portrays Emily, a former handmaid who now lives as a free woman in Canada. This marks...

Cypress Hill celebrate the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut album — released August 13th, 1991 — with an expanded digital edition featuring bonus tracks, plus a pair of new remixes.

In addition to the original LP — featuring the hit “How I Could Just Kill a Man” and “Latin Lingo” — the West Coast hip-hop legends have also added “The Phuncky Feel One” (Extended Version), “Stoned Is the Way of the Walk (Reprise),” and “Puerco (Pigs) (Spanish Edit)” to the digital tracklist.

Outside of the digital reissue, today also sees the release of Alchemist...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” had long been predicted to win another Emmy in Best Drama Guest Actress — it just might not go to the person everyone was initially expecting. Alexis Bledel led the odds during the nominations phase and in early winner odds, but the 2017 champ has now been knocked out from the top spot by her co-star Mckenna Grace.

Grace currently holds a narrow edge over Bledel at 71/20 to 18/5. Claire Foy (“The Crown”) is further back in third, followed by Sophie Okenedo (“Ratched”) and Phylicia Rashad (“This Is Us”). Grace was predicted to get a bid — she was in fourth place — so her nomination wasn’t a complete shocker, but what’s changed is the circumstances around her show itself.

Off a resurgent fourth season, “Handmaid’s” surprised with 21 nominations, including 10 for acting. Last year, it got 10 nominations total. While Grace was in the top five in the odds, she could’ve also easily missed,...

Per Emmy tradition, all of the guest acting nominees had to designate their episode submissions on the initial nominations ballot, so we already know all of the entries for Best Drama Guest Actress. The 2021 Emmy nominees for this category are Alexis Bledel (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Claire Foy (“The Crown”), Mckenna Grace (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Sophie Okonedo (“Ratched”) and Phylicia Rashad (“This Is Us”). Scroll down to see which episodes the Emmy voters will be watching to judge the nominees’ performances.

SEEJean Smart (‘Hacks’): Emmys 2021 episode submission revealed

Bledel’s submission for “The Handmaid’s Tale” is “Testimony,” which streamed June 2 on Hulu as the eighth episode of Season 4. She portrays Emily, a former handmaid who now lives as a free woman in Canada. When a former Martha comes to Emily to ask for forgiveness, she turns her down, wanting nothing to do with her; the woman then commits suicide. This...

Hulu has answered the prayers of The Handmaid’s Tale fans. The first three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 have released early on Hulu Tuesday, a day before the originally planned release today. The rest of the 10-episode season will be released weekly. The first three episodes of the fourth season of The Handmaid’s Tale — “Pigs,” “Nightshade,” […]

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Surprise! The first three episodes of Season 4 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” have released early on Hulu.

Originally planned to release on April 28, the first three episodes of the fourth season — “Pigs,” “Nightshade” and “The Crossing” — are now available to stream on Hulu. The rest of the 10-episode season will be released weekly on the streaming service, episode by episode.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” made the announcement with a video featuring its cast. “I know you’ve been waiting patiently for Season 4. Well guess what, I have some good news. The first three episodes of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ are available right now,” the cast says in tandem.

Exclusive: (Updated with video) “We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for,” says the Elisabeth Moss portrayed June Osbourne in the fourth season of The Handmaid’s Tale as the battle against Gilead’s brutal theonomic regime intensifies.

In fact, the wait is over, kind of.

Hulu is dropping the opening trio of the April 28 premiering fourth season a little early, Deadline has learned.

The Colin Watkinson directed “Pigs” and “Nightshade” episodes, as well as the Moss helmed “The Crossing,” will appear on the Disney-owned streamer at 6 Pm Pt, aka in just a few minutes. Check out the video unveiling of the news from the cast here:

As in past seasons, the rest of the 10-episode season of the multiple Emmy winning series will arrive weekly going forward.

Another change this year for The Handmaid’s Tale is the move of Joseph Fiennes from Supporting Actor to the Outstanding Lead Actor...

Warning: the Handmaid’s tale season 4 episode synopses below contain plot spoilers

The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t the kind of TV show that suits a binge-watch. Its heart-heavy dystopian story about a brutal theocracy that enslaves and rapes fertile women benefits from a little fresh air between episodes. On-screen torture and suffering are best delivered in small doses.

It’s good news then, that after its first three episodes are released on Hulu in one batch on Wednesday April 28th, the remaining seven episodes of season four will be released weekly each Wednesday until June 16th, giving US viewers all time to digest.

For UK viewers, season four is confirmed to be airing on Channel 4 as usual, but the broadcaster has yet to confirm a start date. As soon as one is announced, we’ll pass it on. The imported show traditionally airs weekly on the terrestrial channel. Seasons...

Cathy Yan's Dead Pigs is exclusively showing on Mubi starting February 12, 2021 in the Debuts series.This is a deeply personal story years in the making.Dead Pigs is a reunion of sorts—a way for me to better understand my birth country, a place that has enthralled and confounded me ever since I left it in 1990 at the age of four. In my lifetime, China has undergone such immense change, lifting close to a billion people out of poverty amidst the fastest urbanization in world history. But there is another side to this massive transition. Deng Xiaoping’s famous words—“To get rich is glorious!”—have compromised everything from food safety to the environment to the souls of its citizens. All this made contemporary China a fascinating, exaggerated, complicated, ridiculous and wonderful setting for my first film. I made Dead Pigs in 2017 and it premiered at Sundance in 2018. To my surprise and glee,...

Considering Dead Pigs was Cathy Yan’s calling card to enter the Hollywood shuffle with Birds of Prey, it’s surprising it’s taken this long for it to finally receive a U.S. release. Three years after its Sundance Film Festival premiere, Yan’s directorial debut will now be getting a debut on Mubi this week. A dark comedy exploring modern China through the lens of a handful of characters, we’ve been waiting to see this for some time and glad it’ll be getting such a wide U.S. debut. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has arrived.

“I think when it was first at Sundance [in 2018], it was a slightly different set of circumstances,” Yan tells The Playlist about the delayed release. There weren’t that many distributors that want to take that kind of risk or know what to do with this film because it...

In the long-running subgenre of horror films known as creature features, animals have been used to terrify audiences for decades. Of course, the most obvious is Steven Spielberg's Jaws, in which a 30-foot Great White Shark mortified viewers from ever going back into the water. But sharks aren't the only animal to be the subject of terror in horror films.

Related: The 10 Best Quotes From Jaws

There have been killer monkeys, deadly reptiles, murderous rats, and many more but for now, let's take this concept literally and apply it to the animal-based Chinese Zodiac, shall we? With the Year of the Pig close in the rearview, here are 5 horror movies that Pigs will love and 5 they will hate!

Angry Birds Ar: Isle of Pigs takes the hit mobile game franchise in a new direction. Our review...

Release Date: April 29, 2019

Platform: iOS

Developer: Resolution Games

Publisher: Rovio

Genre: Augmented reality

2019 marks the 10-year anniversary of Angry Birds, and developer Resolution Games and publisher Rovio hope to find 10 more years of success by translating the franchise’s signature physics-based gameplay to the next generation of gaming devices.

Angry Birds Ar: Isle of Pigs is, as the title suggests, an augmented reality version of Angry Birds Vr: Isle of Pigs, which released for Vr headsets earlier this year. The game, which is exclusive to iOS (for now), uses Apple’s ARKit technology to display the game’s 40 levels over’ real-world surroundings, allowing players to move around the Pigs’ precarious structures and look for weak points and hidden special items.

In terms of content, the game is essentially the same as its Vr counterpart,...

Prepare to be corrupted and depraved once more as Nucleus Films releases the sequel to the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon – the most extraordinary and scandalous era in the history of British film. Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Part 2, a three-disc collector’s edition box set, is being released on DVD on July 14th 2014, to tie in with the 30th Anniversary of the Video Recordings Act 1984.

For the first time ever on DVD, all 82 films that fell foul of the Director of Public Prosecutions “Section 3” list are trailer-featured with specially filmed intros for each title, alongside a brand new documentary – Video Nasties: Draconian Days (review), directed by Jake West.

And to celebrate the release, Film4 FrightFest is hosting a special event – the world exclusive London Premiere of the finalised unseen extended 97 minute cut of Video Nasties: Draconian Days at The Prince Charles Cinema on Thurs 3 July, 8.30pm. The...

Back in November of 2011, Sound on Sight contributors were invited to write about their “gateway” films – the movies that first lit them up to the power and magic of cinema. What became apparent to me over the course of that series of posts was how much our respective choices were shaped by who each of us is. It was never as simple as, “Well, then I took Film Appreciation 101 and saw Citizen Kane for the first time…” Nothing’s that simple. Where we were from, how we were raised, the lives we led…all of that and more in some way influenced the choices each of us made. No surprise, that: we view everything – sex, politics, the way the world works – through the prism of our own experience. Why not movies?

But I’ve never seen the dynamic so clearly at work – or demonstrated so emphatically – as it is in...

Let's face it, Kier-La Janisse is a force to be reckoned with.

Over the past 15 years, she has created the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (Vancouver, BC, 1999–2005); founded the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies as well as the Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Center, Montreal's coolest micro-cinema (2010–2012); and programmed for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Austin, TX, 2003–2007). That's in addition to working for the Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal, QC), being the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (Ashley Fester, 2004), writing A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (published by Fab Press) and contributing articles for Filmmaker magazine, Fangoria and Rue Morgue, among others. And this extensive list is only the tip of the iceberg that is this woman's achievements.

I first met Kier-La in 2009 when she generously agreed to contribute to my Bloody Breasts documentary webseries by letting me interview her amid the craziness that is the Fantasia Film Festival – she...

Troma sounds a lot like trauma and without knowing how they came up with the name I can't but help think it's on purpose. After all they've spent more than thirty years making sure there was something to offend somebody in virtually every movie they've made. Maybe that's why Troma is still around thirty years later. They bring a smile to the face of anyone who likes seeing sacred cows splattered even if at the end you feel a little messy yourself.

Lloyd Kaufman has made a living out of being able to brand that particular sentiment even when Troma's movies have been truly awful. In fact at times the studio has been so well known because of it’s boob baring antics that it itself has threatened to become a bigger product than any of it's films. This despite there having been some real classics, movies that I would...

There is a dark cloud looming over this weekend, and it's called The Swine Flu! Vice President Biden caused quite a panic yesterday when he told the nation he was keeping his family and friends away from enclosed spaces such as subways, airplanes, buses, malls, and the local Wal*Mart. If you don't want to catch this dreaded pig virus, you must wash your hands while counting from A to Z. You must stay away from strangers. And you must avoid the local Cineplex at all costs (because that is the number one breeding ground for icky porcine germs).

This means a lot of you would-be ticket buyers are going to be stuck at home, guzzling antibiotics and trying to duct tape your windows shut this weekend. When the dust has settled, and you finally have the living room walled off in bubble wrap, that most dread villian is bound to strike.