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Coming soon to Hallmark Channel, The Christmas Charade is an espionage thriller/rom-com, starring Rachel Skarsten and Corey Sevier.

Airing during the popular Countdown to Christmas, viewers are sure to have fun, as a librarian finds herself working undercover for the FBI! Meanwhile, we’ll get to see the two stars doing some dancing and the occasional stunt. Read on to find out more about the movie and its cast.

The Christmas Charade coming to Hallmark Channel Photo: Corey Sevier, Rachel Skarsten

Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Vortex Media

According to TV Insider, Whitney (Skarsten) is a librarian living a quiet life. However, she was raised by home security experts, who taught her a lot. Meanwhile, since she was young, Whitney has always been cautious in everything she does. However, one night, she throws caution to the wind and agrees to go on a blind date.

Star Wars fans are in mourning after the death of actor Michael Culver was announced this week.

Culver, whose death was reported by Daily Mail Online, played Captain Lorth Needa in a galaxy far, far away, appeared in a small yet memorable role in The Empire Strikes Back. Needa was in command of the Avenger, an Imperial Star Destroyer, and fought for the Empire during the Battle of Hoth. The British actor passed away late last month, his family announced, adding that he was in "one of the most memorable death scenes in the Star Wars franchise." Needa was killed by Darth Vader after the Captain failed to capture Han Solo and the rest of the Rebels aboard the Millennium Falcon.

"We are very sad to confirm the passing of our friend and client Michael Culver," a statement from the actor's agent noted. "A career spanning over 50 years with notable roles in Sherlock Holmes,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the Vietnam War drama The Veteran, and you can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie from a screenplay by J. Stephen Maunder and John Flock, The Veteran was originally released in 2006 and is a follow-up to Furie’s 2001 film Under Heavy Fire, a.k.a. Going Back. This one has the following synopsis: Thirty years on from the Vietnam War, a government official is trying to track down soldiers who went missing in action, in the hope that it may lead her to her father. Meanwhile,...

Hello, readers, and welcome to a new year of releases! We may already be well into the month of January, but this is our first official weekly Blu-ray and DVD recap of 2019, since last week was a quiet one on the home media front, and we already have a ton of titles to get excited for this Tuesday. If you happened to miss Hell Fest when it was in theaters last year, you can now catch up with Gregory Plotkin’s slasher on various formats, and as far as recent genre series are concerned, the first seasons of both The Purge and Castle Rock are making their way home tomorrow as well.

Scream Factory is kicking off another great year of releases with the Nic Cage thriller 8Mm, and Scorpion Releasing has put together a special edition Blu for Blind Date that cult fans are going to want to pick up.

Julianna Margulies and Chris Noth's characters may have a twisted relationship on "The Good Wife," but the actors also have quite the past.

In 1993, before Alicia and Peter Florrick were even a glimmer in the eyes of "Good Wife" creators Robert and Michelle King, Margulies guest starred on "Law & Order," on which Noth was a regular.

In the Season 3 episode, titled "Conduct Unbecoming," a female Naval officer is murdered during a party and Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Noth) suspect that the Navy is protecting the killer.

Check out the above clip of Margulies's second ever credited role, where she plays Lt. Ruth Mendoza (uniform and all), who turns out to be a key witness for Briscoe and Logan.

As for Alicia and Peter, tune in for "The Good Wife" season finale on Sunday, April 28 at 9 p.m. Et on CBS to find out what will happen.

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Notes on a Fandom is a column dedicated to lesbian/bi fandom in its various incarnations. It also feature thoughts and comments from you, the fans. Follow @DanaPiccoli on Twitter and Tumblr to keep up with the latest topics and questions.

Is fandom destroying pop culture? Buzzfeed seems to think so. The site recently posted a piece by Richard Rushfield called The Case Against Fans. In it, he asks if fans are actually contributing to the decline of entertainment culture by being too focused on their own agenda. It was inspired by the recent Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign, in which fans came out in droves to financially back a long awaited Vm movie. While he does make some valid points, he comes down quite hard on fandom. As someone who chronicles fandom, I think it is undeservedly harsh. Fans aren’t perfect,...

Star of Tom Jones and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, she defied typecasting

Susannah York, who has died aged 72, was a vibrant, energetic personality with a devouring passion for work, strong political opinions and great loyalty to old friends. Her international reputation as an actor depended heavily on the hit films she made in the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969, for which she received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. But, even when her movie career waned, she worked ceaselessly in theatre, often appearing in pioneering fringe productions. It was typical of her that, although diagnosed with cancer late in 2010, she refused chemotherapy and fulfilled a contractual obligation to do a tour of Ronald Harwood's Quartet.

In her early years York was often cast as an archetypal English rose. But, although born in Chelsea, south-west London (as Susannah Yolande Fletcher), she was raised...

Susannah York in Robert Altman's Images Susannah York Dies Part I: Tom Jones, The Killing Of Sister George Susannah York faced complex family situations in Mark Robson's cult classic Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971), co-starring Don Murray and Rod Steiger, and played opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Caine in Brian G. Hutton's messy — but fascinating – Zee and Co. / X, Y and Zee, in which jilted wife Taylor does whatever she can to destroy the love affair between husband Caine and York, even if that means seducing hubby's new girl. [Right: Susannah York and Marlon Brando in Richard Donner's Superman.] Also in the '70s, York could be seen in Christopher Miles' filmed play of Jean Genet's anti-bourgeois The Maids (1974), in which housemaids York and Glenda Jackson vent their anger against their employers; Michael Anderson's Conduct Unbecoming (1975), a court-martial drama-thriller set in colonial India; Jerzy Skolimowski's horror-drama The Shout [...]...

Actor who was at his best in shadowy roles

The actor Maury Chaykin, who has died aged 61 after a heart-valve infection, was an American and a Canadian citizen, and his career reflected his dual nationality. In the Us, he was a familiar face, if not a recognisable name, playing small but telling roles in major films. His breakthrough came in Dances With Wolves (1990), playing Major Fambrough, who sends Kevin Costner on his frontier assignment and then kills himself. Chaykin's only leading role was in the cable TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001), as the titular detective who refuses to leave his house, delegating that to his assistant (Timothy Hutton).

In Canada, Chaykin was something of a national treasure. He won a Genie award for best actor for his performance as a Brian Wilson-like burned-out rock star in Whale Music (1994), gave remarkable performances in three films directed by Atom Egoyan...

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Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Sir Richard Attenborough's directorial career is studded with such achievements as Gandhi, A Bridge Too Far, Magic and Chaplin, among others, but his role as an actor has been no less affecting, if under-appreciated. His performances such films as The Sand Pebbles (1966) and Conduct Unbecoming (1975) have played an integral part in making those classics. Even in supporting roles, such as 1993's Jurassic Park, his presence lends the film an air of gravitas and credibility that few other actors can bring. However, one of his finest lead roles goes rarely seen these days: as infamous British serial killer John Christie in 10 Rillington Place (1970), directed by Richard Fleischer and co-starring a young John Hurt. Currently screening through July 2nd in a newly restored 35mm print at New York's Film Forum, this film version of a true story is a definite don't-miss,...