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Back in June of last year, the Hollywood Chamber’s Board of Directors announced that more than thirty new stars are going to be added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025 (and into 2026), with the latest batch of honorees including legendary filmmaker John Carpenter. Honorees have up to two years after they are chosen to set a date for their ceremonies – and now, it has been confirmed that Carpenter’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 11:30 Am Pt.

Carpenter’s will be the 2,806th star to be added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the dedication will take place at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. You don’t have to show up at that address to see the ceremony, though. The event will be streamed live exclusively at WalkofFame.com. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Steve Nissen...

The DC Universe is full of powerful characters that often go unrecognized in its movies, full of heroes and villains whose screen presence betrays their staggering strength. Many characters are often painfully glossed over in the eternal debate for who is the most powerful player in DC movie history. Whether due to the fact that they're hidden in an infamously bad film or that they simply don't have enough screen time, many DC movie characters' power levels fly under the radar.

Due to its nature as a high-power-level setting full of gods, monsters, and ancient aliens, the movies of the Dceu contain the lion's share of staggeringly strong heroes and villains that often go underrated as a major player in the hierarchy of the world. That being said, the occasional sneak from an earlier one-off DC film can also manage to be far stronger than they might seem at first glance.

Mgk is returning to his Hotel Diablo era five years later. On Friday, the musician released a deluxe edition of the acclaimed LP, adding “sad versions” of fan-favorite songs “I Think I’m Okay” and “Glass House,” plus a new track, “El Pistolero.”

To accompany the album revisit, Mgk also released a video for the reimagined “I Think I’m Okay” alongside Yungblud. (The original track also featured Travis Barker.) The video captures behind-the-scene footage of the pair of musicians backstage at a show, celebrating the track reaching platinum status,...

More than thirty new stars are going to be added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025 (and into 2026), with the new batch of honorees who will be receiving stars having been chosen by the Hollywood Chamber’s Board of Directors. Variety reports that that honorees include Jessica Chastain, Bill Duke, Emilio Estevez, Colin Farrell, Jane Fonda, Nia Long, Lisa Lu, Glynn Turman, Toni Vaz, Fran Drescher, Lauren Graham, Bill Nye, Molly Shannon, Sherri Shepherd, Courtney B. Vance, Chris Wallace, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Misty Copeland, Alan Cumming, Adam Carolla, Fantasia, Depeche Mode, Los Bukis, The B-52s, Green Day, The Isley Brothers, Busta Rhymes, George Strait, Keith Urban, War, Prince, David Beckham, and Orel Hershiser… but the two honorees that stand out more than any others on this list for us here in the Arrow in the Head horror section of JoBlo are character actor Robert Englund and legendary filmmaker John Carpenter!

M3GAN (Universal Pictures), Taken 3 (20th Century Studios), Paddington 2 (Warner Bros.), Cloverfield (Paramount Pictures)Graphic: The A.V. Club (AP)

Historically and annually speaking, January is a bad month for Hollywood movies. It’s a “dump month,” that time of year when the major studios offload the projects in which they have no faith.

Academy Award Winner Brendan Fraser will be the honoree of the Inspiration Award at this year’s inaugural Greenwich International Film Festival (Giff) held on Wednesday, May 3.

The Inspiration Talk & Award Ceremony will benefit the non-profit organization Abilis, an entity committed to providing services and support for individuals with special needs and their families throughout the duration of their lives.

The Giff Inspiration Award is allotted to an artist whose philanthropic work inspires others. Fraser will be honored with the award at The Village, 4 Star Point, in Stamford, C.T. on Wednesday, May 3.

“We are thrilled that our first-ever Giff Inspiration Award will go to Academy Award winner Brenden Fraser, who inspired the whole world with his achingly authentic performance of Charlie in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. Giff is honored to celebrate him and to support Abilis on May 3rd,” said Wendy Stapleton, chairwoman of the Giff.

Fraser’s...

Machine Gun Kelly has a new single out called “Why Are You Here.” The pop-punk, angsty sour-love track recalls Kelly’s encounter with a former fling, as they both arrive at the same concert paired up with someone else. The lyrics recall their brief, drug-fueled romance while Mgk comes to the conclusion that they “can never be friends.”

Machine Gun Kelly released his fourth album, Hotel Diablo, this past July. “Why Are You Here” follows behind previous singles “Glass House” with Naomi Wild, “Candy” with Trippie Redd and “El Diablo.

Machine Gun Kelly, Travis Barker and Yungblud unveiled a gritty new video for their collaboration, “I Think I’m Okay.”

The Andrew Sandler-directed clip opens with Machine Gun Kelly performing the track’s tender opening on an acoustic guitar, but quickly jumps to him joining Barker on a makeshift stage in an alley packed with raving kids. Yungblud soon joins the pair as they continue to rip through the song and the clip quickly cuts between portraits of audience members and scenes of freewheeling youth.

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Machine Gun Kelly bares his scars with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and English singer Yungblud on their new collaboration, “I Think I’m Okay.”

Barker’s always expert drumming anchors the track, which is rooted in alt-rock but peppered with flares of pop and hip-hop. Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud both detail their faults and failings, as well as their hopes, in brutally honest verses before uniting on the song’s chorus, “Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night/Catch me, I’m...

Ryan Lambie Aug 8, 2016

With spoilers, Ryan looks at Suicide Squad's cynical edge, and asks: who is its true villain?

Right from Suicide Squad's first trailer, it was evident that Warner DC had a heady stew on the way, and so it's proved. Writer-director David Ayer's movie is a comic book movie laced with elements from war and gangster pictures, topped off with a bit of fantasy and science fiction and spiked with a dash of horror.

You hardly need reminding that the reaction from reviewers hasn't been kind, to say the least, though it's arguable that all but the film's harshest critics would agree that it isn't without merit. As his superb screenplay for Training Day or his 2012 cop movie End Of Watch showed, Ayer's far from a hack, even if his films can sometimes fall on the wrong side of brutal and chaotic - such as...

Ryan Lambie Published Date Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 05:29

Marching to the rattle of machine gun fire and an ever-present mixtape of 60s and 70s rock, along comes writer-director David Ayer’s starry Suicide Squad to see out the summer season. Like a comic book-tinted Dirty Dozen, it introduces a band of criminals and misfits pressed into service as heroes by Amanda Waller (a glowering Viola Davis) - a government operative well versed in “getting people to act against their own self-interest.”

There are dark forces at work in Midway City, and so it’s up to sharp-shooting assassin Deadshot (Will Smith), crazed ex-psychiatrist Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and a bunch of other “psychotics and freaks” to bring order out of chaos. The only trouble is, neither Deadshot nor the rest of his motley crew - which also counts Aussie thief Boomerang (Jai Courtney) man-eating monster Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and...

Washington, May 12: Film and Tv composer William Patrick Olvis, who was the son of actor and opera singer William Edward Olvis, passed away on May 6 in Malibu, California, after having lost his battle with throat cancer, according to reports.

Throughout his career, William Patrick composed the music for several movies and TV shows, which included 'Red Rock West,' 'Dr. Quinn,' 'Medicine Woman' and 'El Diablo,' Contactmusic reported.

William Patrick was also the winner of four most performed underscore awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Ascap) in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999. (Ani)...

Feature James Clayton 12 Jul 2013 - 05:42

The launch of Pacific Rim gets James Clayton thinking about other potential giant-vs-giant movies. Guillermo Del Toro vs Elder Gods, anyone?

I like Guillermo del Toro. I like kaiju monsters. I like robots and high-tech AI contraptions. I like it when giant robo-contraptions fight giant kaiju monsters for cinematic sci-fi fantasy battles (these occasions are too rare). Add 'em all together and it equals something awesome that's of great interest to me. I like Pacific Rim a lot.

At the time of writing I haven't seen the movie. I don't need to see it to know I love it. I haven't even watched a trailer or looked at any screenshots from the fresh rock'emsock'embuster aside from a few that decorated a single print feature article, and I only read that because it was written by the director himself. I'm trying to go in cold...

June 25, 1982, was a good day for genre fans. Hell, that summer saw a spate of genre classics released, including "The Road Warrior," "Poltergeist," and "E.T." But June 25th in particular saw not only the release, as we discussed earlier today, of "Blade Runner," but also another legendary sci-fi picture, which like Ridley Scott's film, wasn't well-received at the time, and flopped at the box office, but went on to be enshrined in the geek hall of fame. No, it's not Barry Bostwyck vehicle "MegaForce," but John Carpenter's terrifying "The Thing," which despite the efforts of last year's poor retread/prequel, remains one of the greatest sci-fi/horrors ever made.

Technically a remake of Howard Hawks' well-loved 1951 "The Thing From Another World," which Carpenter pays tribute to in the opening moments, the new film took a very different approach, ramping up both the paranoia and the eye-popping physical effects,...