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Running Point, Netflix's latest addition to its long list of sports-centered works, debuted on February 27, 2025. Comprising 10 episodes, with each episode averaging at just thirty minutes, the heartfelt comedy is the perfect binge-watch. The series follows its protagonist, Isla Gordon, as she struggles to carry on her family's legacy in basketball. Isla takes on the presidency of the Los Angeles Waves basketball team following a scandal that forces her elder brother, Cam, to resign from his position. However, it isn't a smooth sail for Isla, who has to prove herself both to her family and the industry.

Created by the talented Mindy Kaling, together with Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen, Running Point has a host of talented names, featuring a diverse cast from different backgrounds. The combination of the cast creates an eccentric dynamic, leading to compelling characters. While some names are well-known in the industry, Running Point also brings...

Los Angeles, March 4 (Ians) Actress Kate Hudson has revealed that she is saving all her red carpet looks to hand down to her daughter, Rani.

The 44-year-old star said that she has many ensembles she has worn to celebrated events over the years, which she one day plans to let 5-year-old daughter Rani Rose wear.

“I have a very extensive archive at this point,” Kate told people.com.

Kate added: “Not all of them I’ve gotten to keep over the years, but the ones that I (can), and the ones that are custom and all that, I hold onto them.”

“(Rani) is already going through my shoes, and I catch her kind of opening my closet doors and looking in, peering into certain things, and I’m like, ‘Oh, it just already belongs to Rani’,” said Kate, who made her film debut in 1998 with ‘Desert Blue’.

“So one day...

Chicago –The birthday gal today (April 19th) is movie star Kate Hudson, and Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com is celebrating with an Exclusive unpublished Portrait from a 2016 photo shoot. Hudson’s recent films include “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and “A Little White Lie,” costarring Chicagoan Michael Shannon.

Kate Garry Hudson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of actor Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson (of the Hudson Brothers). After her parents divorced when she was a toddler, she was raised in a family with her mother’s long-time partner Kurt Russell. After high school, she decided to pursue an acting career.

Kate Hudson, circa 2016

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

She made her film debut in 1998 with “Desert Blue,” but her breakthrough was as the groupie Penny Lane in “Almost Famous” (2000), with her famous with-sunglasses image on the film poster. She then became...

Rilo Kiley will reissue their rare self-titled 1999 debut album on vinyl and digital for the first time this October.

The long-out-of-print album — which contained the song “Frug,” featured on the soundtrack of the 1998 film Desert Blue — was previously only available on CDs that Jenny Lewis and company sold at their early shows, prior to the release of their “official” debut LP, 2001’s Take Offs and Landings.

Rilo Kiley, out October 2nd via Little Record Company, replicates the album’s nine-song second-pressing as a digital download and limited edition vinyl.

Comedian Dave Foley,...

Chicago – She’s the daughter of Hollywood royalty, but managed to carve out her own career as a film actress and entrepreneur. Kate Hudson can now add author to her list of accomplishments as she came to Chicagoland to promote “Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body.”

Actress Kate Hudson for ‘Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body’

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Hudson is the daughter of Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson (Hawn’s second husband), and was raised by Hawn and her longtime partner Kurt Russell. After high school she pursued an acting career, and made her debut in 1998 in “Desert Blue.” Her breakthrough came two years later, as she memorably portrayed the character of Penny Lane in “Almost Famous” (2000), which garnered her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards. This led to a series of roles...

The Believer's 2012 Film Issue is out and you can sample every essay, interview and list that's in it, though only a handful of texts are online in full. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, for example, talks with Peter Doig, "a figurative painter whose lush dreamscapes at once evoke his medium's past and suggest the feel of photos and films," who also co-runs the StudioFilmClub in Trinidad: "In an airy old rum factory with a digital projector on one wall, a large screen on another, and a homey bar stocked with coconut water and local Stag beer, he hosts free screenings. Each Thursday night, FilmClub's patrons thrill to independent and art-house films ranging from Killer of Sheep and Klute to — on the night of my first visit a couple years ago — Nagisa Oshima's 1976 classic of sensual obsession, In the Realm of the Senses." You can see more of the flyers Doig's painted for the FilmClub here.

Production designer David Doernberg, who brought a sensitive, finely crafted and observant touch to many excellent independent films, died in New York on Friday after a battle with cancer.

Doernberg began his career in the late ’80s/early ’90s working on music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. He quickly moved into independent features, working as a propmaster for films by Hal Hartley (Amateur), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) and Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell). Soon after he became a production designer, bookending his career with films by Kelly Reichardt. He designed her 1994 debut film, River of Grass, as well as her 2010 period tale of frontier life on the Oregon Trail, Meek’s Cutoff. Other notable credits include Phil Morrison’s Junebug, Alison Maclean’s Jesus’s Son, Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Pete Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.

Disregarding how redundant it may seem to be remaking director Niels Arden Oplev’s excellent Swedish adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009) for a moment, this four minute trailer for David Fincher’s stab at book one in novelist Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is pretty special. For the first time we experience Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander speaking (broad accent) and properly moving (sometimes fighting) in her costume. Early indications are that Mara might just pull this off.

If you already know the story of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, maybe because you have read the book or seen the original film, there is little point in recapping it for you. If you do not know the story, it is imperative you avoid any spoilers, so we will be doing you a favour there too.

Video: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Exclusive Trailer

The trailer...

Craig here with Take Three. This week: Peter Sarsgaard

Take One: Garden State (2004)

Including Garden State as a Take Three take meant two things: watching one of Sarsgaard’s very best supporting performances again and watching the actual film again. The charm of the former outweighed the task of the latter. Despite essentially disliking the film, Sarsgaard makes it worth seeing. You get no sad, woe-is-me moping from him, nor do you get “original” moments of screechy-unique arm waving. His character, Mark, a grave digger, comes from the ‘insta-best friend’ vault of movie characters, but it’s what Sarsgaard does with it that makes all the difference. He’s essentially present to take a face full of Braff’s woefulness. During an abysmal rainy shout-a-thon into a large pit, he's on gooseberry duty, forced to awkwardly stand around whilst Braff and Portman snog each other’s faces off. But Sarsgaard lingers with style.

His older brother is famously cast as the romcom heart-throb. But Casey Affleck would rather play the violent psychopath in Michael Winterbottom's disturbing new film

On a hot Saturday afternoon, Casey Affleck comes down a New York street bouncing a ball, looking as rangy and innocent as a teenager, and nothing like Lou Ford, the psychotic sheriff who murders two women in Michael Winterbottom's violent new thriller, The Killer Inside Me. After watching Affleck's performance, I was a little unnerved to meet him. The 34-year-old plays the role with the kind of fish-eyed creepiness that lingers in the mind for days.

"Uh-oh," Affleck says when I mention the eye thing. "Have I done it at lunch?"

To be Ben Affleck's more interesting younger brother seems a particularly sorry designation in life, except that Casey has in the last few years played such good roles, with such quiet integrity,...

If you're not familiar with writer-producer-director Morgan J. Freeman, here is a primer: The multi-hyphenate's debut feature, Hurricane Streets, starring Edie Falco and Brendan Sexton III (Welcome to the Dollhouse), was the first narrative project to win three awards at Sundance in 1997. Freeman went on to direct other films including Desert Blue and American Psycho 2 while launching a successful career producing reality television shows for MTV. His first series, Laguna Beach, spawned two spin-offs and two years ago, Freeman created 16 and Pregnant, which has already spun off another successful social commentary series for MTV, Teen Moms.

Movieline caught up with Freeman recently to discuss how 16 and Pregnant has been a "dream come true" for his inner storyteller, why the series hits home with so many audience members and how all of his projects -- scripted or not -- are related.

Tucson, Az . A magical evening awaits you this holiday season as thousands of luminarias light up the garden paths at the Tucson Botanical Gardens 23rd annual Luminaria Nights. Eclectic music, Santa Claus and culinary treats are sure to summon the holiday spirit. Create your own traditions and memories this December 4-6 from 5:30-8 p.m.

See tucsonbotanical.org for a complete performance schedule. Musical artists include: Desert Blue Grass, Pantano Bells, David Hernandez & Robert Johnson, Magic Voice Studio, Merry Makers, Arizona Symphony String Quartet, Doolen Orchestra, University of Arizona Faculty Choir, Mandophilia, Tucson Women's Chorus, Out of Sequins, Brooke Gebow, University of Arizona Outreach Choir, Damaris Drewry and Alex Shawn, Tucson Girls Chorus, Marni Kennedy, Christian High School Hand Bells, Tucson Flute Club, Arizona Youth Ensemble, Catalina Foothills Flute Choir, St. Michaels Parish Day School, Saguaro Strutters, 16th Place, Sonora Winds, Catalina Foothills Woodwind Choir, Havin. a Blast and the Kinglet Singers.