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If the words “Valeria Golino prison fight” seem an unlikely combination, never fear: the veteran Italian director Mario Martone gleefully stage one of these in his Cannes Palme d’Or contender “Fuori.” Best known to younger audiences for her role as the Adèle Haenel character’s mother in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” multi-hyphenate Golino seems to have dedicated much of her recent career to exploring the legacy of the vaunted Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza: directing a 2024 prestige miniseries based on her avowed masterpiece “The Art of Joy” and now playing her in Martone’s “Fuori” at an auspicious moment in her life and career.

Born in 1924, with a life forged in Italian anti-fascism, religious nonconformity, and artistic radicalism, Sapienza’s turbulent existence had the feel of a one-person prison fight itself, even if her name is not immediately recognizable to international audiences.

The film’s auteur — making...

Tonight on American Idol, the top three give their final performances in a star-studded night filled with music legends and top stars. After the nationwide vote, host Ryan Seacrest reveals this year’s American Idol winner. Will John Foster, Breanna Nix, or Jamal Roberts take the crown? Follow our live blog to see each performance and up-to-the-minute results below.

The three-hour finale of American Idol airs live coast-to-coast beginning at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on ABC. Judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan will cheer on the contestants as "Artist in Residence" Jelly Roll mentors the finalists ahead of their last performance.

Each of the top 14 contestants return to make an appearance on tonight's finale along with superstar guests Brandon Lake, Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Jennifer Holliday, Jessica Simpson, Kirk Franklin, Myles Smith, Patti Labelle, and Salt-n-Pepa.

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The Final Destination franchise has returned with a vengeance this weekend, withFinal Destination Bloodlines delivering the highest critical scores and the best opening day box office results of the entire saga. However, when creating a legacy sequel linked to a franchise with a lot of history, there are some very easy ways to slip up and retcon the past...or the future in this case.

One popular theory was that Death’s whole Final Destination plan centered around the opening sequence in which Iris saves many people from the Skyview disaster she witnesses in a premonition, setting off a chain of events that has repercussions for both the survivors and their future families. Addressing whether they considered making all the previous franchise victims directly linked to those survivors, directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky told ScreenRant that it was certainly something they considered, but it would have broken franchise canon.

Spoilers follow.

The "Final Destination" franchise has lain dormant for 14 years, waiting for the perfect moment to strike fear into a whole new generation. I admittedly had my reservations about "Bloodlines" simply because "Final Destination 5" is both the best entry and the thematic lynchpin of the entire series. Most horror franchises would kill to have an ending this tight, so the thought of resurrecting it for another go-around worried me initially. Rest assured, however, that "Bloodlines" is a more than worthy successor that takes the series in an exciting new direction, while still offering up a buffet of gruesomely gory deaths that's best experienced with a crowd. /Film's Bj Colangelo wrote in her review that the sixth entry is a franchise best and I'm very much on the same page.

"Bloodlines" kicks off its carnival of carnage with a tremendous opening premonition sequence set in the '60s atop a Skyview restaurant.

Leave it to Bono to turn a book tour into something as extravagant as “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” the Apple TV+ movie that had its world premiere on Friday night at the Cannes Film Festival.

The U2 singer has never been one for half-measures or modesty, and his version of the book tour for his 2022 autobiography “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” was a dramatic, theatrical presentation that mixed memory and music to provide snapshots from his life, from a child in Dublin to an international rock star. Presented on a small number of stages around the world, most notably during a 10-night stand in New York’s Beacon Theatre, it was no book reading or stripped down “Springsteen on Broadway”-style presentation, but a sensory delight as theatrical in its own way as U2’s own performances.

And “Bono: Stories of Surrender” takes the Beacon shows as a launching pad – but...

“Companion”, the new live-action, ‘killer robot’ science fiction psychological thriller, written and directed by Drew Hancock, stars Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén and Rupert Friend, now streaming on Max:

“…a billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for ‘Iris’ and her friends…

“…during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Nothing that Ajay Devgan has done in the past prepares us for the poise, poignancy and sensitivity of his directorial debut. U, Me Aur Hum is one of those tender and tactile melodramas that leave you with minty thoughts and dewy eyes.

The heart is completely at the right place as Ajay, turning director with a élan that thumbs its nose gently at all those who scoff at his actioner’s antecedents, tells the story of a husband whose gentle ministrations take his Alzheimer’s stricken wife from her absentminded youth to blanked-out old age.

The journey gives us insights into the man-woman relationship and the intricate commitments of a marriage as seen through the eyes that go beyond the romance and excitement of courtship to an area where dark clouds gather over a relationship and threaten its annihilation.

The trick, says Ajay’s soft but persuasive film, is to hold on,...

25 years after the beginning of the Final Destination franchise, the horror franchise is still alive and kicking. Almost a decade and a half since the last installment, Final Destination Bloodlines, comes with a different premise following Death.

Warner Bros. officially released the first trailer for the upcoming Final Destination 6, which will shift the story completely. While earlier entries followed strangers who were saved by the right person at the right time and cheated death, the new entry will follow a generational story, with the grandmother saving a big group decades ago and death coming for the entire bloodline that shouldn't have existed.

The almost two-and-a-half-minute trailer proves why the Final Destination franchise was so popular. In just a few minutes, the creative team behind the new entry, directing duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, who helm the horror film from a script by Scream veteran Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor,...

The Boys star Jack Quaid is going to extremes to promote his new movie. The actor gets battered and bruised while sitting courtside at a Los Angeles Clippers game in a brilliant marketing stunt for Novocaine.

In the short clip shared by Pop Crave on X, Quaid can be seen watching the Los Angeles Clippers take on the Sacremento Kings alongside his Novocaine co-star Amber Midthunder. The actor, who is wearing a cast on his arm, seemingly gets more injured throughout the night. He eventually conducts an interview in the arena wearing a neck brace, with cuts and bruises on his face.

Jack Quaid promoted his new movie ‘Novocaine’ at the Kings versus Clippers game by getting more and more beaten up as the game progressed on. pic.twitter.com/ZWav0EQFUj— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 11, 2025

Novocaine sees Jack Quaid starring as Nathan, a bank executive who has a...

Caroline Vignal’s It’s Raining Men follows Iris (Laure Calamy), a Parisian dentist whose stagnant marriage propels her into a whirlwind of app-driven dalliances, blending cheeky humor with poignant introspection.

The film’s premise—middle-aged desire clashing with marital complacency—echoes the French tradition of treating infidelity as a nuanced exploration of human complexity rather than a moral failing. Vignal situates this tale within a cultural landscape where Anglo-American audiences might demand judgment, yet here, the focus remains on Iris’s liberation.

The script nods to classics like Breathless in its breezy defiance of narrative rigidity, though Vignal swaps Godard’s frenetic jump cuts for lush, surreal detours, such as a spontaneous musical sequence set to the titular anthem.

This juxtaposition of grounded realism and whimsical escapism mirrors France’s ambivalence toward tradition and modernity—a tension as relevant in today’s #MeToo era as it was in the heyday of the Nouvelle Vague.

We have ourselves a race! The Oscar contests for Best Actor and Best Actress got especially interesting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday because the winners disagreed with another industry peer group honor, the BAFTA Awards. But who tends to win the Oscar under those circumstances, the SAG winner, the BAFTA winner, or someone else entirely?

SEE2025 Oscars race scorecard: 'Conclave,' Timothée Chalamet pull off SAG Awards wins while Demi Moore rebounds

Let's start with Best Actress, where Demi Moore (The Substance) won the SAG Award while Mikey Madison (Anora) won BAFTA. This is the fifth year in a row that the two awards diverged. Let's break down all those disagreements year by year.

2023: Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) won SAG, Emma Stone (Poor Things) won BAFTA — Oscar went to the BAFTA winner.

2022: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) won SAG,...

Halle Berry said she is “tired” of being the only Black woman to have taken home the Oscar for Best Actress, and expressed her hope that another Black performer will be recognized in the category this year.

Berry appeared on Trevor Noah’s “What Now?” podcast last week to discuss where she has found purpose in life over the years — she’s now taken on menopause care advocacy work.

Check out the full interview below:

“Like, winning that Oscar at that time, I was chosen to do that, to open that door. I knew it was bigger than me,” Berry told hosts Trevor Noah and Christiana Mbakwe Medina.

“I hope this year someone stands next to me. This year, I hope it happens because I’m tired of occupying that space alone,” Berry continued. “I hope this is the year, but even if it’s not, I was chosen in...

Halle Berry said she is “tired” of being the only Black woman to have taken home the Oscar for Best Actress, and expressed her hope that another Black performer will be recognized in the category this year.

Berry appeared on Trevor Noah’s “What Now?” podcast last week to discuss where she has found purpose in life over the years — she’s now taken on menopause care advocacy work.

Check out the full interview below:

“Like, winning that Oscar at that time, I was chosen to do that, to open that door. I knew it was bigger than me,” Berry told hosts Trevor Noah and Christiana Mbakwe Medina.

“I hope this year someone stands next to me. This year, I hope it happens because I’m tired of occupying that space alone,” Berry continued. “I hope this is the year, but even if it’s not, I was chosen in...

One of the first rules Neil Cross gave his team when making Iris, the new thriller series he created for Sky U.K., was that the lead character should never drive a car with a roof. “If Grace Kelly wouldn’t drive it, neither should Iris,” says Cross, laughing.

After spending years in the grime of East London making Luther, the dark cop drama starring Idris Elba as a homicide detective with some very nasty personal demons, Cross was ready for something light and sunny. With Iris, which “to create a different kind of show… something my wife and I could enjoy with a glass of wine on the sofa.”

Iris exchanges Luther‘s cold and cloudy London for a sun-drenched Italian countryside — the show was shot largely in Sardina — and takes inspiration from the British spy and adventure shows of Cross’ youth, think The Saint or The Persuaders!, for its chase thriller plot line.

There’s a common phrase that goes on in the tech world, ‘but can it run Doom?’, which has become synonymous with trying to run the classic, but still popular original 1993 version of Doom on the most absurd hardware combinations possible.

People have managed to get Doom running on all sorts of hardware – including but not limited to calculators, microwaves and even pregnancy test kits. A recent endeavour from a particular modder has managed to go one step further – running the game within Minecraft using its various intricacies which is quite an amazing feat.

Modder manages to run Doom inside of Minecraft Running Doom in Minecraft | Image Credit: YouTube/ModPunchTree

Showcasing his feats on the r/Doom subreddit, user ModPunchTree has managed to make Doom run inside of Minecraft.

I made Doom in minecraft with redstone

byu/ModPunchtree inDoom

Minecraft modding isn’t exactly new, but having a playable game...

Exclusive: Ja’Lisa Arnold has been named as the 2025 recipient of the $10,000 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, with Christopher Guerrero being revealed as the winner of the $2,500 Audience Award, voted for by the public. Both winners received their prizes during an invitation-only ceremony at the renowned art fair.

Realized in collaboration with non-profit Ghetto Film School and film and TV studio Fifth Season, the Frieze Los Angeles Film Award is recognized within the industry as an incubator for next-generation talent. Since its launch in 2019, the initiative has supported over 40 fellows, providing a platform for emerging voices in filmmaking.

Arnold’s award-winning film Grief Cannot Exist Without Joy follows Tobi, a gifted musician struggling with the recent loss of his brother, Lou. His only path to healing is through music — by completing an unfinished song dedicated to his sibling, he confronts his grief and finds a way forward.

Commented Claudio de Sanctis,...

Fremantle is readying to unleash ‘Sandokan’ onto industry insiders during next week’s London TV Screenings.

“It’s simply a great epic adventure, based on a known IP. It’s ‘Poldark’ meets ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’,” enthuses CEO Commercial and International Jens Richter, promising action, adventure and some good old-fashioned pirating.

Starring Can Yaman (“Daydreamer”), Ed Westwick (“Gossip Girl”) and John Hannah (“Spartacus: Blood and Sand”), it’s based on the series of novels by Emilio Salgari and produced by Fremantle’s Italian content powerhouse Lux Vide. Set in the mid-1800s, it heads to a place inhabited by native Dayak tribes yet dominated by British law. Sandokan is used to fighting for his survival, but one thing catches him by surprise: love.

“There’s a portion of romance,” admits Richter. With each episode set in a different environment, “Sandokan” will “fit the needs of the market perfectly,” he adds.

The following contains spoilers from the Feb. 20 episode of CBS’ (freshly renewed!) Elsbeth.

Where do things stand with Elsbeth and her great Scot?

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The just-renewed CBS procedural last week had many viewers’ hearts a-fluttering, as its titular sleuth formed a most unexpected connection with a Scottish musician/fireman named Angus — by way of an “Iris...

For Sale By Exorcist: "Think the current housing market is a nightmare? Wait 'til you take a tour of the demonic dwellings in For Sale By Exorcist, a new horror comedy released through LA.-based Epic Pictures’ horror label, Dread. Available for rent or purchase on video-on-demand beginning March 11, 2025, the film will also be screening at the Nevermore Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina on February 28th and March 1st with director Melissa Lamartina in attendance.

Executive produced by Ed Sanchez, the director of The Blair Witch Project; directed by Melissa Lamartina, the writer of the hit horror video game, Amanda the Adventurer; and co-written by Chris Lamartina of Wnuf Halloween Special fame and Rob Walker of the satire site The Hard Times; For Sale By Exorcist is a morbid mockumentary that blends gasps and giggles.

For Sale By Exorcist follows Susan Price, a savvy realtor and certified exorcist who...

The following contains major spoilers for Companion, now playing in theaters.

Companionstar Jack Quaid is no stranger to blood and gore. However, the actor recently revealed that making movies can be difficult for him too.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Quaid opened up about one particular scene in the sci-fi thriller Companionthat made him more than a little nervous. "There was this one stunt that is small in the grand history of things I've done on screen, but I don't know why. It just gave me the heebie-jeebies," he said. Referring to a scene with co-star Sophie Thatcher, who plays Iris, he added, "She closes a car door on my hand, and it was the one stunt where I was like, 'I don't know.' It was perfectly safe - they had a stopper there in case anything went wrong. But it was the one time I was like, 'Can we...

Kate Winslet is one of the most iconic actresses in the industry, having worked in some truly revolutionary movies. From Revolutionary Road, Eternal Sunshine, and arguably the most famous romantic movie of all time, Titanic, Winslet is a worker who has consistently been lauded for her roles.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in a still from Titanic (1997)

However, not many will know, that she was once considered for the role of Éowyn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Following her breakout success in Titanic (1997), Winslet was at the peak of her career, and her name came up when Jackson was casting for the epic fantasy saga. However, despite her past collaboration with the director, she ultimately turned down the opportunity.

Kate Winslet turned down the role of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings Credits: Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures / Miramax

Peter Jackson and Kate Winslet...

Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, stars of the recent Prime Video film You're Cordially Invited, interviewed each other for a People video piece, and the conversation ended up going viral for very different reasons. At one point, they touched on what it's like to give speeches and if they've ever regretted a speech. "I have one," said Withersoon. "It haunts me, it literally haunts me." She recalled being asked to give an award out to a friend of hers, a "serious, proper actress," and how her speech ended up ruining their friendship. Based on all the information and the wonders of the permanent internet, internet sleuths have discovered that friend to be Titanic star Kate Winslet, though Witherspoon has yet to confirm this. Nonetheless, based on what she said, it's almost certain to be Winslet. Witherspoon said:

"So this friend of mine, who I didn't really know that well, but she was a very serious,...

The following contains spoilers for Companion, now playing in theaters. It also has a mention of sexual assault, domestic violence, and suicide.

When the trailers for Drew Hancock's Companion dropped, fans were mystified. They wondered if it was a rom-com with dark humor, but the movie depicts Jack Quaid's Josh being a toxic, violent boyfriend to Sophie Thatcher's Iris.

Companion will draw many parallels to shows like Black Mirror. Josh is very much a controlling man, but not in the conventional sense. His journey and the enslavement of Iris has a unique twist. As their bloody journey turns from a tryst at a secluded cabin into an all-out war, Companion crafts a very thought-provoking story that feels very relatable.

Companion's Dark Twist, Explained Sophie Thatcher's Iris Is a Robotic Sex Slave Image via Warner Bros. Pictures

RelatedCompanion Review: This Wild Movie Uses Sci-Fi to Intensely Showcase Misogyny...

The following contains mild spoilers for "Companion."

"Companion" is the first big surprise of the movie year, a funny, thrilling film with a great cast and an even better twist. As Chris Evangelista wrote in his review for /Film, "'Companion' is the first great film of 2025 — a funny, fast-moving, meticulously crafted horror-thriller with a killer performance from lead Sophie Thatcher."

The film follows Iris (Thatcher), who goes on a weekend getaway trip with her boyfriend Josh (Jack Quaid) to visit a group of his friends at a remote cabin that quickly turns into a chaotic bloodbath. The film also stars Lukas Gage, Harvey Guillén, Megan Suri, and Ruper Friend.

This is a notoriously hard movie to talk about without talking about its premise and the first-act twist, which the second trailer already openly revealed. Still, if you don't want to know anything about what "Companion" is actually about,...

This article contains major spoilers for "Companion."

Gender-based conflict, violence, and terror are embedded into the fabric of horror. Vampires searching for brides, damsels in distress needing to be saved, "Hitchcock blondes," and masked slashers hacking up scantily clad babysitters and camp counselors are mainstays of the genre, and the overwhelming majority of horror stories are either exploiting, examining, or subverting the expectations of gender-based violence. However, as film theorist Carol J. Clover so perfectly explained in her essay "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film," when it comes to horror, "gender is less a wall than a permeable membrane."

Horror movies are rich with cross-gender identification, and it's been psychologically theorized that horror fans have a greater capacity for empathy. It's why cis men watch a film like "Aliens" and easily identify Ellen Ripley as the coolest character without ever believing she's "lesser-than" for being a woman, and...

Reese Witherspoon has made headlines by revealing that a famous British actress will no longer talk to her and we’ve identified that actress as Kate Winslet.

The Oscar-winning actress opened up about the falling out in a new interview alongside her You’re Cordially Invited co-star Will Ferrell.

Reese asked Will, “Have you ever had this moment where you gave a speech and then like three years later, you’re like, ‘Why did I do that? Why did I do that?’”

“I have one. It literally haunts me,” Reese began.

Keep reading to find out more…

“So this friend of mine, who I didn’t really know that well but she was a very serious, proper actress, she asked me to give her an award. But I had never been to this award ceremony, so I thought it was like a roast. So I got up and I roasted her,...

What began as a pandemic-era writing exercise is now Companion, Drew Hancock’s widely acclaimed feature directorial debut.

Feeling unfulfilled by the sitcom-heavy direction his career was going, Hancock admitted some hard truths to himself during the dregs of 2020. So the Omaha, Nebraska native decided to write his way out of his lot at the time by crafting a genre feature that he could use as a writing sample to land other related work. That screenplay became Companion, and feeling confident in what he’d committed to paper, the filmmaker decided to send the script to a mutual friend of BoulderLight Pictures’ J.D. Lifshitz.

Riding high on their recent producorial success of Zach Cregger’s Barbarian, Lifshitz and his producing partner Raphael Margules were so impressed by Hancock’s script that they brought it to the rest of the Barbarian brain trust including Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Cregger himself.

“Companion” is a new live-action, ‘killer robot’ science fiction psychological thriller, written and directed by Drew Hancock, starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén and Rupert Friend, releasing January 31, 2025 in theaters:

“…a billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for ‘Iris’ and her friends…

“…during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

“Companion” is a new live-action, ‘killer robot’ science fiction psychological thriller, written and directed by Drew Hancock, starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén and Rupert Friend, releasing January 31, 2025 in theaters:

“…a billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for ‘Iris’ and her friends…

“…during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Midway through the 25th annual Light of Day benefit at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey, on Saturday night, Jesse Malin confirmed rumors that had been swirling around town since the late afternoon: Bruce Springsteen was in the house. It was one of the first times that Malin has performed in public since suffering a devastating spinal stroke in 2023, and he used the mic stand, along with the tremendous force of his will, to pull himself to his feet and welcome his old friend...

Exclusive: Korean action star Jang Hyuk is set to make his directorial and writing debut with action film Stop Stop Dark Cold, alongside Stars Collective and Stars Entertainment.

Jang Hyuk has played roles in films like Volcano High, The Swordsman, The Killer and Iris 2 as well as shows like Slave Hunters and Bloody Heart.

Trained extensively in Jeet Kune Do, Jang will mark his directorial and writing debut with Stop Stop Dark Cold.

Stop Stop Dark Cold is currently in the script development phase and is slated to begin production in mid-2025.

Stars Collective and Stars Entertainment said that they have cross-industry ambitions for Stop Stop Dark Cold, which include extending the IP beyond the silver screen to immersive experiences, merchandise, anime and gaming.

“I am deeply committed to this project and eager to explore the future implications of technology through my artistic lens,” said Jang. “I look forward to connecting with audiences worldwide.

Actor-director Daniel Auteuil and key “Emilia Perez” collaborator Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux have set up their next features with Les Films Velvet, the auteur-focused production outfit behind this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris opener “The Musicians” as well as Rebecca Zlotowski’s upcoming, Jodie Foster-led thriller “Vie Privée.”

After last year’s Cannes-launched legal thriller “An Ordinary Case,” Auteuil will step back behind the camera for the World War II drama “Une Nuit” (“One Night”). Co-written by Auteuil and filmmaker Camille Lugan (“The Book of Joy”), the film follows the incredible true story of a 1942 effort to rescue more then one hundred Jewish children from a deportation camp just outside of Lyon. Les Films Velvet’s Frederic Jouve will produce alongside Adrien Nussenbaum.

An in-demand assistant director who has worked closely with Jacques Audiard, Zlotowski and Nadav Lapid, Pouilloux most recently led second unit on “Emilia Perez” before directing the Canal Plus series “Iris.

Season 2 of Squid Game sees Lee Byung-hun’s character, Hwang In-ho, come into his own, after his identity as villainous game-runner the Front Man was revealed late in season 1. He’s joined by Korean hip-hop star T.O.P, who arrives in the third episode of the season playing Thanos, a loudmouth rapper who’s entered the game after losing all his money in bad crypto investments.

The scene is set for these two heavyweights of Korean entertainment to square off in the following episode, when Thanos starts beating up another player with his friend Nam-gyu. They blame their victim, Myung-gi, for defrauding them with cryptocurrencies. With the other participants watching on, the Front Man steps in. “What makes you think you can behave like that?” he asks, approaching T.O.P’s character. This face-off appears to be a deliberate reference to the TV series that launched Byung-hun to A-list status across Asia.

“Companion” is a new live-action ‘killer robot’ science fiction psychological thriller, written and directed by Drew Hancock, starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén and Rupert Friend, releasing January 31, 2025 in theaters:

“…a billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for ‘Iris’ and her friends…

“…during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Roger Pratt, an Oscar-nominated British cinematographer who worked on two Harry Potter films and with such top directors as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Leigh, Lasse Hallström, Neil Jordan, Wolfgang Petersen and Richard Attenborough, has died. He was 77.

The British Society of Cinematographers said he died in late 2024 but did not provide an exact date or a cause.

Pratt earned an Academy Award nom for Jordan’s The End of the Affair (1999) and also lensed the filmmaker’s Mona Lisa (1986) and 2000 short Not I. His dozens of credits include Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005); Burton’s Batman (1989); Leigh’s High Hopes (1988); Gilliam’s Brazil (1985), The Fisher King (1991) and 12 Monkeys (1995); Branagh’s Frankenstein (1994); and Hallström’s Chocolat (2000); and Petersen’s Troy (2004).

Pratt also was the go-to lenser for the late two-time Oscar winner Attenborough on several films including...

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Squid Game season 2.Squid Game season 2 ends with a heartbreaking twist involving Front Man/Hwang In-ho, but for those who want a better ending, Lee Byung-hun's 15-year-old K-drama, Iris, is a good follow-up watch. After an extended hiatus, Netflix's groundbreaking Korean show returns for its much-anticipated sophomore year. The latest ensemble is largely composed of new faces, primarily because most of the players from its debut year ended up dying during the competition, Squid Game season 2 features some familiar faces. Aside from Lee Jung-jae's Seong Gi-hun, who re-enters the underground game, it also sees Lee reprise his role as Front Man.

Front Man's role in Squid Game season 1 was minor. He was mostly behind his mask, commanding the guards who facilitated the deadly competition. It wasn't until later in the run that he was unmasked, as he came face-to-face with his police officer brother,...

Kate Winslet Net Worth (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Kate Winslet is one of the most celebrated actresses of Hollywood and has over the years established a glorious career with her versatile filmography. While she started her acting stint with some commercials and theatre, it was the movie Titanic which catapulted her into the main league. This has also resulted in her astounding bankability.

Kate Winslet’s Journey

She got her first major break with the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. She was then seen in the film Sense And Sensibility which proved to be a success. However, it was her performance as Rose in the film Titanic opposite Leonardo Dicaprio which was a true game changer for her.

Since then, there was no looking back for the actress. It was followed by a diversified filmography with movies like Enigma, Holy Smoke and Kinky. She was furthermore seen in Iris, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind,...

Jack Quaid is moving on from Star Trek: Lower Decks and Lieutenant Brad Boimler, but Jack stars in two of the most exciting new movies to kick off 2025, Companion and Novocaine. For five seasons, Quaid played the animated Brad Boimler on Star Trek: Lower Decks, as well as Boimler's transporter clone, Captain William Boimler. Jack also brought Ensign Brad Boimler to live-action, alongside Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' acclaimed season 2 crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Making his motion picture acting debut as the villainous Marvel in The Hunger Games, Jack Quaid's star has steadily risen since 2019, when Jack hit Prime Video as one of the series leads in The Boys. Following up voicing Boimler on Star Trek: Lower Decks, Quaid returned to movie screens as Richie Kirsch, one of the Ghostface killers in Scream (2022). Jack Quaid's talent and versatility have garnered him...

Shrinking Season 2 returns viewers to the world of the beloved Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center and the life of one Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) and his colleagues Paul Rhoades (Harrison Ford) and Gaby Evans (Jessica Williams). All three characters employ music both in their practices and in their personal daily lives. Jimmy’s daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) also has a very specific taste in music.

Season 1 of Shrinking kicked off with Billy Joel’s “Prelude/Angry Young Man” and Arcade Fire’s “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid).” Later on in the season, Nine Days’ “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)”, Phoebe Bridger’s “Funeral” and The 1975’s “Me” also had had moments in the spotlight.

Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series also has strong songs that accompany emotional moments in the show. Find the full list of songs in Shrinking Season 2 below:

Episode 1 – “Jimmying”

“Your Love” by The Outfield “Hollow Heart” by C. James...

Teatro Grattacielo announces its 2022-23 Season, featuring Mozart’s Don Giovanni on June 16 & 17, 2023 at Riverside Theater and Spontini’s La Vestale starring Indra Thomas as Giulia and Tahanee Aluwihare as La Gran Vestale on October 28, 2023 at the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit grattacielo.org/season.

“On behalf of the Board of Directors and myself, we are excited to be bringing back to the US the historic Italian version of La Vestale, adding to yearlong celebrations of the 100th birth anniversary of Greek-American soprano Maria Callas,” said Stefanos Koroneos, General and Artistic Director, Teatro Grattacielo. “Maria was born in New York. She took her first steps around our great city. With our season, we are honoring her memory, her artistry, and her love for our great city and community. We are also happy to be presenting our production of Don Giovanni,...

Paramount+’s Mayor Of Kingstown season 2, episode 2 showed Iris (Emma Laird) fleeing the McLusky household to seek Milo's (Aidan Gillen) aid - but this tragic twist was shown to be inevitable far before that. Mayor Of Kingstown season 2, episode 1 focused on detailing the aftermath of the prison riots in Kingstown, both in relation to the inmates’ life and the power vacuum created by the gangs’ leaders’ death. Episode 2 expands on this, but also reveals that Milo is once again running his own operations, this time outside of prison - showing his hideout when Iris flees to request his help.

A big Mayor Of Kingstown season 1 storyline involved Milo trying to understand what buttons to push to force Mike (Jeremy Renner) to help him. Milo eventually realized Mike couldn’t have not interfered if he hurt Iris, prompting Iris and Mike’s connection in Mayor Of Kingstown season 1. However, Mike’s...

Sergio Leone's filmmaking instincts were unerring. Once he got his feet under him with "A Fistful of Dollars," he made masterfully composed widescreen Western epics that were dense with references to their genre predecessors. You don't have to be a movie buff to fall in love with a Leone film, but your enjoyment is certainly enhanced, particularly on multiple viewings, when you realize how deftly he's integrated the works of John Ford, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann and so on into his mythic vision of the West. And while his Italian perspective, which spawned the label "Spaghetti Western," gave these films a vaguely European sensibility, he largely connected with audiences the world over because he spoke fluently the language of cinema.

Leone might've been an articulate filmmaker, but he was far from loquacious. He only spoke when he had something to say. This is why, after the completion of "Duck, You Sucker...

To say that The Flash Season 7 Episode 2 was an emotional rollercoaster full of twists, humor, and emotion would be an understatement.

The episode started strong with a heartfelt scene to remember all the Wells. It only got more interesting as Barry and the rest of Team Flash dealt with his new power of speed thinking.

Everything about "The Speed of Thought" was classic The Flash, dating back to the glories of The Flash Season 1. If this is a picture of how the rest of The Flash Season 7 will play out, we are in for a treat.

Barry's heart has always been at the very core of the show. Barry Allen was not the Paragon of Love on the Crisis of Infinite Earths for nothing.

But with the death of Wells, Barry wondered whether or not his heart was a vulnerability that Team Flash's enemies used to their advantage.

A bittersweet truth of this pandemic, among many, is that the “quarantine album” has rapidly become its own genre. While the music industry as a whole has had to make do with recording albums remotely during lockdown for the past year, a distinct sonic concept for many of these releases has emerged: emotionally raw, the creation of one or a few people in a home studio, often described as “acoustic,” even as layers of synths and reverb contribute to the feelings of isolation. (Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago...

Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are both proven academy favorites with multiple nominations to their names. Both are now in another plausible Oscar contender, “Ammonite,” in which Winslet plays Mary Anning, a paleontologist who forms a brief but intense relationship with Ronan’s Charlotte Murchison. If both were to earn a nomination for “Ammonite,” it would be Ronan’s fifth and Winslet’s eighth, continuing their runs as some of the most nominated actresses of the 21st century. While Winslet already won her Oscar for 2008’s “The Reader,” Ronan has yet to take home the little gold man, but she might just be on the same path to victory as her co-star in the end.

Winslet earned Oscar nominations for “Sense and Sensibility” (1995), “Titanic” (1997), “Iris” (2001), “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) and “Little Children” (2006) before finally winning for “The Reader” (she was later nominated for 2015’s “Steve Jobs”). During the run-up to Winslet’s victory,...

Actors portraying feminist icon Gloria Steinem might be nominated in three categories at the upcoming Golden Globes. If that happens, it will be the first time that three actors are nominated in the same year for playing the same role.

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On the TV side, Rose Byrne plays Steinem in the FX on Hulu limited series “Mrs. America,” which chronicles the struggle for women’s rights between conservative Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett) and progressive feminists led by Steinem. On the film side, Oscar winners Alicia Vikander and Julianne Moore play Steinem at different stages of her life as she rises to prominence as a leader of the women’s liberation movement in Julie Taymor‘s biopic “The Glorias.”

It is not unprecedented for two actors from the same film to be nominated for one role.

Hayley Williams performed three songs from her solo album Petals for Armor live for the first time for the latest installment of NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert.

For the mini-set — recorded in Williams’ home — the Paramore singer played “Pure Love,” “Taken,” and “Dead Horse” alongside a band that included Becca Mancari and Julien Baker.

“I’ve never done this without Paramore,” Williams admits during the performance; Petals for Armor, written during a period of self-imposed isolation, arrived amid the coronavirus pandemic, preventing the singer from touring behind the LP.

Phoebe Bridgers and Phoebe Waller-Bridge have finally collaborated, with the Fleabag star directing the video for Bridgers’ “Savior Complex.”

Shot in black-and-white and released on Facebook, the clip stars Normal People actor Paul Mescal, who previously starred in the Rolling Stones’ video for “Scarlet.” A bruised Mescal and a dog are seen on a beach, as Bridgers appears in several scenes as the “savior complex,” driving by, appearing as a hotel clerk, and more.

In an interview with Rolling Stone last summer, Bridgers spoke of Waller-Bridge and their name similarity.

Warning: The following contains spoilers for The Boys Season 2, Episode 2. Proceed at your own risk!

“I don’t want the world to see me, ’cause I don’t think that they’d understand…”

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Netflix has given a platform to various voices in the Hollywood industry such as Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”), Dee Rees (“Mudbound”), and most recently Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”), in which filmmakers get to bring their distinct visions to life with the autonomy they wouldn’t be afforded at a traditional studio. As Oscars voters have become more accepting of the streaming giant’s offerings (see Laura Dern’s best supporting actress win for “Marriage Story”), it’s encouraging to see Netflix roll out the red carpet for Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.” With critics weighing in with mostly positive reviews, Kaufman — who serves as the film’s writer, director and producer — along with his below-the-line team, could be an underdog contender in this year’s unusual awards race.

The film tells the story of an unnamed woman (Jessie Buckley) traveling with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to meet...