Tag: Movies

Richard Simmons Has Apologized For Sowing ‘Confusion’ With Alarming Posts About ‘Dying’ (Which He’s Not)

On Monday Richard Simmons announced he was “dying.” (Spoiler: He’s not.) It was the start of a lengthy social media thread about living life to the fullest — about telling people to “enjoy your life to the fullest every single day. Get up in the morning and look at the sky… count your blessings and […]

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Gwyneth Paltrow Is Taking A Masochistic Post-Ski Trial Swing By ‘Hot Ones’

Gwyneth Paltrow used to be famous as an actress. She even won an Academy Award for her acting! She doesn’t really do that anymore. She’s an entrepreneur now, of a successful if controversial company whose wares include vagina candles that almost start fires. She also makes headlines for things like being unsuccessfully sued over a […]

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Sydney Sweeney Opened Up About Having ‘No Control’ Over The ‘Weird’ Way People Discuss Her Body

Sydney Sweeney is everywhere these days. On one hand that’s good: The actress spent ages struggling to make it big, and now that she has, she can do things like buy back the family house they had to sell in desperate times. The drawback is that she’s often treated like an object. Sweeney is a […]

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Original ‘The Crow’ Director Alex Proyas Came Right Out And Says The Reboot Tarnishes Brandon Lee’s Legacy

After years of false starts and almost every actor in Hollywood attached to the project at some point, The Crow reboot is finally ending the theaters with Bill Skarsgård in the title role. With a trailer now out in the wild, so far the reactions have been… not great. The Crow reboot already had an […]

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George Miller Explained Why The Role Of ‘Furiosa’ Went To Anya Taylor-Joy Instead Of Charlize Theron

Anya Taylor-Joy quickly went from one sandy Dune to another sandy dune as she is set to star in the highly-anticipated Mad Max prequel, Furiosa. The film will tell the origin story of the titular warrior before she meets Max, all while showcasing Anya Taylor-Joy’s impressive car stunts. Thankfully she got her permit. While Taylor-Joy […]

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Jason Momoa For Some Reason Thinks He’s Played Characters With Cooler Names Than Duncan Idaho

There are a lot of wacky futuristic terms in Dune: gom jibbar, Kwisatz Haderach, ornithopter, Muad’Dib. But author Frank Herbert decided to make it easy on readers in one way: Some of the characters have normal-to-us names. Our hero is called Paul and his mom’s name is Jessica. There is one truly out-there moniker: The […]

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The Disastrous Wonka ‘Chocolate Experience’ Is Being Turned Into A Musical (In Addition To A Horror Movie)

Late last month a bunch of children were likely scarred for life by a little event called “Willy’s Chocolate Experience.” Who’s Willy? Wonka, of course — the subject of the recent hit movie Wonka. The Glasgow, Scotland-held event, with its carefully-worded title, wasn’t actually an official spinoff from the estate of Roald Dahl. Far from […]

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A Moviegoer Was Caught Doing Something, Um, Well, Pretty Darn Lewd At A Showing Of ‘Love Lies Bleeding’

Kristen Stewart has a new movie out. It’s called Love Lies Bleeding and it’s a romantic thriller in which she plays a shy gym manager who gets involved with an ambitious bodybuilder (Katy O’Brian). The film is noted for its in-your-face scenes of intimacy; Stewart herself has called out “run-of-the-mill” movie sex scenes, which Bleeding […]

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Bill Maher Was Reportedly So Pissed He Wasn’t Invited To An Oscars Party That He Fired His Longtime Talent Agency

Last week’s Oscars weren’t that boring. John Cena got (mostly) naked. John Mulaney talked at length about Field of Dreams. There was a dog (and then subsequent dog conspiracy theories). And at the end of the evening, the Best Picture trophy went to the most popular film to win it since The Return of the […]

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Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ Movie: Everything To Know So Far Including The Release Date And More

The list of Stephen King short stories and novels (and everything in between) that have been adapted onscreen could fill the space of an abridged dictionary. Several more onscreen projects are in the works, too. There are not quite that many Salem’s Lot adaptations, but damn, there are a few. In 1979, Tobe Hooper directed […]

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AMC Theaters Will Re-Release ‘Insidious’ ‘The Purge’ And More Blumhouse Films For The Halfway To Halloween Film Festival

For some reason, horror movies are almost exclusively celebrated during the month of October, when the world gets chilly and baseball ends (that’s the real horror). But Blumhouse is looking to scare moviegoers year-round, which is why the studio has teamed up with AMC Theaters for a festival to celebrate all things creepy and spooky, […]

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Disney Has Made An Insane Amount Of Money From Marvel And Star Wars

If you’ve ever wondered why Disney has aggressively released new content for Marvel and Star Wars, that’s because the House of Mouse has made a ridiculous amount money from each franchise. Current CEO Bob Iger is currently locked in a proxy fight with activist investors with ties to former Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter who Iger […]

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Patton Oswalt And Anthony Bourdain Became Close Friends Because Of… ‘Ratatouille?’

Patton Oswalt stopped by Watch What Happens Live this week where the comedian revealed how he became friends with the late chef Anthony Bourdain. Surprisingly, the iconic travel host was a huge fan of Ratatouille. That’s right, the Disney-Pixar movie where a cartoon rat voiced by Oswalt expertly prepares French cuisine by hiding under a […]

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‘Eden’ With Sydney Sweeney: Everything To Know So Far Including The Release Date, Trailer, And More

Sydney Sweeney has already begun her pivot to Scream Queen after her upcoming horror film Immaculate was met with early praise. It’s a stark departure from her Euphoria character who famously cowered in a bathtub. Cassie would never have survived at a monastery. But now that she’s already dipped her toe into the horror genre, […]

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‘Scream 7’: Everything To Know So Far Including The Release Date, Trailer, And More

The Scream franchise has a long history of taking horror movie tropes and flipping them on their head, and they are doing it again by continuously producing an endless number of sequels years beyond its peak. It’s also known as the Friday The 13th Effect. Scream first hit screens in 1996, followed by Scream 2 […]

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Down the Rabbit Hole in Search of a Few Frames of Irish American History

One moment I am sprawled on a couch in my New Jersey home, lost in another classic old movie. The next, I am falling through the floorboards and tumbling like Alice into the wondrous unknown, only to land in a bunkerlike government structure built into the side of a Virginia mountain. Yes, I had gone […]

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Dan Wakefield, Multifaceted Writer on a Spiritual Journey, Dies at 91

Dan Wakefield, a protean and prolific journalist, novelist, screenwriter, critic and essayist who explored subjects as diverse as life in New York City in the 1950s, the American civil rights movement, the wounds that war inflicts on individuals and society, and, not least, his personal journey from religious faith to atheism and back again, died […]

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In the Oscars Audience, Candid Photos From the Ceremony

Red carpet photographs are able to convey indelible moments of celebrity magnetism and spectacular glamour. But no step-and-repeat can bottle the crackling anticipation, the eruption of victory, the sting of loss or the quiet exchange between individuals amid a sea of superstars like these candid shots from the audience at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. Inside […]

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Oscar Winner Ke Huy Quan Landed His First Major Leading Role In The Upcoming Action Flick ‘With Love’

You know the phrase “always the bridesmaid, never the bride?” The same could be said for Ke Huy Quan, who has always played the sidekick but has never gotten to be his own leading man (besides that one episode of Tales From The Crypt that probably scared you as a kid). But now after years […]

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Claud Got A Shoutout From Paul Rudd On ‘Colbert’ As He Told The Story Of His Funny Appearance In Their Video

Paul Rudd popped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (March 13), where the two talked about a ton. They discussed the massive popularity of Taylor Swift, her appearance at the Super Bowl to support her boyfriend Travis Kelce, and The Eras Tour. Rudd then began to open up more about how he […]

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You’ll Get To Watch The Cinematic Panic Attack That Is ‘Uncut Gems’ — Plus ‘Hereditary’ And ‘Ex Machina’ — On IMAX Screens Pretty Soon

If you saw Uncut Gems in theaters, perhaps you had yourself a fun little panic attack. It’s one of the most intense movies of recent years, following a devil-may-care gambling addict as he makes one doozy of a bet after another. Then, 135 increasingly wild minutes, it ends the only way it could. But are […]

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If You Were Wondering When Alan Ritchson And Arnold Schwarzenegger Would Combine Muscular Efforts Onscreen, Here You Go

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Ritchson have a lot in common. They’re both tall, ripped he-men with larger than life muscles. They’ve both dabbled in comic book stuff: Schwarzenegger, of course, top-billed as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin, Ritchson as Aquaman on Smallville. They’ve both done comedy that makes light of their bulk; perhaps you […]

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Kobi Libii Discusses His Characters in ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’

In “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” the writer-director Kobi Libii’s debut feature film opening March 15, a mysterious group of Black people possess superpowers. But unlike Black Panther or Miles Morales’s Spider-Man, this group doesn’t fight criminals or take on villains. Instead, the members of this society wield their powers only for a very […]

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Ari Aster’s Next Movie Has Quite The Cast, Including A Recent Oscar-Winner And The Return Of One Of His Alums

Ari Aster is still a few years from 40, yet he’s already a major auteur. He has two sui generis horror hits on his CV; a semi-pricey underperformer that has future cult item written all over it; and a superfan in no less than Martin Scorsese. He can do whatever he wants, with whatever cast […]

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Race Forward Shines A Light On The Plight Of Incarcerated Women For Women’s History Month

NewsOne Featured Video Source: valentinrussanov / Getty In honor of Women’s History Month, Race Forward, a racial equity organization, is releasing its long-awaited documentary, Women Transcend, which gives a poignant look into the plight of incarcerated women across the U.S. According to a press release sent to NewsOne, Race Forward’s riveting documentary will highlight the […]

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Can These Movies Finally Convince The Academy That It’s Time To Add An Oscar For Best Stunts?

The Oscars have come and gone once again, and they have been the topic of discussion for numerous reasons: Oppenheimer winning for most of its nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture; Ryan Gosling’s unforgettable performance of “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie; John Cena wearing nothing but Birkenstocks and his birthday suit to […]

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