What an astounding actress Annette Bening is. And she’s at her very best in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool playing Gloria Grahame, a screen siren of the 1940s and 1950s. Here, however, we pick up with the actress during her last years, from 1979 to 1981, when she died …
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This year, we’ve asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Inkoo Kang on Master of None‘s “Thanksgiving.” When Master of Nonepremiered in 2015, the show added …
Read More »Mark Hamill Recalls Time He and Carrie Fisher Made Out 'Like Teenagers'
Nearly one year after Carrie Fisher‘s tragic death, her Star Wars costar Mark Hamill revealed that he and his leading lady did, in fact, once lock lips off-screen during the making of the very first Star Wars – but things never progressed beyond that. “Carrie and I were attracted to …
Read More »Watch Patton Oswalt as Roy Moore Talk Campaign Slogans on 'Fallon'
President Trump recently gave his full endorsement to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, despite the former judge facing several allegations of past sexual misconduct against underage girls. On Wednesday’s Tonight Show, Moore (comedian Patton Oswalt) noted that he found the accusations “disturbing” – specifically, the ones against Trump. “Thank you …
Read More »'The Shape of Water': Sally Hawkins on the Art of Romancing a Fish-Man
Sally Hawkins was writing a story about, of all things, a mermaid. That’s when the call came in. New project.Guillermo del Toro.Vague premise.Might not happen. But he has you in mind. The film that the 53-year-old Mexican director, best known for outrageous, ornate fantasies like 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth, was working …
Read More »'Avengers: Infinity War': Watch Thanos Wreak Havoc in Chilling Trailer
Supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin) gleefully aims to conquer Earth in the first trailer for Marvel’s highly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War. The film, which unites big-screen Avengers from the past decade, showcases the destruction Thanos wreaks as he attempts to collect six powerful artifacts, the Infinity Stones. “In time, you will …
Read More »Olivia Munn Among Women Accusing Brett Ratner of Sexual Harassment
Update: Brett Ratner is stepping away from all Warner Brothers activities after six women including actressOlivia Munnalleged the director engaged in sexual misconduct to the Los Angeles Times. “In light of the allegations being made, I am choosing to personally step away from all Warner Bros.- related activities,”Ratner said in …
Read More »Watch John Oliver Blast Trump's Plan to Combat Opioid Addiction With Ads
Last week,President Trumpdeclared opioid addiction a national public health emergency. But John Oliver argued on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight that his proposed solutions to the crisis – which claims 140 lives a day in the U.S. – are “underwhelming” at best. In his White House speech Thursday, Trump proposed launching …
Read More »Hunter S. Thompson Television Series in Development
An authorized biographical series about the life of late author Hunter S. Thompson is in development at MGM Television, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series will be titled Fear and Loathing, after Thompson’s acclaimed book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was first published as a two-part article …
Read More »'Killing of a Sacred Deer': Arthouse Thriller Would Make Kubrick Proud
You could say that director Yorgos Lanthimos gives The Killing of a Sacred Deer the texture and throat-clutching chill of a modern Greek tragedy. You’d be right, of course – the filmmaker hails from Athens; this is his second film in English – but you’d also be short-changing the depth …
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