The so-called “troubled teen industry” is facing a fresh round of scrutiny this summer with the July premiere of Teen Torture, Inc., the new Max documentary about the billion-dollar industry associated with the kidnapping, abuse and brainwashing of young Americans. Paris Hilton spoke last week before Congress to advocate for the Americans without the means
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The initial photos from Gladiator 2 have caused quite a stir online. The sequel to the 2000 action film features an all-star cast including Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, and Pedro Pascal, and early footage has teased another epic by Ridley Scott. The photos clearly show the follow up film will capture the essence of the
Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be honored with the lifetime achievement award, the Pardo alla Carriera, or career leopard, at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival. The Panthaan, Don 2 and Om Shanti Om star, known to his fans as “King Khan,” will receive the prize at Locarno’s iconic Piazza Grande on Aug. 10. As
After years of working as a stuntman/stunt coordinator, Chad Stahelski made his directorial debut in 2014 co-helming John Wick, one of the best action movies, with David Leitch. Stahelski went on to direct the following three John Wick movies on his own, and now he’s branching out with a variety of other filmmaking endeavors, including
Steven Soderbergh has been all over the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary in recent days. On Monday, he shared his takes and insights on such topics as AI, sex scenes, movie release windows, Hollywood’s current “correction,” new projects and even the success of Taylor Swift with a group of reporters. The prolific director, producer, screenwriter and
For all the woes that can sprout from the abundance of movies and TV shows being produced in a given year, one fashionable silver lining is the growing number of LGBTQ+ projects for audiences to experience and connect with. We’re seeing some of the best LGBTQ+ TV shows and movies ever being produced in the
World politics took center stage in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary on Sunday. Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov world premiered his documentary Real from the trenches of the Ukraine War at the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. But beforehand, he met with Czech president Petr Pavel who expressed the Czech Republic’s support for
Growing up in the 1990s, we didn’t know how good we had it at the theater, especially when it came to all the great comedies that graced the silver screen. If you take a look at the best ‘90s movies, it won’t take long before you are greeted by side-splitting spectacles like Happy Gilmore, Dumb
When it comes to celebrated Czech writer Franz Kafka, filmmakers the world over have long been inspired to either adapt his work outright or make movies that are decidedly “Kafkaesque,” filled with the kind of angst, alienation and absurdity the made the novelist one of the most prominent and distinctive figures in 20th century literature.
Since the early days of horror, the genre has always been a place the LGBTQ+ community has gravitated toward, especially in terms of the stories tackling topics of otherness queer people can often relate to. This extends to the Scream movies, which Courteney Cox is now cheerfully celebrating as Pride Month continues! Courteney Cox Celebrates
Swedish artist Victoria Verseau, born in 1988 and based in Stockholm, explores themes such as body, memory, identity and social structures via a range a media, from sculptures and installations to performance art and short films. “The works are often based on her personal experiences of being trans and a new woman,” her website highlights.
As we enter the latter half of the year, Dune: Part Two still ranks as one of the biggest successes on the 2024 movies schedule. Its $711+ million worldwide haul makes it the second highest-grossing movie of the year (trailing only behind Inside Out 2), and the second half of this adaptation of Frank Herbert’s
While fans of The Hunger Games await the new new Hunger Games film from Lionsgate and Suzanne Collins’ forthcoming fifth novel in the saga (titled The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping), there are a myriad of movies and TV shows that volunteer as tribute to fill the void. Whether seeking stories about similar dystopian worlds, young protagonists trying to
Movie marketing is a tricky thing, as studios sometimes go to strange lengths to get the public excited for upcoming movies… going viral in the process. Case in point: Dune 2‘s popcorn buckets, which many thought looked like a sex toy. They were memed so much that they got their own digital short on SNL,
Throughout A Family Affair, daughter Zara (Joey King) and mom Brooke (Nicole Kidman) argue over just what kind of a man Chris Cole (Zac Efron) is. To Zara, he’s a self-absorbed movie star boss who oscillates between unreasonable demands and threats of firing. For Brooke, he’s an attentive lover, the first man to reawaken her
Given that people are watching less and less cable and there are myriad pathways to finding good films now, how do you figure out what to watch? We’ve compiled a list of great films, all with the goal of marking them as movies fans can return to again and again and find something new each
If you want to breathe new life into a horror movie built around silence as the only means of surviving an alien invasion, there are countless worse ideas than relocating the story from smalltown U.S.A. to over-populated New York City. Opening screen text over an aerial shot of Manhattan accompanied by the cacophonous sounds of
On the heels of Lily Gladstone’s historic Oscar nomination for Killers Of The Flower Moon, the actor is keeping busy in between their recent critically acclaimed series Under The Bridge and one of the latest projects on the 2024 movie schedule, Fancy Dance. Written and directed by Erica Tremblay, Fancy Dance centers on Gladstone’s Jax
Bill Cobbs, the convincing character actor who had pivotal turns in such films as The Hudsucker Proxy, Sunshine State and Night at the Museum, has died. He was 90. Cobbs died Tuesday night at his home in Riverside, his publicist, Chuck I. Jones, told TMZ. A native of Cleveland who excelled at comedy as well as drama, Cobbs portrayed Whitney
Ti West’s MaXXXine is unequivocally a horror film. Following up the slashing in X and the shocks in Pearl, terror and gore are in no short supply, and it unsubtly tips its hat to classics of the genre – from Alfred Hitchcock to Giallo cinema. But it would also be a disservice to suggest that
Near the end of Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning, Venus Xtravaganza, an Italian Puerto Rican ballroom dancer who was one of the landmark queer doc’s subjects, describes a harrowing near-death experience. While Venus was hustling as a sex worker, a client realized she was a trans woman and reacted violently. “You’re a freak,” Venus recalls
Twenty years ago, one of the best movies of the 2000s and greatest love stories, The Notebook, hit theaters. In the adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller, director Nick Cassavetes cast his own mother, Gena Rowlands, as the older version of Rachel McAdams’ Allie alongside James Garner, who played an older version of Ryan Gosling’s
Hugh Grant has a unique strategy for discouraging unsolicited visitors in the first trailer for A24‘s psychological horror feature Heretic. The movie from writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods hits theaters Nov. 15. Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East co-star as two Christian missionaries who are invited into the house of Mr. Reed (Grant) after knocking
Angelina Jolie has been in the film industry for the past four decades, with her best movies including the Lara Croft films, Changeling and Girl, Interrupted, to name a few. While she’s already scored three Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild and one Oscar, Jolie is now the proud recipient of a Tony Award for
Channing Tatum is still hoping the long-rumored third 21 Jump Street film becomes a reality. In an interview with ComicBook.com published Monday, the Fly Me to the Moon actor reflected on reading a script for a third 21 Jump Street movie that would once again star himself and Jonah Hill. “There is a project that
From its visual effects to its disturbing performances to its legacy as an early entry in the demonic possession subgenre, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist remains one of the best horror movies of all time for a reason. Appropriately enough, it’s that soup-spewing je ne sais quoi that has made it so difficult for other filmmakers
Joyful? Ecstatic? Elated? Take your pick. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is on fire at the global box office, where it grossed a record-shattering $100 million domestically and $164.4 million overseas in its second weekend to finish Sunday with $724.4 million in ticket sales to become the top-grossing film of the year after racing past Dune:
Queer cinema can be defined as movies with great LGBTQ+ characters or films that bring a different point of view outside of what you’d see in a mainstream movie. There are so many directors out there who have created queer films that are top-ranked on Rotten Tomatoes, introducing audiences not only to queer characters but
Jodie Foster is opening up about her filmmaking process and why she never fully “fell in love” with the acting side of the industry. During a recent conversation with Jodie Comer for Interview magazine, the Oscar winner admitted she’s “not naturally an actor.” “I just got stuck in it when I was three,” she explained.
I think it’s fair to say Emily Blunt has mastered the American accent. The British actress even earned a 2024 Oscar nomination for convincingly playing the wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kitty. But apparently Blunt has spent so much time in the United States that she’s apparently experienced a change in her accent. Well, at
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