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Stranded on stage in front of thousands of members of her adoring public, Skye is trapped and doomed — even her own mother innocuously mouths to her to smile, insisting she cover up all this pain and guilt and torment that she’s been experiencing over the last week. Where Rose saw the Monstrosity (the physical […]
What would the moviegoing experience be without Sir Ian McKellen? An actor with a towering, half-century-plus career, theater-trained performer McKellen has become synonymous not just with great plays and serious dramas, but with huge sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters. McKellen headlined two major franchises in the aughts, playing indelible parts in […]
Troy Harvey/2024 Warner Bros. The second major spin-off of “The Big Bang Theory” — which itself is a spin-off of the spin-off “Young Sheldon” — gives away the game right there in the title. “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” gives Georgie Cooper (Montana Jordan) and his wife Mandy […]
Universal Filmmaking can be a pitiless business, particularly for actors. While it’s true all creatives are being judged on their personal attributes, performers face the added pressure of having to embody the physical and emotional attributes necessary to play a given part. This means they’re being hired or […]
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. United Artists 60 years ago this September, Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name stepped on screen for the first time in Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars.” It would be a few more years until the low-budget Spaghetti […]
Static Media/Getty Images From 2013 to 2023, director Zack Snyder dictated the tone and look of the now-defunct DC Extended Universe. At the beginning of the decade-long mishegoss, Snyder rebooted the Superman story with “Man of Steel,” a loud, bleak, faux-poetic noise-fest that divided audiences sharply. Some felt […]