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Movie News

Oscars to air all 23 categories next year

Posted 4 years ago

Hooray for Hollywood! This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced they will reinstate eight categories that were discarded from last year’s Academy Awards telecast. In a statement, Bill Kramer, CEO of AMPAS, said, “I can confirm...

Pop Culture

Warwick Davis says Bowie stuffed several socks down his pants for Labyrinth

Posted 4 years ago

You remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with several socks stuffed down the front of his pants. The most compelling aspect of 1986’s Labyrinth isn’t the Jim Henson puppets or the fantastical world Jennifer Connelly wanders through,...

Pop Culture

The George Takei & William Shatner feud continues

Posted 4 years ago

Oh my! George Takei is firing back at William Shatner after the latter made comments that his former Star Trek co-stars were filled with “envy and hatred.” “He’s just a cantankerous old man and I’m going to leave him to...

Movie News

Adam Sandler gives self-deprecating speech at Gotham Awards

Posted 4 years ago

If you had been told 25 years ago that the guy yelling at golf balls and pitting shampoo vs. conditioner would be on the awards stage, you wouldn’t have believed it– and even Adam Sandler appears to know he’s an...

Movie News

Will Smith speaks about the Oscar slap, says rage had been bottled up for a long time

Posted 4 years ago

Will Smith was quiet for some time after slapping Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards, but now since he’s on the promotional circuit for his latest movie, he’s going to have to confront it. And that’s what he did...

Movie News

Helena Bonham Carter calls cancel culture a “witch hunt”

Posted 4 years ago

Helena Bonham Carter is blasting cancel culture as a career-damaging “witch hunt”, defending in the process two individuals she has creative ties with: J.K. Rowling and Johnny Depp. On cancel culture as a whole, Helena Bonham Carter considered the implications...

Movie News

Banderas picks Tom Holland as the next Zorro

Posted 4 years ago

There comes a time when many legendary characters have to pass the torch–or sword, as it were–to the next generation. Who will carry on that legacy is always the big question, but for Zorro, Antonio Banderas thinks there’s only one...

TV News

WandaVision, Peacemaker make Top 100 Theme Songs list

Posted 4 years ago

Rolling Stone has released their list of the 100 Greatest TV Theme Songs of All Time. While some of the expected classics rank high, they have rightly included some key titles from the past few years. In fact, ten shows...

Movie News

Glen Powell thought Top Gun: Maverick character was “Navy Draco Malfoy”

Posted 4 years ago

He’ll always be your hangman, but Glen Powell had a hard time finding any purpose in playing Jake “Hangman” Seresin in this year’s Top Gun: Maverick. “Hangman” served as a nemesis to Mile Teller’s Jake “Rooster” Bradshaw, son of the...

Movie News

R.I.P.: Albert Pyun, Cyborg and Nemesis director, dies

Posted 4 years ago

Albert Pyun, the director behind cult favorites like Cyborg, Nemesis and The Sword and the Sorcerer, has passed away. He was 69. Pyun’s wife, producer Cynthia Curnan, posted on her Facebook, “Albert Pyun passed away Saturday, November 26, at 5:50...

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