Oliver Platt

Date of Birth

1960-01-12

Place of Birth

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Pieces of April, Flatliners, A Time To Kill, Bicentennial Man, Three to Tango

Most Popular Stories

Original Flatliners writer Peter Filardi and author J.D. Barker are teaming up to bring us the novel Flatliners Resurrection

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Flatliners (1990) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

Posted 2 years ago

The WTF Happened to This Horror Movie series looks at the 1990 film Flatliners, directed by Joel Schumacher and sporting an impressive cast

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The Bear: Season 2 trailer has Carmy attempting to open a new restaurant from scratch under a short timetable

Posted 3 years ago

The new season FX's hit show, The Bear, shows that the only thing harder than running a kitchen is opening a new establishment.

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Awesome Artists We’ve Found Around The Net: Edgar Ascensão

Posted 3 years ago

Cody For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month...

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Glen Powell is set to produce The Death Roll, a survival horror thriller about a killer crocodile, for his company Barnstorm

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Lake Placid (1999) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

Posted 3 years ago

Cody A new episode of The Black Sheep video series has arrived online this morning, and with this one we’re looking back at director Steve Miner‘s 1999 killer crocodile horror comedy Lake Placid (watch it HERE). To find out why...

A Time For Mercy: Matthew McConaughey reprising role for HBO series

Posted 5 years ago

Alright, alright, alright! Decades after his breakout role in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill, Matthew McConaughey is returning to the courtroom for the sequel series A Time For Mercy. McConaughey, who received critical acclaim for his turn in HBO's...

Matthew McConaughey says he owes his entire career to Joel Schumacher

Posted 6 years ago

Hollywood was shocked and saddened by the loss of director Joel Schumacher yesterday at the age of 80. Schumacher directed a slew of classic films including ST. ELMOS'S FIRE, THE LOST BOYS, FLATLINERS, and FALLING DOWN but it was his...

The Kill Counter: X-Men First Class (Video)

Posted 7 years ago

Ever wondered how many people lose their lives in any particular movie, be it action, horror, sci-fi, or even comedy? Well, we've got you covered with THE KILL COUNTER, our hit new series takes out all of the guesswork and counts...

Matthew Vaughn details his defunct plans for an X-Men: First Class trilogy

Posted 7 years ago

Ranking your favorite films within a franchise as large as Marvel's X-Men can be a nasty business, but if I were to make a list of my most beloved mutant-centric cinematic experiences, Matthew Vaughn's X-MEN: FIRST CLASS would be at the...

Johnny Galecki purges his inner demons in The Cleanse trailer

Posted 8 years ago

The Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki has found some time between shooting episodes of one of the most popular shows on television to produce and star in a horror comedy called THE CLEANSE, which will be getting a theatrical...

Toxins take the form of adorable demons in trailer for The Cleanse

Posted 8 years ago

After attending a spiritual retreat, a heartbroken man (Johnny Galecki) discovers that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences, but actually births a literal incarnation of their own personal pain in the form of an adorable, yet...

The Test of Time: Flatliners (1990)

Posted 9 years ago

We all have certain movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? Do they remain must see?...

The UnPopular Opinion: Mortdecai

Posted 9 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

Review: Rules Don’t Apply

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A young man (Alden Ehrenreich) is hired to be the chauffeur to an aspiring actress (Lily Collins) under contract to Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty), only to get pulled into the aging mogul’s increasingly unstable world. REVIEW: Warren Beatty has...

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