Gene Hackman, an acting titan of 1970s and ‘80s Hollywood with more than 80 screen credits to his name, has died at 95.
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Moore’s work has long interrogated womanhood and power.
Despite winning awards at festival after festival, the film has been unable to find a company to distribute it in the US.
Studies show that women in their 60s tend to prefer a slightly younger partner.
Accent coaches and vocal performances are vital parts of actors creating characters – are we OK if AI gives a helping hand?
Black points of view and voices have often been marginalized or overlooked in Hollywood. However, Cuban filmmakers have told stories to revalorize Black history and culture.
The original 1984 film’s vision of rogue AI turning on humanity remains hugely influential.
Spiderman actor Andrew Garfield spoke to Elmo about grief on Sesame Street. Their chat was a great model for communicating about grief and loss.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a product of a unique time in American filmmaking. Exploitation films were nastier than ever, and capable of piercing the mainstream consciousness.
A Hollywood star whose career goes into free fall as she turns 50 makes a Faustian pact with explosive consequences.
In the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, Jones didn’t give rousing speeches or lead marches. Instead, he doubled down on his art.
Perhaps the finest American actress of the 1970s, Gena Rowlands made a series of gruelling, anxiety-inducing performances. Her legacy is unparalleled.
The number of nuns continues to dwindle. It is quite possible that, in the future, the only nuns we will ever see are cinematic sisters.
Marketed as a romance novel, between its pink, floral covers, It Ends with Us is a novel about domestic violence. The film attempts to rectify the issues of its deceptive categorisation.
As a major star and lifelong Democrat, the ‘actorvist’ wields significant influence over liberal politics in the US and abroad.
Eyes Wide shut was released shortly after the death of director Stanley Kubrick in 1999.
Donald Sutherland bucked the Hollywood trend for handsome and brought his own unconventional brand of off-kilter integrity and humour to roles that often underscored his left-leaning ideals.
From M*A*S*H to the Hunger Games, Donald Sutherland, who has died at 88, always sat well in the eccentric, peculiar or ‘quirky’ roles.
Nostalgia can provide emotional relief during times of stress, a fact which the entertainment industry takes full advantage of to profit off of the anxiety of Millenials and Gen Z.
Walt Disney songwriter Richard M. Sherman, who has died aged 95, wrote some of Hollywood’s greatest film musical songs.
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