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My Friend Dahmer FilmRise/YouTube In 2022, Jeffrey Dahmer became something of a dubious cultural icon with Netflix’s curiously titled “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” The 10-part miniseries proved to be a skin-crawling experience with strong performances and an unflinching gaze that told a compelling account of the killer that was far superior to earlier projects such as “Dahmer” and the low-budget scuzz-fest"The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer." However, the hyped Netflix series is not the first successful dramatization of Jeffrey Dahmer’s life....

Andor Star Diego Luna Is Glad Hollywood Is Telling More Stories With Latino Representation [Exclusive] Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 11, 2022 3:43 pm EST Despite making up 19% of the population, and Spanish being the second most commonly spoken language in the United States, Latinos are still severely underrepresented in Hollywood. According to this year’s Hollywood Diversity Report from the University of California, Los Angeles, only 7.7% of film acting roles went to Latinos in the past year....

Bette Davis Had Kind Words About Working With Marilyn Monroe On All About Eve By Sarah Musnicky/Oct. 1, 2022 6:00 pm EST Marilyn Monroe has never quite left our cultural stratosphere due in part to her tragic death and other elements. With the upcoming controversial film “Blonde” about to be dropped on Netflix on September 28, interest in Monroe has once again skyrocketed. And rather than focus on the heavily fictionalized elements that make up the film (and subsequently, the novel it is based off on), we’re going to go back in time to one of Monroe’s first film roles in “All About Eve....

Chris Rock Was So Funny On The Set Of Amsterdam That Christian Bale Couldn’t Act Twentieth Century Studios By Christian Gainey/Sept. 27, 2022 11:22 am EST Christian Bale has a long and impressive history of dedicating himself to roles. Whether he’s bulking up to play “The Dark Knight,” or shedding major pounds for “The Machinist” and “The Fighter,” the actor commits to his characters. On top of the physical transformations, Bale also embraces the personality and psychology of his characters, even if it means alienating his co-stars....

Does The End Of The Flash Spell Doom For The Arrowverse? The CW By Ryan Scott/Aug. 2, 2022 2:00 pm EST It has been one heck of a run, but it looks as though the Arrowverse may be coming to an end on The CW. The network has been canceling shows left and right as of late, with several of its DC shows, including “Legends of Tomorrow,” “Batwoman,” and “Naomi,” all getting the axe....

Hereditary Was More Connected To Midsommar Than Even Ari Aster Realized A24 By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 22, 2022 8:30 pm EST On the surface, Ari Aster’s follow-up to his absolutely chilling debut “Hereditary” seems like it exists in stark contrast to the haunted family portrait of that first film. “Midsommar” takes its characters through a psychotropic journey in a strange place in a strange land that leads to a bizarre ritual sacrifice....

The ‘Greens’ and ‘Blacks’ explained HBO No story set in the world of “Game of Thrones” would feel complete without a struggle for the Iron Throne and all the bitter rivalries that come with such ambitions. “House of the Dragon,” based on author George R.R. Martin’s book “Fire & Blood,” makes up for its lack of familiar characters with all the political infighting, power grabs, and courtly drama that viewers could ever need this side of “Succession....

‘He was just a great guy’ Netflix It wasn’t just his character’s name in “Hustle” that allowed Adam Sandler to pay tribute to his late father in the film. “This guy Stanley Sugerman I played reminded me a lot of my dad and the way he was. Just kind of like a hard-working good person who was always pulling for you,” Sandler explained. He continued to praise his father, revealing that he was as much a mentor to a young Sandler as he was to his son’s friends growing up....

John Wick: Chapter 4 Trailer Breakdown: The Baba Yaga Finally Meets His Match (Or Maybe Not) Lionsgate By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 10, 2022 1:41 pm EST You can run, you can hide, and you can even go out and dry clean your finest bulletproof suit, but none of it will matter because the Baba Yaga is back … again. In what has become one of the most bloodthirsty sagas of our modern action era, “John Wick: Chapter 4” is set to continue the harrowing adventures of one man simply trying to get out of the assassin game for good, no matter how many headshots and sword fights he has to get through first....

Who is making the movie with director Wes Ball? 20th Century Studios Wes Ball, who is known as the man who directed “The Maze Runner” movies, is tasked with directing “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” So he is at the top of the food chain and the vision will run through him. While Ball hasn’t said much by way of specifics, he did say the following shortly before the film’s official title was announced:...

New Mutants Co-Creator Bob McLeod Gets ‘Pennies’ Compared To Marvel Movie Box Office Returns [Exclusive] 20th Century Studios There are so many superhero films out there. We love them and we give those studios a whole lot of money to watch them. With the amount of return they get on their investment into comic book properties, finding out that the creators of said properties aren’t getting much for all the work they put in is astounding....

Riverdale’s Supernatural Turn Pulled Inspiration From A Stephen King Classic Netflix By Shae Sennett/Oct. 26, 2022 3:18 pm EST “Riverdale” basically one-ups its own insanity every season, and most recently it achieved this by introducing the newest villain, Percival Pickens (Chris O’Shea). Percival comes to town at the same time that the main characters mysteriously gain superpowers. At first glance, Percival seems like he is cut from the same cloth as the town’s previous antagonist, Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos)....

The 14 Most Underrated Episodes Of Seinfeld Columbia Pictures Television By Chad Collins/Sept. 28, 2022 3:04 pm EST “Seinfeld” is one of the best comedy shows of its era, possibly all time. For what it’s worth, Indiewire has “Seinfeld” listed third out of 65 on its list of the funniest television comedies ever. Like “Friends,” “Seinfeld” radically reinvented television comedy in a way that is impossible to replicate. With the shift toward streaming, prestige comedy, and shorter, more contained episodic arcs, “Seinfeld” is a relic of its era that endures decades later because there is so little out there quite as funny....

The 21 Best Basketball Movies Ever By Gino Orlandini/Aug. 11, 2022 5:35 pm EST Let’s face it: For the most part, basketball movies are bad. It’s such a beautiful game, filled with such balletic human athleticism, that it seems like a natural fit for cinema. And yet, there are only a handful of great basketball films, and only one real masterpiece. The reason for the relatively low quality, even compared to football films, seems to be that most serious directors aren’t big fans of the game....

An Aragorn show and a Shakespearean take Prime Video One of the big points THR emphasizes in its article is that Payne and McKay were easily underdogs when it came to pitching their idea for a “Lord of the Rings” TV show. It’s not that they lacked experience, having written an early script draft for what would later become “Star Trek Beyond” and worked on the “Flash Gordon” reboot that Taika Waititi is currently attached to direct....

The Invitation Is Packed With Dozens Of Vampire And Horror Easter Eggs [Exclusive] Sony Pictures Entertainment By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 26, 2022 9:48 pm EST There’s a new vampire movie in theaters this weekend, and it happens to share the title of a Karyn Kusama film: “The Invitation.” This is not that Dracula project from Kusama, which received a stake to the heart earlier this year, but rather a different spin on the same 125-year-old mythos from director Jessica M....

The last of a dying breed Columbia Pictures In a 2020 interview with Forbes, Curry and legendary comedian Carol Burnett — who co-starred in “Annie” as Rooster’s sister Agatha Hannigan, the alcoholic manager of the orphanage where Annie lives at the start of the film — about their roles in Huston’s musical. Curry recalled speaking with his co-star, Bernadette Peters (who played Rooster’s girlfriend and fellow crook, Lily St. Regis), about the possibility of their movie being one of the last of a dying breed during filming:...

The end of a complicated era WWE The world of professional wrestling has a dark and complicated history, so much so that there’s a hit Vice series about it called “Dark Side of the Ring.” At the center of much of the controversy is the direct result of the action (or inaction) of one Vincent Kennedy McMahon. Look, I’m not an idiot. I know that without McMahon’s efforts, the world of professional wrestling, an industry that I love with my entire being, wouldn’t be what it is today....

What Are The Myths In The White Lotus Trying To Tell Us? HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 7, 2022 2:30 pm EST Mike White’s “The White Lotus” loves to subvert our expectations, even as it plants the seeds for major moments along the way. Take, for example, the show’s first season. When Murray Bartlett’s Armond ended up dead in the hotel room of the hotel’s most-loathed guest, Shane (Jake Lacy), it was a moment that felt both surprising and inevitable....

Álex De La Iglesia’s The Day Of The Beast Originally Read Like A ‘Bad Tobe Hooper’ Script Trimark Pictures By Anya Stanley/Nov. 1, 2022 4:27 pm EST After running through the “Omen” movies, a horror fan might work their way through exorcism movies and the occasional haunted house story to get their occult fix. And there lies an under-seen Spanish-Italian gem. “The Day of the Beast” is touted as a Satanic comedy, and co-writer/director Álex de la Iglesia delivers on that front....