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How Hello Dolly! Solved A Script Problem For Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid By Steven Ward/Oct. 15, 2022 6:00 pm EST In a lot of ways, one of the reasons “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” remains such an enduring western is because it wasn’t afraid to break some genre rules. Both screenwriter William Goldman and director George Roy Hill injected their own idiosyncrasies into this retelling of the two infamous outlaws....

How The Umbrella Academy Works Hand-In-Hand With Its Comic Book Counterpart Netflix By Demetra Nikolakakis/July 21, 2022 12:33 pm EST “The Umbrella Academy” is having quite the moment: according to Variety, the newly released season 3 racked up 125 million hours of watch time within the first five days. Loosely based on the comics by Gabriel Bá and My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way, “The Umbrella Academy” follows the superpowered Hargreeves siblings (collectively known as the Umbrella Academy) as they deal with family drama and prevent multiple world-ending catastrophes — or at least try to....

Living with phantoms A24 In an interview with /Film’s Ethan Anderton, Henry revealed that his research into the recovery of amputees led him to examine his own sense of loss. “There’s this thing that amputees have called the phantom limb syndrome,” he said, “Which is basically, for a long period of time, even I think for the rest of your life, you feel like that limb is there.” Indeed, amputees often feel an itch on the excised extremity that can’t be scratched....

Jimmy And Kim’s Love Story Is The Key To Better Call Saul’s Success AMC By Erin Brady/Aug. 9, 2022 1:00 pm EST Who doesn’t like a good love story? Especially a complicated love story that you can’t help but root for. That is exactly the type of relationship that Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) had on “Better Call Saul,” the “Breaking Bad” spin-off that evolved from being just supplementary watching to must-see television in its own right....

Mark Ruffalo Thinks Anything Could Happen With Hulk’s Future In The MCU Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 25, 2022 3:49 pm EST Warning: this post contains spoilers for episode 2 of “She-Hulk.” Anyone feeling a little more smashy, lately? That might have something to do with how all things Hulk-related are suddenly a topic of conversation after the release of “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law.” Though predominantly focused on hardworking lawyer Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) navigating her abilities as a gamma-irradiated Hulk alongside her legal career, “She-Hulk” has also featured the character’s cousin, Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner, in a key supporting role in the early going....

One Of The Scariest Scenes In What Josiah Saw Waits Until The Last Second Shudder By Matt Donato AND Chris Evangelista/Sept. 2, 2022 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato. In this edition, Matt tells a story about how “What Josiah Saw” attacks at the most unexpected moment)....

Peaky Blinders’ Creator Intentionally Keeps His Characters Off The ‘Road To Happiness’ BBC By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 19, 2022 8:41 am EST From the onset of “Peaky Blinders,” we’re shown how Cillian Murphy’s Tommy is grappling with his deteriorating mental state, stemming from his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder since his return from his time serving in the war. Throughout the series, we watch as Tommy’s mental health turns for the worse, gets better, and worsens again....

Reading Scripts Ahead Of Time Doesn’t Help On The Set Of The Orville Hulu By Travis Yates/Nov. 26, 2022 5:00 am EST “The Orville” seems to be the little ship that could. Seth MacFarlane’s show about 25th-century space exploration and a misfit space crew has survived a pandemic, cancellation, and a move from broadcast to streaming. Now the show is left to deal with a future unknown (which doubled as the Season 3 finale episode title … Seth MacFarlane you clever devil), and cast members are divulging some secrets from the first three seasons....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Shows Off Every Part Of A Starship You Never Think About Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 15, 2022 10:00 am EST “Star Trek: Lower Decks” is an endlessly enteraining show because it delights in showing off the many, many parts of “Star Trek” lore that past franchise installments never had time to explore. Sometimes, that means revisiting a kooky planet, but other times, the show digs deep into the unexplored intricacies of Starfleet life....

The Addams Family MGM The mysterious and spooky Addams Family first appeared on the pages of The New Yorker in 1938. New Jersey-born cartoonist Charles Addams conjured them from his love for the macabre, and the (mostly) unnamed bizarre family members from this twisted household would eventually be given their own television show in 1964 — oddly, released in the same week as the thematically similar “The Munsters.” A situation comedy following the lives of the ghoulish inhabitants of 001 Cemetery Lane, it ran for two seasons....

Tom Hardy Tries To Combine Two Very Different Types Of Acting Warner Bros. Pictures By Steven Ward/Sept. 8, 2022 7:48 pm EST It might be redundant to say that Tom Hardy is an actor who has worn many masks — that’s kind of his job, right? But there is something to be said of the extent to which he morphs himself into the characters he plays. After all, Hardy has shown he’s in that special category of actors who are willing to sacrifice their bodies at the altar of any role they take....

Violent Night Director Fought For The Movie’s Home Alone Homage To Be ‘A Lot Bigger’ [Exclusive] Universal Pictures By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 29, 2022 3:29 pm EST Every family has their stable of Christmas movies that have to be watched during the month of December. New additions like “Spirited” starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell attempt to find a way into that annual rotation by updating “A Christmas Carol” and other holiday mainstays, which is a mild form of cheating as far as I’m concerned....

Why Columbia Scrapped A Tom Hanks Prequel To A League Of Their Own Columbia Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 31, 2022 9:00 am EST With its gumption, charm, and an empowering story, 1992’s “A League of Their Own” is one of the most lovable sports movies ever made. The Penny Marshall-directed comedic drama stars Geena Davis and Lori Petty as two sisters who make it big in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s....

Will (And Should) The Golden Globes Be Saved? Here’s What We Know 20th Television By Jeremy Mathai/July 29, 2022 11:25 am EST The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and their crown jewel event, the Golden Globes, have had a rough few years. First came the explosive (but, frankly, not all that surprising) exposé published by The Los Angeles Times in February of 2021, which shined a light on rampant malpractice within the organization’s exclusive and somewhat incestuous voting body....

Al Pacino’s Standout Any Given Sunday Speech Was Deeply Personal To Oliver Stone Warner Bros. By Devin Meenan/Nov. 5, 2022 6:25 pm EST Al Pacino chewed some delicious scenery in the late 1990s. Twice at Michael Mann’s direction, he excelled as a hard-nosed investigator (Detective Vincent Hanna in “Heat” then journalist Lowell Bergman in “The Insider”). He stole the show from his younger co-stars both in “Donnie Brasco” and “Devil’s Advocate,” proving youth can’t compare with sheer talent....

Andor Episode 7 References George Lucas’ First Feature Film, But Not How You’d Expect Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Oct. 19, 2022 2:25 pm EST There will be spoilers for “Andor” Episode 7 – “Announcement” After George Lucas directed his first film, “THX-1138”, you would be hard pressed to find a film of his that followed without a reference to the sci-fi movie somehow. The number 1138 comes up a lot in his movies....

The Janitor’s name NBC The mystery surrounding the Janitor’s real name was explored a lot throughout the show, most notably in season 3’s “My Friend the Doctor,” in which JD watches “The Fugitive” for the first time since working at Sacred Heart and realizes that a guy who looks a lot like the Janitor is in the movie, playing the part of a police officer. The episode ends with the Janitor confirming to JD that it was him, but swearing him to secrecy....

David Lynch Has Always Loved Fire Walk With Me, Even When Nobody Else Did New Line Cinema By Michael Boyle/Aug. 28, 2022 10:50 am EST David Lynch has made a lot of great movies, but “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” might be his best. It’s a prequel to his hit TV show “Twin Peaks,” one that follows Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) around throughout the final week of her life. After two seasons of hearing about Laura in the past tense, this movie reminded us of something most murder mystery shows tend to lose sight of: that the victim was a real person with a full life, not just a mystery to be solved....

Dominic West Was In ‘Despair’ Over Playing Prince Charles For The Crown Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Nov. 8, 2022 8:11 am EST “The Crown” recasts its characters every two seasons because the characters age far more quickly than the actors, and showrunner Peter Morgan isn’t a fan of using makeup to make his actors look older. When the series first began, actors Claire Foy and Matt Smith took the lead as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip....

Fiona Apple Has A New Song, And It’s For The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Prime Video By Erin Brady/Oct. 7, 2022 1:48 pm EST “Where The Shadows Lie,” which was inspired by the verse written in the franchise’s universe to celebrate the gifting of the show’s Rings, will appear in next week’s finale. Prime Video released a statement on Friday announcing the single, in which it was revealed that the instrumental version of the song had already been heard in the series....