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Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have wanted to share it with as many people as possible. “Awesome Art” is the outlet for that passion. In this column, I will showcase the kick-ass artwork of some great artists, with the hopes that these artists get the attention they deserve. That’s the aim. If you have any questions or comments, or even suggestions of art or other great artists, feel free to contact me at any time at theodorebond@joblo.com.

2001: A Space Odyssey by Joe Kim

Barry Lyndon by Alex Rodríguez

A Clockwork Orange by Adam Rabalais

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb by Fabled Creative

Eyes Wide Shut...

Nihilism has always had a place in horror.

As Stephen King himself once said, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” For every triumphant final girl waving the chainsaw of her attacker in the bright morning light, another beloved protagonist falls to the monsters that lurk in the night. Sometimes the story is just too dark and the cinematic world just a little too hopeless. But for those who’ve felt the sting of life’s bitter disappointments, that’s precisely what we want in a film. For it’s only in confronting our pain that we can find our way through to the other side. We dive headfirst into an open wound hoping to find the infection and clean it out.

Joshua Erkman’s A Desert takes this nihilistic path in a gritty story centering human monsters. On a road trip through the American Southwest,...

In a case of cinematic irony, the very Stanley Kubrick film that lit a creative fire under Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs didn’t exactly shine on release. While it went on to earn cult respect and influence one of Tarantino’s most iconic works, Kubrick’s crime drama stumbled hard at the box office.

Its bold storytelling and ahead-of-its-time structure may’ve turned off audiences back then, but decades later, that same style helped redefine modern filmmaking. Proof that even a flop in its own era can later become the blueprint for brilliance.

How Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing gave Quentin Tarantino his first explosive debut, Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino as Mr. Brown in Reservoir Dogs | Credits: Miramax Films

The Stanley Kubrick film that helped shape Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino’s explosive debut) was a box office flop. 1956 released The Killing is a racetrack heist thriller that didn’t...

After a stellar limited opening last weekend, A24’s Friendship jumps from 6 to 60 screens in top ten markets plus Detroit, the hometown of star Tim Robinson. The comedy bromance with Robinson and Paul Rudd soared to $451k on screens in New York and L.A., the top limited opening of 2025, with a per screen average of over $75k. Written and directed by Andrew DeYoung. With Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer. Robinson, the former SNL performer and writer is the face of his popular Netflix sketch comedy I Think You Should Leave.

Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing opens Sister Midnight, the debut feature of London-based Indian artist and writer-director Karan Kandhari starring Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam and Smita Tambe, at the Angelika Film Center in NYC. A rebellious small-town misfit Uma (acclaimed Indian actress Apte) arrives in Mumbai to find herself totally unsuited to life as a housewife.

How do you make a satirical movie about modern America when the news that comes out of there every day is quite literally beyond a joke? Ari Aster is one of the rare directors willing to go there, and his new film Eddington is extraordinary not only for that but for depicting a slice of history that we have yet to see properly shown on film, even though it happened only five years ago. Dressed up as a neo-noir Western, this pandemic saga drips with the kind of biting, dark political humor hardly seen much since the heyday of screenwriter and novelist Terry Southern, author of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.

The setting — late May 2020 — is crucial: Covid-19 has just become a thing, and the residents of Eddington in Sevilla County are getting used to life with masks and social distancing. Most comply, but others are skeptical, including Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), who,...

Why Did Claire Danes Turn Down Titanic? (Photo Credit – Prime Video/Wikipedia)

When Titanic sailed into theaters in 1997, it didn’t just become a box office juggernaut but a generational landmark. James Cameron’s epic love story set aboard the ill-fated Titanic captivated millions, turning Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet into household names practically overnight. The film went on to win 11 Academy Awards and became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time.

But many people don’t know that Kate Winslet wasn’t the first actress considered for the role of Rose. Before Winslet stepped into the character that would define her early career, the filmmakers were eyeing someone else entirely. And their first preference was none other than Romeo + Juliet star Claire Danes.

At the time, DiCaprio and Danes had just finished filming the modern Shakespearean adaptation, and their on-screen chemistry was undeniable. So, when Titanic came around,...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Christopher Nolan has never been one to sit comfortably within the boundaries of conventional filmmaking, and with The Odyssey, he’s doing more than just stepping out of the box; he’s setting it on fire. At the Cannes Film Festival, a fuss broke out when IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond let slip a detail that changes the game, and that is Nolan’s next epic will be the first feature film shot entirely with IMAX cameras.

Number of minutes featuring IMAX 70mm scenes in Christopher Nolan’s films.

The Odyssey will be the first film in cinema history to be shot entirely in IMAX 70mm, and therefore will have no aspect ratio changes. pic.twitter.com/FvIlYZ8BBH

— Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst) May 15, 2025

Shooting A Whole Film In IMAX Was Impossible Until Now

According to Collider, a delighted Gelfond said, “Chris...

Which Stanley Kubrick Movie Inspired Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs? ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia; Instagram )

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in the industry. He has given the world some of the most commendable cinematic works, whether Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But even a filmmaker as bold and unique as Tarantino had his influences. And one of the biggest? Stanley Kubrick. Specifically, Kubrick’s 1956 film The Killing played a huge role in shaping how Tarantino approached his own debut, Reservoir Dogs.

Released in the mid-1950s, The Killing marked a turning point in Kubrick’s career. Until then, he had only made a few smaller films, but The Killing was his first real entry into Hollywood filmmaking. The story, adapted from the novel Clean Break by Lionel White, follows a group of men planning and carrying out a racetrack heist. Kubrick...

Which Filmmaker Was Initially Set To Direct Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible? ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia )

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is geared up for the release of his upcoming film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He reprises his role as the daredevil agent Ethan Hunt, and the film is all set to hit the big screens on May 17, 2025, in India and a week later in the US. Before that happens, let us take you to the first Mission: Impossible film, which came out in 1996. An interesting fact about the movie is that the Tom Cruise starrer was initially supposed to be directed by an Oscar-winning filmmaker, and it was not Brian De Palma.

The Oscar-Winner Who Almost Directed Mission: Impossible

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker who was first approached to direct the 1996 film Mission: Impossible was none other than Sydney Pollack. According to an earlier report by Variety, Sydney Pollack was...

Exclusive: Paula Wagner, the onetime budding actress-turned-superagent-turned studio owner in partnership with Tom Cruise, who helped produce the first three Mission: Impossible movies, was asked a question several years ago by students at DePaul University in Chicago that she was amply qualified to answer: What is a star?

A star, Wagner explained that day, “lights up the sky and gives heat and light and energy, and then they burn out.”

Greta Garbo, she observed, “retired at 30.”

Where does Wagner place Cruise, I ask, just as Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was having its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Related: ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Review: The Sky’s The Limit In Ethan Hunt’s ‘Last’ Adventure – Cannes Film Festival

“He’s Tom Cruise, he is a phenomenon. He really is. And from the moment I met him in July of 1981, he exuded that quality. The difference...

George Lucas knew he was creating something special with Star Wars, but there's one sci-fi movie he always considered "far superior." It may be hard to believe, but back in 1977, few expected Star Wars to be a hit. Even Steven Spielberg underestimated Star Wars' success, although he at least told Lucas he was being unreasonable to believe the first movie would make only $15-20 million in the global box office (it made $775.8 million). Lucas clearly wasn't particularly confident in the film.

Star Wars may have been profitable, but Lucas always knew he stood on the shoulders of giants. Back in 1977, he told interviewers that the real masterpiece was Stanley Kubrick's 1968 classic 2001: A Space Odyssey:

"Stanley Kubrick made the ultimate science fiction movie, and it is going to be very hard for someone to come along and make a better movie, as far as I’m concerned. On a technical level,...

When a filmmaker takes over directing duties after a movie’s original helmer has passed away, many viewers will be inclined to wonder what could have been if that particular lost voice had stayed involved to the finish line. Having directed only one scene of “Battle Royale II: Requiem,” Kinji Fukasaku was hospitalized due to complications from prostate cancer, dying a few weeks later; his son Kenta Fukasaku, a screenwriter on both “Battle Royale” films, completed the sequel as his directorial debut. Elsewhere, “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” is likely the most famous example of this. Stanley Kubrick reportedly tried handing off his long-gestating sci-fi feature to Steven Spielberg several years before his death, though Spielberg apparently convinced Kubrick to remain as director.

Both “A.I.” and “Battle Royale II” were dedicated to the men who were once set to bring them to fruition. With “Enzo”, the latest feature directed by Robin Campillo,...

The jubilantly gory horror franchise returns with a hugely entertaining sixth installment which sets up an entire family tree for the slaughter

Final Destination, the giddy and splatterific franchise where the grim reaper finds increasingly cartoonish and comical ways to get back at those who think they’ve cheated death, has been sitting things out for more than a decade. Maybe that’s telling.

In the time since, we saw the rise of so-called “elevated horror”, a trend that arguably began with 2014’s The Babadook and enjoyed its biggest success with last fall’s Longlegs. Those earnestly artful films tend to shrug off the horror genre’s baser pleasures to instead mine drama, trauma and influences such as Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and Nicolas Roeg. For those feeling a bit trauma-fatigued, I’m happy to say Final Destination is not only back but better than ever.

If it’s been hard out there for a pimp in recent decades, that wasn’t always the case. In the beginning, there was Ramrod, the scarfaced, rockabilly psycho whose reign of terror on Ho(llywood) Boulevard anchors Gary A. Sherman’s Vice Squad, a definitive second-feature sleazterpiece.

The film’s post-Urban Cowboy tagline reads “On the street, the real trick is staying alive.” And, as played by Wings Hauser as though he gargled octane between takes, Ramrod struts into the film with Tony Manero’s rapacious mojo, coolly hunting down a trifling hooker named Ginger (MTV charter VJ Nina Blackwood) who made off with his cut, nuzzling up to the locked door of her motel hideaway and oozing charm until she unlocks the door. “I cannot believe how stupid you are,” he leers, clearly not having any time for sweets, before tying Ginger down to the vibrating mattress,...

Hollywood legend Tom Cruise doesn't usually address movies he's not currently promoting. Today, the star of franchises like Top Gun and Mission: Impossible mostly spends his time designing mind-bending stunts and promoting the latest Ethan Hunt adventure. But at the same time, he remains very reserved about his career. Nevertheless, the actor recently took the time to reflect on his polarizing erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut. Cruise described the "unique experience" of making a film alongside another Hollywood legend, director Stanley Kubrick. In a very unusual moment of honesty, he also spoke about his wife at the moment, Nicole Kidman, being a "great actress" and how she was selected to play Alice, a casting decision that required him to pull some strings.

Per a report by Deadline, Cruise participated in an interview with Sight and Sound magazine, where he spoke about Eyes Wide Shut. The 1999 Stanley Kubrick thriller saw the...

Tom Cruise is still speaking highly of ex-wife Nicole Kidman, even nearly 25 years after their divorce.

During a recent interview with Sight and Sound (via The Independent), the actor looked back at his 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut, and how he recommended Kidman be cast as Alice Harford in the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic thriller, opposite his Dr. Bill Harford.

“I flew out to his house, and I landed in his backyard. I read the script the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all of his films,” he recalled. “Then it was basically he and I getting to know each other. And when we were doing that, I suggested Nicole play the role [of Alice]. Because, obviously, she’s a great actress.”

Cruise was particularly passionate about the film as he also told Kubrick, “Whatever it’s going to take [to make the movie], we’re going to do this,” despite...

Tom Cruise may have never starred in “Rain Man” if not for his little sister.

During a wide-ranging conversation at the BFI in London on Sunday, Cruise reflected on the films that made his career and told the story of his chance meeting with Dustin Hoffman at a New York City restaurant. It was 1984 and Cruise had just shot Ridley Scott’s “Legend.” He was back in the States visiting his sister Cass, who spotted Hoffman from across the restaurant.

“She goes, ‘There’s Dustin Hoffman.’ I looked up and there he was, in a hat — he was doing ‘Death of a Salesman’ — and he was ordering takeout,” Cruise said. “She goes, ‘You go over there and say hello to him.’ I was like, ‘I’m not going to say hello.’ She goes, ‘You know him, you know his movies.’ And she doesn’t do stuff like that. And I...

A benefit of being Tom Cruise must be that whenever he wants something to happen, he’s probably able to make it happen. Even when it came to offering casting suggestions to a notoriously finicky director like Stanley Kubrick, Cruise managed to get his way, convincing the “Eyes Wide Shut” filmmaker to bring then-wife Nicole Kidman into the project. Speaking for an interview featured in the June issue of Sight and Sound (per The Independent), the “Mission: Impossible” star recalled traveling to England to meet Kubrick for the first time and pitching Kidman for “Eyes Wide Shut” then and there.

“I flew out to his house and I landed in his backyard. I read the script the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all of his films,” Cruise said. “Then it was basically he and I getting to know each other. And when we were doing that,...

Tom Cruise has reflected on a key decision that helped shape Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s final film. In a recent interview with Sight and Sound, the actor shared new details about his involvement during pre-production, including his suggestion that Nicole Kidman be cast as Alice Harford. At the time, Cruise and Kidman were married. The couple had worked together before, but their collaboration on Eyes Wide Shut would prove to be their most scrutinized, both professionally and personally.

Kubrick’s 1999 psychological drama followed Dr. Bill Harford, played by Cruise, a New York doctor whose quiet dissatisfaction within his marriage drives him toward an unsettling odyssey through a hidden social world. Kidman portrayed Alice, Bill’s wife, whose confession of sexual temptation triggers the unraveling of his perception and actions.

Cruise recounted how the project began with an invitation to meet the acclaimed director at his home. Rather than a standard studio meeting,...

Tom Cruise details his unique experience filming Stanley Kubrick's final movie Eyes Wide Shut, nearly 26 years after it premiered. The celebrated director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining, among other movies, passed away in 1999 but continues to be regarded for his lasting effect on Hollywood. The psychological drama, Eyes Wide Shut, follows William Harford (Cruise), a New York City doctor who learns that his wife (Nicole Kidman) had thoughts of infidelity, leading him down a strange and sexual, night-long journey.

During an interview for the British Film Institute magazine, Sight and Sound (via Deadline), Cruise described making Eyes Wide Shut. As Cruise revealed, "it was a great experience," and he and Kubrick became acquainted through co-star Sydney Pollack. Cruise went on to discuss reading the screenplay and, after becoming more familiar with Kubrick, he recalled recommending Kidman for the part of his character's wife.

Nearly 25 years after their divorce, Tom Cruise still appears to be a fan of Nicole Kidman.

The 4x Oscar nominee recalled making the 1999 Stanley Kubrick-helmed erotic thriller with his then-wife, explaining that he “suggested Nicole play the role” of his character Dr. Bill Harford’s wife Alice.

“I flew out to [Kubrick’s] house, and I landed in his backyard,” he told Sight and Sound. “I read the script the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all of his films. Then it was basically he and I getting to know each other. And when we were doing that, I suggested Nicole play the role [of Alice]. Because, obviously, she’s a great actress.”

Cruise told the writer/director “Whatever it’s going to take [to make the movie], we’re going to do this.”

Co-written by Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, Eyes Wide Shut stars Cruise as a wealthy doctor feeling restless in his marriage.

If it weren’t for Tom Cruise, someone else might have played Alice in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 erotic thriller “Eyes Wide Shut.”

In a rare interview with Sight and Sound (via Us Weekly), Cruise said when he first met with the prolific director to discuss what would be his final film, he suggested his wife at the time, Nicole Kidman, play the freespirted Alice Harford opposite his repressed New York socialite, Bill Harford.

“I flew out to his house, and I landed in his backyard. I read the script the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all of his films,” Cruise said. “Then it was basically he and I getting to know each other. And when we were doing that, I suggested Nicole play the role [of Alice]. Because, obviously, she’s a great actress.”

Cruise went on to say that he was extremely dedicated to making “Eyes Wide Shut,...

We know this is a shock to some people, but movies are make-believe. They’re just actors playing pretend, not real nuclear physicists or secret agents or mall cops. By “some people,” of course, we mean renowned directors, who don’t seem to understand that actors can display emotion without being relentlessly harrowed.

5 Paul Thomas Anderson Scared Mark Wahlberg With Firecracker Noises for Three Days

A huge reason why the drug deal scene in Boogie Nights is so unbearably tense is the random explosions of firecrackers thrown by a boy whose presence is mercifully never explained. It seems like that would be bad enough in the moment, but to get Wahlberg really on edge, Thomas Anderson made a habit of slapping two-by-fours together to simulate the sound even when Cracker Boy wasn’t around. That’s a real Pavlovian response we’re watching.

4 William Freidkin Slapped and Shot at Actors While Filming ‘The Exorcist’

Apparently,...

Tom Cruise has worked with some of the greatest directors ever. But at the top might be Stanley Kubrick, who directed Cruise and then-wife Nicole Kidman in his final film, 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut. And despite a nasty divorce, Cruise still has wonderful things to say about Kidman – along with some other notable Hollywood luminaries.

Cruise recently spoke to Sight and Sound (via Deadline) for the May issue, wherein he recalled meeting Kubrick and ensuring that Kidman get the role of his wife in Eyes Wide Shut. “I flew out to his house and I landed in his backyard. I read the script the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all of his films. I spoke to [The Color of Money director Martin] Scorsese about him and [The Firm director/Eyes Wide Shut co-star] Sydney Pollack… so I knew what he did and how he worked. Then...

Former Hollywood power couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman married in 1990 and split in 2001. During their years together, they starred in several productions, including 1999's Eyes Wide Shut.

The actors shared the screen together for the first time in 1990 in the sports drama Days of Thunder, and worked together again on the epic Western Far and Away in 1992. For a few years, they kept separate projects before reuniting on the big screen in Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. In a new interview with Sight and Sound for the May issue, via Deadline, Cruise shared a rare comment about Nicole Kidman and praised her acting skills, making a new revelation about Kidman's role.

In the new issue, the actor looked back at some of his iconic roles, including Eyes Wide Shut. "It was a great experience," Cruise recalled. "I was very excited to do it. I knew Stanley’s movies very well,...

Tom Cruise is sharing some very rare comments about his ex-wife Nicole Kidman.

If you forgot, the 62-year-old Mission Impossible actor and the 57-year-old Babygirl actress were married from 1990 to 2001 and share two adopted children: Isabella, 32, Connor, 30.

In a new interview, Tom looked back at working with Nicole and late director Stanley Kubrick on the 1999 movie Eyes Wide Shut.

Keep reading to find out more…“I flew out to his house, and I landed in his backyard. I read the script the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all of his films,” Tom recalled to Sight and Sound, referring to Kubrik who died in 1999 at the age of 70.

“Then it was basically he and I getting to know each other,” he added. “And when we were doing that, I suggested Nicole play the role [of Alice]. Because, obviously, she’s a great actress.”

“Whatever it’s...

During a press event in Seoul promoting Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise declined to respond to a question concerning former President Donald Trump’s proposed tariff policy on films produced abroad. The question referred to the film’s international shooting locations and whether the production might be subject to such tariffs.

“I’d like to ask this question to anybody who’s up for it,” the reporter began, according to a translated exchange at the event. “I saw that it was filmed in many different locations around the world, including Africa. We all are aware of the tariffs that President Trump has been imposing on overseas productions and films. So, is this particular movie under that tariff? And how much of the film was shot overseas?”

Cruise responded off-mic to the moderator: “We’d rather answer questions about the movie. Thank you.” The moderator acknowledged the direction and moved the conversation forward.

Tom Cruise has spoken for the first time about how he suggested to Stanley Kubrick that his then wife Nicole Kidman star opposite him in 1999s Eyes Wide Shut “because obviously she’s a great actress.”

The actor makes the rare public acknowledgement of Kidman’s thespian abilities in the May issue of Sight and Sound, the film magazine published by the British Film Institute.

Cruise will be honoured by the BFI on Monday with the awarding of a distinguished BFI Fellowship.

He joins the ranks of other BFI Fellows including giants of the calibre of David Lean, Bette Davis, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Thelma Schoonmaker, Derek Jarman, Martin Scorsese, Satyajit Ray, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G Wilson, Spike Lee and Christopher Nolan.

The actor-impresario will also discuss his career In Conversation at the BFI cinema complex on London’s Southbank on Sunday evening. Cruise activity is at full speed ahead...

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Say "honey yes!" to the Honey Don't! trailer

Director Ethan Coen's Honey Don't! will rocket to the top of your most anticipated movies list after you watch its new trailer. The noir comedy stars Margaret Qualley as Honey O’Donahue, a private investigator looking into a string of mysterious deaths tied to a cultish church led by Priest Dean (Chris Evans). The trailer has that classic Coen crime caper energy, with a little more sex appeal than usual. The film is written by Coen and Tricia Cooke, who previously worked with Qualley on Drive Away Dolls, and also stars Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and Billy Eichner. It will be in theaters from Focus Features on Aug. 22, following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Sam Mendes' Beatles quartet taps Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan, and Jack Thorne as writers

Sam Mendes' four Beatles...

M3GAN, the killer doll that terrorized audiences in 2022, is returning this year with M3GAN 2.0. The horror sequel, also directed by Gerard Johnstone, will see Allison Williams and Violet McGraw reprise their roles from the first film as the aunt and niece who bond over having to fight for their lives against the sentient robot. The film lands in theaters on June 27, 2025, and producer James Wan has teased a few details about the sequel, saying that if M3GAN was The Terminator, then M3GAN 2.0 should work just like its highly-praised 1991 action sci-fi sequel.

Wan, who's also known for creating franchises like Saw and The Conjuring, spoke to Empire Magazine about the upcoming project he's producing through his company, Atomic Monster, along with Jason Blum and his studio Blumhouse Productions. The plot details tease a worthy robotic contender to M3GAN, but per Wan's comments, M3GAN 2.0 has just gotten a...

With the Cannes Film Festival just around the corner, the festival has now unveiled its Classics lineup, featuring new restorations, films about filmmaking, and much more. Highlights include Stéphane Ghez’s David Lynch, une énigme à Hollywood (Welcome to Lynchland), a new documentary about the late director, Quentin Tarantino in-person to present two features by George Sherman, plus films by Edward Yang, John Woo, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Chaplin, Mikio Naruse, Marcel Pagnol, and more.

Check out the lineup below and learn more here.

The Gold Rush: 100th Year Anniversary!

After La Maman et la putain, L’Amour fou and Napoléon par Abel Gance, the Festival de Cannes will premiere as a worldwide pre-opening film on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 3Pm in Debussy Theater, Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.

The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin

(La Ruée vers l’or)

A presentation by Roy Export Sas with the support of mk2.

Quentin Tarantino will be the guest of honour at Cannes Classics, the repertory cinema strand of Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.

Tarantino will present two western films by George Sherman – 1949’s Red Canyon, and 1950’s Comanche Territory – and will take part in a discussion with critic and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell.

Scroll down for the full selection of Cannes Classics titles

The Classics lineup includes the Cannes pre-opening film, a 4K restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s 1925 The Gold Rush, restored by the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory at the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. Mk2 Films is arranging a worldwide re-release of the...

A documentary on Shia Labeouf’s acting school, conversation with Quentin Tarantino about George Sherman, tribute to the late David Lynch and Mariska Hargitay’s feature directorial debut are among the highlights of this year’s Cannes Classics lineup, revealed on Wednesday.

“Slauson Rec,” a documentary from Leo Lewis O’Neil about Labeouf’s controversial free acting school he launched in L.A. in 2018, will screen in the presence of both O’Neil and Labeouf. The film has already caused a stir, with O’Neil’s recent interview with Vanity Fair about the project revealing that scenes are included of Labeouf’s alleged physical violence toward members of the experimental theater collective. As O’Neil told Vanity Fair, he sent a trailer for the project to Labeouf seeking his sign-off on it, and the actor gave his full blessing.

In a statement to Vanity Fair, Labeouf said: “I gave Leo this...

Quentin Tarantino will be guest of honor of Cannes Classics this year with a special tribute devoted to late low-budget westerns director George Sherman.

The Cannes regular, who won the Palme d’Or winner for Pulp Fiction and President of the Jury in 2004, will share his passion for Sherman’s work with screenings of two of his westerns made for Universal Pictures – Red Canyon and Comanche Territory – in one of his most creative periods.

Tarantino will participate in a conversation about Sherman moderated by critic and documentary filmmaker Elvis Mitchell.

Other highlights of the program devoted to classic cinema include a pre-opening screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, to mark the centenary of its making, as well as a 25th anniversary screening of Amores perros by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, in the presence of director, and the 50th anniversary screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Shia Labeouf...

Okay, haters, let’s get one thing straight—Tom Cruise is Not overrated, he’s just operating on a different cinematic frequency. Despite the TikTok hot takes and Reddit threads, this man has been serving iconic roles, killer stunts, and pure movie magic since the ‘80s. And whether you agree or not, M&a consultant, former business editor, and cinephile Fabien Buzzanca stood up for the legend himself.

While some folks are still fixated on Tom Cruise’s gossip and his Scientology phase, real ones like Fabien Buzzanca, know he’s the Goat. And it’s not because he can hang off planes at 60 or do ridiculous stunts all by himself. No, Cruise is way more than that, and we’ve three critically acclaimed films to prove our point. So let’s settle this once and for all.

Tom Cruise in Stanley Kubrick’s psychological thriller Eyes Wide Shut

Much like...

If you're seeing an American film about the American military, the chances are good that it won't be an antiwar polemic. American productions that feature soldiers and military equipment and/or explore the inner workings of the U.S. armed services typically have to cooperate with the Pentagon in order to get a movie made. The Army, the Navy, the Marines, etc., often provide a film production with uniforms, vehicles, weapons, or even training for its actors, under the stipulation that the military be allowed to give its approval of the script. War films can, of course, be made without the approval of the U.S. military, but if they're critical of the U.S. armed forces in any way, the government will openly sneer at them.

It's easy to find hit films that vaunt the military. "Captain Marvel," for instance, came hand-in-hand with Air Force recruitment videos, and even...

Wayne rose to fame in the 1930s, and throughout the 1940s and 1950s, built up his reputation as Hollywood's ultimate bastion of masculinity. Wayne didn't possess a lot of range as an actor, typically playing "John Wayne," but his character type proved to be pliable in certain kinds of ultra-popular genre films. He was a Western star and a War Movie star, and his no-nonsense, rah-rah-America personality was eagerly eaten up by audiences. As Wayne rounded the 1960s, however, a lot of his image had begun to tarnish. This was mostly because times were changing, and the kinds of Westerns and war movies that he once headlined became gauche with a new generation. Antiwar sentiment was more popular than the pro-war propaganda that was released in the wake of World War II. 

One can see Wayne struggling in his notorious stinker "The Green Berets," a film that attempted to apply...

Annual critics’ lists are important, sure. But when the world’s most successful filmmaker picks a favorite movie, people listen.

At the AFI’s annual 50th Life Achievement Award event held April 26 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Steven Spielberg was among friends and collaborators who couldn’t refuse offering kudos to honoree Francis Ford Coppola. When Spielberg and fellow helmer George Lucas presented the AFI honor to Coppola, the Schindler’s List and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial director said onstage that Coppola’s 1972 Oscar-winning classic The Godfather was, to him, “The greatest American film ever made.”

Certainly, a solid choice (who wants to get metaphorically whacked like Sonny Corleone at the toll booth for saying otherwise?). And Spielberg did clarify his statement as The Godfather being the best American film, setting it apart from world cinema. While great directors frequently change up their top films, many have stated the ones that hold prime spots.

Max‘s May film acquisitions include gems that came out both 80 years ago and as recently as just a few months ago. Indeed, the streaming service’s new movies range from 2024’s longest Best Picture contender to a classic Hollywood musical and an Oscar-winning, genre-bending 2004 drama. In case that was not enough, a pair of iconic horror movies and one fantasy masterpiece have also made their way to the platform this month.

Here are seven of the best movies that are now streaming on Max in May.

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (Focus Features) “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004)

When he was promoting “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Jim Carrey equated getting Charlie Kaufman’s script for the film with watching Moses come down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments and winning the lottery. They are apt metaphors for a film that feels, quite simply, miraculous.

Good news for cinephiles: Film archivists have been hard at work restoring a famous director’s original vision for a movie that many of us thought had been lost forever. No, it’s not Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons, or Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, or even the version of Batman Forever where Bruce Wayne stares down a giant bat puppet. We’re talking about the 1998 Norm Macdonald vehicle Dirty Work.

Directed by Bob Saget, Dirty Work tells the story of two buddies/secret brothers who start a “revenge for hire” business in order to pay for their dad’s heart surgery. The movie, as it was released, was still pretty crude. Like, it literally opens with a kid pranking a child molester with Krazy Glue.

And then there’s this scene, presented without comment:

But the original cut of the film was far more vulgar. The studio insisted on...

The years have seen some of the best Stephen King adaptations become controversial for the changes they have made to the prolific author’s original novels – we all know King’s feelings about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, for example. However, it seems that another film courting controversy was the Oscar-winning 1990 Rob Reiner adaptation of Misery, which starred Kathy Bates in one of her greatest cinematic roles, playing everyone’s favorite obsessive “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes. The actress had a couple of issues when it came to some of the changes made to the movie compared to King’s original novel.

While the film is a brutal and tense movie as it stands, one scene that does not play out quite the same as King’s novel is the infamous “hobbling” scene. For many people, the moment in the movie where Bates’ Wilkes takes a sledgehammer to Paul Sheldon...

Nicole Kidman will receive the 2025 Women in Motion Award at the Cannes Film Festival, presented by Kering and the festival organizers. This marks her return to Cannes for the first time since 2017, when she was recognized with the 70th Anniversary Prize.

The award, part of a program launched in 2015, recognizes contributions by women across culture and the arts. Kidman will join previous recipients such as Jane Fonda, Viola Davis, Michelle Yeoh, and Salma Hayek Pinault. She will be honored during a gala dinner attended by filmmakers, executives, and members of the Cannes jury.

“It’s a true honor to receive this award from François, Thierry, Iris, my friends at the Kering Group as well as the Cannes Film Festival,” Kidman said. “I am proud to join this list of extraordinary women who’ve received this honor before me—artists and trailblazers I deeply admire.”

François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of Kering,...

Two things were hot in 1980s horror: formulaic slashers and Stephen King. The mega success of Brian De Palma’s Carrie in 1976 followed by Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece The Shining, turned the unpolished Maine writer into a household name and left studios clamoring to secure rights to his next terrifying tale. By 1985, the trend was in full swing with multiple adaptations filling theaters and more rushing their way into production. After the success of his 1983 adaptation of Cujo, director Lewis Teague took inspiration from another household pet with the 1985 film Cat’s Eye. This anthology film sees King adapt two of his own stories from the 1978 collection Night Shift while penning an original story to tie them together. Starring the Firestarter herself, Drew Barrymore, the film is an 80s curio filled with maniacal mobsters, mythical creatures, and an intrepid cat determined to save the day.

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Nicole Kidman, the trailblazing actor and producer who last starred in Halina Reijn’s thought-provoking “Babygirl,” will be celebrated at the Cannes Film Festival where she will receive the Woman in Motion Award from Kering chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault, Cannes president Iris Knobloch and director Thierry Fremaux.

Launched in 2015 by Kering, an official partner of the Cannes Film Festival, the Women in Motion program highlights the creativity and contribution made by women, both on and off

screen, in the world of culture and the arts.

As the milestone 10th Woman in Motion honoree, Kidman will succeed NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios Chairman Donna Langley, Jane Fonda, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, Isabelle Huppert, Patty Jenkins, Gong Li, Salma Hayek Pinault, Viola Davis and Michelle Yeoh.

The tribute to Kidman will take place at a glamorous gala dinner bringing together filmmakers, talent, jury members and executives.

Kidman, who was last at Cannes...

The 1960s were a decade when the movie industry made leaps and bounds in terms of storytelling, technology, and expansion beyond the American borders. This era came up with so many fantastic films that it was hard to pick the ten ultimate 60s movie classics from among them. In our quest to find the top ten, we are sure that we may have missed quite a few fan-favorites.

However, the movies in this list are not just great films from the 60s, but also some of the greatest in cinema history. The classics of legendary directors like Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick have made it to this list. This list also features some of the best in the genres like horror, Western, rom-com, and sci-fi.

10. Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961)

Audrey Hepburn’s eccentric Manhattan socialite stole the show in this rom-com classic. Truman Capote’s 1958 novella translated amazingly into film format,...

Long considered the gold standard of television, HBO continues to dominate the small screen with broadcast hits and streaming successes (via the platform Max). In the 2020s alone, it's produced a range of shows that mostly define what audiences expect from modern TV. Just as every crime drama has aspired to be "The Wire" or "The Sopranos" since the early 2000s, now every corporate thriller wants to be "Succession," every teen drama "Euphoria," and every fantasy "Game of Thrones." Of course, not every one of these aspiring shows can reach the high bar HBO has set -- and that includes its own series.

Indeed, HBO has developed its fair share of duds in the past. Sometimes, it seems as though they desired to repeat the success of previous triumphs like "Sex and the City" or "Veep"; others might have gotten too swept up in the ambitious vision of once-reliable artists...

Stephen King has only occasionally written film or television adaptations of his own stories, including the 1989 "Pet Sematary" movie, the 1994 miniseries version of "The Stand," and the 2016 film "Cell" (which is King's lowest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes). Be that as it may, King was adamant that only he would be allowed to adapt "Lisey's Story" for the small screen.

"Lisey's Story" is one of King's most unique books. It's not a horror tale as you would traditionally expect from King, but it is suspenseful. It's mainly a love story that spans decades of marriage between Lisey and Scott Landon: the petty fights, the romantic moments, the "Alice in Wonderland"-style language the couple invents, and the difficulties of sharing a life with a famous creative.

After his death, Lisey is left to sort through her husband's study. There, she comes across the nostalgic objects of their shared memories and his unfinished writing.

At some point in the future, the number of Stephen King adaptations on screen will outpace the number of stories the horror master has written for the page. Hollywood is always hungry for new and old King tales alike, and has rarely slowed its adaptation machine down in the nearly 50 years since "Carrie" first hit theaters.

At a certain point, it became clear that King, who's only produced a handful of adaptations based on his own work, would have to cede control of his considerable source material and let each new interpretation do its own thing. Still, he's famously made his opinions on the adaptations known over the years, and always seems interested in the ways filmmakers distinguish their version of the story from his. Several King movies and shows by now feel like unique properties in their own right, with Osgood Perkins' deeply personal and sickly hilarious take on...

Pioneering VFX legend and cinematographer, Bruce Logan, who "blew up the Death Star" in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope and worked on the 1968 science fiction classic2001: A Space Odyssey, has died aged 78. His wife confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he died on April 10, 2025, in Los Angeles after dealing with a short illness. Logan's daughter paid tribute to her father in a heartfelt Instagram post, highlighting his ability to add beauty to the screen by hand and remembering her very own personal hero.

The post consists of a slideshow of Logan making magic happen behind the scenes of the productions he worked on. The caption starts with, "Before CGI ruled the screen, there were visionaries who lit the future by hand. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Tron, my dad didn't just work on movies — he made magic. A rebel with a camera, a pioneer with a story,...

How much did Quentin Tarantino earn after ‘10 movie’ idea? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Quentin Tarantino’s movies are like blood-soaked love letters to pop culture, grindhouse cinema, and vintage feet shots. Since the ‘90s, he’s given us iconic films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, each dripping in style, violence, and unapologetic weirdness.

But beyond all the cult worship and memeable moments, there’s cold, hard cash. Tarantino’s movies don’t just win awards, they rake in millions. Now, with his infamous “10 movies and I’m out” retirement plan looming like a final chapter, fans are doing the math: how much has the man actually earned from his iconic (and often insane) filmography? Spoiler alert, it’s a lot more than just royalties and Red Apple cigarette profits. Let’s break it down.

Quentin Tarantino’s Salary And Net Worth

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