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The ’70s are back, baby — and this time, they’ve brought Josh Holloway, a blood-soaked baseball bat, and a whole lot of dust-kicking chaos with them.

In Duster’s electric series premiere, Max throws us into the sweltering heat of Arizona’s criminal underworld.

This is not your typical crime drama. It’s loud, stylish, a little absurd, and utterly soaked in grindhouse charm. Think Smokey and the Bandit if Burt Reynolds were morally conflicted and on the verge of being recruited by the FBI.

(James Van Evers/Max) Jim Ellis: The Wheelman With Ghosts in the Rearview

Josh Holloway was built for the ’70s. From the feathered hair to the leather blazers and polyester shirts, he looks right at home behind the wheel of his groovy Duster.

Jim Ellis isn’t just the best getaway driver in the region — he’s also been deeply embedded in Ezra Saxton...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s Poker Face.

There are plenty of guest stars this season on Poker Face — but one of them, we didn’t see coming. (Or hear, anyway.)

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This week on Natasha Lyonne’s Peacock murder mystery, Charlie started chatting with a stranger she dubbed...

Before Burt Reynolds went on to have a legendary and illustrious career on the silver screen, he first made his reputation doing television. He appeared in a myriad of shows between 1959 and 1972. He had one-episode roles in such classic shows as "The Twilight Zone," Erle Stanley Gardner's "Perry Mason," and Lee Marvin's "M Squad." Yet one of his most memorable recurring roles was arguably in Charles Marquis Warren's western drama, "Gunsmoke" (based on John Meston and Norman Macdonnell's radio series of the same name), which ran on CBS for an outstanding 20 (!) years between 1955 and 1975. Compared to today's TV Westerns, which are lucky if they last more than two seasons, that's an astonishing accomplishment for the unapologetically honest series.

Out of those 20 seasons, Reynolds starred in three, from 1962 to 1965, as Quint Asper, a half-white and half-Comanche blacksmith, introduced as the member of Angela Clarke's Topsanah's tribe...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Poker Face” Season 2, Episode 3.

Any “Poker Face” fan would have expected the second installment of the Rian Johnson-created series to play out in a similar way to last season: Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale travels across the country in her Plymouth Barracuda solving murders before the finale sees her come face-to-face with the current antagonist.

But, instead, “Poker Face” threw out the rule book and eliminated the threat looming over Charlie from mob boss Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman) in just the third episode of the season with an FBI string gone wrong that puts Beatrix into witness protection and Charlie without a hit on her head.

“When we started talking about different options of a … through-line, I don’t think any of them really excited us creatively,” showrunner Tony Tost told TheWrap. “We’re under that assumption that you have this big bad...

Julianne Moore brought timeless elegance to the 15th Governors Awards, held on November 17, 2024, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.

Dressed in a flowing Proenza Schouler Rumi pleated jersey maxi dress, she accessorized with striking fine jewelry, including Belperron Wave rings in pavé diamond, a Belperron Toggle Torque necklace, and Verdura Maltese Cross cuffs on both wrists.

Julianne Moore exudes refined elegance at the 15th Governors Awards in a pleated black Proenza Schouler maxi dress, styled with bold Belperron and Verdura jewelry (Credit: Mark Von Holden / The Academy)

Julianne Moore’s Breakthrough Role in Boogie Nights

A celebrated presence at the Oscars for decades, Moore’s awards journey began with her first Academy Award nomination in 1998 for her standout performance as Amber Waves in Boogie Nights. This role showcased her emotional depth and star power.

Her co-stars in the critically acclaimed film include Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle,...

In 1992, the now acclaimed director Roland Emmerich, alongside action superstars Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, created Universal Soldier. A movie that was maybe under-appreciated in the golden age of action films but nonetheless a highlight in all of their careers. Regardless, financial issues loomed for the studio that created it. This resulted in rights being sold and two mostly horrendous television movies being released on Showtime starring Gary Busey and Burt Reynolds. Seven years later, in 1999, the franchise would attempt its big screen comeback with the legendary Jean Claude Van Damme desperate for a career win on a project no director seemed willing to touch. Would the result be a resurrection of not only the franchise but its leading man’s once unstoppable career? Or one of the final nails in the coffin of both of their big screen futures? This is What Happened to Universal Soldier: The Return.

Josh Holloway, star of the new Max action-thriller Duster, won’t soon forget his first time behind the wheel of the titular 1972 muscle car he drives in the series — especially because his vehicular co-star, so sleek and cherry red on screen, wasn’t quite ready for its close-up.

“They found it in a pasture — it was lime green, it had no hood and no interior, only the seat that they had bolted in for me to ride,” Holloway revealed to Gold Derby at the series premiere at Universal Studios on Thursday, where the Duster — now made over and polished to a gleaming Hollywood sheen — was parked on the red carpet just a few yards away.

Holloway, too, was ready for his own transformation. After breaking out in a big way as Sawyer — the soulful scoundrel with a heart of gold — on Lost in the 2000s, he went on to anchor...

Meet Craig Waterman, the world’s most socially awkward suburbanite. The fact that he’s played by Tim Robinson — co-creator of the brilliant sketch show-slash-meme-generator I Think You Should Leave — tells you everything you need to know from the jump. Craig’s wife Tami (Kate Mara), a cancer survivor clearly still in love with her firefighter ex-boyfriend, is perpetually embarrassed by him. Though to be fair, her husband has a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Talking to her support group, Tami confesses her fear that...

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The year was 1966, and actor Clint Eastwood had already established himself as a global movie star with "A Fistful of Dollars," directed by Sergio Leone. Leone's film hadn't yet been released in the United States, but "Fistful" was such a hit that actors in both America and Italy were taking notice. Eastwood had previously established himself in the TV series "Rawhide," playing Rowdy Yates in 217 episodes of the show. Leone's "Fistful" took Eastwood's already-known Western hero image and updated it in a more stylish manner, borrowing (quite heavily and without permission) from Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo." 

The rest of the world immediately ran to imitate that film's success, and already-profitable Italian Westerns, nicknamed Spaghetti Westerns, continued to proliferate. At the time, a young and upcoming actor name Burt Reynolds was following a similar career arc to Eastwood. He had...

"John Wayne was supposed to star in 'Gunsmoke' but turned it down" is one of those Old Hollywood myths that refuse to die. Even in 2025, half a century since the show's finale, many still believe the Duke was supposed to be the leading man in television's most iconic Western. However, this simply was never the case.

According to Norman Macdonnell, the co-creator of the original "Gunsmoke" radio series who later helped adapt it for television, the mere idea of offering Wayne the lead role would have been a wild pipe dream. As he explained for a 1975 TV Guide feature: "Wayne was a big movie star and wouldn't have considered TV for a minute. It was just a publicity story." This makes perfect sense considering in those days television was rarely, if ever, given the same respect as film.

Writer and director Charles Marquis Warren, who helped kickstart the...

In 2006's "Rocky Balboa," Sylvester Stallone's aging pugilist delivered a line that perfectly encapsulated the fighter's ethos, and by extension, the ethos of the "Rocky" franchise as a whole. "It ain't about how hard you hit," he says. "It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!" This short speech in the film that saved the "Rocky" saga has become a bit of a meme in the years since Sly first delivered it, viewed as a sort of melodramatic ode to self-belief that was on the verge of tipping over into Hollywood hyperbole. What stops it from doing so is the fact that you can tell that Stallone believed every word of it, and he had good reason to.

When the actor first wrote "Rocky," he was about as down and out as you could imagine.

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It would be a colossal understatement to say Burt Reynolds, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 82, had an incredible Hollywood career. For decades, the actor did nothing but impress, impress, and impress with his roles in films ranging from "Deliverance" to "Boogie Nights." However, before he came to fame on the silver screen, Reynolds played everyone's favorite part-time deputy marshal on the long-running TV series "Gunsmoke."

Across 50 episodes from 1962 to 1965, the future Oscar nominee portrayed Quint Asper opposite the great James Arness as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. Not only that, but Reynolds would later declare his time on the show the greatest part of his professional career. He even wrote the foreword for Arness' autobiography in 2001, plainly expressing just how much of an immense joy it was to work on the iconic small screen Western:

"For some...

What do you do when you’ve just tanked a hit franchise by turning an R-rated movie world made for adults into wacky kids flick? Who, by the way, were already into it as it was? Well, obviously, you’re going to take that same franchise and turn it into a TV show also intended for family audiences. Then you’re going to air it at night when kids aren’t watching. If you’ve ever wondered what RoboCop would look like as a TV show that kept the aesthetics and even some of the satire but replaced the interior with more of a Power Rangers vibe? Well, we’ve got over sixteen hours of it to talk about. And every one of them is available on Tubi right now. Here’s the story of how they got there. This is What Happened to the RoboCop TV Series.

After the...

It’s the end of an era as legendary sports broadcaster Lee Corso is set to retire from College GameDay after nearly four decades at ESPN. The 89-year-old college football analyst made the announcement on Thursday (April 17), revealing his final broadcast with College GameDay will air on August 30. But what will be the last game he covers? While ESPN has yet to officially confirm that information, one game stands out above the others. What Will Be His Final Game? Florida State vs Alabama is the most likely option for Lee Corso’s final coverage on August 30. Not only is it the biggest game of the day, but Florida State University is Corso’s alma mater. Prior to his broadcasting career, Corso played college football at Florida State University, on the same team as actor Burt Reynolds, with whom he also shared a room. After hanging up his boots, he started...

Lee Corso is hangin’ em up after nearly 40 years on ESPN’s College GameDay. The veteran NCAA football analyst turns 90 in August and will call it a career after one more show a few weeks later.

Corso’s final broadcast will be August 30. ESPN said it is planning special programming to honor him in the leadup to that weekend.

“My family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College GameDay for nearly 40 years,” he said in a statement released by ESPN. “I have a treasure of many friends, fond memories and some unusual experiences to take with me into retirement.”

Known for his headgear segment, in which he picked game winners by sporting the school’s helmet, mascot heads or such, Corso has been with the Worldwide Leader since ending his 28-year pro and college coaching career in 1987. He also played for...

1923 star Brandon Sklenar has shared some interesting details about his time on set filming the Yellowstone prequel series. Sklenar stars as Spencer Dutton opposite Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren in 1923, the Western series created for TV by Taylor Sheridan. The show recently wrapped up its second and final season on Paramount+, and for now, the story of the Duttons has come to a halt. The first season of 1923 aired near the end of 2022, and Sklenar has spent the better part of the last three years in the shoes of Spencer Dutton. During a recent interview with People Magazine, he revealed some things he took as souvenirs from the set that he’ll keep with him forever. You can read his full comments below:

"I have his hat. I have his passport, which is very cool. It's like very real, like a 1920s passport. And I have some bullet shells, some casings from World War I.

Why Was Noah Hathaway Cast, Dropped & Re-Cast As Atreyu In The NeverEnding Story? (Photo Credit – Youtube)

Before The NeverEnding Story whisked us away to Fantasia, its lead star, Noah Hathaway, lived a plot twist worthy of the big screen. He was cast, dropped, and then re-cast again as Atreyu. His journey to land the iconic role wasn’t just long; it was wild.

When Hathaway stepped into auditions for the 1984 fantasy epic, he already had some serious credits. He starred in Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979) and appeared in Best Friends (1982) alongside Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn. So when German director Wolfgang Petersen came aboard The NeverEnding Story, Hathaway had experience, but not yet the part.

He first auditioned under a different director. And not just once. “They did one of those worldwide searches to cast the role and they saw something like 50,000 kids,” Hathaway said during a 2019 Entertainment Weekly reunion interview.

I go wild for television series bibles. These are the mini-books that lay out what a show is, who the characters are, and which guide the writers as they take us on a journey with those characters. It's especially fascinating to comb over what changed and try to suss out why.

"Yellowjackets" is no exception. As the popular Showtime horror-mystery series closes out its third season, the show has come a long way from series creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson's original pitch deck. That pitch was cited in 2021 as an example of how to sell a show correctly, and has made the usual rounds on social media.

The basics of the story we know are there in those nine pages. A high school girls soccer team is on a flight to Nationals when the plane crashes in the Wilderness. They're left stranded in the wild for almost two years before rescue comes.

Ted Kotcheff, the versatile, two-time Palme d’Or nominee who directed more than two dozen movies including First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s, Fun with Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty and Wake in Fright and exec produced hundreds of episodes of Law & Order: Svu during a six-decade career, died Thursday. He was 94.

Family members confirmed the news to Canada’s The Globe and Mail.

Born on April 7, 1931, in Toronto, Kotcheff began his career as a producer and director in 1950s and ’60s TV there. He became an important member of the 1960s fraternity of filmmakers in England, distinguishing himself with the films Life at the Top and Two Gentlemen Sharing. He also won a BAFTA TV Award in 1972 for the BBC drama Play for Today.

By the 1970s, he was focused on longform projects, including features and several made-for-tv movies. He helmed and co-wrote the Australia-set 1971 thriller Wake in Fright,...

The Brave and the Bold is an upcoming feature film that will bring a new version of Batman into the Dcu continuity established by DC Studios. Because the project is still in its very early stages of development, the role of the Dark Knight still has yet to be cast, though actor Brandon Sklenar believes he's got a shot at possibly landing the part.

1923 star Sklenar, whose name has come up recently as a popular pick with fans for a potential casting choice for Batman, discussed the situation in a new interview with ScreenRant. He shared how he sees Batman as a dream role for him, naming the Dark Knight as the one character in the real of superheroes he'd love to portray more than any other. That had him pleasantly surprised when fans started suggesting him as the next incarnation of Bruce Wayne, and he made it clear he'd...

Streaming services haven't only facilitated the release of movies and TV shows at the same time across the world but also gave viewers a chance to rewatch or discover old titles, as well. Now, one of the longest-running TV series of all time is getting its chance.

Gunsmoke, which was the second Western television series for adults, is now finding success online. The series debuted in 1955, just four days after the first Western TV series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. Per Matthew Belloni, Gunsmoke just entered the Nielsen charts for acquired shows on a list filled with current shows, 50 years after its series finale.

Gunsmoke just entered the Nielsen Top 10 for acquired shows on streaming. Congrats to the cast and creators, who are all dead. pic.twitter.com/KCVuKDZoBG— Matthew Belloni (@MattBelloni) April 3, 2025

The Western show was in the charts for the week between Mar. 3 and 9, per the Nielsen charts.

A new show is burning up the Nielsen streaming charts — and it aired its last episode almost fifty years ago. Gunsmoke, the longest-running Western TV show in history, has just ridden on to the Acquired streaming charts, landing at #8. The series, which starred James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, is currently streaming on Paramount+ and Peacock.

It's no surprise to see a Western on the streaming charts: shows like Yellowstoneand 1923 have been solid successes for Paramount+. However, even on Nielsen's list of Acquired streaming shows, which includes shows that premiered on linear TV before making their way to streaming, Gunsmoke stands out. It's up there with shows like NCIS, The Big Bang Theory, and Bob's Burgers — venerable series all, but they all made their debuts this century. Not so for Gunsmoke, which aired its first episode on CBS in 1955. According to Nielsen, this has been a long time coming,...

James L. Brooks is detailing the advice he received from an acclaimed producer after making his directorial debut with “Terms of Endearment.” Brooks’ first feature went on to win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Jack Nicholson, and Best Actress for Shirley MacLaine at the Oscars. After his big night, Brooks apparently was “allowed” to “bomb” his next two films.

“Success can be a demon,” Brooks told The Hollywood Reporter while promoting his upcoming feature “Ella McCay” starring Emma Mackey and Jamie Lee Curtis. “I had an awareness of it and after it happened, I went out and had this great year — maybe the best year. I asked this friend of mine — a hardened producer of many pictures — how many bombs I would be allowed after ‘Terms of Endearment.’ He said, ‘I think you get two.'”

Brooks took that advice and set out to “experiment” with filmmaking.

Mickey Mouse is a beloved, wholesome children’s icon, and he has been for nearly 100 years. So it’s sick and perverse to watch a Mickey Mouse film featuring brutal decapitations, homicidal skeletons, kidnapping and torture. Any filmmaker who would bring that level of despicable violence into the world of Mickey Mouse should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

By the way, that filmmaker’s name is Walt Disney.

“The Mad Doctor” was a creepily animated Mickey Mouse short released in 1933, whose imagery was, at the time, considered so gruesome that it quickly fell out of circulation and into the public domain. Even Uncle Walt thought severed heads were perfectly acceptable in a Mickey Mouse movie. So before anyone gets up in arms that Steven Lamorte’s “Screamboat” shows Mickey slaughtering the passengers of the Staten Island Ferry, try to remember: Disney did it first.

Then again I’m not sure...

Movie Legend: Tony Danza nearly replaced Christopher Reeve as Superman for Superman III.

One of the easiest Movie Legends to create is the classic "Actor X was almost cast as Character Y," since there is really so little to it that you need to get it into the popular consciousness. For instance, for the old legend about whether Oj Simpson was nearly cast as the Terminator, losing the gig only because no one bought him as a killer, a lot of that Is true, which is that James Cameron noted that, "This was when everybody loved him, and ironically that was part of the problem—he was this likable, goofy, kind of innocent guy. Plus, frankly I wasn’t interested in an African-American man chasing around a white girl with a knife. It just felt wrong." However, that's the reason why Cameron never even really Considered Simpson for the role,...

By the early ’70s, Burt Reynolds was one of cinema’s rising men of action. With starring roles in films like Fuzz and Skullduggery, Reynolds was charming, physical and was rarely asked to show much beyond that. But it wasn’t until Deliverance that audiences and directors started to see what he could do, playing an outdoorsman slowly losing hope in the Georgian wilderness.

John Boorman’s thriller is a tough descent into fear and violence. What starts as a weekend adventure for four city men looking to conquer the wilderness quickly turns into a desperate struggle to escape it. Between the realism of its violence, the tension that never lets up, and the unsettling themes at its core, Deliverance remains just as powerful today as it was over 50 years ago.

Deliverance Is One of the Most Disturbing Thrillers of All Time

No one could quite expect what Deliverance would show.

Seth Rogen's new comedy series might feel fresh, but it's not exactly original. The Studio, which is streaming on Apple TV+, follows a fictional studio executive as he meets with real-life actors in a show with the main purpose of satirizing Hollywood. The Studio is not the first show or movie to do this, as The Player had a near-identical premise but with a plot that makes it much more like a thriller than a comedy. The Studio even makes at least one reference to the film.

The Player was based on a hit book and received critical acclaim when it came out, with 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film might have gone under a few people's radars as it was distributed by a small studio that was absorbed by Warner Bros. However, it's now streaming on Max, and it's worth checking out.

'The Player' Is Hollywood Satire...

Four years after bringing the world the high speed comedy classic Smokey and the Bandit (and three years after their stuntman comedy Hooper and one year after Smokey and the Bandit II), director Hal Needham and star Burt Reynolds teamed up again for another high speed comedy, the goofball ensemble film The Cannonball Run. The film was a big hit, the sixth highest-grossing domestic film of 1981, and it was followed by a pair of less successful sequels, Cannonball Run II (1983) and Speed Zone (1989). Even though the follow-ups aren’t highly regarded, The Cannonball Run is still a well-known title, which is why we’ve been hearing rumblings of a remake for years. Now, industry scooper Jeff Sneider of The InSneider reports that Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is likely to be the one to finally bring The Cannonball Run back to the screen, as his production company, Bosque Ranch, is developing...

Burt Reynolds achieved feature-film stardom and a large measure of credibility with his powerful dramatic performance in the 1972 thriller film Deliverance. Reynolds’ charm and sex appeal were effectively showcased throughout the rest of the decade in films like Hooper, The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit, and Starting Over, which pleased audiences and critics alike while establishing Reynolds as an immensely likable star who was equally adept at action and comedy.

However, in the early 1980s, the good-old-boy image that led Reynolds to be voted Hollywood’s top box-office draw for a record five consecutive years between 1978 and 1982 reached a point of diminishing returns. His unsuccessful pairing with Clint Eastwood in the 1984 action film City Heat marked a precipice in his career from which he never regained his former star power. In the late 1980s, Reynolds made an ignominious return to television, where his career began in the early 1960s.

When "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS in 1955, the television series already had a fan following due to its success as a radio show. This, however, presented a bit of a problem given that the radio cast would not be carrying over to the live-action iteration. The biggest challenge? Selling viewers on a version of U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon who didn't possess the unmistakable, sonorous voice of William Conrad.

James Arness was hardly a neophyte when he stepped in front of the camera to play Dillon. He'd appeared in numerous big-screen Westerns and had played the title monster in Christian Nyby's "The Thing from Another World" (which would later be remade by John Carpenter as "The Thing"). At 6'7", he was a commanding figure, though not exactly warm or charismatic. CBS thought Arness might take some getting used to, and it wasn't exactly patient enough to wait for him to grow on viewers.

Jessica Simpson is sitting on a thrifted green banquette in her Nashville music room, wondering if Sister Rosetta Tharpe is trying to send us a message. We’d been talking about the late godmother of rock & roll, who Simpson just described as “the most badass” of all potential badasses, when the silver resonator guitar behind her rung out a dissonant note entirely on its own. Was it contact from the great musical beyond, or just Simpson bumping the neck against the window? Who even cares either way? Simpson, after more...

Skydance, Apple and Netflix are said to be in contention to buy the Jason Bourne franchise as its rights go up for sale.

With the ability to slip into a crowd and become a threat from the shadows, Jason Bourne has never seemed like the settling down type. That seems to be a truism that extends beyond the character and into the franchise itself. According to The Hollywood Reporter, author Robert Ludlum’s estate has put up the entire library of titles on the market, including the rights to the Bourne novels.

Since a couple of years before 2002’s The Bourne Identity, the rights to Ludlum’s espionage specialist have resided at Universal, although attempts to make a Bourne film track all the way back through the 1980s when Warner Bros was interested in setting up a version that would have starred Burt Reynolds.

Ultimately, Reynolds passed, and Jason Bourne...

In the age of streaming, there’s a widespread belief that every movie is available, all the time, everywhere. Don’t fall for it! Some of the greatest movies ever made are nowhere to be found due to everything from music rights snafus to corporate negligence. In this column, we take a look at films currently out-of-print on physical media and unavailable on any streaming platform in an effort to draw attention to them and say to their rights holders, “Release This!”

When Peter Bogdanovich‘s musical “At Long Last Love” opened in 1975, the verdict was nearly unanimous — critics agreed that the wunderkind behind “The Last Picture Show,” “What’s Up, Doc?” and “Paper Moon” had badly stumbled in his attempt to revive the style of 1930s Ernst Lubitsch musicals like “The Love Parade” and “The Merry Widow.” Even Roger Ebert, who gave the movie one of its more sympathetic reviews,...

Life isn't all happiness. Accordingly, cinema frequently reflects this duality with surprising tenderness. As a result, tearjerkers are a treasured favorite among cinema fans. For some, only the best movies can elicit powerful emotions to make viewers cry. Whether a film depicts tragic real-life events or the demise of a beloved fictional character, some movies are real heartbreakers.

For a film to shatter the hearts of its audience, it first must grip them with a captivating story. These movies don't simply portray tales of tragedy; they offer light among the darkness by sprinkling in samples of joy, thus creating unforgettable, poignant pictures. There are many sad movies, and then there are those that will leave viewers sobbing.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on March 13, 2025: Sometimes, movie fans just want a good cry. Sad movies are a great way to feel the depths of human emotion without having to experience those feelings firsthand.

Amazon has taken creative control of the James Bond franchise, wresting control from the Broccoli family, the family that has overseen the 007 movies for decades. There is some speculation as to what this means for the franchise, as many presume that Amazon, following the current filmmaking trends, will try to launch an expansive, multimedia cinematic universe. Some fear the onslaught of tiring over-commercialization that will no doubt be attached to Ian Fleming's noted spy, but others may be excited that a new James Bond movie is coming at all. 

The last Bond film, "No Time to Die," was released in 2021, and it brought the five-film Daniel Craig cycle to a definitive end. This means the next film will have to recast 007 with a new actor, and speculating which actor could potentially play James Bond -- in any generation, really -- is a speculative sport played by cineastes everywhere.

The 1972 John Boorman thriller "Deliverance" is a deeply disturbing odyssey through the Georgia wilderness that haunts the minds of viewers long after the credits roll. With its scenic views of the rolling Appalachians, the perilous rapids of the Chattooga river, and the deep dark forests, "Deliverance" is both a film about the horrors men inflict upon one another and the foolishness of thinking anyone can ever truly "defeat" nature, and its setting is incredibly important to the story and the film's memorable appearance.

"Deliverance" is at its core a survival movie, pitting man against man and man against nature as it follows four Atlanta businessmen who want to canoe down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the North Georgia wilderness before a dam is built. They visit a small mountain town where things go poorly with the locals, and end up lost in the woods when things go horribly wrong, making...

After a heartbreaking loss to Mikey Madison (Anora) for the Best Actress Oscar, The Substance's Demi Moore's 1996 box office bomb, Striptease, is climbing the global Max top 10 chart. Released during the prime summer season, the film was supposed to be a high-profile box office hit, but ended up being a massive financial failure in North America. It is widely considered one of the worst films of all time.

Striptease was based on Carl Hiassen's 1993 novel and follows Erin Grant, who lost her FBI job after her loser ex-husband, Darrell (Robert Patrick), was arrested for drugs. And soon after, she loses custody of her daughter, Angela to said loser ex-husband. Grant becomes a stripper at the Eager Beaver strip club in Miami, Florida, to get the $15,000 needed to file an appeal for reprieve. Soon, she catches the eye of a creepy Congressman named David Dilbeck (Burt Reynolds).

The movie...

Ranking any performer's filmography comes with the need for at least some clarification, and that's especially true when it comes to action stars. Are they being ranked on the performance, the amazing action they deliver, or on the quality of the film as a whole? Are all films eligible or just the ones where the performer has a lead role? Does more action automatically land a film higher on the list? Does the person doing the ranking have impeccable taste when it comes to action cinema?

Below you'll find a ranking of Jason Statham movies, and here are the answers to those questions above. The films are ranked on their overall value as action films. We're focusing on Statham's lead roles -- otherwise "Spy" would dominate the top spot (and "The Way of the Dragon" would have made our ranked list of the best Chuck Norris films) -- whether as...

The late Burt Reynolds was a connoisseur of strong opinions. The man was known for speaking his mind, and what was on his mind was often unpredictable, entertaining, offensive, or otherwise wild. There was, for instance, that time he complained about the work of a then-up-and-coming Paul Thomas Anderson throughout the filming of "Boogie Nights," supposedly firing his agent because he hated the movie so much and only (slightly) changing his tune once he earned an Oscar nomination for his role. His opinions were just as colorful when it came to Greta Garbo (Per The Sun: she had "beautiful breasts"), Ingmar Bergman (To Esquire: "I'd rather be shot in the leg than watch an Ingmar Bergman picture"), and countless other celebrities with whom he crossed paths over his decades-long career.

With his reputation for airing grievances in mind, you'd be forgiven for imagining some beef might have existed between Reynolds...

Gene Hackman, one of the greatest actors of all time, is dead at 95. The Academy Award-winning star and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, were found dead in their house in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 26 February 26. The entertainment world is reeling from the news, as Hackman's lengthy résumé had long established him as one of Hollywood's true greats. From his Oscar-winning turns as Jimmy Doyle in "The French Connection" (1971) and Little Bill Daggett in "Unforgiven" (1992) to his eye-catching turns as Lex Luthor in "Superman" (1978) and Royal Tenenbaum in "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001), he was one of those rare actors who could illuminate any screen he graced with his presence.

Even so, a career that included roles in no less than 101 projects -- the overwhelming majority of them movies -- and spanned decades is bound to feature at least some disappointing projects ... for the actor himself, if not the audience. In Hackman's case,...

As Robert Kirkman's animated superhero series "Invincible" continues to serve up new twists and turns in its third season, viewers may find themselves wondering what the heck is the deal with Viltrumites and their mustaches. All of these men are sporting some serious facial growth above their upper lip like they're Burt Reynolds smuggling a truckload of Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta. It's a bold bit of grooming that's too uniform to be a mistake. Meanwhile, Mark Grayson (voiced by Steven Yeun), aka the half-human, half-Viltrumite hero Invincible, is 'stache free. Clearly, something is up.

There is, unsurprisingly, a perfectly good explanation for the Viltrumites' grooming preferences, as well as Mark's decision to go without one (though you could be excused for assuming the young man is as yet incapable of looking like 1980s New York Yankees great Don Mattingly). The short answer is that it all has to...

“1923” has returned.

Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” prequel series, which followed “1883,” first premiered back in December 2022. By comparison, that was around when “Avatar: The Way of Water” hit theaters. That feels like an eon ago, right? But the point is: it’s back and we are very excited.

But if you have never watched “1923” or if it’s been a while, let us help refresh things with a recap of the cast and characters from the series. Ready to head back to the ranch?

Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton of the Paramount+ series 1923. Photo Cr: Christopher Saunders/Paramount+ © 2022 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton

Jacob Dutton is the patriarch of the Dutton family and the head of the Yellowstone ranch. He is the older brother of James Dutton, who was played by Tim McGraw in “1883,” and the husband of Cara Dutton (Helen Mirren...

Hollywood has always had a complicated relationship with films about strippers. On one hand, they’re drenched in a neon glow of intrigue, drama, and rebellion. On the other, they often end up as cautionary tales, both on-screen and off.

Few actresses know this better than Demi Moore, whose ambitious attempt to bring a high-profile stripper story to life in the ’90s resulted in an industry backlash she didn’t see coming. Decades later, Mikey Madison is stepping into a similar world with Anora, but in a completely different cinematic landscape.

Demi Moore in The Substance | Credits: Mubi

What happened when Demi Moore donned sequins and stilettos? And will Mikey Madison’s journey be any different? Let’s take a deep dive into how two vastly different stripper films shaped, and are shaping, the careers of two talented actresses.

Demi Moore’s Striptease caused more drama off-screen than on Demi...

In the 1970s, there were few people who had the star power of Burt Reynolds. His combination of cocky swagger and self-effacing charm gave him an everyman charm that appealed to people of all backgrounds. Reynolds would star in a variety of films in his career, such as the dramatic and sprawling Boogie Nights to the musical comedy The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, but he was widely known for his action adventures.

Since 1975 nearly a thousand hosts have graced the stage at Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center for “Saturday Night Live.”

Actors, comedians, musicians and even politicians have taken the stage to make America laugh on Saturday night for 50 seasons. Twenty five of these hosts have been inducted into the “Five Timers Club.” The club was first introduced during Tom Hanks’ 1990 monologue, featuring Steve Martin, Elliott Gould and Paul Simon.

During Martin Short’s December 2024 appearance, several Five Timers Club members popped up on the show to welcome him into the club, including Emma Stone, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig and more, to give him the ceremonial robe.

Alec Baldwin has hosted the show 17 times, the most in the series’ history, with Martin, Hanks, Buck Henry and John Goodman following close behind.

As the show celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, we have rounded up every person who has hosted the sketch show.

Most people with a cursory knowledge of Hollywood history have a general understanding that the movie stars of today were the unknown (or barely-knowns) of yesterday, and that most actors get their start in projects that are either barely seen or exist at some level of disrepute. It's a bit of camp fun to check out some of these unlikely early works and see future A-list talent turn up in B-movies: Tom Hanks in "He Knows You're Alone," for instance, or Meg Ryan in "Amityville 3-D," or Denzel Washington in "Carbon Copy." Then there's the flip side of this phenomenon, where a future star gets a big, juicy role in a prestige picture made by an established director, like Dev Patel in "Slumdog Millionaire," or Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit."

There is also, however, a happy medium to these two extremes: a film made by a Hollywood legend which debuts...

As “Saturday Night Live” continues its celebration of 50 years on television, TheWrap is here to list the show’s most viral sketches that took the internet by storm.

From the hilarious viral sensation about gifting your girlfriend your privates to spot-on impersonations of some of the world’s most popular political figures, “Saturday Night Live” has never missed a beat when it comes to entertaining the masses, and that’s why it has remained a TV staple in American pop culture for 50 years.

Check out our list below of the sketch comedy show’s most viral skits.

“Lazy Sunday” (Season 31)

Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg rapped about what it’s like to do absolutely nothing on a Sunday in their “SNL” digital short “Lazy Sunday.” In the skit, the two jokesters express how excited they are to wake up in the late afternoon just to do lax activities like chowing...

When director Quentin Tarantino started making movies, he came with an incredible knowledge of cinema and cinema history. This meant that a lot of his films would look to tell new and interesting stories in famous genres stylistically different from other films and honoring the films in the genre that came before. As a fan of crime dramas, Hong Kong cinema and Westerns, Tarantino's films embodied all the greatest aspects of these genres. His admiration for Spaghetti Westerns specifically cannot be overlooked.

In 2012, he made one of the greatest Spaghetti Westerns of all time when he made Django Unchained at a time when nobody was making films in the sub-genre. Spaghetti Westerns are not commonly made films but Tarantino makes sure his audiences know how entertaining and artful they are. Many of Tarantino's films pay homage to the iconic classics in the genre from the '60s and '...

After Sean Connery had played James Bond in five feature films — "Dr. No," "From Russia with Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," and "You Only Live Twice," he was ready to give the role a rest. The Cold War spy proved lucrative, but many felt it was time to take the series in a new direction. Connery stepped away from the role, and Australian actor George Lazenby inherited it, starring in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in 1969.

But the film didn't work out for everyone. Lazenby decided to leave the series after only one film, acting on the advice of his agent. Also, when "Majesty's" was released, it disappointed at the box office, making literally half as much as "You Only Live Twice." If the 007 series was to continue, as the Bond muckety-mucks wanted, they would require yet another new actor to play James Bond. The next planned sequel was to be called "Diamonds Are Forever,...

The life of legendary screen idol Burt Reynolds was full of historic highs and devastating lows. Throughout the ‘70s, he was one of the biggest box office attractions with classics such as Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance, and The Longest Yard. But with age came a series of costly flops and failed marriages. Near the end of his life, Reynolds delivered his most vulnerable performance closest to his real-world circumstances in Adam Rifkin’s The Last Movie Star.