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“Hurry Up Tomorrow” is likely as bleak a film as you’ll see this year. In it, multi-platinum and Grammy-winning musician The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) stars as a fictional version of himself, spinning a dark tale of the loneliness and pain behind his new album (“Hurry Up Tomorrow”) as well as a couple of his early songs, including the hit “Blinding Lights.”

The story, centering on The Weeknd’s obsessive and disturbing relationship with a fictional paramour (Jenna Ortega), is the polar opposite of what we expect from a famous musician. At a time when most stars (or their estates) utilize their life and music rights to authorize highly sanitized movie versions of their biography, “Hurry Up Tomorrow” begs the question of why Tesfaye wanted to create such a dark fictional mythology behind his soon-to-be-retired persona of The Weeknd and his music.

“It was objectively risky for a pop star to do,...

Michael Fassbender is among the best actors of his generation and certainly among the most daring. While many of his contemporaries have settled into their own niches, Fassbender has shown an ability to try out many different genres and rarely fails to deliver a compelling performance. While Fassbender was briefly absent from the big screen over the last few years, he delivered a tremendous comeback performance in Steven Soderbergh’s twisty spy thriller “Black Bag,” which is already the best film of 2025 so far.

Fassbender may be known for the tremendous commitment he shows in his dramatic roles, but he has also developed a strong knack for comedy. Despite being regarded as one of the more artistically minded stars working today, Fassbender has managed to be a scene-stealer in two separate franchises, having played the mutant anti-hero Magneto in the rebooted “X-Men” series and the robot David in both “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant.

Art isn’t just a reflection of life; sometimes, it’s the mirror that reflects the darkest corners of our souls. They say that some things are best left unspoken, but in the case of The Hands Resist Him, a painting that has stirred up more paranormal chatter than a ghost on Halloween night, it seems there’s no escaping the mystery.

If you’ve ever felt that spine-chilling unease from a portrait whose eyes seem to follow you, then you’ll understand why this particular piece of art—made by Bill Stoneham in 1972—has become the stuff of legend. The painting of a young boy and a doll with hollow eyes has inspired more unease than a hundred haunted houses, but rumors swirl that this very artwork has a dark, destructive history.

John Marley in The Godfather (1972) | Credit: Paramount Pictures

John Marley, the actor best known for his haunting role in The Godfather,...

The conflict between a character’s “innie” and “outie” personalities was a significant theme of Severance Season 2, building to that climactic decision by Mark S. (Adam Scott) to abandon his outie’s wife, Gemma Scout (Dichen Lachman), in favor of his love, Helly R. (Britt Lower). However, Lachman’s performance proved that such tension isn’t just binary because Gemma is the first character to be shown with multiple “innie” selves. In Season 1, viewers only saw Gemma in her Ms. Casey personality, employed as the wellness counselor on the severed floor. But in her Season 2 showcase episode, “Chikhai Bardo,” viewers witnessed Gemma change personalities depending on which door she went through on Lumon’s previously unseen testing floor.

“When I first started on Season 1… I don't know, maybe people will laugh at me, but I listened to Eckhart Tolle and I loved Carl Jung's idea of the ‘shadow self,...

Netflix’s Colombian crime-drama series, Medusa, is one among the numerous ‘expose the rich’ narratives of which the streaming platform has now possibly built an archive. But despite following more or less expected storylines and plot twists that are common in such narratives, Medusa is unique in the way it tries to venture through the crevices of the human subconscious by formulating a heady concoction of emotional entanglements, family relations, identity, passion, jealousy, regret, trauma, and, most importantly, the horrors of privilege and patriarchy. Said Chamie and Claudia Sanchez, the writers of the series, expertly handled a myriad of subplots while keeping the central focus on a (not quite) murder mystery—and by the end of the twelve-episode first season, most of the narrative threads connect perfectly into a cohesive whole.

The deft cinematography greatly utilizes the picturesque Colombian coastline, which creates a juxtaposition between the manmade affluence and the...

Although Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play Dutchman is steeped with profound commentary on the era’s racism in the U.S., Andre Gaines’ contemporary adaptation takes the plot and the message to haunting levels.

Co-written by Gaines and Qasim Basir, The Dutchman stars André Holland as Clay, a successful Black man grappling with his wife Kaya’s (Zazie Beetz) infidelity, as well as his own self-perception versus how the world sees him because of the color of his skin. After multiple people in his life tell him it’s only fair for him to step out on the marriage as well, he meets Lula (Kate Mara), a sinister, seductive white woman who knows an alarming amount about him.

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes,” the film’s opening reads, quoting Carl Jung.

Nearly two years after the killing of 30-year old Black man Jordan Neely on a New York City subway,...

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a master of creature horror with several of his movies featuring some of the strangest monsters. However, one of his earliest movies, Pan’s Labyrinth, has arguably some of the most scary character designs for a creature with both the Pale Man and the Faun, being truly unique and horrifying designs.

Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro (Credits: CBS News).

During an interview, the director revealed that the original design for the infamous Pale Man was almost entirely different. However, del Toro decided to change the design at the last moment as he wanted to layer in some thematic expression in the character’s design, which made the Pale Man even scarier. Here is what del Toro had to say about the changes and why I am glad the director opted for a new design.

Guillermo del Toro explained why he changed the Pale Man’s...

Ken Wydro, who co-created, co-wrote and produced the long-running 1983 Off Broadway hit musical Mama, I Want To Sing inspired by the life of 1960s “Just One Look” singer Doris Troy, died on Tuesday, January 21, at his home in Harlem, New York. He was 81 years old.

His death was announced by theater publicist Keith Sherman. A cause of death was not immediately available.

Wydro, a producer of such Broadway productions as 1988’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and, in 2008, a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo starring Cedric the Entertainer, John Leguizamo and Haley Joel Osment, will be best remembered for Mama, I Want To Sing. The long-running show made its Off Broadway debut at the historic Heckscher Theatre in 1983 and played 2,213 performances before closing in 1991.

In addition to subsequent revivals and world tours, the musical spawned two sequels and a 2011 film adaptation starring Ciara, Lynn Whitfield, Patti Labelle and Billy Zane.

In 1998, Wydro and Higginsen founded the Mama Foundation for the Arts with a mission to uplift the Black musical treasures of Gospel, jazz and R&b, and “to heal and inspire through the power of collective music-making.” Today, the Mama Foundation is an intergenerational and interracial Harlem institution.

For the Mama Foundation, Wydro co-created and directed several musicals performed in various theaters and churches in Harlem for decades.

The author of two plays, Secrets: The Untold Story Of Sigmund Freud And Carl Jung and Vice Versa, Wydro is survived by Higginsen, his wife of 44 years, and daughter Ahmaya Knoelle Higginson-Wydro.

At the end of Kendrick Lamar’s Juneteenth Pop-Out concert, he organized a group picture with dozens of artists, children, entertainers, and gang affiliates who convened onstage with him while he performed his Drake diss “Not Like Us” five times. “You ain’t seen this many sections keepin’ it together and havin’ peace,” he boasted. He had kids in front of him while taking the photo. The 37-year-old looked something like a peace advocate — but then, one more time for the road, he rapped, “Certified lover boy? Certified pedophile!”

The...

My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.

When he wasn’t tearing our nation apart with divisive comic book movies like Man Of Steel, Justice League,...

Rom-com queen Meg Ryan charmed a packed house during an appearance at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday, reprising some of her iconic roles in movies including “When Harry Met Sally” and “You’ve Got Mail” while also opening up about her life and career in the movie business since turning 60.

“I don’t look at the downside very often. I am the luckiest person you’re ever going to meet,” she said. “I don’t have feelings like I’m being denied anything. I have a charmed existence and I work with incredible people.”

Ryan is appearing at the Bosnian fest to receive a lifetime achievement award and to present her latest film, “What Happens Later,” a romantic comedy that she directed, wrote and executive produced, and in which she stars opposite David Duchovny as ex-lovers who find themselves stranded by a snowstorm.

She’s also presenting a special screening...

Nico Mastorakis has an uncanny ability of pulling ideas from various sources and running them through the Cuisinart of his peculiar sensibility, producing something altogether idiosyncratic. The six films assembled in Arrow Video’s new box set—one evocative religious allegory and five bawdy action comedies—testify to Mastorakis’s skills as a pop-cultural bricoleur. As a result, they serve as a series of variably amusing time capsules, deploying plenty of medium-specific references that might just delight viewers who came of age in the 1980s and early ’90s. Others will have to spend some time doing due diligence on Wikipedia.

The Time Traveler, from 1984, stars Keir Dullea as a man who fell to Earth, found naked along the Mykonos shore by expat American widow Andrea (Adrienne Barbeau). The new arrival soon names himself Glenn (as in astronaut John Glenn) and proceeds to learn the ways of the world. Unsurprisingly, a...

In 1983, sometime between the M*A*S*H finale, the shock of seeing Darth Vader’s face, and the Cabbage Patch Riots, the Police issued the year’s music blockbuster. The trio’s fifth and final album, Synchronicity, was almost immediately the best-selling LP released that year.

The record, now octuple platinum, was a cultural force: The New York Times likened it to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for pairing highbrow conceptualism (can you explain psychiatrist Carl Jung’s 1960 theory of “synchronicity”?) with tunes you could hum (who cares!

Quick: what’s the all-time best middle movie in a popular Og cinematic trilogy? Yes, The Godfather Part II and The Empire Strikes Back are obvious and beyond reproach, but what else comes to mind? Aliens? Terminator 2? Back to the Future Part 2? Evil Dead 2? What about Oldboy or Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Yeah, all worthy responses that happened to be flat-out wrong!

When peering through the rear-view at the best movie trilogy centerpiece, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior leaves the others in the dust. Released two years after the handcrafted, low-budget original Mad Max, the making of The Road Warrior couldn’t have been more different than what visionary filmmaker George Miller experienced on the first go-around. For instance, the first film was hampered by limited resources and budgetary restrictions. Meanwhile, the sequel was strapped with over 10 times the original movie’s budget, allowing Miller to execute the dazzling,...

In the latest installment in the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise, “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” premiering on Netflix next week, “Zola” star Taylour Paige plays daughter to Eddie Murphy’s classic character Axel Foley, but it seems she’d rather be taking on his older roles. A huge fan of Murphy’s reinterpretation of the Jerry Lewis comedy “The Nutty Professor,” she said in a recent piece for The New York Times that she couldn’t help but quote it back to him on repeat.

“I recited every line to him almost every day I shot with him,” Paige said. “I had a lot of questions, like, ‘How do you play six to eight people believably?’”

Paige has spoken previously of her admiration for Murphy. In a profile for Empire, she said, “I grew up watching ‘The Nutty Professor’ and ‘Dr. Dolittle.’ It was like I knew him — it was surreal.

Silent Hill 2 reflects on James Sunderland's trauma and regrets through symbolism in its setting and characters. The characters in the game may have drawn inspiration from historical figures like Jack the Ripper. Maria's character is a manifestation of James' troubled mind, paralleling the uniqueness of Mary Jane Kelly.

When it comes to psychological horror in video games, Silent Hill 2 is a masterclass in character study. The spectral fog that overtakes the tiny town is, in many ways, a metaphor for James Sunderlands trauma and the toll it has taken on his psyche. The monsters that emerge from the mist represent the horrors of Sunderland's past and his regrets over unspeakable actions. The fog itself reflects Sunderland's mind and how it protects itself by masking the dark truths of his actions. Nearly every aspect of the game, from its setting to its narrative, is designed to conjure fear.

This article contains multitudes of Hit Man spoilers.

The words “true story” are always a curious thing to see at the beginning of a film. Sometimes the term is applied to sober-eyed dramas that seek to convince you they’re nearly documentaries. Think of your Spotlights and All the President’s Mens. More often than not though, the phrase is used as a marketing gimmick for stories where the word “truth” is an abstraction. Think Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Which is what makes another Texan director’s latest indie effort, the beguiling Hit Man now on Netflix, so amusingly slippery. Richard Linklater and Glen Powell’s comedy is indeed based on a “true story,” as they promise at the start. And during the end credits, the film has the photographs to prove it: Gary Johnson was a real man who helped assist in the conviction of dozens of...

The glitz and charm of Richard Linklater’s Hit Man might distract you from something about Gary Johnson, Glen Powell’s character with a chameleon-like repertoire of personalities. There’s an odd darkness to this fascinating guy. And that might be the only attribute of the man we get to know in Hit Man that is not quite true of the real Gary Johnson. That’s right. Powell’s character in the film he co-wrote with Linklater is created in the mold of a very real professor-turned-hitman, Gary Johnson. The Gary in Hit Man shuffles personalities like a deck of cards and always knows which one to pick for the client he’s about to trick into conviction. It all works out fine between his life as a professor and an undercover mole for law enforcement until Gary falls in love with one of his clients. In case you want...

Why Is Evangeline Lilly Retiring? Marvel Legend Says 'New Season Has Arrived' - Main Image

Why is Marvel Legend Evangeline Lilly retiring? McU's very own Ant-Man and the Wasp star just announced she is entering a "new season" of herself, which may involve stepping out of Hollywood.

On Tuesday the Hope van Dyne actress shared an old video of herself imagining out loud what her life would look like in ten years. It has now been nearly 20 years since that video, and the actress finally announced she is retiring – at least for now. Here's what's next for her.

Ant-Man Star Pausing Acting Career for Retirement Plans

Evangeline Lilly is best known for her breakout role as Kate Austin in the hit sci-fi series, Lost, but she also went on to star as Tauriel in The Hobbit franchise.

Eventually, she jumped into becoming one of the most prominent superheroes in the...

Silent Hill 2's fog is inspired by the supposedly real-life Electronic Fog phenomenon, linked to paranormal vanishings. Monsters in Silent Hill 2 may not all be from James's mind, similar to the Broken Specter phenomenon. The atmosphere in Silent Hill 2 mirrors James' internal turmoil, with the town's mist symbolizing his hidden truths.

The setting of Silent Hill 2 is one of the most iconic in all of gaming. When James Sunderland mysteriously receives a message from his late wife, he returns to the town of Silent Hill to visit the "special place" the two once shared. However, upon arriving in the small town, he finds it enveloped in a thick, unsettling fog that renders the once quaint town with an uncanny eeriness. From the fog comes the sound of footsteps and phantom whispers. Unfathomable creatures soon begin to lumber into sight from the darkness, otherworldly monsters that seem not of this Earth.

David Cronenberg is returning to Cannes with “The Shrouds,” the story of an industrialist named Karsh, who invents a controversial technology that allows grieving families to see inside the graves of their loved ones with high-resolution cameras.

It’s a film that defies easy categorization. This being a Cronenberg production, there are elements of body horror, but there’s also a conspiracist undercurrent, as Karsh (Vincent Cassel) begins to suspect that shadowy forces are undercutting his expansion plans after his cemetery is ransacked. He has his own reasons for developing his business. Karsh’s wife died after a brutal fight with cancer, leaving him inconsolable. He begins to question if her death may be part of a larger plot by the medical establishment.

The material has personal resonance for Cronenberg as well. His wife, Carolyn Cronenberg, died from cancer at the age of 66, and the unyielding grief that he felt...

Right now, there is a lot of discussion going around about Frank Herbert’s Dune novels thanks to the recent release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. Dune has always been considered a masterpiece in the sci-fi genre with an expansive and ever-growing fanbase, just like Star Wars and both stories have a tight hold on their respective audience. However, what happens when one claims that the other has blatantly ripped them off?

A still from Dune: Part Two

While Frank Herbert was alive, he had a bone to pick with George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars. The author was fully convinced that the filmmaker had totally and completely ripped off his Dune Chronicles to make the story of Star Wars, right down to the little details. In fact, he even seemingly took a jab at the film franchise in his fifth book in the series.

Suggested“By...

Meme culture is an essential part of internet culture and has become a universal language in modern communication. Meme theory, developed by Richard Dawkins, suggests that memes spread rapidly, similar to the replication of DNA, and become influential aspects of our lived experiences. In the film Dream Scenario, meme culture is metaphorically tied to collective dreams and the collective unconscious, reinforcing cultural narratives and character archetypes.

As the essential building block to internet culture, the meme has helped evolve modern communication as a verifiable universal language. Etymologically deriving from the word gene, the origins of “meme” have roots in evolutionary biology and long predate any concept of the internet. Meme culture, as Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario suggests, is inexplicably linked to the way we process the world. Like the movies we watch or the songs we listen to, memes become inseparable aspects of our lived experience, as influential as...

Freddy's frustration over his father referring to him as "just a firefighter" pushes him to take a radical step in Frasier Season 1 Episode 4.

He invites his Dad to visit the firehouse.

Does Frasier mean to sound dismissive when he refers to his son as "just a firefighter"? He may not mean to, but Freddy can't be blamed for taking it that way.

Freddy is clearly a smart man. He also possesses a great combination of his grandfather's everyman heroic nature and his parents' intellect.

When the Trivia Night category turns to wine, Frasier believes he's got the win in the bag, but not only does his arrogance cause him to take too long to answer, but he's forgotten that his beer-drinking son grew up around wine-drinking snobs.

Some kids get to spend their summers playing baseball; I got to categorize my Dad’s wine cellar.

Freddy Permalink: Some kids get...

Kochi, July 28 (Ians) Kerala High Court on Friday asked the state government to take necessary steps to verify the education certificates of all doctors working in government run hospitals.

“Certain guidelines are necessary to ensure that appointment orders of medical practitioners in the state are issued to selected candidates only after getting their educational certificates verified and authenticated by the Universities/institution that have issued to them. If necessary, steps should be taken to verify the education certificates of all government doctors working as on today,” read the High Court order.

The Court said that this is not to demoralise the hard working doctors, who are the strength and pride of the state, but only to make sure that culprits are not there in the profession and also to built confidence in the society.

“It is the duty of the government to rule out these apprehensions and to create a...

Akiva Goldsmith’s brilliant creation, The Crowded Room, released its sixth episode today, and honestly, it takes a turn that none of us could see coming by a long shot, especially because of the way the episodes have been presented so far. In the previous episode, Danny Sullivan admitted to his counselor, Rya Goodwin that his stepfather Marlin had sexually abused Danny’s twin brother Adam when the kids were nine years old. However, this episode takes a completely different turn, turning the story on its head from this point forward. Brace yourselves as we go on a recap of everything that happened in the sixth episode of The Crowded Room.

Spoilers Ahead

How Was Rya Goodwin Brought Into Danny’s Case?

The sixth episode in this psychological drama sees the events from the perspective of the counselor Danny Sullivan had appointed; Rya Goodwin. A professor of psychology at a university,...

While exploring Alex Forrest’s character, we found that childhood trauma can impact a person severely as they grow up, leaving them permanently scarred. Usually, abusive and manipulative parents give rise to children who are ill-adjusted to society and carry around their baggage of trauma, even if they don’t turn into deranged killers like Alex in Paramount’s Fatal Attraction. We might understand where Alex’s issues stem from a manipulative father, and a hateful mother makes for a pretty messed-up childhood that only worsens with age. However, what then can be said for Ellen Gallagher, who knew nothing but love from both her parents until her father was jailed? Why did Ellen turn out the way she did at the end of Season 1 of Fatal Attraction? Let’s try to look at what went wrong with the youngest Gallagher and how.

As a child, Ellen found love everywhere she went.

Paramount’s TV series Fatal Attraction, based on the eponymous 1987 erotic thriller, premiered its finale for Season 1 on its two-night finale weekend. The finale unties several strings of mystery that the show had knotted over the weeks, and the revelation is one that leaves us shocked. In the penultimate episode, Dan’s trial application after coming out of jail was denied by a judge, and in the flashback, we saw Beth had met with Alex. This episode shows the one who actually killed Alex and the lasting impression that she left on someone we’d never guessed. Here’s what happens in the Season 1 finale of Paramount’s Fatal Attraction.

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How Much Did Arthur Sacrifice For The People Around Him?

Throughout the runtime of Paramount’s TV series Fatal Attraction, we’ve had our own sets of doubts and questions about who could’ve been behind Alex Forrest’s murder,...

The highest-grossing film of 1987 worldwide, the original “Fatal Attraction” served as a cautionary tale against casual infidelity, showing how even a seemingly innocuous fling can upend someone’s entire life. Lawyer Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a steamy weekend hookup with publishing exec Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), which derails in the most horrific way imaginable when she becomes obsessed with him, putting his entire family in jeopardy. (Close maintains that people told her for years afterward that the movie saved their marriage.)

In a TV landscape overrun with prequels, sequels and reboots, the source material for Paramount Plus’ new “Fatal Attraction” series proves surprisingly fertile. The show’s eight episodes provide plenty of time for the story to expand past paranoia, into the more interesting question of why Alex Forrest became so obsessive in the first place — not to mention why Dan, apparently a happy family man, tumbled from fidelity so easily.

[This story contains spoilers through the ninth and tenth episodes of Beef season one, “The Great Fabricator” and “Figures of Light.”]

In retrospect, it was perhaps only a matter of time that Danny (Steven Yeun) and Amy (Ali Wong)’s escalating feud would lead to life-and-death stakes. The final two episodes of Netflix’s Beef open with Isaac (David Choe) freshly sprung from prison — thanks to a tip from Amy that Danny was actually the one involved in the road-rage incident — and pissed. He makes a beeline for Danny’s place, accompanied by henchmen Michael (Andrew Santino) and Bobby (Rekstizzy), looking for both money and revenge. What he finds is an opportunity: Danny has accidentally kidnapped Amy’s cheerfully curious daughter, June (Remy Holt), so Isaac decides to call Amy in exchange for a $500,000 ransom. Unable to come up with that much cash by Isaac’s deadline, Amy offers a counter-proposal: She’s at Jordan (Maria Bello)’s estate, full of...

“What the fuck is happening?”

That was Steven Yeun’s reaction while shooting the cataclysmic climax of “Beef,” which he leads with Ali Wong. The Netflix and A24 dramedy opens plausibly enough with a road-rage scene between Wong’s Amy, an entrepreneur whose easygoing nature masks secret desires, and Yeun’s Danny, a contractor who goes to extremes to obtain what he wants. But that initial conflict drives both to exact bizarre acts of revenge on each other, revealing the darkest corners of their psyches. The result? Chaos. In one scene, Amy masturbates with a gun; in another, Danny urinates all over her bathroom — and that’s just the beginning. Seeded throughout are quiet explorations of the characters’ anger, loneliness and fear.

“Both assume incorrectly that they cannot show their true selves to anyone in their lives,” says Lee Sung Jin, the creator and showrunner of “Beef,” which premieres on...

We abhor most in others what we already hate in ourselves. So it is that Amy Lau (Ali Wong) and Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) become mortal enemies despite being kindred spirits. The protagonists of the Netflix half-hour “Beef” first meet when both are behind the wheel, navigating the parking lot of a Lowe’s-like home improvement store. Each driver is there for different reasons: Danny is a handyman who works at the Reseda motel his family used to own; Amy owns a houseplant boutique the hardware chain is in talks to acquire. But both react in the exact same way to a minor spat over exiting a spot. Their explosive road rage propels the pair on a chase across the suburban San Fernando Valley, then through 10 episodes of increasingly out-of-hand emotional warfare.

Wong and Yeun have served as co-stars before — on the animated sitcom “Tuca & Bertie” on which “Beef...

The first two episodes of the eight-episode Paramount Plus series based on the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction (watch it Here) are set to premiere on the streaming service on April 30th, and with that date swiftly approaching a teaser trailer for the show has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above!

Directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay by James Dearden (based on Dearden’s short film Diversion), the ’87 Fatal Attraction had the following synopsis:

For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth, and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex, everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.

Exclusive: Homeland and Death of Stalin actor Rupert Friend is set to star alongside Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch in James and Lucia, a biopic of celebrated author James Joyce which will focus on the Irish writer’s relationship with his daughter.

Written and to be directed by Robert Mullan (Mad to be Normal), Motus Studios is presenting the movie to buyers this week at the EFM in Berlin.

Based on the the final decade of Joyce’s life, firstly in Paris then in Zurich, the film highlights his struggles with his fading eyesight and, centrally, his attempts to protect his beloved daughter Lucia. Once treated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Joyce was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930s and institutionalized in Switzerland and in the UK.

Joyce, a towering figure in 20th Century literature, is known for works including Ulysses, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man,...

When production designer Cabot McMullen first started thinking about designing the therapist’s practice that is the heart of AppleTV+s “Shrinking,” Harrison Ford had not yet been cast.

Phil’s character was based on a real-life therapist, Phil Stutz, the subject of Jonah Hill’s recent documentary “Stutz.” But when it was announced that Ford would play the lead, Phil became Paul.

As for his designs, McMullen worked closely with the actors to develop a design strategy for each office with character-driven representation through artwork, books, color palettes and desktop details. Many of the desktop items were personally chosen or curated by the actors.

Running the gamut of appealing personalities, the ensemble is made up of Ford as Paul, a charming, yet grumpy man. Jason Segel is Jimmy — a man riddled with guilt, grieving the loss of his wife while trying to be a cool dad to his teenage daughter,...

This post contains contain major spoilers for the film "Skinamarink."

In order to delve into the ending of Kyle Edward Ball's excellent new horror film "Skinamarink," one must know a little bit about dreams.

"Skinamarink" was filmed in Ball's own childhood home, and is about two young children, only four and six years old, wandering the hallways at 3 a.m. Their only illumination is the flickering TV set, tuned to half-absorbed public-domain cartoons. There is constantly hissing and shuffling white noise on the soundtrack, interrupted by whispers and strange, terrifying demands. The windows and doors have vanished. When one of the children wanders into their parents' room, their mom won't look at them (audiences only see the back of her head) and their father appears to be missing.

"Look under the bed," we hear. There is no story to "Skinamarink," per se, but Ball expertly constructs the rising and...

The last time we heard a casting announcement for the upcoming Paramount Plus series based on the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction (watch it Here), we learned that Jessica Harper, star of the horror classic Suspiria, had landed a role in the show. Now Deadline has revealed the names of two more cast members, and one of them is genre icon Dee Wallace! Wallace’s horror credits include Critters, Cujo, and The Howling, among many others. The second new cast member is David Meunier of Justified.

This version of Fatal Attraction sees Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek), Lizzy Caplan (Castle Rock), and Amanda Peet (Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story) playing the characters Dan, Alex, and Beth, respectively. They were played by Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer in the film.

Directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay by James Dearden (based on Dearden’s short film Diversion), the ’87 Fatal Attraction had...

Paramount+‘s upcoming series Fatal Attraction has added David Meunier (Justified) and Dee Wallace (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) to the cast. Meunier is set to play a psychology professor named Richard Macksey, “Ellen’s (Alyssa Jirrels) thesis advisor, mentor, and friend, whose personal interest in the work and life of Carl Jung ignites Ellen’s own interest,” according to Deadline. Wallace will play Emma Rauch, someone described as “Open, friendly, chic, and interested but also sensitive to boundaries. She is a retired career woman, enthusiastic and helpful volunteer, mother of adult children, and a student of life— someone anyone but Alex (Lizzy Caplan) would be thrilled to have as their neighbor.” The two join previously announced cast members Caplan, who will play Alex Forrest, and Joshua Jackson, who will play Dan Gallagher, and Amanda Peet as Beth Gallagher, Dan’s loyal wife. This reimagining of the original Fatal Attraction film from 1987, starring Glenn Close,...

Exclusive: David Meunier (Justified) and Dee Wallace (Just Add Magic) have joined the cast of Fatal Attraction, the upcoming Paramount+ series that reimagines the classic 1980s psychosexual thriller film.

Meunier will portray Richard Macksey, a psychology professor at the university and Ellen’s (Alyssa Jirrels) thesis advisor, mentor, and friend, whose personal interest in the work and life of Carl Jung ignites Ellen’s own interest.

Wallace will portray Emma Rauch, who is described as open, friendly, chic, and interested but also sensitive to boundaries. She is a retired career woman, enthusiastic and helpful volunteer, mother of adult children, and a student of life— someone anyone but Alex (Lizzy Caplan) would be thrilled to have as their neighbor.

Written by Alexandra Cunningham from a story she co-wrote with Kevin J. Hynes, Fatal Attraction explores the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes towards strong women,...

Sometimes, it takes a little while for a director to find their latest muse. David Cronenberg worked with many leading men throughout the 20th century — Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Irons, James Spader — but since 2005, his go-to star has been Viggo Mortensen.

The director and actor pair have made four films together. Their first was "A History of Violence," a tale of murder infesting small town America à la the Hitchcock classic "Shadow of a Doubt." Next came "Eastern Promises," a Russian gangster drama set in London. Mortensen was just a supporting player in "A Dangerous Method," playing Sigmund Freud opposite Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightly as Sabina Spielrein. For their latest collaboration "Crimes of the Future," released in 2022, Cronenberg went back to his body horror roots. Mortensen plays Saul Tenser, a man who spontaneously grows new organs and has his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux) surgically remove the aberrant organs in avant-garde art shows.

In 2022, the veil between waking life and dreams is razor-thin. A 2021 survey found that three out of five Americans felt more exhausted than ever. With many still working from home in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, bedrooms are nebulous spaces that house sleep and service alike. Pop entertainment responded accordingly. Disney +'s "Moon Knight" concerned a hero who couldn't tell the difference between his awoken and slumberous states. The fourth season of "Stranger Things," a smash that yielded that 2022 song of summer, featured a villain who invaded people's minds and made their nightmares reality. Now comes Netflix's "The Sandman," the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal horror comic about Morpheus, the king of dreams, and those who would strip his power from him.

That's a lot to digest, even when the source material comes from an author who is known for heady yet accessible fantasy. In truth, "The Sandman...

After dealing with her own mental health, Kate Purdy decided to channel her experiences through animation for Amazon Prime’s Undone. Along with fellow co-creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Purdy created a story of generational trauma and redemption.

Undone follows Alma (Rosa Salazar), a woman who survives a near-fatal car crash and discovers she has the ability to manipulate time and reality. Season 1 focuses on Alma trying to find the truth behind her father Jacob’s (Bob Odenkirk) death and save him. Season 2 takes place in a new timeline after she succeeds, and now finds that her sister Becca (Angelique Cabral) has a similar ability. Together they try to help their mother Camila (Constance Marie) who is hiding something from them.

Deadline: Where did the idea for Undone come from?

Kate Purdy: I had a mental breakdown in 2012. I was in a really difficult marriage and was trying to figure out...

When I think of the PlayStation One’s library, I think of a massive collection of innovative games that sparked new conversations about the entire medium. While that collection includes quite a few true classics like Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Final Fantasy 7, it also features a number of truly weird games that perhaps tried to push the limits of our perception just a bit too far.

After all, you don’t make an innovative omelet without breaking a few weird eggs, and that’s basically what most of the developer’s behind some of the PS1’s weirdest games were trying to do. While some weird PS1 games were weird for the sake of weirdness, many more acquired their weirdness as the result of someone’s attempt to answer the question, “How does new video game technology allow us to try something truly different?”

Before we dive into this list,...

A call for submissions is open until May 2 to create initial short list of filmmakers with first feature works.

The Locarno Film Festival has launched the Locarno Residency, aimed at supporting emerging filmmakers aged under 40 as they develop their first features.

The initiative will offer tutorial assistance, development support and a screenwriting programme to three directors of any nationality, who are in the process of developing a first fiction or non-fiction work of more than 60 minutes in length.

Ten shortlisted filmmakers and their projects, selected by Locarno’s artistic team, will attend a special pitching session in Locarno, during the festival’s 75th edition,...

Ethan Hawke has revealed that he looked to real-life titans to craft his portrayal of “Moon Knight” villain Arthur Harrow, a zealot associated with the god Ammit on a righteous mission that turns murderous.

“For me, it was like putting Jimmy Swaggart, Leo Tolstoy, [Fidel] Castro, the Dalai Lama, and Josef Mengele into a blender,” Hawke told USA Today of playing a charismatic cult leader with devious intentions. “That was the fun of it: What if Steve Jobs was a bad guy?”

Of course, the conflicting sides of multiple alter egos is the crux of “Moon Knight,” which stars Oscar Isaac in the title role as a military veteran battling mental illness who receives the powers of the ancient Egyptian god Khonshu. Isaac plays Marc Spector, Steven Grant, and Moon Knight — all variations living within the same man who “meet” one another. The six-episode series premieres March 30 on Disney+.

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In 2002, Dimitri M. was ready to die. He’d been addicted to heroin for over 20 years, and his once-promising artistic life had collapsed into a series of banal pit stops: from the methadone clinic, to the valet parking gig, to the coke dealer, to the dope dealer, to the bed, and over and over again. Eventually, his longtime partner succumbed to intravenous drug use, and, though they were married by common law, he was barred from attending her funeral.

Dimitri was ready to finally let the drugs carry him away,...

With Pixar’s “Soul” winning two Oscars Sunday night for animated feature and original score, the timing couldn’t be better for “22 vs Earth,” a prequel short about why the skeptical sidekick (voiced by Tina Fey) refuses to be born (streaming April 30th on Disney+). Also returning is Alicia Braga as soul counselor Jerry.

Directed by “Soul” editor Kevin Nolting (a Pixar vet for nearly 22 years), the short provided an opportunity to dig more deeply into 22’s aversion to life until she meets jazz pianist Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), who’s determined to return to Earth to play professionally in New York. “All during the making of ‘Soul,’ we wondered why she didn’t want to be born,” said Nolting, who also edited the Oscar-winning “Inside Out” and “Up” for director/chief creative officer Pete Docter.

“What made her the way she was? All these little souls go to Earth...

Ever have a bad dream? Maybe, you’ve had the same bad dream more than once… Well, writer, director and composer Anthony Scott Burns artfully explores the edges of daily reality that often become our nightmares in Come True (2020), with unsettling results.

It’s a pretty simple setup. We open on a gloomy monochromatic nightmare, which creeps through a dilapidated hallway and finds a hunched, malformed figure… Then, Sarah Dunn (Julia Sarah Stone) springs awake from her bad dream on a children’s slide in a deserted park. She’s having trouble sleeping, and staying awake is proving just as difficult. Haunting her daylight hours, with stolen showers, a dozen cups of coffee and narcoleptic maths lessons, it all becomes too much, and Sarah nervously signs up to a sleep study program at a local university to get some answers and a goodnight’s sleep.

The story is broken up into chapters,...

This article contains Soul spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here.

22, the incorrigible soul voiced by Tina Fey, has resided in the Great Before for a very, very long time. But just how long is that? Centuries? Millennia? By virtue of her name, a number designated to her soul upon arrival in the Great Before, it is hinted that she’s been watching our world with skepticism since the very beginning: a soul who’s had eons to say, “No, that living thing is not for me.”

In all that time, she’s also had countless mentors: Souls who completed a life on Earth and before going to the Great Beyond agreed to take some time off on the other side to offer 22 pointers on the finer things of life. Until she met a guy named Joe, it never ended well. That said it sets up one of the movie’s best running gags.

It takes nearly 12 minutes before Disney and Pixar show their title cards in Soul. By then, we’ve met a guy named Joe, basked in his dream to be a professional jazz pianist, and watched him fall down a manhole that’s led him to the other side. Now he’s being confronted with a bright multi-hued light called the Great Beyond, which draws souls to it like a bug zapper collects flies, and he’s understandably fleeing in the opposite direction.

To say that Soul is ambitious for a kids’ movie, or even a Pixar film, is an understatement. Here is a film for the whole family that deals with the terror of oblivion and thrusts its protagonist on a journey through a metaphysical cosmos which winkingly evokes the imagery of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar during its opening credits. Yet all of that is still just prologue...