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Louisa Mellor Nov 29, 2017

What happened in Peaky Blinders series 3? What went on with the Russians, the Economic League and the Changrettas? We explain...

Warning: contains spoilers (obviously) for Peaky Blinders series 3.

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Peaky Blinders series three opened with a lavish wedding. After the hushed-up suicide of Grace’s husband, she returned from New York with her and Tommy’s baby son (conceived during series two’s extra-marital fling) to make an honest man of Thomas Shelby - literally so. On their wedding day, Grace made Tommy promise to put an end to the criminal business and keep his new family safe. “No guns in the house,” he vowed.

Cut to Arthur, that same episode, in that same house, shooting dead a Soviet spy in the wine cellar, then burning the body in the extensive grounds of Tommy’s stately home. (This was the same Arthur,...

Sitting down to watch a lesbian coming-of-age film can be like entering a game of Russian roulette, if you’re the kind of woman who doesn’t like seeing iterations of herself murdered, raped, converted, or preyed upon. Sitting down to watch a movie about a woman over 40 can be similarly daunting, in that very few of these movies even exist. Director Stephen Cone seeks to right these wrongs with his eighth feature, “Princess Cyd.” All told, he does a pretty good job — and makes a charming little film in the process.

Continue reading Effervescent ‘Princess Cyd’ Will Leave You Feeling Loved & Lovely [Review] at The Playlist.

On Monday night’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, country singer Blake Shelton joined the late night host for a round of “Caramel Apple Russian Roulette” in the spirit of Halloween.

The Oklahoma native, who is promoting his new album Texoma Shore, took the brunt of Fallon’s jokes and was not having any part of his games.

“This is the dumbest thing,” Shelton said before taking first pick from the platter of what appeared to be 12 caramel apples. “I’m only here because Seth Meyers was booked,” he jokingly added.

Of the bunch, eight were real...

Look out, Justin Timberlake, Blake Shelton and Jimmy Fallon’s hysterical bromance is one for the ages! The two have had lots of fun together already (remember when Blake tried sushi for the first time?) and on Monday night, the laughs kept coming.

The 41-year-old country crooner stopped by The Tonight Show to promote his new album Texoma Shore and host Fallon couldn’t help but poke fun at him.

“How far are you from the shore?” Fallon asked, holding up Shelton’s pensive album cover and laughing.

“I’m not going to give you the location of my damn house,” the country star declared.

Watch: Kelly Clarkson Hilariously Calls Blake Shelton 'Dumb' in 'The Voice' Sneak Peek (Exclusive)

Fallon didn’t stop there, joking about his “favorite” Shelton songs including “I’ll Name the Dogs.” Fallon then broke into a rendition of his version of the song.

“I’ll name the dogs. I’ll name them...

Craig Elvy Sep 27, 2017

The crazy world of Derren Brown is not without controversy and debate. Here we revisit 11 of the illusionist's most gripping TV stunts...

Being friends with Derren Brown must be simultaneously fascinating and utterly terrifying. A vastly intelligent natural performer with charisma and charm to spare, Derren has been confounding audiences with his brand of “magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship” for something approaching two decades and has successfully pulled-off a remarkable evolution from skilled street magician to performer of increasingly ambitious television events.

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Over time, Derren’s material has become as much about helping and inspiring people as it is shocking them,...

James Hunt Aug 11, 2017

Ahead of Marvel's The Defenders arriving on Netflix, here are some comics you may want to check out...

This August, Marvel will finally deliver the team-up its TV fans have been waiting for when Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist come together to battle The Hand in the Marvel/Netflix co-production The Defenders.

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But what if you can’t wait that long? Well, good news: these characters have been teaming up in the comics for years. And whether you want to get a fix ahead of watching the Netflix show or familiarise yourself with who these characters are and what they do,...

“The casual sex of TV”; “the Russian roulette of TV”; “the opposite of ‘Game of Thrones.'”

These are the descriptors Mark and Jay Duplass threw out for “Room 104” during the new HBO series’ Television Critics Association press tour panel Wednesday afternoon. The episodic anthology series, set in the same dingy motel room with new characters and stories every episode, is a bit of an odd show, and the creators are embracing the weirdness.

“I was an actor in one of the episodes,” Jay Duplass said. “There were some surrealist, somewhat magical things happening, and it felt like anything was possible. Maybe that’s what’s special about hotel rooms. It’s almost like a floating pod where almost anything is possible.”

“You’re a slightly different version of yourself,” Mark Duplass said.

Right from the start, the Duplass brothers knew “Room 104” would be a “wilder, very different...

Stephen Colbert just met his Russian counterpart. (Sounds like the plot of a great spy novel, no?)

The late-night host officially launched “Russia Week” on Monday’s episode of The Late Show, in which he shared the first of five segments that were filmed on location in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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In the video above, Colbert makes an appearance on Evening Urgant, Russia’s late-night talker that host Ivan Urgant describes as “closer to [Jimmy] Fallon than to John Oliver.”

Among the highlights of Colbert...

Paris Jackson is a force with which to be reckoned.

The late King of Pop’s daughter, much like her famous father, led a private life up until recently. While Paris has slowly been making her way into the spotlight, it wasn’t until this year that the 19-year-old began seriously dabbling in an array of interests, from acting to modeling, as well as offering up revealing anecdotes about her life in her recent interview with Rolling Stone.

We’re taking a look back at what the star has accomplished in 2017 — so far.

She made her adult red carpet debut: Jan.

When in Russia... While "on assignment" in Russia, the Late Show host Stephen Colbert appeared on Russian late night show, Evening Urgant, and said that he's considering a run for president in the next election, assuming no one in the U.S. would hear about it that is. While playing a vodka-instead-of-bullet-infused round of Russian roulette with the show's host Ivan Urgant, Colbert confirmed that the show wasn't broadcast in the States and then the 53-year-old funnyman, who's known for his dry wit and his liberal political leanings, made his big announcement. "Ok. I am here to announce that I am considering a run for president in 2020, and I thought it would be better to cut...

The classical western exists as an ideal sandbox for stories of heroism, in which white hats can immediately separate our protagonists from the black-hatted antagonists. Occasionally, though, we have a revisionist western that questions and defies the well-trodden patriarchal confines of the genre, as if looking at an old image from a tilted perspective and finding something new.

Sometimes, the characters don’t fit into the dusty old boxes occupied by so many western heroes and heroines. The hero robs and kills to stay alive, frightened and overwhelmed by this strange, new frontier. Other times, the stereotypical Western landscape disappears, blanketed in snow. Horses drive their hooves through ice-covered puddles. Wind screams past bone-thin trees — manifest destiny frozen over, encasing the American dream in ice.

In the case of Sofia Coppola’s newest, The Beguiled, gender and power roles reverse: an injured Union soldier (Colin Farrell) turns up at a girl’s school, an arrival which breeds intense sexual tension and rivalry among the women (Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning). According to our review, the movie is “primarily based on the 1966 book by Thomas Cullinan,” and “appears, at first glance, to be a remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 film adaptation rather than any sort of new reading of the original text. Coppola, of course, is far too clever for that.”

In celebration of The Beguiled, we’ve decided to take a look at the finest examples of the revisionist western. Enjoy, and please include your own favorites in the comments.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)

Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) idolized the legendary outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt), growing up hearing campfire stories about the man. Ford loved James so much that he eventually willed himself into the man’s life story. You cannot tell James’s story without also telling Ford’s. These two tragic lives are irrevocably linked by Ford’s betrayal. The film’s dryly antiseptic voiceover narration confides that Ford grew to regret his violent ways. The same goes for James, who at one point beats a child and then weeps into his horse’s neck, unable to live with his own deeds. While James’ propensity for violence is a deeply cut character flaw, Pitt plays the outlaw like an emotionally wounded teenager. His jovial sense of humor cloaks a vindictive and self-loathing interior. Whether Jesse James hurts himself or someone else, there is always a witness looking on with wide eyes. After James’ murder, Ford became a celebrity, touring the country reenacting the shooting. But Ford gained his prominence by killing a beloved folk hero. And so, one day, a man named Edward Kelly walked into Ford’s saloon with a shotgun and took revenge for James’s murder. Unlike the aftermath of Ford’s deed, people leapt to Kelly’s defense, collecting over 7000 signatures for a petition, leading to his pardon. America hated Robert Ford because he killed Jesse James. They loved Edward Kelly because he killed Robert Ford.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (Robert Altman)

Robert Altman’s largely forgotten and often funny western about egotistical showman Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman) treats its lead without respect, eagerly mocking him at every opportunity. Known across America as they best tracker of man and animals alive, Cody runs Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, a rodeo-like performance of cowboy-feats, ranging from simple rope tricks to the trick-shots of the legendary Annie Oakley. However, Cody is a fraud, a walking accumulation of lies and tall-tales. When Cody gets the chance to hire Chief Sitting Bull, the man who defeated General Custer at Little Big Horn, he’s thrilled, until Sitting Bull refuses to participate in his offensive show. Contrasted with phony Buffalo Bill Cody, Sitting Bull drips with dignified authenticity, totally uninterested in living up to the ignorant public’s racist image of his people. While the manufactured “reality” of Cody’s shows gets applause from white audiences, the stoic realness of Sitting Bull initially receives jeers, until something occurs to the crowd: this isn’t showmanship; this is the real thing. Later, when Cody and his gang form a posse, he hastily removes his show attire and searches through his wardrobe, cursing: “Where’s my real jacket?” So utterly consumed by his own public image, Cody can no longer locate his true self. Altman’s film is a rare western with a lead character who never succeeds, changes, or learns from his mistakes, always remaining a hopelessly pompous horse’s ass.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)

As we meet the legendary Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) he’s scoping out a bank, recently renovated to include heavy iron bars over every window and bolted-locks on every door. He asks the guard what happened to the old bank, which displayed such architectural beauty. “People kept robbing it,” the guard says. “Small price to pay for beauty,” Butch replies. It’s a running theme in revisionist westerns to reveal the truth behind the legend. The changing times had rendered bandits on horseback obsolete. But Butch Cassidy and his partner, the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) didn’t see the end coming until the future was already upon them. After barely evading a super-posse (to use a term coined by screenwriter William Goldman) led by a ruthless bounty hunter, they escape to Bolivia with Etta (Katherine Ross) Sundance’s girl, where their criminal ways are similarly received. What began as a vacation away from their troubles slowly becomes a permanent getaway run, sowing seeds of inevitable tragedy. Etta sees what Butch and Sundance cannot: the end. “We’re not going home anymore, are we?” Etta tearfully asks Sundance, informing him that she has no plans to stick around to watch them die. George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a tearful celebration of a pair of old dogs too foolish to learn new tricks.

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)

The gorgeous and haunting Dead Man opens with a soot-faced Crispin Glover trilling as he points out the window of a train: “They’re shooting buffalo,” he cries. “Government said, it killed a million of them last year alone.” The American machine greedily consumes the landscape, leaving smoldering devastation in its path, while a stone-faced accountant named William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the hellish town of Machine, where he’s promised a job. Unfortunately, there’s no job at the end of the line for this seemingly educated man, blissfully unaware of his namesake, the poet William Blake. After taking a bullet to the chest, Blake wanders this dying western landscape as if in a dream, guided by Nobody (Gary Farmer) a Native American raised in England after getting kidnapped and paraded around as a sideshow attraction for whites. At one point, Blake stumbles upon three hunters by a camp fire, one of which, played by Iggy Pop, wears a muddy dress and bonnet like a twisted schoolmarm. Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s twist on the western (accompanied by Robby Müller’s flawless cinematography) hums with textured period detail and vivid costume design, the accumulation of which achieves an eerily stylized tone.

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)

The spirit of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is in the sequence scored by Jim Croce’s “I’ve Got a Name.” Django (Jamie Foxx), now a free man, removes the old saddle from his horse’s back, a saddle originally procured by a white slaver, the animal’s previous owner. He then mounts in its place, his own saddle personalized with an embroidered D. His freedom is still new and unfamiliar but, Django is more than willing to grasp those reigns. What works best about the film is how Tarantino’s screenplay embraces the politics of the Antebellum South in a fashion carefully ignored by every other western of its time. The dialogue, Tarantino’s most applauded talent, wheels a careful turn between a sly comedy-of-manners and a bluntly provocative historical indictment, always landing on a shameless exploitation cinema influenced need for violent catharsis. Tarantino’s channeling of Spaghetti Western violence, with the gore cranked up to a level far beyond that of even Sergio Corbucci’s bloodiest work, delivers tenfold on that catharsis, splattering the pristine white walls of Candyland plantation bright red.

El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Dripping with transgressive and bizarre imagery, El Topo embraces every taboo imaginable with a breathless zeal. Existing somewhere between Midnight Movie oddity and art-house epic, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s second feature envisions the west as an unknowable landscape, dotted with peculiar and grotesque characters, such as a legless gunfighter who rides around on the back of an armless man. Describing the film in narrative terms, beat by beat, would be pointless, although we follow a rider in black, the titular El Topo (which means The Mole) who crosses the desert with a naked boy on the saddle. Though we spend more time with El Topo, his son is the heart of the film, this warped and subversive pseudo-fable exploring the cyclical nature of life. Jodorowsky’s painterly eye for composition lends individual shots with arresting and breathtaking resonance. With less than subtle biblical imagery scattered throughout, including a marvelous sequence involving a religion based around the game of Russian Roulette, Jodorowsky’s film feels at times like a twisted celebration of mysticism, sampling notes from Catholicism, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. It’s ending, a chaotic, dream-like burst of violence, adds a scathing gut-punch to an already overwhelming experience. There is no other western quite like El Topo, to say the least.

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With the death of Anita Pallenberg , the world lost an icon of the Swinging Sixties. The Italian-German model became a fashion It Girl of the age and her friendship with Andy Warhol integrated her into the cutting edge art world. She appeared in cult movie classics including Candy (featuring Ringo Starr) and Jane Fonda’s Barbarella, but her most famous role is undoubtedly that of muse for the Rolling Stones. Her high-profile relationships with two of the band’s guitarists, Brian Jones and Keith Richards, made her an enduring part of the Stones’ mythology. It became one of rock ‘n...

Like most kids, Paris Jackson was a big High School Musical fan.

The daughter of Michael Jackson revealed to Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon that she was “heartbroken” when she went to her first concert.

“The first concert that I actively wanted to see was High School Musical Live,” Paris, 18, shared on Monday’s episode.

But the HSM event wasn’t as great as she thought it would be, all because the Disney Channel movie’s leading man, Zac Efron, was absent from the concert due to another film project.

Jimmy and @ParisJackson have a lot in common… #FallonTonight pic.

Russian Roulette got extra dirty Wednesday night. Jimmy Fallon and Neil Patrick Harris put a spin on the life-or-death game on The Tonight Show, swapping guns for a combination of raw and cooked eggs. Of the dozen eggs, eight were cooked and four were raw. The rule was simple: first to crack two raw eggs on his head lost. As the guest of the night, Nph selected first. The tension in the room as the lights went dark could be cut with a knife, but the A Series of Unfortunate Events star mustered up the courage and cracked the first egg on his head. Fortunately, it was cooked. He was safe for now. Next up was Jimmy, who thought he could deduce an alternating pattern based on Nph's pick. Much to Jimmy's...

While her most iconic onscreen persona seemed to handle challenges effortlessly, life wasn’t quite as kind to beloved actress Mary Tyler Moore, who died at age 80 on Wednesday.

Despite achieving sobriety after a battle with alcoholism, and finding peace decades after her only son’s accidental death, Moore’s later years were filled with health woes – struggles she faced publicly and candidly.

Married at only 18 to Richard Meeker in 1955, Moore welcomed her first and only child, Richie, a year later. By 1961, she was starring as the titular character’s wife on The Dick Van Dyke show, but her marriage was over.

Following the death of Mary Tyler Moore on Wednesday at age 80, here is the full text from People magazine’s October 30, 1995 cover story on the release of her memoir, After All.

“During the first year of The Dick Van Dyke Show, as thrilled and bursting with excitement over my work as I was, I was equally without emotion at home,” writes Mary Tyler Moore of the end of her six-year marriage to Dick Meeker in 1961.

Her indifference toward the couple’s breakup was not shared by her 5-year-old son, Richie, who soon began having troubles in school and spending more...

Writer Russian Roulette continues apace in Salem, USA. Dena Higley is out and Ron Carlivati is in as the new Days of Our Lives Head Writer. The two once served as Co-Head Writers on ABC's cancelled soap, One Life To Live. According to Deadline, Higley's most recent Co-Head Writer, Ryan Quan, will now serve in the new "Creative Consultant" role on the NBC soap opera. Although the change is reportedly effective immediately, there is no word on whether the "Creative Consultant" role is a long-term position, or a stop-gap, to give Carlivati time to get up to speed.In hopeful news for Days of Our Lives fans, veteran writer Sheri Anderson (aka Sheri Anderson Thomas)...

The Sundance Film Festival has arrived! One of the things I enjoy most about this event is that I have no idea what to expect from most of the movies that I see. It's like playing a deadly game of cinematic Russian roulette. You pull the trigger on seeing a film you know nothing about hoping it doesn't blow your brains out.

The first film I saw at the festival was a medieval comedy called The Littlest Hours, and it didn't necessarily blow my brains out, but it was certainly a misfire that left me dazed and confused. This was an absolutely ridiculous movie. I had no idea what the hell was going on in this film or what the point of it even was.

The story was is set in medieval times and follows three nuns named Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci), who lead...

Riggs finds himself in the biggest hurt bag of them all in "Jingle Bell Glock," Lethal Weapon's ninth original freshman outing. With a scene straight from the film's playbook, a semi-sober Riggs plays Russian Roulette as he relives Christmases past including how he first met Miranda, then later how they celebrated their pregnancy under the Christmas tree. Crawford absolutely (and heartbreakingly) shines in his portrayal of a devastated Riggs, a portrayal that rivals Gibson's own in the most memorable scene of the movie franchise.

It's raining something biblical in Nashville, coming down like vengeance between the roadway signs for chicken wings and Jesus and Donald Trump. And here, inside a farm-fresh joint called Butcher and Bee, at a table spread with pickled okra and fried chicken and kale, Evan Rachel Wood is questioning the nature of our reality, the cogs and wheels that have created this very scene, up to and possibly including the guy posted up at the bar who looks like an older Elvis, if Elvis were crazy tall and wearing vintage tweed.

[Warning: The below article contains spoilers for “You’re the Worst” Season 3, through the finale.]

“There is no family.”

Those were the only words I heard during Jimmy’s loquacious diatribe about being “post-family” (like “Thoreau or the Unabomber”) that kicked off the Season 3 finale of “You’re the Worst.” As is fitting for a series so beautifully written (Episode 13, “No Longer Just Us,” by Stephen Falk, Franklin Hardy and Shane Kosakowski), the beginning foreshadowed the ending without giving it away. In fact, the final moments turned the opening scene on its head.

So when Gretchen started gushing with joy post-proposal about how they’re “a family now,” “no longer just ‘us,'” it was quite clear the happy ending in Jimmy’s new novel wouldn’t come true for the romantic pair at the center of our story.

Instead, “You’re the Worst’s” bold third season wrapped on a note similar to this:

For those unfamiliar with “The Leftovers,” just trust in the...

Following up on the release of his debut album Generationwhy, mysterious producer Zhu is back today to release a short film of the same name. The new video was first teased ahead of the release of the album in the form of a short trailer, but now the full eleven minute long film is available for streaming and it’s a must watch.

The Generationwhy film spins a suspenseful narrative, opening in a totalitarian complex with six young boys being coerced at gunpoint into a game of Russian roulette. After a revolt, one of the boys manages to break free from his captors and escape outside of the complex. What follows is an otherworldly journey set to the music of Zhu’s single of the same name, serving as a stark contrast to the tense first half of the video.

Speaking about the video’s concept, director American Millenial stated...

Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro are set to star alongside each other again for the first time since the 1978 film The Deer Hunter. The film is a comedy called The War With Grandpa, which is set to be directed by Tim Hill, and they will join Eugene Levy, who's been cast in the film as well.

The War With Grandpa is based on a book by Robert Kimmel Smith, and it's about "a kid who reluctantly gives up his bedroom to accommodate his grandfather (De Niro), whom he loves but wants out of his room. The boy engages in a series of pranks meant to drive his grandpa out, but the old man is pretty wise to it and returns the volleys."

De Niro and Walken will play best friends in the film. It's pretty awesome that Walken and De Niro will share the screen again after all these years.

Eric here with thinking about the past 40 years of Oscars Best Director category.

This past Saturday, director Michael Cimino passed away at age 77. Cimino won the Best Director Oscar for 1978’s The Deer Hunter, beating Woody Allen (Interiors), Hal Ashby (Coming Home), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry (Heaven Can Wait), and Alan Parker (Midnight Express). While those five actual films are of varying quality, the names behind them are all heavyweights and it was formidable company.

The Deer Hunter was a divisive film upon its release and remains so today (praised for its leisurely-paced first half and its capture of inexpressive male friendship; criticized for the Russian Roulette melodrama and its depiction of the Vietnamese). With The Deer Hunter, Cimino aimed to make something epic and classically Greek in its storytelling, and watching the film you can actually feel his young talent. Cimino next famously (infamously?) went on to direct 1980’s Heaven’s Gate,...

American director and screenwriter who had a huge hit with his 1978 film The Deer Hunter, but a disastrous flop with Heaven’s Gate two years later

It took just over two years for the film-maker Michael Cimino, who has died aged 77, to go from being one of the figureheads of the ambitious and intelligent Us cinema of the 1970s to the man blamed for killing it off. The peak of his career was The Deer Hunter (1978), the first in a spate of pictures to articulate the effect on the American psyche of the Vietnam war. It was divided into three distinct sections depicting a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers before, during and after the war.

Cimino was criticised for sequences in which the soldiers are forced by the Vietcong to play Russian roulette against one another. He was also accused of expressing rightwing sentiments in the final scene, during which the...

Houston Texans defensive dynamo J.J. Watt dropped by The Tonight Show Friday to engage Jimmy Fallon in a showdown of Egg Russian Roulette. In the not-so-deadly game, Fallon and Watt picked an egg, each decorated like a mini-football, from a carton of a dozen. Of those 12 eggs, six were raw and yolky while the other six were hard-boiled. To determine which were which, Fallon and Watt had to pick an egg at random and smash it against their own forehead.

The elusiveness that Watt shows off on the defensive line...

Jenny Morrill Nov 17, 2016

From The Running Man and Trainspotting, through to Rainbow: the fictional game shows that make you run for the comforts of Bullseye.

Everyone loves a good game show. Where else can you watch Steve from Redditch win a canteen of cutlery just for knowing the capital of Tobago?

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Game shows are a light hearted staple of our TV schedules. We can rely on them to be entertaining without demanding too much in return (apart from Only Connect). They are the TV equivalent of a warm bath or a nice pair of slippers. And what's more, the whole family can enjoy them. 92 year old grandma visiting? Best leave Game Of Thrones and opt for some Bullseye instead. Kids up late? Stick on some Family Fortunes...

[caption id="attachment_50154" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Days of Our Lives TV show on NBC. Pictured: Jen Lilley as Theresa Donovan and Eric Martsolf as Brady Black. Photo via NBC. © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com./caption]

NBC renewed Days of Our Lives through the fall of 2017. Will the sand stop flowing through the hour glass, thereafter? As NBC's last daytime soap, Dool is in a precarious position and not immune to being cancelled. It is often the lowest rated of the four remaining Us broadcast network daytime dramas. The budget cuts it has endured (and camouflaged) for years are now obvious on-screen. The show has experienced a few years of writing regime Russian Roulette, which may not yet be over. Some actors Days hasn't chosen to write off are leaving of their own accord.

Days of Our Lives star, Jen Lilley, is the latest actor to quit the long-running daytime drama. She plays Theresa Donovan,...

Zac Efron and Jimmy Fallon were locked in a heated battle of The Tonight Show's "Water War," a twist on the classic card game where the loser of each round receives a glass of water in the face.

With shades of The Deer Hunter's Russian roulette scene, the two tried to stifle their nerves as they slapped down their cards. "This seems so disrespectful," Efron said before dowsing Fallon. The host got revenge by slowly draining a glass in the actor's lap.

By the end of the match,...

For a while, Christopher Walken felt like "troubled guys" were the only types of roles he was being offered, and he knows when it began. "In Annie Hall, I played a suicidal guy who drives his car into traffic," he says in his matter-of-fact, stilted, utterly Walkenesque way. "Then in The Deer Hunter, which came immediately afterward, I shot myself in the head. I was playing these disturbed people. That might have been when that started." When asked if that bothered him, he plainly says, "Listen, I'm lucky."

It's a bright spring day in Manhattan,...

Update: This is actually a real video game project that is raising funds on Kickstarter. If you want to donate and actually play this game click here for more information! If you donate you can actually get your face put in the game as a spectator or a villain.

This amusing comedy sketch is for a fake Nintendo party game called Super Russian Roulette. It features the classic Nes console, graphics, and the classic Zapper gun. Super Russian Roulette lets you and up to two other players experience the risk-free thrills of Russian Roulette against annoying 8-bit cowboy that taunts you.

Pull up a chair and rustle up some virtual nihilism, pardner. Super Russian Roulette pits you and up to two friends or strangers against a trash-talking cowboy, impatient to get on with the ultimate game of chance. There’s a light bullet in the Zapper’s chamber: is your name on it?...

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Is it time to lose patience with Stan Lee’s Lucky Man? Its logic-missing fourth episode suggests so…

This review contains spoilers.

After three weeks of making the kind of excuses for Stan Lee’s Lucky Man an optimistic parent might make for a underachieving kid ( “he’s not stupid, he’s spirited”, “we can’t all be Einstein!”), it’s time to concede defeat. When dumb fun stops being fun, what are you left with?

An episode like this, is the answer. An hour filled with characters doing things that make frustratingly little sense.

As a rule, I’m not a fan of the ‘how did he get from St James’s Park to London Bridge without changing tube trains??!’ approach to film and TV criticism, which finds delight in pointing out banal inconsistencies with real life. We’re being told stories, not encyclopaedia entries.

That said: Lordy,...

Pro-athletes Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson visited Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show to chat about their athletic achievements but also to smash eggs on their heads. The two athletes played a round of “Egg Russian Roulette” against the other, eight of which were hardboiled and four were raw. The NFL and NBA star took turns picking […]

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[Embedcode {}] Peyton Manning brought his victory tour to New York for an appearance on The Tonight Show Wednesday. The Super Bowl 50 champion chatted with host Jimmy Fallon about the big game including brother Eli's meme-inspiring moment, even making a fun sketch out of the New York Giant's expense. And one of the perks of Manning's press tour has got to be that time he played one-on-one with two-time Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson! Of course, with a special twist. Peyton Manning & @MagicJohnson face off in a game of Egg Russian Roulette! #FallonTonight https://t.co/Vkoz4DLRn0 pic.twitter.

[Embedcode {}] Peyton Manning brought his victory tour to New York for an appearance on The Tonight Show Wednesday. The Super Bowl 50 champion chatted with host Jimmy Fallon about the big game including brother Eli's meme-inspiring moment, even making a fun sketch out of the New York Giant's expense. And one of the perks of Manning's press tour has got to be that time he played one-on-one with two-time Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson! Of course, with a special twist. Peyton Manning & @MagicJohnson face off in a game of Egg Russian Roulette! #FallonTonight https://t.co/Vkoz4DLRn0 pic.twitter.

Exclusive: Warp Films and Altitude Film Sales team on Jeremy Dyson-Andy Nyman thriller.

Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit franchise), George MacKay (Pride) and Andy Nyman (Death At A Funeral) are to star in a feature version of well-received supernatural stage production Ghost Stories, co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen) and Nyman, who will reprise his role as professor Goodman.

Principal photography is due to get underway in September with Claire Jones (Sightseers) producing alongside Warp Films’ Robin Gutch (’71). Altitude Films has boarded sales on the thriller and will introduce buyers to the project at the Efm.

In Ghost Stories, Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and arch-skeptic has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave.

His mentor Charles Cameron, the ‘original’ TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must...

Charlie Sheen temporarily went off his HIV medications and sought alternative treatment in Mexico.

"I'm been off my meds for about a week now," he said in a pre-taped segment for an appearance on The Dr. Oz Show Tuesday. "Am I risking my life? Sure. So what? I was born dead. That part of it doesn't phase me at all."

Sheen's manager Mark Burg tells People the actor resumed taking his medications Dec. 8, after the episode was taped.

"Charlie is back on his meds. He tried a cure from a doctor in Mexico but the minute the numbers went up,...

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On January 6, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered its 11th season, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms in cable history. Well-known for pushing the envelope with themes of race, guns, drug abuse, sexuality and violence, on Sunny the nihilism and vulgarity are complemented by pitch-perfect acting and some of the bravest, funniest writing on TV.

The Gang – twins Dennis and Dee Reynolds, childhood friends Ronald “Mac” McDonald and Charlie Kelly, and financier/father figure Frank Reynolds – manage a Philadelphia dive bar, Paddy’s Pub. They are joined by a robust supporting cast including the incestuous McPoyle family, an unnamed coffee shop waitress, Dee’s friend and Frank’s bang buddy Artemis, the Gang’s equally dysfunctional parents, and preacher-turned-street-urchin Rickety Cricket.

Members of the Gang have opened a sweat shop in the basement of Paddy’s, tried out for the Philadelphia Eagles, attempted group dating, hosted a game of Russian roulette,...

Amanda Bruce, who says she dated Charlie Sheen for "about seven, eight months," has revealed that she had unprotected sex with the actor despite being fully aware of his HIV-positive status.

In an interview on The Dr. Oz Show on Wednesday, Bruce explains to Dr. Oz that being a nurse and knowing the risks of HIV made her "not so afraid" of being intimate with Sheen. She also says the risk was worth it because she was in love with him at the time.

"There's a very big scare about [HIV] out there and I think that's just a lot of...

A lesbian and homophobe walk into a nightclub on this week’s Empire — but not to worry, they’ve got common interests: Namely April, a sparkly, sexually fluid and verrrry sexually available young woman who’d like to teach the world to sing. (And by sing, I mean, “check out the pistol-shaped tattoo on her inner thigh… and then explore other nearby landmarks.”)

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So how come Mimi Whiteman ends the night weeping into her iPhone while Lucious Lyon digs up his most...

Quelle horreur! Please forgive me for forgetting to include "Love 3D," the latest opus from the one-and-only Gaspar Noé (whom we recently talked with), in last month's column. Even though our review was mixed, the film would have easily made the final list in October, but unfortunately we overlooked it. I'd also add it's well worth seeing at a cinema projected in 3D, if the option is available. But act fast, it won't survive long in U.S. theaters, not with the oncoming deluge of blockbusters (of the would-be and surefire variety), awards hopefuls, and smaller prestige pictures in the arthouse/indie/foreign realm. It's easy to get confused, what with the mad game of Russian roulette that is choosing just the right release date for a film. This time of year especially, dates get shifted late in the game, based on purported buzz (or lack thereof) around a title...

Back Lot Music has released the soundtrack album for Steve Jobs, the new film from Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin. The album is available now on iTunes and Amazon.

The Steve Jobs Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new music by Award-winning composer Daniel Pemberton, as well as two iconic tracks from Bob Dylan, and songs by The Libertines and the Maccabees.

Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs, which stars Michael Fassbender as the pioneering founder of Apple, was released in New York and Los Angeles on October 9. The film will expand to additional North American markets on October 16 and wide on October 23.

“Fassbender’s Jobs is a tornado of roaring ferocity and repressed feeling.” – RollingStone.com

Enter to win passes to the St. Louis screening Here.

Director Danny Boyle says, “The first act was influenced by the early sounds of computers. The vast majority of the...

Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.

Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition

Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.

Scroll down for the full list

Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.

Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.

This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.

Halligan...

Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.

Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition

Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.

Scroll down for the full list

Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.

Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.

This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.

Halligan...

Jeremy Saulnier’s feature claimed the prize as the Austin event came to a conclusion on Thursday.

Can Evrenol was named best director in the “Next Wave” Spotlight competition for his recent Toronto world premiere Baskin.

Full winners appear below:

Audience Award – presented by Maxwell Locke & Ritter

1st Place: Green Room, dir Jeremy Saulnier

2nd Place: Liza The Fox Fairy, dir Károly Ujj Mészáros

3rd Place: Stand By For Tape Back-Up, dir Ross Sutherland

“Next Wave” Spotlight Competition - Presented By Dell Precision

Best Picture: Der Bunker, dir Nikias Chryssos

Best Director: Can Evrenol for Baskin

Fantastic Features

Best Picture: The Club

Best Director: Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman for Anomalisa

Horror Features

Best Picture: Demon

Best Director: Joe Begos for The Mind’s Eye

Comedy Features

Best Picture: The Brand New Testament

Best Director: Anders Thomas Jensen for Men & Chicken

Documentary Features

Best Picture: Man Vs Snake

Best Director: Heath Cozens for Doglegs

Short Fuse: Horror...

Gotham, Season 2, Episode 2, “Knock, Knock”

Written by Ken Woodruff

Directed by Rob Bailey

Airs Mondays at 8pm (Et) on Fox

On this Gotham, the villains take the stage as they begin their reign of terror on the city. Continuing the season’s Rise of the Villains theme, this episode puts the spotlight on Jerome as the indisputable leader of the Arkham Asylum Escapees known as The Maniax!, as he stands to be, perhaps, the most terrifying villain that Gotham City has ever faced.

As we all know, Jerome is meant to be a precursor to Batman’s greatest villain, The Joker, and in this episode we are privy to him beginning his rise to evil prominence. As a villain, Jerome is eager to leave his mark on Gotham and this episode showcases the extent of his heinous actions, a benchmark being his murder of the newly instated Commissioner Essen. From the opening sequence,...

When you call your show Best Time Ever, you’re setting the bar pretty high for yourself. Fortunately, human Fun Dip and über host Neil Patrick Harris was largely ready for the challenge during Tuesday’s big premiere.

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Following an enthusiastic (if not slightly spastic) introduction from guest announcer Reese Witherspoon, Nph revealed to an unsuspecting couple in the audience that he’s basically been stalking them for the past few months. Like, he was even secretly present at their wedding in Alabama. (Damn it, Harris, you...

Woody Allen's output may now feel like the cinematic equivalent of a cosy comfort blanket, but he's still more than willing to bring a dark streak to his films - sometimes, in the case of Irrational Man, with mixed results.

Like Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, his latest offering has murder on the mind as Joaquin Phoenix's philosophy professor Abe Lucas ponders killing a judge to prevent an injustice. The film never takes off like Allen's recent Midnight in Paris or Blue Jasmine, but an engaging lead turn from Phoenix means it at least has something to shout about.

His Abe is something of a mess, shambling around a small uni campus in an existential funk. Wracked by emotional and physical impotence he hits rock bottom by testing his nerve in a demonstration of Russian roulette. Romantic attention from student Jill (Emma Stone) and faculty colleague Rita...

Zac Efron joined Jimmy Fallon in a hilarious game of Egg Russian Roulette on Monday night. Zac Efron Plays Russian Roulette On ‘Jimmy Fallon’ Efron faced off with Fallon in a game of Egg Russian Roulette on the Tonight Show. In charge of starting the game was Fallon’s creepy assistant Higgins, who appeared out of […]

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Zac Efron stopped by The Tonight Show on Monday to promote his upcoming movie, We Are Your Friends, which is set for release on Aug. 28. During his fun appearance, Zac and Jimmy played an exciting game of "Egg Russian Roulette," which involves raw and cooked eggs. At one point, before smashing an uncooked egg on his head, Zac joked, "I loved this suit before." See who came out on top in the hilarious snippet above, then check out Zac Efron's latest red carpet appearance in London, plus hot pictures of Zac in his new movie.