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Willem Dafoe will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of film.”

He joins Stellan Skarsgard and Ray Winstone, who will also receive the honor at the fest this year.

“Having made over 150 films in his career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness and dare to some of the most iconic films of our time,” Sarajevo organizers said. “His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large and small, Hollywood films as well as independent cinema.”

At the Sarajevo festival, the star will also hold a master class where he will share “his experience and reflections on art today” with young talents, film professionals and the festival audience.

“Willem Dafoe returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival after 25 years, and it is a great honor and...

Australian Film Television And Radio School

Australia

Aftrs counts a who’s who of regional cinema among its alumni — Oscar-winning auteur Jane Campion (The Piano) and Hollywood director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games) are grads — and offers industry-driven programs covering every aspect of filmmaking. Its On Country Pathways Program trains emerging First Nations creators in remote communities.

Beijing Film Academy

China

The academy grants bachelor’s, master’s and even Ph.D. degrees in film, and virtually every major Chinese filmmaker has passed through its halls, including Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern) and Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine).

Ecam

Spain

Spain is one of the few regions that can boast of a production boom — Netflix has invested heavily in the country — and Madrid-based Ecam has been one of the main beneficiaries. Their school-to-studio pipeline is exemplified by Goya-winning director-writer team Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña, who met at Ecam and...

Universal Pictures didn’t think Angelina Jolie was bankable enough to headline a gritty thriller alongside Denzel Washington, who was already an acclaimed actor (via SyFy). So, director Phillip Noyce struck a personal deal and put his resources on the line to cast Jolie in The Bone Collector.

The 1999 movie is based on Jeffrey Deaver’s bestselling novel, and stars Washington as Lincoln Ryme, a quadriplegic forensic expert, and Jolie as a police officer named Amelia Donaghy. The duo unravels a series of crimes across New York City, but despite a strong cast and intriguing plot, The Bone Collector has always been seen as a rip-off of Se7en.

Angelina Jolie Proved Her Box Office Draw in The Bone Collector Angelina Jolie in The Bone Collector | Credits: Universal Pictures

Universal was nervous and understandably so because the studio had already sold half of The Bone Collector’s distribution rights to Columbia Pictures,...

Following the success of Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs" in 1991, Hollywood released an eight-year-long tidal wave of serial killer thrillers, each one pulpier than the last. This was the era of "Seven," "Copycat," "Along Came a Spider," "Jennifer 8," "See No Evil," "Eye of the Beholder," "Sliver," "Knight Moves," and any number of others. Right at the end of the decade came Phillip Noyce's 1999 thriller "The Bone Collector," based on the airport novel by Jeffery Deaver. Deaver's original novel was the first of the long-running Lincoln Rhyme series, a series that saw its 16th installment published in 2023. Rhyme, thanks to a spinal accident, could not move his body below his neck, and fought crime from his bed, deducting details, looking at pictures, and relying on his team.

In the film adaptation, Denzel Washington played Lincoln Rhyme and Angelina Jolie played his plucky crime-fighting partner, Amelia Donaghy.

Denzel Washington will always be known for his work in The Equalizer franchise, which was spun off into a TV show, but long before he ever played Robert McCall, he starred alongside an Equalizer TV star in a serial killer thriller dominating streaming charts. Washington stars alongside Queen Latifah and Angelina Jolie in The Bone Collector, the 1999 film following a quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his partners who try to hunt down a serial killer terrorizing New York. The Bone Collector is currently streaming on Prime Video in America and on Rakuten TV globally, where it’s one of the most popular movies in Lithuania among other countries. The film earned 30% from critics and 63% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $151 million at the box office against a $73 million budget.

The Bone Collector is based on the Jeffery Deaver book of the same name, and Jeremy Iacone wrote the script...

Before we were privy to Denzel Washington’s advice on fame and star power, he was busy making a chilling thriller that was enough to scare even him. The Bone Collector stands as one of Washington’s most challenging roles yet. In a 2004 Total Film interview, Washington got candid about just how daunting the role was, saying:

I thought it was a very cerebral thriller and a different challenge as an actor. I had made films like Ricochet and The Pelican Brief in the past, but I think The Bone Collector was a lot scarier and more sinister than the other two. When I first saw the film myself, I was scared to death a few times. I think Phillip Noyce [the director] did an incredible job of creating a claustrophobic and haunting atmosphere.

While films like The Bone Collector and Se7en seem to be based on similar themes, the former remains criminally underrated to date.

Phillip Noyce's 1999 serial killer thriller "The Bone Collector" wasn't the typical movie that Denzel Washington usually chose in the 1990s. Sure, one could argue that he made "Fallen" (another serial killer flick) just a year earlier, but in Gregory Hoblit's feature, he was an able-bodied and tough homicide detective calling the shots. It was the type of role that greatly suited his strengths and heroic screen presence. Meanwhile, in "The Bone Collector," he played a bedridden quadriplegic forensic analyst with a very limited set of skills. He had little to no leeway to rely on his emblematic swagger or physical mannerisms because he simply couldn't move his body apart from his head. Not as if that was a problem for Denzel — we damn well know by now how vast and impressive his range is — but the part provided him an unusual challenge that he embraced and made the most out of.

Caution: this article contains spoilers for James Gunn's "Superman."

Right from the first scenes of James Gunn's new film "Superman," we know what the film's villain, Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) is up to. Naturally, Luthor hates Superman (David Corenswet), and has been using a cadre of computer experts, supervillain sidekicks, and a masked vigilante of his own to pummel the Man of Steel into the ground. Luthor, before the film has even begun, knows the secrets of Kryptonite, and has carefully studied Superman's fight moves, allowing him to best the superhero in hand-to-hand combat (via the remote-controlled villain Ultraman).

Lex Luthor is also depicted as a tech billionaire with his hands deep inside the world's media. There are brief montages in "Superman" showing pundits parroting Luthor's anti-superman rhetoric on a Twitter-like social media site. Luthor doesn't necessarily own the social media, but it's easy to see the parallels...

Exclusive: The Viola Davis kickass spy movie G20 has pulled in more than 50 million worldwide Prime Video viewers since its April 10 launch. We understand that number makes the Patricia Riggen-directed movie one of Amazon MGM Studios’ 10 most-watched action films of all time on the service.

Backing up Amazon’s viewership is the fact that the movie also landed at No. 1 on Nielsen’s movie chart during it debut week with 516 million minutes streamed.

In addition, G20 over-indexed with women on Prime Video. Amazon MGM has had a strong of female-led movies including Maintenance Required, starring Madelaine Petsch; The Map That Leads to You, starring Madelyn Cline and Kj Apa; We Were Liars, starring Emily Alyn Lind, which premiered June 18; and the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which will premiere July 16.

In the movie, terrorists take over the G20 summit with Davis’ President Sutton. She...

House of Games is getting a remake at Amazon MGM Studios. The acclaimed 1987 neo-noir will be reimagined for the 21st century with two former stars of the DC Extended Universe.

According to Deadline, Viola Davis and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are set to star in a reimagining of House of Games, which is in development at Amazon MGM Studios.Additionally, the actors will produce the remake through their respective production banners, Juvee Productions and House Eleven10. While they have achieved success outside the superhero genre, Davis and Abdul-Matteen II are still perhaps best known for their involvement in the Dceu, with the former starring as A.R.G.U.S. agent Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, and Black Adam, and the latter as Black Manta in the Aquaman duology.

The original House of Games was written by David Mamet, who also helmed the feature as his directorial debut.

Se7en is David Fincher’s timeless classic, and its influence can be felt in most crime thrillers that came after it, for example, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie’s starrer, The Bone Collector. The two movies feel like they belong to the same universe, but ultimately, the latter felt short.

The Phillip Noyce directorial feels like a shadow of a masterpiece released just four years earlier because both movies have grim crime plots, twisted killers, and neo-noir aesthetics. Despite their similarities, only one of them became a defining entry in the thriller genre and remains one of the most critically revered movies of all time.

What elements does the Denzel Washington thriller draw from Se7en? A still from The Bone Collector | Credits: Universal Pictures

On the surface, it seems like The Bone Collector and Se7en are cut from the same cloth. They both follow a rookie cop...

It's official: Amazon MGM Studios and Viola Davis are making another movie together. On the heels of Davis' Prime Video streaming hit G20, the actor is attached to lead and produce a new thriller at Amazon titled Ally Clark.

According to Deadline, Oscar-winning Rocky franchise producer Irwin Winkler will also produce Ally Clark, which will take audiences "from the marble halls of Washington, D.C. to the sweltering bayous of Louisiana and the icy peaks of Alaska, following investigator Ally Clark (Davis) as she embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the suspicious death of a close friend."

Phillip Noyce will direct from a script by Jose Ruisanchez and Winkler. Noyce is a veteran of the action-thriller genre, having previously directed the Jack Ryan adaptations Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, both starring Harrison Ford; The Saint starring Val Kilmer; and Salt starring Angelina Jolie. His...

After starring in Amazon MGM Studios’ action movie G20, Viola Davis is once again teaming up with the streamer, this time for a conspiracy thriller titled Ally Clark.

Phillip Noyce, a veteran of the thriller genre with movies such as Clear and Present Danger, Salt and Rabbit Proof Fence on his resume, will direct the feature that will be produced by Irwin Winkler, the veteran producer behind Rocky, Goodfellas and The Alto Knights.

Also producing is Winkler Films’ Charlies Winker and David Winkler, and Jose Ruisanchez. Davis is on the producing team as well, along with Julius Tennon, her husband and partner at the duo’s JuVee Productions.

The script, which was written by Ruisanchez and Irwin Winkler, centers on an investigator names Ally Clark, to be played by Davis, who, per the studio, embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the suspicious death of a close friend.

It’s not a surprise if no one has ever heard about Emilia Clarke starring in the 2019 crime thriller movie Above Suspicion, directed by Phillip Noyce. Perhaps, to this day, only a handful have seen it. Well, it’s nothing like her role in Game of Thrones, but it’s still dark, gritty, and quite depressing.

Based on Joe Sharkey’s non-fiction book about the killing of Susan Smith, Above Suspicion tells the harrowing experiences of a drug addict woman who became an FBI informant after meeting a rookie agent. Her affair with the criminologist would lead to a downward spiral of betrayal, violence, and death.

Emilia Clarke brought Susan Smith’s tragic story to life in Above Suspicion

We can consider Emilia Clarke’s role in Game of Thrones dark as well because, after all, she went through a lot of hardships that even in the end, she failed...

Cannon Films weren’t satisfied with their 1988 martial arts tournament movie Bloodsport, but when they reluctantly sent it out into the world in 1988 it proved to be a big hit, launching Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career as an action hero. The film was followed by three sequels, none of which starred Van Damme – and for the last couple of decades, there have been rumblings about a revival. Twenty years ago, Bloodsport co-writer Sheldon Lettich tried to get a film called Bloodsport: A New Beginning off the ground, but the project fell apart. In 2011, Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm) was attached to direct a “reinvention,” working from a screenplay by The Karate Kid creator Robert Mark Kamen. In 2013, James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) replaced Noyce at the helm. The project never made it into production. In 2019, there was a rumor that John Wick directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski were considering making a Bloodsport remake.

For anyone who grew up watching movies in the 1980s, Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday, was something of an anomaly among the young Hollywood actors whose careers blew up during that decade.

Compared to Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Emilio Estevez, Robert Downey Jr., John Cusack or Tom Hanks, to name a handful of stars who emerged back then, Kilmer was not exactly a strapping action hero nor a smooth heartbreak kid. Nor did he come across as a brooding Method-style thespian, or as someone who could provide instant comic relief onscreen.

In some ways, Kilmer was all of these things at once, and therefore unclassifiable. He was mostly a great character actor with the looks of a leading man, capable of melting into roles that almost invariably had an edge to them.

His most memorable films, including Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone and Heat, were popular hits in...

Whenever Roger Ebert saw a limp Hollywood remake of a classic movie, the esteemed film critic used to lament that studios had it all wrong. They shouldn't be redoing movies that were already brilliant, but, rather, revisiting films with promising premises that, for whatever reason, didn't work the first time out. While this may sound like perfectly reasonable advice, studios typically aren't keen to throw money at projects that already failed once. That's how executives get fired.

This is how we get unwanted, undercooked remakes like 2006's "The Omen," 2012's "Total Recall," and 2014's "RoboCop." The originals were smart, zeitgeisty genre flicks from top-notch directors, while the second go-rounds were sweaty retreads with no point of view and, thus, no reason for being -- but at least the execs who greenlit these movies could defend them on the grounds of brand recognition. Had they gone down in flames with a remake of,...

Fans now have the opportunity to rewatch Angelina Jolie's action-thriller Salt. The movie debuted in 2010 and was barely profitable, making just over $293 million at the worldwide box office against a $130 million budget.

Salt is now streaming on Peacock. Directed by Phillip Noyce, the movie stars Jolie as the eponymous Evelyn Salt, a CIA operative who, after being accused of being a sleeper agent for the Kgb, goes on the run to clear her name. The movie's ensemble includes Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tika Sumpter, and Corey Stoll.

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Salt received mostly positive reviews upon its debut, with many critics lauding Jolie's performance and its action sequences while reserving criticism for the film's implausible and convoluted plot. The action-thriller holds a 62% critic rating and a 59% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Douglas Hodge and Betty Gabriel are among the recruits for the new Jack Ryan film, starring John Krasinski. More here.

The cast of the new Jack Ryan movie is beginning to expand, with filming presumably now not too far away.

John Krasinski follows Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine by playing Ryan on the big screen. In his case, he’s had a fair amount of practice too, having played Ryan on the hit television series, that’s cunningly entitled Jack Ryan.

It may well be that the new film, which is being backed by Amazon MGM, will also go by that name as well. It’s been known for a while that John Krasinski, Sienna Miller, Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly are in the ensemble.

Now, some further additions have also been announced. Betty Gabriel, JJ Feild, Max Beesley and Douglas Hodge are signing on the dotted line.

Exclusive: HanWay Films has expanded its classics library after being appointed to represent The Cohen Film Collection.

The library of Cohen Media Group’s founder, Charles S. Cohen, comprises more than one hundred restored classic titles spanning from the silent era to the present day, including The Buster Keaton Collection and The Merchant Ivory Collection.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed and Cohen Media Group is the owner of HanWay, having acquired the company in 2022.

Late last year Charles Cohen’s media group hit choppy waters when the company was forced to sell multiple assets including British arthouse exhibitor and distributor Curzon to Fortress Investment Group. The company was acquired in a foreclosure auction involving multiple Cohen assets, including the Landmark cinema chain. Fortress had lent Cohen $534M but sued him last year for default. Cohen acquired Curzon in late 2019 amid a buying spree by the U.S. real estate developer.

Fire up your ultra-high-definition televisions and Blu-ray players. One of the spicy films from the 90s’ most notorious screen vixen, Sharon Stone, is getting a new 4K remaster. Blu-ray.com has just revealed that the 1993 thriller, Sliver, which stars Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker and Colleen Camp. Vinegar Syndrome will be distributing the physical media release and it’s been scheduled to hit retailers on January 28.

The description reads,

“Carly Norris, a new resident of the chic, high-tech, and ultra-thin (like a sliver) Manhattan apartment building 113, is a divorcee looking for a good time. She finds that in her neighbor Zeke, a wealthy video game designer-cum-playboy who harbors a dark secret which her other neighbor Jack is all too willing to go into detail on. As Carly navigates her sexual tryst with Zeke and Jack’s increasing paranoia, deaths in 113 begin to pile up as do revelations about...

The year was 1989, and a very young, fresh-faced Nicole Kidman was on her way to becoming a household name in the entertainment industry. This was also the pre-Tom Cruise Days of Thunder, Far and Away, and Eyes Wide Shut era of the early to mid-90s that almost took her career in the wrong direction. When she landed the lead role of Rae Ingram in director Phillip Noyce's Dead Calm, it would prove to be a breakout performance that put everyone on notice that she would be around for a while. Here we are, 35 years later, and she is still regarded as an A-lister and one of the top talents in Hollywood. But what may have caught many by surprise is that she was nearly outshined by a young American actor, Billy Zane, whose run as a psychopath stranded at sea was almost as noteworthy as the star turn for Kidman.

January 2025 could mark a bleak month for very specific reasons, but in that month one can watch a nicely curated collection of David Bowie’s best performances. Nearly a decade since he passed, the iconic actor (who had some other trades) is celebrated with The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Linguini Incident, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and Basquiat. (Note: watch The Missing Pieces under Fire Walk with Me‘s Criterion edition for about three times as much Phillip Jeffries.) It’s a retrospective-heavy month: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Crowe, Ethan Hawke, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Paolo Sorrentino, and Sean Baker are given spotlights; the first and last bring with them To Die For and Take Out‘s Criterion Editions, joining Still Walking, Hunger, and A Face in the Crowd.

“Surveillance Cinema” brings Thx 1138, Body Double, Minority Report, and others, while “Love in Disguise” offers films by Lubitsch,...

Hollywood has seen its fair share of feuds, but few can rival the fiery clash between Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin. Behind the scenes, this rift was born from both personal and professional tensions. Like a movie script gone wrong, the conflict simmered for years before reaching the boiling point.

Sharon Stone and William Baldwin in Sliver (1993) | Credit: Paramount Pictures

The roots of their dispute stretch back to 1993, when both actors starred in Sliver, a film directed by Phillip Noyce. Known for its steamy scenes and intensity, the thriller was as much about the drama off-camera as it was on.

But what really fueled the fire was a shocking suggestion from Sliver’s producer, Robert Evans. But the story doesn’t end with Stone’s words. Enter Daniel Baldwin, Billy’s brother, who took to The Tonight Show to air his grievances about Sharon Stone’s alleged unprofessional behavior during the film’s production.

Lithuanian drama Toxic, the debut feature of Saule Bliuvaite, has picked up the Golden Peacock award for best film at the 55th International Film Festival of India.

At the closing ceremony of the festival in Goa, the film also scooped the best actress award, shared between co-leads Vesta Matulyte and Ieva Rupeikaite.

Scroll down for full list of winners

Toxic follows two teenage girls from a bleak industrial town who join an extreme local modelling school. Featuring a cast of non-actors, it premiered at Locarno in August where it won the Golden Leopard for best film as well as the best first feature award.

Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė’s “Toxic” took home the best film award at the 55th International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa. The jury, headed by Indian director Ashutosh Gowariker, recognized the film for its portrayal of adolescence and economic hardship.

Previously, at Locarno, “Toxic” won not only the Golden Leopard for Best Film in the fest’s premier International Competition — from a jury chaired by Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner — but also, in an unusual double, the top prize in the separately juried First Feature Competition.

Variety‘s positive review of “Toxic” described the film as “sobering but not without glimmers of tenderness and humor as female friendship takes root in a hopeless place,” adding that its “alternation between chilly composure and kinetic movement roughly corresponds with [the protagonist’s] wavering sense of self.”

Romanian director Bogdan Muresanu nabbed the best director prize for “The New Year That Never Came,” a multi-narrative feature set during a revolution.

Phillip Noyce, the ace Australian director behind “The Quiet American” “Salt and “Rabbit Proof Fence,” is no ordinary storyteller. His genial, almost bumbling, demeanor belies a quick brain and an avid user of technology.

Both were on display in Goa at the International Film Festival of India where he is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award, and where Monday he delivered a memorable masterclass.

His method of explaining how to succeed in the new Hollywood, passes through a description of the dire state of film pre-sales through to on-stage trust games and extracts from an unsuccessful pilot.

Noyce’s analysis of the U.S. film industry’s crisis is that production was ramped up during Covid and then scaled back; that theatrical box office is waning and causing the prices of bankable actors and pre-sales values of unmade films to decline; and that during the writers and actors’ strikes...

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If you are a horror fan then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription you might be wondering what’s in store for you in December 2024. Don’t worry there is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month and we have listed the 10 best movies coming to Shudder in December 2024.

Coming Home in the Dark (December 1) Credit – MPI Media Group

Coming Home in the Dark is a psychological horror thriller film directed by James Ashcroft who also co-wrote the screenplay with Eli Kent. Based on the 1995 short story of the same name by Owen Marshall, the 2021 film follows a high-school teacher and his family on a road trip but they are soon captured by...

John Seale, the Australian-born cinematographer who won an Oscar for “The English Patient” and has four other nominations for “Witness,” “Rain Man,” “Cold Mountain” and 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” was one of the highest-profile international guests at the ongoing International Film Festival of India.

In a Saturday masterclass, he examined multiple angles of cinematography and the wider film industry. Topics ranged from working with actors, his preference for being a lighting-cameraman, through to the use of multiple cameras and making sure that he approaches every film as a new and different challenge.

His descriptions of an early career in television, working on low-budgets and the breakout 1980s successes of Australian filmmakers were both a happy trip down memory lane and instructive for those people working outside the comfort zone of the Hollywood system.

“In the early 1960s, the Australian film industry was zilch. There was no feature film industry to speak of at all.

Ana Tiwary’s Sydney-based production company indiVisual films – international is bringing “Home Before Night,” a cross-cultural drama with sci-fi elements, to India’s Film Bazaar’s co-production Market.

“It is such a hauntingly beautiful story that mixes drama with elements of science fiction and authentically represents the experiences of migrants in Australia,” says Tiwary (“Rhapsody of Love”).

Written and directed by Kalani Gacon (“Sapana ko Awaz (The Sound of Dreaming)”), the film follows two women’s intertwined journeys: Chanda, a Nepali aged-care worker in Australia wrestling with permanent residency decisions, and Orana, an Australian of Nepali heritage searching for her estranged father. Their stories converge through a memory-donation program designed for homesick migrants.

“I want people to leave with an appreciation for the spaces between—those subtle, often overlooked places where identities intersect and cultures blend,” says Gacon, who drew from personal experience. “Like my protagonist, Orana, I, too, travelled...

The all-horror streaming service Shudder has announced its full December 2024 lineup this week, with new originals, exclusives and catalogue titles headed our way next month.

Get ready to spend the ho-ho-horror days with new holiday special “Job Bob’s Christmas Carnage” and “The Haunted Season” from renowned author, producer, and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse. Read on for the full December 2024 lineup from Shudder…

Last Straw

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Directed by Alan Scott Neal

Streaming On Shudder December 20

Available in US, CA

Synopsis

A rural roadside diner becomes the host of a maniacal killing spree – leaving a young waitress to clean up the mess. After hard-headed Nancy fires the staff at her dad’s diner, she decides to cover the last shift of the night by herself. Little does she know she is far from alone. The day is coming back to haunt her and when things begin to spiral out of control,...

The 1980s were a successful decade for the thriller genre, and produced plenty of hidden gems. Some of the best suspense-ridden movies in the history of cinema debuted during that period. The period opened with a disturbing masterpiece of fear with The Shining, and it proceeded to give the audience more cinematographic gems. While some 80s cult classic movies like The Blade Runner are still remembered and praised, others appear to be largely overlooked by today's public.

Perhaps they were overshadowed by bigger names when they first came out, or they simply faded into obscurity over the years. Like many subsequent underrated 90s thrillers, plenty of great representatives of this genre from the 1980s deserve a second look. Audiences, especially those who are attracted to the dark allure of psychologically disturbing and emotionally intriguing stories, deserve the opportunity to rediscover these hidden treasures.

Still of the Night (1982) Director: Robert Benton...

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In this age of superhero movies, we rarely see a blockbuster take over the conversation in pop culture. Yes, I know there is Top Gun: Maverick, Barbie, and Oppenheimer but the true era of blockbusters is long gone and so are the movie stars there were times when blockbusters were all the rage and in this list, we are talking about that time, 1990s. Countless films were released in the 1990s and several of them became blockbusters but now many people don’t even remember them and even if they do they are not talking about them. So, we took it upon ourselves to create a list of the best 10 forgotten blockbusters that were released in the 1990s.

Air Force One (Rent on Prime Video) Box Office: $315.2 Million Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79% Credit – Sony Pictures

Air Force One is...

Let’s talk about Tom Cruise, shall we? You know, that guy who’s been running on our screens since forever. From his breakout role in Taps (1981) to becoming Hollywood’s go-to action superstar, Cruise has pretty much nailed the whole “movie star” thing. With mega-hits like Top Gun (1986), Mission: Impossible (1996), and Jerry Maguire (1996) he’s basically become a one-man box office machine, casually raking in billions of dollars worldwide.

Tom Cruise in a still from Knight and Day (2010) | 20th Century Studios

But here’s the thing, you’d think someone with his track record would have a perfect batting average when it comes to picking scripts, but nope! Even The Tom Cruise has let some pretty decent roles slip through his fingers. Ready for a fun dive into the parallel universe of Tom Cruise’s career? Here are ten times he probably kicked himself for saying “Thanks, but no thanks.

Canary Black, starring Kate Beckinsale, delivers high-stakes action, intense espionage, and the thrill of watching a rogue operative outsmart her enemies against impossible odds. Directed by Pierre Morel, who also helmed Taken, this film introduces audiences to Avery Graves, a CIA agent forced to go underground after her husband is kidnapped by a group demanding sensitive intelligence. Unaware of her true identity as a spy, her husband’s kidnapping pulls Avery into a treacherous chase across Europe as she tries to retrieve the classified “Canary Black” file to save him. With relentless chases and plenty of stylish flair, Canary Black might have been something you wanted to see but did not get enough of because of the restriction that streaming brings with it. So, in the following list, I will not down 5 other movies that you might like if you thought Canary Black was interesting.

1. Salt (2010)

In Salt, Angelina Jolie stars as Evelyn Salt,...

The action movie genre has given audiences some of the most entertaining films in the industry, building up the careers of Hollywood icons like Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. While most people best associate the genre with male action heroes, the film industry has delivered fans a long line of female-led movies, from shoot 'em-up revenge stories to James Bond-inspired spy thrillers. One of the most iconic in the genre is Quentin Tarantino's two-part Kill Bill epic.

Female-led action movies aren't as common as those led by men, but represent some of the best movies in the genre, especially in recent years. With movie studios more open to female leads than ever, the action genre has seen a resurgence in female stars, from standalone epics to multipart franchises. While these films don't always land with audiences, some of them have cultivated devoted fan bases.

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Canary Black is a spy action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel from a screenplay by Matthew Kennedy. The Prime Video film follows Avery Graves, an exceptional CIA agent whose husband is kidnapped by terrorists to blackmail her into stealing sensitive information that would betray her country. Canary Black stars Kate Beckinsale in the lead role with Rupert Friend, Ray Stevenson, Saffron Burrows, Ben Miles, and Michael Brandon starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the explosive action, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Canary Black here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Salt (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Columbia Pictures

Salt is a spy action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce from a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer. The 2010 film follows Evelyn Salt, an exceptional CIA agent who is wrongfully accused of killing the Russian president.

Angelina Jolie is one of the biggest action stars and Hollywood's top choice for female-led films in the genre. By 2010, when she starred as the titular character in Salt, she was already an established action actress, with several popular titles under her belt.

Now Salt is one of the titles that will join Tubi's new selection of free films starting Nov. 1. Following her role as the title character in the video adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its sequel, 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and 2008's Wanted, Jolie had proven her star quality and was more than ready to tackle the role of Evelyn Salt. The action thriller will join other titles like 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, 2015's Furious 7, 2012's Taken 2 and 3, and 2021's Wrath of Man.

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Australian actress Andrea Solonge has become the twelfth recipient of the Heath Ledger Scholarship.

Solonge was announced as recipient of the prestigious award at an Australians in Film event held last night at Soho House in West Hollywood attended by the likes of Yellowjackets actors Melanie Lynskey and Simone Kessell, The Bear co-showrunner Joanna Calo and Rabbit Proof Fence director Phillip Noyce.

The award was established in 2012 after The Dark Knight actor Ledger had tragically passed away. It has broadly become the key barometer and platform for new talent coming out of Hollywood, with previous recipients including American Horror Story: Apocalypse actor Cody Fern, Mojean Aria (Reminiscence), Ashleigh Cummings (Citadel), Charmaine Bingwa (Emancipation) and Rahel Romahn (A Mad Max Saga).

Solonge will receive a $10,000 living allowance, rent and transport assistance in LA, plus several other prizes aimed at building her career in Hollywood, such as private coaching, tax advice and headshot and publicity aid.

Angelina Jolie remains one of the most recognizable actors in Hollywood, even though she doesn't work quite as regularly today as she did in the first decade of the 2000s. After starring in Girl, Interrupted (1999) Jolie went on to star in movies like Alexander (2004), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005), The Good Shepherd (2006), and Wanted (2008). Though she is widely known for films across a variety of genres, Jolie, especially at that time, had a reputation as something of an action star.

Jolie's role as video game adventurer Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider movies cemented her action hero persona, and subsequent roles in Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Wanted only further solidified this. More recently, the actor returned as an action star for movies like Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) and Eternals (2021). One specific subgenre that Jolie has worked in sparingly is the espionage thriller, but her work in this space is...

When The Old Guard began streaming on Netflix, not many would have anticipated that it would go on to become one of the top 10 most successful original launches in the platform’s history. It did, making it a project Netflix was willing to make a sequel of. But that wasn’t the only thing the movie was memorable for.

Charlize Theron, portraying the role of Andy would slay yet again in an action role, a phenomenon that was being repeated constantly. The Monster star had already begun to carve a reputation for herself with Mad Max: Fury Road. Add to that some other projects along the way, and fans believed that they she had dethroned another great from the seat of the best Female action star in Hollywood.

It all started here Linda Hamilton was one of the pioneers of the genre || Image by Gag Skidmore, licensed under Cc By-sa 2.0,...

Phillip Noyce's 2010 spy thriller "Salt" is a corker of an action movie, with all the requisite thrills, fights, and plot twists that should come naturally to the genre. It's not until you watch a film like "Salt" that you realize how poorly other spy films have done it. It's that good. Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, an experienced CIA operative who has seen a lot of time in the field. At the beginning of the film, the CIA takes in a Russian defector and Evelyn is assigned to interrogate him. He reveals that there's a secret Russian mole inside the CIA, stating that her name ... is Evelyn Salt. Oh no!

Salt evades capture from her CIA colleagues and goes on the lam, hoping to clear her name. Does she have Russian sympathies or has she been wrongfully accused? There are many additional twists throughout, and I will leave them for you to discover.

Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton is directing an upcoming movie about Pemulwuy, a significant figure in Australian history. The film, titled “First Warrior,” will tell the epic story of Pemulwuy’s leadership battling British colonization in the late 1700s. Sam Worthington and Jason Clarke are attached to star, and producers are looking for an actor to portray Pemulwuy.

Pemulwuy was a leader of the Bidjigal Aboriginal group near modern-day Sydney. For over a decade, he organized resistance against settlers moving onto traditional Indigenous lands. His efforts are regarded as some of the earliest, strongest opposition to colonization in Australia. Yet this pivotal period receives little attention historically.

The film aims to shine a light on Pemulwuy’s remarkable story. Thornton says the script captures “an important story” and he’s honored to be involved. Thornton has won acclaim for movies including “Samson & Delilah” and “Sweet Country.” Aboriginal creatives hold central...

Leading Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton has signed on to direct First Warrior, an epic feature about Australian Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy. Aussie stars Sam Worthington (Avatar, Hacksaw Ridge) and Jason Clarke (Oppenheimer, Zero Dark Thirty) have boarded the project in lead parts, while a casting search is said to be underway for the lead role of Pemulwuy.

A Bidjigal man of the Sydney tribes, Pemulwuy led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people’s traditional lands as Australia was colonized in the late 1700s.

One of Australia’s most admired directors, Thornton broke through in 2009 when his directorial debut, Samson & Delilah won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or prize. His 2017 film Sweet Country took home Venice’s Special Jury Prize and his most recent work, The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett, premiered at Cannes last year.

First Warrior is supported by the Bidjigal, Dharawal and...

Netflix's adaptation of Scott Westerfeld's hugely popular novel has viewers scouring streaming platforms for the best movies like Uglies. The films in question run the gamut in terms of genre, encompassing sci-fi, dystopian, and young adult (YA) elements. Of course, some of the best Uglies replacements combine all of those categories, capturing the feel of Westerfeld's dystopian YA story. Led by Joey King's Tally, Uglies' cast of characters live in a world where government-mandated cosmetic surgery is the norm. When people turn 16, they undergo Uglies' Transformation, a surgical procedure that turns them into "Pretties."

Before Uglies' ending, Tally learns that the Transformation has a more sinister purpose. The cosmetic procedure creates brain lesions, which dull the Pretties and strips them of their individuality and agency. Outside the City, a rebel group known as The Smoke harbors a secret weapon: a cure that promises to restore Pretties' ability to think freely.

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Uglies is a sci-fi drama film directed by McG from a screenplay co-written by Jacob Forman, Vanessa Taylor, and Whit Anderson. Based on the 2005 dystopian novel of the same name by author Scott Westerfeld, the Netflix film is set in a world with enforced beauty standards and it follows the story of Tally Youngblood, who has been waiting for her beauty surgery but when one of her friend goes missing, she goes on an adventure which helps her learn about herself and the world she is living in. Uglies stars Joey King in the lead role with Chase Stokes, Keith Powers, Laverne Cox, Brianne Tju, Jan Luis Castellanos, and Kevin Miles starring in supporting roles. If you loved the rebellious nature, interesting dystopian world, and compelling characters in Uglies here are some similar movies you should check out next.

“The Deb” has finally made its debut. Sort of.

The coming-of-age musical, which has been caught in the middle of a bare-knuckled brawl between director Rebel Wilson and a trio of producers, screened for a select group of industry figures at WME’s offices in Beverly Hills on Monday afternoon.

Wilson was in attendance for the screening, which was described as an “intimate private” event in an invitation. Before the screening, the “Pitch Perfect” star made a quick speech thanking everyone for showing up and urged guests “to laugh and cry and feel anything they wanted.” After the credits rolled, Wilson reemerged and teared up, apparently moved by the crowd’s enthusiastic response, according to an attendee. Among the guests were fellow Aussie directors Phillip Noyce and Sophia Banks as well as reps from Netflix and Universal. The two studios have longstanding deep ties with Wilson via “Isn’t It Romantic...

Exclusive: HBO is in development on the comedy series Flat Tyres from Fifth Season and co-creators Thabo Rametsi and Robbie Leacock.

The series follows a hapless gang of four deluded friends as they endlessly try – and fail – to become criminal kingpins of Cape Town’s most vibrant township.

Executive producers are Nicholas Hatton and Jason Woliner for Swindle Pictures as well as Matt Sadeghian and Geordan Somerville for Brillstein.

Rametsi is a multi-award-winning South African actor, writer, director, and producer who has starred in critically and commercially successful African films including the independent feature Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu as well as Amandla and Silverton Siege for Netflix. He is known for his roles in U.S. projects including The Gamechangers starring Daniel Radcliffe, Homeland with Rupert Friend, and The Giver directed by Phillip Noyce.

Rametsi is also the co-creator of the upcoming graphic novel series Imbokodo published by...

Phillip Noyce’s 2002 drama Rabbit-Proof Fence will have a 4K remastered cut premiere at the Smith Rafael Film Center on Saturday, July 27 at 7Pm.

Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the true story of three mixed-race Aboriginal girls—Molly Craig, her sister Daisy Kadibill, and their cousin Gracie Fields—who, after being forcibly removed from their mothers in 1931, escaped from a government reeducation camp and embarked on a harrowing journey across the Australian Outback by way of the ‘rabbit-proof fence,’ which once stretched the length of Western Australia, to return to their families. The feature portrays a moment in Australian history now referred to as the Stolen Generations. Kenneth Branagh also stars in the film.

The movie, which was released by Miramax, went on to earn Noyce Best Director at the National Board of Review that year as well as the Freedom of Expression awards and one of the org’s top ten pics.

Sharon Stone will receive a lifetime achievement honor on the closing night of the 70th edition of the Taormina Film Festival next month.

The fest will present her with the Cariddi d’oro alla carriera (Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement), which has previously been awarded to the likes of Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Richard Gere, Colin Firth, Isabelle Huppert, and Gina Lollobrigida.

The star and producer will meet the press and the audience on the occasion of a conversation on “how she redefined what it meant to be a woman on screen, becoming a global cultural icon over the decades,” Taormina fest organizers said on Wednesday. “Sharon Stone’s appearance in Taormina – curated by Marco Fallanca – marks her first attendance at the festival, which hosted Basic Instinct’s Italian premiere in 1992.”

After her debut in 1980 with a cult cameo in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories,...