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It's Charli Xcx's world, and we're all just living in it. Not only was she just nominated for a whopping seven Grammy nominations for her critically acclaimed album Brat, including album of the year, but the pop star is now garnering major Hollywood attention. Deadline reports that Charli will join the cast of The Gallerist, which stars Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega and will begin filming sometime at the end of this year.

The plot will follow a desperate gallerist who cooks up a scheme to sell a dead body at a famous art gallery. No word on who will play the lead, but we do know the rest of the cast, which is satisfactorily stacked. The film is also set to star Da’Vine Joy Randolph, winner of last year's best supporting actress Oscar for The Holdovers, Sterling K. Brown, Zach Galifianakis, Daniel Brühl, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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Action movies have been a cornerstone of cinema for its entire 100-year history: from the classic Buster Keaton films of the 1920s to the John Wick movies of the 2020s. Unfortunately, that history has often underrepresented female voices, who spent many years of film history in unsung roles behind the scenes.

Luckily, many female directors have emerged in recent years to deliver some of the most dynamic, interesting action films out there. Female voices behind the camera have added great dimensions to the action genre.

This Forgotten Dceu Film Deserves More Recognition Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

Directed by:

Cathy Yan

Starring:

Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Released just at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, when movie theaters were shutting down around the world, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn...

If you still can’t forget that egg sandwich from Birds of Prey, maybe it’s time you make one!

“After watching Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn in theaters and on VOD, I ended each viewing with the same thought. Where can I get myself one of those delicious egg sandwiches? Luckily actor Bruno Oliver, who plays short order cook Sal in BoP, made a video for Variety walking us through what goes into that magical bodega breakfast sandwich.”

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There’s a website that tells you what you should read next when you finish a book.

“If you’ve ever finished a book and thought, ‘What should I read next?’ then the aptly-titled website WhatShouldIReadNext.com is for you. Enter in a title, author, or Isbn number, and the site analyzes reviews and ratings from other readers and recommends books.

When actor Bruno Oliver booked the role of short order cook Sal in “Birds of Prey: (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” he had no idea how significant Sal and his breakfast sandwich were to the story.

“You couldn’t tell from the audition necessarily and as actors, we always worry about our scenes being cut,” Oliver notes. “I really didn’t understand the place the egg sandwich had in the movie until I saw it.”

“Birds of Prey” centers on Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) starting a new life after breaking up with the Joker. In an early scene, she stops off for her favorite breakfast sandwich, only to have it knocked from her hands as a series of bounty hunters chase her. In honor of the film hitting digital and streaming this week, Oliver showed us how to make the delicious-looking supporting character.

The recipe takes bacon,...

GQ (Jack Yang) is really sick and tired of playing the same old offensively exaggerated stereotypes of Chinese characters. When GQ finally stands up to his unabashedly racist director (Bruno Oliver), he is dumped by his agent and finds himself practically blacklisted. So, GQ decides to fight fire with fire. Playing the Hollywood game, GQ preys upon an innocent casting director (Heather Mazur), charming her pants off and convincing her to help propel his acting career forward. Unfortunately, there is still one major hurdle for GQ, his ethnicity. Even in the 21st century, Hollywood studios still do not want to cast a Chinese American actor in a leading role.