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Donald Trump asked Emma Thompson on a date, the Oscar-winning actor revealed at Locarno Film Festival.

“A phone rang in my trailer, and it was Donald Trump. I thought it was a joke. ‘Hi, it’s Donald Trump here,'” Thompson revealed. “I said, ‘How can I help you?’ I thought he needed directions. He said: ‘I would love for you to stay in one of my beautiful places, and maybe we could have dinner,” she revealed during a masterclass in Locarno, recalling working on Mike Nichols’ political satire “Primary Colors”.

“I realized that on that very day my divorce has finally come through. I bet he has people looking all over for suitable people he could take out, for all these nice divorcees — I mean, he found the number of my trailer! That’s stalking! So yes, I could have gone on a date with Donald Trump. I could...

Emma Thompson discussed her career, including getting a call from Donald Trump asking her on a date, her days doing stand-up comedy, including jokes about herpes and Margaret Thatcher, Sense and Sensibility, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal playing out during the Primary Colors shoot in Locarno, Switzerland on Saturday.

She appeared in front of a huge and hugely excited crowd after, on Friday evening, joining the likes of Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, Andy García, Adrien Brody, Meg Ryan, Hilary Swank, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Irène Jacob as a recipient of the Locarno Film Festival‘s Leopard Club Award on the Swiss town’s picturesque Piazza Grande. The Friday evening world premiere and awards ceremony was such a hot ticket in town that security had to turn people away when the square reached capacity.

At Saturday’s talk, all seats were filled well ahead of the event, with more people crowding around...

The notion that sex and violence are primarily what sells has been a long-standing axiom in numerous industries, but particularly in entertainment. Human beings are inexorably drawn to the darker side of life and wish to have experiences that safely allow them to indulge in these concepts and feelings. Yet censorship has always existed in the arts for a variety of reasons, which are too complex and culturally varied to go into here. Suffice it to say that artists have always found clever ways of subverting and getting around such restrictions. This is why, when watching a film that was made in America during the Hays Production Code, you can often find moments and themes that are incredibly clever in how they handle risqué elements, the better to fool the censors but not the audience.

Eventually, of course, the Hays Code fell apart, ushering in the era of the Motion...

King Charles III (then Prince Charles) and Princess Diana were married in what was coined as “the wedding of the century” 44 years ago today.

Charles And Diana’s Wedding Attracted 750 Million TV Viewers

Charles and Diana were joined as husband and wife on July 29, 1981. The young bride-to-be was only 20 years old.

Their union created significant interest in the royal family. The occasion marked the first time a British citizen wedded an heir to the throne in 300 years.

A record-breaking 750 million individuals in 74 countries tuned in to watch the (then) Prince and Prince of Wales marry.

The marriage started with a grand and extravagant fairytale wedding, resulted in the birth of two princes, and ended in a bitter divorce.

The couple were married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Years later, Diana referred to her wedding as “the worst day of my life.”

It is said that the night before the wedding,...

This post contains spoilers from And Just Like That season 3 episode 9 from this point forward.

Have you heard the exciting news? Carrie Bradshaw dumped her bad boyfriend, and we're celebrating! That might sound harsh to some people, but Carrie's rekindled relationship with Aidan was really sucking the air out of And Just Like That season 3 and sucking the life out of our girl. It became increasingly hard to watch Carrie sacrifice so much, but that's all in the past now.

Not even Miranda expressing her concern to Carrie about her relationship with Aidan, or what could be possible to have with Duncan, were able to shake Carrie loose from trying to have it all. She had to finally see for herself that being with Aidan wasn't going to work in the long run, and it wasn't for lack of giving it everything she had or any fault of her own.

After years of fans campaigning for a sequel to 2012's Dredd, it looks like they will get a new Judge Dredd movie, just not the one they expected. Created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, Judge Dredd first appeared in the British weekly anthology comic 2000 Ad. A cult sci-fi hero, the character has had two film adaptations. The first was Sylvester Stallone's 1995 film, which disappointed fans and critics. 2012's Dredd, starring Karl Urban, earned positive critical reviews and, despite disappointing at the box office, gained a cult following.

Taika Waititi is set to direct a reboot of Judge Dredd, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Waititi's credits include the McU's Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder, as well as critically acclaimed comedies such as The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows, and Jojo Rabbit. The film script will be written by Drew Pearce,...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for this week’s And Just Like That.

One of the two new men in Carrie’s life just made his feelings known on And Just Like That…, but those feelings are pointed in another direction.

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In Thursday’s episode, Carrie’s hunky landscaper Adam...

The groundbreaking anarchic, drug-soaked and political semi-biopic “Kneecap” opened the Galway Film Fleadh in 2024 on its way to a BAFTA award and a chance at an Oscar nomination, having been submitted by Ireland and making the Academy’s international film shortlist.

While Kneecap the band are still touring (they recently played at Glastonbury) and sparking headlines as they go, the film’s producer Trevor Birney returns to Galway this week with an altogether different project.

“The Negotiator” is a feature doc telling the story of George J. Mitchell, the U.S. senator who was instrumental in what would become 1998’s Good Friday Agreement that brought an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The film charts Mitchell’s journey from Maine to Washington D.C. to almost six years as senate majority leader to being selected by Bill Clinton as the special envoy for Northern Ireland. But it also puts...

In case anyone was wondering if the headline-grabbing Irish hip-hop insurgents Kneecap were backing down in light of blowback for their pro-Palestine beliefs, the band’s new video makes that answer clear: No.

Two weeks ago, the band officially released “The Recap,” a collaboration with British drum-and-bass producer Mozey that was first heard as a “bootleg” on Soundcloud in May. The group has now followed it with a video, which further addresses the blowback the group has faced during some of its recent live shows at the Coachella and Glastonbury festivals.

The emotion bubbled up as Gillian Anderson collected her CineMerit Award at the Munich International Film Festival. Visibly moved, the star said: “I feel unbelievably honored and I feel like I have been a little bit of a hole. I’m a bit of a hermit, so when these things happen it feels like they are even more shocking because I feel like I have been going on, putting one foot in front of the other and doing my thing, and sometimes I forget that people pay attention.”

They were paying attention in Munich’s Deutsches Theater where the star screened her new movie The Salt Path and gave a Q+A. She then received a standing ovation.

To the audible delight of The X-Files fans in the room, Anderson zeroed in on Dana Scully when asked whether the passage of time has changed how she felt about any of the characters she has played.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s And Just Like That.

Carrie discovered she has a nightmare neighbor on And Just Like That… this week… but could he actually turn out to be a dream come true?

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In Thursday’s episode, we learned that underneath Carrie’s Gramercy Park townhouse sits an apartment occupied by cranky British author Duncan Reeves, played...

The Peabody Awards will honor veteran NBC News’ Chief Washington and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell with the Career Achievement Award, and the landmark sketch comedy series “Saturday Night Live” with the Institutional Award during a June 1 ceremony in Beverly Hills.

Now in its 85th year, the Peabody Awards recognize the importance of storytelling and of narratives irrespective of genre or platform, whether the show be entertainment, news, a documentary, children’s programing, radio, podcasting or a video game.

Jeffrey P. Jones, executive director of the Peabody Awards, says that Mitchell’s long, distinguished career as a journalist at various capacities covering the White House and international affairs — and the gravity of both of those positions — makes her an obvious choice for the award.

“It’s someone like that who’s had such a career in the public eye, we felt as if it was important to recognize not just that longevity,...

Flight 149: Hostage of War is the title of a new Sky feature documentary that recounts “one of the most extraordinary — and until recently, officially denied — chapters of the Gulf War,” the Comcast-owned company said Friday in unveiling a trailer for the original film that will debut in the U.K. and Ireland in June.

“On Aug. 2, 1990, just after Saddam [Hussein]’s forces storm Kuwait, a civilian flight unwittingly touches down in the middle of the war zone,” reads a synopsis for the doc. “The passengers and crew find themselves trapped, held as hostages by Saddam Hussein, becoming pawns in a rapidly escalating international crisis that will reshape the Middle East.”

Calling the doc “an unflinching exploration of a geopolitical scandal,” Sky also highlighted the stakes. “For over three decades, the British government denied any prior knowledge of the invasion before the plane’s ill-fated landing. Now, new information...

Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness

‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown), Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Lady), Emily Maitlis (the Prince Andrew/Newsnight drama Scoop) – as well as the formidable sex therapist in the Netflix hit Sex Education, a role that led to her being inundated with dildos from over-enthusiastic fans. “These are all women in control of themselves and their environment. Any time I have an opportunity to steer against that, particularly lately, it’s of interest to me.”

There is steering in another direction, and then there is the screeching handbrake turn represented by her role in The Salt Path, adapted from Raynor Winn...

Gillian Anderson is to receive the Munich International Film Festival’s CineMerit Award at its upcoming edition, which takes place June 27-July 6.

The Award Ceremony will be held during a gala evening at the Deutsches Theater that will include the German premiere of Anderson’s latest film The Salt Path, directed by Marianne Elliott.

“By honoring Gillian Anderson, we are saluting a person who embodies much more than an impressive career. She represents strong womanhood and smart decisions, and is a model of principles and integrity,” said Munich Film Festival artistic directors Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner.

Anderson’s breakthrough came in the 1990s,...

The Munich International Film Festival will hand its honorary CineMerit Award to Gillian Anderson during its upcoming edition, which runs from June 27 to July 6.

Anderson will be handed the awards during a ceremony at the Deutsches Theater, where the German premiere of her latest film, The Salt Path, will take place.

“Gillian Anderson’s incredible versatility never ceases to amaze us: an FBI agent, a sex therapist, an Iron Lady,” Munich festival directors Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner said in a statement.

“The Salt Path, adapted from a best-selling novel, reveals a whole new side to her, which we will all get to explore at the Deutsches Theater. By honoring Gillian Anderson, we are saluting a person who embodies much more than an impressive career. She represents strong womanhood and smart decisions, and is a model of principles and integrity.”

Anderson’s breakthrough came in the 1990s, when she took...

Exclusive: The Responder and Big Mood maker Dancing Ledge Productions has signed a development deal with historian, The Rest is History podcaster and author Dominic Sandbrook.

The agreement will see Sandbrook develop and executive produce a range of scripted and factual series at the London-based Dancing Ledge, which is also behind true-life drama The Salisbury Poisonings.

Sandbrook will work with the creative team at Fremantle-backed Dancing Ledge to create a slate of limited series, returning dramas and factual formats that rework how contemporary history is brought to the screen.

He’s known for his Goalhanger Podcasts-made series The Rest is History, which sits in a stable alongside The Rest is Politics and The Rest is Entertainment, and has led to sell-out live tours in the U.S. and UK. The Rest Is History is regularly in the top ten podcasts in the U.S. and has nearly 50,000 paying subscribers.

Documentary follows the 1988 anti-audism revolt in the US after the world’s first deaf university appointed a hearing person to head it

‘It’s awfully difficult to talk above this loud noise,” says the chair of the board of trustees at a liberal arts university. It’s the late 1980s, protesting students have shut down the campus and now, midway through a tense meeting, someone has set off the fire alarm. But here’s the thing, Gallaudet University in Washington DC is the world’s first deaf university. The students can have a conversation just fine with the alarms blaring – in sign language. But trustee chair Jane Bassett Spilman does not sign. In fact, she appears to be completely ignorant about deaf culture – and, dressed like a Margaret Thatcher lookalike, all handbags and helmet hair, she is the easy-to-loathe villain of this fascinating documentary.

Co-directed by actor and deaf activist Nyle Dimarco with Davis Guggenheim,...

In Bruce Robinson’s debut feature, Withnail and I, the permanent scowl of Richard E. Grant’s character speaks to his anger at a world that fails to acknowledge his genius, his features made more gaunt and lifeless by alcoholism. The actor channels much of the same body language and aura as Withnail in Robinson’s 1987 sophomore feature, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, to play advertising executive Denis Bagley, though here the shambolic sense of grievance is replaced by mercenary superiority.

In the film’s opening scene, Bagley presides over a meeting where he exalts a closed ecosystem of advertising, bragging through a dagger smile that they can sell junk food to the masses and advance body-image standards to guilt those same consumers into buying fad-diet products. Bagley sees everyone as lemmings whose hypocrisies are made to be exploited, and to the point that he even ruins dinner parties with friends,...

It didn’t begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional deals involving Star Wars have an inescapable gravity.

May 4 — or May the 4th, as fans say — has evolved over the years into Star Wars Day, an informal holiday celebrating the space epic and its surrounding franchise.

What is Star Wars Day?

Star Wars Day was created by fans as a sly nod to one of the films’ most popular catchphrases, “May the force be with you.” Get it? Good, now May the 4th be with you, too.

It’s not an official holiday but has become so well-known that even former President Joe Biden marked it last year when Star Wars actor Mark Hamill dropped by the White House a day beforehand. This year, the Trump administration marked the occasion with a Star Wars-themed meme.

The official White House X and Instagram accounts on Sunday posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a beefed-up Jedi in celebration of “Star Wars” day.

The post read, “Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known Ms-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire. May the 4th be with you.”

Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known Ms-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire.

May the 4th be with you. pic.twitter.com/G883DhDRR5

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 4, 2025

Although the post refers to Trump’s political opponents as “Sith Lords,...

Yes, the White House has just inadvertently called Donald Trump a Sith in its own surreal celebration of Star Wars Day. Star Wars has always been political; what's more, there's always been a political dimension to Star Wars Day, the franchise's annual celebration. "May the Fourth be with you" was first invoked by British newspapers when Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher won a General Election on that day in 1979.

The White House has just taken this one step further, though, issuing a tweet in honor of Star Wars Day that seems to have been trying to present Donald Trump as a Jedi hero. There's just one problem; the AI-generated image features a red lightsaber blade, the color of Sith and dark Jedi. Far from calling Trump a Jedi, the White House has just called him a Sith.

Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting...

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From here in the U.S. to galaxies far far away, May the 4th is known universally as “Star Wars Day,” thanks to a pun on that famous Star Wars quote, “May the force be with you.”

According to StarWars.com, the first notable occurrence with the May 4th pun took place on that date in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher took office as the new British Prime Minister. Thatcher...

Northern Irish rap trio Kneecap continue to face backlash for their pro-Palestine, anti-Israel statements made at Coachella 2025, resulting in a total of five concerts in Germany being canceled as of April 30th. At the same time, they’ve garnered support from several UK acts, including Massive Attack and artists signed to Kneecap’s label, Heavenly Recordings.

Last week, the group’s June appearances at Hurricane Festival and Southside Festival were pulled, reportedly without explanation. While Kneecap initially directed fans to scheduled headlining shows in Hamburg, Berlin, and Cologne after confirming the festival cancellations, those concerts have now also been canceled.

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The cancellations may be linked to Germany’s strict hate speech laws. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, the pro-Palestinian slogan “From the river to the sea” has been interpreted by some German courts as anti-Israel hate speech and thus deemed a criminal offense in some states,...

David Tennant is urging J.K. Rowling to curb her anti-trans comments.

The 55-year-old actor, who played Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, voiced his opinion about J.K. openly celebrating the U.K.’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women should not be recognized as women under the Equality Act.

“When I was a teenager, there was this thing that Margaret Thatcher’s government introduced called section 28, which was about stopping the promotion of homosexuality in school, which was a weird umbrella term, which was basically saying it was illegal to talk about being gay in school, or to suggest that that might be a normal way of behaving,” he said while on a recent episode of The Assembly, per The Guardian.

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“We look back on that now as a medieval, absurd thing to try and say, and I think...

Irish rap trio Kneecap have faced backlash from parts of the Jewish community and celebrities like Sharon Osbourne following their strong pro-Palestine, anti-Israel messaging during both weekends of Coachella. Now, the group has released a statement alleging that they’ve faced a “smear campaign” for their efforts.

“Since our statements at Coachella — exposing the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people — we have faced a coordinated smear campaign,” their statement reads. “For over a year, we have used our shows to call out the British and Irish governments’ complicity in war crimes.”

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Kneecap added that they are already taking action against these “malicious efforts,” which they state are “largely emanating from the US” and based on “deliberate distortions and falsehoods.”

The statement continues:

“The reason Kneecap is being targeted is simple — we are telling the truth, and our audience is growing. Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter.

Scottish broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark will receive this year’s BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s top accolade.

The BAFTA Fellowship is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the industry. Wark will join other journalists to receive the honor including Jon Snow and Kate Adie.

She presented the BBC’s landmark news show Newsnight for 30 years, holding politicians and public figures to account. Making her reputation as a journalist and producer on BBC Scotland, Wark was one of the first television journalists to arrive on the scene when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up in the skies above Lockerbie in 1988. She famously locked horns with British Pm Margaret Thatcher in 1990, in one of several headline-making interviews that propelled her into the spotlight.

She has also presented BBC arts programs The Late Show and The Review Show. Notable interviews in the cultural space include with Madonna, Harold Pinter,...

During the first weekend of Coachella 2025, Irish rap trio Kneecap led “Free Palestine” and anti-Margaret Thatcher chants that were cut from the official livestream. On Friday, April 18th, the group returned for weekend two and doubled down by displaying, “Fuck Israel, free Palestine” on the screens behind them.

Following criticism from Jewish groups directed at festival organizer Goldenvoice for the band’s actions, The Hollywood Reporter has published a report claiming CEO Paul Tollett was “blindsided” by the incident.

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It’s worth noting that sets at the Sonora tent were not livestreamed via Coachella’s official channels during weekend two, but Kneecap brought out streamer Hasan Piker to broadcast their protest on Twitch. “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” another message read on their stage screens. “It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes.

Kneecap returned to the Coachella stage this weekend after claiming that the pro-Palestine message they shared onstage during weekend one of the festival was cut from the official livestream. At the time, the band assured “it’ll be sorted” in time for their next set. During their Friday performance, the Irish rap group challenged censorship by conveying their message through visual graphics, though Coachella did not broadcast any performances from the Sonora tent during weekend two.

At the close of their early evening set, Kneecap broadcast three screens of text,...

Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap made quite the impression with their Coachella debut, using their set to protest the Israel-Hamas War‘s devastating impact on Palestine.

The group has sparked backlash after their Weekend 2 performance on Friday at the Sonora stage, during which they projected “fuck Israel,” “free Palestine” and other messages of protest against US support of the Israel-Hamas war.

“Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes,” the text read in photos shared on X by the group. “Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.”

After Coachella’s YouTube Live stream of their set was reportedly cut when they started an anti-Margaret Thatcher chant, the band wrote on X, “Not the only thing that was cut – our messaging on the US-backed genocide in Gaza somehow never appeared on screens either. Back next Friday Coachella and it’ll be sorted.

Irish hip-hop group Kneecap drew headlines during their weekend two performance at Coachella 2025, but not for the reasons a buzzing band typically claims. The group performed in the Sonora tent in front of large screens that projected references to genocide, denouncements of Israel and calls to “free Palestine.” Their set on April 18 also condemned the U.S. for its military support of Israel.

While the Coachella music festival is no stranger to political statements made onstage, this call to “Fuck Israel” has incensed Jewish groups who are calling out the fest’s promoter Goldenvoice (a subsidiary of Aeg) for its part in booking the band, which has been known to espouse the ideology of terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Kneecap followed up its Coachella set on social media with numerous video posts about their “uncensored messaging” and a request for young Americans to send the clips to President Trump,...

Doctor Who stars Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu have addressed the show tackling themes of racism in its latest episode, "Lux." The second episode of season 2 featured The Doctor (Gatwa) and companion Belinda Chandra ( Sethu) traveling to 1950s Miami.

While "Lux" is a largely light-hearted episode pitting The Doctor and his companion against evil cartoon character Mr. Ring-a-Ding, there are moments that address the genuine history of the era that The Doctor and Gatwa found themselves in. In one scene, The Doctor revealed to Belinda that they were breaking the law simply by sitting in a segregated diner because both are people of color.

Doctor Who Tackles Racism in Latest Episode "Lux"

Speaking on Doctor Who Unleashed, Sethu said it was important for the show to acknowledge the harsh realities of the time period The Doctor and Belinda were visiting.

"I said, 'Oh we're in the 1950s. It's really fun!

Irish hip-hop band Kneecap have claimed that the pro-Palestine message they shared onstage during Coachella was cut from the festival’s livestream.

After the group made their Coachella debut on Friday, NME reported that the trio’s livestream was cut short when the band led an anti-Margaret Thatcher chant. The band re-tweeted the article and added that their support for the Palestinian people was also missing.

“Not the only thing that was cut – our messaging on the US-backed genocide in Gaza somehow never appeared on screens either,” the band wrote on X,...

Cannibalism is one of the most taboo plot devices that a movie (or any work of fiction) can possibly feature. It's no surprise, then, that many films which feature cannibalism in some capacity fall into the horror genre, such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Nevertheless, many filmmakers have used cannibalism for more than just shock value, with recent films like Raw (2016), Bones and All (2022), and Society of the Snow (2023) even humanizing people who engage in cannibalism.

And then there's Peter Greenaway'sThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989). While the film doesn't feature any cannibalism until its disturbing ending, it is unique in that it features cannibalism in a rather heroic manner. This ending, combined with the film's expressionistic visual style and gruesome violence, has led to a multitude of interpretations regarding the film's themes, including as a political allegory and as a coming-of-age story.

“Reagan,” the Dennis Quaid-led biopic about Ronald Reagan that became a sleeper hit in the U.S. last year, earning $30 million, is going global thanks to Universal Pictures Content Group, which is set to release the film internationally.

The film was directed by Sean McNamara and stars Quaid as the Hollywood star turned Republican president alongside a cast including Penelope Ann Miller as First Lady Nancy Reagan, Mena Suvari as his first wife Jane Wyman, Lesley-Anne Down as Margaret Thatcher, Kevin Dillon as Jack L. Warner and Jon Voight as Petrovich, a Soviet who claims to have spied on Reagan for years. It released theatrically in the U.S. on August 30 by ShowBiz Direct, with Lionsgate handling ancillary. It also landed in cinemas in several territories including Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Poland via Voltage.

Variety understands that Upcg has the acquired rights to “Reagan” for a...

Ten years ago, Dame Helen Mirren appeared on the IFC channel to introduce the landmark 50th season of “Documentary Now!” With nary a wink, she threw to a “classic” documentary film called “Sandy Passage,” which begins with the shaky title cards you’d expect from a 1970s documentary touting tiny production shingles that made the film possible. For all intents and purposes, an unaware viewer may have thought they had stumbled upon an esteemed, long-running TV show that highlights old documentaries.

Then Bill Hader and Fred Armisen showed up.

“What a glorious time Peak TV was,” co-creator and writer Seth Meyers told TheWrap ahead of the show’s 10th anniversary this August and on the eve of a new Blu-ray release that packages all four seasons in a complete collection.

The brainchild of creators Hader, Armisen, Meyers and Rhys Thomas, the central conceit of “Documentary Now!” was that each episode...

Robert Pattinson is dead. Robert Pattinson is reborn. He hath risen! Rinse, repeat.

Like a Looney Tunes cartoon penned by Philip K. Dick, Mickey 17 — filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s long-awaited follow-up to his 2019 masterpiece Parasite — takes a technological breakthrough and runs its human lab rat of a hero through a gauntlet of future-shocked banality and brutality. In the early 2050s, mankind has figured out how to clone bodies and carry over a single consciousness. When we meet Pattinson’s Mickey Barnes, this copied-to-death Candide has already gone through a number...

There is a lot that goes into making a movie and sometimes things do not work out the way you want them to. Take Street Kings as an example. The 2008 action thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Chris Evans was in the making since the late 1990s and was even set for a 2005 release once. However, fate had different plans for the film. And while David Ayer turned out to be a good choice for Street Kings, the Suicide Squad filmmaker was not the studio’s first choice by a long shot.

Street Kings (2008) | Credits: Fox Searchlight Pictures

In fact, his name was fourth on the list with none other than David Fincher sitting on the top. Fortunately for David Ayer, the top choice decided to go with another project leaving the door open for an array of possibilities.

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The Oscars will honor the best movie of the year this Sunday, but the infamous Razzie Awards have crowned the “worst” of 2024’s films.

Sony’s much-derided superhero film “Madame Web” has the (dis)honor of winning three Razzies, including worst picture, actress for Dakota Johnson and screenplay. “Joker: Folie à Deux,” another divisive superhero entry,” led with seven nominations and took home screen combo for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga and prequel, remake, rip-off or sequel.

Francis Ford Coppola won for directing his big-budget epic “Megalopolis,” and star Jon Voight won supporting actor for the film — shared with his turns in “Reagan,” “Shadow Land” and “Strangers.” Coppola’s “Megalopolis” received six nominations, which was tied for second-most nods with “Madame Web,” “Borderlands” and “Reagan.”

The famed filmmaker responded to his Razzies on Instagram, saying “box office is only about money, and like war, stupidity and politics has no true place in our future.

The results are in on the 2025 Razzie Awards where the year’s “worst” movies are recognized and awarded.

The annual ceremony, which traditionally takes place just ahead of the Oscars, went down on Friday (February 28).

Going into the event, Borderlands, Joker: Folie a Deux, Madame Web, Megalopolis and Reagan led the field of nominees with six nods a piece. After it was all said and done, Madame Web took home the most “wins,” receiving three trophies.

We pulled together the complete “winners” list so that you could see what was recognized.

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Keep reading to see the complete list of winners from the 2025 Razzie Awards…

Worst Picture

Borderlands

Joker: Folie a Deux

Madame Web – Winner

Megalopolis

Reagan

Worst Actor

Jack Black / Dear Santa

Zachary Levi / Harold and the Purple Crayon

Joaquin Phoenix / Joker: Folie a Deux

Dennis Quaid / Reagan

Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted – Winner

Worst...

The 45th Razzie Awards results are in. Sony’s Madame Web is the clear winner/loser of this year’s dragging of cinematic mediocrity with three wins, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress for Dakota Johnson, and Worst Screenplay. The Razzie results arrive two days before Oscar Sunday when films that some consider the best of the best have their chance to shine.

Madame Web taking the top prize is unsurprising given the movie’s abysmal quality. It was my worst film of 2024 and a Golden Schmoe nominee for worst movie of 2024, only to be beaten by Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie a Deux. Dakota Johnson hardly tried to defend the film during its PR tour, saying she “probably will never make anything like it again.” To be fair, she enjoyed working with her castmates, who, despite circumstances, gave Madame Web the old college try, but the film turned into something...

The Academy Awards take place on Sunday evening and, as has become the tradition, the full list of "winners" from the 2025 Razzie Awards has just been unveiled.

Madame Web took three wins for "Worst Picture," "Worst Screenplay," and an arguably well-deserved "Worst Actress" for lead star Dakota Johnson. It wasn't the only comic book adaptation to walk away with a prize, though, as Joker: Folie à Deux nabbed "Worst Sequel" and "Worst Screen Combo" for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.

The vast majority of celebrities and filmmakers ignore the Razzies, while few interviewers have the nerve - and understandably so - to ask celebrities about their "wins."

However, Francis Ford Coppola, who earned "Worst Director" for his critically panned Megalopolis, issued a scathing retort on social media today.

"I am thrilled to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for Megalopolis, and for the distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director,...

The winners have just been announced for this year's Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the "Razzies." They include a big "win" garnered for Francis Ford Coppola, but the famed director had a good sense of humor about the acknowledgment.

Per THR, the full list of Razzie winners was unveiled on Friday, just ahead of this year's Academy Awards ceremony. The annual nominations acknowledge the "worst" movies, filmmakers, and performances from the prior year, and there was no shortage of comic book adaptations up for big honors this year. However, when it came to Worst Director, Francis Ford Coppola got the win for his polarizing, big-budget feature Megalopolis. Taking to Instagram, Coppola commented on the revelation, noting how he nevertheless remains proud of the film, along with himself for taking some risks outside the standard Hollywood movie formula.

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The miner's strike was one of the most divisive moments in British history. In the time of Margaret Thatcher, many social groups who didn't quite get along bonded together because of their shared dislike of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Released in 2014, this historical comedy/drama directed by Matthew Warchus and written by Stephen Beresford, Pride chronicles the true story of the London-based LGBTQ+ community lending their support to the Welsh miners' strike in 1984. This group, who named themselves Lgsm: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, raised and donated more money to their cause than any other fundraiser in the U.K.

This reunion was ... out there.

On Sunday, The X-Files stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reunited at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards. And they nearly ruined their moment in the spotlight when they opened up the winner's envelope for the Best Drama Ensemble category before ever announcing the nominees.

"Ensemble," Duchovny began after stepping out on stage. "I think that's a French word that means, 'Thank God I only have to work three days a week.' It's great to see you, Gillian. You look ..."

Anderson finished his sentence: "Younger than you last saw me when we shot 218 episodes?"

Duchovny and Anderson talked about "what makes great drama," and then answered at different times, "Timing" and "Chemistry," respectively.

When the audience only gave them a mild chuckle, Anderson shouted, "We still got it! Hilarious! We did that so well."

And Duchovny added, "Let's get out of here as soon as we can.

Bryan Fuller is the co-creator of Star Trek: Discovery and originally in charge of the casting. As I've previously written, he wanted Laurence Fishburne to play a Klingon on ther series and had some other differences in mind, too, like Paul Stamets [Anthony Rapp] being an Andorian.

Another actor he was reportedly in talks with to play a Starfleet captain was Gillian Anderson, better known as Dana Scully from The X-Files. [via Screenrant] An Emmy-Award winner, Anderson also portrayed Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, Hannibal's psychotherapist on Hannibal, a series that was developed by Fuller. It seems he had an idea to bring most of the cast of Hannibal aboard Discovery.

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Honestly, though, having Anderson as a captain isn't a bad idea at all. She plays the perfect authoritative figure [see her role on The Crown as Margaret Thatcher] and, after having spent time on The X-Files which ran for eleven seasons,...

Adam Dalgliesh, a British detective, demonstrates a distinctive approach to solving crimes through his empathetic, reflective methods. His investigative style diverges from traditional detective narratives, emphasizing a more compassionate and introspective technique of uncovering truth.

Bertie Carvel presents Dalgliesh with remarkable subtlety and precision. His performance reveals a reserved character who maintains emotional composure following personal loss. Carvel depicts a controlled professional, skillfully balancing observational acuity with measured emotional responses. His interactions with Dr. Lavenham, though concise, reveal nuanced interpersonal dynamics.

The series struggles to expand Dalgliesh’s character development. The detective’s emotional journey remains relatively unchanged, with minimal character progression. Brief moments, such as his interaction with Dr. Lavenham, hint at potential depth but fail to fully explore his internal landscape. This portrayal reflects broader storytelling patterns in crime drama, where male protagonists often remain emotionally constrained.

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Channel 4 has given the greenlight to a remake of what remains its most-watched drama of all time, A Woman Of Substance.

The network has confirmed reports a new version of the show was in the works several weeks after the death of Barbara Taylor Bradford, who wrote the original novel. The Buccaneers scribes Katherine Jakeways and Roanne Bardsley are penning A Woman of Substance, which follows the rags-to-riches tale of Emma Harte, an impoverished, ambitious maid in Yorkshire who takes a dizzying climb to become the world’s richest woman, gazing down on her sprawling empire from a luxury New York penthouse. Banijay-backed The Forge is producing the new version and ex-Channel 4 drama boss Beth Willis is EP.

Starring Jenny Seagrove, A Woman of Substance aired 40 years ago and remains Channel 4’s most-watched drama of all time with a whopping 14M viewers, figures that rarely get topped today. Taylor Bradford...

The Scottish home of notorious British TV and radio personality has been damaged by fire.

BBC News reports that emergency services attended a blaze Saturday evening at the cottage in the picturesque area of Glen Coe, north of Glasgow in the west of Scotland.

Police Scotland said: “Emergency services attended and the fire was extinguished by Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.

“Inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.”

Savile, who died in 2011, owned the cottage for over a decade – it has been repeatedly vandalised since his crimes of rape, sexual assault and paedophilia came to light following his death.

The disgraced presenter was one of the UK’s most familiar public figures. Besides his long career in radio and TV, he raised millions for charity and befriended both members of the royal family and senior politicians. At one point in the 1980s, he served as a friendly liaison between...

Ben Affleck is set to star in his upcoming Netflix thriller “Animals,” which he’s also directing. His longtime friend Matt Damon was originally slated to lead the film but had to depart due to scheduling conflicts with Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic “The Odyssey.”

“Animals” is aiming to begin production in Los Angeles this April, according to Deadline, who first reported the casting shakeup. Meanwhile, “The Odyssey” is expected to commence shooting in various global locations later in February.

Billy Ray, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Captain Phillips,” “The Hunger Games” and AMC Theatres’ iconic Nicole Kidman ad, is penning the screenplay with Connor McIntyre. The crime thriller reportedly follows a mayoral candidate whose child is kidnapped.

Though Damon won’t appear in “Animals,” he’s remaining on the project as a producer with Affleck through their company Artists Equity, along with executive Dani Bernfeld. Additional producers are Brad Weston and Collin Creighton of MakeReady,...