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Al Pacino is known as one of the all-time greats in Hollywood, with legendary roles in films like The Godfather, Scarface, and Dog Day Afternoon. He’s been part of some of the most important movies in American cinema. So, when someone like him gives their opinion on acting, people tend to listen.

While many fans and critics would say Pacino himself is one of the best to ever do it, the actor has his own list of favorites. In an interview with Playboy back in 1979, Pacino talked about the actors he looked up to the most. He mentioned names like Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Mitchum, and Lee Marvin. About Cooper, Pacino said, “Gary Cooper was kind of a phenomenon… his ability to take something and elevate it, give it such dignity. One of the great presences.”

But when he was asked who he believed was the best actor in America,...

Al Pacino has played some of the most iconic roles in American film history. From The Godfather to Scarface and Dog Day Afternoon, his name is carved into the foundation of modern Hollywood. But while many people see Pacino himself as one of the greatest actors of all time, he once pointed to someone else when asked who truly deserves that title.

In an interview with Playboy back in 1979, Pacino shared his thoughts on the actors he admires most. He mentioned names like Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Jack Nicholson, Lee Marvin, and Robert Mitchum. He praised Cooper in particular for his quiet strength, saying, “Gary Cooper was kind of a phenomenon… his ability to take something and elevate it, give it such dignity. One of the great presences.”

But when the question came up about who he believed was the best American actor, Pacino didn’t name Brando, Nicholson, or De Niro.

You may or may not know this, but Tubi is an amazing streaming service. Sure, it's ad-supported, meaning you'll get a couple of commercial breaks during viewing, and no one's championing Tubi Originals. But no other streamer has a library as eclectic — mixing classic cinema, foreign films, studio hits, cult genre junk, horror favorites, and more. Where else can you find "The Red Shoes" next to something called "Dinocroc vs. Supergator"?

Tubi is like the niches of every other streaming service rolled into one, and it regularly hosts some of the greatest American and world cinema — for free, aside from the occasional ad break. Keep your Netflixes, HBO Maxes, and Criterion Channels — if I could only have one, I'm keeping Tubi.

Here are the 15 best movies on Tubi right now.

Read more: The 10 Best Movies Of All Time, According To IMDb

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Vincent Cassel is set to star as one of the most enduring characters in the history of French literature. The Black Swan star will play the lead role in Quasimodo, which will explore the real person who inspired Victor Hugo to write The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Deadline reports that the film will be released by Netflix.

The film will be set in Paris on the eve of 1830's July Revolution, which dethroned King Charles X and installed Louis Philippe, the so-called "Citizen King." A cholera epidemic is ravaging the streets of the city, while Quasimodo is caught between political unrest and a strange, impossible love affair. The existence of a real Quasimodo isn't so far-fetched: there is evidence that the kyphotic bell-ringer at the ancient cathedral was inspired by a real person, albeit not one from the novel's 1400s setting. The memoirs of Henry Sibson, a British sculptor who...

Netflix has landed its next big French project, “Quasimodo,” which will star Vincent Cassel as the iconic character created by Victor Hugo in his cult 1831 novel “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.”

The film will shoot this summer in France with Jean-Francois Richet (“Mesrine”) on board to direct, with a script penned by Eric Besnard (“Delicieux”). “Quasimodo” is being produced by Clément Miserez and Matthieu Warter at Radar Films, a Mediawan company.

Set in Paris on the eve of the July Revolution in 1830, the epic movie reimagines the life of the man who inspired the fictional character of Quadimodo, a disfigured man who as the bell-ringer for Notre Dame cathedral in Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.”

“As the cholera epidemic spreads through the city, he’s caught between political turmoil and an impossible love,” reads the synopsis. While the plot remains under wraps, the movie is believed to have a dark edge.

When the war drama "Heroes" was released in 1977, "Happy Days" was the number one show on television. Henry Winkler starred as the too-cool-for-school greaser Fonzie, who "Ayyy'd" his way into viewers' hearts. It can be hard for sitcom actors to branch out from their most popular role, especially into ones that are dramatic and have more emotional dimension than lighthearted sitcom fluff. For actors like Henry Winkler, whose character became a cultural phenomenon, playing Fonzie was often a curse. During the 1970s, there was a rigid dichotomy between television and movie actors, where television actors were viewed as lesser than — a sentiment you can find in much of the negative critical response to "Heroes."

In an interview on "The Merv Griffin Show," Henry Winkler explained that there's "not a piece of" the Fonz in "Heroes." "Happy Days" was pure nostalgia for the Golden Age era, about a family in the Milwaukee suburbs,...

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Billy Wilder is in contention for the best-director screenwriter to ever come out of Hollywood. That's not to say that every film he made sprung only from his own head -- for all the original screenplays Wilder filmed, from "Sunset Boulevard" to "Ace in the Hole," he adapted a fair few of other writers' stories as well. Wilder adapted crime novelist James M. Cain's "Double Indemnity" (itself based on a real-life murder) in 1944, and then Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" in 1946. One of Wilder's later movies was 1970's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (co-written with regular collaborator I. A. L. Diamond). But years before turning his attention to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilder adapted a different icon of the British mystery novel, Agatha Christie, when he brought her work to the silver screen in 1957's "Witness for the Prosecution.

The teaser for Fatih Akin’s “Amrum” has debuted ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Cannes Premiere section of the Cannes Film Festival. Beta Cinema is handling world sales, with Warner Bros. distributing the film in Germany and Dulac Distribution in France.

The film is set on Amrum Island, off the coast of Germany, in spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous sea to hunt seals, goes fishing at night, and works on the nearby farm to help his mother feed the family. Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept island almost feels like paradise. But when peace finally comes, it reveals a deeper threat: the enemy is far closer than he imagined.

The film is based on the childhood of German actor, writer and director Hark Bohm, who wrote the original screenplay, which was then re-written and directed by Akin.

In 1998, “Saturday Night Live” colleagues Norm Macdonald, Frank Sebastiano, and Fred Wolf teamed up to write “Dirty Work,” a vehicle for Macdonald in which he played a prankster who put his talents to professional use by opening up a revenge-for-hire business. The comedy, directed by comedian Bob Saget, quickly came and went from theaters but found its audience on home video, where it became a beloved cult classic with famous fans like Kevin Hart, who declared it one of his favorite movies of all time on his “Comedy Gold Minds” podcast.

Yet for the filmmakers, “Dirty Work” always felt like a compromise, because commercial considerations dictated that it be released with a PG-13 rating even though it was written as an R movie. “When we wrote the movie, they told us not to worry about the rating,” Sebastiano told IndieWire. “If we had been a little more experienced, maybe we...

Winning an Oscar can truly change the trajectory of an actor's career. Naturally, it isn't everything, and some performers do just fine without ever winning an Academy Award. However, taking home the trophy proves that an actor has earned the respect of their peers, and if they play their cards right and make smart business decisions, they can have a very bright future ahead of them. 

Jennifer Lawrence became a Hollywood darling in large part thanks to her Best Actress win for "Silver Linings Playbook," and Halle Berry made history as the first Black woman to win the Best Actress statue for her work in "Monster's Ball." It's fascinating to consider what opportunities would've been in store for them had those iconic roles gone to somebody else, and that was almost the case. For those performers and many others, they weren't the first pick for their Oscar-winning roles. Someone else...

This post contains spoilers for "The Bounty."

Have you heard of the historical mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel, the Hms Bounty? The transport ship left England in 1787 on a mission to bring food to the West Indies, with Lieutenant William Bligh acting as the vessel's captain. Things took a turn for the worse during a five-month layover in Tahiti, where Bligh allegedly abused and punished his crew for slacking off/not following naval discipline as well as they should have. Understandably enraged by Bligh's extreme measures, acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian led a mutiny with many others, leaving Bligh and his loyalists adrift. These actions, however, had consequences: The mutineers were sought by the law, and some met terrible fates while others managed to survive.

While this recap of the incident is barebones for the sake of brevity, the Hms Bounty incident unfolded more dramatically than one might imagine. From an artistic perspective,...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: Citizen Kane, vampires, John Barry scores and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

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This week Andy Williams and Sean Wilson are leaning… leaning… on a pair of classics as they tackle two directorial debuts by actors in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter…

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It’s all getting quite political in the murky world of Matt Murdock as Hugh McStay is joined by Baz Greenland to discuss 1×05 and 1×06 of Daredevil: Born Again, plus they have a chinwag about all this Avengers: Doomsday casting business…

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Get your Streep on with Bo Nicholson and Andy Williams as they celebrate 40 years of Sydney Pollack’s romantic adventure, Out of Africa…

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You know the man but how well do you know his daughter? A question Dan Owen and Hugh McStay,...

For cinematographer Joe Passarelli, it was a smooth transition going from the stop-motion “Anomalisa” (2015) to the live-action “The Actor” with director Duke Johnson. That’s because both films are formally bold, mind-bending tales about the search for identity.

“Anomalisa” explores Fregoli syndrome, where people appear as the same person in disguise, by marrying distinctive stop-motion designs with stylized action; “The Actor,” by contrast, tackles a variation of amnesia, where people appear as a troupe of actors playing multiple roles, with more dream-like theatricality.

Based on Donald E. Westlake’s surreal novel, “Memory,” Johnson’s newest film focuses on André Holland as a man who suffers from both long-term and short-term memory loss; he’s trying to get back to New York from a ’50s Midwestern town, but his only anchor in a shifting reality is the woman he befriends played by Gemma Chan. Holland’s continually refreshing blank slate is...

“The Night of the Hunter” (1955) stands as a singular achievement in the history of cinema, its haunting atmosphere, innovative visual storytelling, and unsettling themes still resonate with audiences today. Directed by the veteran actor Charles Laughton in his only feature as a filmmaker, this film remains one of the most influential works in American cinema. Though it was not widely appreciated upon its initial release, it has since become a cult classic, recognized for its daring exploration of good and evil, its unforgettable characters, and its visionary approach to filmmaking.

At the heart of “The Night of the Hunter” is a battle between innocence and malevolence, portrayed through the stark contrast of Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) and two children, John (Billy Chapin) and Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce). Powell, a charismatic but deeply sinister preacher, marries a widow, Willa Harper (Shelley Winters), in an effort to discover the whereabouts of...

Cinema is a great medium for telling meaningful, relatable and entertaining stories that cover a range of tropes and themes, such as the hero's journey. From expansive franchises to cult classics, cinema has produced a range of compelling, dynamic, tenacious heroes. However, every great hero needs an equally formidable villain who represents the opposing qualities of what makes a hero. Though some films have morally complex and nuanced foes, others have unambiguously evil threats.

Movie villains serve as a way to create contrast for their heroes and can take them to the edge of their moral philosophies, showing that even in their darkest hour, they remain on the side of good. Some villains are much eviler than others, and some are practically the embodiment of an irredeemable, classically evil threat. These characters are among the best-received bad guys on film, and that only becomes truer as they embrace their love of pure,...

Quick LinksThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Was Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s Own 1934 FilmJimmy Stewart Worked On Four Films Total With Alfred HitchcockOne of Doris Day’s Biggest Hits Made Its Premiere in the Man Who Knew Too Much

Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is a film with an interesting history. The concept started off as a book of short stories by author G.K. Chesterton and morphed into a movie in 1934 directed by a young Alfred Hitchcock. It was a prime example of spy fiction before it was being churned out en masse. Most modern audiences will probably remember Hitchcock's later version starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. In an unconventional move, Hitchcock chose to revisit his own film 22 years after the release of the first.

The remake of The Man That Knew Too Much shares few similarities with its predecessor. Much in the same way,...

Ralph Fiennes arrives for an interview with Deadline in the cramped manager’s office at the Prince Charles Cinema just off London’s Leicester Square and it is too small to swing a cat. “Mind your head,” he calls to a visitor about to be knocked out by a low beam.

“Is this divine intervention?” I joke. It’s a pertinent point, considering Fiennes plays Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, the Dean of Cardinals, the Vatican’s most powerful figure after the pope, in Edward Berger’s Conclave.

(L-r) Director Edward Berger and Ralph Fiennes on the set of ‘Conclave’

The role was gifted to Fiennes by producer Tessa Ross and has garnered the actor his third Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actor. His first Hollywood movie saw him get a Best Supporting nod for his role as the cruel Amon Göth in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. And Fiennes’ first...

Robert De Niro won his second Oscar in 1981 for playing a boxing champ in Raging Bull. And now he has been chosen as the acting champ when it comes to Academy Awards.

His performance for the Martin Scorsese film from 1980 has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actor winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 male leading actors.

Anthony Hopkins finished second for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), with Marlon Brando following in third for The Godfather (1972). Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007), and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actor winners is Warner Baxter for In Old Arizona (1928). George Arliss in Disraeli (1929), Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul (1930), Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine (1942), and Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur...

Robert De Niro won his second Oscar in 1981 for playing a boxing champ in Raging Bull. And now he has been chosen as the champ of all actors.

His performance for the Martin Scorsese film from 1980 has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actor winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 male leading actors.

Anthony Hopkins ranked second for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), with Marlon Brando following in third for The Godfather (1972). Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007), and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actor winners is Warner Baxter for In Old Arizona (1928). Just above that film performance in the rankings are George Arliss in Disraeli (1929), Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul (1930), Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine...

What are the hallmarks of a best-selling Agatha Christie novel? Crisp, accessible prose and memorable characters culminate into classic murder mysteries that have stood the test of time. There's also a sprinkling of clever sleight of hand, where subtle, essential clues are peppered right up to the big reveal hiding in plain sight. Although her stories make little space for what might be termed as morally grey, this very insistence on treating morality as an easily definable standard grants us comfort in a messy, volatile world. This is also why Christie's brand of escapist fiction makes for good adaptations, with figures like Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple steering these quasi-fantastical detective stories.

Christie's oeuvre has been adapted across mediums, including film, from 1928's mystery drama "The Passing of Mr. Quinn" to the more recent Kenneth Branagh-helmed "A Haunting in Venice." In terms of television adaptations, a chunk...

The release of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator in 2000 saw audiences flocking to theaters to witness the might and spectacle of hand-to-hand combat in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. Amidst the pageantry and savagery of Gladiator was the political intrigue that took place in the corridors of power and the struggle of its main protagonist against insurmountable odds, as he not only fights on the floor of the Colosseum but wages a crusade against the ruling powers of the Roman Empire. While entertaining, Scott’s big-budget Hollywood epic can trace much of its premise to Spartacus.

Released in 1960 and directed by Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus was one of many large-scale period pieces prominent in Hollywood at the time. Featuring an all-star cast that included Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Tony Curtis, the film is based on the real-life slave revolt that shook Rome to its foundations in the waning days of the republic.

Clark Gable was the Oscar-winning matinee idol who starred in dozens of films before his untimely death in 1960. Let’s take a look back at 12 of Gable’s greatest movies, ranked worst to best.

After appearing in bit parts in a number of films, Gable shot to stardom with his performance in “A Free Soul” (1931) as a gangster who bewitches a young woman (Norma Shearer) whose attorney father (Lionel Barrymore) helped him beat a murder rap. From there forward, the actor’s persona as a raffish leading man who’s every guy’s best friend and every gal’s dream became cemented in a number of subsequent roles.

He won an Oscar just three years later for Frank Capra‘s screwball classic “It Happened One Night” (1934), in which he played a newspaper reporter traveling with a spoiled socialite (Claudette Colbert). The film became the first to sweep the five major Oscars,...

Quick Links Robert Mitchum Was a Legendary Actor Mitchum Played an Underrated Role in Tombstone Tombstone Is a Classic Western

A few short years before his death, Robert Mitchum proved that he was still a Western movie star. It was not wholly an atypical move. At the tail end of their career, some legendary actors have taken minor roles in significant movies as they begin to phase out of Hollywood. Some brilliant stars, including John Hurt, Adam West, and Carrie Fisher, each appeared in roles for movies that would only be released after their deaths. The same was true for Mitchum, who appeared in James Dean: Race With Destiny. It was released three months before his death and was a disappointing swan song.

Still, Mitchum managed to secure one last extraordinary role before he passed. Known for starring in Western movies and film noir, the actor earned worldwide renown. He...

Thrillers and suspense movies tend to attract cinema's very best filmmakers — the genre's intricate plots and potential for meaty performances can be hard to resist. Thrillers also have the benefit of generating scares without the stigma of horror movies, which are often (wrongly) considered too "base" to be considered art.

That's resulted in a bumper crop of superior thrillers and suspense movies from every era of the genre's history, starting with the advent of sound. A good handful of directors and actors have made names for themselves for their work within the thriller genre, including titanic figures of the film industry, like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, and Anthony Hopkins.

Updated by Arthur Goyaz on December 26, 2024: Thriller and suspense movies sure know how to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. This list was updated to add more movie recommendations and to reflect Cbr's current formatting standards.

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France’s recently restored ‘Notre-Dame Cathedral’, features prominently in the 1831 gothic novel “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, by Victor Hugo, adapted for a 1923 silent film starring Lon Chaney Sr,, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton and a 1956 feature starring Anthony Quinn:

“…the story follows the deformed church bell-ringer ‘Quasimodo’, the ‘Roma’ street dancer ‘Esmeralda’ …

“…and Quasimodo's guardian, the ‘Archdeacon Claude Frollo’, in 15th-century Paris.

“All its elements—the ‘Renaissance’ setting, impossible love affairs and marginalized characters…

“…make the work a model of the literary themes of ‘Romanticism’.

“The novel is considered a classic of French literature and adapted repeatedly for film, stage, television, graphic novels and toys.”

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Juror #2 is a legal thriller drama film directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Jonathan Abrams. The 2024 film follows Justin Kemp, an ordinary member who is called upon to serve as a jury member in a murder case. However, when he realizes that the suspect is not really the murderer, he tries to sway the jury without telling anyone the truth without anyone finding out the truth, because if it comes out, it will destroy his life. Juror #2 stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, and Cedric Yarbrough. So, if you loved the thrilling courtroom drama, intense twists, and compelling characters in Juror #2, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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12 Angry Men is a legal thriller drama film directed by Sidney Lumet...

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Thriller movies are a wide and varied genre that can range from single-location chamber pieces all the way to sprawling decade-long epics, but there is one aspect present in every single one. The goal of the thriller is to get the audience on the edge of their seat, uneasy and anxious. While cinematic standards have changed drastically over the past century, that one fact has remained true. Whether it's through classic film noir stylings or a more distinctly modern flair, the thriller genre pumps out gems every single decade.

One specific, highly controversial hidden gem comes from 1955. From the studio that eventually brought iconic thrillers like Carrie, The Long Goodbye, and Thief came The Night of the Hunter. While the...

When people look for classic horror movies from Hollywood's golden era, it's not surprising they often turn to timeless films like Dracula and Frankenstein. But horror fans looking to expand their palate have countless options of films from the 1930s and 1940s that will add to their knowledge of the genre and treat them to unforgettable characters and stories. The secret ingredients that add magic to any horror film, Frankenstein's Boris Karloff and Dracula's Bela Lugosi appear in many of these films. Titans of horror, Karloff and Lugosi's legacies as actors are as timeless as the movies they stared in.

Films from this period create menacing worlds of shadow and darkness, utilizing imposing sets and dramatic lighting. These dark worlds are populated with monstrous characters that haunt the audience long after the end credits role. A trademark of Universal monster movies and other horror films of the time period,...

Peter Bogdanovich’s 1973 dramedy Paper Moon offers a kind of synthesis of his prior two critical and commercial hits. Set during the Great Depression, the film is attuned, like The Last Picture Show, to the economic precarity that impoverished rural communities face, but it filters its story through the screwball sensibilities of What’s Up, Doc?

A comedy with a perilously bleak side, Paper Moon opens on petty criminal Moses “Moze” Pray (Ryan O’Neal), who makes a living by traveling from town to town posing as a Bible salesman, visiting newly widowed women to hawk a marked-up “special edition” of the good book that their late husbands supposedly ordered for them. Moze’s amorality only deepens when he agrees to take an orphan, Addie (Tatum O’Neal), to an aunt across the Kansas-Missouri state line. Moze quickly uses the child as a sympathetic figure to raise cash, only to be blindsided...

In the history of the Oscars, there have only been three times when an actor has won a Best Actor award for portraying famous kings. The Oscars, also known as the Academy Awards, are recognized as the most prestigious award in the movie industry. Since its first ceremony, which took place in 1929, many actors, actresses, directors and composers have received recognition from the Academy for their work in some of the greatest movies ever made.

In the near-century history of the Oscars, there have been 86 winners of the Academy Award for Best Actor. Across the years, there have been many actors who have won Oscars for their portrayals of real people. While several of them have won Oscars for their performances in biopics, there have only been three actors in the history of the Oscars that have won Best Actor awards for portraying kings who reigned across different centuries.

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This piece contains some spoilers for "Gladiator II."

In this month's "Gladiator II," Rome does not fall — but it comes damn close. It's also not for lack of trying, as both the manipulative ex-slave Macrinus (Denzel Washington) and our ostensible hero, Lucius (Paul Mescal), have no love for the Empire, with both men actively seeking to usurp, disrupt or combat its rule. Even though Lucius eventually changes his mind and finds himself believing in a "dream of Rome" begun by his grandfather Marcus Aurelius, and his father, Maximus (Russell Crowe in the first "Gladiator"), it may be too late, as the Empire has been nearly irrevocably tarnished by decades of decadence and misrule. The two men most responsible for this are the Emperors Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger), a couple of Enfant Terribles who director Ridley Scott told Vanity Fair he saw as "almost a replay of Romulus and Remus,...

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Quick Links Spartacus Set the Standard for Gladiator to Follow Spartacus Had a Surprising Political Allegory Spartacus Is a Perfect Appetizer Before Gladiator II

Swords-and-sandals epics have been crowd favorites for decades now, and the original Gladiators surprising success reminded audiences why. It was a rousingly old-fashioned blockbuster that delivered the goods in its action sequences while also delivering a strong emotional hook. Maximus, a former Roman general seeking revenge for the death of his family, rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena, and because the odds are so stacked against him, he gives the film the key ingredient to a great swords-and-sandals epic: a hero viewers could root for.

But maybe the most important film in the genre still stands as the standard-bearer today, even after 64 years. Without Stanley Kubricks Spartacus, Gladiator might not have even come to fruition; it simply codifies...

For many cinephiles, November becomes Noirvember, a month dedicated to noir movies.

Noir is often characterized by its fatalistic outlook, highly stylized imagery, down-on-their-luck and morally ambiguous protagonists, urban settings, shadows, corruption, narration, and of course, the femme fatale. All of these elements marry well with our favorite genre: horror.

This week’s streaming picks blend noir and horror together, kicking off your #Noirvember with horror movies that bear the earmarks of a classic noir film.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

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The perfect marriage of psychological horror and noir, Angel Heart follows Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), a private investigator that Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) hires to track down missing musician Johnny Favorite. Harry’s search leads him to New Orleans, where he finds voodoo, murder, love, and a deal with the devil.

Mark Cousins has long established himself as one of film’s most thoughtful commentators, crafting illuminating documentaries that uncover new layers of understanding. In his latest, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, the director works his analytical magic on one of cinema’s true legends. What makes this film especially fascinating is the innovative format—it plays like an evening spent chatting with Hitchcock himself.

Through the skilled vocal impersonation of Alistair McGowan, the droll yet perceptive Master of Suspense acts as our guide. He walks us through his own vast body of work, bringing a personal touch lacking in other analytical profiles.

Cousins has divided the film into thematic chapters, with Hitchcock pointing out recurring motifs and ingenious techniques. We cover topics like escape, desire, loneliness, and the tantalizing effects of suspended time.

By imagining this lively dialogue with Hitchcock across the ages, Cousins keeps the late director’s mystique alive while offering fresh insights.

The Bear season 3 picks up where season 2 left off, telling the story of the titular restaurant set against a varied soundtrack consisting of many artists and songs both new and old. Since The Bear season 2's dramatic ending, audiences have been eagerly anticipating the continuation of creator Christopher Storer's intensely human story. The Bear tells tales of high-end dining and Michelin stars but is at its best when focusing on the people at the center of those stories, brought to life by The Bear season 3's excellent cast.

As of The Bear season 3's ending, each character receives their due share of screentime as they navigate work life, personal issues, and deep-rooted trauma against the backdrop of fine dining. Oftentimes, as a way to offset the emotionally heavy storylines of the show, Storer wisely integrates various songs from a vast collection of artists, as was the case with The Bear season 2's soundtrack.

For over fifty years, Francis Ford Coppola has been a towering, and often controversial, figure in American Cinema. His filmography is one of the most legendary of all time and includes some of the greatest movies ever made like The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), and more. It also includes wild swings—One from the Heart (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)—which sometimes paid off, but sometimes did not. This year, his forty-year-in-the-making passion project Megalopolis finally hit screens for the general public after a festival run that provoked a mixed critical response to say the least. It is a gigantic movie made on a huge budget with vast, and sometimes impenetrable, ideas. His very first film, however, was a much more modest project, made on a minuscule budget, and…it was a horror movie.

Dementia 13 (1963) is very much a...

Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage is stepping into the little gray cells of one of the worlds most iconic detectives, as he lends his voice to Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot in a new Audible production. Dinklage will lead a huge cast for the dramatized version of Christies classic novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in the latest iteration of the character. The synopsis provided by the official Agatha Christie website reads:

The upcoming adaptation will tell "the story of an injured and traumatized Captain Hastings (Himesh Patel), who has been invited to a large country estate (Styles Court) to recover after serving in World War I. With tensions tearing the family apart, what seems like a perfect haven soon turns into a nightmare, as the matriarch of the family Emily Inglethorp (Harriet Walter) is brutally murdered.

"With a full ensemble of characters with motives for the murder, nobody is above suspicion.

After coming up short on his first two Best Actor Oscar bids for “Walk the Line” and “The Master,” Joaquin Phoenix took the gold in 2020 for “Joker.” The film reaped a whopping 11 Oscar nominations and cracked the billion dollar mark at the box office. The sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which hits theaters October 4, makes Phoenix the 11th Best Actor victor to reprise his winning role in a feature film.

Only one of the first 10 fellows to pull off this double feature earned another Oscar nomination: Bing Crosby (he won for “Going My Way” in 1945 and was nominated for “The Bells of St. Mary’s” in 1946).

Those who preceded Crosby in reprising their winning roles without academy recognition are Warner Baxter, who went on to appear in both “The Cisco Kid” (1931) and “Return of the Cisco Kid” (1939), and Spencer Tracy, who starred in “Men of Boys Town” (1941).

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Nothing is more terrifying than sitting in anticipation in the dark waiting for that unexpected jump scare mastered over the decades by directors who have defined the horror genre since the 1920s with spooky monsters, ghoulish demons and scream queens.

Directors like Hitchcock, Craven, and Carpenter have set the standard for the genre as rising horror directors today including Ari Aster and Jordan Peele make their mark on film with their own style of scare tactics.

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Some horror films are even considered to be the most iconic movies in cinematic history such as Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 arthouse thriller Diabolique, Charles Laughton’s psychological terror The Night of the Hunter, Brian De Palmas’ 1976 Carrie and Tobe Hooper’s slasher classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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A quarter century after winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted,” Angelina Jolie is hoping to pick up the Best Actress trophy for her performance in “Maria.” In terms of Oscar history, she’d join Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Cate Blanchett, and Renée Zellweger, who all won for featured performances before prevailing again for star turns.

Jolie’s role, that of real-life opera singer Maria Callas, has already been proven to be awards-worthy and won Jane Seymour an Emmy nearly four decades ago. This English rose featured in the 1988 TV movie “Onassis: The Richest Man in the World,” opposite Raul Julia as Aristotle Onassis and Anthony Quinn as his father, Socrates. This remains her only Emmy win from five nominations.

Zellweger won Best Actress for her sensitive portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2020 flick “Judy.” Back in 2001, Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis took home Emmys for their work...

Norman Spencer, the British producer, production manager and screenwriter who worked alongside famed director David Lean on films including Blithe Spirit, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, has died. He was 110.

Spencer died Aug. 16 in Wimbledon three days after his birthday, the European Supercentenarian Organisation announced.

Apart from Lean, Spencer produced Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Katharine Hepburn; Richard C. Sarafian’s Vanishing Point (1971), the car chase movie that starred Barry Newman; and Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom (1987), starring Denzel Washington.

Spencer was Lean’s unit manager on the ghost comedy Blithe Spirit (1945), based on the Noël Coward play, and served as his production manager on his adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948).

He produced Lean’s The Passionate Friends (1949) and the Hepburn-starring, Venice-set Summertime (1955); worked on a rewrite of the script for...

The Night of the Hunter demonstrates how critical reception and box office don't determine quality in films. The classic thriller, which adopts fairy tale themes for its dark story, is now free to stream on Tubi. Preservation of films like The Night of the Hunter is crucial in maintaining cultural legacy for future generations to enjoy.

If there were ever a film that could be used as an example of critical reception and box office not determining quality, it would be The Night of the Hunter. The sole directorial effort of English actor Charles Laughton is currently streaming on Tubi, and it's an expressionist fairy tale that embraces the southern gothic and features one of the most terrifying performances by Robert Mitchum. While The Night of the Hunter is now praised among critics and audiences alike, the film suffered a negative reception upon release in 1955.

Set against the backdrop of...

What would happen if Raymond Chandler and H.P. Lovecraft wrote a novel together? Comic series "Fatale" by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips offers an answer. Published from 2012 to 2014 across 24 issues at Image Comics, "Fatale" is named for the archetype every film noir needs: the femme fatale, the sultry knockout who wraps men around her fingers without a care for what happens to their twisted forms (phallic cigarette optional).

The center of "Fatale" is one such woman, named Josephine or simply Jo. Colorists David Stewart and Elizabeth Breitweiser give her blood red lips and hair as black as Ava Gardner. Is her raven hair the same shade as her heart? Not quite. You see, Jo simply can't help making men desire and chase after her — especially men who want her for an occult sacrifice. Brubaker and Phillips mostly cook their comics hardboiled, such as "Criminal" (soon to be a Prime Video...

Bruce Timm’s Batman: Caped Crusader begins with a group of armed goons getting up to no good in the middle of the night. “There ain’t no freakin’ Batman,” one of them confidently proclaims, only to have the last word cut off by an expertly thrown Batarang. It’s a quick, effective way of telling us where in this oft told and re-told story we’ll be picking up: This Batman might still be early enough in his crimefighting career that his very existence is in doubt, but the caped crusader (gruffly voiced by Hamish Linklater) is no beginner.

Timm, creator of Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond, has described Caped Crusader as less like Frank Miller’s original story comic Year One and something closer to Week Two. This isn’t Christian Bale’s Batman clambering around Gotham with a ski mask and a handful of gadgets.

Following its iconic 3-season run, Christopher Storer’s psychological comedy-drama The Bear has become a cultural phenomenon with a 96% Rt rating. Dropping its latest season in June 2024, The Bear took audiences on an epic journey, with not just a raw portrayal of life in a high-pressure kitchen but also its expertly curated soundtrack.

Jeremy Allen White in The Bear | FX on Hulu

With each passing season, The Bear has not only raised its narrative standard but also played with its trendy jukebox. Season 3 particularly took the musical experience to a new level, blending modern hits with timeless classics to underscore the series’ emotional and dramatic beats. So without further ado, let’s dive into the standout tracks of The Bear and where to find them.

The Bear Season 3 Soundtrack – All the Songs Used in Episodes 1 to 5

Debuting in 2022, The Bear quicky rose to prominence by setting its narrative in the food industry.

Historian Michael Taylor praises Spartacus' Roman battle scene's accuracy, rating it a 7/10. Spartacus won four Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor for Peter Ustinov. The film marked a significant achievement for director Stanley Kubrick and star Kirk Douglas.

The 1960 film Spartacus gets a review from a history expert. Starring Kirk Douglas as the titular Roman slave, the historical epic film follows the protagonist's journey as he trains to become a gladiator and leads a violent revolution against the Roman Republic, while his rival Crassus works to gain power through squashing this uprising. In addition to Douglas, Spartacus features a leading cast including Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, and Nina Foch.

In an Insider interview, historian Michael Taylor rates a Roman battle scene in Spartacus.

According to the historian, the basic setup of the battle scene in Spartacus, with separate "cohorts" and a "checkerboard formation" is accurate...

Long Live The Bear’s epic soundtrack, and especially the show’s relationship with Taylor Swift. Season 3 is back with a new set of challenges and road bumps for the crew at Carmy’s fine dining restaurant. As always, emotional moments and certain scenes in episodes are accompanied by a resonant song.

This season will see an English Beat cover from Eddie Vedder, as well as score from Challengers masterminds Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Other staples include Radiohead, Weezer, The Rolling Stones, Beastie Boys, Kate Bush, Smashing Pumpkins and more.

Read on for the full soundtrack of The Bear Season 3:

Episode 1 – “Tomorrow”

“Together” by Nine Inch Nails Score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Episode 2 – “Next”

“Save It for Later” by Eddie Vedder “(Nice Dream)” by Radiohead

Episode 3 – “Doors”

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Episode 4 – “Violet”

“Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops” by Cocteau Twins ‘Spinning Away’ by Brian Eno & John Cale “Long Live’ by Taylor...

Even if you have never seen “Chinatown” you are probably familiar with the celebrated final line “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.” But did you know that the line almost didn’t make it to the screen?

Set in a drought-ridden 1937 Los Angeles, “Chinatown” stars Jack Nicholson as a J.J. Gittes, a former-cop-turned private-detective with a lot of demons, who works as a successful private eye specializing in a divorce cases. One day, a woman (Diane Ladd) shows up in his office proclaiming she’s Evelyn Mulwray and wants to hire him because she suspects that her husband, the Los Angeles Water Commissioner, is having an affair. When he’s murdered, Gittes finds himself embroiled in a wide-ranging conspiracy involving control of L.A.’s water lead by John Huston’s ruthless businessman Noah Cross, who happens to be Evelyn’s father. Entering the picture is the real Evelyn...

Nineteen forty-seven was a crucial year for Robert Mitchum’s rising star. The enduring popular classic, of course, is Jacques Tourneur’s seminal Out of the Past, and he headlined Edward Dmytryk’s Oscar-nominated prestige thriller Crossfire. It’s in Raoul Walsh’s noirish, Freudian western Pursued, though, that we see Mitchum crossing the divide between what Hollywood expected of the young man and the godlike figure they got in return.

The performance is a total menu of Mitchum’s various modes: an uneven mix of the young, beefy neurotic with a few too many shirt buttons undone; the high-riding titan who would star in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter; and the varnished-oak elder statesman who still has a few moves left in him, in Dick Richards’s Farewell, My Lovely and Peter Yates’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle. But it’s an unevenness that’s...

With Warner Media merging with Discovery back in 2022 and consolidation within the entertainment industry on the rise ever since, many fans of TCM — which is owned by Warner — fear their favorite home for cinema history might fall victim to these drastic cuts. Thankfully the channel continues to sparkle and shine like the Hollywood of old with filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson jumping on board to help curate and boost recognition of the channel. With their help, other directors have also come aboard — Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, and Jason Reitman to name a few — offering their picks each month in the hopes of bringing in more viewers and keeping the love for classic cinema alive. This month’s curator is multi-hyphenate Viggo Mortensen, whose second directorial effort, “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” was released today.

In reflecting on his cinematic influences, Mortensen reached back to one of the heydays of Hollywood,...