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Derrick Kardos, a graphic designer on films including Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate, Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, has died. He was 53.

Kardos died July 18 in Carteret, New Jersey, of complications from Long Covid, his family announced.

Kardos got his start in show business as an assistant for Christine Vachon, and the producer and founder of Killer Films wrote on Facebook that he “was a giant part of Killer’s roots and a wholly unique human being.”

He also was mentored by production designer Thérèse de Prez, with whom he collaborated on many movies, from Stonewall (1995), Arlington Road (1999), Summer of Sam (1999) and High Fidelity (2000) to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), American Splendor (2003), Black Swan (2010) and Premium Rush (2012).

(Kardos spoke with THR after de Prez died in December 2017 at age 52 following a battle with breast cancer.

Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is more than just a chilling thriller. It’s a layered story that blends psychological horror, suspense, and deep character work. Over 30 years later, it still leaves audience unsettled and curious, especially when it comes to the ending. How exactly does Clarice Starling manage to catch Buffalo Bill? What does that final phone call with Dr. Hannibal Lecter really mean? And beneath all the tension, what is the film truly trying to say?

In this article, I’m going to walk you through the ending of The Silence of the Lambs, step by step and dig into the film’s deeper themes, so all those lingering questions finally start to click. Just a heads up: this article contains spoilers, so read at your own discretion.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is an ambitious FBI trainee at Quantico,...

More recently, Anthony Mackie has become a household name, but this was not always the case. The 46-year-old actor got his start in the early 2000s, when he played a couple of one-off TV show roles as well as supporting characters in films. This included parts in Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate and Spike Lee's She Hate Me.

Things took a turn for Mackie when he made his Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) debut in 2015 in Avengers: Age of Ultron. There, he played the franchise's Sam Wilson / The Falcon. Mackie would go on to reprise this part in Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, and more.

Most recently, Mackie was seen as Sam Wilson in this year's Captain America: Brave New World. While the film had a lackluster box office, it did work to help establish Sam Wilson as a critical part of the McU's next phase, as he forms his own Avengers group.

With her directorial debut, My Mother’s Wedding, Kristen Scott Thomas seeks to weave together her characters’ feelings of love, grief, and more into a poignant dramatic tapestry. But what emerges is less a finely woven cloth than a tangle of narrative strands. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, and Emily Beecham as three adult daughters reuniting in England for their mother’s third wedding, the film never displays the emotional candor that would have made it feel more than just a show of prestige cosplay.

My Mother’s Wedding opens with the first of several black-and-white animated sequences that point to the memories and griefs of the characters, whose names and occupations are indicated by childlike scrawling on the screen. We meet Katherine (Johansson), a Navy captain, scrolling through old messages from Jack, seemingly a former lover. Her sisters—Victoria (Miller), a famous actress, and Georgina (Beecham), a nurse—are also en...

Ryan Murphy is ready to up the ante with Season 3 of Monsterand has a warning for those out there with weak stomachs — maybe this isn’t the show for you. In a recent interview on Gavin Newsom’s podcast, This is Gavin Newsom, the series creator told the California governor that the upcoming installment, which is set to see Charlie Hunnam portray serial killer Ed Gein, “is not for the squeamish.” That warning is certainly saying something considering the first season, during which Evan Peters appeared as the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer, not only included the killer’s atrocious crimes, but also pointed to the possibility that he may have given his neighbors food made from human body parts.

For those who may not be familiar with Gein’s story, the man who would become known as “The Butcher of Plainfield” was a Wisconsin native who murdered at least two women in the 1950s.

The cinematic influence of legendary B-movie producer and director Roger Corman cannot be overstated. The original "King of Cult" was a shrewd and thrifty operator who identified a gap in the market during the 1950s, namely among a young demographic of movie-goers who wanted cheap thrills when they went to their local fleapit or drive-in theater. And he gave them what they wanted in abundance, producing over 300 pictures and directing around 50 himself, often low-budget flicks full of sex, violence, rocket ships, monsters, hot rods, and plenty of rebellious attitude. The other side of Corman was a mogul of good taste, who distributed three Best Foreign Language Oscar-winners and brought the likes of Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, and Ingmar Bergman to wider U.S. audiences. Not only that, his films served as a launchpad for many future directors and actors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Robert De Niro,...

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

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

The Los Angeles staple Cinespia — the Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video-sponsored event that transforms the iconic Hollywood Forever Cemetery into the city’s hottest movie theater each summer weekend — has announced their next slate of classics, bringing the series all the way to the end of the season.

“Labor Day weekend is one of our favorite times of year, and there’s no better way to celebrate than with great films and a great crowd,” Cinespia founder John Wyatt said. “There’s something electric about closing out the summer with these timeless films, especially when you’re watching them with thousands of people under an open sky.”

Labor Day weekend will offer two decidedly different film favorites for audiences. First up on August 30 is “The Princess Bride,” Rob Reiner’s hilarious fairytale that takes Cary Elwes’ Westley and Robin Wright’s Buttercup on a rollicking adventure that also includes Mandy Patinkin,...

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

The devil works hard but Luca Guadagnino works harder. After releasing two films last year — “Challengers” and “Queer” — the Oscar-nominated filmmaker is back with yet another new film this year in “After the Hunt,” a gripping thriller about a possible sexual assault accusation on a college campus that sends ripples throughout its insular world.

Julia Roberts plays a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student, played by Ayo Edebiri, accuses one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield) of “crossing the line.” Matters are made more complicated by a dark secret from the past of Roberts’ character.

Nora Garrett wrote the screenplay for the Amazon MGM Studios original film, which makes use of Jonathan Demme-like direct-address to put the audience even closer to this cadre of characters.

Watch the trailer above. “After the Hunt” will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Oct.

Amazon’s Prime Video has a collection of underseen, unfairly forgotten films. The streamer’s massive film library has a Western that was robbed of the attention that it deserved by the Covid-19 pandemic, one of 2024’s best dramas and the most underrated movie made by one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the past 20 years. It even has one sci-fi film that you have likely never heard of before, despite it being the blockbuster that first united Tom Cruise with his future “Top Gun: Maverick” director.

Here are seven hidden gem movies streaming on Prime Video in July.

“A Most Violent Year” (A24) “A Most Violent Year” (2014)

Released in the midst of A24’s ascent up the independent film world, writer-director J.C. Chandor’s “A Most Violent Year” is a slow-burn crime drama that deserves to be more well-known among moviegoers. The film follows a fuel supplier (Oscar Isaac...

July is here, and in between all the fireworks and swimming and running from the heat, there’s ample time to sit back, relax and watch a great movie. While it can be daunting to figure out what to watch on your favorite streaming service, we’ve created a curated selection of some of the best new movies streaming this month on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Max, Disney+ and beyond. There’s plenty of new releases hitting streaming this month, like the Michael B. Jordan hit “Sinners” and Jenna Ortega’s “Death of a Unicorn,” alongside streaming originals starring Adam Sandler, John Cena and more.

Check out our picks for the top new movies streaming right now below.

“Licorice Pizza” Cooper Hoffman in “Licorice Pizza” (MGM)

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As we barrel towards the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest provocation “One Battle After Another,” why not take a moment to revisit his last movie,...

What if Bruce Springsteen had followed up his synth-and-drum-machine-driven 1994 hit “Streets of Philadelphia” with a whole album largely in that vein? What if he’d dropped an album of Great American Songbook-style ballads instead of 2017’s Western Stars? Springsteen’s just-released boxed set Tracks II: The Lost Albums is packed with seven albums’ worth of alternate realities and musical surprises, offering a reminder of just how much he’s capable of outside of his stadium-shaking work with the E Street Band.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...

It’s been six years since the second — and thus far last — season of “Mindhunter” hit Netflix. The ’70s-set series followed FBI’s then-burgeoning behavioral science unit and starred Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv as members of said unit. Created and guided by David Fincher, the show enjoyed enthusiastic reviews and a devoted fan base. Released in the height of the true crime-craze, real-life murders and murderers were depicted, including Charles Manson and David Berkowitz.

Now, McCallany teased that there might be hope for “Mindhunter” to have life once again, but not as a television series. “I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago,” he said during a recent interview with Cbr, “…there is a chance that [the show] may come back as three two-hour movies.”

McCallany underlined that this was a “chance,” and added, “I know there are writers that that are working,...

Dennis Iliadis' 2009 revenge film "The Last House on the Left" is about Mari (Sara Paxton), a young woman who, while hanging out with her friend Paige (Martha MacIsaac), is brutally kidnapped by a group of recently escaped prisoners. The prisoners attempt to drive off with their victims, but there is a fracas in the car when Mari and Paige start to fight back, causing them to accidentally crash into a tree. In revenge, the prisoners stab, sexually assault, and then shoot their captives.

Seeking shelter, the prisoners arrive at a local lake house ... not knowing that it belongs to Mari's parents (Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter). Of course, it's only a matter of time before the latter duo figures out what's happening and discover what the prisoners did to Mari. Will the parents have the temerity and the wherewithal to apprehend or murder their daughter's attackers?

"The Last House on the Left...

Originally published April 17; updated June 17 at 12:15 p.m. Pt

The most frightening zombies to ever appear on the big screen are back on Friday, and faster than ever. But can they run all the way to the 2026 Oscars?

Set almost three decades after 28 Days Later (2003) and 28 Weeks Later (2007), the first two films in Alex Garland's horror franchise, 28 Years Later is scheduled for theatrical release on June 20. Garland is back as the writer and Danny Boyle, who directed the first flick, returns to direct. (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed and cowrote the sequel.) Watch the trailer below.

Garland recently told Business Insider that sequels have become less profitable through the years, and that the Marvel behemoth is partly to blame. "I think sequels are seen as diminishing returns," he said. "I don't wanna sort of throw shade as it were, but Marvel has something to do with this,...

Stanley Donen's "Charade" is about Reggie Lampert (Audrey Hepburn), a professional interpreter who is on the cusp of divorcing her husband, Charles. While on vacation in the French Alps, she meets the charming and handsome Peter Joshua (Cary Grant), a fellow American that she instantly has chemistry with. They go their separate ways, but he will return to her life shortly enough. Back home in Paris, Reggie finds that her husband has been murdered, and he has left behind a mysterious satchel with plane tickets and several fake passports. At his funeral, some shady-looking dudes stab his corpse with a pin to make sure he's really dead. Charles, it seems, was up to something Reggie never knew about. 

An American diplomat (Walter Matthau) explains to Reggie that her late husband was once a soldier in World War II and had been assigned a delivery task, secretly shipping gold to the French underground.

Turns out that for Wes Anderson, Jodie Foster is the one actor who got away…Anderson revealed that it has been a goal of his to work with the Oscar-winning star for years. Anderson even shared that Foster has turned down parts in at least three of his films.

The auteur told Collider that it was Foster’s directorial debut that actually inspired him to collaborate with the actress. “Over the years, I had so many movies that I tried to get Jodie Foster to be in,” Anderson said. “It used to be every movie, we went to Jodie Foster for a part. And I think I did it three movies in a row, maybe four. And I met her, and I liked her. And I thought it was going to get her. And I think she’s just great, Jodie Foster. And I loved her.”

He continued, “In the first movie she directed,...

Neil Young: Coastal, directed by Daryl Hannah, received a one-night‐only theatrical release on April 17, 2025, with select weekend screenings thereafter. The film documents Young’s July 2023 solo tour of outdoor arenas along the U.S. West Coast—his first live performances in four years and his first since the Covid‐19 hiatus.

At 79, Young stands as a lodestar of North American rock culture, and this documentary captures that moment when a storied artist returns to bare‐bones touring without a backing band.

In global terms, folk‐rock icons from Johnny Cash to Joni Mitchell have travelled beyond their national roots, resonating with international audiences who find universality in acoustic storytelling. Coastal situates Young within this lineage: stripped of layered studio production, he relies on plain guitar and harmonica, his vocals cutting through open air.

For viewers accustomed to polished concert films—whether from Bollywood’s elaborate musical numbers or Japan...

Max contains a treasure trove of both well-known, beloved films and hidden gems that you might not have ever heard of before. Its list of psychological thrillers, consequently, consists of mainstream hits, lesser-known classics from many decades ago and smaller, independent movies released within the past few years. The streaming service has, in other words, a wide array of films to choose from whenever you find yourself in the mood for a thriller that is as cerebral as it is thrilling, or as contemplative as it is propulsive.

With that in mind, here are the seven best psychological thrillers streaming on Max right now.

“Heretic” (A24) “Heretic” (2024)

“Heretic” is a psychological thriller that will unbalance you and leave you reeling on your heels just as forcefully as it does its protagonists. Written and directed by “A Quiet Place” writers Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, this 2024 gem follows two young, female...

Frances Doel, neé Frances Margaret Doel, writer-producer-executive known for her work with indie film legend Roger Corman, died May 26 after a long illness. She was 83.

Born April 15, 1942 in London, Doel was the daughter of Iris Doel and Sgt. Francis Doel, a Royal Armoured Corps soldier killed in action in France during World War II. Doel found Corman’s job posting for an assistant on a jobs board at Oxford University as a graduating scholarship student of St. Hilda’s College.

A devoted daughter, loving sister, animal lover, and deeply caring friend, Doel died on May 26th after a long illness. She was born on April 15, 1942 in London to Iris Doel and Sgt. Francis Doel of the Royal Armoured Corps, who was killed in action in France during WW2. As a graduating scholarship student of St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University in the U.K., Doel found Corman’s job...

[Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers to “The Last of Us.”]

When “The Last of Us” was renewed for a second and then a third season, there was a palpable buzz about what exactly would happen next — and certainly no complaints, right? Whenever a series becomes a cultural phenomenon, as the HBO show co-created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann has, there is pressure for it to keep topping itself, to keep getting bigger and more brutal. But Season 2 cinematographers Ksenia Sereda and Catherine Goldschmidt were interested in doing more than expanding the world of “The Last of Us.” Their cameras were focused on giving the show its heartbreaking depth.

Picking up five years after Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) shocking decision in the Season 1 finale, Season 2 finds Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is older and tougher. There’s tension in her relationship with Joel, a man still living with secrets and regrets. But for all intents and purposes, they...

President Donald Trump knows how to keep people talking, and sometimes, he does it in the most unexpected ways. During a 2024 campaign, he dropped a reference that left just about everyone stunned, confused, or both. It wasn’t a politician, a celebrity, or even a world leader. It was a character, one of the most chilling ever put on screen.

And the way Trump framed it? Well, let’s just say it instantly sparked a firestorm online. Whether it was a joke gone too far or just classic Trump theatrics, the internet hasn’t stopped buzzing since.

Donald Trump praises Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter like he’s running for office too Donald Trump at Aston, Pennsylvania | Image by: Michael Vadon, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump kept bringing up The Silence of the Lambs and called Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter “a wonderful man” and...

Jodie Foster is remembering how much of a “feminist” filmmaker Jonathan Demme was. Demme directed Foster in 1992 Best Picture winner “Silence of the Lambs”; the “Philadelphia” and “Something Wild” director died in 2017.

When asked by Variety while promoting Cannes film “Vie Privée” about collaborating with female filmmakers, Foster pointed to how feminism is not bound by gender. “It’s hard for me to be in the business of saying, half my movies are going to be made by women or men or whatever. Shouldn’t it be a more instinctual choice?” Foster said. “You would hope that you’d be interested in the human being. I mean, Jonathan Demme on ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was my favorite feminist director.”

Foster continued, “That said, I think some sort of quota system is important when it comes to giving first-time filmmakers an opportunity. You need to start the process early so we all get the same opportunities.

One of Hollywood’s most gifted actors, Denzel Washington, is having a hell of a Monday after being surprised with an honorary Palme d’Or award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Only 21 people have acquired the prize for career achievement since Marty director Delbert Mann first received the award for his 1955 romantic drama. Cannes director Thierry Fremaux surprised Washington with the Palme d’Or ahead of the screening of Spike Lee’s police procedural crime drama Highest 2 Lowest, starring Washington as David King. Lee presented Washington with the Palme d’Or after an enthusiastic introduction from Fremaux. Naturally, the moment elicited a spirited standing ovation from the crowd.

“This is a total surprise for me, so I’m emotional,” Washington said as part of his acceptance speech. “It’s a great opportunity to collaborate with my brother once again, brother from another mother, and to be here once again in Cannes.

Based strictly on box office, it would not be accurate to call Antonio Banderas one of the biggest movie stars of the 1990s, but once I laid eyes on the striking Spaniard in Pedro Almódovar's "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down," I wanted to him to be in everything. In terms of scintillating, dead sexy screen presence, only Denzel Washington could match him. He became a mainstream American sensation when Madonna failed to seduce him in her "Blonde Ambition" tour documentary "Madonna: Truth or Dare." Banderas was primed for superstardom. And Hollywood promptly fumbled the ball.

Banderas delivered the smoldering goods in Arne Glimcher's lively historical drama "The Mambo Kings," but Warner Bros. had no idea how to sell a movie about Cuban music to American moviegoers, so it stiffed commercially in 1992. Banderas subsequently got lost in the star-studded...

I’d love to see Mick Jagger do a one-man show, looking back over his life with the Rolling Stones and his private life without them. Jagger has always been a witty and observant raconteur, and he must have a zillion stories that could singe our eyebrows. Bruce Springsteen’s one-man show, “Springsteen on Broadway,” which opened in 2017, was often bracing, because Springsteen seized the chance to present sides of himself that undercut his image — like the fact that after all his turmoil-of-the-working-man rock ‘n’ roll songs, he is someone who had never even set foot in a factory.

But in “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” the handsomely shot black-and-white film that’s been made of the U2 frontman’s 2022 solo stage show, we watch as Bono tells the story of his life and takes us inside his ambition, his passion, his celebrity, his charity, and his family demons. And while...

Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth installment in the beloved supernatural horror series, opens Friday in theaters. Fans loved the first five Final Destination movies, but they've all been met with a log to the face at the Academy Awards. After this week's glowing critics' reviews, Bloodlines could find itself competitive in four Oscar categories next year ... if voters aren't too afraid.

Kaitlyn Santa Juana stars as Stefani Reyes, a present-day college student inexplicably haunted by a tower collapse from 1968. Teo Briones plays Charlie Reyes, Stefani's younger brother, while Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, and Anna Lore play their cousins. Rya Kihlstedt portrays Stefani and Charlie's estranged mother, Darlene Campbell, and the dual role of Grandma Iris was given to Gabrielle Rose (the older version) and Brec Bassinger (the younger version). Horror icon Tony Todd, who died in 2024, returns one last time as fan-fave character William Bludworth, a mortician who...

“The emotion, Psychology, and the visual beauty of this moment are working in harmony, in a way that is just a pure cinematic moment.” Considering Paul Thomas Anderson steals so blatantly from the movies that came before him, It’s fitting to quote directly from Jordan Peele, an Oscar-winning filmmaker on the rise who showed his reverence for Anderson during a 2018 group discussion with the nominated directors that year.

P.T.A.’s “Phantom Thread” (the son of Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”) looks like a serious, awards-bait film about dressmaking in 1950s London, but it unfolds slowly to reveal a Freudian rom-com within its fabric. Memorably, Reynolds Woodcock betrays himself in the name of love. From 2019-20, the strangeness of the film lingered, like a seed sprouting in my brain.

My endless curiosity would extend to the pre-production of “Licorice Pizza,” by all accounts a breezy, joyous teenage rom-com…Until I...

“The emotion, Psychology, and the visual beauty of this moment are working in harmony, in a way that is just a pure cinematic moment.” Considering Paul Thomas Anderson steals so blatantly from the movies that came before him, It’s fitting to quote directly from Jordan Peele, an Oscar-winning filmmaker on the rise who showed his reverence for Anderson during a 2018 group discussion with the nominated directors that year.

P.T.A.’s “Phantom Thread” (the son of Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”) looks like a serious, awards-bait film about dressmaking in 1950s London, but it unfolds slowly to reveal a Freudian rom-com within its fabric. Memorably, Reynolds Woodcock betrays himself in the name of love. From 2019-20, the strangeness of the film lingered, like a seed sprouting in my brain.

My endless curiosity would extend to the pre-production of “Licorice Pizza,” by all accounts a breezy, joyous teenage rom-com…Until I...

Oscar-nominated Debra Winger is one of the most enigmatic actresses of her generation. She burst onto the film scene in 1980 with "Urban Cowboy" and in the course of the next three years, she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards as well as two Oscar nominations (for "Officer" and "Terms"). To many female moviegoers in particular, Winger embodied the kind of tough, self-sufficient woman that they aspired to become, yet there was always room within Winger's characters for love with the right person.

Post-1983, Winger continued to work steadily, earning a fifth Golden Globe nod for 1993's "A Dangerous Woman" as well as a third Oscar nomination and second BAFTA nom for 1993's "Shadowlands." However, after 1995's romantic comedy "Forget Paris," Winger virtually disappeared from high-profile films, choosing a semi-retirement with occasional film work now and then. The idea of retiring at the peak of one's career was almost unheard...

It is not surprising that "Columbo" is beloved as a detective show. Peter Falk's titular sleuth waltzes through the toughest cases with relentless precision, using his perceived ineptitude to disarm the slickest of criminals. When these criminals underestimate him and mistake his shrewdness for incompetence, it is incredibly satisfying to watch a smart, amicable fellow like Columbo have the last laugh. Moreover, it is a detective show like no other, taking an unconventional approach to how the mystery unfolds. Instead of operating like a whodunit, "Columbo" reveals the perpetrator in the first act and hinges its suspense on how Columbo gets to the heart of a case that appears unsolvable at first glance. "Just one more thing," Columbo muses, while poking every aspect of a case until the truth is revealed as plain as day.

The ABC series, which was released in 1968 on NBC, starts by setting an incredibly high standard.

One of Jonathan Demme’s underseen but pivotal nonfiction films is coming to high-definition home video for the very first time.

“Swimming to Cambodia,” a condensed version of Spalding Gray’s two-night, four-hour monologue about his experiences in Southeast Asia while filming Roland Joffé’s Oscar-winning 1984 film “The Killing Fields,” is set for release on Blu-ray in May. Cinématographe, a subdivision of physical media distributor Vinegar Syndrome, has assembled a new release featuring remastered picture and sound, along with an extensive collection of bonus materials.

Late playwright and performance artist Gray first performed “Swimming to Cambodia” on stage in 1985, two years after shooting Joffé’s film in which he played a U.S. Ambassador’s aide. Demme filmed the performance and condensed its original four-hour length to 85 minutes for theatrical release. Cinématographe’s new edition features a new 2K remaster of the film drawn from the original camera negative, along...

Pioneering VFX legend and cinematographer, Bruce Logan, who "blew up the Death Star" in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope and worked on the 1968 science fiction classic2001: A Space Odyssey, has died aged 78. His wife confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he died on April 10, 2025, in Los Angeles after dealing with a short illness. Logan's daughter paid tribute to her father in a heartfelt Instagram post, highlighting his ability to add beauty to the screen by hand and remembering her very own personal hero.

The post consists of a slideshow of Logan making magic happen behind the scenes of the productions he worked on. The caption starts with, "Before CGI ruled the screen, there were visionaries who lit the future by hand. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Tron, my dad didn't just work on movies — he made magic. A rebel with a camera, a pioneer with a story,...

Bruce Logan, the special effects pioneer and cinematographer whose credits include Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and blowing up the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, has died. He was 78.

Logan died on April 10 in Los Angeles after a short illness, his wife, Mariana Campos-Logan, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

In an Instagram post, Logan’s daughter, Mary Grace Logan, paid tribute to her late father: “Before CGI ruled the screen, there were visionaries who lit the future by hand. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Tron, my dad didn’t just work on movies—he made magic. A rebel with a camera, a pioneer with a story, and my personal hero.”

During a five decade career, starting in Britain and then in Hollywood, Logan worked with directors like Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, Robert Wise, John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin, George Lucas, Jonathan Demme,...

Are you in the mood for an underrated neo-noir that comes highly recommended by Guillermo del Toro? Well, I’ve got just what you need to scratch that very specific itch. I’m talking about a forgotten Alec Baldwin movie called Miami Blues. The Mimic director is a big fan of the film, that much is apparent from a previous Twitter (it will never be X to me) post.

Guillermo del Toro’s status update reads: “Film: Miami Blues by George Ermitage [sic]. One of the key sunny-noir movies of the end of the 20th century. High-precision acting and writing.”

Miami Blues is adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford. George Armitage takes the sole screenwriting credit in addition to helming.

The picture had a lively development phase with a couple of noteworthy near misses with talented creatives. The producers considered Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) to direct at one point,...

Easter weekend is a triumphant one for Warner Bros., as “A Minecraft Movie” continues its torrid pace with a third No. 1 at the box office while Ryan Coogler’s original horror film “Sinners” is off to a promising start with historic levels of critical and audience acclaim on its side.

Saturday industry estimates have “Minecraft” earning $45 million in its third weekend, dropping just 43% as its domestic total reaches a remarkable $348 million. Taking advantage of school spring breaks, the Legendary co-production has kept kids coming out to scream “chicken jockey” at the screen and is estimated to have a domestic total of $348 million by Sunday with a $1 billion global total guaranteed.

“Sinners,” meanwhile, has earned $19 million from 3,308 locations on Friday and is currently projected for a $41 million opening. That’s a solid start for the reported $90 million net budget production, though it will need to leg out considerably to turn a theatrical profit for Warner Bros.

Exclusive: Screenwriter Marcus Hinchey has signed with Theresa Kang’s Blue Marble Management for representation across film, television, and all media.

Hinchey most recently worked on the Tom McCarthy-directed film Stillwater, starring Matt Damon and Camille Cottin, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

His previous credits include an adaptation of the This American Life episode, “Heretics”. The film, titled Come Sunday, was developed with Jonathan Demme and directed by Joshua Marston, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen and Lakeith Stanfield. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Netflix.

He co-wrote and co-produced 2010’s All Good Things, inspired by the case of Robert Durst, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella. The film led to the reopening of the murder case against Durst, later documented on the Emmy-winning HBO series The Jinx.

His first screenplay Passengers was optioned by Anthony Minghella and Sidney Pollack...

Exclusive: Oscar-nominated actress Vera Farmiga is boarding Walden Media’s Cold War thriller Billion Dollar Spy opposite Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey. Cameras are about to roll.

Adapted from the acclaimed book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, Billion Dollar Spy follows Adolf Tolkachev (Crowe), who in real life risked everything to pass thousands of pages of top-secret Soviet intelligence to the U.S. Despite repeated rejections by a wary CIA, Tolkachev persisted, embodying the courage to stand against a regime that betrayed its own people.

Finally finding an ally in CIA agent Tom Lenihan (Lawtey), Tolkachev was able to shift the balance of power, proving that true patriotism lies not in blind allegiance, but in the willingness to challenge a government when it strays from its ideals.

Farmiga will play Natasha, Tolkachev’s wife.

BAFTA winner Amma Asante is directing. Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan wrote the most recent draft,...

Nicolas Cage has described his Bad Lieutenant co-star Val Kilmer as a “genius actor” in a written tribute following news of his death at age 65.

“I always liked Val and am sad to hear of his passing,” Cage said in a statement sent to Deadline. “I thought he was a genius actor. I enjoyed working with him on Bad Lieutenant, and I admired his commitment and sense of humor. He should have won the Oscar for The Doors.”

The Doors — Oliver Stone’s biopic of 60s rocker Jim Morrison — was one of Kilmer’s defining roles. The film has gone on to become a cult classic, but in 1991, the year of its release, it didn’t land a single Oscar nom. That year, the Best Actor Oscar was won by Anthony Hopkins for Jonathan Demme’s classic horror The Silence of the Lambs.

Kilmer’s death was confirmed by his...

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This April, Tubi is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the thrilling crime action film Play Dirty to the beloved animated series The Looney Tunes Show. However, for this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Tubi in the next month and have an 80% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the thirteen best movies coming to Tubi in April 2025 with an 80% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2 (April 1) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 85% & 84% Credit – Miramax Films

Kill Bill is a two-part martial arts action film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The 2003 and 2004 films follow an assassin known as the Bride who wakes up from a coma and swears revenge against the people who tried to kill her and her unborn child. Kill Bill stars Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox,...

Though The Silence of the Lambs is a landmark film — the first horror film to win a Best Picture Oscar — the film also represents a seismic shift in policing, realistically depicting modern FBI investigatory methods. This movie was only possible due to the work of a pioneering FBI agent named John Douglas, who struggled to sort and classify the patterns and tendencies of convicted killers. The FBI team he joined, which became known as "profilers," ambitiously sought to predict which personalities were the most likely to commit heinous acts of violence. Culminating in what is possibly the creepiest road trip in history, Douglas picked the brain of every scumbag in prison, helping shape such fictional sociopaths as Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill.

Agent Douglas devised the system alongside fellow Behavioral Science Unit agent Robert Ressler in the mid-'70s at FBI HQ in Quantico, Virginia. Their research would build a...

The second season of A Man on the Insidejust got a cast addition straight out of Nightmare Alley. Mary Steenburgen will appear in upcoming episodes of the Netflix comedy created by Michael Schur. The acclaimed actress will portray Mona Margadoff, a former musician who will be crucial for the case at the center of the next installment. Mary Steenburgen is also Ted Danson's wife. The actor plays Charles, the protagonist of A Man on the Inside. Details regarding the case Charles will be taking on are still under wraps, but reports that the new investigation will take the mole to a liberal arts college.

A Man on the Inside introduced Charles as a widower and a retired college professor. Everything changed for the protagonist of this story when he was given the chance to work as an informant during a delicate investigation. One of the most important people in...

No one is going to sell you on the overall merits of the 1992 dystopian sci-fi film Freejack, starring the most unlikely trio of Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, and Mick Jagger. If they try, then they are selling you a bill of goods. But we can sell you on how this movie is one of the most bizarre confluences of three performers ever assembled. Estevez's trajectory was fluctuating after a decade-long run as a celebrated Brat Packer. He was trying to establish dramatic bona fides, only to find more success in the light-hearted The Mighty Ducks franchise. Anthony Hopkins was in a serious slump. He had already agreed to do Freejackbefore he, or any of us, knew how monumental Hannibal Lecter would become in The Silence of the Lambs. He had made a series of pretty bad pictures after The Elephant Man, and Freejack debuted almost a year to the day...

Kurt Russell was born on March 17, 1951, in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. He started acting at the age of 12 on various television programs. In the 1960s he was signed to a 10-year contract with Walt Disney, which led to his appearance in many of the Disney films of the era. According to the late Robert Osborne of TCM (via Wikipedia), he became the studio's top star of the 1970s.

Those Disney appearances did typecast Russell a bit and he would be stuck playing many roles that were somewhat wholesome in nature. He would turn that image around when director John Carpenter (fresh from the surprise blockbuster success of "Halloween") cast him in the lead role of Elvis Presley in a TV movie called "Elvis!" That television film was really the first time Russell was taken seriously as an actor and it earned him an Emmy nomination. Carpenter and...

It’s hard to believe now but before taking 12 long years to follow 1987’s Full Metal Jacket with Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, the famously meticulous Stanley Kubrick was comparatively prolific — in the ’60s alone he released four of his 13 features. In these days of instant gratification, a director taking longer than three years is either deemed to be M.I.A. or about to pop up with a secret film made entirely under the radar. But absence does make the heart grow fonder, and these five directors can expect a warm welcome in 2025.

Kathryn Bigelow

Back with: Untitled. Last film Detroit (2017) Kathryn Bigelow directing ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Kathryn Bigelow made history in 2010 when she became the first woman ever to win the Oscar for Best Director (she won Best Picture too), but the California...

To call M. Night Shyamalan's filmography a "mixed bag" is an understatement — for every "The Sixth Sense," you get "The Happening" — but I'm beyond pleased to say that the Philadelphia-loving writer, director, and producer really knocked it out of the park with his 2024 film "Trap." Apparently, people on Netflix are noticing, because according to FlixPatrol, it's crushing it on the streamer.

If you're unfamiliar with "Trap," first of all, I'm so sorry. Second of all, you should go and watch "Trap," because it rules ... and again, it's easy to do if you have a Netflix subscription. As Shyamalan himself described it, "Trap" is what you would get if you mixed Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning crime drama "Silence of the Lambs" with Taylor Swift's billion-dollar grossing, culture-commanding Eras Tour, and the result is incredible; as if that wasn't a good enough elevator pitch, the movie is also based on a real sting operation,...

We don't always get to choose what art speaks to us—we also don't always get to choose which characters we relate to or have an attraction to. In my youth, I bounced between any number of melodramatic villains and strong-willed heroines. I still do. But the first and most formative of my cinematic crushes was Hannibal Lecter. And no, not Danish heartthrob Mads Mikkelsen's Hannibal Lecter, but theiconicHannibal Lecter as portrayed by Anthony Hopkinsin the acclaimed Jonathan Demme horror classic, Silence of the Lambs.

Fans of Michelle Pfeiffer will get an opportunity to celebrate wildly — let’s call that “makin’ whoopee” — when she leaves her handprints and footprints in cement at the Tcl Chinese Theatre next month.

The ceremony will take place during the April 24-27 TCM Classic Film Festival, it was announced Thursday.

One of Pfeiffer’s most unforgettable performances — that of smoldering lounge singer Susie Diamond in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), for which she received the second of her three career Oscar nominations — will be showcased at the 16th annual event as well. (Watch her in that film on the piano, and we do mean On the piano, here.)

“There’s an undeniable quality to any part played by Michelle Pfeiffer,” TCM host Ben Mankiewicz said in a statement. “She blends — seemingly effortlessly (though it surely isn’t effortless) — elegance with depth, capturing the complexity in every character she plays.

“For example,...

Osgood Perkins may be an indie horror master, but the filmmaker has “No Time to Die” for a James Bond film.

“The Monkey” auteur Perkins wrote in a Reddit Ama that he would not be willing to join the 007 franchise as a director because of its MGM/Amazon ownership. Longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced in February 2025 that all creative control for the IP will go to Amazon MGM Studios, with the reported deal being for $1 billion. Upon the announcement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asked his social media followers who should play Bond next.

While no actor has been confirmed yet to take over the role (Daniel Craig was the most recent 007 after a decade-long tenure), we at least know for sure that Perkins will not be directing.

A Reddit user asked Perkins, “Are you open to directing a Bond movie/trilogy? If so, who...