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From inspiring Ted Talks to getting a blood oil change to creating special hot sauces, The Bold and the Beautiful’s Sean Kanan is a busy guy. The actor, author, producer, and all-around nice guy has recently reprised his role of Mike Barnes in the Karate Kid spin-off series, Cobra Kai. He’s also got a few productions in the pipe, one of which he revealed on social media.

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On Instagram, Kanan shared a picture of a man holding a framed print of what looks like a magazine cover. It’s title is Film Noir with the sub-title, International Film Guide. At the top is written, “Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 2015.” Kanan captioned it, “@beristaindga, our amazing director from The Persian Rug. I told him I’d autograph a photo for him, but this is a bit much.”

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This post contains spoilers from The Residence episode 4 from this point forward.

Changing up the scenery for the first time, The Residence episode 4 opens with a flashback to Cordelia birding with her nephew Ansel (Ca'Ron Jaden Coleman). They're looking for the Tuamotu sandpiper, but he's getting restless waiting. Cordelia's sister Aimee calls and says he wanted to see birds. There seems to be a bit of tension between the sisters. But a story about Cordelia never giving up on finding Aimee's strawberry sock as a kid inspires him.

Back at the White House, Cordelia sketches and jots down notes in her birding book to help think through the case. Inside the book, she has pages dedicated to the people she found "interesting" a.k.a. the suspects. Her latest entry is on Sheila the butler, and it's no wonder why since Sheila can't get her story straight. She first tells...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the 2021 horror anthology Grave Intentions, which comes to us from directors Lukas Hassel, Brian Patrick Lim, Gabriel Olson, Matthew Richards, Brian Rish, Jocelyn Rish, and Jaime Snyder. You can check it out over on the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Hassel, Lim, Olson, Richards, Snyder, and Jocelyn Rish also receive writing credits on Grave Intentions alongside Peter S. Beagle, Michael L. Fawcett, and Levi San Luis. Here’s the synopsis:

In this anthology of chills, thrills, and kills, a practitioner of the magical arts teaches the basics of her craft. The most important lesson? You...

Mack & Rita Review — Mack & Rita (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Katie Aselton, written by Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh and starring Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Lail, Taylour Paige, Loretta Devine, Dustin Milligan, Aimee Carrero, Addie Weyrich, Simon Rex, Lauren Beveridge, Catherine Carlen, Annie Hamilton, Sara Amini, Nicole Byer, Patti Harrison, [...]

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I’ve you’ve got a bit of cinema nostalgia in your psyche, then this week’s new (but also old) release just might be your movie memory escape route. This flick’s plot has its roots in lots of early film comedies. I’ll offer a bit of a personal spin as my earliest movie theatre memory is seeing Goodbye Charlie in which the late womanizing Bff of Tony Curtis returns as Debbie Reynolds, a gender-flip reused 17 years later in the Blake Edwards spoof Switch. Speaking of age, that was the big variation of that concept that really took hold in the 1980s with fathers becoming their sons and vice-versa in Like Father Like Son and, well, Vice Versa. But the big one was 1988’s Big that veered away a bit in that a young lad suddenly became a 30-something Tom Hanks. Of course, the idea was exploited in...

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For the 30-year-old at the center of Mack & Rita, a repurposed tanning bed and a New Age charlatan’s mumbo-jumbo summon body-switch magic: She emerges from the gussied-up contraption as the older woman she believes she truly is. The good news for the audience is that the septuagenarian is played by Diane Keaton. For Keaton, the movie is better news than Poms, but still a hit-and-miss affair. At times disarming, at others plain silly, it takes a few daring leaps without quite avoiding middle-of-the-road sitcom territory.

This makes sense given that screenwriters Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh are vets of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Actor-turned-filmmaker Katie Aselton (Black Rock, The Freebie), who played Keaton’s daughter in Book Club, directs the material with a sunshiny SoCal sensibility and an appreciation of the terrific comic cast, though more than a few barely escape being wasted. If there’s magic here,...

HollyShorts Film Festival is an annual short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe. HollyShorts is devoted to the advancement of filmmakers through screenings, Q&A sessions and networking events. The HollyShorts Film festival showcases the top short films produced 40 minutes or less. Categories include Short Animation, Short Live Action, Short Documentary, Music Video, Webisode, Commercials, Trailers, 3D Shorts, Youth Film and Digital Microbudget.

The 11th installment of the upcoming HollyShorts Film Festival

(August 13-22) star-studded opening night lineup will feature films starring Rose McGowan, Jason Patric, Sharon Lawrence, Rose McIver, Beth Grant, Robert Forster, Jennifer Morrison, Josh Lawson, Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin, and many more. The festival will also open with a new clip from 2009 HollyShorts Visionary Award recipient Eli Roth’s highly anticipated new feature film The Green Inferno from Blumhouse Productions, Universal and Focus Features. The film is being released in theaters on September 25.

HollyShorts opening night takes place this Thursday, August 13 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres and Ohm nightclub at Hollywood and Highland.

Commented festival director Daniel Sol: “We are thrilled to open HollyShorts with such a star-studded and great lineup of short movies, it's going to be quite a night and an epic week of incredible content! This year marks the biggest HollyShorts ever and we look forward to helping create opportunities for our filmmakers August 13-22 in Hollywood!"

HollyShorts received a record 2,300 submissions from almost every continent this year. The overall Grand Prize winner of HollyShorts will take home a $15,000 cash prize courtesy of Zype.

HollyShorts opening night celebration will feature the following short films:

Chris Ekstein’s western short Weight of Blood and Bones starring Jason Patric, Danny Trejo, Rose McGowan, Mark Boone Junior, Noah Hardin, Marissa Coughlan and Jeff Daniel Phillips.

Gabriel Olson's The Bridge Partner, written by acclaimed author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) starring Beth Grant (Mindy Project), Emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence, Rebecca Brooks, Catherine Carlen and Robert Forster.

Warning Labels Directed by Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon A Time, Warrior, Star Trek), starring Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Josh Lawson (House of Lies), and Rose McIver (iZombie).

Dissonance Directed by Bryan Fox starring Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games ), Cindy Dolenc (Eyes Wide Shut), Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos ), Henry Winkler, Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons), Carly Chalkin (Suburgatory), Nancy Travis (Last Man Standing), Perrey Reeves (Entourage), Kelly Preston, Devon Graye (Legendary ). The HollyShorts opening sponsors are The Agency’s Sports & Entertainment Division and Dark Horse Wine.

Eli Roth's The Green Inferno centers on a group of student activists traveling to the Amazon to save the rain forest. They soon discover they are not alone after crash-landing on a remote location, and are held hostage by a native tribe they set out to help save.

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South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.

SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.

Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.

On the small screen,...