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Jessica Lange shines in The Great Lillian Hall, receiving praise for her award-worthy performance in this HBO original movie. The film is inspired by the life of stage actress Marian Seldes, blending real-life events with a compelling fictional narrative. The Cherry Orchard, a play by Chekhov, plays a significant role in the film, adding depth to the story of Lillian Hall's dementia.

In The Great Lillian Hall, the titular character is a legendary Broadway actress who gets diagnosed with dementia while rehearsing to open a major production. Jessica Lange stars as Lillian Hall, delivering a brilliant performance as a woman whose mood and mental state changes throughout the film. With Lily Rabe and Kathy Bates also featured, the HBO movie is an American Horror Story reunion that was 10 years in the making. Other cast members include Pierce Brosnan, Jesse Williams, Michael Rose, and Cindy Hogan.

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Warning! This article contains Spoilers for The Great Lillian Hall.

The Great Lillian Hall is a poignant film with Lange, Rabe, and Bates leading the way in a touching portrayal of an aging Broadway star. The final shot of a ghost light signifies Lillian's journey and its ending, beautifully captured by Cristofer's direction. The film delves into complex relationships, the symbolism of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and the difficulty of letting go.

The Great Lillian Hall is a new HBO original movie streaming on Max starring Jessica Lange as the titular character, a legendary Broadway actress who deals with a dementia diagnosis while preparing for the opening of her new play. Also featured in the cast are Jesse Williams, Lily Rabe, Pierce Brosnan, and Kathy Bates. The HBO movie serves as an American Horror Story Reunion 10 years after the end of AHS: Coven, which featured Lange, Rabe,...

In “The Great Lillian Hall,” Jessica Lange plays a veteran theater actress — a legend of the Broadway stage — who is always putting on airs, reciting bits from her favorite roles, and carrying on in the tradition of fabled actresses who get known for playing characters like Blanche DuBois because they’ve actually got a lot of Blanche in them. (They believe their own illusions.) Yet just because Lillian Hall is a flamboyant grand dame doesn’t mean that she’s not showing you who she is. Lange, a beauty at 75, has a face that has only grown more expressive with the years. In “The Great Lillian Hall,” that face is a map of emotion we read. Even when Lillian is being deceptive (even when she’s deceiving herself), the majesty of her feelings shines through.

There’s a moving scene in which she’s seated on a porch with her adult daughter,...

I am a sucker for movies about Broadway and those who spend their lives in the theatre. Of course the crown jewel of the genre is the Oscar-winning All About Eve, but there are so many others including 1933’s Morning Glory which won a young Katherine Hepburn her first Academy Award, as well as its rarely seen remake, 1958’s underrated Stage Struck. Ginger Rogers did a good one, too: Forever Female. The list goes on and on and now includes a stellar new entry, The Great Lillian Hall which gives the great Jessica Lange a challenging role worth her talents.

Premiering on HBO May 31, just barely under the wire for Emmy consideration, Lange’s performance as a stage legend facing dementia should send chills down the spine of any other contenders for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie this season. This veteran star simply knocks it out of the park.

Jessica Lange is perfection as the fictional actress Lillian Hall, known for decades as a revered star of the theater. During rehearsals for her starring role in The Cherry Orchard, she is having unusual difficulty memorizing her lines, and before long learns that the cause is early dementia. Despite that ominous theme, The Great Lillian Hall is a lovely tribute to life in the theater, with all its personal compromises, and a showcase for Lange, who deftly shows the character as a vulnerable woman and also displays the distinct style of Lillian the bravura actress.

Lillian is such a star that she is the key to the box office in the Broadway revival of Chekhov. The film’s trajectory takes her through rehearsals, and in and out of her personal life as she grapples with her diagnosis, in a plot driven by the question of whether she’ll make it to opening night.

The promo for NBC’s Found season one episode eight teases that Sir is on the verge of being found – all he needs to do is call out for help. Episode eight, “Missing While Homeless,” will air on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Found stars Shanola Hampton as Gabi, Kelli Williams as Margaret, Brett Dalton as Detective Mark Trent, Gabrielle Walsh as Lacey, Arlen Escarpeta as Zeke, Karan Oberoi as Dhan, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Sir.

“Missing While Homeless” Plot: Dhan spearheads the search for a missing homeless man who’s been an integral part of a tight-knit encampment. When Detective Trent shares troubling news about Sir, Gabi goes to great lengths to protect her secret.

Karan Oberoi as Dahn Rana and Shanola Hampton as Gabi Mosely in ‘Found’ episode 8 (Photo by: Matt Miller/NBC)

The Plot, Courtesy of NBC:

In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.

Producers have set US theatrical release for March 31.

Priscilla Ross Smith’s The Coven (Terrifier 2) has reported robust trade from EFM on horror film Trinket Box led by deals in Germany and Latin America.

Deals on the film from Anchored Lens Productions have closed with Tiberius for Germany, Mundo Films for Latin America, Suraya for Malaysia, and Westec for Cambodia.

The film’s producers have also booked a US theatrical run starting on March 31 in more than 50 cinemas spanning more than 32 markets including Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Chicago and Atlanta.

Trinket Box follows a newlywed interracial couple who...

Patrycja Kepa (Bellmount) and Acoryé White (The Seventh Day) are directing a horror movie titled Trinket Box, Deadline reports this afternoon, the film written by White. Augie Duke (Mayans M.C.), pictured above, will also star in the upcoming film, alongside Sandra Ellis Lafferty (The Hunger Games) and Cindy Hogan (Stranger Things). “Trinket Box follows a newlywed couple intent on starting […]

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Exclusive: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, actor and television host Luis Fonsi (Despacito) has signed on to star in the romantic comedy The Answer to My Prayer, in his feature film acting debut, with Oscar nominee Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver) coming aboard the project as an executive producer.

The film from director Patrick Perez Vidauri follows the romantic travails of three friends in San Antonio, Texas whose destinies are changed by an ancient prayer that guides them to true love. Cristina Nava and Vidauri will produce the pic written by Nancy De Los Santos via their companies Migrant Filmworks and Citizen Skull. Roberto Treviño and Eileen Kret (Selena) will serve as its co-producers.

Fonsi is represented by CAA; Olmos by CAA and Untitled Entertainment; and Vidauri and Nava by Citizen Skull Management.

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Exclusive: Acoryé White (The Seventh Day) and Augie Duke (Mayans M.C.) will star in Trinket Box—a new...

Stars: Zachary Levi, Anna Paquin, Hayden Zaller, Ser’Darius Blain, Dennis Quaid, Chance Kelly, Simeon Castle, Bruce McGill, Adam Baldwin, Cindy Hogan, Nicholas Harris, Steven Chester Prince, Dean Denton, Kevin Downes | Written by Jon Erwin, David Aaron Cohen, Jon Gunn | Directed by Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin

Who doesn’t love a good sports movie? Or a life-affirming feel-good film? And what’s better than a feel-good sports drama? Nothing much really. But what if that film is based on a true story, making it even more uplifting? Good god, it’s enough to make a grown man cry.

American Underdog fulfils all those qualities and more, telling the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner (Zachary Levi) and the years of challenges and setbacks that could have derailed his aspirations to become an NFL player – but just when his dreams seemed all but out of reach, it is only with the support of his wife,...

Exclusive: Miki Ishikawa (The Falcon And The Winter Soldier), Sierra McCormick (American Horror Stories) and Nick Sagar (The Princess Switch) have signed on to star in the indie horror-drama, I Don’t Want to Drink Your Blood Anymore, from writer-director Andrew Sullivan (Bokeh).

The film follows Eiko (Ishikawa), a Japanese American teenage vampire, suffering from agoraphobia, caused by the trauma from the night her family was murdered and she was turned. Unable and unwilling to leave her family’s home, she not only loses track of time, but time itself. Eiko spends most of her years avoiding others and trying not to live life as a vampire, but the world won’t leave her alone. Raz Cunningham and Geoffrey Orthwein are producing, with Sullivan serving as executive producer. The production companies involved are Zealous Pictures and LittleFire.

Ishikawa is represented by Global Artists Agency, Abrams Entertainment and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis; McCormick by Innovative Artists,...

American Underdog Review — American Underdog (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin and starring Zachary Levi, Anna Paquin, Hayden Zaller, Ser’Darius Blain, Dennis Quaid, Chance Kelly, Bruce McGill, Adam Baldwin, Cindy Hogan, Steven Chester Prince, Dean Denton, Kevin Downes, Cora Wilkerson, Morgana Shaw, Danny Vinson and Andrea Cohen. The [...]

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Gerard Butler (“Greenland”), Jaimie Alexander (“Thor: The Dark World”), Russell Hornsby (“Creed II”) and Ethan Embry (“First Man”) have wrapped principal photography on director Brian Goodman’s action-thriller “Chase,” with Voltage Pictures swooping for international rights.

Voltage, which will co-rep U.S. rights with CAA, will introduce the project to buyers immediately, with first-look footage set to drop imminently.

“Chase” centers on Will Spann (Butler), who is driving his soon-to-be ex-wife Lisa (Alexander) to her parents’ home when she mysteriously disappears without a trace during a stop at a gas station.

A frantic Will engages the local police and Lisa’s parents in a desperate attempt to find her, but as time passes and suspicion falls on him, he must take matters into his own hands, delving into the town’s criminal underbelly while running from the authorities in a race against time to find Lisa.

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The official sales trailer for L. Gustavo Cooper's latest fear film, Copiii: The 1st Entry (review), has arrived thanks to our feathered fiends over at Raven Banner Entertainment. Check it out!

Graci Carli, Rod Luzzi, Emily Rogers, Cindy Hogan, Barbara Van Fleet, and Walter J. Colson star.

Synopsis

Copiii: The 1st Entry is the story of two newlyweds, Trevor and Holly Davidson, driving through Florida on the way to their honeymoon in Miami. A simple tourist stop in Cassadaga, the psychic capital of the world, for a tarot reading ends in a frightening encounter with Vjestica Patkavior, the scion of the ancient curse known as copiii pierdere, Romanian for “the loss of a child.” Vjestica’s ancient curse has long rendered the Patkaviors incapable of bearing children naturally; therefore, to carry on their family legacy, they have always stolen other people’s children and raised them as Patkaviors. When...

Director: Thomas L. Phillips Writers: Thomas L. Phillips, Melanie Lynn Addington Starring: Lance E. Nichols,Candice Barley, T. Lynn Mikeska, Bo Keister, Elizabeth Connelly, Cindy Hogan, Johnny and Susan McPhail, Jennifer Pierce Mathus, Rob Myers, Blake Buck, Daniel Lee, Carlisle Forrester Jacob (Alex Walters) has been gone for a decade, but he has finally decided to return to his hometown. Some things have changed -- for one, he can no longer smoke in Patrick’s (Lance E. Nichols) restaurant because City Hall has taken to telling businesses what to do. (Ah, once again, smoking is used to represent individual freedom.) One thing has not changed, people have not forgotten what they believe Jacob did ten years ago; as Jacob explains, this is a place where “rumors are truths, accusations are facts.” Heck, even his own mother (Cindy Hogan) believes that he is guilty. Whatever horrible and unforgettable thing Jacob did ten years ago,...

April Wade & Lira Kellerman in 'Junction'

The dynamics of inter-family relationships can be as complicated as Stephen Hawking’s black hole theories or as annoying as an MTV-based reality show. Visiting certain relatives can sometimes be a Hanna-Barbera cartoon without a laugh track and wacky birds used as vacuums. Wilma is drunk again, hide the turtle dishwasher. Family time can be downright rough, especially during Thanksgiving, which in Neal Fradsham’s Junction, is all too applicable.

Wrought with psychosis, drugs and mommy issues, the story revolves around Michaela (April Wade), an aspiring photo-journalist complete with alcoholic mother (Cindy Hogan), her Bff goldfish Dorothy (yes, like a certain red furry monster in New York) and an ailing father in prison. But this isn’t Sesame Street, it’s a creepy mind-bender with tones of a classic psychological thriller. Haunting, Junction plays out like a Shakespearean play filled with family...

One hell of a mind bend is Junction. Driven by an aching curiosity, aspiring photojournalist Michaela (April Wade) embarks on a tumultuous journey to locate two siblings that, until recent revelations, she was completely unaware of. Michaela manages to track her siblings down, but there’s a taboo secret that the trio are oblivious to, and as Michaela assembles this shattered picture frame, the photograph within takes to grotesque mutations that none of the three are prepared to confront.

April Wade clearly grasps the scope of this script (which she helped pen), but either out of modesty, or unawareness, seems to play down the intensity of the film. “We set out to make a movie that was about family, dysfunction and identity. The plot grew around these themes and, while in retrospect, there are many things I would have done differently, the original intention still remains. In essence, it is...

It’s not often I’ll review and Indy film, but then it isn’t often I’m contacted by a talented young Actress and Producer from America and air-mailed a copy of one of her own masterpieces.

April Wade (The Thing in The Corner, Creepshow III, Women on Top Productions) stars in and produces Junction, a thriller described as “Donny Darko” meets “Ghost World” and directed by Neal Fradsham.

Junction speaks to the Y-Generation who has survived the single-family phenomenon and the battle with an ever-growing feeling of medicated isolation. Silhouetted against a world of expanding globalization and shrinking personal human interaction, Michaela, searches for self-actualization - and her splintered family. Do you want to face the truth? Or, do you want to destroy it?

The formula for Junction seemed perfect on paper I’m sure, the story is without a doubt original in its subjects – voyeurism, incest and...