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Rod Serling's groundbreaking anthology series The Twilight Zone is famous for frightening sci-fi and horror stories that always lead up to an ironic twist. But while the show has no shortage of thrills and chills, it is also enormously moving. These are ten of the most heartwrenching episodes the original series has to offer.

"Tearjerker" may not be the most obvious descriptor of The Twilight Zone, whose exciting and disturbing episodes explore every genre from fantasy to the Western. But regardless of the subject matter, Rod Serling's show was always emotional. Some are heartwarming, some are tragic, but these ten episodes are all guaranteed to leave fans in tears.

An Actor From Alien Gives a Poignant Performance Season 3, Episode 35: "I Sing the Body Electric" Image via CBS

When a widower realizes that no nanny can handle his grief-stricken children, the family creates the perfect caregiver from scratch at Facsimile Ltd.

One of the greatest but perhaps unsung names in the history of genre cinema is Veronica Cartwright, a legend of sci-fi and horror going back to The Twilight Zone and The Birds (1963). She really gained attention in the late '70s after the one-two punch of Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), where she played Lambert. Now she's back to the genre we love her in, starring opposite Madelyn Dundon (Getting Grace), Michael Steger in The Ruse. Check out more information below.

"When the in-home caregiver assigned to an elderly patient mysteriously vanishes, Dale (Madelyn Dundon) is quickly sent as the replacement nurse. She rushes to the remote seaside home, only to find herself in the middle of chaos—forced to deal with an unruly patient, mysterious neighbors, and terrifying supernatural occurrences that seem to plague the home. Is the house haunted? Or...

Jack Nicholson is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time, and not just for the sheer number of classics on his resume, but for the range that he has displayed within his performances. It’s truly remarkable that the same actor who played a grim detective in Chinatown and a disturbed mental patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestcould also play a charismatic astronaut in Terms of Endearment and the original Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. Nicholson has often been drawn to working with filmmakers who have strong visions, so it is no surprise that he was interested in working with the great George Millerafter his work on the Mad Max trilogy was hailed as a titanic achievement in action filmmaking. Nicholson got to be both a scene-stealing villain and a sly womanizer in The Witches of Eastwick, a bizarre dark fantasy comedy that...

Actress Michelle Pfeiffer aka ‘Catwoman’ in “Batman Returns” poses for the Saint Laurent’s Summer 2025 campaign, photographed by David Sims:

Nominated for 3 Academy Awards,. Pfeiffer began her acting career with minor television and film appearances, and secured her first lead role in “Grease 2” (1982). Her breakthrough role as ‘Elvira Hancock’ in “Scarface” (1983) propelled her into mainstream success, which continued with performances in “The Witches of Eastwick” (1987) and “Tequila Sunrise” (1988).

Pfeiffer received her first of six consecutive ‘Golden Globe Award’ nominations for “Married to the Mob” (1988). Her roles in “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988) and “The Fabulous Baker Boys” (1989) earned her two consecutive ‘Academy Award’ nominations.

Pfeiffer starred in “The Russia House” (1990) and “Frankie and Johnny” (1991). In 1992, she played ‘Catwoman’ in “Batman Returns”…

… and received her third Academy Award nomination for “Love Field”, which she followed up with performances in “The Age of Innocence” (1993) and “Wolf” (1994).

She also produced several of her own...

The stars really did come out for the 50th anniversary special for Saturday Night Live. Introducing Adam Sandler, who performed an incredible SNL50 tribute song, was none other than the legendary Jack Nicholson.

When the camera cut to Nicholson, the applause rained down. The actor kept it simple, saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Sandler!" From there, Sandler gave a shout-out to Jack and began his song, singing, "Everyone in this room has something in common. All of our lives were changed by the show."

Sandler is known for his songs and mashups, and this one was perfect for the occasion. He sang about the cast, funny moments (including those behind the scenes), the crew, Lorne Michaels, and paid a very heartfelt tribute to fellow SNL vet and friend, the late Chris Farley, who passed away in 1997, and Norm Macdonald, who died in 2021. You can watch the entire performance, and Jack's introduction,...

As Los Angeles residents return home to sort through the rubble of their lives after the devastating fires that ravaged much of the area, there have been a lot of heartbreaking stories to come out of the region. Some people lost a little, while others lost everything, including treasured memorabilia they'd spent years collecting. Case in point: actor Carel Struycken and his wife, Tracey. Struycken portrayed The Giant in the original run of David Lynch's Twin Peaks in 1990, and The Fireman in 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return. Sadly, Lynch passed away earlier this month, making Struycken's loss of his one-of-a-kind Twin Peaks memorabilia and costumes even more upsetting.

Speaking with Variety, Struycken, a longtime character actor also known for his role in the live-action Addams Family movies, revealed that he wasn't able to save much of anything from his Altadena, California home, let alone his Twin Peaks treasures. He...

The following article contains spoilers for 1979’s Alien.Veronica Cartwright, the actor known for her role as Lambert in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien, has confirmed something about the chestburster scene that has always been discussed by those who participated in the film: the shock by the actors during the scene was very authentic, because they did not know firsthand how everything would happen.

Although she's not widely recognized as a horror icon, Cartwright is a veteran in the genre. When she was a teenager, she starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and later appeared in horror films like 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Witches of Eastwick. However, it was her role as Joan Lambert in Alien that made her a scream queen, even though her character met her demise in the sci-fi horror movie.

In the film, an intergalactic space crew responds to...

Actor Michael Biehn has a podcast called Just Foolin About with Michael Biehn, which can be found on YouTube. Biehn’s latest guest was Veronica Cartwright, who ran into the alien xenomorph in the 1979 film Alien, seven years before Biehn had his own close encounter with the nasty creatures in Aliens. The full, 95 minute episode can be viewed at This Link – but to promote the episode, Biehn has dropped a 13 minute clip that shows Cartwright talking about the experience of working on Alien, including her reaction to the famous chestburster scene. You can check it out in the embed above.

Here’s the clip’s official description: Veronica Cartwright tells Michael Biehn about her time working on and filming Alien. She goes on to shed some light on whether or not the cast was truly unaware of what was about to happen in the iconic chestburster scene, and how genuine her reaction was.

The next entry in our series of writers recommending their favourite comfort films is a tribute to Jonathan Demme’s zesty gangster comedy

There’s no more perfect song to open a movie than Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. It’s a delightful nonsense song that mimics Cuban mambo music while spilling out lyrics that are about as authentically Italian as a suburban Olive Garden. It’s Demme’s way of announcing that his gangster comedy will be a zesty, multicultural puttanesca that may evoke The Godfather and other genre standards, but mostly indulges in the cartoon kitsch of Long Island goombahs. The film that follows isn’t quite a parody, a spoof or a satire. It’s merely an unmitigated joy from start to finish.

There are so many fun touches around the edges of Married to the Mob – the colorful production design,...

Amongst the thousands of people who have lost their homes during the devastating Los Angeles wildfires this January, there are many familiar faces. This includes Carel Struycken, whose iconic presence has featured in numerous films and TV shows over the past several decades, including Barry Sonnenfeld’s Addams Family films and Twin Peaks, in which he played first The Giant, and then (in The Return) The Fireman.

Struycken may also be familiar from key roles in Men in Black, Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, The Witches of Eastwick, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 76-year-old actor and his wife, who resided in Altadena, lost everything after the Eaton Fire burned through their neighborhood. Their son-in-law, Michael Anspach, has launched a GoFundMe to help support the family. “We’re so very thankful they were able to safely escape the oncoming blaze, but like so many others, they lost everything to the Eaton Fire.

Nicholson is an actor so iconic, he’s sometimes referred to simply as “Jack.” The star of classics such as The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Chinatown, Batman, The Witches of Eastwick, The Departed and As Good As It Gets is certainly enjoying his retirement and continues to turn down roles. Lou Adler, a veteran record producer who is a close friend of Nicholson’s, revealed a couple of years ago, “A friend of mine wanted to put him in a movie. And he had a conversation with him. But Jack says, ‘I don’t want to do it.’ He goes, ‘You know what I did today? I sat under a tree and I read a book.’” Adler laughed, saying, “That sounds like Jack.” Then, he added that Jack is just “doing whatever he really wants to do.”

Nicholson’s public appearances are rare nowadays, even his appearances...

Jack Nicholson disappeared from Hollywood after what was an anticlimactic end to one of the greatest film careers of all time with 2010's "How Do You Know?" The movie saw Nicholson play the head of a big firm for which Paul Rudd's George works. If that doesn't sound like the best use of a screen legend, it wasn't. "How Do You Know?" ended up being a star-studded box office flop, with reviewers chastising writer/director James L. Brooks for wasting such impressive talent.

"How Do You Know?" starred Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Owen Wilson but surely the biggest waste was Nicholson himself, especially considering he ended his venerable on-screen career with this movie. By this point, Nicholson didn't need to do anything. In fact, he hadn't needed to do anything since he signed a bonkers deal with Warner Bros. for starring as the Joker in 1989's "Batman" and...

In her newly released memoir, Cher reflects on the challenges she faced during her marriage to Sonny Bono, shedding light on the difficulties behind their celebrated public partnership.

The book explores their journey from friends and roommates to an impulsive marriage in an apartment bathroom. It reveals the darker aspects of their relationship, including Bono’s infidelity and controlling behavior.

Cher describes how the strain of their marriage took a significant toll on her mental health, leading to moments of despair. In one instance, she recounts experiencing suicidal thoughts while staying in a Las Vegas hotel suite in October 1972.

“There I was, twenty-six years old and in what had become a loveless marriage,” she writes. “Sonny had given me the vehicle and the confidence to become the somebody my mother always told me I would be, and then he just lost interest.”

She continues: “I stepped barefoot onto the balcony...

In the 1980s, Cher appeared in a number of films that have since gone on to be regarded as classics. The Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck, and, of course, Mask, the true story of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, a young man with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia who was portrayed by the phenomenal Eric Stoltz. Cher played his overprotective mother in the movie, which earned her the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress. However, things behind-the-scenes were no fun according to the actress, who recently called director Peter Bogdanovich an "a**hole."

Speaking with The Times to promote her new book, Cher: The Memoir Part 1, the singer/actress slammed the late director, who passed away in 2022 due to complications from Parkinson's disease. "He was an a**hole. He was not nice to the girls in the film and he was so f**king arrogant," she told the outlet before adding for emphasis, "I really,...

Something Wicked this way comes in this week’s film quiz, with 30 all-new film-related questions, some of them about witchy business…

A movie version of Wicked has been a long time coming down the yellow brick road and this week’s new release still only covers the first half of the smash-hit Broadway musical. Meanwhile, this week’s film quiz is themed around witches but there are also questions about werewolf and vampire movies, slasher-movie villains, found-footage horror… heck, it’s looking more like a Halloween quiz than some of our Halloween ones.

Once you’ve completed all three rounds of movie-related questions, you’ll find a link to a separate post with the correct answers at the bottom of this post. As always, this is just for fun, but please let us know how you did in the comments (scores out of 31 this week!) and give us any other lovely feedback.

Image Source: HarperCollins For some pop music fans, there was a milestone reached in September, though it didn’t receive widespread attention: It was 60 years since the release of the very first Sonny & Cher single, Baby Don’t Go. Since then, Cher has been a fixture in American pop culture, with an Oscar, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and a résumé that includes a dozen Top 10 singles and more than a dozen high-profile movies, including Moonstruck, Mask, The Witches of Eastwick, and Mermaids. Now, she’s written a book about her life and her illustrious career. Well, it’s actually two books, with the first out now and the second arriving next year. Cher: The Memoir, Part One covers her formative years; over the course of her career, we’ve spoken to her over the years, and she once recounted a memorable moment that helped inspire her to pursue a career on stage.

Disney+'s new documentary, Music by John Williams, offers insight into the life of the famed composer and the legendary music that led him to achieve multiple records at the Oscars. John Williams is one of the most celebrated composers in history with a career spanning more than 70 years. He has the unique ability to convey a story and themes through emotional and powerful orchestration. John Williams is responsible for many acclaimed movie scores, and is considered one of the movie industry's most influential composers.

The documentary looks into Williams' impressive career and his decades-long friendship with director Steven Spielberg; since 1974, he has scored music for 29 of Spielberg's movies, including the Indiana Jones franchise, Saving Private Ryan, and Munich. For his musical talents, Williams has been recognized multiple times at different award ceremonies, including the Oscars, where he holds one remarkable record that looks unlikely to ever be broken.

“Agatha All Along” has finished its journey — at least, for the time being — and odds are, you might be feeling a witch-sized hole in your life. Well, worry not. You can still rewatch the series on Disney+, or you can check out the films that inspired the series — as recommended by the showrunner herself.

Each week, Jac Schaeffer sat down with TheWrap to do a deep dive on every episode of “Agatha All Along” (and you can check those out here). Naturally, the Marvel show leaned in on the magic of everything. But it also embraced move-making magic, utilizing real sets, practical effects, forced persepctive and more.

So, in discussing the finale of the series, we had her round up a few recommendations for those who want to understand and experience the series a bit deeper. Here are 10 movies like “Agatha All Along” that Schaeffer would suggest you watch next.

Here’s what Cher’s net worth is in 2024

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Known as the Goddess of Pop, Cher has built a career far beyond music and movies. Although she saw a lot of career downfalls as well, the success of her six-decade career is reflected in her Oscar-winning performances. Not only this, Cher is among the household names in the industry, and she earned her name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the Sonny & Cher duo. She recently set the stage with her iconic songs at 2024’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

What Is Cher’s 2024 Net Worth?

Born as Cherilyn Sarkisian, Cher has an estimated net worth of $360 million, as per Celebrity Net Worth. Her career in the music industry started when she met producer Phil Spector through Sonny Bono and began working as a backup singer. As Sonny and Cher developed a close relationship,...

Mere mortals have been fascinated by witchcraft for hundreds of years, and the film industry has taken note, with witch-themed movies going back more than 100 years.

In 1922, the silent partly documentary-style Swedish film “Haxan” sought to understand the roots and misunderstandings of witchcraft, and the mania that surrounded the witch hunts. Controversial at the time, it is now considered one of the most influential of the early horror films. Less than 20 years later, Margaret Hamilton would make the Wicked Witch the standard for evil witches, and help make “The Wizard of Oz” a timeless classic.

SEE25 best TV witches, ranked worst to best

In the decades since, witches have appeared in just about every genre of film. Early romantic comedies “I Married a Witch” and “Bell, Book and Candle” were so popular they inspired the classic 1960s TV series “Bewitched.” But while a witch’s antics on the small screen were amusing audiences,...

It's October and that, of course, means it's the spooky season, and time to fill your nights with silliness and scares. Luckily, available to stream for free on Tubi, The Witches of Eastwick is as good a bet as any to get your spooky on. Based on the original novel by the author John Updike, and directed by the legendary George Miller, The Witches of Eastwick transports us to the sleepy town of Eastwick, where three single womenplayed by the incomparable Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeifferare feeling a little, well, stuck. That is until the mysterious Daryl Van Horne, played with devilish charm by Jack Nicholson, strolls into their lives and changes them forever.

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Horror movies of the 1980s are some of the best and most influential of the 20th century, and many of them are responsible for creating new niches within the genre. Blending the frightening aspects with drama, social commentary, and psychological thriller elements sets these films apart from their competition and distinguishes them from other works of horror. The 1980s were a particularly strong decade for horror because there was significant social and political upheaval happening around the world, which lends itself to being represented through art.

Though many of the most influential scary movies are well-remembered, there are plenty of underrated 1980s horror movies worth checking out. More often than not, terrifying and boundary-pushing works are misunderstood when they're first released, but later critical reception reveals them to be ahead of their times in terms of thematic storytelling or visual style. Overtly...

There have been stories of witches in folklore around the world for centuries, but the most popular and beloved movie witches are not that fearsome. Fans of women in pointy-hats turn to fun witches: the girls of Hocus Pocus, Glinda the Good Witch, Elphaba from Wicked, The Witches of Eastwick, Ursula the Sea Witch, and her many Disney counterparts, and so many others. Indeed, witches are so beloved that it might be easy to forget the array of scary movies that feature witches.

The '80s were a prominent decade in the horror genre and branching off from that are some of the best comedy horror films. The popular subgenre is often a hit or miss as some of the films lean too far into a campy, comedic tone, fully taking away from any effective thrills. Therefore, the best horror comedy films strike the right balance between the two genres and create an equally entertaining and spooky time.

Most comical, cheesy horror films are self-aware and make a deliberate effort to be a B-movie, but that's where they begin to differ from the best. Films like An American Werewolf in London are merely hoping to provide a few laughs with their frightening concepts. The best horror comedies range from classics like Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters to more underrated films such as Vampire's Kiss.

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Since it first hit theaters in 1975, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" has been a spooky season mainstay and a staple for late-night moviegoers. Based on the stage musical of the same name — which came out two years prior — the cult classic introduces a young couple, Janet Weiss and Brad Majors (Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick), whose car breaks down near a mysterious mansion; when they call on the house to ask for help, they're met by a fascinating cast of characters, to say the absolute least.

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is referred to as a "cult classic" for a reason; as Roger Ebert once put it, "it was ignored by pretty much everyone" when it originally came out. These days, pretty much every major city offers midnight viewings of the movie, inviting audiences to dress up, throw things at the screen, and participate while the movie screens. So what...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of September titles. The Tubi September 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library: over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 Fast channels.

You can watch the Tubi September 2024 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

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Today, MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios announced that Oscar nominee Michelle Pfeiffer will executive produce and star in Madison, the latest addition to Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe. According to today’s official press release, the series is a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.

“Michelle Pfeiffer is a remarkable talent who imbues every role with emotional depth, authenticity and grace,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO, Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios. “She is the perfect anchor to the newest chapter of the Yellowstone universe, Madison, from the brilliant mind of Taylor Sheridan.”

Lighting up screens for more than three decades, Michelle Pfeiffer is a legend. Her role as Elvira Hancock in Brian De Palma’s Scarface cemented her as a star destined to burn bright within the entertainment industry. For many of us,...

When the end of Yellowstone was officially announced last year, Paramount Network had set the wheels in motion for two more spinoffs. There was the prequel series, to be set in 1944, and then the present-day continuation, set to take place after the events of Yellowstone, which had the working title 2024.

Now, that sequel series is very much beginning to take shape.

That series will be titled The Madison and will star Michelle Pfeiffer, and it will be the next series to rollout in the Yellowstone universe. The Oscar-nominated movie star will also executive produce the new series from franchise boss Taylor Sheridan.

The Madison is described as a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.

“Michelle Pfeiffer is a remarkable talent who imbues every role with emotional depth, authenticity and grace,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO,...

Leonard Engelman, who lobbied the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch and served as its first governor when they did so, died Thursday at 88 in Northridge Hospital Medical Center.

His death was confirmed by the Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles, but no cause has been given.

Engelman worked on such films as Rocky IV, The Princess Diaries, Batman & Robin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and did Cher’s makeup for more than 30 years.

He also served as an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences VP and board member for many years.

Born in Burbank, he was the son of a Hollywood makeup artist. Engelman graduated from Burbank High School, and received his first film credit on Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz (1969).

Engelman received Emmy nominations in 1972 for an episode of Night Gallery and in 2001 for the miniseries Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. He...

Leonard Engelman, the esteemed makeup artist who worked on films including Rocky IV, The Princess Diaries, Batman & Robin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and did Cher’s makeup for more than 30 years, has died. He was 83.

Engelman died Thursday at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, his wife of 42 years, artist Esther Engelman, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death is unclear, she said.

The son of a Hollywood makeup artist, Engelman labored for a long time to convince the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch, as those artisans had always been “at-large” members. And when it did so in 2006, he was elected its first governor. Later, he worked to have hairstylists added.

He also served as an Academy vice president and board member for many years.

Engelman received Emmy nominations in 1972 for an episode of Night Gallery and in 2001 for the miniseries Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis,...

Film critic Andrew Sarris changed his profession forever when he introduced, to English-speaking cinephiles at least, the concept of “auteur theory.” The general conceit is that some rarified directors are so gifted, or commanding, in their control over the process of film production that they alone can give a film a “personal or unique stamp.” They are the ones who become the author of the movie you’re watching. If anyone. It’s a seductive theory which encourages the critic to look for points of narrative, visual, or thematic similarity between a filmmaker’s work. The more ideas or images that rhyme, the potentially more impressive the auteur’s command over the medium becomes.

However, while it is hard to dispute the existence of auteurs, the concept at times devalues the contributions of a film’s many other collaborators—especially if they’re, say, editors, production designers, or cinematographers a...

What's the best Jack Nicholson movie? Ask a group of film fans, and you'll likely get a half-dozen different answers. The actor's most historically significant movie may be "Chinatown," the sun-baked California noir from 1974 that earned 11 Oscar nominations and a permanent spot in the American Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Or it might be "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the beloved adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel that swept the Oscars in 1975 and turned the already-popular Nicholson into Hollywood's hottest commodity.

The actor's most popular films according to Letterboxd users are Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece "The Shining" and Martin Scorsese's crime saga "The Departed." His highest-grossing role at the box office came in 1989, when Tim Burton cast him as the rictus-grin supervillain The Joker in "Batman." Other popular moneymakers featuring the veteran performer include James L. Brooks' "As Good As It Gets," Nancy Meyers' "Something's Gotta Give,...

World-renowned auteur George Miller has been a major force in international cinema for 45 years. A seminal figure of the Australian New Wave film movement, Miller ironically began his career as a doctor before transitioning to feature filmmaking in the late 1970s. Miller, along with his contemporaries Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and Bruce Beresford, helped usher in an unprecedented era of economic prosperity and critical acclaim for Australian cinema between 1970 and 1990.

Starting his feature film career in 1979, Miller made his cinematic debut directing Mad Max, commencing one of the greatest action franchises in movie history. A filmmaker of immense range, Miller has worked in a vast array of genres that include action, science fiction, animation, fantasy, comedy, and biographical drama. Throughout his career, Miller has earned six Academy Award nominations, winning once for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year. In addition to the Mad Max franchise, Happy Feet, Lorenzo's Oil,...

Despite its low critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, Practical Magic has a loyal audience who appreciate its charm and core message. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman's chemistry shines in the movie, adding depth to their characters. Practical Magic 2 is proof of the original movie's underrated status and lasting impact on fans.

While some movies earn their low critics scores on Rotten Tomatoes, theres one Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman movie that I still want to get the justice it deserves. As a so-called spooky child, theres a special place in my heart for any movies that fall into the categories of horror and spooky, and theres something extra-special about movies about witches. Although I admittedly arrived late to the greatness of movies like Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic, the latter immediately became one of my favorite movies about witches.

Directed by Griffin Dunne, and based on Alice Hoffmans 1995 novel of the same name,...

As an artwork detailing the testimonies of ordinary women who have faced terrifying post-partum anxiety, depression and psychosis, Elizabeth Sankey’s 90-minute goth-lite documentary Witches succeeds in shedding light on a stigmatized and often silenced phenomenon many new mothers endure. However, the director takes this solid concept and dilutes it with trivial pop feminist pseudo-history, positing a dubious connection between the European and American witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries and women’s post-birth psychological suffering.

Premiering at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and set to be distributed by streaming service Mubi, the film is certainly watchable but perhaps only 50 percent compelling.

Sankey argues that post-partum psychotic hallucinations may have led countless women of yore to willingly confess to cavorting with Satan. She showcases little evidence supporting this theory, aside from reading aloud a few sentences from primary sources, and attempts to wrap her suppositions in tritely nebulous metaphors...

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,...

Quick Links Happy Feet Was Originally Targeted at Older Viewers Happy Feet Once Had a Mythic, Sci-Fi Bent Happy Feet Ultimately Went More Kid Friendly George Miller's original vision for Happy Feet was darker and meant for older viewers, with more adult-oriented themes and disturbing imagery. The script originally explored deep themes of religion and myth, with elders praying for plentiful fishing seasons and exiling those who went against their ways. Warner Bros. pushed for a more kid-friendly version of Happy Feet, toning down the dark elements to appeal explicitly to children and ensure commercial success.

George Miller, the mastermind behind Mad Max, has one of the most eclectic filmographies of any working director. While his beloved franchise is obviously his main calling card, hes also worked in the biopic genre with Lorenzos Oil, dark fantasy with The Witches of Eastwick, and kid-friendly fare with the Babe films (he...

At this point in his 40+ year career, it can be said that filmmaker George Miller is a mythmaker. Despite his cinematic range, which spans brutal, violent live-action movies to family-friendly animated fare, all of his works have a spark of myth about them, whether he's dealing with women experimenting with the occult (as in "The Witches of Eastwick") or anthropomorphized animals venturing beyond their comfort zones (as in "Babe" and "Happy Feet").

Of course, Miller's magnum opus is what has now been officially dubbed the "Mad Max" saga, a series of films that has spanned the entire breadth of Miller's career to date. The fifth in the saga, "Furiosa," is in theaters now, and it's a picture that should silence anyone who still refers to these films as merely action movies. Unlike the previous "Mad Max" film, 2015's "Fury Road" (which "Furiosa" is a prequel to), this movie is a...

(from left) Three Thousand Years Of Longing (Metro Goldwyn Mayer); Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.); Lorenzo’s Oil (Universal Pictures); Happy Feet (Warner Bros.).Image: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures; Warner Bros.; Universal Pictures; Warner Bros.

For the uninitiated, it would be easy to look over the filmography of Australian director...

Two-time Oscar nominated and Emmy-winning actor Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of Criminal, Prime Video’s upcoming drama series based on Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series.

Criminal is an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the graphic novels.

Jenkins will play Ivan, Leo’s dad’s best friend, who has always been an uncle figure to him. He used to be a robber and criminal, but is now currently suffering from dementia. Leo is trying to care for him but realizes he’s more work than he can handle.

Brubaker, who penned the pilot script, will co-showrun the TV series with crime fiction author Jordan Harper (Hightown). Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the first four episodes.

Criminal is produced by Amazon MGM Studios. The series is executive produced by Brubaker and Harper, alongside Sean Phillips, Sarah Carbiener, and Phillip Barnett.

Imagine a kindly grandfather-type figure sitting by an open hotel window, staring out at the sea on the French Riviera. The early sun hits his shock of gray hair in a way that almost makes it look like there’s a halo above it. The black-on-black ensemble suggests he’s arrived in France for an undertaker’s convention. The glasses make him look slightly owl-like. As he leans forward, ready to launch into an anecdote, you feel like he’s about to wax poetic about some long-ago vacation he took...

George Miller will likely be associated with the creation of the Mad Max franchise for the rest of his career, as the saga changed post-apocalyptic science fiction cinema forever. Whats more surprising is that Millers work outside of his most famous franchise couldnt be more idiosyncratic. He has helmed such films as the biographical drama Lorenzos Oil, the dark fantasy comedy The Witches of Eastwick, the family film sequel Babe: Pig in the City, and two installments in the Happy Feet franchise. As erratic as his career choices may seem, the romantic fantasy epic Three Thousand Years of Longing may be the weirdest film of Millers career.

If you want to become a dystopian feminist warrior, you’re not going to get much sleep. That was one of the first things Anya Taylor-Joy learned on the set of George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.” Under heavy coats of makeup, shooting in the Australian winter when daylight was scarce, Taylor-Joy wished she could have stayed in bed at least through the crack of dawn. Instead, she’d rise up in the middle of the night, ready to do battle.

“I had the earliest call time of my life: 1:45 a.m.,” the 28-year-old actress says on a recent Los Angeles afternoon. “I’d be like, ‘I just wrapped! What do you mean?! It’s a mistake!’” Taylor-Joy recalls the painful mornings now with a gleeful theater-kid energy. She chronicled her entire transformation as Furiosa, and took photos of her various makeup tests. She flips through her phone to show me.

Is 2024 the year of tennis? At the movies and on our TV screens, the answer might be yes. This spring brings two major releases that both heavily feature racquets, green courts, and sweaty tennis action. The first was Peacock’s “Apples Never Fall,” a limited series based on “Big Little Lies” scribe Liane Moriarty’s novel about the family of two married tennis pros (played by Annette Bening and Sam Neill) who are forced to contend with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of their matriarch. Even more anticipated is “Challengers,” a Luca Guadagnino film that arrives — after strike-related delays — this April to tell the steamy story of a tennis coach (Zendaya) caught between her husband and an old flame as the two men go head to head in a Challenger tennis event.

These two releases mark the biggest Spring for tennis-related media in…possibly ever. Which isn’t necessarily hard...

Christian Slater currently stars in Roku’s The Spiderwick Chronicles as Mulgarath, an extremely powerful ogre who can shape-shift into any form he wants, whether human or animal. The actor recently revealed that he had no idea about the creator’s inspiration behind the character, but it turned out to be something that he loved for years.

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The franchise was helmed as a movie in 2008 starring Freddie Highmore and was based on the book series The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black. It received generally favorable reviews, though it’s quite sad that it has long been forgotten by people as the years went by.

Christian Slater Discovers Inspiration Behind Mulgarath Christian Slater in The Spiderwick Chronicles

During Screen Rant’s interview with actor Christian Slater, he found out that the creator of the show looked into Jack Nicholson’s character in The Witches of Eastwick...

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Veronica Cartwright in a 2020 documentary "LIfe After The Navigator" exploring one of her 80s films

Happy 4/20, which happens to be the birthday—same day/month/year—of both Jessica Lange and one Veronica Cartwright, the British-born former child star and current character actor extraordinaire.

When did you first clock the extraordinary Veronica Cartwright on screen? Though she mainly does TV guest spots (and the occasional direct-to-vod titles) nowadays, I can say that she made an immediate impression for me in the mid-‘80s, starting with The Right Stuff (1983), Flight of the Navigator (1986), and most notably The Witches of Eastwick (1987)...

Before Focus Features released Edgar Wright’s neo-noir thriller Last Night in Soho in October 2021, the filmmaker showed a cut to pal George Miller. The Australian director was so struck by star Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance that he went back to Wright with an idea.

“I said, ‘Gee, she’d be good for…,’” detailed Miller, who then said Wright interjected before he could finish the thought. “[He said], ‘Do it, do it. She’s great.’” Miller took Wright’s concise advice and cast Taylor-Joy in the title role of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Furiosa, the newest installment of his blockbuster Mad Max franchise. She plays a young woman in a dystopian universe who was snatched from home only to fall into the hands of the great Biker Horde led by the Warlord of Dementus, played by Chris Hemsworth. Furiosa is then forced to withstand many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

As the rollout of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga revs up, filmmaker George Miller will be heading to Las Vegas.

CinemaCon announced Tuesday morning that the Australian filmmaker has been selected to receive an international career achievement in filmmaking award during the annual convention put on by the National Association of Theatre Owners. Miller will be presented with the prize during a lunch ceremony at Caesars Palace on April 8.

“George Miller, an archetypal storyteller, has transformed the imaginations of moviegoers worldwide, forever altering the cinematic landscape,” said CinemaCon managing director Mitch Neuhauser. “His filmmaking serves as a testament to his enduring impact and inspiration.”

Warner Bros. Pictures will release Furiosa on May 24, following the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, Furiosa finds Miller returning to the dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago. It follows a young Furiosa after...

The "Twilight Zone" episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", directed by Richard Donner, remains to this day one of the show's most popular. Scripted by Richard Matheson and starring a pre-"Star Trek" William Shatner, "Nightmare" follows a man, Robert Wilson, recently released from a sanitarium due to a mental breakdown. On a flight back home, Robert peers out the plane window into the rainy night and sees a massive, furry gremlin standing on the wing of the plane. The gremlin, in true gremlin spirit, pries up a metal panel on the wing and begins futzing with the machinery inside. The gremlin might very well cause the plane to crash. When Robert tries to alert anyone about the gremlin, they all assume he's imagining it, once again succumbing to his nerves.

Matheson first conceived of "Nightmare" in a 1961 short story, published in his anthology "Alone By Night." The story has become...

Pfeiffer's diverse filmography showcases her unmatched talent in various genres, from comedy to drama. Her iconic roles, like Catwoman in Batman Returns, have left a lasting impact on moviegoers and the industry. Pfeiffer's ability to embody complex characters, like Elvira in Scarface, cements her as a true Hollywood icon.

Michelle Pfeiffer's captivating career has delivered incredible and memorable performances for decades, showcasing that her filmography is filled with some of cinema's finest movies. Rising to prominence in the early 80s, Pfeiffer's star shone brightest in the late 80s and early 90s, when she established herself as one of the most talented actresses to grace the silver screen. Her breakout role as Elvira Hancock in Brian De Palma's Scarface marked the beginning of a commercially successful and critically acclaimed career that continues to this day.

Pfeiffer's remarkable versatility has allowed her to excel in every major genre, from comedies...