The many sides of Gena Rowlands, plus the week’s best movies
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.The fall festival season began in…
Justin Theroux is engaged to actor Nicole Brydon Bloom
Looks as if Justin Theroux is going to give marriage another try — this time with fellow actor Nicole Brydon Bloom. The “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” actor,…
Peaky Blinders fans say same thing as Hollywood A-lister joins cast of Netflix movie
Cillian Murphy is reprising his role as Tommy Shelby for the Peaky Blinders movie, with Netflix announcing that the highly-anticipated film has added a new…
The best Hollywood movie studio tours, from Warner Bros. to Universal
Tourists view a variety of locations during the Sony Studios lot tour, with Tony Tasset’s 94-foot, 2012-constructed rainbow that references “The Wizard of Oz” in…
Bright summer box office gives a gloomy film industry hope
Foul-mouthed superheroes, babbling Minions and plenty of Anxiety (the animated kind) have propelled this summer’s box office past the winter and spring theatrical doldrums, marking…
Rep. Castro nominates ‘Blood In Blood Out’ for National Film Registry
As part of his work to champion Latino inclusion in Hollywood, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) has recommended that the crime dramas “Blood In Blood…
Aubrey Plaza hasn’t seen ‘White Lotus,’ forgot her Max password
Stars, they’re just like us (sort of).In a Tuesday interview with the Wall Street Journal, Aubrey Plaza shared her all-too-relatable experience of forgetting the password…
Historic baseball field featured in ‘A League of Their Own’ burns down in Ontario
The saying goes, “there’s no crying in baseball,” but fans of the movie “A League of Their Own” and kids in Ontario all have a…
Nineties movie icon, 72, has hardly aged in 34 years since Oscar-winning movie and TV comeback
A NINETIES movie icon has hardly aged - 34 years after her Oscar-winning movie.Mary McDonnell shot to fame all the way back in the 70s…
‘Rob Peace’ review: Flattens out complexity of a true story
Statistics about the social mobility of Black lives don’t always do justice to what it looks like up close for one person. That’s where movies…
‘Skincare’ review: A neurotic Hollywood facialist is stalked
Director Austin Peters makes his narrative feature debut with “Skincare,” a slice of nasty L.A. noir set within the beauty industry, starring Elizabeth Banks as…
International movie star and heartthrob Alain Delon dies at 88
PARIS — Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, has…
The best movies in L.A.: Shelley Duvall, ‘La Bamba’ and more
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.Gena Rowlands died Wednesday at age…
The 5 best moments in the ‘Alien’ franchise
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who’s had a nightmare about working for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.Hollywood’s most rapacious fictional conglomerate returns in “Alien:…
‘It Ends With Us’ movie banned in Qatar for kissing scenes
Sony Pictures’ hit film adaptation of “It Ends With Us” has been prohibited from screening in Qatar, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Monday.The country’s censorship…
Co-op meal deal offers pizza, ice-cream & a movie for just £5 – but there’s a catch to get the money off
CO-OP shoppers are buzzing over a meal deal that’s too good to resist – two pizzas, a tub of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and…
‘Dance First’ review: Gabriel Byrne portrays Samuel Beckett
It would be hard to imagine a genre more antithetical to the modernist sensibility of Samuel Beckett than the biopic. The Irish writer who relocated…
Harry Potter star unrecognisable 17 years after hit film as he reunites with co-star from the movie
Harry Potter Louis Cordice star looks unrecognisable fifteen years after he appeared on the beloved franchise – as he reunites with movie co-star.It was almost…
Disney announces ‘Greatest Showman’ stage musical at D23
Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for — “The Greatest Showman” is coming to the stage.Disney Theatricals is developing a stage musical…
‘Cuckoo’ review: An enjoyably stylish European nightmare
Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo” is a horror film that‘s unlike anything you’ve ever seen, even though it pays overt homage to its predecessors in the genre.…