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[This story contains spoilers from the Silo season two premiere.]

Graham Yost doesn’t want you to read the Silo book series — not yet, at least.

“I usually try and say [that] sitting right next to [author] Hugh Howey,” the Silo showrunner jokes from his office in Carmel, California. “Buy copies of the book, but don’t read them yet.”

Season two of Apple TV’s Silo premiered on Friday, with episodes rolling out weekly until the Jan. 17, 2025 finale. Yost has made no secret of his departure from the source material, pulling whole episodes out of single sentences in Wool, Howey’s first of three books in the Silo series. Howey is an executive producer on the show, and by all accounts, is thoroughly pleased with Yost’s work.

Season one covered the first half of Wool; season two will finish it. The remaining two books are Shift and Dust. “We thought of different structures for season two,...

Why does Morgan Freeman, our beloved cinematic sage, sport those iconic gold hoop earrings? While some might think it’s merely a quirky fashion choice, there’s a fascinating, slightly morbid reason behind them that leaves us both admiring & chuckling in the same breath.

Morgan Freeman in Hard Rain | Credit: Paramount Pictures

As the man who’s delivered breathtaking performances in Glory, Se7en, Unforgiven, and The Dark Knight trilogy, Freeman has clearly ascended to the pinnacle of A-list stardom. But back to the gold hoops—these aren’t just bling for the bling’s sake. Freeman revealed in a 2019 Instagram post that these gleaming accessories are worth just enough for someone “to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place”.

Just like the brave sailors and roguish pirates of yesteryear, Freeman’s got his bases covered, ensuring he can rest in peace wherever his life adventures might lead him.

Actress Minnie Driver was the ‘it girl’ of ‘90s Hollywood, as she was touted to be the next big star after her Oscan-nominated performance in Good Will Hunting. While she was expected to hit the levels of stardom of other starlets like Kate Winslet and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Driver has chosen to work on more independent and small-scale productions.

Driver’s last blockbuster film, Hard Rain, was reportedly not a good experience. Apart from being a box office bomb, the filming conditions were reportedly extreme and miserable due to it being set around a natural disaster. To top it off, Driver reportedly fought with the producer over miserable working conditions.

Minnie Driver Had An Altercation With The Producer Of Hard Rain A still from Hard Rain | Credits: Paramount Pictures

The 1998 action film Hard Rain starred Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman and followed the story of thieves who plan a heist during a flood.

After living in Los Angeles for 27 years, Minnie Driver is now back living in London. But asked if she could ever live in the U.S. again if Donald Trump is re-elected president, the “Good Will Hunting” star said, “If I lived in a red state, no, I couldn’t.”

“But living in California, you are somewhat insulated,” the actor continued, in an interview with British publication The Times. “But do you want to go and live in a bubble? Do you run away from the fire or do you go back and help?”

Driver, speaking just days after Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in his New York hush money trial, said, “Of course he deserves to be in prison — of course he does. But just looking at how much money he raised in that two days, $53 million in a 48-hour period, and the idea that because the...

As the high-energy roar of the iconic 90s thriller, Speed has geared up to celebrate its 30th anniversary (yesterday), we can’t help but reflect with a sense of awe on its legacy. Can it truly be that three decades have zipped by since Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock hooked us with their on-screen chemistry in this breathtaking chase that remains one of the most gripping tales of survival against the clock?

Speed (1994) | 20th Century Fox

Released on June 10, 1994, the film by 20th Century Fox not only soared to the pinnacle of cinematic mastery but also sparked a debate that continues to this day: did it outperform Bruce Willis’ Die Hard, despite their obvious similarities? With adroit direction by Jan de Bont (directorial debut) and riveting performances by Reeves as the earnest hero & Bullock as the plucky civilian thrust into danger, Speed did more than just entertain; it redefined the action genre for its time.

Morgan Freeman’s presence in movies usually attracts audience, but even his charisma and soothing voice could not save his 1998 action thriller film, Hard Rain. Directed by cinematographer-turned-director Mikael Salomon, the movie emerged as the biggest flop of that year.

Mikael Salomon’s Hard Rain / Paramount Pictures

On a more interesting note, fans who have seen the film were so angry they demanded to change the ending. They did not want the legendary icon’s character to die so the studio decided to do a reshoot.

Morgan Freeman Asked Fans Not To Watch Hard Rain

In an interview with The Guardian, actor Morgan Freeman shared his experience working on Mikael Salomon’s Hard Rain. Starring alongside Christian Slater and Minnie Driver, the actor said fans did not like the film to the point that they were forced to change its ending.

I played a bad guy in a movie, and...

Minnie Driver claims producers for 1998’s Hard Rain told her she couldn’t wear a wetsuit because “they wanted to see my nipples.”

The Good Will Hunting actress said on Mondays’ episode of the I Weigh With Jameela Jamil podcast that she was made to feel like “an idiot” when she pushed back on a costume decision for the disaster action thriller, despite filming in “20 million gallons of water.”

“It’s set during this massive storm,” she explained. “There were huge rain machines. We shot crazy hours. It was tough…. Everybody else could wear a wetsuit underneath their costume, and I was told by the producers that I couldn’t because they wanted to see my nipples, and that there was no point in having the wet T-shirt if you couldn’t have what was underneath it.”

Hard Rain costume designer Kathleen Detoro told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement...

Actors and actresses often come across projects whose filming ends up making them quite uncomfortable and Minnie Driver is no exception. Back in 1998, the actress starred in Mikael Salomon’s heist action-thriller, Hard Rain. While the film didn’t perform well at the box office, bringing in less than $20 million, this was far from what soured Minnie Driver’s memories of the film.

A still from Hard Rain (1998)

According to Minnie Driver, she was made to go through some serious uncomfortable working situations. Apparently, she was not allowed to wear a wet suit underneath her clothes, unlike other actors, despite the fact that they were filming with rain machines. And when Minnie Driver decided to push back, she felt as if she was being punished for speaking up.

Minnie Driver Talks about her Hard Rain Experience Minnie Driver in an interview with Entertainment Tonight

While the reality is that Hard Rain...

Minnie Driver is opening up about the sexism she faced on the set of her movie Hard Rain.

The 54-year-old actress disaster film was released in 1998 and during a recent interview on Jameela Jamil‘s I Weigh podcast, she shared how the producers of the movie wouldn’t let her wear a wetsuit under her t-shirt while filming, despite other cast members being able to.

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“It’s set during this massive storm, there were huge rain machines. We shot crazy hours. It was tough,” Minnie shared. “Everybody else could wear a wetsuit underneath their costume, and I was told by the producers that I couldn’t because they wanted to see my nipples, and that there was no point in having the wet t-shirt if you couldn’t have what was underneath it.”

The actress added that she pushed back on the decision, but...

Minnie Driver said during a recent interview on Jameela Jamil’s “I Weigh” podcast that producers on her 1998 disaster movie “Hard Rain” allegedly told her not to wear a wetsuit while filming with rain machines because “they wanted to see my nipples” (via Entertainment Weekly). The film, directed by Mikael Salomon, opened a year after Driver’s breakthrough in “Good Will Hunting,” which earned her an Oscar nomination. Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater headlined “Hard Rain.”

“It’s set during this massive storm, there were huge rain machines. We shot crazy hours. It was tough,” Driver told Jamil. “Everybody else could wear a wetsuit underneath their costume, and I was told by the producers that I couldn’t because they wanted to see my nipples, and that there was no point in having the wet t-shirt if you couldn’t have what was underneath it.”

Driver said she pushed back...

Many people often blasphemously (and hilariously) joke around that Morgan Freeman is God. Not only because of his pitch perfect casting as God but also due to his smooth, defining and, yes, god-like is Morgan Freeman’s voice that one can’t picture penguins or parts of nature or, yes, God, without hearing the man. One reason could be that we’ve only ever really known Morgan Freeman as an older actor, not striking a chord with mainstream audiences until he was in his 50s.

Soon enough his skills, screen presences and voice had Hollywood calling every time they needed a kind wise grandfather types or a grizzled vet from either side of the the law or any type of narration in any type of film. That persona has marked him as a welcome figure throughout modern cinema – despite the nearly constant cash grabs that pad out the unfortunate bulk of his filmography.

On May 12, 1976, Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue played a gig at the Municipal Auditorium in Austin, Texas, that left little historical mark. Newspaper clippings from the week reveal that furious fans protested with signs outside the hall (“Boycott Rolling Thunder Ripoff”) when they learned plans for separate early and late shows were scuttled at the last minute, creating a general admission melee where seat assignments were suddenly meaningless. But it’s one of the few shows from the 57-date Rolling Thunder Revue that never surfaced in the collector community...

Joining an illustrious list of honorees that includes Clint Eastwood, Amy Poehler and Geena Davis, Josh Brolin is set to receive the 2023 Sun Valley Film Festival’s Vision Award, which recognizes entertainment veterans for the impact on the industry. Brolin began his career more than 35 years ago as one of the stars of Richard Donner’s “The Goonies,” and he’s since won acclaim for work in films as varied as Ethan and Joel Coen’s “No Country for Old Men,” Oliver Stone’s “W.,” Gus Van Sant’s “Milk,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice,” Joe and Anthony Russo’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and its sequel, “Endgame,” and more.

That many of those high-profile roles came to him more than 20 years after becoming an actor isn’t something Brolin resents now — in fact quite the opposite. “That feels amazing as opposed to somebody who came out of the gate...

Sure, the Marvel Cinematic Universe may be the biggest franchise in the history of cinema, but it took an army of filmmakers and independent superheros to become what it is. If there is one, single unquestioned king of the box office, it is undoubtedly James Cameron. The man, as it stands, has made three of the four highest-grossing movies of all time, with "Avatar," "Avatar: The Way of Water," and "Titanic." The latter was released way back in 1997 and it still managed to cross the 2 billion mark in global ticket sales, something no other film did until (checks notes) "Avatar" in 2009. In its initial run, the film earned 1.84 billion, before subsequent re-releases took it all the way up to 2.19 billion.

No other film in history had a run quite like that of "Titanic," which topped the charts at the domestic box office for an absolutely staggering 15 weekends in a row.

“The truth is that that story is timeless. You don’t want it to be timeless, but it is,” declares co-creator Alex Kurtzman about why it seemed like the right time to revisit this story on Showtime’s limited series “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”

“It felt like a particularly necessary time to tell the story,” he says, adding for our recent webchat, “that being said, when we set out to do it Jenny and I were not we were not necessarily thinking that way,” he proclaims. “We’re not that smart man, nor that altruistic,” co-creator Jenny Lumet interjects with a laugh. “I think we both came at it from very weird personal and instinctual places and we said yes before we really knew what we are unleashing upon ourselves,” she reveals. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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Season 2 of the Emmy-winning comedy “Hacks,” the debut of Colin Firth’s true-crime drama “The Staircase” and the streaming return of “The Matrix: Resurrections” all await HBO Max subscribers in May. If you’re looking for something new to watch or wondering what’s on HBO Max this month, not to worry, we’ve got the full rundown.

There are several must-watch new TV shows on both HBO and HBO Max this month, new and returning. Acclaimed Jean Smart comedy “Hacks” returns for Season 2 on May 12. As for the new debuts, May sees the premieres for HBO Max’s “The Staircase” on May 5, starring Colin Firth as Michael Peterson in the true-crime limited series, as well as the HBO premiere of Steven Moffat’s (”Doctor Who”) series adaptation of “The Time Traveler’s Wife” on May 15.

New films this month include the streaming return of “The Matrix: Resurrections” and streaming premieres...

Ricky Gardiner, the guitarist who played stinging, obtuse leads throughout Davie Bowie’s iconic Low and Iggy Pop’s rowdy Lust for Life, has died at age 73. Tony Visconti, who co-produced Low, reported the news on Facebook, saying that Gardiner’s wife, Virginia, had notified him of the guitarist’s death. Gardiner had been battling Parkinson’s at the time of his death.

“Dearest Ricky, lovely, lovely man, shirtless in your coveralls, nicest guy who ever played guitar,” Iggy Pop wrote on Twitter. “Thanks for the memories and the songs,...

Three years after dropping her stunning debut Beware of the Dogs, Stella Donnelly has returned with “Lungs,” the lead single off her new record, Flood.

The track is a masterclass in how to release a single in the spring season: drums frolic across the introduction as Donnelly’s voice soars across octaves — much like the crimson bird she’s dressed up as in the video. “Stretching out the leather on your wallet,” she sings, twinkling in crisp indie pop. “That my lungs are filling up.”

Birds take on a bigger role in Flood,...

With movie theaters fully back up and running, HBO Max no longer has any major film releases to point to with its list of new releases for May 2022. That’s alright though as the streamer is leaning into the HBO side of its branding to offer up some fun TV releases.

The biggest HBO Max original this month is undoubtedly the return of Hacks on May 12. The first season of this comedy starred Jean Smart as a venerated Vegas comedy and Hannah Einbinder as her new millennial assistant. The first batch of episodes was excellent and even won an Emmy or two for its troubles and now season 2 will look to keep up the good vibes.

Premiering on May 15, is The Time Traveler’s Wife. This series adaptation of the 2003 novel (which in turn became a a 2009 movie) keeps up with two star-crossed lovers who can never quite make the timing work…...

Update (3/24): On Friday, Lykke Li announced the release of her immersive audiovisual album Eyeye, out May 20. The LP will feature seven tracks — including her new single “No Hotel” — and with their accompanying visuals, the project will find Lykke Li telling a story about the cycles of love, addiction, relapse, and obsession.

“We wanted to capture the beauty and grandeur of a three-hour European arthouse movie while making something native to modern media,” Li said in a statement about the album’s visual element. “The intention is to deliver the...

“The Man Who Fell To Earth” has never made for light entertainment. Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel set a dire trajectory, and David Bowie’s 1976 film, among many changes, sticks with the sentiment. An alien arrives in America, hoping to save his species from a distant planet, and… things do not go as planned. The arc, after all, is right there in the title (no matter how you read it).

So viewers familiar with the original template may be on their heels a bit after the latest adaptation — a serialized drama from showrunners Alex Kurtzmann and Jenny Lumet — opens in media res. No, the flash-forward isn’t a surprise (please make them stop), but the hopeful promise made by Chiwetel Ejiofor’s outer space visitor speaking to an auditorium of avid fans as a “man” who’s not only well-established, but widely beloved… well, that’s a pivot. And the early hours...

Exclusive: His Dark Materials episodic director William McGregor has come aboard to helm the movie Smile (working title) for Netflix and Matt Reeves’ 6th and Idaho, a project which is described as a vampire story in the spirit of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.

McGregor will co-write with Helen Kingston; she previously having written the Lena Headey 2019 movie The Flood.

Smile follows teenager Millie, whose life is turned upside-down when she’s bitten by a vampire while traveling to LA with her school. Wanting nothing more than to be human again, Millie learns she can reverse the process if she is able to kill the man who bit her before the next sunrise.

McGregor’s 2019 debut feature film Gwen premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was a British Independent Film Award nominee and won two Welsh BAFTA’s. McGregor is currently directing the Joe Cornish penned Lockwood & Co...

Feature also sells to Latin America, German-speaking territories.

Heading into this week’s virtual EFM Montreal-based WaZabi Films has licensed US rights to Cinedigm on Australian drama Moon Rock For Monday.

Wazabi co-president Anick Poirier said the company has struck additional deals on the Lunar Pictures feature with Landfilm for German-speaking Europe, Youngjin Creative for South Korea, Sts for Japan, Encripta for Latin America, and Media4Fun for Poland.

Kurt Martin directed the story about Monday, a terminally ill girl who encounters a teenage fugitive with whom she ends up travelling to Australia’s Northern Territory to find the moon...

Right on schedule, Paramount+ has unleashed the new trailer for the Halo TV series adaptation, which is set to arrive March 24 on the streamer. As you might expect, Master Chief is featured prominently in the trailer, as well as Cortana, the Covenant, and even a brief glimpse of The Flood! Pablo Schreiber (“American Gods”) […]

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Hours after Tom Morello appeared on The Tonight Show to perform “Hold the Line” with the help of Grandson, the guitarist announced his second LP of 2021, The Atlas Underground Flood, out Dec. 3rd.

The Atlas Underground Flood serves as a “sister album” to Morello’s The Atlas Underground Fire, which arrived in October. Like its predecessor, the upcoming LP is an all-star affair, with a guest list that includes Jim James, Rush’s Alex Lifeson, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, Nathaniel Rateliff, Manchester Orchestra, Ben Harper, X Ambassadors and many more.

New films from Oscar laureate Vanessa Ragone (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) and Camera d’Or winners Edher Campos (“Leap Year”) and Juan Pablo Miller (“Las Acacias”) are among attractions at this year’s Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte and Copia Final, the pix-in-post industry centerpieces at Latin America’s biggest film-tv market.

Ragone co-produces “The Face of the Jellyfish,” from Argentina’s Rotterdam-prized Melisa Liebenthal. Campos unveils “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” Mexican Federico Cecchetti’s follow-up to the multi-prized “Mara’akame’s Dream.”

Miller introduces “Sublime,” one of the section’s buzz titles, along with “Diogenes,” from Peru’s Leonardo Barbuy, and two titles from Brazil: Gregorio Graziosi’s “Tinnitus” and Gabriel Martin’s “Mars One,” winner of Ventana Sur’s prestigious Paradiso Wip Award.

Titles brim with talent, observes Eva Morsch-Kihn, curator of Primer Corte and Copia Final along with Mercedes Abarca and Maria Nuñez.

There’s a moment at the very end of Victoria Wharfe McIntyre’s The Flood when we see some of her characters wearing sunglasses. It’s powerful because it snaps us back to the here and now and makes us realise that the events it depicts happened within living memory. Much of the rest of what we see could be happening at any time in the last couple of centuries. There’s a temptation to distance it in one’s mind. In part this is a way of escaping the horror of it. In part, it’s a way of evading responsibility, or of pretending to ourselves that we have undergone some unlikely fundamental change.

The events we see are set in one of those quiet rural backwaters where time always seems to move more slowly than it does elsewhere. Its a place whose routine is about to be brutally interrupted,...

"All these bloody lies... I'm taking back what's mine." 4Digital Media has released an official US trailer for an Australian action western titled The Flood, from filmmaker Victoria Wharfe McIntyre. This premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival last year, and it already opened in Australia (we also featured the Australian trailer last year), and arrives in the US this fall. "A tale of retribution, revenge, redemption and reconciliation." Set during WWII, when a woman's husband, daughter, land and innocence are ripped from her, she embarks on a brutal journey of retribution and revenge. Starring Alexis Lane as Jarah Banganha, with Shaka Cook, Dean Kyrwood, Dalara Williams, Karen Garnsey, Peter McAllum, Simone Landers, and Aaron Jeffery. There's a lot going on in this trailer, a ton of different characters, and action all over the place. All the US marketing is focused on Jarah, but she's not in this trailer as much as expected.

Seven-time Emmy-winning actor Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant on both sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and hourlong drama “Lou Grant” before a late-career rejuvenation through his poignant voicework in 2009 animated film “Up,” has died. He was 91.

His publicist confirmed the news to Variety, writing that he died on Sunday surrounded by family. Asner’s official Twitter account posted a message from his family, saying “Goodnight dad. We love you.”

We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully. Words cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head- Goodnight dad. We love you.

— Ed Asner (@TheOnlyEdAsner) August 29, 2021

Asner had worked for many years as a character actor in series television and movies before hitting paydirt and stardom as the tough-talking TV newsroom head Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which brought him three supporting actor Emmys. When the sitcom called it quits,...

Selection includes 17 Russian projects and 9 international.

Russian state film body Roskino and project market When East Meets West (Wemw) have selected 26 projects for Wemw Goes To Russia, a new international co-production forum to run during the upcoming Key Buyers Event: Digital (June 8-10).

Some 17 Russian projects and nine international works from eight different countries will participate in the co-production pitching, through which they will be able to meet Russian producers and access a minority co-production support granted by the Russian Ministry of Culture, up to Rub 10m.

The inaugural edition of Wemw Goes To Russia is part of the third annual Key Buyers Event: Digital.

We present an overview of the works in progress presented at this year’s Febiofest Industry Days, giving a taste of what’s to come in Slovakian cinema. Unfolding online, the sixth edition of the Febiofest (29 March) Work in Progress industry panel, an event co-organised by the Slovak Film Institute, presented Slovakian projects in the making to an audience made up of both domestic and international film professionals. For the first time, the organisers introduced the Best Febio Pitch Award. The jury consisting of Renata Santoro of Giornate degli Autori, Bernd Buder from Connecting Cottbus, and Hugo Rosák from Karlovy Vary International Film Festival decided to hand out the award to the project Flood by Martin Gonda, explaining that the project impressed the jury “the most for its engaged way of presenting a relevant topic that connects the experience of a family to a threat of extinction in the name of.

Victoria Wharfe McIntyre’s revenge thriller The Flood will get releases in the US, UK, and Latin America after a number of deals at the European Film Market.

Berlin-based Media Move licensed the rights, with 4Digital Media picking up North America and the UK, where it plans a digital and DVD release later this year, and Brazil’s Encripta to distribute in Latin America, where it plans a theatrical release in June.

McIntyre said while distinctly Australian, the film carried the universal themes of revenge, redemption and reconciliation through truth telling.

“We are thrilled to see our uniquely Australian voice popular on the international stage, sharing a narrative built around #metoo, Black Lives Matter, and colonisation,” she said.

Set during WWII, the film is a coming-of-age story detailing Jarah’s (Alexis Lane) growth from a sweet child to a strong, independent and ferocious woman taking on Australia’s corrupt and...

Elevated genre from Wagtail Films stars Alexis Lane.

Berlin-based Media Move has licensed North American, UK and Latin American rights at EFM on Wagtail Films’ female-led Australian revenge thriller and 2020 Tallinn Black Nights selection The Flood.

4Digital Media has picked up North America and the UK on writer-director Victoria Wharfe McIntyre’s elevated genre about a woman seeking vengeance after her husband, daughter, and land are taken from her.

The distributor is targeting a fourth quarter digital and DVD release after managing director Tony Taglienti negotiated the deal with Justyna Koronkiewicz of Media Move.

Brazil’s Encripta will distribute in...

"Destroy me? They made me." Madman Films has released an official Australian trailer for The Flood, an intense revenge western thriller from Australia directly confronting their racism towards aboriginals. "A tale of retribution, revenge, redemption and reconciliation." This film recently premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival a few months back, and it arrives in Australia in January coming up soon. Set during World War II, when a woman's husband, daughter, land and innocence are ripped from her, she embarks on a brutal journey of retribution and revenge. Starring Alexis Lane as Jarah Banganha, along with Shaka Cook, Dean Kyrwood, Dalara Williams, Karen Garnsey, Peter McAllum, Simone Landers, and Aaron Jeffery. Whoa this looks damn good! Seems to be a more gritty genre action film take on Australia's racism than the emotional dramas they've been making recently. That bar scene at the end of this! Hell yes. Here's the...

The Flood, Victoria Wharfe-McIntyre’s debut feature, follows a female heroine (Alexis Lane) as she exacts revenge on an unjust colonial Australia.

Due to premiere in cinemas December 8 via Madman and FanForce, it also stars Shaka Cook, Dean Kyrwood, Dalara Williams and Aaron Jeffery, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2020 Aacta Awards for his work on the film.

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Exclusive: Emmy-winning filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee Mikael Salomon has inked with Buchwald.

Salomon directed episodes of HBO’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series Band of Brothers from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.

Having worked as a cinematographer early on in his career on such movies as Backdraft, Far and Away, Always, Arachnophobia and James Cameron’s The Abyss, he was Oscar-nominated for his Dp work on the latter and in the VFX category for Backdraft.

He had directed a bulk of episodic television including History’s Six, the NatGeo miniseries The Long Road Home, CBS’ Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Alias and Nash Bridges.

His feature directing credits include Paramount’s Hard Rain starring Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater, Disney’s A Far Off Place starring Reese Witherspoon among others.

Salomon continues to...

Three out of competition titles also added to programme.

Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.

The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.

Scroll down for the full list of titles

World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...

Three out of competition titles also added to programme.

Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.

The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.

Scroll down for the full list of titles

World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...

Emmy voters continue to prove that overdue narratives don’t factor into their decisions when picking winners. Just ask actors like Martin Sheen (“The West Wing”), Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation”) and last year’s Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”), who were never able to win Emmys for their respective iconic performances. Not everyone can be as lucky as Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), one of the rare cases of an overdue actor actually being given the Emmy for the final season of their show.

This year, while voters did finally reward overdue favorites like Maya Rudolph and Kerry Washington for the first time, there were numerous actors at the 2020 Emmys who weren’t quite as lucky. Below is a list of the nine Emmy nominees who have now racked up at least five losses from the TV academy.

See Here’s the full list of Emmy winners

Sandra Oh — 12 losses...

This year’s Comedy Guest Actress field features past Emmy winners, a “bad bitch” looking for her first victory and a history making double nominee. We’ve put ourselves in the shoes of voters by sitting through all six of their episode submissions to analyze who might come out on top in this tight race. Who will win at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, September 19? Follow the links below for each episode analysis.

See 2020 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 72nd Emmy Awards

Angela Bassett, “A Black Lady Sketch Show”

Angela Bassett is a seven-time Emmy nominee. She was previously nominated for “The Rosa Parks Story,” “American Horror Story: Coven,” “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “Master of None,” “The Flood,” and has an additional nomination this year for narrating “The Imagineering Story.” In order to prevail for this HBO comedy, she has submitted the episode “Angela...

The debut feature by Armenian filmmaker Marat Sargsyan is world-premiering in competition in Venice's 35th International Film Critics’ Week. A blue screen informs that war has begun. What will be needed? Collect the men, find guns, or maybe someone will give them. We need a location, a country where the war would take place. No problem, the Colonel is a real pro, he has caused wars to order, or on orders, on multiple occasions in different countries. Now his followers have grown up and caused a war in his country. He doesn’t want to, but he has to fight. He is old and tired of war. He wants to be at the table with a steaming pot of tasty mutton ribs and stare at an innocent TV screen with the news on, and the dressed-up news reporter announces that the war has begun. This is the plot of The Flood.

Angela Bassett earned two Emmy nominations this year for projects that couldn’t be more different: Best Comedy Guest Actress for HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and Best Narrator for Disney+‘s documentary series “The Imagineering Story.” In one, she leads a bad bitches support group in an episode appropriately titled “Angela Bassett is the Baddest Bitch.” In the other, she recounts the story of how Disney creative artists and technicians created attractions for theme parks here and abroad. Watch our exclusive interview with Bassett about her dual nominations above.

Her “Black Lady Sketch Show” appearance went pretty quickly, as she recalls: “We filmed actually about four to five hours — morning until about noon or 1:00 — so it was a really quick turnaround. I got to work with some amazing young artists that I was just becoming familiar with,” as well as fellow guest-starring bad bitch Laverne Cox.

A little less than a decade ago, the streaming service industry was small and simple to navigate. Even though Netflix was still up and coming, the company remained both a novelty and an anomaly to the film studios and their theatrical distribution network. Fast forward to now, however, and the family of streamers includes Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max and a wealth of others.

With so many subscriptions available, content is being produced and distributed at faster rates and in higher quantities than ever before. Add to that a global pandemic which has forced the world to stay indoors and work from home, and the demand for entertainment has skyrocketed even higher. Luckily for society, there’s a bunch of new stuff being made available all the time and here’s a quick overview of some of the movies that are hitting VOD and the various streaming sites this weekend.

For starters,...

Alternative-rock band They Might Be Giants are going on tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their album Flood, which brought them to international fame. Although the Covid-19 pandemic caused the band to reschedule many of their spring 2020 shows, the band has officially sold out most of the shows on their upcoming tour. Lucky […]

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In his 1998 review, Roger Ebert called the heist thriller Hard Rain “a documentary about wet actors at work.” This, and not much more, is what Force Of Nature offers as well. The film opens with a fistfight in the rain, two angry men bludgeoning each other while Mel Gibson tries to get a clean shot from the balcony…...

Any parent hoping to watch a David Lynch movie with the whole family is in luck starting in April. Disney+ has announced Lynch’s 1999 Disney movie “The Straight Story” will be available to stream next month, which is exciting news as the movie has been hard to come by in recent years on streaming. “The Straight Story” is available to purchase on YouTube and Amazon, but Disney+ subscribers will be able to stream the biographical drama as part of their membership staring April 3.

“The Straight Story” is an outlier in Lynch’s challenging and experimental filmography, with the majority of his movies only be suitable for adult viewers. Co-written by John Roach and Mary Sweeney, “The Straight Story” tells the true story of Alvin Straight, who made headlines in 1994 for journeying across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower. The cast includes Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, and regular Lynch collaborator Harry Dean Stanton.

Dean Kyrwood in ‘The Flood’ (Photo credit: Coco Banks Photography).

Dean Kyrwood will play psychic twin brothers in Alex Proyas’ surreal short film Mask of the Evil Apparition.

The first film to shoot at Proyas’ new self-contained studio in Sydney, it will star Bonnie Ferguson as Olivia, a young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city.

Antonio and his twin brother try to help Olivia find her way home but quickly realise she is being pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.

Although Antonio has the ability to psychically connect with the cult there is little he can do to protect her or himself from Olivia’s own evil supernatural twin.

It’s the filmmaker’s third collaboration with Ferguson, who appeared in his short Phobos and in a photographic exhibition. “I think Bonnie’s a star – a true film actor who can convey so much just with those incredible eyes,...

“Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away”. Bollywood’s music has been around 89 years going into 2020 and it’s been taking our breath away for however long we’ve been listening to it. Everyone has a favourite singer, music director and genre which defines for them the perfect song. This of course makes a list of the best songs of the decade a difficult task as they are so subjective to each person. There’s so many perfect songs in Bollywood! Thus, below is a list of some of the great songs of the decade!

2010

‘Pee Loon’ – Once Upon a Time in Mumbai

Music: Pritam – Singer: Mohit Chauhan

Overalapping sounds, lightly classical and a love story blossoming… so simple a formula but this song shows why it continues to work. Mohit is sublime backed by Pritam’s instrumentation.

Panga, starring Kangana Ranaut, is an inspirational tale directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari. Panga is an emotional roller coaster tale of a middle class Indian woman, a forgotten Kabaddi world champion who has an inner desire to give a new meaning to her existing role as a wife and mother. She makes an incredible move to come back to the sport despite the challenges that include creating an upheaval in her life as she is torn between family responsibility and love for the sport. At heart it is a story about a family who laughs, cries, dreams together & remains by your side to make your dream come true!

The soundtrack is composed by music greats Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, with lyrics by the incredible Javed Akhtar. So does the music sing…? Read on to find out!

Starting off with a very Indian vibe, the energetic Panga Title Track is sung by the wonderful...

Hollywood has always enjoyed making movies set around natural disasters. There’s just something about watching mother nature destroy big cities and iconic landmarks that audiences enjoy.

Well, Vanity Fair gathered together environmental scientists Morgan Page, Michael Angove and Peter Gleick to sit down and watch some of the natural disaster scenes from movies so that they could fact check them and offer some insight.

The movies they discuss in the video include San Andreas, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Volcano, Twister, Geostorm, The Core, Interstellar, Sharknado, The Perfect Storm, Pompeii, Noah, The Impossible, The Happening, Into the Storm and even Hard Rain.

It’s interesting listening to what these scientists have to say about the natural disasters in these movies. Some of the movies get it right while others are way off the mark.