Many people have called Dame Helen Mirren a “goddess” throughout her life. Now the Oscar-winning actor gets to portray a literal one onscreen, and destroy an entire city block in the process. Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to the 2019 D.C. Comics superhero movie, finds Mirren playing Hespera, …
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Sam Neill turned to social media to ease fans’ concerns about his health following news that the Jurassic Park actor battled stage 3 blood cancer last year. The actor reveals the cancer diagnosis in his upcoming memoir Did I Ever Tell You This?, as well as a recent interview he …
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Lance Reddick is being remembered by his Hollywood friends and colleagues following the news of his passing Friday. Keanu Reeves, Wendell Pierce, James Gunn, and more shared touching tributes in remembrance of the late actor. Reddick, who reprised his role of Charon the hotel concierge in John Wick: Chapter 4, …
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The contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 are confronting anti-drag hate in the show’s latest episode. On Friday, the queens performed in a Wigloose Rusical, a reimagined version of Footloose where a local teacher is attempting to ban drag, as the queens opened up about their fears of new …
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This year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival opened with the premiere of Swarm, the dark tale of Dre (Dominique Fishback), a stan whose obsession with a Beyoncé-esque pop idol turns deadly. And the Prime Video series’ fourth episode treated audiences to a little surprise: Billie Eilish’s screen acting debut as …
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In 1962, Loretta McLaughlin, a reporter at the Boston Record-American, noticed a small item buried on page five of a local paper. It detailed the murder of a woman who had been found strangled in her apartment. Something about this seems familiar to McLaughlin, who digs through some old clippings …
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There is nothing on television quite like Swarm. This ultraviolent fever dream of a series, from the Atlanta team of Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, tells the tale of a tormented young Black woman, Dre (Dominique Fishback, outstanding), who idolizes Ni’Jah, the world’s biggest pop star — or at least …
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Drew Barrymore is making sure Hugh Grant will never forget the dulcet, slightly off-key (but endearingly so!) tones of her voice after the actor took a little jab at her singing in a recent interview. While speaking with Wired, Grant — who’s been in the news for being prickly lately …
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As the loud but litheShazam!: Fury of the Godscommences, our hero is suffering from a bit of imposter syndrome. Lying on a couch, spilling his guts to a shrink (who turns out to be a mere pediatrician), the as-yet-unnamed superhero (Zachary Levi) explains that he’s just a kid, a dude …
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson got the chance to reunite with, and congratulate, his old Mummy Returns co-star Brendan Fraser after the latter won his Oscar for Best Actor at the Academy Awards last weekend. The Rock shared a video of the backstage meeting on Instagram, writing, “Very cool full circle …
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