They take the punches, they jump through windows, they get set on fire, they ride the motorcycles through narrow alleyways and down steep staircases at death-defying speeds. They are the stunt men and women who make it seem as if the folks whose names are above the title are risking …
Read More »Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt Bring 'Barbenheimer' Battle to 2024 Oscars Stage
The months-long tension between Barbie and Oppenheimer culminated in an epic standoff between Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling at the 2024 Academy Awards. The actress and actor served as one-person armies for their respective sides of the Barbenheimer battle, determined to bring the debate to a close once and for …
Read More »See 'The Devil Wears Prada' Stars Reunite Onstage at the SAG Awards
The stars of The Devil Wears Prada briefly reunited onstage during the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards as Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt helped Meryl Streep present, with the three actresses briefly reprising their roles from the beloved 2006 film. Streep first took the stage alone to give out the …
Read More »'She's Abrasive — and I Loved Her.' Emily Blunt on Her 'Oppenheimer' Role
Emily Blunt is laughing. Talk to the actor for any given amount of time — it could be six hours, might be six minutes — and you’ll hear her do this a lot. She’s a full-body laugher, not the snorting, shaking-fits kind but the pitching-about type, as if she was …
Read More »Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, America Ferrera, and More Become First-Time Oscar Nominees
Nearly a dozen actors will now have an Academy Awards section added to their Awards and Nominations page on Wikipedia. Bright and early on Tuesday morning, Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the 2024 Oscars nominations live from Los Angeles. With 20 nominees across four acting categories, some names were …
Read More »'Oppenheimer': Cillian Murphy Put His Life on the Line in This Scene
One of the year’s biggest hits — and a surefire Oscar contender — is Oppenheimer, filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s three-hour epic, captured on sprawling 65 mm, about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s stewardship of the Manhattan Project that created the world’s first atomic bomb, his anxiety over unleashing such a destructive …
Read More »'Pain Hustlers' Lets Emily Blunt Tear Big Pharma a New One
Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler. She has to be, given that she’s stuck in Florida in the year of our lord 2011, trying to figure out the next step for her and her daughter, Phoebe. On the plus side, Liza has grit, …
Read More »See Emily Blunt and Chris Evans Embrace Pharmaceutical Crime in 'Pain Hustlers' Trailer
The trailer for Pain Hustlers, a new film starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, shows the ecstasy and insanity of pharmaceutical pill peddlers as a conspiracy mounts. There are exciting scenes of sales charts, corporate confetti, cash, and pills, as well as lots of screaming and chicanery. The picture, for …
Read More »'Barbenheimer' Asks: Who Ruin the World? Men.
This weekend, legions of movie lovers will descend upon theaters, popcorn in hand and catheter in place, girding themselves for the single most unlikely double feature ever conceived by the internet. When it was announced that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget, bigger-canvas biopic about the man dubbed “the father of the …
Read More »'Oppenheimer': Christopher Nolan's Starry Biopic Is Big, Loud, and a Must-See
In the beginning, there were simply explosions. Smaller bangs — the big one would come much later, in the New Mexico desert. But for J. Robert Oppenheimer, the quantum physicist who would guide the greatest scientific minds of his generation toward creating a doomsday device, it was all just a …
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