On Thursday, Jude Law was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his prolific work across a wide-range of films and shows including Sherlock Holmes, Closer, Fantastic Beasts, The Talented Mr. Ripley, the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Disney+ series, and of course, the 2006 rom-com classic …
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On June 18th, 1984, Alan Berg was assassinated outside of his home in Denver, Colorado. The confrontational talk-radio host had made a name for himself by arguing on-air with, among others, anti-Semites and white supremacists. A group known as “The Order,” who had taken their name from the fictional hate-mongers …
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Early in the new Disney+ series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, we meet our young hero, Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers). He is in a bedroom that looks an awful lot like one you might have found in any suburban house here on Earth in the Eighties, and he’s playing with a pair …
Read More »Jude Law Stalked Nicholas Hoult to Prep for New Film
Director Justin Kurzel asked Jude Law to go to extremes as they prepped to shoot an upcoming crime thriller, including following co-star Nicholas Hoult without his knowledge and making a dossier on what he saw. Law and Hoult co-star in Kurzel’s film The Order, based around the story of FBI …
Read More »'Skeleton Crew': 'Star Wars' Goes 'Goonies' in Trailer for New Series
Star Wars goes Goonies in the first trailer for Skeleton Crew, the franchise’s latest spinoff series coming to Disney+ in December. In the preview, which debuted at Disney’s D23 expo Friday, a bunch of space kids leave the safe-but-boring confines of their intergalactic suburb after stumbling across a hidden Jedi …
Read More »Johnny Flynn on Playing Dickie Greenleaf, Learning Italian, and Dying on Camera in 'Ripley'
Johnny Flynn was murdered within a week of stepping onto the set of Ripley. The British actor plays Dickie Greenleaf in the eight-episode Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley and while he knew the character would meet an untimely demise in the story, he wasn’t …
Read More »'Secrets of Dumbledore' Proves These Potterverse Prequels Are Not So-Secretly Duds
[Inhales] OK, right, so when last we left Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), the socially awkward magical zoologist renowned as a scholar of fantastic beasts (and not coincidentally, where to find them!), he was preparing — along with Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), hot-for-teacher Hogwarts’ hunk and future Harry Potter mentor — …
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