Val Kilmer’s death on Tuesday, from pneumonia at 65, hit Western movie fans especially hard. In 1993’s Tombstone, Kilmer delivered one of the most indelible performances in the genre’s history as the tubercular dentist and gambler John Henry “Doc” Holliday. Beset by coughing fits, alcoholism, and a healthy dose of …
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It’s not hard to imagine a topsy-turvy, role-swapping alternate reality where Val Kilmer plays Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in 1986’s Top Gun and Tom Cruise is cast as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. Kilmer’s Maverick would be cocky but also raw, exposed. Good at what he does but a desperate wreck at everything …
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When we last saw Tom Holland‘s Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home, he was only just beginning to grapple with the crushing reality of being forgotten by everyone he’s ever known. That was in December 2021, long enough ago that for a moment it started to feel like he’d …
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Bill Murray shouted out his Moonrise Kingdom co-star Bruce Willis on Monday, after Murray was asked about some of his favorite films to date. Appearing on Watch What Happens Live, Murray was asked by host Andy Cohen to rank four of the Wes Anderson films that he has appeared in. …
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Every day is April Fool’s Day when you live in America, except the clowns in charge are rarely ever joking. On Monday, late night hosts reacted to President Donald Trump willingly admitting that he’s already searching for loopholes that could keep him in office for an unconstitutional third term. Trump …
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Near the beginning of 2020, filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee traveled to Newton, Iowa, to meet a Great Dane named Bing. The pair needed a leading canine for their next movie The Friend, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel of the same name, and the black-spotted boy looked like …
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For the past few years, it’s been near impossible to watch Kevin Smith‘s 1999 religious comedy Dogma because Harvey and Bob Weinstein personally owned the rights, and they’ve faced more pressing matters in recent years than finding a new home for it. But The Hollywood Reporter reports that Smith has …
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The Weeknd celebrated the launch of his film Hurry Up Tomorrow‘s second trailer by gracing the stage at CinemaCon. During Lionsgate’s presentation of the new film, the music icon played his hit “Blinding Lights” and a pair of songs from the film’s album. Shortly after the performance, the Weeknd released …
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Ivan Cash knew it was a mad idea: Conceiving, planning, and shooting a music video in 24 hours, especially after the director and his crew had spent the last five days on a grueling commercial shoot in New York City. They’d gone into overtime every day, including the last, a …
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Action megastar Jason Statham still looks powerful for a man inching toward 60. And the older he gets, the more worn and lived-in his face becomes, like my therapist’s leather couch. So what if he doesn’t take off his shirt as much anymore? He’s built like a wrestler, but graceful, …
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