Month: February 2025

If you’re not rushing out to catch Oscar nominees before Sunday’s ceremony there are more new films in theaters now than there have been in weeks. Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Wicked and more are still out there but screens have opened for a crop of moderate releases.     Grindstone and Roadside Attractions open
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In 2023, MF Doom’s widow, Jasmine Dumile Thompson, sued the rapper’s former A&R Eothen “Egon” Alapatt for copyright infringement, fraud, intentional misrepresentation and unjust enrichment. The complaint stemmed from Alapatt obtaining many of Doom’s handwritten notebooks, and hanging onto them following the artist’s death in 2020. Now, the two parties have resolved the dispute amicably
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It’s the end of an era. Skype, the video calling platform that revolutionized online communication across the world after its 2003 launch, will soon ring its final bubbly dial tone, Microsoft has announced. “In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs,” Microsoft’s President of Collaborative
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Lionsgate‘s John Wick: Chapter 4 is finally getting a China release on March 14, 2025. Huahua Media will distribute in the Middle Kingdom. The 2023 Chad Stahelski directed action movie posted the highest domestic opening in the franchise with $73.8M, and at $440M worldwide and $187M U.S./Canada, it’s the highest grossing installment in the Keanu Reeves series.
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The term “sword and sandal” movie technically refers to a type of Italian cinema that was popular in the mid-20th Century. The movies are set in ancient times, usually ancient Greece or Rome, and often featured American stars of the day. For the purposes of this list, we’re expanding the scope to include basically any
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Critic’s Rating: 4 / 5.0 4 Leave it to Elsbeth to continuously shake things up by diving into various avenues and subgenres of mystery. Instead of emulating elements of a “howcatchem” or even a “whodunit,” this episode dipped into one of the rarest kinds of mysteries: the “whydunit.” While “subtle” is not a word most
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Throughout his career, Hackman took on a variety of film roles—including Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection, comic book villain Lex Luthor in the Superman movies and Coach Norman Dale in Hoosiers. He also starred in several Broadway productions, including Children From Their Games, Any Wednesday and Death and the Maiden.  “When I’m actually on the set or on a stage,
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This weekend, Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Academy Awards, but the beloved comedian is obviously no stranger to spending with folks from the film and TV industry. For nearly three decades on his three talk shows, he spoke to actors, directors and other talent from Hollywood, and often that entailed watching whatever new project
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