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Bella Thorne accuses Mickey Rourke of 'bruising her genitals' on set
The actress, 27, took to social media on Friday to claim that working with the actor, 72, was 'one of the all time worst experiences of my life' as she detailed their experience together.
An Oral History of ‘Superbad’
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Warfare critic reviews
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Warfare is a 2025 war action film written and directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland. Based on Mendoza's experiences during the Iraq War as a U.S. Navy SEAL, the film is a re-enactment of an encounter he and his platoon experienced on November 19, 2006 in the wake of the Battle of Ramadi.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfare_(film)#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a> To maintain historical accuracy, the film's material is exclusively taken from the testimonies of the platoon members, and is presented in real time beginning from the title drop. It stars an ensemble cast that includes D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Mendoza alongside Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn and Charles Melton. The film is dedicated to platoon member Elliott Miller, played by Jarvis, who lost his leg and voice in the incident.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfare_(film)#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a>
Warfare premiered at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago on March 16, 2025, was released in the United States by A24 on April 11, 2025, and pending release in the United Kingdom on April 18, 2025. The film received highly positive reviews from critics.
Magazine Dreams
PRAISE : Magazine Dreams is a film far more deserving of larger release and a longer life than a limited release in theaters. This movie about Killian Maddox a man obsessed with becoming a famous bodybuilder but it is so much more than that. As Killian Maddox , Jonathan Majors turns in an effective performance. The character is off balance but is laser focused on building his body and I liked how the film rolls out how he does so by taking in all the right proteins and things that are highly questionable. Majors greatly displays Killians confidence at times and also the regression of it. There is self control the character easily displays at times and sometimes its not present at all and Majors handles that range to a T. The film is right up there with obsessions coming at a cost films like 2009's Big Fan and 2014's Whiplash. Also turning in a good performance is Haley Bennett as Jessie just watching her mood change as she makes a realization about Killian was incredible. 25 minutes into the movie i started to feel empathetic towards Killian. Especially due to the fact that there should have been something in place to help him with his mental health long ago. The Direction by Elijah Bynum along with the visuals are extremely effective. I think one of the films strongest messages is how lacking the care for the mentally ill is. There are such huge lapses in providing care or not providing any at all. Leaving the mentally ill to be taken advantage of and becoming dangers to themselves and others. There are some good messages inserted into the film about veterans and not being provided even the basics that some have at their fingertips while others suffer without.The suspense and disturbing moments were off the charts in several scenes.
PROBLEMS: It was hard for me to get on board with how a few things play out in the movie. The film goes down a couple of predictable paths.
Scale of 1 to 10 an 8½
PRAISE : Magazine Dreams is a film far more deserving of larger release and a longer life than a limited release in theaters. This movie about Killian Maddox a man obsessed with becoming a famous bodybuilder but it is so much more than that. As Killian Maddox , Jonathan Majors turns in an effective performance. The character is off balance but is laser focused on building his body and I liked how the film rolls out how he does so by taking in all the right proteins and things that are highly questionable. Majors greatly displays Killians confidence at times and also the regression of it. There is self control the character easily displays at times and sometimes its not present at all and Majors handles that range to a T. The film is right up there with obsessions coming at a cost films like 2009's Big Fan and 2014's Whiplash. Also turning in a good performance is Haley Bennett as Jessie just watching her mood change as she makes a realization about Killian was incredible. 25 minutes into the movie i started to feel empathetic towards Killian. Especially due to the fact that there should have been something in place to help him with his mental health long ago. The Direction by Elijah Bynum along with the visuals are extremely effective. I think one of the films strongest messages is how lacking the care for the mentally ill is. There are such huge lapses in providing care or not providing any at all. Leaving the mentally ill to be taken advantage of and becoming dangers to themselves and others. There are some good messages inserted into the film about veterans and not being provided even the basics that some have at their fingertips while others suffer without.The suspense and disturbing moments were off the charts in several scenes.
PROBLEMS: It was hard for me to get on board with how a few things play out in the movie. The film goes down a couple of predictable paths.
Scale of 1 to 10 an 8½
Marsai Martin Is Stepping Into Her Action Era
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Best Movies This Year - Metacritic
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2025-26 Movie Release Calendar
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John Goodman Suffers Hip Injury Shooting Tom Cruise-Starring Film, Pausing Production
John Goodman was injured on the set of a Tom Cruise-starring film he’s currently shooting in the U.K., resulting in a pause in production.www.rollingstone.com
John Goodman's Life, Career & Net Worth in 2025
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'The Conners' are preparing to say goodbye: 'We can’t fully grasp that it’s over'
As the ABC series approaches its final episodes, the cast and producers of the 'Roseanne' spin-off speak about the show’s topical storylines, guest stars and what it was like to tape the finale.
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Breakfast Club stars reunite after 40 years - see how they look now
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'A Minecraft Movie' surpasses 'Captain America' as 2025's most profitable at the box office domestically
'A Minecraft Movie' keeps breaking records. Warner Bros.' big-screen video game adaptation has surpassed 'Captain America: Brave New World' as the most profitable film of the year domestically.
The Amateur
PRAISE: A well constructed trailer had me hyped to see this movie about Charlie Heller a brilliant CIA decoder whose wife dies in a terrorist attack, when the CIA drags their feet about tracking down the terrorist Charlie sets out to do it himself. I thought Rami Malek did well as Charlie who's not a muscle bound killer but uses his smarts to get his revenge. I thought the scenes between him and Laurence Fishburne as Henderson who tries to make Charlie a killer worked. I liked that the movie held on to the nothing comes easy factor for Charlie as the movie moves along keeping it grounded for some time. There are nice touches along the way as Charlie is continuously haunted but it also pushes him to his gials and some literally fun and explosive moments as Charlie slowly but surely slips into killer mode.
PROBLEMS: Sure Charlie is a smart guy and then some but I couldn't buy into a couple of moves he makes. There are some truly talented actors in the cast but they are shockingly underused and I bet their scenes ended up being mainly edited out because they didn't want the movie to run over 2 hours. Big time predictable moments in the movie. Like I said the trailer pulled me in but the movie definitely doesn't live up to it.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 6½
PRAISE: A well constructed trailer had me hyped to see this movie about Charlie Heller a brilliant CIA decoder whose wife dies in a terrorist attack, when the CIA drags their feet about tracking down the terrorist Charlie sets out to do it himself. I thought Rami Malek did well as Charlie who's not a muscle bound killer but uses his smarts to get his revenge. I thought the scenes between him and Laurence Fishburne as Henderson who tries to make Charlie a killer worked. I liked that the movie held on to the nothing comes easy factor for Charlie as the movie moves along keeping it grounded for some time. There are nice touches along the way as Charlie is continuously haunted but it also pushes him to his gials and some literally fun and explosive moments as Charlie slowly but surely slips into killer mode.
PROBLEMS: Sure Charlie is a smart guy and then some but I couldn't buy into a couple of moves he makes. There are some truly talented actors in the cast but they are shockingly underused and I bet their scenes ended up being mainly edited out because they didn't want the movie to run over 2 hours. Big time predictable moments in the movie. Like I said the trailer pulled me in but the movie definitely doesn't live up to it.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 6½
A Minecraft Movie theater carnage has gotten so bad, Jack Black has had to step in
Things are getting a little bit out of control
The Amateur
PRAISE: A well constructed trailer had me hyped to see this movie about Charlie Heller a brilliant CIA decoder whose wife dies in a terrorist attack, when the CIA drags their feet about tracking down the terrorist Charlie sets out to do it himself. I thought Rami Malek did well as Charlie who's not a muscle bound killer but uses his smarts to get his revenge. I thought the scenes between him and Laurence Fishburne as Henderson who tries to make Charlie a killer worked. I liked that the movie held on to the nothing comes easy factor for Charlie as the movie moves along keeping it grounded for some time. There are nice touches along the way as Charlie is continuously haunted but it also pushes him to his gials and some literally fun and explosive moments as Charlie slowly but surely slips into killer mode.
PROBLEMS: Sure Charlie is a smart guy and then some but I couldn't buy into a couple of moves he makes. There are some truly talented actors in the cast but they are shockingly underused and I bet their scenes ended up being mainly edited out because they didn't want the movie to run over 2 hours. Big time predictable moments in the movie. Like I said the trailer pulled me in but the movie definitely doesn't live up to it.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 6½
This is probably the best review that expresses almost everyone who sees this feelings.
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Your future ex-wife, as you lovingly refer to her, lol.
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Your future ex-wife, as you lovingly refer to her, lol.
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Interesting to see him on the current 3rd season of Reacher (I'm halfway through it thus far).
Director Ryan Coogler gives a crash course on film formats and aspect ratios.
One of the many decisions a director has to make is what format they’ll use to shoot a movie. Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther, Creed, and the upcoming Sinners (hitting theaters on April 18th, 2025) breaks down the various analog film formats still in use today, their aspect ratios...
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He was very good
It's funny when he first shows up you're thinking - "He looks familiar ... I can't quite place him."
Then you realize ... wait a second ...
| 1983 | National Lampoon's Vacation | Russell "Rusty" Griswold | |
| 1984 | Sixteen Candles | Ted "Farmer Ted" Farmer / The Geek | |
| 1985 | The Breakfast Club | Brian R. Johnson | |
| Weird Science | Gary Wallace | ||
| 1986 | Out of Bounds | Daryl Cage | |
| 1988 | Johnny Be Good | Johnny Walker |
I jumped on thinkin of something like this related to how “big” Pedro Pascal is but dude ain’t a movie star is he?
It was mostly something I caught bec of timing of my seeing FREAKY TALES then Last of Us S2 over weekend
Jon Hamm hosting SNL was another example.
The old video killed the radio star is now seemingly not just TV but “prestige TV” killed the movie star
Idk. But the idea Regal Cinema ceo talked up recently about not getting folks back to theaters to see A movie but back to THE MOVIES is deeply fucked up seemingly from the now decades long legacy of major TV event series and of course the MCU etc not being based on the draw of its stars or its buzz/fresh interest etc but old ass IP that all goes into the corporate profit line
Movies draw and selling points have always been based on stars even if the star was sometimes the director etc
It at least seems like mostly black folks - Danny K, Baby Zel, Keke (who is playing into the overall star shit still w/o goin for a big tv series yet) even Zendaya seems careful not to do too much with the TV shit but balance whatever that show is with big event movies - for now - who are the actors making those more old school movie star choices in avoiding series while choosing films and roles that put them in big positions. Chad RIP was on same type path. Majors also had that going for his career. Springing off small movies into that LoveCraft shit only to get bigger movies in low key record type timing… idk.
What yall think? Who ARE the stars? And are they TV or movie stars?
It was mostly something I caught bec of timing of my seeing FREAKY TALES then Last of Us S2 over weekend
Jon Hamm hosting SNL was another example.
The old video killed the radio star is now seemingly not just TV but “prestige TV” killed the movie star
Idk. But the idea Regal Cinema ceo talked up recently about not getting folks back to theaters to see A movie but back to THE MOVIES is deeply fucked up seemingly from the now decades long legacy of major TV event series and of course the MCU etc not being based on the draw of its stars or its buzz/fresh interest etc but old ass IP that all goes into the corporate profit line
Movies draw and selling points have always been based on stars even if the star was sometimes the director etc
It at least seems like mostly black folks - Danny K, Baby Zel, Keke (who is playing into the overall star shit still w/o goin for a big tv series yet) even Zendaya seems careful not to do too much with the TV shit but balance whatever that show is with big event movies - for now - who are the actors making those more old school movie star choices in avoiding series while choosing films and roles that put them in big positions. Chad RIP was on same type path. Majors also had that going for his career. Springing off small movies into that LoveCraft shit only to get bigger movies in low key record type timing… idk.
What yall think? Who ARE the stars? And are they TV or movie stars?
What's interesting too is seeing how much quality tv there has been over the past 20 - 25 years as well. High-level shit, and prestige shows (often covered by the podcast recaps).
I was watching episode 2 of MobLand with pops last week and said - "Who would have thought you'd have Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Tom Hardy on a gangster tv show together?" (after having watched Mirren opposite Harrison Ford for 2 seasons on 1923).
And of course with all the reboots / remakes in movie entertainment ... more of the interest for people falls back to TV series, and how better crafted stuff can be when done well over say 6 - 10 episodes, compared to 1.5 - 2.5 hours.
Kevin Bacon recalls dead body being found while filming 'Wild Things'
Kevin Bacon is remember the time a dead body was found nearby while he was shooting the 1998 erotic thriller 'Wild Things': 'I think I just saw a floater.'
Mad Max
1979
6.5/10
I watched this last night at home with my sons on MAX.
They haven’t seen the Mel Gibson films, so this was the first time they saw it.
This is the film that started the franchise. The world has already gone thru a financial/societal collapse, and the authorities are barely able to hold on to what order they can.
Max is a law enforcement in this film driving around in a modified police cruiser for maximum speed.
Max’s family is introduced. What happens to them is what pushes Max over the edge.
Not really much for action. Good visuals with VFX/SFX with vehicle chases along with camera angles.
We will get to the 2nd film at some point.
Synopsis
In a not-too-distant dystopian future, when man's most precious resource -- oil -- has been depleted and the world plunged into war, famine and financial chaos, the last vestiges of the law in Australia attempt to restrain a vicious biker gang. Max (Mel Gibson), an officer with the Main Force Patrol, launches a personal vendetta against the gang when his wife (Joanne Samuel) and son are hunted down and murdered, leaving him with nothing but the instincts for survival and retribution.
1979
6.5/10
I watched this last night at home with my sons on MAX.
They haven’t seen the Mel Gibson films, so this was the first time they saw it.
This is the film that started the franchise. The world has already gone thru a financial/societal collapse, and the authorities are barely able to hold on to what order they can.
Max is a law enforcement in this film driving around in a modified police cruiser for maximum speed.
Max’s family is introduced. What happens to them is what pushes Max over the edge.
Not really much for action. Good visuals with VFX/SFX with vehicle chases along with camera angles.
We will get to the 2nd film at some point.
Synopsis
In a not-too-distant dystopian future, when man's most precious resource -- oil -- has been depleted and the world plunged into war, famine and financial chaos, the last vestiges of the law in Australia attempt to restrain a vicious biker gang. Max (Mel Gibson), an officer with the Main Force Patrol, launches a personal vendetta against the gang when his wife (Joanne Samuel) and son are hunted down and murdered, leaving him with nothing but the instincts for survival and retribution.
'Home Alone 2' director calls Donald Trump's cameo a 'curse': 'I just wish it was gone'
Like Kevin McCallister with the Wet Bandits, 'Home Alone' director Chris Columbus just can't escape that Donald Trump cameo in the sequel: 'It's become this curse. It's become this thing that I wish it was not there.'
Harder Than The Rock
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Harder Than the Rock | Rotten Tomatoes
Harder Than The Rock chronicles the incredible journey of Britain's first reggae band, Cimarons. Formed by teenage Jamaican immigrants in a London bus shelter in 1967, the band were at the forefront of the reggae explosion in the 1970s. Thousands of miles from Jamaica, they brought excitement...
HARDER THAN THE ROCK
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Hollywood At Risk of Becoming the “Next Detroit Auto.” L.A. Production Insiders Voice Alarm
Hollywood At Risk of Becoming the “Next Detroit Auto.” L.A. Production Insiders Voice Alarm
As a new tally shows plummeting shoot days in Los Angeles, organizers gathered to strategize on ways to get postproduction and music incentives included in California's bill to boost the industry.
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