At the fifth annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 1953, Helen Hayes won the Best Actress award, thereby becoming the first performer to ever achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. This past Oscar and Tony recipient had now won all three of the American entertainment industry’s most prestigious acting prizes, demonstrating remarkable talent across film, stage, and television. Over the years, 14 women and nine men have followed in her footsteps. Scroll through our photo gallery to learn which two dozen entertainers belong to this exclusive group.
To be included on this list, an individual must have won each award in a competitive acting category. This excludes, for example, James Earl Jones, who was lauded with an honorary Oscar in addition to competitive Emmys and Tonys. Also left out are artists like Mel Brooks, John Legend, and Elton John, all or some of whose wins from the three organizations were for non-acting achievements.
To be included on this list, an individual must have won each award in a competitive acting category. This excludes, for example, James Earl Jones, who was lauded with an honorary Oscar in addition to competitive Emmys and Tonys. Also left out are artists like Mel Brooks, John Legend, and Elton John, all or some of whose wins from the three organizations were for non-acting achievements.
- 4/5/2024
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Can you believe The Real Housewives franchise first hit our screens 18 years ago?
Andy Cohen took to Instagram this week to pay tribute to the show that started it all – The Real Housewives of Orange County.
The series premiered on March 21, 2006, and although it isn’t considered one of the best seasons, we may not have seen the other shows without it.
The original cast included Kimberly Bryant, Jo De La Rosa, Vicki Gunvalson, Jeana Keough, and Lauri Peterson.
Of course, Gunvalson remains a mainstay on the show and has been filming for the upcoming Rhoc Season 18.
The other four original stars are distant memories, but the show must continue.
Andy Cohen is thankful for Rhoc
“I didn’t know then how that show- and over a hundred incredible women over ten-plus spinoffs – would change pop culture, and my life,” said Cohen, who serves as an Executive Producer and reunion host across the sprawling franchise.
Andy Cohen took to Instagram this week to pay tribute to the show that started it all – The Real Housewives of Orange County.
The series premiered on March 21, 2006, and although it isn’t considered one of the best seasons, we may not have seen the other shows without it.
The original cast included Kimberly Bryant, Jo De La Rosa, Vicki Gunvalson, Jeana Keough, and Lauri Peterson.
Of course, Gunvalson remains a mainstay on the show and has been filming for the upcoming Rhoc Season 18.
The other four original stars are distant memories, but the show must continue.
Andy Cohen is thankful for Rhoc
“I didn’t know then how that show- and over a hundred incredible women over ten-plus spinoffs – would change pop culture, and my life,” said Cohen, who serves as an Executive Producer and reunion host across the sprawling franchise.
- 3/22/2024
- by Paul Dailly
- Monsters and Critics
The 76th annual Tony Awards have already made history. For the first time, two of the acting nominees identify as non-binary: Harrison Ghee who is contending for lead actor in musical for “Some Like It Hot” and Alex Newell, vying for featured actor in a musical for “Shucked.” Their nominations have been warmly embraced. But 40 years ago, a history-making acceptance led to death threats.
At the 37th annual Tony Awards on June 5, 1983, producer John Glines thanked his lover when he accepted the best play honor for Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” a three-act drama set in New York in the 1970s and early 80s starring Fierstein as a gay, drag queen and torch singer. “He expressed gratitude to an assortment of people , ‘lastly but most importantly, to the one person who believed and followed the dream from the beginning, who never said ‘You’re crazy; it can’t be...
At the 37th annual Tony Awards on June 5, 1983, producer John Glines thanked his lover when he accepted the best play honor for Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” a three-act drama set in New York in the 1970s and early 80s starring Fierstein as a gay, drag queen and torch singer. “He expressed gratitude to an assortment of people , ‘lastly but most importantly, to the one person who believed and followed the dream from the beginning, who never said ‘You’re crazy; it can’t be...
- 5/31/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Programme is for film directors making first move into scripted TV.
Projects by directors Juho Kuosmanen, César Díaz and Beatriz Seigner have won the inaugural prizes of Seriesmakers, a development programme for filmmakers making their TV series debut.
Led by Series Mania Forum and supported by European studio Beta Group, the first edition of Seriesmakers had 170 submissions, and saw 10 TV series projects participate in a programme for feature film directors who are moving into the world of series.
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki’s Yours, Margot won one of two €50,000 Beta development awards. The 8x45-minute series...
Projects by directors Juho Kuosmanen, César Díaz and Beatriz Seigner have won the inaugural prizes of Seriesmakers, a development programme for filmmakers making their TV series debut.
Led by Series Mania Forum and supported by European studio Beta Group, the first edition of Seriesmakers had 170 submissions, and saw 10 TV series projects participate in a programme for feature film directors who are moving into the world of series.
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki’s Yours, Margot won one of two €50,000 Beta development awards. The 8x45-minute series...
- 3/22/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Lille, France — “Yours, Margot,” from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, Guatemalan Cannes Camera d’Or winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”) and Brazil’s Beatriz Seigner (“Los Silencios”) have won the three prizes on offer at the first edition of Seriesmakers.
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, after an inaugural edition delivering one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023, Seriesmakers backers Beta Group and Series Mania opened on Wednesday a call for admissions for a second edition.
Though all three series range hugely in setting and creators, all three see their protagonists go back to a recent past to explore events that have impacted their family, their modern-day country (“The Invisible Ink”), or traumas in the present (“Amigas”).
Doing so they form part of one of the biggest trends in current issue-driven series, through the resort to an alternative, future...
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, after an inaugural edition delivering one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023, Seriesmakers backers Beta Group and Series Mania opened on Wednesday a call for admissions for a second edition.
Though all three series range hugely in setting and creators, all three see their protagonists go back to a recent past to explore events that have impacted their family, their modern-day country (“The Invisible Ink”), or traumas in the present (“Amigas”).
Doing so they form part of one of the biggest trends in current issue-driven series, through the resort to an alternative, future...
- 3/22/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A project from Finland and a Belgium-Uruguay co-production have won the Seriesmaker initiative here at Series Mania.
The projects, Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink, both bag €50,000 each after winning the Beta Development Awards.
They were announced minutes ago at Lille’s Series Mania Forum event, which is into its second day.
Yours, Margot is an eight-part drama from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki. The logline is: “After discovering her father’s letters to an unknown lover, Vilja unearths her family’s traumatic past in 1980s East Berlin.”
Kuosmanen’s 2021 road movie Compartment No 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival official competition, and his biographical film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Ink comes from director César Díaz and producer Fernando Epstein, and also runs to eight parts. It...
The projects, Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink, both bag €50,000 each after winning the Beta Development Awards.
They were announced minutes ago at Lille’s Series Mania Forum event, which is into its second day.
Yours, Margot is an eight-part drama from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki. The logline is: “After discovering her father’s letters to an unknown lover, Vilja unearths her family’s traumatic past in 1980s East Berlin.”
Kuosmanen’s 2021 road movie Compartment No 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival official competition, and his biographical film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Ink comes from director César Díaz and producer Fernando Epstein, and also runs to eight parts. It...
- 3/22/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV fest, and German film-tv powerhouse Beta Group has revealed the 10 projects in the first edition of Seriesmakers, unveiling what must be one of the most talent-packed project lineups at any festival, film or TV, in 2023,
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, Series Mania features in development drama series from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, ‘Bang Gang’s’ Eva Husson and “Birds of a Passage’s” Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego.
Also in the mix is “Amigas,” the first TV project of Beatriz Seigner (“Los Silencios”), one of Brazil’s foremost young movie directors, “The Invisible Ink,” teaming Cannes best first feature winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”)and New Uruguay Cinema founding father Fernando Epstein; and Indian arthouse filmmaker Pushpendra Singh, who scored with Berlin Encounters’ title “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs.”
All in all, Seriesmakers, which is just...
A mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut, Series Mania features in development drama series from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, ‘Bang Gang’s’ Eva Husson and “Birds of a Passage’s” Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego.
Also in the mix is “Amigas,” the first TV project of Beatriz Seigner (“Los Silencios”), one of Brazil’s foremost young movie directors, “The Invisible Ink,” teaming Cannes best first feature winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”)and New Uruguay Cinema founding father Fernando Epstein; and Indian arthouse filmmaker Pushpendra Singh, who scored with Berlin Encounters’ title “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs.”
All in all, Seriesmakers, which is just...
- 3/13/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Paramount+ is not just the home of the Taylor Sheridan universe, it has also quietly assembled one of the best film libraries of any of the streaming services. Look no further than the list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March, which includes prestige dramas like “12 Years a Slave” and “Last of the Mohicans,” iconic thrillers like “The Sixth Sense,” “The Rock” and “Crimson Tide,” delightful rom-coms like “Kate & Leopold” and “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and other classics like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Galaxy Quest.”
And that’s not to mention the new originals premiering in March: Kiefer Sutherland plays a corporate espionage operative framed for murder in “Rabbit Hole,” while “School Spirits” follows a high school teen who suddenly discovers she’s dead and still haunting her school.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March 2023 below.
Also Read:...
And that’s not to mention the new originals premiering in March: Kiefer Sutherland plays a corporate espionage operative framed for murder in “Rabbit Hole,” while “School Spirits” follows a high school teen who suddenly discovers she’s dead and still haunting her school.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Paramount+ in March 2023 below.
Also Read:...
- 3/4/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Many an older film discovery will inspire revelations of “She’s in this?” — but none quite like the 1996 indie “Foxfire.” A cult classic beloved by queer audiences, “Foxfire” features early performances not only from Angelina Jolie, but singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis and queer icon and model Jenny Shimizu. It is also, famously (for those who care about these kinds of things), the project that introduced Jolie and Shimizu, who had a serious relationship throughout the late ’90s.
Based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, “Foxfire” follows five high school girls who take revenge on an abusive teacher, unwittingly forming a misfit crew of renegade feminists. They are radicalized by a hitchhiking firebrand who appears out of thin air, played by a young Jolie in motorcycle boots and an androgynous messy bob. Though she had done a few films prior, “Foxfire” established the magnetic bad girl type (and forever queer thirst...
Based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, “Foxfire” follows five high school girls who take revenge on an abusive teacher, unwittingly forming a misfit crew of renegade feminists. They are radicalized by a hitchhiking firebrand who appears out of thin air, played by a young Jolie in motorcycle boots and an androgynous messy bob. Though she had done a few films prior, “Foxfire” established the magnetic bad girl type (and forever queer thirst...
- 2/7/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Half a decade has passed since Lin-Manuel Miranda finished his Broadway run as the star of “Hamilton,” but the adulation for his work just keeps coming. The Tony-winning smash, which Miranda also wrote, experienced a surge in popularity after a filmed version featuring the entire original cast premiered on Disney+ last July. Miranda and six of his castmates have been recognized for their acting, which makes most of them part of an exclusive group of performers who have earned Tony and Emmy bids for the same role.
Just as they did at the 2016 Tonys, leading men Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. face each other directly in this year’s Best Movie/Limited Actor Emmy race. Nominated for their supporting turns are Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Anthony Ramos, and Phillipa Soo. Ramos is the only one to have not originally competed at the Tonys, as that slot was instead filled by Christopher Jackson.
Just as they did at the 2016 Tonys, leading men Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. face each other directly in this year’s Best Movie/Limited Actor Emmy race. Nominated for their supporting turns are Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Anthony Ramos, and Phillipa Soo. Ramos is the only one to have not originally competed at the Tonys, as that slot was instead filled by Christopher Jackson.
- 9/5/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
It’s summer, everyone! And with its relatively sparse list of new releases for July 2021, Hulu seems to be subtlety imploring its subscribers to go outside.
Don’t get us wrong: Hulu’s library offerings get a big upgrade this month. July 1 sees the arrival of great films like Galaxy Quest, Fargo, and Caddyshack. Bill and Ted Face the Music premieres on July 2 and its followed by Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar on July 9. Not bad stuff! It’s just that, outside of the library titles, there isn’t much to go off of.
Hulu’s only major original release this month is the FX on Hulu production American Horror Stories on July 15. As its name implies, the show is a spinoff of American Horror Story and will feature self-contained horror episodes rather than a season-long arc. If you’ll allow this geriatric millennial to deploy one truly ancient meme: “Yo dawg,...
Don’t get us wrong: Hulu’s library offerings get a big upgrade this month. July 1 sees the arrival of great films like Galaxy Quest, Fargo, and Caddyshack. Bill and Ted Face the Music premieres on July 2 and its followed by Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar on July 9. Not bad stuff! It’s just that, outside of the library titles, there isn’t much to go off of.
Hulu’s only major original release this month is the FX on Hulu production American Horror Stories on July 15. As its name implies, the show is a spinoff of American Horror Story and will feature self-contained horror episodes rather than a season-long arc. If you’ll allow this geriatric millennial to deploy one truly ancient meme: “Yo dawg,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Jenny Lewis has been an indie icon for so long that it’s sometimes difficult to remember she started her career out as a child actor. She’s most recognizable as an actor for playing Shelley Long’s daughter in Troop Beverly Hills, but she also had starring roles in The Wizard and in maligned queer teen drama, Foxfire,…...
- 5/20/2021
- by Tatiana Tenreyro
- avclub.com
Dorothea G. Petrie, who won Emmys for producing “Love Is Never Silent” and ‘Caroline?,” died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 95.
Petrie began her career in New York as an actress and talent agent before putting it on hold to raise four children. She ended her hiatus in 1979 by writing the story for, and producing, the CBS film “Orphan Train,” starring Jill Eikenberry. She went on to produce “Angel Dusted” starring Jean Stapleton for NBC, “License to Kill” with Denzel Washington for CBS and “Picking Up the Pieces” starring Margot Kidder for CBS.
In 1986, she won an Emmy for producing NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation “Love is Never Silent,” which also won an Emmy for director Joseph Sargent and nominations for stars Mare Winningham and Phillis Frelich. Petrie next produced “Foxfire,” the eight-time Emmy nominated film for Hallmark and CBS.
Petrie began her career in New York as an actress and talent agent before putting it on hold to raise four children. She ended her hiatus in 1979 by writing the story for, and producing, the CBS film “Orphan Train,” starring Jill Eikenberry. She went on to produce “Angel Dusted” starring Jean Stapleton for NBC, “License to Kill” with Denzel Washington for CBS and “Picking Up the Pieces” starring Margot Kidder for CBS.
In 1986, she won an Emmy for producing NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation “Love is Never Silent,” which also won an Emmy for director Joseph Sargent and nominations for stars Mare Winningham and Phillis Frelich. Petrie next produced “Foxfire,” the eight-time Emmy nominated film for Hallmark and CBS.
- 11/26/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Dorothea G. Petrie, who won an Emmy award for the Hallmark drama Love is Never Silent, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 24 at age 95. Her family confirmed the death, which they said was by natural causes.
Petrie began her career in New York as an actress and talent agent before putting it on hold to raise four children. She ended her hiatus in 1979 by writing the story and producing the CBS film Orphan Train, starring Jill Eikenberry. She went on to produce Angel Dusted starring Jean Stapleton for NBC, License to Kill with a young Denzel Washington for CBS, and Picking Up the Pieces starring Margot Kidder for CBS.
In 1986, she won an Emmy for producing NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Love is Never Silent, which also won an Emmy for director Joseph Sargent and nominations for stars Mare Winningham and Phillis Frelich. Petrie next produced Foxfire,...
Petrie began her career in New York as an actress and talent agent before putting it on hold to raise four children. She ended her hiatus in 1979 by writing the story and producing the CBS film Orphan Train, starring Jill Eikenberry. She went on to produce Angel Dusted starring Jean Stapleton for NBC, License to Kill with a young Denzel Washington for CBS, and Picking Up the Pieces starring Margot Kidder for CBS.
In 1986, she won an Emmy for producing NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Love is Never Silent, which also won an Emmy for director Joseph Sargent and nominations for stars Mare Winningham and Phillis Frelich. Petrie next produced Foxfire,...
- 11/26/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
All streaming services go through a down period after the excitement of Spooky Season, it’s only natural. Thankfully with its list of new releases for November 2020, Hulu is making the best out of a barren pop culture landscape.
For starters, Hulu is premiering one of its major 2020 reboots this month as Animaniacs arrives on Nov. 20. Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and the rest of the Warner gang are set to return for this long-awaited revival of the animated classic. That’s about it as far as original series go but Hulu is also premiering original movies Greta, about climate activist Greta Thunberg on Nov. 13; and Run, a horror film starring Sarah Paulson, on Nov. 20.
Still, despite all the Animaniacs, Gretas, and Sarah Paulsons, the biggest hits this month might just be on the library content side of things. November 1 sees the arrival of some major TV properties. For starters, racy British...
For starters, Hulu is premiering one of its major 2020 reboots this month as Animaniacs arrives on Nov. 20. Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and the rest of the Warner gang are set to return for this long-awaited revival of the animated classic. That’s about it as far as original series go but Hulu is also premiering original movies Greta, about climate activist Greta Thunberg on Nov. 13; and Run, a horror film starring Sarah Paulson, on Nov. 20.
Still, despite all the Animaniacs, Gretas, and Sarah Paulsons, the biggest hits this month might just be on the library content side of things. November 1 sees the arrival of some major TV properties. For starters, racy British...
- 10/16/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Now that we’re just over halfway through October, it’s time to look ahead to what’s arriving on Hulu across November. And the penultimate month of the year is set to deliver a humungous haul of new movies and TV shows. In particular, fresh off their Huluween celebrations, the streaming service is celebrating Christmas early with a load of holiday-related titles dropping on November 1st.
Various films with Christmas in the name land that day – including Christmas in Compton, The Dog Who Saved Christmas and Once Upon a Time at Christmas – as well as a bunch of festive Food Network shows. A few more arrive on the 15th as well. But even if you’re not in the mood for holiday cheer until December, there’s still plenty to enjoy from what’s coming to Hulu in November.
Check out the full list below:
Released November 1
Skins: Complete...
Various films with Christmas in the name land that day – including Christmas in Compton, The Dog Who Saved Christmas and Once Upon a Time at Christmas – as well as a bunch of festive Food Network shows. A few more arrive on the 15th as well. But even if you’re not in the mood for holiday cheer until December, there’s still plenty to enjoy from what’s coming to Hulu in November.
Check out the full list below:
Released November 1
Skins: Complete...
- 10/16/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
The Emmys are pretty stingy when it comes to giving out posthumous awards. A 2017 Goldderby piece proclaimed that the reason the Emmys haven’t honored the dead is because the voters are not sentimental. I think that’s part of the reason, but I also think it’s just so sad when they do win. To clarify, it’s not that they shouldn’t have won, it’s just so emotional to see spouses, friends, children and co-workers go up on stage and accept the award in their honor.
Remember John Travolta’s impassioned acceptance speech for his late girlfriend Diana Hyland, and “Boy in the Plastic Bubble” co-star who won the Emmy for outstanding performance by a supporting actress in a comedy or dramatic special? She had died in his arms of breast cancer in March 1977 at the age of 41. The audience was crying as hard as Travolta. “Wherever you are,...
Remember John Travolta’s impassioned acceptance speech for his late girlfriend Diana Hyland, and “Boy in the Plastic Bubble” co-star who won the Emmy for outstanding performance by a supporting actress in a comedy or dramatic special? She had died in his arms of breast cancer in March 1977 at the age of 41. The audience was crying as hard as Travolta. “Wherever you are,...
- 8/3/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter of “The Shadow of Your Smile,” “Emily” and the theme from “Mash,” has died. He was 94.
“I was so sad to learn that a hero of mine, Johnny Mandel, passed away,” wrote Michael Buble on Twitter. “He was a genius and one of my favorite writers, arrangers, and personalities. He was a beast.”
“A dear friend and extraordinary composer arranger and all-around brilliant talent, Johnny Mandel, just passed away,” wrote Michael Feinstein on Facebook. “The world will never be quite the same without his humor, wit and wry view of life and the human condition. He was truly beyond compare, and nobody could write or arrange the way he did. Lord will we miss him. Let’s celebrate him with his music! He would like that.”
Mandel was considered one of the finest arrangers of the second half of the 20th century, providing...
“I was so sad to learn that a hero of mine, Johnny Mandel, passed away,” wrote Michael Buble on Twitter. “He was a genius and one of my favorite writers, arrangers, and personalities. He was a beast.”
“A dear friend and extraordinary composer arranger and all-around brilliant talent, Johnny Mandel, just passed away,” wrote Michael Feinstein on Facebook. “The world will never be quite the same without his humor, wit and wry view of life and the human condition. He was truly beyond compare, and nobody could write or arrange the way he did. Lord will we miss him. Let’s celebrate him with his music! He would like that.”
Mandel was considered one of the finest arrangers of the second half of the 20th century, providing...
- 6/30/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu is out with its list of everything coming and going on the streaming service in June.
Highlights include a new episode of the Hulu original anthology series “Into the Dark” called “Good Boy,” which follows Maggie (Judy Greer), who gets an emotional support dog for her anxiety — but little does she know, he kills anyone who adds stress to her life. Also, take a closer look at the hip-hop group Lin-Manuel Miranda was in before he did “Hamilton” in a new documentary called “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme.”
Leaving at the end of the month are classics like “Bend It Like Beckham,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Kill Bill” volumes one and two.
Below is the full list of everything coming and going throughout the month of June:
Also Read: Hulu Launches New Group Viewing Feature
June 1
Celebrity Family Feud: Season 6 Premiere (ABC)
Press Your Luck: Season 2 Premiere (ABC...
Highlights include a new episode of the Hulu original anthology series “Into the Dark” called “Good Boy,” which follows Maggie (Judy Greer), who gets an emotional support dog for her anxiety — but little does she know, he kills anyone who adds stress to her life. Also, take a closer look at the hip-hop group Lin-Manuel Miranda was in before he did “Hamilton” in a new documentary called “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme.”
Leaving at the end of the month are classics like “Bend It Like Beckham,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Kill Bill” volumes one and two.
Below is the full list of everything coming and going throughout the month of June:
Also Read: Hulu Launches New Group Viewing Feature
June 1
Celebrity Family Feud: Season 6 Premiere (ABC)
Press Your Luck: Season 2 Premiere (ABC...
- 5/28/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Hulu is out with its list of everything new coming and going in March, and the new additions include the three-episode series premiere of “Little Fires Everywhere” starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon, and the premiere of the Hillary Clinton documentary “Hillary.”
Those two shows premiere March 18 and March 6, respectively. Other highlights include “Into the Dark: Crawlers,” about body-switching aliens and also out on March 6; the complete second season of “Love Island: Australia” coming March 13, and the two-episode series premiere of “Devs” starring Nick Offerman on March 6.
Movies leaving the site on March 31 include “When Harry Met Sally…,” “Precious” and “Big Fish.”
Also Read: Hulu's 'Into the Dark' Sets Body-Switching Aliens Thriller 'Crawlers' as March Movie (Exclusive)
Here’s everything coming and going to and from Hulu in March:
Arriving March 1
Ok K.O, Let’s Be Heroes!: Complete Season 3 (Cartoon Network)
50/50 (2011)
Abduction (2011)
Blue City (1986)
Cantinflas (2014)
Charlotte’s Web...
Those two shows premiere March 18 and March 6, respectively. Other highlights include “Into the Dark: Crawlers,” about body-switching aliens and also out on March 6; the complete second season of “Love Island: Australia” coming March 13, and the two-episode series premiere of “Devs” starring Nick Offerman on March 6.
Movies leaving the site on March 31 include “When Harry Met Sally…,” “Precious” and “Big Fish.”
Also Read: Hulu's 'Into the Dark' Sets Body-Switching Aliens Thriller 'Crawlers' as March Movie (Exclusive)
Here’s everything coming and going to and from Hulu in March:
Arriving March 1
Ok K.O, Let’s Be Heroes!: Complete Season 3 (Cartoon Network)
50/50 (2011)
Abduction (2011)
Blue City (1986)
Cantinflas (2014)
Charlotte’s Web...
- 3/1/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
It might be hard to believe, but Angela Bassett has never won an Emmy before. She’s now her fifth nomination after making the Best Narrator lineup for her work on Nat Geo’s “The Flood.” If she prevails, not only will she get her first statuette, but she and husband Courtney B. Vance will join the club of Emmy-winning married couples.
Vance has a perfect record at the Emmys, converting his first nomination into a win in 2016 in Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor for his performance as Johnnie Cochran on “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” He gave a brief but memorable speech in which he dedicated the award to his wife of now nearly 22 years — or “the woman that rocks my chain.” #truelove
Bassett’s previous nominations were for “The Rosa Parks Story”, “American Horror Story: Coven”, “American Horror Story: Freak Show” and “Master of None”. In “The Flood,...
Vance has a perfect record at the Emmys, converting his first nomination into a win in 2016 in Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor for his performance as Johnnie Cochran on “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” He gave a brief but memorable speech in which he dedicated the award to his wife of now nearly 22 years — or “the woman that rocks my chain.” #truelove
Bassett’s previous nominations were for “The Rosa Parks Story”, “American Horror Story: Coven”, “American Horror Story: Freak Show” and “Master of None”. In “The Flood,...
- 7/18/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
In today’s film news roundup, Kid Cudi and Dyan Cannon get roles, drug addiction drama “Dear Jack” gets a director and Trafalgar Releasing is handling the “Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies” this year.
Castings
Scott Mescudi , best known by his stage name Kid Cudi, has joined the cast of “Bill & Ted Face the Music.”
Mescudi joins previously announced cast including Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, William Sadler, Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine. Mescudi has a significant role, though details are being kept under wraps.
Reeves will again portray Ted “Theodore” Logan and Winter will reprise his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. The two previous films were 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and 1991’s “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.”
Dean Parisot (“Galaxy Quest”) will direct from a script by original creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. Scott Kroopf (“Limitless”) will produce with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios,...
Castings
Scott Mescudi , best known by his stage name Kid Cudi, has joined the cast of “Bill & Ted Face the Music.”
Mescudi joins previously announced cast including Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, William Sadler, Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine. Mescudi has a significant role, though details are being kept under wraps.
Reeves will again portray Ted “Theodore” Logan and Winter will reprise his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. The two previous films were 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and 1991’s “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.”
Dean Parisot (“Galaxy Quest”) will direct from a script by original creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. Scott Kroopf (“Limitless”) will produce with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios,...
- 6/13/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Glenda Jackson was looking to do what no one has ever done before at the Tony Awards: win Best Actress in a Play in back-to-back years. Alas, she won’t get a chance to, as the Triple Crown champ was snubbed for her performance in “King Lear” on Tuesday.
Jackson, who prevailed last year for “Three Tall Women,” had been in first place in our Tony odds, but she was Mia on the shortlist, which, adding insult to injury, has six nominees. They are Annette Bening (“All My Sons”), Olivier winner Laura Donnelly (“The Ferryman”), Elaine May (“The Waverly Gallery”), Janet McTeer (“Bernhardt/Hamlet”), Laurie Metcalf (“Hillary and Bill”) and Heidi Schreck (“What the Constitution Means to Me”).
In hindsight, maybe we should’ve seen her snub coming. While the soon-to-be 83-year-old received stellar notices for her turn as the title character, the production itself underwhelmed critics. “King Lear” wound up with only one bid,...
Jackson, who prevailed last year for “Three Tall Women,” had been in first place in our Tony odds, but she was Mia on the shortlist, which, adding insult to injury, has six nominees. They are Annette Bening (“All My Sons”), Olivier winner Laura Donnelly (“The Ferryman”), Elaine May (“The Waverly Gallery”), Janet McTeer (“Bernhardt/Hamlet”), Laurie Metcalf (“Hillary and Bill”) and Heidi Schreck (“What the Constitution Means to Me”).
In hindsight, maybe we should’ve seen her snub coming. While the soon-to-be 83-year-old received stellar notices for her turn as the title character, the production itself underwhelmed critics. “King Lear” wound up with only one bid,...
- 5/1/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
NCIS: New Orleans boss man Dwayne Pride is due to be paid a visit from dear ol’ Mom — and playing the family matriarch will be Joanna Cassidy, TVLine has learned exclusively.
In the CBS drama’s Season 5 finale — titled “The River Styx: Part II” and airing Tuesday, May 14 — Pride (played by Scott Bakula) tracks Apollyon, a deadly underground spy network, to war-torn South Ossetia in Russia, where he is separated from the team and faces grave danger. In order to save Pride, the team must locate a mole who continues to feed information to Apollyon.
Cassidy will appear in...
In the CBS drama’s Season 5 finale — titled “The River Styx: Part II” and airing Tuesday, May 14 — Pride (played by Scott Bakula) tracks Apollyon, a deadly underground spy network, to war-torn South Ossetia in Russia, where he is separated from the team and faces grave danger. In order to save Pride, the team must locate a mole who continues to feed information to Apollyon.
Cassidy will appear in...
- 4/17/2019
- TVLine.com
Last year, Glenda Jackson became the 24th performer to complete the Triple Crown of Acting when she won the Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for “Three Tall Women.” She can write another chapter in awards history this year by becoming the first person to win back-to-back Tonys in that category.
Jackson is the odds-on favorite to prevail for her performance as the titular character in “King Lear,” which opened Thursday on Broadway. She’d be the eighth person to win the category twice and the 11th to have multiple wins in the category. None of the previous multiple Best Actress in a Play champs triumphed in consecutive years.
See Tony winner Glenda Jackson on ignoring all of Edward Albee’s advice [Watch]
2 wins
Shirley Booth: “Come Back, Little Sheba” (1950); “The Time of the Cuckoo” (1953)
Helen Hayes: “Happy Birthday” (1947); “Time Remembered” (1958)
Margaret Leighton: “Separate Tables” (1957); “The Night of the Iguana...
Jackson is the odds-on favorite to prevail for her performance as the titular character in “King Lear,” which opened Thursday on Broadway. She’d be the eighth person to win the category twice and the 11th to have multiple wins in the category. None of the previous multiple Best Actress in a Play champs triumphed in consecutive years.
See Tony winner Glenda Jackson on ignoring all of Edward Albee’s advice [Watch]
2 wins
Shirley Booth: “Come Back, Little Sheba” (1950); “The Time of the Cuckoo” (1953)
Helen Hayes: “Happy Birthday” (1947); “Time Remembered” (1958)
Margaret Leighton: “Separate Tables” (1957); “The Night of the Iguana...
- 4/8/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that several original shows will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in April, including the fifth season of the crime drama “Bosch,” the sophomore season of the comedy “The Tick” and the first edition of the children’s animated show “Bug Diaries.”
Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first appearances on Amazon Prime Video in April including the Oscar-nominated horror film “A Quiet Place,” a slew of films in the Bond franchise and all three entries in the “Blade” trilogy.
Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming to Amazon Prime Video in April 2019. Unlike Netflix, Amazon does not disclose the shows and movies leaving the service in any given month. We’ve done some digging and unearthed a few titles that will be exiting Amazon Prime Video in the first week of April.
See Netflix schedule: Here...
Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first appearances on Amazon Prime Video in April including the Oscar-nominated horror film “A Quiet Place,” a slew of films in the Bond franchise and all three entries in the “Blade” trilogy.
Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming to Amazon Prime Video in April 2019. Unlike Netflix, Amazon does not disclose the shows and movies leaving the service in any given month. We’ve done some digging and unearthed a few titles that will be exiting Amazon Prime Video in the first week of April.
See Netflix schedule: Here...
- 4/1/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Amazon Prime Video has released its roster of new content coming to it April, and the list includes a new Prime Original along with new seasons of “Bosch,” “The Tick,” and “Diablo Guardián.”
The first season of “Bug Diaries,” a Prime Original animated series for preschoolers, follows Spider, Fly and Worm on their daily adventures recorded in their bug diaries. From riding on a dog’s back to dodging raindrops, the three bug buddies will appear on the streamer starting April 12.
Season 5 of “Bosch” picks up 15 months after Det. Harry Bosch caught his mother’s killer. Per the streamer’s description, new evidence in an old case leaves everyone wondering whether Bosch planted evidence to convict the wrong guy. And a murder at a Hollywood pharmacy exposes a sophisticated opioid pill mill, sending Bosch down a dark and perilous path in pursuit of the killers. It drops April 19.
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The first season of “Bug Diaries,” a Prime Original animated series for preschoolers, follows Spider, Fly and Worm on their daily adventures recorded in their bug diaries. From riding on a dog’s back to dodging raindrops, the three bug buddies will appear on the streamer starting April 12.
Season 5 of “Bosch” picks up 15 months after Det. Harry Bosch caught his mother’s killer. Per the streamer’s description, new evidence in an old case leaves everyone wondering whether Bosch planted evidence to convict the wrong guy. And a murder at a Hollywood pharmacy exposes a sophisticated opioid pill mill, sending Bosch down a dark and perilous path in pursuit of the killers. It drops April 19.
Also Read:...
- 3/15/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Hulu’s list of comings and goings for the month of April is out, and the roster for new content on the streaming service includes two Hulu Originals — the first season premiere of “Ramy,” and the seventh episode of “Into The Dark: I’m Just F*cking With You,” with other highlights including Season 3 of Freeform’s “The Bold Type” and John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place.”
“Ramy,” debuting April 19, tells the story of first generation Egyptian-American Ramy Hassan as he finds himself in his New Jersey neighborhood, stuck at a crossroads between the morals of his Muslim community and the moral ambiguity of his millennial generation. “Into The Dark: I’m Just F*cking With You,” coming April 1, finds two siblings in a secluded motel, where they become subject to practical jokes of an increasingly frightening nature.
Also Read: Oscar-Winning Documentary 'Free Solo' Now Available for Streaming on Hulu...
“Ramy,” debuting April 19, tells the story of first generation Egyptian-American Ramy Hassan as he finds himself in his New Jersey neighborhood, stuck at a crossroads between the morals of his Muslim community and the moral ambiguity of his millennial generation. “Into The Dark: I’m Just F*cking With You,” coming April 1, finds two siblings in a secluded motel, where they become subject to practical jokes of an increasingly frightening nature.
Also Read: Oscar-Winning Documentary 'Free Solo' Now Available for Streaming on Hulu...
- 3/15/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Jane Russell heats up an Arizona mining town but she’s just trying to help her new husband with his ethnic identity issues, Jeff Chandler. Superb color cinematography (forget the B&W photos here) and beautiful desert locations help, but the real appeal is seeing Russell and gorgeous co-star Mara Corday in all their glory.
Foxfire
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1955 / Color / 2:00 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date , 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, Dan Duryea, Mara Corday, Barton MacLane, Frieda Inescort, Celia Lovsky, Eddy Waller, Robert F. Simon, Charlotte Wynters, Robert Bice, Arthur Space, Beulah Archuletta, Dabbs Greer, Grace Lenard, Vici Raaf.
Cinematography: William Daniels
Film Editor: Ted. J. Kent
Original Music: Frank Skinner
Written by Ketti Frings, from the novel by Anya Seton
Produced by Aaron Rosenberg
Directed by Joseph Pevney
A medium-wattage relationship soap, Foxfire is an Eisenhower-era blueprint for consensus attitudes about race and class...
Foxfire
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1955 / Color / 2:00 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date , 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, Dan Duryea, Mara Corday, Barton MacLane, Frieda Inescort, Celia Lovsky, Eddy Waller, Robert F. Simon, Charlotte Wynters, Robert Bice, Arthur Space, Beulah Archuletta, Dabbs Greer, Grace Lenard, Vici Raaf.
Cinematography: William Daniels
Film Editor: Ted. J. Kent
Original Music: Frank Skinner
Written by Ketti Frings, from the novel by Anya Seton
Produced by Aaron Rosenberg
Directed by Joseph Pevney
A medium-wattage relationship soap, Foxfire is an Eisenhower-era blueprint for consensus attitudes about race and class...
- 1/8/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Like nearly all of director Joseph Pevney’s films, 1955’s Foxfire has been more or less forgotten, despite starring Jane Russell. It’s a pity considering the film’s significant condemnation of racism, something the narrative is inextricably intertwined with rather than as a blunt subtext, an uncommon tangent for a 1950s era romantic melodrama. Strikingly, the film was one of two 1955 dramas directed by Pevney starring Jeff Chandler, the other being the equally obscure Female on the Beach with Joan Crawford, and was only two years before Pevney’s most successful cinematic offering, Tammy and the Bachelor, the Debbie Reynolds hit which inspired a celebrated song and franchise for the star.…...
- 12/11/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jessica Biel received her first career Emmy nomination last week, for Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actress for “The Sinner,” and her husband Justin Timberlake was just as pumped as she was. He tweeted his excitement and commented on her Instagram post. Proud hubby all around. And if Biel takes home the gold, she and Timberlake will join a long line of married couples who’ve won acting Emmys.
A four-time winner, Timberlake has “Saturday Night Live” to thank for all his statuettes. He won two for songwriting (“Dick in a Box” in 2007 and his 2011 monologue) and two for Best Comedy Guest Actor, in 2009 and 2011. He has an addition guest nomination for “SNL” and three other songwriting nominations, two for “SNL” and one for the 2008 ESPYs. Too bad he didn’t host “SNL” last season because then he and Biel could’ve been nominees in the same year (you know...
A four-time winner, Timberlake has “Saturday Night Live” to thank for all his statuettes. He won two for songwriting (“Dick in a Box” in 2007 and his 2011 monologue) and two for Best Comedy Guest Actor, in 2009 and 2011. He has an addition guest nomination for “SNL” and three other songwriting nominations, two for “SNL” and one for the 2008 ESPYs. Too bad he didn’t host “SNL” last season because then he and Biel could’ve been nominees in the same year (you know...
- 7/17/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
New titles available to stream with your Amazon Prime membership next month include Season 5 of BBC’s “Orphan Black,” and several new Amazon Original series, including “Last Flag Flying,” “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” and “Diablo Guardian.”
Movies available include 2017’s “Baywatch,” “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and “Rocky” I through V. Beginning May 1, you’ll also be able to rent “Annihilation,” “12 Strong,” James Corden’s “Peter Rabbit” and “Fifty Shades Freed.”
See the full list below. For our May Hulu roundup, head over here.
Also Read: 'Westworld' Creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's New Sci-Fi Series 'The Peripheral' Lands at Amazon
Available May 1
3 Ways to Get a Husband (2009)
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Baby Boom (1987)
Back to School (1986)
Bad News Bears (1976)
Barefoot (2014)
Beyond Borders (2003)
Blame (2017)
Brother Nature (2016)
Bull Durham (1988)
Cool World (1992)
Cyborg (1989)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Dr. No (1962)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Evolution (2001)
Foxfire (1996)
Frailty (2001)
From Russia with Love (1964)
Gator (1976)
Ghost Town (2008)
Goat (2016)
Goldfinger (1964)
Holy Air (2017)
Hot Boyz (2000)
Immigration Tango (2011)
Insomnia (2002)
Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack (1999)
Kalifornia (1993)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Love Is A Gun (1994)
Also Read: Amazon in Talks to Develop Series About Young Moammar Gadhafi's Rise to Power in Libya
Manhunter (1986)
Men with Brooms (2002)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
New Rose Hotel (1999)
Ninja Masters (2009)
Octopussy (1983)
Outcast (2014)
Perfect Score (2004)
Perfume: Story of a Murderer (2006)
Psychopaths (2017)
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
Sabrina (1995)
Saturday Church (2017)
School Ties (1992)
Set Up (2011)
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
The Benefactor (2015)
The Box (2007)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
The Crow (1994)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Golden Compass (2007)
The Hangman (1959)
The House I Live In (2013)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Last Castle (2001)
Also Read: Amazon Studios Shakes Up Under Jennifer Salke: Albert Cheng Named Co-Head of TV
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Saint (1997)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Thief (1981)
Thirst Street (2017)
Thunderball (1965)
Twisted (2004)
Untamed Heart (1993)
Wild Thornberrys (2002)
Wish Upon a Star (1996)
Wonder Boys (2000)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Aristocrats: Limited Series
Banished: Limited Series
Charles II – The Power and The Passion: Limited Series
Daniel Deronda: Limited Series
David Copperfield: Limited Series
Desperate Romantics: Limited Series
Ivanhoe: Limited Series
Jane Eyre (1983): Limited Series
Jane Erye (2006): Limited Series
Life in Squares: Limited Series
Little Dorrit: Limited Series
Lorna Doone: Limited Series
Love in A Cold Climate: Limited Series
Mansfield Park: Limited Series
Martin Chuzzlewit: Limited Series
Middlemarch: Limited Series
Oliver Twist (1985): Limited Series
Oliver Twist (2007): Limited Series
Our Mutual Friend: Limited Series
Pride and Prejudice: Limited Series
Sense and Sensibility (1981): Limited Series
Sense and Sensibility (2008): Limited Series
Sinbad: Limited Series
Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Limited Series
The Buccaneers: Limited Series
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Limited Series
The Lost World: Limited Series
The Office: Limited Series
The Pickwick Papers: Limited Series
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Limited Series
The Way We Live Now: Limited Series
Tom Jones: Limited Series
Vanity Fair (1998): Limited Series
Available May 4
Last Flag Flying
Available May 5
Warrior (2011)
Diablo Guardian (Prime Original series), Season 1
Available May 11
Rocky & Bullwinkle (Prime Original series), Season 1
Available May 12
Baywatch (2017)
Still Mine (2012)
Orphan Black, Season 5
Available May 15
How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
Available May 18
You Are Wanted (Prime Original series), Season 2
Available May 19
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Shooters (2003)
Available May 22
Dino Dana (Prime Original series), Season 2
Available May 23
Beast of Burden (2018)
Available May 25
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Prime Original series), Season 1
Available May 27
Just Getting Started (2017)
The Wedding Plan (2016)
Available May 29
Howards End, Season 1
Read original story Here’s What You Can Stream With Your Amazon Prime Membership in May At TheWrap...
Movies available include 2017’s “Baywatch,” “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and “Rocky” I through V. Beginning May 1, you’ll also be able to rent “Annihilation,” “12 Strong,” James Corden’s “Peter Rabbit” and “Fifty Shades Freed.”
See the full list below. For our May Hulu roundup, head over here.
Also Read: 'Westworld' Creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's New Sci-Fi Series 'The Peripheral' Lands at Amazon
Available May 1
3 Ways to Get a Husband (2009)
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Baby Boom (1987)
Back to School (1986)
Bad News Bears (1976)
Barefoot (2014)
Beyond Borders (2003)
Blame (2017)
Brother Nature (2016)
Bull Durham (1988)
Cool World (1992)
Cyborg (1989)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Dr. No (1962)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Evolution (2001)
Foxfire (1996)
Frailty (2001)
From Russia with Love (1964)
Gator (1976)
Ghost Town (2008)
Goat (2016)
Goldfinger (1964)
Holy Air (2017)
Hot Boyz (2000)
Immigration Tango (2011)
Insomnia (2002)
Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack (1999)
Kalifornia (1993)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Love Is A Gun (1994)
Also Read: Amazon in Talks to Develop Series About Young Moammar Gadhafi's Rise to Power in Libya
Manhunter (1986)
Men with Brooms (2002)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
New Rose Hotel (1999)
Ninja Masters (2009)
Octopussy (1983)
Outcast (2014)
Perfect Score (2004)
Perfume: Story of a Murderer (2006)
Psychopaths (2017)
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
Sabrina (1995)
Saturday Church (2017)
School Ties (1992)
Set Up (2011)
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
The Benefactor (2015)
The Box (2007)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
The Crow (1994)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Golden Compass (2007)
The Hangman (1959)
The House I Live In (2013)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Last Castle (2001)
Also Read: Amazon Studios Shakes Up Under Jennifer Salke: Albert Cheng Named Co-Head of TV
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Saint (1997)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Thief (1981)
Thirst Street (2017)
Thunderball (1965)
Twisted (2004)
Untamed Heart (1993)
Wild Thornberrys (2002)
Wish Upon a Star (1996)
Wonder Boys (2000)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Aristocrats: Limited Series
Banished: Limited Series
Charles II – The Power and The Passion: Limited Series
Daniel Deronda: Limited Series
David Copperfield: Limited Series
Desperate Romantics: Limited Series
Ivanhoe: Limited Series
Jane Eyre (1983): Limited Series
Jane Erye (2006): Limited Series
Life in Squares: Limited Series
Little Dorrit: Limited Series
Lorna Doone: Limited Series
Love in A Cold Climate: Limited Series
Mansfield Park: Limited Series
Martin Chuzzlewit: Limited Series
Middlemarch: Limited Series
Oliver Twist (1985): Limited Series
Oliver Twist (2007): Limited Series
Our Mutual Friend: Limited Series
Pride and Prejudice: Limited Series
Sense and Sensibility (1981): Limited Series
Sense and Sensibility (2008): Limited Series
Sinbad: Limited Series
Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Limited Series
The Buccaneers: Limited Series
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Limited Series
The Lost World: Limited Series
The Office: Limited Series
The Pickwick Papers: Limited Series
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Limited Series
The Way We Live Now: Limited Series
Tom Jones: Limited Series
Vanity Fair (1998): Limited Series
Available May 4
Last Flag Flying
Available May 5
Warrior (2011)
Diablo Guardian (Prime Original series), Season 1
Available May 11
Rocky & Bullwinkle (Prime Original series), Season 1
Available May 12
Baywatch (2017)
Still Mine (2012)
Orphan Black, Season 5
Available May 15
How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
Available May 18
You Are Wanted (Prime Original series), Season 2
Available May 19
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Shooters (2003)
Available May 22
Dino Dana (Prime Original series), Season 2
Available May 23
Beast of Burden (2018)
Available May 25
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Prime Original series), Season 1
Available May 27
Just Getting Started (2017)
The Wedding Plan (2016)
Available May 29
Howards End, Season 1
Read original story Here’s What You Can Stream With Your Amazon Prime Membership in May At TheWrap...
- 4/17/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
Next month, enjoy plenty of sports-related flicks with the addition of the Oscar-nominated “I, Tonya,” on May 31 and all the “Rocky” movies on May 1.
Other highlights include the Hulu original series “All Night,” out May 11, which chronicles teens trying to make their high school dreams come true during an all-night grad party, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s 2017 remake of “Baywatch,” available May 12.
Catch Season 4 of FX’s “The Strain” on May 16 and the complete first season of TNT’s “Claws” on May 11.
Also Read: Kyle Chandler Replaces George Clooney as Lead in Hulu's 'Catch-22'
See everything that’s coming and leaving below:
Available May 1
3 Ways to Get a Husband (2010)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Baby Boom (1987)
Back to School (1986)
Barefoot (2014)
201 (2017)
The Box (2009)
Booty Call (1997)
Breakable You (2018)
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Bull Durham (1988)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
The Crow (1994)
The Crow II: City of Angels (1996)
The Crow III: Salvation (2000)
The Crow IV: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Demolition Man (1993)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Emperor (2012)
Executive Decision (1996)
Foxfire (1996)
Gator (1976)
Godzilla (1998)
The Hangman (2017)
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Here to be Heard: The Story of the Slits (2017)
Hot Boyz (2000)
The House I Live In (2012)
Immigration Tango (2010)
Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack (1995)
Kalifornia (1993)
Lost in Vagueness (2017)
Love is a Gun (1994)
Malena (2000)
Man of the House (2005)
Manhunter (1986)
Mansfield Park (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Men in Black II (2002)
Men with Brooms (2002)
Never Back Down (2008)
New Guy (2002)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Ninja Masters (2009)
No Greater Love (2015)
The Pallbearer (1996)
Pink Panther 2 (2009)
Pret-a-Porter (1994)
Priest (2011)
Race for your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
School Ties (1992)
Set Up (2011)
She’s All That (1999)
Starting out the Evening (2007)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
The Swan Princess Christmas (2012)
Also Read: Hugh Laurie Joins Hulu 'Catch-22' Adaptation With George Clooney
The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure (1998)
Thief (1981)
To Rome with Love (2012)
Traffic (2000)
Untamed Heart (1993)
Valkyrie (2008)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Available May 5
Drunk History: Complete Season 5A (Comedy Central)
Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin: Complete Season 1 (Sunrise)
The Longest Week (2014)
Warrior (2011)
Available May 6
I’m Dying Up Here: Season 2 Premiere (*Showtime)
Available May 7
Star vs. The Forces of Evil: Complete Season 3 (Disney Xd)
Available May 8
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: Season 4 Premiere (NBC)
Available May 9
T@gged: Complete Season 2 (AwesomenessTV)
Available May 11
All Night: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original)
Claws: Complete Season 1 (TNT)
Bleeding Heart (2015)
Into the Fade (2018)
Available May 12
Patrick Melrose: Series Premiere (*Showtime)
Baywatch (2017)
Frank Serpico (2017)
Jane (2017)
Still Mine (2012)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Available May 13
Tonight She Comes (2016)
Available May 15
Animals (2015)
How to be a Latin Lover (2017)
It’s A Disaster (2012)
Periods. (2012)
Soul of a Banquet (2014)
Take Every Wave (2017)
The Other F Word (2011)
The Snapper (1993)
The Strange Ones (2018)
Available May 16
12 Monkeys: Complete Season 3 (Syfy)
The Strain: Complete Season 4 (FX)
Knights of the Damned (2018)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Available May 19
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Shooters (2002)
Available May 21
American Folk (2017)
Neat (2017)
Available May 23
Half Magic (2018)
Available May 24
Curvature (2017)
Available May 25
Hollywood Game Night: Red Nose Dat Special (NBC)
Mad to be Normal (2017)
Available May 27
The Wedding Plan (2016)
Available May 30
America’s Got Talent: Season 13 Premiere (NBC)
World of Dance: Season 2 Premiere (NBC)
Available May 31
American Ninja Warrior: Season 10 Premiere (NBC)
I, Tonya (2017)
Please Stand By (2018)
Rain Man (1988)
And here’s everything that’s leaving:
May 31
1984 (1985)
The Accused (1988)
A Feast at Midnight (1997)
Antitrust (2001)
The Big Wedding (2013)
Boulevard (2015)
Branded (2012)
Breakdown (1997)
Captivity (2007)
Chaplin (1992)
Diablo (2016)
The Doors (1991)
Earth Girls are Easy (1988)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Finder’s Fee (2003)
Fluke (1995)
Forces of Nature (1999)
Fred: The Movie (2010)
Fred: Night of the Living Fred (2011)
Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012)
The Glass Shield (1994)
Glitter (2001)
Gordy (1995)
Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
Harriot the Spy (1996)
Hart’s War (2002)
He Named Me Malala (2015)
Hesher (2010)
High School (2010)
Honey (2003)
Honey 2 (2011)
Jack Goes Boating (2010)
Jennifer 8 (1992)
John Q (2002)
Kingpin (1996)
Love Crimes (1992)
Show of Force (1990)
Manhattan (1979)
Manny (2015)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2001)
National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie (2011)
National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2: College @ Sea (2006)
No Stranger Than Love (2016)
Outlaws and Angels (2016)
The Pick-up Artist (1987)
Regarding Henry (1991)
The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)
Southie (1998)
Sprung (1997)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
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Other highlights include the Hulu original series “All Night,” out May 11, which chronicles teens trying to make their high school dreams come true during an all-night grad party, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s 2017 remake of “Baywatch,” available May 12.
Catch Season 4 of FX’s “The Strain” on May 16 and the complete first season of TNT’s “Claws” on May 11.
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Available May 1
3 Ways to Get a Husband (2010)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Baby Boom (1987)
Back to School (1986)
Barefoot (2014)
201 (2017)
The Box (2009)
Booty Call (1997)
Breakable You (2018)
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Bull Durham (1988)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
The Crow (1994)
The Crow II: City of Angels (1996)
The Crow III: Salvation (2000)
The Crow IV: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Demolition Man (1993)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Emperor (2012)
Executive Decision (1996)
Foxfire (1996)
Gator (1976)
Godzilla (1998)
The Hangman (2017)
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Here to be Heard: The Story of the Slits (2017)
Hot Boyz (2000)
The House I Live In (2012)
Immigration Tango (2010)
Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack (1995)
Kalifornia (1993)
Lost in Vagueness (2017)
Love is a Gun (1994)
Malena (2000)
Man of the House (2005)
Manhunter (1986)
Mansfield Park (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Men in Black II (2002)
Men with Brooms (2002)
Never Back Down (2008)
New Guy (2002)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Ninja Masters (2009)
No Greater Love (2015)
The Pallbearer (1996)
Pink Panther 2 (2009)
Pret-a-Porter (1994)
Priest (2011)
Race for your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
School Ties (1992)
Set Up (2011)
She’s All That (1999)
Starting out the Evening (2007)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
The Swan Princess Christmas (2012)
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The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure (1998)
Thief (1981)
To Rome with Love (2012)
Traffic (2000)
Untamed Heart (1993)
Valkyrie (2008)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Available May 5
Drunk History: Complete Season 5A (Comedy Central)
Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin: Complete Season 1 (Sunrise)
The Longest Week (2014)
Warrior (2011)
Available May 6
I’m Dying Up Here: Season 2 Premiere (*Showtime)
Available May 7
Star vs. The Forces of Evil: Complete Season 3 (Disney Xd)
Available May 8
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: Season 4 Premiere (NBC)
Available May 9
T@gged: Complete Season 2 (AwesomenessTV)
Available May 11
All Night: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original)
Claws: Complete Season 1 (TNT)
Bleeding Heart (2015)
Into the Fade (2018)
Available May 12
Patrick Melrose: Series Premiere (*Showtime)
Baywatch (2017)
Frank Serpico (2017)
Jane (2017)
Still Mine (2012)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Available May 13
Tonight She Comes (2016)
Available May 15
Animals (2015)
How to be a Latin Lover (2017)
It’s A Disaster (2012)
Periods. (2012)
Soul of a Banquet (2014)
Take Every Wave (2017)
The Other F Word (2011)
The Snapper (1993)
The Strange Ones (2018)
Available May 16
12 Monkeys: Complete Season 3 (Syfy)
The Strain: Complete Season 4 (FX)
Knights of the Damned (2018)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Available May 19
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Shooters (2002)
Available May 21
American Folk (2017)
Neat (2017)
Available May 23
Half Magic (2018)
Available May 24
Curvature (2017)
Available May 25
Hollywood Game Night: Red Nose Dat Special (NBC)
Mad to be Normal (2017)
Available May 27
The Wedding Plan (2016)
Available May 30
America’s Got Talent: Season 13 Premiere (NBC)
World of Dance: Season 2 Premiere (NBC)
Available May 31
American Ninja Warrior: Season 10 Premiere (NBC)
I, Tonya (2017)
Please Stand By (2018)
Rain Man (1988)
And here’s everything that’s leaving:
May 31
1984 (1985)
The Accused (1988)
A Feast at Midnight (1997)
Antitrust (2001)
The Big Wedding (2013)
Boulevard (2015)
Branded (2012)
Breakdown (1997)
Captivity (2007)
Chaplin (1992)
Diablo (2016)
The Doors (1991)
Earth Girls are Easy (1988)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Finder’s Fee (2003)
Fluke (1995)
Forces of Nature (1999)
Fred: The Movie (2010)
Fred: Night of the Living Fred (2011)
Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012)
The Glass Shield (1994)
Glitter (2001)
Gordy (1995)
Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
Harriot the Spy (1996)
Hart’s War (2002)
He Named Me Malala (2015)
Hesher (2010)
High School (2010)
Honey (2003)
Honey 2 (2011)
Jack Goes Boating (2010)
Jennifer 8 (1992)
John Q (2002)
Kingpin (1996)
Love Crimes (1992)
Show of Force (1990)
Manhattan (1979)
Manny (2015)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2001)
National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie (2011)
National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2: College @ Sea (2006)
No Stranger Than Love (2016)
Outlaws and Angels (2016)
The Pick-up Artist (1987)
Regarding Henry (1991)
The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)
Southie (1998)
Sprung (1997)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Read original story Here’s Everything That’s Coming to and Leaving Hulu in May At TheWrap...
- 4/16/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
Laurent Cantet, director of The Class, zeroes in on a Havana roof terrace for this wistful chamber piece in which old friends meet up to drink, reminisce and exhume old secrets
Laurent Cantet set the seal on his pre-eminence by winning the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2008 with the tough school drama Entre les Murs, or The Class; and then his English-language debut Foxfire (2012), adapted from Joyce Carol Oates, was respectfully received. But this is a very low-key chamber piece from 2014, about a reunion of middle-aged friends, which of course turns out to be an autumnal, bittersweet affair involving the exhumation of painful secrets. It is set mostly in one spot: a roof-terrace overlooking Havana’s Malecón, and has evidently grown out of Cantet’s contribution to the portmanteau movie 7 Days in Havana (2012).
Five old Cuban comrades meet up for drinks: troubled Tanía (Isabel Santos), boisterous neocapitalist Eddy (Jorge Perugorría...
Laurent Cantet set the seal on his pre-eminence by winning the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2008 with the tough school drama Entre les Murs, or The Class; and then his English-language debut Foxfire (2012), adapted from Joyce Carol Oates, was respectfully received. But this is a very low-key chamber piece from 2014, about a reunion of middle-aged friends, which of course turns out to be an autumnal, bittersweet affair involving the exhumation of painful secrets. It is set mostly in one spot: a roof-terrace overlooking Havana’s Malecón, and has evidently grown out of Cantet’s contribution to the portmanteau movie 7 Days in Havana (2012).
Five old Cuban comrades meet up for drinks: troubled Tanía (Isabel Santos), boisterous neocapitalist Eddy (Jorge Perugorría...
- 8/24/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt last year, and the news has been met with millions of dropped jaws (including George Clooney's). While Brad and Angie's romance began on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith back in 2004, the stunning actress has a list of ex-lovers that includes Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Farrell, and model/actress Jenny Shimizu, whom she worked with on the movie Foxfire in 1996. Keep reading to see who Angelina has loved (and lost) over the years. Related:All the Ladies Who Have Been Romanced by Brad PittThe Way They Were - 31 Times Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Showered Each Other With LoveThe Sweetest Moments the Jolie-Pitt Kids Have Shared With Their Parents...
- 1/13/2017
- by Brittney Stephens
- Popsugar.com
Angelina Jolie's Ex-Girlfriend Jenny Shimizu Marries Michelle Harper: See the Stunning Wedding Photo
She did, too! Angelina Jolie's ex-girlfriend Jenny Shimizu also got married recently, tying the knot last week to socialite Michelle Harper. Photos of Harper the bride wearing her voluminous wedding gown on the couple's big day were released Wednesday, Sept. 3. Jolie and Shimizu first met on the set of their 1996 film Foxfire. At the time, Jolie was married to her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. Still, the Oscar winner told Girlfriends magazine that the initial spark with model-actress Shimizu was very much palpable. "I would probably [...]...
- 9/3/2014
- Us Weekly
Swedish screens are challenging the idea that two women talking to each other is diametrically opposed to film quality
Four independent Swedish cinemas now tell audiences if the films they screen pass the Bechdel test – which requires that a film (1) feature two named female characters who (2) talk to each other about (3) something other than men. Films that meet these criteria get a seal of approval, or an A rating.
The test owes its name to the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, whose 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip drew attention to how few films appeal to viewers who take pleasure in female "sociality" – forms of social bonding between women. Twenty-eight years later cinemas are turning Bechdel's black humour into policy in order to raise consciousness among audiences about gender imbalance. Indeed, their action has prompted huge national and international debate in recent weeks.
Film critics and scholars, however, have been quick...
Four independent Swedish cinemas now tell audiences if the films they screen pass the Bechdel test – which requires that a film (1) feature two named female characters who (2) talk to each other about (3) something other than men. Films that meet these criteria get a seal of approval, or an A rating.
The test owes its name to the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, whose 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip drew attention to how few films appeal to viewers who take pleasure in female "sociality" – forms of social bonding between women. Twenty-eight years later cinemas are turning Bechdel's black humour into policy in order to raise consciousness among audiences about gender imbalance. Indeed, their action has prompted huge national and international debate in recent weeks.
Film critics and scholars, however, have been quick...
- 11/27/2013
- by Anu Koivunen, Ingrid Ryberg, Laura Horak
- The Guardian - Film News
Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby is a glittering hymn to the age of jazz, while the monster-robot blockbuster Pacific Rim is daftness writ large
Nothing about F Scott Fizgerald's The Great Gatsby feels especially festive: it's all critical despair in stifling summer air, chilled mint juleps and crisp linen suits. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (Warner, 12) is another matter: this luxurious pudding seems more at home in the run-up to Christmas (when it was originally slated for release in cinemas) than it did back in May. That may be because Luhrmann has never met a bauble, sparkler or strand of tinsel he didn't like: like all his films, this Gatsby is dressed and decorated to scrumptious excess.
Critics trotting out the tired "style over substance" epithet were missing the point. Style is substance in Luhrmann's universe, and as such, the film is rather effective in capturing the beautiful but damned...
Nothing about F Scott Fizgerald's The Great Gatsby feels especially festive: it's all critical despair in stifling summer air, chilled mint juleps and crisp linen suits. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (Warner, 12) is another matter: this luxurious pudding seems more at home in the run-up to Christmas (when it was originally slated for release in cinemas) than it did back in May. That may be because Luhrmann has never met a bauble, sparkler or strand of tinsel he didn't like: like all his films, this Gatsby is dressed and decorated to scrumptious excess.
Critics trotting out the tired "style over substance" epithet were missing the point. Style is substance in Luhrmann's universe, and as such, the film is rather effective in capturing the beautiful but damned...
- 11/10/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Fare is Fowl: Haywood-Carter’s Dire Return to Directing
Annette Haywood-Carter, perhaps best known for her 1996 directorial debut Foxfire, an adaption of a Joyce Carol Oates novel starring a nubile Angelina Jolie (which was remade in 2012 by Laurent Cantet), returns with her first directorial outing in thirteen years with Savannah, a based-on-a-true-story account of a 1920s hunter from the memoir Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter. Locally produced, the figure in question seems to be a well-known local legend in Savannah, Georgia. However, the headscratchingly vague title should give you the first indication that some beautifully photographed landscape shots are the only aspect of interest in this bewilderingly bland exercise about a highly energetic hunter indisposed to frequent bouts of drinking, best known for rejecting his inheritance to (sometimes illegally) hunt with his black best friend forever at his side.
Opening in 1954 Savannah, we meet the wizened Christmas Moultrie (Chiwetel Ejiofor...
Annette Haywood-Carter, perhaps best known for her 1996 directorial debut Foxfire, an adaption of a Joyce Carol Oates novel starring a nubile Angelina Jolie (which was remade in 2012 by Laurent Cantet), returns with her first directorial outing in thirteen years with Savannah, a based-on-a-true-story account of a 1920s hunter from the memoir Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter. Locally produced, the figure in question seems to be a well-known local legend in Savannah, Georgia. However, the headscratchingly vague title should give you the first indication that some beautifully photographed landscape shots are the only aspect of interest in this bewilderingly bland exercise about a highly energetic hunter indisposed to frequent bouts of drinking, best known for rejecting his inheritance to (sometimes illegally) hunt with his black best friend forever at his side.
Opening in 1954 Savannah, we meet the wizened Christmas Moultrie (Chiwetel Ejiofor...
- 8/21/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It's been a while since we've talked about Laurent Cantet's "Foxfire," and well, that's because there hasn't been much to talk about. While the movie marks the director's followup to his Palme d'Or-winning "The Class," when it premiered last year at Tiff, it didn't make much noise, and as far as we know, it's still without any U.S. distribution. But the movie has already opened across the pond, and as such, two clips from the movie have arrived. In adapting Joyce Carol Oates' celebrated novel, Cantet rounded up some newcomers—Claire Mazerolle, Kate Coseni and Madeleine Bisson—to lead the story of five teenagers from a small town in New York State in the 1950s who, out of their distrust of society, form a secret group called Foxfire to avenge the humiliations they have suffered at the hands of men. And if anything, these two scenes showcase...
- 8/14/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This brilliantly acted drama about a 1950s New York girl gang works as both social history and political allegory
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Laurent Cantet started out 14 years ago as a kind of French Ken Loach, using a non-professional cast in the thoughtful leftwing Human Resources to deal with class and industrial relations in a provincial factory. He followed it up with Time Out (2001), about a middle-management executive who conceals his redundancy from his family, and The Class (2008), his Cannes prize-winning study of a year in a tough, racially mixed inner-city school in Paris. Both were also performed by non-professionals, though in between he made Heading South (2005), in which three prominent actresses played Americans visiting Haiti as sex tourists. In his confident, strangely gripping new film Foxfire, he's again working with a largely non-professional cast but this time in the recent American past.
Based on a novel by the prolific,...
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Laurent Cantet started out 14 years ago as a kind of French Ken Loach, using a non-professional cast in the thoughtful leftwing Human Resources to deal with class and industrial relations in a provincial factory. He followed it up with Time Out (2001), about a middle-management executive who conceals his redundancy from his family, and The Class (2008), his Cannes prize-winning study of a year in a tough, racially mixed inner-city school in Paris. Both were also performed by non-professionals, though in between he made Heading South (2005), in which three prominent actresses played Americans visiting Haiti as sex tourists. In his confident, strangely gripping new film Foxfire, he's again working with a largely non-professional cast but this time in the recent American past.
Based on a novel by the prolific,...
- 8/12/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Here's a Riot Grrl story if ever there was one: a bunch of rebellious young women form a gang, smite their male oppressors and generally paint small-town America red. It could be the premise for something pulpy and brash, and according to reviews, that's what the 1996 adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's novel Foxfire was, with its showcase lead for an up-and-coming Angelina Jolie. I haven't seen that film, and I suspect you haven't either, so let's agree that the new screen version of the book starts with a clean slate.
- 8/10/2013
- The Independent - Film
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | The Lone Ranger | Foxfire | David Bowie Is Happening Now | Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters | Grown Ups 2 | Looking For Hortense | Silence | Chennai Express
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15)
(Declan Lowney, 2013, UK) Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Felicity Montagu, Anna Maxwell Martin. 90 mins
Coogan's comic alter-ego goes big screen at last, but fear not: he's just as pathetically provincial and inadvertently offensive as he ever was – and just as consistently hilarious. A siege situation at Partridge's Norfolk radio station is the excuse to "open out" the scenario and explore the talk DJ's latent heroic side, but – as usual – the day is saved by Coogan's deft characterisation, some great writing and a love/hate fascination with Middle English mediocrity.
The Lone Ranger (12A)
(Gore Verbinski, 2013, Us) Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer. 149 mins
Where Verbinski and Depp struck a great action-comedy balance with Pirates Of The Caribbean (and Rango), attempts...
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15)
(Declan Lowney, 2013, UK) Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Felicity Montagu, Anna Maxwell Martin. 90 mins
Coogan's comic alter-ego goes big screen at last, but fear not: he's just as pathetically provincial and inadvertently offensive as he ever was – and just as consistently hilarious. A siege situation at Partridge's Norfolk radio station is the excuse to "open out" the scenario and explore the talk DJ's latent heroic side, but – as usual – the day is saved by Coogan's deft characterisation, some great writing and a love/hate fascination with Middle English mediocrity.
The Lone Ranger (12A)
(Gore Verbinski, 2013, Us) Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer. 149 mins
Where Verbinski and Depp struck a great action-comedy balance with Pirates Of The Caribbean (and Rango), attempts...
- 8/10/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Coming off the back of the Palme d’Or winning The Class – it’s safe to say there’s a little more attention and pressure on French filmmaker Laurent Cantet’s shoulders this time around as he presents his latest picture Foxfire, hitting cinema screens on August 9. Having won the most prestigious prize in world cinema back in 2008, we were rather excited about interviewing him.
Despite the pressure – which he discusses in this interview – fortunately he triumphs with Foxfire, a picture that depicts the rising of a group of young women rebelling against a sexist society. He also talks of his decision to make his first English speaking feature, and how he went about depicting a somewhat different 1950s America to what we have seen before on the big screen – while he also tells us if he has ever seen the 1996 adaptation (starring Angelina Jolie) of the famous Joyce Carol Oates novel.
Despite the pressure – which he discusses in this interview – fortunately he triumphs with Foxfire, a picture that depicts the rising of a group of young women rebelling against a sexist society. He also talks of his decision to make his first English speaking feature, and how he went about depicting a somewhat different 1950s America to what we have seen before on the big screen – while he also tells us if he has ever seen the 1996 adaptation (starring Angelina Jolie) of the famous Joyce Carol Oates novel.
- 8/9/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The award-winning French director talks about the challenge of adapting Joyce Carol Oates' novel about a secret society of teenage girls
Five years ago, after winning the 2008 Palme d'Or for his fourth feature film, The Class, Laurent Cantet was unexpectedly elevated to an elite group of international film-makers. In his previous three features, Cantet had shown himself an able, interesting director, but not necessarily an attention-grabbing one. He had earned a reputation, through films such as Human Resources and Time Out, as France's answer to Ken Loach: an earnest director motivated by his conscience, but who wore his political commitments lightly. The Class, however, changed all that: shot in Cantet's characteristic low-key faux-documentary manner, it struck a chord in France with its portrait of a teacher's struggle with a roomful of stroppy teenagers in contemporary Paris, and propelled him into the big league.
After a world premiere almost...
Five years ago, after winning the 2008 Palme d'Or for his fourth feature film, The Class, Laurent Cantet was unexpectedly elevated to an elite group of international film-makers. In his previous three features, Cantet had shown himself an able, interesting director, but not necessarily an attention-grabbing one. He had earned a reputation, through films such as Human Resources and Time Out, as France's answer to Ken Loach: an earnest director motivated by his conscience, but who wore his political commitments lightly. The Class, however, changed all that: shot in Cantet's characteristic low-key faux-documentary manner, it struck a chord in France with its portrait of a teacher's struggle with a roomful of stroppy teenagers in contemporary Paris, and propelled him into the big league.
After a world premiere almost...
- 8/9/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Laurent Cantet's followup to his prizewinning The Class focuses on a secret society of high-school girls, with faultless performances all round
Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates' teen-empowerment novel, Laurent Cantet's follow up to the Palme d'Or-winner The Class excavates the mindset of another group of awkward, rebellious teenagers, this time in smalltown America in the 1950s. Foxfire is the name given to a secret society of high-school girls determined to fight back against sexual abuse and day-to-day sexism; they are led by the charismatic Legs (Raven Adamson), and include the beefy Goldie (Claire Mazerolle), boy-mad Rita (Madeleine Bisson), and serious-minded Maddy (Katie Coseni), through whose narrative voice we see events proceed. Cantet extracts faultless performances from his cast, most of whom are on a film set for the first time, and evokes the period effortlessly. At well over two hours, Foxfire never feels long; though it unravels...
Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates' teen-empowerment novel, Laurent Cantet's follow up to the Palme d'Or-winner The Class excavates the mindset of another group of awkward, rebellious teenagers, this time in smalltown America in the 1950s. Foxfire is the name given to a secret society of high-school girls determined to fight back against sexual abuse and day-to-day sexism; they are led by the charismatic Legs (Raven Adamson), and include the beefy Goldie (Claire Mazerolle), boy-mad Rita (Madeleine Bisson), and serious-minded Maddy (Katie Coseni), through whose narrative voice we see events proceed. Cantet extracts faultless performances from his cast, most of whom are on a film set for the first time, and evokes the period effortlessly. At well over two hours, Foxfire never feels long; though it unravels...
- 8/8/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
★★☆☆☆ Having bagged the prestigious Palme d'Or prize for his last film, 2008's vérité high school drama The Class, award-winning French director Laurent Cantet returns to selected UK cinemas this week with his new feature, Foxfire (2012). Based on Joyce Carol Oates' novel of the same name, it shares some themes with the director's previous piece, but trades modern France for 1950s America. In place of surly Parisian students, the tale presents an unruly gang of young proto-feminists in patriarchal upstate New York, but sadly fails to craft any particular drama of note, despite it seeming inevitable from the outset.
The pacing plays a decisive role in this aforementioned issue, with Cantet's latest getting off to an engaging start before becoming listless, particularly during the second act; this is hardly helped by a cast of characters that lacks depth outside of the ringleader. It's the sparky 'Legs' (an excellent Raven Adamson...
The pacing plays a decisive role in this aforementioned issue, with Cantet's latest getting off to an engaging start before becoming listless, particularly during the second act; this is hardly helped by a cast of characters that lacks depth outside of the ringleader. It's the sparky 'Legs' (an excellent Raven Adamson...
- 8/8/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Some of the finest ever Hollywood filmmakers have hailed from Europe, with the likes of Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch, to name just two, managing to bring their cultural sensibilities and ingenuity to Tinsel Town, embracing the Hollywood romanticism yet always remaining faithful to their roots. Another filmmaker hoping to join that exclusive list is Laurent Cantet, with his debut English speaking picture Foxfire – his first directorial outing since the Palme d’Or winning The Class. No pressure, eh?
Set in 1950s upstate New York, Foxfire is an adaptation of the renowned Joyce Carol Oates novel, a novel that has already been interpreted on screen, in the 1996 attempt starring Angelina Jolie in the lead role of Legs. In this instance, such a role is taken by Raven Adamson, playing the ringleader in a compulsive and anarchist group of young girls, forming a gang called Foxfire and rebelling against an ultimately sexist society.
Set in 1950s upstate New York, Foxfire is an adaptation of the renowned Joyce Carol Oates novel, a novel that has already been interpreted on screen, in the 1996 attempt starring Angelina Jolie in the lead role of Legs. In this instance, such a role is taken by Raven Adamson, playing the ringleader in a compulsive and anarchist group of young girls, forming a gang called Foxfire and rebelling against an ultimately sexist society.
- 8/5/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bet you forgot about this movie didn't you? First announced back in 2011 and shot the same year, it seems we're going to get a double dose of Chiwetel Ejiofor playing a freed slave in 2013. Of course, he's set to lead the hugely anticipated "12 Years A Slave," but he's also got a co-starring role in the forthcoming indie "Savannah," and the first trailer has arrived to give you a peek at another tale dealing with America's slavery past. Just like in "12 Years A Slave," this is also based on a true story, telling the tale of a freed slave, Christmas Moultrie (Ejifor), who enters a business partnership in the early 1900s with Ward Allen (Jim Caviezel), which leads to complications in a South that is a bit slower to change with the times. Ward and Moultrie must essentially battle to keep running their business, while preserving their friendship and way of life along the Savannah River.
- 7/12/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Tags: Michelle TeaSilas HowardmoviesValenciabooksMovie ReviewsIMDbFrameline
Valencia the book, written by Michelle Tea, was something of a game-changer when it came out in 2000. Encapsulating the glory, the burn out, and the guerilla punk aesthetic of ‘90s queerdom in San Francisco, Valencia captured the literal and metaphoric spunk of an era, which was especially welcome since prior lesbian lit was too often relegated to the pulpy (Rubyfruit Jungle) or the depressing (Well of Loneliness).
Valencia: The Movie/s took the pioneering spirit of the book and gave it a drag queen makeover. Experimental, ambitious, and Big, Valencia brought together a whopping 20 queer filmmakers who each contributed a five to seven minute short (18 total) based on a chapter from the book. Frontlined by Tea and producer/director Hilary Goldberg, some of the filmmakers included Cheryl Dunye, Courtney Trouble, Silas Howard, Michelle Lawler, Samuel Topiary and Cary Cronenwett. Each short stars a different “Michelle” as well,...
Valencia the book, written by Michelle Tea, was something of a game-changer when it came out in 2000. Encapsulating the glory, the burn out, and the guerilla punk aesthetic of ‘90s queerdom in San Francisco, Valencia captured the literal and metaphoric spunk of an era, which was especially welcome since prior lesbian lit was too often relegated to the pulpy (Rubyfruit Jungle) or the depressing (Well of Loneliness).
Valencia: The Movie/s took the pioneering spirit of the book and gave it a drag queen makeover. Experimental, ambitious, and Big, Valencia brought together a whopping 20 queer filmmakers who each contributed a five to seven minute short (18 total) based on a chapter from the book. Frontlined by Tea and producer/director Hilary Goldberg, some of the filmmakers included Cheryl Dunye, Courtney Trouble, Silas Howard, Michelle Lawler, Samuel Topiary and Cary Cronenwett. Each short stars a different “Michelle” as well,...
- 6/25/2013
- by pudcat
- AfterEllen.com
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