Simon Ridgway/BBC Actor James McAvoy is a confessed Trekkie. On During a video interview with the “Happy. Sad. Confused.” podcast, the actor noted that he watched reruns of “Star Trek: The Original Series” when he was a boy, mostly because of its ubiquity. “Star Trek” reruns were common…
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CBS Some sitcom actors only ever get one really great role, but Jim Backus had several. The actor, who played wealthy Wall Street regular Thurston Howell III on the popular castaway series “Gilligan’s Island,” had already made a name for himself by the show’s premiere in 1964. He’d…
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Paramount Pictures While there are those who will sigh at the mere mention of Autobots and/or Decepticons these days, there is no denying that “Transformers” has been one of the most successful franchises of the past 20 years. Dating back to Michael Bay’s original 2007 live-action film, the…
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Shudder/Universal Horror films have always been a way to interrogate the anxieties of a time, society, or culture and reflect them to the viewer — like a twisted funhouse mirror. Fear is a universal emotion and history is known to repeat itself, so horror is a genre filled…
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Universal Pictures Joaquin Phoenix’s loss was James McAvoy’s gain. The latter is now starring in Blumhouse’s retelling of the 2022 Danish horror film “Speak No Evil” (which our own BJ Colangelo reviewed and praised, calling it “an assault of relentless tension and the best possible outcome for an…
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HBO What really happened after the cut to black at the end of “The Sopranos”? It’s a question that’s plagued fans of the HBO mob drama for close to two decades now, but it sometimes seems like a question without an answer. The abrupt end to Tony Soprano’s…
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For James McAvoy, acting in the remake of Speak No Evil gave him a better understanding of how men are being radicalized online. Here's our interview with him.
Netflix Back in the spring of 2023, “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega said on a podcast that she personally rewrote some parts of the Netflix show’s script that she didn’t think quite worked. So, what do the show’s creators think about that? Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who created…
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Helen Sloan/HBO For eight seasons of “Game of Thrones,” actor Peter Dinklage embodied one of the smartest, most politically-savvy figures of the entire series in Tyrion Lannister. His popularity among fans largely stemmed from his sarcastic sense of humor, some epic monologues (this one from his trial in…
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Static Media It’s hard to imagine “Smallville” being as successful as it was without Tom Welling. The man made Superman feel more human than arguably any other actor, portraying his journey through adolescence in such a way that he’s come to represent the finest on-screen Clark Kent yet….
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