In the powerful movie, The Passion of the Christ, chronicling the end of Christ’s life, Jim Caviezel delivers a nuanced, moody performance that doesn’t deny Jesus’ humanity.
As the old adage goes, all publicity is good publicity, at least until it starts to threaten the bottom line. Over the decades, quite a few stars have found out, often to their chagrin, that there is a limit to the sorts of bad behaviors that studios and directors will tolerate in their talent.
The cinema has long been fascinated with the issue of religion, and it has been particularly interested in faith figures — the men and women who, in one way or another, have inspired the masses. Indeed, the very best of such films help shed light on how the moving image can be a mode of devotion.
The Continental, a 1970s-set prequel to the John Wick action franchise, is a fast-moving, stylish thrill ride. Named for the Wick-verse’s global hotel
Check into The Continental , the explosive prequel to the John Wick action film franchise. Named for the Wickaverse’s global hotel chain for assassins, this stylish three-part series (dropping weekly in roughly 90-minute installments) drills into the brutal 1970s-era fight to control the New York City location.
“The suit doesn’t make a man; it’s what’s inside the suit that counts,” it states in the opening narration of The Continental‘s official trailer.
More than anything else, the best movies about American history allow for a keener, more complex understanding of how those living in the present make sense of what has come before as they try to figure out where to go in the future.
Though films and TV series about the Middle Ages do not always attract the same level of love and critical praise as those set in other periods of history, there are still a number of notable films and TV series which take the period as their setting.
The sentiment of "what could have been..." in Hollywood is always a fun discussion for movie fans to hold. What if this person played that role? Or, why did they not take such an iconic part?
M. Night Shyamalan's body of work is a bit like one of his films. There are plot twists, disasters, and moments of hope, and you never know what you'll get when you press play.
We wouldn’t want to work with them, but we don’t have to. Instead, the pain of others becomes our enjoyment. These are 20 of the worst coworkers in film history.
Winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards is huge for any director. When your movie wins Best Picture, people will keep an eye on your next film. These are the most interesting follow-up films from directors coming off a Best Picture win.
Acting success does not always lead to directing success, but sometimes it decidedly does. Here are actors who got behind the camera and found that they had a knack for it.
As LFO told us, “Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets.” However, William Shakespeare wrote some plays as well, and many of his plays have been turned into movies.
Mel Gibson let some big news slip about Lethal Weapon 5 during an event in London over the weekend.
Asghari and Spears announced their engagement Sept. 12. They first met while filming Spears' "Slumber Party" music video in late 2016.
The Continental just landed a monumental star.
Watching movies is a gamble. You take a risk every time you buy a ticket at the theater, or queue up a movie from your couch. Will it be worth the 13 bucks?
Here are some characters who have appeared in film and television but were portrayed by different actors.
The twenty-five movies on this list eschew such half-measures. They go hard. They leave you battered, if not completely broken. So pull out a box of tissues, and let's relive some of the most traumatizing endings of all time.
It’s a war epic with massive star power, perhaps the last war film to also serve as a real crowd-pleaser (even if it was also brutal at times). Here are some facts you might not know about Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.
Whether or not you’re a fan, we’ve decided to rank all of the movies that Howard has directed in his illustrious career.
The holiday season is about different things to different people. There’s shopping, food, family, and, of course, films. There are many movies set over the holiday season, which we are defining as being between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.
On the 20th anniversary of perhaps the greatest film about journalism ever made, Michael Mann's "The Insider," let's take a stroll through the past and celebrate the best films about an underappreciated yet vital profession.
We’ve found 10 reboots in the world of movies that we think paid off and 10 that we wish had been relegated to nothing more than a thought experiment.
On March 4, Jimmy Kimmel will host the 90th Academy Awards. Best case scenario, everyone will be talking about the night’s biggest winners and their speeches the following morning, and the late night talk show host will be nothing but an afterthought.
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