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Paramount+ is ready with an entertainment-packed May this year. The upcoming month will see the premiere of the much-anticipated new season of Showtime’s The Chi and the return of Paramount+’s Criminal Minds. Just like every month, Paramount+ is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 7 best movies and TV shows coming to Paramount+ in May 2025.

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Just Friends (May 1) Credit – New Line Cinema

Just Friends is a Christmas romantic dark comedy film directed by Roger Kumble from a screenplay by Adam ‘Tex’ Davis. The 2005 film follows Chris Brander, a formerly obese high schooler who goes through a transformation, and when he returns to his hometown, he tries to get back his former best friend and crush,...

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Hulu is one of the most underrated streaming services, even though it has some of the most brilliant movies in its library. The Disney-owned streaming service is one of the most profitable streaming services as it has great indie films because it is partnered up with great independent studios as well as some of the biggest blockbusters around. So, we compiled a list of the best movies that are available on Hulu right now.

The Truman Show Credit – Paramount Pictures

The Truman Show is a psychological comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Andrew Niccol. The 1998 film follows the life of Truman Burbank, who doesn’t know that his whole life has been filmed and broadcasted to the whole world on reality television, but now he has begun to see some cracks in his life.

Man, oh, man. It’s impossible to overstate the monumental loss the filmgoing world suffered with David Lynch’s passing on January 15, 2025. A true artistic visionary and singular voice who made movies unlike anyone before or since, the often imitated, never emulated surrealist filmmaker deserves a special place in the pantheon of all-time greats. Whether Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, or Mulholland Drive, few filmmakers plumbed the subconscious and unconscious the way Lynch did, tapping into his own personal psychological state to lend the world a collection of cinematic nightmares that continue to awe, inspire, haunt, and speak to countless fans worldwide.

As we bid a fond farewell to the undisputed master of celluloid dreams and nightmares, it only seems right to take a closer look at Lynch’s tenth and final feature film, Inland Empire, inarguably the most auteur-driven, experimental, and...

A magazine article from 1979 reveals that an Alien prequel, “telling the tale of the space jockey” was first discussed over 45 years ago.

After a lengthy absence, director Ridley Scott finally returned to the Alien series with Prometheus. A prequel to Scott’s 1979 original, it rather controversially explored the origins of the space jockey – the nickname given to the long-dead, humanoid creature so memorably glimpsed in the first film.

Remarkably, though, the idea of making a prequel is almost as old as Alien itself. When the first film became a major box office success at the end of the 1970s, studio 20th Century Fox immediately made plans for a sequel – what eventually became Aliens, directed by James Cameron and released in 1986.

As an article in a 1979 magazine makes plain, however, a number of concepts and ideas were being batted around at Fox in the months after Alien’s release. Many of...

Gene Hackman was an American original: an everyman actor with unremarkable physical features who became exceptional through the sheer force of his authenticity. Actors can drive themselves nuts trying to be believable, to simply inhabit a scene as a human being with sincere purpose, but Hackman was only ever genuine. He was also prolific, which means that his gift was occasionally squandered in some less-than-stellar films, but we watched them anyway because the promise of a new Hackman performance was worth the time. Now that he's left us for good at the age of 95, those hours we spent watching dreck like "Loose Cannons" or "The Replacements" hardly feel like a waste.

Hackman appeared in all kinds of movies, and excelled at so many different types of roles that he was never closely associated with one particular genre. But there was something about Westerns that perfectly suited his unfussy performance style.

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This March, Hulu is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the wacky crime comedy series Deli Boys to the much-anticipated streaming release of Anora. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Hulu this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the ten best films that are coming to Hulu in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

High Fidelity (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Credit – Touchstone Pictures

High Fidelity is a romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay co-written by D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack, and Scott Rosenberg. Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, the 2000 film follows Rob, a record store owner who has been unlucky in relationships. However, his bad luck might...

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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in March 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the 13 best movies coming to Shudder in March 2025.

Army of Darkness (March 1) Credit – Universal Pictures

Army of Darkness is a dark fantasy horror comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Ivan Raimi. The 1992 film is the third installment in the Evil Dead franchise, and it follows Ash Williams as he is transported to the Middle Ages and must fight the undead to go back to his time.

In Natesh Hegde’s “Tiger’s Pond,” an idyllic south Indian hamlet reveals treacherous political depths. However, despite its measured and deliberate vistas, the movie’s loosely tethered narrative comes undone. Its textures may be alluring, even haunting at times, but its restraint ultimately proves sanitizing when its story ought to feel more visceral, if only to capture the ghoulishness — the physical and emotional violence — lurking beneath its pristine surface.

Achyut Kumar plays Prabhu, a pitiless small-town businessman running for local office with the help of his right-hand enforcer, Malabari (Dileesh Pothan). Unbeknownst to them, the duo’s professional and personal entanglements have long been crisscrossed. Prabhu’s diligent younger brother Venkati (Natesh) plans to marry Malabari’s sister Devaki (Bindu Raxidi), but the caste inequity between their families is sure to eventually rear its head.

This impending personal implosion is just one of several parallel threads that never fully coalesce.

Since 1975 nearly a thousand hosts have graced the stage at Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center for “Saturday Night Live.”

Actors, comedians, musicians and even politicians have taken the stage to make America laugh on Saturday night for 50 seasons. Twenty five of these hosts have been inducted into the “Five Timers Club.” The club was first introduced during Tom Hanks’ 1990 monologue, featuring Steve Martin, Elliott Gould and Paul Simon.

During Martin Short’s December 2024 appearance, several Five Timers Club members popped up on the show to welcome him into the club, including Emma Stone, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig and more, to give him the ceremonial robe.

Alec Baldwin has hosted the show 17 times, the most in the series’ history, with Martin, Hanks, Buck Henry and John Goodman following close behind.

As the show celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, we have rounded up every person who has hosted the sketch show.

The Green Mile, a supernatural prison drama from 1999, is finding new life on the free streaming service Tubi. The Stephen King adaptation stars Tom Hanks in one of his genuinely underrated performances. The film currently sits at the third spot on Tubi's Top 10 list of the service's most-watched films.

Written and directed by Frank Darabont, The Green Mile follows a group of prison guards working at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row, or as everyone calls it, "The Green Mile." Led by Officer Paul Edgecomb (Hanks), the group receives John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a new inmate who has been sentenced to death for a horrible crime. Coffey doesn't behave like a murderer and claims that he's innocent. Edgecomb eventually realizes that the convict even possesses an extraordinary power to heal people. But we'll leave it at that for those who still haven't seen this classic, as we'd rather not spoil it for you.

We’ve discussed John Carpenter on this channel as much or more than nearly any other director. Some of his movies, like The Thing, have gotten a different type of show appreciation via discussions on its behind the scenes in a Wtf, a comparison with its novella source material, and a look at what its legacy is in a Deconstructing video, amongst a few others. Looking at his catalogue, there is a wealth of stuff that is firmly in the horror realm from Christine to In the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness to Halloween. While he has some movies that are outside that wheelhouse like the western homage Assault on Precinct 13 or Academy Award winning sci-fi drama Starman, Escape from New York is something special. In addition to being one of my favorite films of all time, full stop, it’s also sneaky in its ability to horrify. While...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, read the Bait: a weird and wonderful pick from any time in film. Then, try the Bite: a breakdown of the movie’s ending, impact, and any other spoilers you’d want.

The Bait: A Lynchian Language Barrier and a Break from Sadness

To steal from a popular meme this week, January has been the longest year of the month.

With Los Angeles still burning in the background, David Lynch died a few weeks ago — from complications of emphysema at 78 — and Hollywood went into sudden and deep mourning. Even against a steady stream of more bad news, tributes to the late filmmaker are still going strong.

From “Eraserhead” to “Inland Empire,” the beloved director was a quintessential and divisive voice of midnight movie culture, one whose surreal embrace of...

Actor Michael Biehn has a podcast called Just Foolin About with Michael Biehn, which can be found on YouTube. Biehn’s latest guest was Veronica Cartwright, who ran into the alien xenomorph in the 1979 film Alien, seven years before Biehn had his own close encounter with the nasty creatures in Aliens. The full, 95 minute episode can be viewed at This Link – but to promote the episode, Biehn has dropped a 13 minute clip that shows Cartwright talking about the experience of working on Alien, including her reaction to the famous chestburster scene. You can check it out in the embed above.

Here’s the clip’s official description: Veronica Cartwright tells Michael Biehn about her time working on and filming Alien. She goes on to shed some light on whether or not the cast was truly unaware of what was about to happen in the iconic chestburster scene, and how genuine her reaction was.

FX has released a new teaser for its all-new Original TV series Alien: Earth, which will premiere this summer on Hulu and with Hulu on Disney+. New key art for the series was also revealed.

When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s Alien: Earth, from creator Noah Hawley.

Alien: Earth is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto.

Lead by Chandler, the series showcases an expansive international cast that includes Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille and Moe Bar-El.

Just as he was on the cusp of international superstardom thanks to The X-Files, David Duchovny was a relatively unknown actor taking what many might call a big risk — playing a trans woman in a surrealist TV series in 1990. 35 years ago, that kind of performance could have easily been insulting and one-dimensional, but Twin Peaks was a different kind of show, and Duchovny was a different kind of actor.

Created by Mark Frost and David Lynch, Twin Peaks embraced queerness in many ways, just like much of Lynch's work, and Duchovny's character of Denise Bryson, a former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent who later becomes the FBI's Chief of Staff, was an important stepping stone in representation. With the death of David Lynch on Jan. 15, 2025, some members of the LGBTQ+ community were paying tribute to Lynch through the form of Duchovny's character, and through a specific line of dialogue in Twin Peaks: The Return,...

Tom Cruise was married to three beautiful actresses and he dated several others after he entered the film field. However, fans always wondered who the lucky girl whom Cruise first dated would be. According to a recent report, Louisville-based Laurie Hobbs claimed to be the Mission: Impossible actor’s first kiss.

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Fallout | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Hobbs shared that they dated for a few months as teenagers until he moved to a different place. Cruise and Hobbs were reportedly both 15 at the time and he attended the St. Xavier High School. It was a miracle that he found the time to date as his family kept moving places when he was young. Cruise attended 15 schools in 14 years.

Tom Cruise’s alleged first love Laurie Hobbs spills some details Tom Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia | Credits: New Line Cinema

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Director David Lynch died at the age of 78, his family announced, on Jan. 16, but that did not stop his longtime friend and collaborator Oscar-winner Laura Dern from celebrating what would have been the iconic filmmaker’s 79th birthday on Jan. 20. Dern, who appeared in Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) at the age of 17, posted a tribute to Lynch via her Instagram account.

“Happy birthday, tidbit,” wrote the Jurassic Park star in the caption under the picture. “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life,” she added.

In addition to Blue Velvet, Dern appeared in Lynch’s 1990 film, Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe, and again teamed up with Lynch and Cage in Industrial Symphony No. 1, which was an artistic concert performance. Dern also appeared in Lynch’s 2006 feature, Inland Empire, and in the 2017 Twin Peaks revival.

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David Lynch as a man and creative force is impossible to describe, as he's an enigma wrapped in cosmic brilliance that we can only pretend we were worthy enough to understand. The legend departed our mortal plane at the age of 78, leaving a legacy of inimitable cinematic, television, and storytelling achievements, where even his "worst" film is better than the average filmmaker's very best. His 2007 film "David Lynch Cooks Quinoa" is one of the most captivating works of short-form filmmaking, and it's legitimately just a video of the famed director doing exactly as the title says — cooking quinoa.

He's a creative force so singular and unique that his work helped us make sense of our own existence. His auteur perspective on the world around us was so distinct that we had to invent the term "Lynchian" before we could even dare attempt to wrap our heads around it. He inspired...

The late David Lynch was always best known for his fascination with the grotesque. Although Lynch never considered himself a surrealist, his films often stretched into the surreal, presenting a dark, bent version of reality where only dream logic applies. His debut feature, "Eraserhead," he once described as "a dream of dark and troubling things." Many celebrated his controversial 1986 neo-noir "Blue Velvet," a film that is full of murder, kink, and aggressive sexuality. He deconstructed soap opera dynamics with his somnambulistic TV series (and subsequent feature film version of) "Twin Peaks," went on a lusty crime spree with "Wild at Heart," and made a shadowy contemplation of shifting identities with his porn-inflected 1997 flick "Lost Highway."

Then, in 1999, Lynch did the strangest thing he could have possibly done. He made a G-rated biographical movie for the Disney company.

For "The Straight Story," Lynch eschewed his usual obsessions with sex, death, and violence,...

Isabella Rossellini, who had her breakout role in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” and went on to date the man for five years, paid tribute to the late director following his death.

“I loved him so much. Thanks for all your kind messages,” Rossellini wrote on Instagram on Friday morning, posting a photo of her with Lynch.

Also starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern, the neo-noir mystery film “Blue Velvet” premiered in 1986 and follows a college student who returns home to see his ill father only to stumble upon a vast criminal conspiracy. Despite mixed reviews from critics, the movie earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director. It was later credited as establishing Rossellini as a serious actor after her work as a model.

The two collaborated again four years later on 1990’s “Wild at Heart.” Also starring Dern in addition to Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe,...

David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker who died Thursday at 78, months after revealing he had been diagnosed with emphysema as a lifetime smoker, was such an essential figure in the history of cinema that he had his own adjective: Lynchian. The term describes works that share characteristics with some of his most memorable creations.

Lynch’s work was unmistakable. “I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade,” Steven Spielberg, who cast Lynch to play John Ford in The Fabelmans, said in the aftermath of his friend’s death. It’s a sentiment shared widely on social media over the last several hours.

In movies like 1986’s Blue Velvet, 1997’s Lost Highway, and 2001’s Mulholland Drive — not to mention the 1990s ABC TV drama Twin Peaks — Lynch portrayed a mundane America of seemingly pastoral splendor undercut by stupefaction and terror.

Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, and Kyle MacLachlan are among the prominent figures paying tribute to David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday.

“I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade,” Spielberg said in a statement. “I got to know David when he played John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes — David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time, and they always will.”

Cage, who starred in Lynch’s Wild at Heart, called Lynch “a singular genius in cinema, one of the greatest artists of this or any time. He was brave, brilliant, and...

Nicolas Cage reflected on the passing of David Lynch, calling the Wild At Heart director 'solid gold.' Lynch's family confirmed the filmmaker had died aged 78 earlier today.

Cage was the star of Lynch's 1990 black comedy road trip film Wild at Heart, and he recalled his time working with the famed director to Deadline, describing Lynch as "a singular genius in cinema, one of the greatest artists of this or any time." Cage went on to talk about his experience on the set of Wild at Heart. "He was brave, brilliant, and a maverick with a joyful sense of humor. I never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch. He will always be solid gold."

Related 'We Had No Digital Effects in Those Days': Ridley Scott Recalls Biggest Fears Filming Alien

Director Ridley Scott talks about the challenges of filming the iconic sci-fi horror...

Ridley Scott recently revealed some of his biggest fears he encountered while filming the iconic 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien. He also talked about his concerns with the franchise's Xenomorph villain.

In a video with GQ, Scott talked about his process working on the original Alien movie, and how he was afraid that the movie wouldn't have enough scares. "Don’t forget, we had no digital effects in those days," he said. "Nothing. And so backdrops have to be painted, and I have to find a very tall, thin man to squeeze into a rubber suit. And therefore, when you do that, you can shoot very little, show as little as possible, because it doesn’t really hold up."

Related 'I Hate That So Much': VFX Artist Laments Ridley Scott Cutting Back CGI on 1 Major Moment in Prometheus

Ridley Scott's Prometheus removed CGI for one character's crucial transformation, and VFX artists...

Exclusive: The star of David Lynch’s Palme d’Or winning 1990 road trip bender, Wild at Heart, Nicolas Cage tells us that the late filmmaker who died today, “was a singular genius in cinema, one of the greatest artists of this or any time.”

“He was brave, brilliant, and a maverick with a joyful sense of humor,” Cage continues, “I never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch. He will always be solid gold.”

In the movie, which was shot in New Orleans and Louisiana, Cage plays an Elvis-like character, Sailor, an ex-con, recently from prison who reunites with the love of his life, Lula, played by Laura Dern, who broke out in Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The problem in their lives remains Lula’s notorious mother (played by Dern’s real life mom Diane Ladd) who sends hitman and detectives on Sailor and Lula...

While the late David Lynch made an inimitable and indelible mark on cinema from the director’s chair, his final big-screen contribution came in front of the camera with an unforgettable cameo in The Fabelmans.

In Steven Spielberg’s 2022 semi-autobiographical film, Lynch appears toward the end of the movie as another legendary filmmaker, John Ford, who is visited by an aspiring young filmmaker.

While just a cameo, Lynch-as-Ford steals every second of the scene and distills the entire art of filmmaking with one piece of advice: “When the horizons at the bottom,...

Ridley Scott is one of the most accomplished filmmakers of all time. Even though he didn't direct his first feature film until he was 40 years old, which is older than most filmmakers, he has directed an impressive 29 films. His debut feature, The Duelists, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, which set the stage for his incredibly successful career. Some of Ridley Scott's best movies include Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, Gladiator, and its recently released sequel, Gladiator II.

These films prove that Scott is one of the most talented directors of his generation. Most of his movies are incredibly ambitious, large-scale genre films. He has made several historical epics but has also continuously shown interest in the science fiction genre. Scott's first two sci-fi films are actually commonly recognized as two of the best science-fiction movies of all time. His second film...

A Time for Killing is a 1967 Western film that is more of a grim look at war and revenge than it is a rollicking shootout in the American frontier. Also known as The Long Ride Home, A Time For Killing is a Civil War Western set in a Union prisoner-of-war camp near the Mexican border where Major Tom Wolcott (Glenn Ford) is in charge of an inept group of Union guards and scheming Confederate prisoners. The prisoners are led by Captain Dorrit Bentley (George Hamilton), a Southern gentleman who is not as gallant as he would like to believe.

Along with being Harrison Ford's first credited movie role as Lt. Shaffer, A Time for Killing is best known for switching directors early in production. The film was first set to be directed by B-movie legend, Roger Corman, who left after reported fights with Columbia Studios, who grew frustrated with...

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This January, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the intense biographical thriller series Lockerbie: A Search For Truth to the return of the hit British reality series The Traitors. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in January 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Alien (January 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – 20th Century Fox

Alien is a sci-fi horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon. The 1979 film follows the crew of a spacecraft that intercepts a distress signal from a planet. They soon set out to investigate, but they are attacked by an alien entity that invades their ship.

Paris, Texas, spine #501, is now available on 4K in the Criterion Collection.

Wim Wenders sprawling masterpiece receives a well-deserved 4K update this month from the Criterion Collection. Part mystery, part neo-western and part road trip movie, Paris, Texas is a beautiful depiction of love, loss and the American west.

Related The 100 Greatest Movies of All-Time Paris, Texas plot

Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) wonders out of the desert after being missing for years. He seemingly has no idea who he is or where he’s been. He’s reunited with his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell), whose been raising Travis’ young son. Travis’ surprising reappearance causes the lives of those around him to be thrown into disarray as he slowly begins to piece his former life back together.

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The cinematography, consisting of wide shots, vacant landscapes and minimalist imagery, gives Paris, Texas a distinct visual style that perfectly compliments...

Prolific horror author Stephen King has written a vast number of novels and short stories, many of which have been made into film and TV adaptations. There are some truly great ones, like Mike Flanagan's "Gerald's Game" and "Doctor Sleep," and then there are the not-so-great ones, like the awful cell-phone zombie movie "Cell" and the critically panned but mostly forgettable "Graveyard Shift."

One has to wonder how King himself feels about all of these adaptations. Well, except maybe for "The Shining," because King has made his feelings about Stanley Kubrick's adaptation crystal clear. (He hates it. Like really, really hates it.)

While promoting the film adaptation of "Dreamcatcher" in 2003, King revealed that he also wasn't so hot on another film version of one of his books, even though it was directed by master of horror John Carpenter. The 1983 movie "Christine" apparently "bored" King just as much as "The Shining" did,...

From its Southwestern skyscraper surfaces to its bush- and junk car-pocked bedrock, there’s something slightly off-kilter about the America of Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas. The solidly masculine cast is nothing if not indigenous: For one, when the sun-punched Travis Henderson, played by Harry Dean Stanton, first stumbles into frame, his uncultivated, hirsute face and dusty red cap seem like natural geological formations that have been patiently waiting, cragged and craterous, for us to anticlimactically discover them. And the relationship-oriented, plot-shunning dialogue by multihyphenate creative Sam Shepherd taps into dialectal heartbrokenness without a shred of disassociating local lingo.

But there are tellingly alien factors out there. How did Travis and his brother Walt (Dean Stockwell) wind up with women who drip sophisticated European sex appeal from their ripe lips and honey hair? And why does every truck stop along highway 10 emit the same sickly green aura that glows like a clumsy,...

Ridley Scott has never been one to hold back on criticizing something he doesnt like, or feels could be done betterand his candid views even extend to his own failings with the Alien franchise. While speaking to Deadline, the director reflected on the 45-year-old sci-fi horror saga, and how he partly takes responsibility for the franchise's failings.

In 1979, Scott created a sci-fi masterpiece with Alien, a claustrophobic horror movie that held back on excessive action and gore, but delivered a tense and unforgettable cinematic experience. However, when the second movie was released in 1986 under the simple title of Aliens, it was James Cameron behind the camera, and the movie he delivered was completely different to Scotts tight, closed in original. During his interview, Scott explained that after Aliens, things began to head south. He recalled:

"Jims was a very good sequel. Three and four became more and more difficult. As it unrolled,...

The early years of Saturday Night Live weren’t exactly the most sober. In retrospect, Lorne Michaels probably should have credited a giant baggy of cocaine as one of the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players.” But even though the cast was far from clear-headed, an early host’s drinking problem was so severe that it nearly derailed the entire show.

During its second season in March of 1977, SNL featured host Broderick Crawford, the legendary actor best known for his Oscar-winning performance in All the King’s Men.

Unfortunately, Crawford was a severe alcoholic, whose drinking became so bad that he was “arrested several times for DUI.” Oddly enough, this happened while he was working on the TV cop show Highway Patrol.

In a recent interview with The A.V. Club, Dan Aykroyd was asked about the one and only time that Crawford hosted SNL. Aykroyd recounted that Michaels begged Crawford to...

Legendary director and producer Ridley Scott is reportedly developing a new Alien movie. After the success of this years Alien: Romulus, the Hollywood Reporter revealed that Scott and his Scott Free Productions company are developing a new movie in the franchise for 20th Century Studios.

Alien: Romulus, produced by Scott and his production company, earned $350 million this year worldwide. It remains to be seen if Scotts new Alien venture will be a sequel to Romulus. For his role as a producer on Romulus, Scott, who is known for directing such epic films as not only Alien (1979), but Blade Runner (1982) and Gladiator (2000) and its upcoming sequel, Gladiator II, saw himself as a guiding force for the films director Fede lvarez.

Related Ridley Scotts $218 Million Historical Epic Comes to Prime Video in November

A historical epic from Gladiator franchise director Ridley Scott is coming to Prime Video ahead of Gladiator II's debut in theaters.

It’s shaping up to be a Huston family Christmas.

Siblings and Hollywood royalty Anjelica and Danny Huston are teaming on a new project, The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana, a hybrid animated and live-action feature film that is currently shooting in Los Angeles and Ontario, Canada.

HighballTV confirmed the details of the film, which was written by David James Brock and HighballTV’s Melissa D’Agostino based on an idea they conceived with Matt Campagna who is also directing with D’Agostino, a frequent creative partner. Johnathan Sharp is producing.

The plot follows a peculiar court case that unspools after the children in a rural Italian village kidnap their legendary Christmas witch, played by Huston, and put her on trial in an attempt to stop her annual judgment from their lives. While casting a spell through witches, fantasy and Italian folklore, the project is said to touch on universal themes of grief,...

Tom Cruise has always embraced risks, almost as if he’s married to the thrill of it. So, it’s no surprise that stories of his risky businesses from the set of Risky Business continue to captivate our attention. The film that launched Cruise into superstardom, was marked by more than just that, as it is also still discussed thanks to his steamy affair with co-star Rebecca De Mornay.

Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise in Risky Business | Credits: Warner Bros.

However, the romance was not without drama, reportedly leading to the end of one Hollywood couple. Here is what all went on behind the scenes!

Inside the Risky Business Behind the Scenes with Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise!

Even after four decades, Risky Business still has fans buzzing with behind-the-scenes gossip, particularly about the rumored romance between Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. The duo met while filming the 1983 classic.

Many of us, whether in the entertainment business or outside of it, choose lives that are constantly on the move with goal after goal being strived for, barely taking a day or even a moment for slowing down to enjoy the sweetness of living. Today’s movies reflect a similar state of mind as many of our favorite protagonists are highly motivated to achieve ambitious dreams, often losing relationships and sanity over their seemingly impossible ends. As if in response to this, Wim Wenders’ newest film 'Perfect Days' (2023) follows a character who acts as the opposite. Shot on location in Tokyo Japan with legendary Japanese star Koji Yakusho giving an award winning performance, Wim Wenders’ newest film, 'Perfect Days' brings a slice of life treat to the modern era of world cinema that is in parts delightful and endearing, other parts somber and thoughtful, and overall encompassed by a feeling...

Rebecca De Mornay played the call girl Lana in Risky Business, where she meets the high school senior, played by Tom Cruise. The 1983 film is considered to be the breakout role of Cruise, and he shared some pretty steamy scenes with De Mornay. Interestingly, the two began an affair on set, despite De Mornay being in a relationship with actor Harry Dean Stanton at the time.

Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise in Risky Business | Credits: Warner Bros.

The affair didn’t last long even after De Mornay broke things off with Stanton. Soon after her Risky Business success, things started falling apart for the actress including her relationship with Cruise. She took the role in the romcom The Slugger’s Wife, which turned out to be a disaster.

Rebecca De Mornay’s Life Fell Apart After Risky Business and Tom Cruise Affair Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business | Credits: Warner Bros.

Kris Kristofferson has sadly passed away at the age of 88, leaving behind an incredible legacy as a singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes Scholar, football player, boxer, firefighter, and Army Ranger helicopter pilot.

According to reports, Kristofferson died peacefully in his home in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday, September 28.

“We’re all so blessed for our time with him,” members of his family said in a statement. “Thank you for loving him all these many years, and when you see a rainbow, know he’s smiling down at us all.”

Kristofferson was already well on his way to becoming a Country Music superstar when he made his acting debut in Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie (1971), before going on to appear in the likes of Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Michael Cimino's Heaven’s Gate (1980), John Sayles’ Lone Star (1996), Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), and the first...

The utter weirdness of Alex Cox’s remarkable debut—a document of L.A.’s hardcore punk scene that’s also an ode to its car culture, a critique of the American middle class, and a kind-of sci-fi comedy about a radioactive Chevy Malibu—would seem to preclude its existence. And yet here it is. Forty years later, Repo Man is no worse for the wear. Not so much ahead of its time as outside of it, the film’s L.A. punk particularities have broadened over the years. Its ennui has endured not just as a portrait of a certain generation of angry adolescents, but as one of angry adolescence writ large. In a way, the film’s timelessness has always been assured by Cox’s restless protagonist, Emilio Estevez’s suburban punk-cum-repossession agent Otto, who’s always seemed like a bit of a nonentity.

As much as Repo Man...

For those who like a good dose of honesty and chaos, the 1984 punk cult classic debut from Alex Cox, Repo Man is out in a 4K/Blu-ray combo. The release is beautiful; from the physical booklet to the actual restoration, this is a release you’ll want to pick up. Repo Man follows the raucous Bud, played by the legendary Harry Dean Stanton, Rip. He takes young punk Otto (a young Emilio Estevez) under his wing, and together, the two of them are nihilistic urban cowboys on the brink of annihilation, of both themselves and the other criminals and punks they collide with in Los Angeles. Otto and Bud get into trouble ¾ a lot. They fight...

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Looks like cinephiles will need to make a little more space on their shelves. As has become customary, The Criterion Collection announced its four upcoming December releases today, and you may just need to make room for all of them on your holiday shopping lists. First up, set to be available on December 3, the new 4K restoration of Wim Wenders’ Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece “Paris, Texas,” starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, and Nastassja Kinski.

In his 1984 review of the reflective western drama, film critic Roger Ebert wrote, “‘Paris, Texas’ is a movie with the kind of passion and willingness to experiment that was more common fifteen years ago than it is now. It has more links with films like ‘Five Easy Pieces’ and ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ than with the slick arcade games that are the box-office winners of the 1980s. It is true, deep, and brilliant.”

On...

December is a time to celebrate the holidays, right? Well, then what better way to celebrate than buying yourself some incredible Criterion disks? Criterion clearly knows December is a gift-giving time, as the company has a stellar lineup of disks coming our way at the end of the year.

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Leading the way is “Paris, Texas,” Wim Wenders’ incredible 1984 film starring Harry Dean Stanton.

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The purpose of test screenings is to give filmmakers insight into how their movie will be received and the chance to make some major changes if the screening is awful. Movie endings have been greatly improved by test screenings in Hollywood history; it is essentially the opportunity for one last do-over if something about the movie is going to ruin its chances. While it might seem like cheating, test audiences have doubtlessly saved some famous movies.

Test audiences often had something to do with alternate movie endings that thankfully didn't happen, pointing out the flaws with a conclusion that would have confused people. Even some of the best movies of all time were changed at the last minute because of screen testing, resulting in the cinematic staple beloved by movie fans today. Test audiences might be evidence of the commercial interests of Hollywood, but they have been cemented as a...

Ridley Scott recently recalled mistakenly believing that the Alien franchise died after Alien: Resurrection. While speaking with Total Film, Scott who worked as executive producer on the recently released Alien: Romulus reflected on how there was a time after the release of the 1997 sequel when he didnt think there were any legs left in the sci-fi horror saga.

Alien R HorrorAction Sci-FiThriller Release Date May 25, 1979Director Ridley ScottCast Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian HolmRuntime 117Main Genre HorrorWriters Dan O'Bannon, Ronald ShusettTagline In space...no one can hear you scream.Website http://www.alien-movies.com/Franchise Alien Expand

Alien: Romulus has proven that even now, over 25 years after the release of Alien: Resurrection, there is still plenty for the Alien movies to give with the right combination of story and purpose as well as a great creature, obviously. For Scott, that creature was always...

Despite the critical and commercial success of the Alien movie, the movie's director, Ridley Scott, was not asked to direct the sequel, Aliens. Alien was released by 20th Century Fox in 1979 and starred Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holmes, and Yaphet Kotto. The sci-fi horror movie followed the commercial spaceship Nostromo's crew as they battled a deadly Xenomorph that quickly decimated the crew, leaving one survivor, Ellen Ripley (Weaver). Scott's formative influence on this now iconic plot was notably lacking in Aliens.

Alien's original script was co-created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shushett (who penned the screenplay for Total Recall). According to an article in Variety, when it came time to hire a director for the first movie in the franchise, Scott was the producers' fourth choice. After they saw Ridley's first feature-length movie, The Duelists (1977), which won the Cannes...

Any kid who ever dreamed of striding the boards, meticulously prepping for their glamorous on-camera close-up, or adorning the walls of teenagers all over the world as the most fetching heartthrob on the planet, did not entertain for a second that steady work as less-than-studly screen presence like M Emmet Walsh could be its own gloriously gruff reward. If you were born with a face that looked like it went 12 rounds with Sonny Liston before exiting the birth canal, or walked in heels like they were a pair of Carhartts, you're probably destined to be a working stiff like the rest of us for the remainder of your life.

And there is dignity in this. There is meaning. And not to get your hopes up too high, but if you can strut across the stage like you were born to it, hold the gaze of a camera, or fire off one-liners with buffoonish aplomb,...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Ben Cooper Costume Figures from Neca

As previewed at San Diego Comic-Con, Neca is adding four new characters to its Ben Cooper Costume action figure line: Alien‘s Xenomorph, Gremlins‘ Gizmo and Stripe, and Beetlejuice (based on the animated series).

Each 6″ toy is outfitted in retro-inspired soft goods clothing and comes with a trick or treat bag. They’re packaged in numbered window boxes. Due out in October, the set of four is available for $79.99.

Escape from New York Steelbook 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

Escape from New York will be released on SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray with artwork by Orlando Arocena on November 5 via Scream Factory. The 1981 post-apocalyptic action film been restored in...

Is there a more entertainingly batshit movie from the ‘80s than Repo Man?

English filmmaker Alex Cox’s 1984 directorial debut is a satirical black comedy set in a version of Los Angeles (undoubtedly inspired by Cox’s years studying film at UCLA) where the food—even the alcohol—is blandly,...