Superhero movies are a pretty divisive genre. While they consistently rake up tons of money at the box office and (at least for the MCU) positive critical attention, audiences rarely agree on how good the movies are. In particular, the casting and performance of beloved comic book characters is usually picked apart by the fandom. Case in point: Ben Affleck's Bruce Wayne. The news of Affleck's involvement in the DCEU […]
Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” topped a feeble crop of new releases to pick up first place at the weekend box office, opening to $28.5 million. That’s a mediocre start given the fantasy film’s $110 million budget. However, the adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ best-selling young adult novel is doing well overseas where it made $36.5 million from 59 territories, so its global grosses could push it into […]
Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist John Legend is set to perform at the dedication of a recently renovated $2.5 million theater that's named in his honor. The Springfield News-Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2dtj2O7 ) Legend donated $500,000 for the project and will perform at the Oct. 9 ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 680-seat John Legend Theater at the Springfield Center of Innovation: The Dome. Legend is a graduate of Springfield North High School. The […]
Business as usual? Angelina Jolie is in early talks to star in upcoming war drama Shoot Like a Girl, a source confirms to Us Weekly. The news comes amid her messy divorce from Brad Pitt. The film is based on the upcoming memoir Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Major Mary Jennings Hegar, which is due out March 2017. Angelina […]
Call it Human Civilization 101 — a record that contains sounds, music, and images from Earth to teach extraterrestrials everything they needed to know about us. That’s NASA’s Golden Record, a precious album that was printed onto gold-plated copper disks and launched into space aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977. The two original records are still attached to the probes, which are traveling through space billions of […]
Former Pink Floyd rocker is playing stretch of shows at London's Royal Albert Hall Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch joined former Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour onstage at the Royal Albert Hall Wednesday evening for the song "Comfortably Numb." Gilmour is in the middle of a series of five shows at the London venue in support of his 2015 album Rattle The Lock. Cumberbatch sang conversationally. He accentuated a few lines with theatrical expressions. In […]
Venice and Toronto have wrapped their annual film festivals, and now it’s New York’s turn to premiere some of the fall’s biggest and best new movies. The 54th New York Film Festival runs from Sept. 30 through Oct. 16 and will offer an array of eagerly anticipated domestic and international releases, including films that have won acclaim at other festivals this year, including Manchester By the Sea, Elle, Personal Shopper, Paterson, and Pablo Larrain’s buzzed-about Kennedy assassination drama Jackie. With opening […]
They are ruthlessly acting their way toward the Oscars. A new trailer for Fences, or Please Hurry Up and Give Viola Davis an Oscar, has arrived—and its quick, dramatic pace lives up to the hype that has built around the Denzel Washington–directed adaptation of the famed August Wilson play. Put away your lists and theories—this is one of the most anticipated films of the upcoming awards season. Starring Washington and […]
There’s a good reason Toby Froud reminds you of the babe. Froud is actually baby Toby from David Bowie’s 1986 cult classic, “Labyrinth.” It’s been 30 years since the movie’s release, so The Huffington Post checked in with him to see what he’s up to now. Unfortunately, despite his movie sister Sarah’s (Jennifer Connelly) best efforts to save him from the maze, it looks like baby Toby grew up to […]
