Of course, they’re ACTORS! Stanley Tucci takes no issue with straight actors playing gay characters – as long as it’s done “the right way.” The Oscar-nominated actor waded into the debate surrounding LGBTQ+ casting on Sunday’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Tucci, 62,
Dawn Slusher newsbusters.org As conservatives across the nation fight to protect children from predators who want sexually explicit books in schools and children exposed to perverted and sexually explicit behavior, Hollywood is busy trying to help the predator cause with attempts to normalize grooming. HBO’s Sex and the
When Gary Plauche shot Jeff Doucet, on camera, at Baton Rouge airport in 1984, one of the police officers escorting Doucet wailed, “Why, Gary? Why?” Almost every father would know exactly why. Because Doucet raped Gary Plauche’s young son. That’s why. Chris Pratt doesn’t need to ask
Christian Toto NAD Analyst newsbusters.org Social media hasn’t been kind to “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” despite no one having seen the fifth film in the franchise. It’s woke, users cried, citing early snippets, test screening rumours and other minutiae. Co-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Luke Momo Luke Momo is the director of ‘The Stamp Collector’ (2021) and ‘Capsules’ (2022). Sophia Martinson Sophia Martinson is a wife and mom with a passion for reading, writing, and home arts. She is a freelance culture writer for various publications, and her blog, Homemaker Hopeful, explores the skills
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff
“The book is better than the movie” is an old truism: but is it always true? Mostly, yes. The added bonus of books is the freedom of the reader to interpret, and the freedom of the author to add layers of complexity and nuance that cinema simply can’t encompass.
It’s one of the most beloved stories in the mythology of the modern American left: the night a Native American princess appeared at the 1973 Academy Awards to decline the Best Actor Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando. The only problem is: “Native American princess” was a myth. A
When Martin Sheen immediately followed his acclaimed performance in Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic masterpiece, Apocalypse Now, with the, uh, slightly “lesser” The Final Countdown, eyebrows were raised. In response, Sheen shrugged and admitted that even he had to pay the rent somehow. Sheen is far from the only A-
His name is James, James Cameron, the bravest pioneer… but surely, in the 13 years he’s been buggerising around in submersibles and making yet another yawn-inducing spectacle about the creepiest blue cat-people this side of MidFur, James Cameron could have found the time to bring one of
Rebecca Wynne-Walsh Lecturer in Film, English and Creative Arts Edge Hill University Horror cinema in the 21st century is moving beyond the uncanny children of The Omen (1976), The Exorcist (1973) or The Bad Seed (1956). Instead, contemporary horror fare is presenting audiences with uncanny copies of children – companions
Holocaust movies are a Hollywood staple: as Kate Winslet’s character in Extras cynically observes, a Holocaust movie is guaranteed Oscar-bait. Still, it’s hardly surprising that a crime against humanity of such enormity should so exercise the imaginations of film-makers. With so many of the post-War
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Jane Barnwell University of Westminster Christmas movies are so often linked to classic themes of redemption and rediscovery of innocence. Old favourites such as Home Alone, Love Actually, The Wizard of Oz, It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, The Holiday and Elf reappear on our screens in
Ben McCann University of Adelaide In November 1942, a romantic drama directed by a Hungarian immigrant and starring an ex-naval officer and an obscure Swedish actress was released. The film began shooting without a finished script. Many at Warner Brothers Studios thought the film would quickly disappear into obscurity.
