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How Amityville Horror Changed James Brolin Forever 1979’s “The Amityville Horror” still sits atop many critics' lists of scariest movies of all time. From the opening choral notes of Lalo Schifrin’s compositions (which earned him an Oscar nomination), it’s clear that something wicked lies in the spacious Dutch colonial at 112 Ocean Avenue, once the DeFeo home before the Lutz family moves in. It’s a house with bad residue after Ronald DeFeo, Jr....

How An Unknown Chris Tucker Nabbed His Role In Friday Since its release in 1995, “Friday” has proven to be a cult classic. Shortly after the film’s release, one-liners and jokes from the unexpected hit were a regular occurrence in adolescent conversation. I can’t tell you how many times I heard “And you know this, man!” or “You got knocked the f*** out!” throughout my time in middle school and high school....

How Liam Neeson Helped Sam Neill Prepare For Peaky Blinders The lush, visually stunning world of “Peaky Blinders” is set tocome to an endin 2022 after six seasons. The show follows the Irish gang known as the Peaky Blinders, led by Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) as they rise and make waves through the underworld of early 20th century Birmingham. For the first two seasons, Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park”) played the show’s main antagonist, Inspector Campbell, a ruthless detective sent by Winston Churchill himself to clean up the city....

Hunter Stephenson’s Script Review: Extract By Mike Judge The following script review of Mike Judge’sExtractcontains moderate spoilers.Mike Judgeremains one of the most important and original voices working in American Comedy today, and withExtractthe writer-director may do for the bland absurdity of successful white guys in mid-life crisis, stagnant marriages, and bullshit factory jobs what he did for cubicle-drones inOffice Spaceand untended ’90s adolescence inBeavis and Butt-head. Judge is fascinated by average dudes whose big pictures are realistically small pictures....

Jack Bannon To Play Young, Sexy Alfred In Batman-Free Series No One Asked For Breaking news: the hot young Alfred show is still happening, and hot young Alfred has been found.Jack Bannon, who appeared inThe Imitation Gameand onRipper Street, will play the future butler inPennyworth, a new EPIX series. It seems that before Alfred started washing Batman’s socks and dusting the many bookcases in Wayne Manor, he was an ass-kicking soldier....

Jared Leto Will Star In Post-WWII Action-Thriller ‘The Outsider’ Jared Letoisn’t a typical work-for-hire actor. Leto doesn’t appear in many movies, and nor does he need to, considering he’s got his Thirty Seconds to Mars gig. When he does decide to act, it’s generally for wildly transformational roles, like The Joker, Mark David Chapman, orThe Dallas Buyers Club’s Rayon. Leto, arguably, is at his best when he’s not under prosthetics or weighing in at over 200 lbs, so the news of him starring inThe Outsider, a post-WWII thriller, is both a promising and refreshing decision on the actor’s part....

Jordan Peele’s Favorite Horror Movies List Is A Perfect Study In Terror Bursting onto the scene with his directorial debut, “Get Out,” in 2017, Jordan Peele effectively reinvigorated the socially conscious horror film by focusing on the grim reality of racism in America. He proved his horror prowess wasn’t just a fluke with his 2019 follow-up, “Us,” which features a stirring dual lead performance from Lupita Nyong’o as a woman named Adelaide and her evil “tethered” doppelgänger....

Latest ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ TV Spot Features Almost All New Footage Want to see almost a minute of brand new, official footage fromAvengers: Age of Ultron? Check out a 60 second TV spot that just came online. It features almost all new footage and dialogue, with plenty ofJoss Whedonhumor and action. Watch it below. Here’s the video viaTwitter. 60 Second TV Spot: New Avengers: Age of Ultron Footage So much good stuff in there....

Maus Creator Has No Plans To Let Anyone Adapt His Masterpiece In January of 2022, in Tennessee, the McMinn County Board of Education voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” from its eighth-grade curriculum. Citing foul language, the school board questioned whether or not the book’s depiction of the Holocaust — an account given to the author by his father Vladek, who survived — was appropriate for 13-year-olds....

Michael Moore To Transition From Documentaries To Narrative Feature Films? This year might be the last time you see aMichael Mooredocumentary on the big screen. This according to the filmmaker, who tellsThe Detroit Newsthat while making his upcoming doc, titledCapitalism: A Love Story, “I’ve been thinking that maybe this will be my last documentary… Or maybe for a while.” Moore says that he would like to transition into the world of narrative fictional feature films....

Michael Shannon To Duet With Jessica Chastain In Musical Biopic George & Tammy Michael Shannon will be joining the cast of “George & Tammy,” according to Deadline. The limited series is set to be directed by John Hillcoat (“The Road”) and will star Jessica Chastain as yet another character named Tammy. She just starred in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” which is getting lots of awards buzz. The two actors will play country and western musical stars George Jones and Tammy Wynette....

Moon Knight Season 2 Is Very Possible, But It May Not Be So Simple Several weeks and six episodes later, “Moon Knight” is in the books. Or is it? We can say definitively that this season is over and done with but, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the end of one chapter is often just the beginning of another. While this show was originally billed as a limited series, it does appear that the door is wide open for more adventures with Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector/Steven Grantin the future....

More ‘Iron Fist’ Photos Tease Action And Attitude; Finn Jones Addresses Casting Controversy Netflix has more original content coming up in the next couple of yearsthan we can count, but one of their next big productions — and one we’re especially curious about — isIron Fist. Not only is it the last of the four standalone Marvel superhero dramas leading up to theDefenderscrossover event, its hero looks very different from the others we’ve met so far....