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After a journeyman career that included stints as an MTV VJ, a rapper named Dirt Nasty, a model and the goofball star of three Scary Movie installments, Simon Rex is having a moment. He stars alongside Channing Tatum in the Zoe Kravitz-directed drama Blink Twice, and opposite Lily James and Joseph…

Michelle Monaghan might often find herself cast as the significant other of a male lead who drives a film or a series, but within those confines she routinely finds ways to make her own indelible mark. She did that in a smoldering turn opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Maggie Hart in the…

Netflix just released Season 2 of Unstable, the comedy that stars Rob Lowe as a tech genius in meltdown mode as he grieves the death of the wife who grounded him. Lowe co-created the show, executive produces and stars with his son, John Owen Lowe. That brings full circle a 40-year career’s worth of stage…

After serving as Joaquin Phoenix’s sidekick in Gus Van Sant’s black comedy To Die For, Casey Affleck got in the car alongside brother Ben, Matt Damon and Yellowstone‘s Cole Hauser in Good Will Hunting. After getting Damon & Affleck’s script to Van Sant and essentially enabled the film to happen, Casey…

In front of the camera since he broke in as a child actor in the 1970s, Giovanni Ribisi made a detour and makes his debut as a cinematographer in the JT Mollner-directed Miramax film Strange Darling. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest to strong reviews, has a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and gets…

When your early credits include the series My Three Sons, Rawhide and his father’s famous show Sea Hunt, you just know that Beau Bridges has stories to share. The 3-time Emmy winner and son of Lloyd Bridges and brother of actor Jeff Bridges is 82, and showing no signs of slowing down. At the time of this…

Jude Law has come a long way in his career, from playing the gorgeous leading man in films from Talented Mr. Ripley, Gattaca and The Holiday, to playing Firebrand‘s King Henry VIII as a decaying corpse of a man hanging on just long enough to emotionally torture his final wife Katherine Parr (Alicia…

Jeff Nichols today launches The Bikeriders, a drama he wrote from a book of photographs by Danny Lyon. Inspired by the emotions that a generation of motorcycle riders found in the ’60s, Nichols created a narrative around that and a three-character struggle among Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer…

From the moment he exploded onscreen mano a mano against Eminem in 8 Mile, Anthony Mackie has been on a steady course to a career peak where he will carry his first major Marvel film playing the title character in Captain America: Brave New World. He is also getting some awards buzz as star and executive…

Has it really been 25 years since Franka Potente burst onto the scene as the flame-haired heroine in Run Lola Run? Sony Pictures Classics christened the quarter century anniversary today re-released in theaters the Tom Tykwer-directed thriller, remastered in 4K. For Potente, the film started a run…

Joachim Rønning is back in the water, directing Star Wars heroine Daisy Ridley in Young Woman and the Sea, the harrowing story of Trudy Ederle and the Olympic gold medalist’s determination to be the first woman to swim across the English Channel. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Rønning would be attracted…

The son of a famous actor dad who swore he didn’t want to go into acting, Josh Brolin found his anti-thesp resolve get chipped away for the best possible reasons: film performances by the likes of Steve McQueen, John Travolta, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Daniel Day-Lewis. Cut to now. As he debuts…