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Could the students who snickered their way through those first SpongeBob adventures have foreseen the franchise persisting 25 years on, even after metabolising the most lysergic pharmaceuticals? Such longevity is partly down to extra-commercial considerations, in that the series has a capacity for tickling adults' funny bones possibly even those now fully grown students as well as the very young. Though it can't claim anything quite as unexpected as the David Hasselhoff cameo in 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie not so much a high bar as an unforgettably wonky one feature four thinks nothing of making Clancy Brown talk like a pirate while handing royalty cheques to Barbra Streisand and Yello. Anything can still happen in Bikini Bottom.

The romcom originally included a relationship between the headmistress (Anne Reid) of the school that hosts the final Christmas concert, and her partner Geraldine (Frances de la Tour). Deleted scenes show the headmistress return from school to find her partner, who is terminally ill, in bed. They laugh and drink wine, before it cuts to them sleeping in bed together, Geraldine painfully coughing.

"Cinematography does it all for me," Grammy-winning musician Raphael Saadiq told IndieWire over Zoom. The R&B icon, who has seen decades of success as a solo artist, as a member of the groups Tony! Toni! Toné! and Lucy Pearl, and as a writer/producer for everyone from Erykah Badu and Earth, Wind & Fire, to Alicia Keys, John Legend, and a few key names he'll get into later, has been explaining the way films have inspired a few of his biggest hits.

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'A mutual friend said, 'Hey, do you know John Bishop?' and he told the story of a guy who is going through a divorce and stumbles upon stand-up,'

New details have emerged about the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, whose bodies were discovered on Sunday 14 December in their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Their death certificates have been released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, obtained by TMZ and reported by multiple US outlets. They record that Rob Reiner's body was found at 15.45, and Singer Reiner's at 15.46.

Woo stood center stage at Madison Square Garden with one simple question for a sold-out crowd: This is the anthem of 2025. Are you ready to seal the Honmoon with me tonight? before launching into Golden, transforming iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball into a deafening sing-along and proving his evolution from animated demon to real-life pop phenomenon. While K-Pop Demon Hunters has become a cultural marvel, amassing more than 352 million views.

Clea Duvall directed 2020's Happiest Season. As well as Stewart the film also stars Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Mary Holland, Victor Garber, and Mary Steenburgen. Stewart plays Abby Holland, a lesbian who has been dating Harper Caldwell (Davis) for a year. Not a fan of Christmas, Abby is invited to spend the holidays with Harper's conservative family who it turns out Harper hasn't come out to yet.

In 2022, I was living in a flat in north London above a chicken shop, with two flatmates and a cockroach infestation (what did we expect, said the landlord, living above a takeaway?). My flatmate was from Lithuania, and was due to go home in January, and our other flatmate, his girlfriend, was away for Christmas. I'd been home to Canada the month before, so for Christmas Day itself it was just the two of us.

The teaser shows Evans riding up to a home on a motorcycle. He takes off his helmet and walks to the door. Once inside, he takes out his Captain America suit. The teaser then shows Rogers looking adoringly at a baby as he holds the child in his arms. The screen goes to black as the words "Steve Rogers Will Return in Avengers: Doomsday" fade up.

"So, some of you may or may not know that I was in the hospital very ill this fall with Urosepsis. It was not easy. It's been a very, very challenging four months. And I want everybody to know that I am on the road to a full recovery. I'm not there yet, but I'm on the road to that."

What is this relationship? Over the weekend, Ben and Jen were spotted doing some holiday shopping with Affleck's 13-year-old son, Samuel, whom he shares with the only other woman he knows, Jennifer Garner. Is this normal behavior for a celebrity ex-stepfamily? Or better yet, is there even a standard for "normal" behavior when it comes to being an ex-stepfamily? Society longs to know.

And, thanks to some surprising casting, one comics-famous Supe villain, Brainiac, will be appropriately creepy as hell. Actor Lars Eidinger has been confirmed to be playing Brainiac in the 2027 Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow. But who is this actor? And will this casting finally make Brainiac cool?

At the beginning of the film at which Ferrara and company arrived with wine and cheese, given its length there were 15 people in the audience. Once the credits rolled, there were eight. I was standing with like six people, Ferrara says now. And you know, two or three of those people I still see. When it comes to Salo, it seems that you never forget your first time.

That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science fiction, horror, and apocalyptic rage amid brazen cruelty, is the kind of late masterwork that a longtime director occasionally unleashes if the stars line up. In its uninhibited inspiration, it's also the kind of special project that highlights the tragedy of other filmmakers who saw their careers truncated.

Tipped for the Oscars, "Hamnet" was released on November 26th. When the movie showed at film festivals, the director, Chloé Zhao, invited the audience to join her in an act of collective meditation before the screening. Among her instructions: "Close your eyes," "Feel your own weight," "Take deep breaths with sound," "Sigh out loud," and "Gently say to yourself, 'This is my heart. These are our hearts.' " Would this ritual not have improved the viewing experience of many earlier films?

Black Phone director Scott Derrickson claims that Bob Weinstein asked him to work on the film's script, even though the producer said it was "terrible," because "it's called Dracula 2000, " and the tie-in to the upcoming millennium was too good to pass up. The resulting movie was an obvious rush job that executive producer Wes Craven publicly lamented, but amid the movie's pure "how do you do, fellow kids" nature are glimmers of something more fascinating and challenging.

In 1985, this beloved board game got the silver screen treatment, with a film and set design dramatizing its intrigue and mystery. Critics at the time may have found it, in the words of the Chicago Tribune, "gimmicky," but the film version of Clue has endured as a cult classic that reimagines the whodunit board game as a playful black comedy.