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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 hours ago

Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com | Kitty Grady

The classification of Die Hard as a Christmas film divides opinion, with local polls often pro-Christmas while an official BBFC poll leans against designation.
fromGameSpot
2 hours ago

Godzilla 15-Film Criterion Box Set Restocked At Amazon With 50% Discount

Amazon has restocked one of the most popular box sets in the Criterion Collection. Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975 is in stock for $112.48 (was $225). This is great timing on Amazon's part, as the Criterion Collection half-off sale ends this weekend (December 7). At the time of writing, Amazon estimates orders placed today will arrive before Christmas. This gorgeous collection of 15 classic Godzilla movies routinely sells out during these 50% off sales at Amazon, but fortunately Amazon restocked its supply this time around.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 hours ago

Nick Cave's Veiled World: the starry tale of how sometimes the devil doesn't have the best tunes

Devouring the new Nick Cave documentary on Sky, I am reminded how critics go wild for arty musicians who constantly change direction and dabble in everything. This is its own kind of myth. I know plenty of artists who keep moving one week they're sewing fish scales on to jackets, the next they're painting mirrors or putting seahorses in samovars. The problem is, no one cares.
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fromThe New Yorker
22 hours ago
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The Best Films of 2025

2022 produced outstanding films across international, festival, and studio releases, offering emotionally powerful moments despite escalating geopolitical crises and societal turmoil.
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11 hours ago
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Kristen Stewart's The Chronology Of Water Liquifies Trauma into a Slurry

The Chronology Of Water uses over-stylized imagery to depict trauma but fails to reveal its subject, offering clichéd, simplistic cause-and-effect storytelling.
fromwww.nytimes.com
8 hours ago

Video: Did Gen X Invent Indie Film?

It was a revolutionary moment in cinema. This idea of indie film was born. Soderbergh and Richard Linklater, Spike Lee. Paul Thomas Anderson a little after. My story about Boogie Nights goes like this. So, some guy sends me a script. I never heard of the guy. I called him up and I go, Bro, are they gonna even let you make this movie?
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fromVulture
10 hours ago

Not Everyone in Hollywood Is Panicking About Netflix Buying Warner Bros.

An $83 billion Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery risks devastating theatrical exhibitors by shortening theatrical windows, reducing film production, and concentrating studio-streaming power.
fromVulture
9 hours ago

How Will Warner Campaign Both Sinners and One Battle After Another for Oscars?

After breaking box-office records with a string of $40 million openings, the studio released Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, which just bolstered its status as the season's most formidable Oscar contender by sweeping the first week of precursor awards. And if, for some reason, One Battle stumbles before the finish line, the title that's best positioned to likely win in its stead is another Warner Bros. movie: Ryan Coogler's Sinners, which, like OBAA, has shown up everywhere it's needed to this season.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
8 hours ago

How Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. could change the future of movies

Netflix is offering approximately $82.7 billion to acquire Warner Bros., combining vast streaming audiences and major franchises, raising industry concentration and antitrust concerns.
#zootopia-2
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fromVulture
6 hours ago

Adam Sandler and Ariana Grande Are Disney Adults First, Actors Second

Adam Sandler and Ariana Grande met at the Haunted Mansion late at night; Sandler remembers the encounter and his family's fandom of her music.
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fromIndieWire
15 hours ago

'Sinners' and 'Adolescence' Lead 2025 Critics Choice Awards Film and TV Nominations - See the Full List

Ryan Coogler's Sinners leads Critics Choice film nominees with 17 nods; Adolescence leads television with six nominations; One Battle After Another earned 14.
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fromVulture
12 hours ago

Movies Fantasy League: Points, Baby

Awards announcements generated a large influx of fantasy-league points, reshuffling standings and rewarding low-cost film drafts with high ROI.
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fromIndieWire
10 hours ago
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'Five Nights at Freddy's 2' Review: This Shameful Waste of Mckenna Grace Will Still Satisfy Fans

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10 hours ago
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'Five Nights at Freddy's 2' Review: This Shameful Waste of Mckenna Grace Will Still Satisfy Fans

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fromVulture
11 hours ago

The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

Weekend offerings include a horror-game sequel starring Josh Hutcherson, a pro-shot Sondheim revival, Baumbach's Clooney-Sandler road film, a Tarantino Kill Bill presentation, and TV spinoffs.
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fromVulture
16 hours ago

Sigh, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Is Also About Trauma

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 foregrounds trauma and horror clichés while balancing stone-faced seriousness with animatronic terror in a dark, gritty sequel.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The goal was to scare a kid': the wild world of films-within-films

Careful, era-specific filmmaking can create convincingly authentic fake films inside movies that captivate audiences and inspire dedicated cataloging and fan interest.
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fromThe New Yorker
10 hours ago

Our Favorite Films of 2025

Marshall Curry's documentary 'The New Yorker at 100' chronicles the centenary issue's production and the magazine's defining role across a hundred years.
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fromInverse
17 hours ago

Netflix Might Have Just Dealt A Huge Blow To Movie Theaters

Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., potentially undermining theatrical cinema as Warner's major film studio joins a streamer that favors direct-to-streaming releases.
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fromGameSpot
1 day ago

A Better Tomorrow New 4K Blu-Ray Box Set Is Already Steeply Discounted At Amazon

Amazon is offering limited-time discounts on Shout Factory's remastered Hong Kong Cinema Classics 4K Blu-rays, including the A Better Tomorrow trilogy reduced to $63.70.
fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours ago

The end of big-screen cinema? Netflix hope to achieve by buying Warner Bros | Andrew Pulver

It is significant that the new Paramount regime's first move was to prise Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer away from Netflix. And Netflix, of course, have made their billions by upending the traditional pitch-session-to-cinema pipeline that had sustained the film industry for decades. They have signed up legions of the classiest directors, hogged nearly all the audience-friendly documentaries and premiered one water-cooler series after another.
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fromBustle
14 hours ago

Exclusive: Thomasin McKenzie Leans Into Her Romantic Side In 'Downton Abbey' Spoof

Thomasin McKenzie, 25, has built a diverse acting resume spanning horror, black comedy, biopics, and period dramas, notably starring as Rose Davenport in Fackham Hall.
#antitrust
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fromInverse
17 hours ago

The Year's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Fantasy Has A Timely Lesson To Teach Us

100 Nights of Hero is a fantasy queer coming-of-age film set in a patriarchal, book-banning society emphasizing the urgent importance of stories and inner voice.
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fromFilmmaker Magazine
17 hours ago

Eugene Jarecki on Assange Doc "The Six Billion Dollar Man."

The Six Billion Dollar Man alleges US government wrongdoing to suppress WikiLeaks, using embassy CCTV and diverse interviews to challenge media narratives about Julian Assange.
fromwww.theguardian.com
19 hours ago

Russell Crowe's 20 best roles sorted!

Russell Crowe's hair-raising performance as Hermann Goring in Nuremberg is the latest example of the veteran actor's high-risk, high-reward approach. He has a knack for taking on difficult, baggage-laden roles that could have gone spectacularly badly only to deliver the goods and make you want to stand up and yell bravo! You'll struggle to find many other actors working today with an oeuvre as eclectic, varied and downright impressive as the Wellington-born star's. Here are his 20 greatest performances.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours ago

The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year that weren't from 2025

Revisiting and celebrating non-2025 cultural works — classic films, music, books, and games — offers a rewarding alternative to new-release overload.
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fromThe New Yorker
22 hours ago

Guanyu Xu's Powerful Photographs of Immigration Limbo

Five favorite Shakespeare films: Branagh's Much Ado; Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream; Kurosawa's Throne of Blood; Welles's Chimes at Midnight; Zhao's Hamnet.
#netflix-warner-bros-acquisition
fromSlate Magazine
18 hours ago

It's the Movie That Could Finally Get Adam Sandler His Oscar Nomination. It Left Me Teary.

"Can we go again?" asks Jay Kelly (George Clooney), a movie star shooting a scene in which the tough guy he's playing dies of a gunshot wound on the soundstage reproduction of a rain-slicked alleyway. "I think I can do it better." These lines from the opening scene of Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly will become the film's wistful recurring theme.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
10 hours ago

Fackham Hall review Downton Abbey spoof is fast, funny and throwaway

(Yes, Fackham rhymes with a crass kiss-off to the aristocracy.) Written by British Irish comedian and TV presenter Jimmy Carr and directed by Jim O'Hanlon, Fackham Hall has plenty of material to work with the historical soap's grand finale just premiered in September, 15 years after Julian Fellowes's series started going upstairs-downstairs with ludicrous portent and wastes none of it.
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fromBusiness Insider
13 hours ago

30 classic movies and TV shows that Netflix would own as part of its Warner Bros. deal

Netflix acquires Warner Bros. for $72 billion, gaining ownership of Warner's film and TV catalog including classic movies, major franchises, and beloved TV shows.
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fromFortune
18 hours ago

Netflix's bombshell deal to buy Warner Bros. brings Batman and Harry Potter to the big red streamer and infuriates theater owners and the Ellisons | Fortune

Netflix will acquire Warner Bros. film and TV studios and HBO Max for roughly $72 billion, gaining control of franchises like Batman and Harry Potter.
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fromIndieWire
11 hours ago

Inside IndieWire Honors, Where Creative Freedom and Community Offer a Path for a Rapidly Changing Industry

IndieWire Honors celebrated 2025 filmmakers and actors, highlighting roots, mentorship, collaboration, and community during awards, monologues, and acceptance remarks.
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fromBusiness Insider
17 hours ago

Netflix breaks down how its approach to movie theaters will (and will not) change when it buys Warner Bros.

Netflix will keep short theatrical runs and prioritize streaming after acquiring Warner Bros., while Warner Bros. will continue longer theatrical windows.
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fromVulture
14 hours ago

So What's Netflix Planning to Do With All Those Parks?

Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery would expand its IP and live-experience capabilities, offering partial entry into amusement-park operations amid uncertain integration.
fromVulture
11 hours ago

Why Would Justin Baldoni Tell Blake Lively He's Circumcised?

Why were these people on the topic? Well, allegedly when Baldoni met with a then-"very pregnant" (his words) Lively to convince her to do the film, they discussed whether or not she would circumcise her fourth child. In the process, he told his soon-to-be co-worker (along with her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and a handful of other staff in the room) that he himself was circumcised.
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fromGameSpot
1 day ago

Howl's Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition Book Is Back In Stock At Amazon

Howl's Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition hardcover is restocked at Amazon for $20, and the World of Howl Trilogy Box Set is temporarily priced at $22.38.
fromwww.theguardian.com
18 hours ago

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair what does the new Tarantino cut offer?

That's all changed with this weekend's debut of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, a four-and-a-half-hour version of the movie hitting over 1,000 screens across North America. Tarantino made long movies before and after Kill Bill; features that run over two-and-a-half hours make up the vast majority of his filmography. But in the early 2000s, Kill Bill represented a major pivot for the film-maker, away from his then-signature crime dramas with healthy helpings of black comedy.
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fromConde Nast Traveler
23 hours ago

'Jay Kelly' Gives Us George Clooney on a Grand Tour of Europe

An A-list actor follows his backpacking daughter across glamorous European locations, prompting family reconnection amid satirical glimpses of celebrity life and polished production design.
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fromEngadget
15 hours ago

More Studio Ghibli 4K restorations are coming to IMAX in 2026

IMAX and GKids will expand 4K Studio Ghibli restorations on large screens in 2026 under the supervision of Studio Ghibli's Atsushi Okui.
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fromInverse
20 hours ago

45 Years Ago, An Iconic Space Opera Wasted Its Potential With A Fatal Mistake

The 1980 Flash Gordon film is a colorfully styled but uneven, self-mocking adaptation that's more cult comedy than effective science fiction.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
20 hours ago

My God, what a story it would make': film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley

Anyone who has sat in the dark and watched the beautiful, glowing images of a silent film come to life on the screen has plenty to thank Kevin Brownlow for. Since the 1960s he has been on a quest to collect, preserve and restore these fragile artefacts of early cinema thousands of which were lost, binned, or melted down for their silver content. He even won an honorary Oscar in 2010 for his efforts.
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fromVulture
1 day ago

Ben Stiller Calls Paul Dano 'Brilliant' After Quentin Tarantino Diss

When Quentin Tarantino insulted Paul Dano's acting abilities in There Will Be Blood, he inadvertently assembled the Avengers of Hollywood stars who have Dano's back. On The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino said Dano's acting was "a giant flaw" in the Oscar-nominated movie and that he was the "weakest" actor in SAG. Not every director agrees.
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fromKotaku
11 hours ago

Avengers: Endgame Will Play In Theaters Until Morale Improves

Marvel Studios will re-release Avengers: Endgame in theaters in September 2026 to generate goodwill ahead of Avengers: Doomsday.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
20 hours ago

I've had all the luck you can get': Michael Caine retires for the fourth time

Michael Caine, 92, signaled retirement again after saying he stopped working at 90 and accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Red Sea festival.
fromAnOther
20 hours ago

Jafar Panahi: "If I Hadn't Gone to Prison, I Wouldn't Have Made This Film"

Even shrunk down on a tiny Zoom display, it is difficult not to be slightly in awe of Jafar Panahi. Probably the world's most famous dissident filmmaker, he is also one of Iran's most prolific - this despite a 20-year filmmaking ban, during which he has made six feature films in secret. One of them, 2011's meta-documentary This Is Not a Film, was smuggled out of Iran on a USB concealed inside a birthday cake.
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fromThe New Yorker
14 hours ago

Chloe Zhao on "Hamnet," Her Film About the Grief of William Shakespeare

Chloé Zhao incorporates nature, adaptation, genre shifts, and neurodivergence into films ranging from Nomadland and Eternals to Hamnet.
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fromConsequence
13 hours ago

Lord of the Rings Extended Editions Returning to Theaters in 2026

Warner Bros. and Fathom will re-release the extended editions of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters in January.
fromDefector
19 hours ago

Hal Hartley Is Still Figuring It All Out Onscreen | Defector

In Hal Hartley's new film Where to Land, a 58-year-old director of romantic comedies applies to become a groundskeeper at a graveyard. The director, played by frequent Hartley collaborator Bill Sage, is putting together his last will and testament, taking stock of his life in both the material and metaphysical sense. Joe, Sage's character, must make a list of his belongings-his kitchen table, the china from his first marriage, the rights to his films-while looking to contribute something more "useful and perennial" to the world.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
19 hours ago

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor who performed in 'Mortal Kombat,' has died at 75

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, famed for roles in Mortal Kombat and The Man in the High Castle, died at 75 from stroke complications.
#star-wars
fromLos Angeles Times
22 hours ago

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Andy Garcia

When actor Andy Garcia arrived in Los Angeles, seeking a career in entertainment, he had no idea that he'd end up becoming a longtime resident. "I moved to Los Angeles in 1978, looking for work as an actor," Garcia says. "I lived in Hollywood in a storefront apartment on Sycamore and Fountain. I lived there a couple of years, moved, and have been in Los Angeles ever since."
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fromTODAY.com
16 hours ago

Watch Will Ferrell's Sons Re-Create Musical 'Elf' Shower Scene

Everyone in my life will be seeing this video.
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fromVulture
10 hours ago

George Clooney's Awkward Little Run Is the Best Part of Jay Kelly

Have you seen this man lope around, as he does in Jay Kelly through Italian forests and expansive villas? He's awful at it. And it's so endearing! The film blurs the line between fact and fiction by featuring clips from Clooney's real movies and crediting them to the titular actor, insisting Kelly is one of the last A-listers in an industry shedding Hollywood's old guard.
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fromConsequence
16 hours ago

Guillermo del Toro Is a "Big Fan of Death"

During a recent talk at the Marrakech Film Festival in Morocco (via ), the filmmaker behind such dark works as Pan's Labyrinth, Mimic, and most recently, Frankenstein, said he was looking forward to the end of his life. "Why should you want to live longer? del Toro stated. "I'm a big fan of death... I think death is really good. I'm certainly looking forward to it, because it's the day you go, 'Well, tomorrow I won't have any problems.'"
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fromVulture
1 day ago

The Jonas Brothers Tease a Summer at Camp Rock 3

The Jonas Brothers saved Christmas, and now, they're going to save Camp Rock. In the new teaser trailer for the upcoming , the JoBros return to their old stomping grounds 15 years after the alleged Final Jam. "We're back, exactly where we're supposed to be," Shane Gray (Joe Jonas) of Connect 3 declares as they look onto the lake where he once canoe-ddled with Mitchie (Demi Lovato).
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fromConde Nast Traveler
16 hours ago

Where Was Hamnet Filmed?

Hamnet recreates Shakespeare's life using substitute locations, with Paul Mescal starring and production designer Fiona Crombie adapting sites like The Globe and Anne Hathaway's cottage.
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fromFuncheap
21 hours ago

"Live at the Baylands: Vinyl, Art & Film" Gallery Walk, Films + Q&A (SF)

Free community gallery and networking event showcasing local visual artists and filmmakers with live podcast Q&A, guided art tour, films, DJ, and vinyl sales.
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fromsfist.com
1 day ago

Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Director Jon Chu Make Surprise Appearance at 'Wicked' Screening In San Rafael

Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and director Jon M. Chu made a surprise post-screening appearance in San Rafael for a Q&A after the film.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

He played with language better than anybody': Terry Gilliam and John Boorman on Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard transformed a sprawling 100-page draft into a coherent, sharper screenplay by restructuring characters, intensifying paranoia and bureaucracy, and delivering exceptional rewrites.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours ago

Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise but who will she play?

Scarlett Johansson entering talks for Matt Reeves' The Batman sequel represents a consequential, star-driven casting choice likely to influence the film's grounded, character-focused direction.
fromwww.mediaite.com
12 hours ago

John Cena Opens Up To Rogan About 'Bowing Down' To China

While promoting the movie F9 in 2021, Cena told Taiwanese broadcaster TVBS, Taiwan is the first country that can watch F9. Cena faced immediate backlash in China for referring to Taiwan as a country, a point that has led to longstanding frictions as Beijing recognizes Taiwan, which has its own government, as part of its territory. Cena released an apology video where, in Mandarin, he said he made a mistake.
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fromTime Out London
19 hours ago

This blockbuster film studio is one of the best day trips from London this winter

Warner Bros Studio Tour in Watford becomes 'Hogwarts in the Snow' from Nov 15–Jan 18 with festive sets, snowy castle, and a pop-up Christmas shop.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
15 hours ago

Tickets on sale Saturday for Christmas Eve screenings of It's a Wonderful Life'

Stanford Theatre will screen It's a Wonderful Life on Dec. 24 with $7 in-person tickets sold starting Dec. 6, limited to eight per buyer.
fromVulture
1 day ago

Cynthia Erivo Wanted Elphaba's Cardigan to Show a "Softer" Side

"I just wanted to present an opportunity to see this character where everybody, at this point in the film, have seen Elphaba as the strong, fighting woman who is the Wicked Witch as someone who could actually, when on her own, be the opposite, when comfortable enough to be so," Erivo shared with Deadline at an Airbnb event hosted at a recreation of Elphie's retreat.
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fromConsequence
18 hours ago

Jeff Bridges' Colbert Questionert Is An Absolute Joy

If The Colbert Questionert's random assortment of questions, ranging from favorite sandwich to first concert to worst smell was best suited for anyone, it's Jeff Bridges, with his blissful perspective on life and that hearty, stoner laugh to boot. Over the extended 15-minute segment, we learn that The Dude's favorite sandwich is a cheeseburger with raw onions, he adores David Byrne and once met John Lennon, he lost his smell during COVID,
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fromwww.ocregister.com
13 hours ago

Disneyland diehard to set record with 15,000th ride on Radiator Springs Racers

Jon Hale will complete a record-setting 15,000th ride on Radiator Springs Racers after a 13-year journey marked by major health recovery and meticulous ride tracking.
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