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Iconic comedian Billy Crystal is making his debut in the spooky sphere with supernatural limited series “Before.”

Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Crystal executive produces and leads the upcoming Apple TV+ show that centers on a grieving child psychiatrist who becomes haunted by a new patient. The psychological thriller series is billed as a “supernatural mystery” and will unravel its multi-layered storyline across ten episodes.

The official synopsis reads: “‘Before’ stars Crystal as Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Judith Light), encounters a troubled young boy, Noah (Jacobi Jupe), who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past. As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens.”

Rosie Perez, Maria Dizzia, and Ava Lalezarzadeh also star.

Sarah Thorp created the Paramount Television Studios series. Thorp serves as showrunner, writer, and executive producer, along with Crystal and “Killers Of The Flower Moon” and “Dune” co-writer Eric Roth.

Stars: Meg Fozzard, Shian Denovan, Tom Knight, Ray Bullock Jr., Gala Wesson, Daniel Davids | Written by Christopher Presswell, Forgács W. András | Directed by Christopher Presswell

The Whip opens with Emily (Meg Fozzard), who suffers from a brain injury, and her sister Sadie who cares for her full time, suffering through a benefits interview. And I do mean suffering as the interviewer, somewhere between disinterested and outright hostile, gets Emily’s name wrong and asks if she has mobility issues as she sits there in her wheelchair. Despite a host of issues stemming from her injury, including short-term memory issues, shaky balance confining her to a wheelchair, and hands that shake, she’s deemed fit for work. A forgone conclusion given the government’s “Putting Ability Back into Disability” slogan for revamping the National Health Service.

Elsewhere, Michael Harrington is trying to sell these new policies to voters, and they are not buying it.

La escalofriante miniserie está protagonizada por Billy Crystal, Judith Light, Rosie Perez y Jacobi Jupe. © Apple TV+

Apple TV+ ha desvelado hoy las primeras imágenes y ha puesto fecha de estreno a Before, un atmosférico thriller psicológico.

La miniserie Before sigue a Eli (Billy Crystal), un psiquiatra infantil que, tras perder recientemente a su esposa Lynn (Judith Light), se encuentra con un niño problemático, Noah (Jacobi Jupe), que parece tener una inquietante conexión con el pasado de Eli. A medida que Eli intenta ayudar a Noah, su misterioso vínculo se profundiza.

La serie de diez episodios, creada y escrita por Sarah Thorp (Exposados), está protagonizada por Billy Crystal (Olvídate de París), Judith Light (Transparent), Jacobi Jupe (Peter Pan & Wendy), Rosie Perez (The Flight Attendant), Maria Dizzia (Orange Is the New Black) y Ava Lalezarzadeh (In the Garden of Tulips).

Before se estrena el 25 de octubre en Apple TV+ con sus dos primeros episodios,...

David Sanborn, the six time Grammy-winning alto saxophonist who played at Woodstock, composed music for the Lethal Weapon movies, played in the SNL and Late Night with David Letterman bands and worked with everyone from Stevie Wonder to David Bowie, died Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications. He Was 78.

Sanborn’s music is often described “smooth jazz,” but he reportedly rejected that characterization, and one can see why. His lively, iconic sax solo on Bowie’s “Young Americans” is anything but. Sanborn preferred the idea that he “put the saxophone back into rock ’n’ roll.”

Indeed, he worked with a virtual who’s who of rock and R&b legends, including James Brown, Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Al Jarreau, George Benson, Elton John, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Billy Joel, Roger Waters, Steely Dan, the Eagles,...

Oscar-nominated Debra Winger is one of the most enigmatic actresses of her generation. She burst onto the film scene in 1980 with “Urban Cowboy” and in the course of the next three years, she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards as well as two Oscar nominations (for “Officer” and “Terms”). To many female moviegoers in particular, Winger embodied the kind of tough, self-sufficient woman that they aspired to become, yet there was always room within Winger’s characters for love with the right person.

Post-1983, Winger continued to work steadily, earning a fifth Golden Globe nod for 1993’s “A Dangerous Woman” as well as a third Oscar nomination and second BAFTA nom for 1993’s “Shadowlands.” However, after 1995’s romantic comedy “Forget Paris,” Winger virtually disappeared from high-profile films, choosing a semi-retirement with occasional film work now and then. The idea of retiring at the peak of one’s career was...

The American Society of Cinematographers has announced the honorees for its 38th Annual Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Gala on March 3, 2024. They are: Don Burgess, ASC; Steven Fierberg, ASC and Amy Vincent, ASC.

Burgess, Robert Zemeckis’ longtime collaborator, will be recognized with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award. While his latest work is Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, directed by James Wan, Burgess is best known for shooting Zemeckis’ Oscar-winning Forrest Gump, for which he earned ASC Award and Oscar nominations. The duo have also collaborated on such films as last year’s live-action Pinocchio, Flight, Contact, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, The Polar Express and the upcoming Here.

Burgess’ other credits include Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, the first Aquaman, Brian Helgeland’s 42, Allen and Albert Hughes’ The Book of Eli, Gary Winick’s 13 Going on 30, Jonathan Mostow’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Billy Crystal’s Forget Paris.

Burbank, CA – Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the most universally acclaimed film in the Dark Knight’s legendary cinematic history when the newly-remastered animated movie Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, comes to 4K Ultra HD for the very first time. From Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, the film will be available to purchase on 4K Ultra HD on September 12, 2023.

The release will also include an all-new featurette Kevin Conroy: I Am The Knight, which takes a look at the legacy of Kevin Conroy, who voiced Batman for 30 years in film, television, video games and more.

Rooted in DC’s acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series and released theatrically on Christmas Day 1993, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm has not only been ranked by Time magazine as one of the 10 best Super Hero movies ever, but is also arguably the core fans’ all-time favorite Batman film. The movie has been rated at the...

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the most universally acclaimed film in the Dark Knight’s legendary cinematic history when the newly-remastered animated movie Batman: Mask of the Phantasm comes to 4K Ultra HD for the very first time on September 12, 2023, Bloody Disgusting has learned.

The release will also include an all-new featurette Kevin Conroy: I Am The Knight, which takes a look at the legacy of Kevin Conroy, who voiced Batman for 30 years in film, television, video games and more.

Rooted in DC’s acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series and released theatrically on Christmas Day 1993, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm has not only been ranked by Time magazine as one of the 10 best Super Hero movies ever, but is also arguably the core fans’ all-time favorite Batman film. The movie has been rated at the top of the Dark Knight film franchise by such popular entertainment media as Empire,...

Let's face it: For the most part, basketball movies are bad. It's such a beautiful game, filled with such balletic human athleticism, that it seems like a natural fit for cinema. And yet, there are only a handful of great basketball films, and only one real masterpiece.

The reason for the relatively low quality, even compared to football films, seems to be that most serious directors aren't big fans of the game. Spike Lee is the only notable exception. Basketball is otherwise largely a backdrop for mediocre comedies, like Billy Crystal's "Forget Paris," or Whoopi Goldberg's even more forgettable "Eddie." Even Will Ferrell couldn't make the game all that amusing in his ode to the funky pre-nba-merger era, "Semi-Pro."

The best basketball films understand the inherent drama of the most competitive sport on Earth. True basketball talent is worth more money than any other athletic skill, and most...

Make Way for Tomorrow: Crystal Courts Catharsis in Uneven Odd Couple Comedy

It’s been over twenty years since Billy Crystal stepped behind the camera, even longer if you’re counting theatrical features. So, there’s an automatic curiosity regarding Here Today, scripted by Alan Zweibel (based on his short story “The Prize”) in what plays like a partially autobiographical take on a comedy writer whose medical condition provides a pathway to personal redemption. Even more curious is Crystal’s co-star, comedian Tiffany Haddish, playing a kooky chanteuse whose chance meeting with the writer allows for the kind of poignant odd couple situation designed to prime our tears after two fun-filled acts.…...

In the new movie “Here Today,” Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish play an unlikely duo who form a May-December friendship. Off-screen, the comedy stars have grown just as close.

In fact, when Haddish celebrated her bat mitzvah in late 2019 with a star-studded shindig, Crystal was in attendance alongside Wanda Sykes, Common, Jimmy Kimmel, Chelsea Handler, Kevin Nealon and Sarah Silverman. While the party (held on Haddish’s 40th birthday) doubled as the red-carpet premiere for Haddish’s Netflix special “Black Mitzvah,” the intimate ceremony that preceded it was real, and Crystal played a special role.

“We had just wrapped the film. It was right before Thanksgiving, if I recall,” Crystal tells Variety in a joint interview with Haddish. “Tiffany called me and said, ‘I’m getting bat mitzvahed and I want you to do an Aliyah’ — which is a prayer right before she’s going to read from the Torah...

Billy Crystal has earned the right to be choosy. After nearly 50 years in the entertainment industry — from roasting Muhammad Ali to being a cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” hosting his own variety show and helping to modernize the romantic comedy, even serving as the contemporary ideal Oscars host, and that’s just the funny stuff — Crystal has hit comedic milestone after comedic milestone.

He’s also starred in some of the box office’s biggest hits, hosted the Grammys, directed four films, won six primetime Emmys, plus a Tony and a Mark Twain Prize. He even got to be friends with his childhood hero, Mickey Mantle, after directing HBO feature “61*” about Mantle and Roger Maris’ quest to break Babe Ruth’s home run record. It’s been a good run, and it’s not over yet.

While Crystal’s resume isn’t exactly lacking, there is one area in...

Among Oscars hosts, few are as beloved as nine-time emcee Billy Crystal. Over the years, Crystal received critical and commercial adulation, as well as four Emmys, for his work on the big stage, but to do it again? Eh, not so much. Asked if Oscars brass had asked him back in recent years, Crystal told IndieWire during a recent interview, “No, they haven’t, but that’s okay.”

It’s a few days before the 2021 Oscars ceremony, and Crystal is promoting “Here Today,” a dramedy he co-wrote and stars in opposite Tiffany Haddish; it also represents the first time he’s directed a theatrical feature since “Forget Paris” in 1995. (Sony releases “Here Today” in theaters on May 7.) The last time Crystal hosted was when he stepped in after Eddie Murphy dropped out. The Oscars have had no host since Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, and Crystal said that today it’s an almost impossible role to fulfill.

Exclusive: The Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal dramedy Here Today has been picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions’ Stage 6 Films and will open in theaters on May 7.

Crystal directed the movie, repping his eighth time directing and his third on a feature film.

Crystal co-wrote the screenplay with his fellow Saturday Night Live alum and Emmy-award winning writer Alan Zweibel inspired by the short story The Prize also written by Zweibel.

Here Today follows veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz (Crystal), who is going through a tough time in his life. He meets New York singer Emma Payge (Haddish) and they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust. Zweibel published his original short story The Prize in his eBook From the Bottom Drawer of: Alan Zweibel in 2011. He and Crystal decided to adapt the short...

Rush Limbaugh, the pioneering and polarizing conservative talk show host whose radio program drew millions of listeners and influenced Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, died today of lung cancer. He was 70.

Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show today. He had announced his Stage 4 cancer diagnosis a year ago, one day before Trump presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the 2020 State of the Union address.

The homepage on Limbaugh’s site reads: “In Loving Memory of Rush Hudson Limbaugh III The Greatest of All Time.”

Trump marked Limbaugh’s death by calling into Fox News for his first interview of 2021. The former commander in chief praised the late media titan for supporting him early during the 2016 campaign but also used the opportunity to regurgitate debunked falsehoods about Trump winning the 2020 election. “Rush thought we won, and so do I. I think we won substantially,...

Updated, 1:38 Pm: HBO has added all episodes of its hit series Big Little Lies to its lineup of free-streaming programming available for a limited time due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Both seasons (14 episodes) are free to watch without a subscription in the U.S. on HBO Go and HBO Now. HBO added the series following last week’s announcement that it was offering nearly 500 hours of free premium content through April 30.

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Written by David E. Kelley and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, Big Little Lies stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz and Lauren Dern. Based on Lianne Moriarty’s book, the...

Are you one of those people who sees all of the hoopla surrounding HBO content but never gets to play along?

Has adding another pay-tv option to your already overburdened entertainment fiscal responsibilities left you in the dark when it comes to HBO?

Have you unwisely chosen to spend your money on less critically acclaimed and lower quality content to get more bang for your buck?

Well, we have good news for you.

HBO knows you're a captive audience, and they're betting that once you get a taste of their popular and lauded entertainment that you might want to make it a more permanent thing.

Of course, that's my assessment, and I'd recommend HBO in a heartbeat. I have, and I will continue slathering praise on the network that has provided some of my all-time favorite content.

And now, you (that's You who don't have HBO), too, can find out...

Current global events are bad, but HBO is offering free streaming of “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” and hundreds of hours of other content, which is good.

HBO will begin offering free streaming of the aforementioned series and dozens of other projects, starting Friday, April 3. The limited-time offer will be available on the HBO Now and HBO Go apps, in addition to those platform’s respective websites.

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Though most entertainment companies have made moves to keep their customers entertained as more people continue spending time indoors, few entities have announced plans to release such a large volume of content for free. HBO said the free programming will constitute nearly 500 hours but did not specify how long the free streaming would last.

In what’s becoming a common trend across the industry, HBO will be providing free content to viewers during the coronavirus lockdown. Following on from the likes of CBS All Access in opening up their paywall, HBO will be making HBO Now and HBO Go free to access from Friday, April 3rd. While this offering does not include certain hit series like Game of Thrones, viewers will still be able to watch almost 500 hours of content from the HBO library, adding to the options available for those stuck at home.

The entertainment giant are using the slogan #StayHomeBoxOffice for the campaign, which will also be open to participating distributor partners including HBO over cable packages, and via Hbonow.com and Hbogo.com. The full list of shows, movies, and documentaries available from this Friday include:

Dramas/Comedies

Ballers (5 Seasons)

Barry (2 Seasons)

Silicon Valley (6 Seasons)

Six Feet Under (5 Seasons)

The Sopranos...

During the coronavirus pandemic, everyone has to do their duty by staying inside and watching a ludicrous amount of television and movies. Now HBO has provided the quarantined with an important tool in this mission.

Today HBO announced that it is making nearly 500 hours of original programming and some WarnerMedia-branded movies available for free to all for a limited time. Subscriptions to HBO via cable with HBO Go or via streaming with HBO Now usually cost $15 per month. But starting Friday, April 3, anyone with Internet access will be able to access nine original HBO series and a multitude of other free content via either platform. Just visit HBONow.com, HBOGo.com, or download either’s respective app to begin watching. HBO hasn’t revealed how long constitutes a “limited time” so get those bingeing muscles ready.

The nine HBO series for which every episode in every season will be...

HBO is inviting those adhering to #StayHome quarantine guidelines to “#StayHomeBoxOffice,” by streaming, for free, a variety of the premium cabler’s programming.

HBO is making almost 500 hours of programming available to stream for free/without a subscription, now through the end of April, via its HBO Now and HBO Go apps.

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HBO is unlocking its biggest trove of free programming ever — in a goodwill gesture as people look for a diversion during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The WarnerMedia-owned premium cabler is making almost 500 hours of programming available to stream for free (without ads) for a limited time on HBO Now and HBO Go services without a subscription, starting this Friday, April 3.

The list of free programming includes every episode of nine HBO series: “The Sopranos,” “Veep,” “Succession,” “Six Feet Under,” “The Wire,” “Ballers,” “Barry,” “Silicon Valley” and “True Blood.”

Also streaming for free are 20 Warner Bros. movies in HBO’s current catalog including “Pokémon Detective Pikachu,” “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” and “Crazy, Stupid, Love”; and 10 HBO documentaries and docuseries including “McMillion$” and “The Case Against Adnan Syed.”

Notably, however, HBO megahit “Game of Thrones” is absent from the free-streaming fiesta, as are recent hits including “Westworld,” “Big Little Lies,...

Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish will star in and produce the independent comedy “Here Today,” with Crystal directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Alan Zweibel.

“Here Today” is based on Zweibel’s short story “The Prize.” Crystal will portray a veteran comedy writer who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality and befriends a talented young New York street singer, played by Haddish. Together, they form an unlikely friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.

Rocket Science is handling international sales at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, while CAA will handle Us rights. Principal photography starts in New York in October.

Astute Films’ President Fred Bernstein made the announcement Wednesday. Besides Crystal and Haddish, producers are Bernstein, Zweibel and Dominique Telson. Rick Jackson, Claudine Marrotte and Samantha Sprecher will serve as executive producers. “Here Today” is a co-production between Astute Films,...

CAA handles Us rights. Production set for New York in October.

Rocket Science will launch international sales in Toronto on Astute Films’ Here Today, which stars Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish and is described as a rom-com that tears up the rule book on the generational divide.

Crystal will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with his fellow Saturday Night Live alum Alan Zweibel based on Zweibel’s short story The Prize.

Principal photography is set to begin in New York in October on Here Today, which redefines the meaning of love and trust as it follows a veteran comedy...

Happy birthday to the great Oscar-nominated Debra Winger who turns 64 on May 16, 2019. One of the most enigmatic actresses of her generation, Winger burst onto the film scene in 1980 with “Urban Cowboy” and in the course of the next three years, she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards as well as two Oscar nominations (for “Officer” and “Terms”). To many female moviegoers in particular, Winger embodied the kind of tough, self-sufficient woman that they aspired to become, yet there was always room within Winger’s characters for love with the right person.

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Post-1983, Winger continued to work steadily, earning a fifth Golden Globe nod for 1993’s “A Dangerous Woman” as well as a third Oscar nomination and second BAFTA nom for 1993’s “Shadowlands.” However, after 1995’s romantic comedy “Forget Paris,” Winger virtually disappeared from high-profile films, choosing a semi-retirement with occasional film work now and then.

Longtime comedy screenwriting partners Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, known for such hits as Splash, Parenthood, City Slickers and A League of Their Own, will receive this year’s WGA West’s Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The prize is presented to guild members who have “advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter.”

“Starting in the 1980s with a string of critical and commercial hits, the imprint Ganz and Mandel have left on movies is profound,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman. “Their scripts are always a balancing act; funny and moving, edgy but never offensive. They understand that in order for the jokes to work, the characters have to be compelling and relatable, but never lose sight of the fact that in a comedy, you need comedy. Two truly funny, talented writers whose careers the Wgaw board of directors...

Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, who wrote “Splash,” “Parenthood,” and “City Slickers,” have been named the recipients of the Writers Guild of America West’s 2019 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.

The duo will be honored at the WGA West’s Writers Guild Awards L.A. show on Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.

“Starting in the 1980s with a string of critical and commercial hits, the imprint Ganz and Mandel have left on movies is profound,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman. “Their scripts are always a balancing act; funny and moving, edgy but never offensive. They understand that in order for the jokes to work, the characters have to be compelling and relatable, but never lose sight of the fact that in a comedy, you need comedy.”

The duo received an Oscar nomination for “Splash” and won a National Society of Film Critics Award for best screenplay.

An all-star cast drives to the hoop in the hilarious basketball comedy Uncle Drew, arriving on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand September 25from Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company.

An all-star cast drives to the hoop in the hilarious basketball comedy Uncle Drew, arriving on Digital September 11 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand September 25 from Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company. Based on the hit Pepsi web series, the film tells the raucous tale of a young team owner and Uncle Drew rounding up Drew’s old basketball squad to prove that a group of septuagenarians can still win the big one. Starring in the film are NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving (Uncle Drew Web Series); Lil Rel Howery (Get Out, TV...

Forget Paris: Lane is a Fine Vintage from the Coppola Vineyards

At the age of eighty, Eleanor Coppola makes her narrative feature debut with the slight but seductive Paris Can Wait, a travelogue tinged with episodic bouts of aristocratic food pornography of the French countryside.

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The Oscar-nominated actor stars with Tracy Letts in a well-observed film about a cheating couple who fall in love with each other again after years of marriage

For an extended period throughout the 80s and early 90s, Debra Winger was one of the most successful female actors in the industry, scoring three Oscar nominations and appearing in films, such as An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands. But in 1995, after co-starring with Billy Crystal in Forget Paris, she took a hiatus. While she claimed it was a decision based on a simple desire for time off, many saw it as an indication of how Hollywood treats women over the age of 40, her choice of roles clearly drying up.

Related: Don't call it a comeback: the actors set to return to the A-list in 2017

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The 1990s: a time when Sleepwalkers, Burt Reynolds, No Escape, Chevy Chase and F/X/2 could top the Us box office...

By the 1990s, studios were waking up to movie marketing, and the era of the blockbuster. Tim Burton's Batman, released in summer 1989, had introduced the idea of a big opening weekend, and modern movies now target their promotional work to get just that. As such, it's harder and harder for smaller films to snare the top slot at the Us box office, even for one weekend.

In the 1990s, particularly the first half of the 1990s, that wasn't so much the case though. In fact, many films that have long since fallen from the public conscious topped the chart. And in this piece, I've tried to capture some of them.

Inevitably, you're going to have heard of some of them, and what a UK dweller sees as a...

Valentine's Day is this weekend and many couples are going to celebrate by heading to the multiplex and seeing Fifty Shades of Grey. Analysts are saying it might gross an astonishing $100 million during the four-day weekend despite mostly scathing reviews. Some critics are saying that parts of the movie are so inadvertently funny you almost feel like you're watching a romantic comedy. 

Now we have a question for you: What is the best romantic comedy of all time? Feel to vote for a classic like Some Like It Hot or It Happened One Night,...

Previously, On Reven8e.

Who will survive in a Post-Patrick world?

Here are five highlights:

Ridiculous Moment Of The Week

This is his second episode, and he’s still clothed. Get it together, show.

Pokey Pal

So we get rid of NoTrick and its place we have … New Trick? Out of the blue, Nolan gets a visit from a prison “friend” (okay, there’s no evidence there was anything between them, so I promise not to use the parentheses again) Javier, who’s recently paroled, and has taken Nolan up on his offer for a place to crash. *Note to Nolan, don’t make promises in prison unless you’re sincere.

Apparently Javier and Nolan … Javolan! … were in the hackers wing of the state prison, and became “close” (dammit, sorry) when they realized their mutual binary nature. Nolan is not too happy to see his former pokey pal, but a promise is a promise,...

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Another 25 unsung greats come under the spotlight, as we provide our pick of the underappreciated films of 1995...

The year covered in this week's underrated movie rundown was significant for a number of reasons. It was the year that saw the release of Toy Story - the groundbreaking movie that would cement Pixar's reputation as an animation studio, and set the tempo for CG family movies for the next 18 years and counting. It was the year that saw James Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan for the first time) emerge for GoldenEye after a six-year break. It was also the year of Michael Mann's Heat, Dogme 95, and the moment where Terry Gilliam scored a much-deserved hit with 12 Monkeys.

As ever, we're focusing on a few of the lesser-known films from this particular year, and we've had to think carefully about what's made the cut and what hasn't.

As he prepares to host the Academy Awards once more, we chart the movie highlights of Billy Crystal's career...

This Sunday will mark the ninth time that Billy Crystal has hosted the Academy Awards, and if he carries on at this pace his hosting appearances will soon catch up with his film appearances. That comment may be a little unfair, but despite being great screen presence and a talented comedian, Billy Crystal has never been a prolific actor, which is a great shame.

Below are what I consider to be some of his finest appearances in film.

10. Analyze This/Analyze That

These films are perhaps given a hard time as they can be used as an example of where Robert De Niro became a parody of himself, which is partly true. Still, these are far less egregious examples of this than, say, the Meet The... movies.

As it happens,...

Kim Kardashian supposedly laughed at the news of her former Bff Paris’s outburst! A friend of Kim’s also calls Paris ‘so jealous’ of her rise to fame and fortune! Is Paris mad she is falling off the map?

A friend of Kim Kardshian, 30, told The Huffington Post Kim laughed after hearing that Paris Hilton, 30, walked out of an interview when she was asked about being overshadowed by her.

Paris got visibly upset and walked out of an interview with ABC after it was suggested that she is now a has-been–and now Kim’s friends have her back! Brittny Gastineau, a longtime Bff of Kim, says that Paris should be happy for her former friend and stylist.

“I think it’s really sad that she can’t be happy for [a] one-time friend and doesn’t realize what goes around comes around,” Brittny said. “You have to realize there...

It is a sad commentary on the state of the genre that venturing out to see any romantic comedy these days comes with such a sense of foreboding. Which perfectly talented stars will be forced to gamely take part in dopey silliness? Which far too familiar plot elements will be recycled yet again? And will anyone have to do an entire scene with a live flapping pigeon attached to her head, as Debra Winger did in 1995’s “Forget Paris?” (I blame that single scene for the fact that it was eight...

If you're like me, you're trapped in the house under two feet of snow and you've got a lot of time on your hands. So it's the perfect day to read "The Sports Guy" Bill Simmons' lengthy treatise on the state of sports movies on Espn.com. It is an interesting (if a tad long-winded) read but, hey, what else are you gonna do? Shovel the driveway? I didn't think so.

Simmons begins by identifying what a down year 2010 was for sports movies: besides "The Fighter," you had the inspirational horse drama (obviously -- all horse dramas are inspirational) "Secretariat," the basketball romantic comedy "Just Wright," (in the proud tradition of "Forget Paris") and the "Bad News Bears"-y girls' basketball movie "The Winning Season" starring Sam Rockwell. The dearth of sports movies, a typically dependable cinematic staple, coupled with all the talk about how hard it was for...

Gossip Girl is off this week, with an all-new episode, "Easy J," returning next Monday at the usual time. This evening, the CW is airing the fourth season premiere, "Belles Du Jour."

Of the five episodes so far this fall, which has been your favorite? How do you feel about the season overall? Are you excited Jenny coming back next week? What is Juliet's deal?

Forget Paris: Gossip Girl has since returned to NYC, and things are heating up.

Discuss below. Here are our reviews of this season's episodes:

"Belles Du Jour" "Double Identity" "The Undergraduates" "Touch of Eva" "Goodbye Columbia"...

Scribes Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse ("Surf's Up") have been hired to pen a family event movie based on the writings of journalist W. Hodding Carter for 20th Century Fox reports Risky Biz Blog.

Carter wrote about his drastic real-life efforts to scale down his family's spending. The family of six were living far beyond their means in rural Rockport, Maine and experimented with living on $550 per month after mortgage payments.

The result saw them farming their front yard, eating roadkill, skipping holidays and meals out, reusing coffee filters and bartering. Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg will produce the feature.

Addario and Syracuse are also in the news today for other reasons, namely their previous draft of another film is getting a quick rewrite by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ("City Slickers," "Forget Paris") reports Deadline.

Entitled "Us & Them", the Andy Fickman-directed comedy has Billy Crystal as a grandpa...

Deadline is reporting that Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel have been hire dto do a rewrite of "Us and Them," a comedy which will be star Billy Crystal and be directed by Andy Fickman (The Game Plan, Race to Witch Mountain). In the new movie, Crystal plays a grandpa left alone to care for his grandchildren. He has to navigate to overcome generational shifts to bond with the kids, and try to repair a rift with his daughter. Ganz and Mandel previously worked with Crystal on "City Slickers," "Forget Paris" and "Father's Day."...

Writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel have come aboard to do a quick rewrite of Us & Them, the Andy Fickman-directed film. The scribes worked with the film's star/producer, Billy Crystal, on City Slickers, Forget Paris and Father's Day.  Us & Them, picked up in turnaround from Paramount, is on a fast track as a co-production between Walden Media and Fox. Crystal plays a grandpa left alone to care for his grandchildren. He has to navigate to overcome generational shifts to bond with the kids, and try to repair a rift with his daughter. They're rewriting the draft by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has had quite an interesting career in a pretty short amount of time. He’s covered just about all of the prerequisites that his Action Movie forefathers set for him: Sci-Fi franchise, art-house picture, buddy movie, and family film. Those accolades took stars like Schwartzenegger and Stallone 15 years to accomplish, and Johnson has managed to do them in 5. He’s now coming off of the success of Race to Witch Mountain and The Game Plan for another family-friendly film in The Tooth Fairy.

In the film, Johnson plays tough guy Derek Thompson, known to his friends as “The Tooth Fairy” due to his aggressive sportsmanship on the hockey rink. Thompson is kind of an S.O.B. to fans, friends, and even his kid, until things get turned around and he is sentenced to serve as an actual tooth fairy.

The cast is pretty heavy, throwing in names...

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Debra Winger's life has enough stories to fill a dozen movies. Want to hear about overcoming adversity? When Winger was 17, a car accident put her in a coma for weeks and left her partially paralyzed and blind for 10 months, during which time she vowed that if she recovered, she would become an actor. How about a great discovery story? As a struggling unknown actor, she crashed an audition and won the coveted role of the brash, sensual Sissy, opposite John Travolta, in Urban Cowboy, which made her an instant star. A hint of scandal? It's no secret Winger has had tense relationships on set, such as with her An Officer and a Gentleman director, Taylor Hackford, and her Terms of Endearment co-star Shirley MacLaine. And how about a tale with a surprise twist? After turning 40, with three Oscar nominations to her name, firmly ensconced as a sought-after actor, Winger...

American actress Debra Winger is stunned at the way everybody's seeing her latest movie as a comeback - because she didn't realise she was gone for so long. Winger, 46, dropped out of the spotlight after starring in the forgettable flick Forget Paris opposite Billy Crystal six years ago. The three-time Oscar nominee has now re-emerged on American cinema screens with her new movie Big Bad Love - and she's shocked to realize how long it's actually been since her last film outing. She says, "I didn't, like, announce my retirement, but I didn't look back and I was busy all the time. Time accelerates as you get older, and now when I hear it's been six years, it doesn't feel like it. I mean, I had a baby, my mom passed, I taught, I did two plays. I lived my life."...

Eighties film star Debra Winger has vented her dislike of the Hollywood film industry - branding it a world full of "dishonesty and disregard". Winger, star of such classics as Terms Of Endearment and An Officer And A Gentleman, claims the people she was "dealing with" are the ones who turned her off pursuing further success in the movie world, causing her to vanish into near-obscurity. In the February issue of Premiere magazine she says, "It was a real struggle for me. And the older you get, the more you feel hypocritical for living off it." And the brunette beauty, 46, also speaks of her reputation for being difficult to work with, explaining, "It keeps away the fainthearted. But I don't think I'm unkind. I think I might have been unkind when I was young. Listen, I did wild things, I lived a wild life. I consumed much. I just exploded with my independence. But I don't think I hurt anyone. I was too busy hurting myself." Winger will return to screens in Big Bad Love - her first film since 1995's Forget Paris - but refuses to term it a comeback. She says, "I'm not coming back anywhere. I am, however, many years older, and my interests are totally different, and there's nothing to come back to."...