Glynis Johns, best known to audiences as Mrs. Winifred Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, has died in Los Angeles. Her publicist confirmed the news to Eyewitness News, citing old age. Johns was 100 years old.
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The double-edged sword of horror films like Night Swim is that the audience has a version of the film in their head even before the projector lights up and the movie starts. If you’ve seen a trailer for Night Swim, you have a very clear idea of what this movie is, and that means two things for first-time director…
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It’s tempting, in these dark days for Disney, to read every bit of news as a sign of Marvel’s declining fortune. From the box office to the many Blade rewrites, everything seems to point to the end of an empire. Steven Yeun’s departure from Thunderbolts came across that way: buzzy actor flees failing studio! Yet Yeun…
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What ethical considerations do storytellers owe to their real-life muses? This is one of Hollywood’s most prevalent recurring questions, and this season’s award contenders have taken a variety of different approaches. Cillian Murphy was invested in researching J. Robert Oppenheimer (if not the actual science). Martin…
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Lots of big stars have played Elvis in recent years: first Oscar nominee Austin Butler, then Internet heartthrob Jacob Elordi, and now the name on everyone’s lips, artificial intelligence. Yes, be you living or dead, nothing can stop someone from exhuming the corpse of your past self and puppeteering it for the…
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Since 1944, the Golden Globes have galivanted around American show business like the dumb Oscars. Under the stewardship of the quasi-mysterious, bribe-ready Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Globes regularly courted controversy and stumbled towards its televised ceremonies, where stars get drunk and roasted.…
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It’s a new year, people, which means it’s high time to get excited about plenty of premiering (and returning) TV shows. The next 12 months promise some real bangers, from star-studded murder mysteries to buzzy book adaptations, from genre-bending comedies to the next chapters of House Of The Dragon and Abbott…
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Michelle Yeoh has made a name for herself on the big screen, having become the first Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2023. But in recent years, the Malaysian-born actor has ventured into television, intent on playing different kinds of characters across multiple episodes. After playing a Starfleet…
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When we think of the Oscars’ Best Adapted Screenplay award, our minds typically drift to the world of books. With a few exceptions—short films, plays, the occasional magazine article—Best Adapted Screenplays have largely been culled from the world of novels, memoirs, and the occasional non-fiction piece; the…
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Was the Rage Against The Machine reunion doomed from the jump? It’s certainly starting to seem that way, as drummer Brad Wilk has announced on social media tonight that, at least as far as he’s concerned, the legendary rock group is no longer a going concern, stating that, “RATM will not be touring or playing live…
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Anyone holding out hope that the last few years of renewed personal freedom for musical superstar Britney Spears might lead to the creation of, for instance, new, publicly released music from Britney Spears, should probably hurl those hopes away like so many ominously danced-with knives: Spears issued a statement on…
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Honestly, they had us at “Mandy Patinkin is doing a riff on Poirot”: That’s one of the big takeaways, after all, from the trailer released today for Hulu’s new series Death And Other Details, which premieres on the streaming service on January 16. All the hallmarks of a classic Agatha Christie murder mystery are on…
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