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Lena Headey is a powerful actress. Whether she’s playing a time-traveling momma, or Ma-Ma, you can’t help but be captivated by her when she’s on screen. Headey, of course, also stars as Cersei Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones and was one of the actors involved in a scene making some major waves with fans….
The Mary Sue has decided we will no longer be actively promoting the HBO series Game of Thrones. Allow us to explain. As I write this, I sit within five feet of no less than ten Game of Thronespromotional products — some of which I’d been sent as a member of the press, but most of which…
This article was written by Miguel Penabella and originally published on Haywire Magazine. It’s also part of Kill Screen’s Film Week, a week-long meditation on the intersection between film and videogames. Check out the other articles here. And, if you’re in NYC, grab tickets to our Film Fest at Two5Six tonight, Friday, May 15th. The…
Post-credits scenes—or “stingers,” if you don’t want to write out “post-credits scenes”—are a lot of fun. They’re like the tiny, bonus ice cream cone that you find at the bottom of a normal-sized ice cream cone. The problem is that they’ve become too common. They’re not special anymore. Stingers have rules and expectations now, and…
Gawker has uncovered new details today concerning the at-times brutal three-year custody dispute between Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly and ex-wife, Maureen McPhilmy. In one instance, court documents say, O’Reilly violently attacked McPhilmy and dragged her down a staircase by the neck. According to a “source familiar with the facts of the case,” O’Reilly’s 16-year-old…
END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 TriStar Pictures; Touchstone PicturesWhen Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers hit theaters 16 years ago today, most American critics slammed it. In the New York Times, Janet Maslin panned the “crazed, lurid spectacle,” as featuring “raunchiness tailor-made for teen-age boys.” Jeff Vice, in the Deseret News, called it “a…
Taylor Swift premiered her star-studded, futuristic, neo-noir video Sunday night at the Billboard Music Awards after a highly publicized teaser campaign on her social media sites. Sidebar Everything We Know About Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’ Video » As promised, Selena Gomez, Kendrick Lamar, Jessica Alba, Lena Dunham, Ellie Goulding, Hayley Williams and others in Swift’s…
It’s been over two decades since CGI came careening through the silver screen to murder cops, lawyers, and other civil servants in Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park. Since then, both films have been praised for their inexplicably realistic effects, even though both movies have birthed a handful of sequels with much more powerful special effects…
Credit: Vittorio Zu Salma Hayek is my new heroine. This morning at the Kering Talks (Kering is a sponsor of the festival and Hayek’s husband François-Henri Pinault is the CEO) this woman dropped epic truth bombs for about an hour. Her co-speaker Matthias Schoenaerts didn’t get to say much but his performances are speaking for him; I saw…
I wrote earlier today about my frustrations with The Simpsons‘ voice work, which has become the least interesting part of a show that’s doing its best to creatively tread water. A number of people have already responded that the solution to the show’s casting problems is for The Simpsons to finally end. That almost happened in…