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Judi Dench Says Robin Williams Was ‘Gently Supportive’ During Her Late Husband’s Cancer Battle: ‘I’ve Often Thought About’ His ‘Sensitivity and Understanding’

Judi Dench is reflecting on her relationship with Robin Williams and how he supported her when her husband, Michael Williams, was battling lung cancer in her forthcoming memoir, “Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?” Nearly 30 years earlier, Dench had been staying at actor Billy Connolly’s Scotland home with her late […]

Variety · 16h ago
Michael Mann Injured When Weapon Accidentally Discharges; Filmmaker OK

BREAKING: On Saturday, at a gun range, a weapon accidentally discharged while holstered resulting in a superficial injury to film director Michael Mann. He was treated and is being released. Mann is scheduled to direct Heat 2 in January. Deadline spoke exclusively to a source close to the filmmaker, and this will not impact start […]

Deadline · 19h ago
"The Lost Boys": How a vampire musical brings the undead to life

In movies and TV, vampires – the blood-sucking undead – have held a firm grip on the public's imagination. That popularity has now extended to Broadway. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with actors L.J. Benet and Ali Louis Bourgzui, and director Michael Arden, of "The Lost Boys," which has avoided the stake in the heart that befell other Broadway vampire musicals. Smith also talks with film professor Rebekah McKendry about vampire lore in the media.

CBS News · 20h ago
‘I left shellshocked’: writers on their scariest non-horror movies

For Halloween, Guardian writers have picked the most efficiently terrifying films outside of the horror genre from How to Have Sex to The Hunchback of Notre Dame Minor spoilers ahead Hiding in plain sight throughout Lee Chang-dong’s deliciously enigmatic Burning, in which a spirited young woman (Jeon Jong-seo) disappears, and a wealthy playboy (Steven Yeun) gives serial killer vibes, is a disaffected male rage. That’s perhaps the most commonplace horror of our times, whether on the internet or politics, and you feel the tremors of it steadily breaking the surface in Yoo Ah-in’s performance. He plays Jong-su, an aspiring writer, quietly frustrated with his lot in life. Jong-su works odd jobs and tends to his incarcerated father’s dilapidated farm, growing more desperate to grasp some sense of control over the world around him, which is where the scary part comes in. Lee is the master dramatist who with Burning tilts violently into thriller territory, navigating elements from Taxi Driver, The Vanishing and Michael Haneke’s Caché, using the language of horror movies to conjure up a creeping anxiety and dread that erupts into pure existential fear. Radheyan Simonpillai Continue reading...

The Guardian · Oct 30