Hollywood Outbreak

>Most TV couples have to fake the chemistry. Téa Leoni and Tim Daly do not have that problem. They spent years playing husband and wife, they fell in love while doing it, and eventually they got married for real. Now they are doing the whole thing again. Except this time it is a comedy. The […] The post Téa Leoni and Tim Daly Find Their Comedy Rhythm in ‘Newlyweds’ appeared f...

Some movies become hits the minute they arrive in theaters. Others need a little time for audiences to catch up with them. And then there’s Mystery Men, the wonderfully strange 1999 superhero comedy. Ben Stiller said his friendship with Janeane Garofalo helped draw him to the movie, but even its incredible cast couldn’t make it […] The post Ben Stiller Said Friendship Led Him to...

Robert and Michelle King making a legal drama worth watching? At this point, that is kind of their thing. This is the team behind The Good Wife, The Good Fight and Elsbeth. For years now, they have been handing TV audiences tangled cases, dialogue with some bite, and characters who are honestly just as fun […] The post Why Ella Stiller Loved Bringing Attitude to ‘Cupertino’ appea...

Dinner at a fancy restaurant is supposed to be a treat. Unless Ralph Fiennes is the one running the kitchen. Then you might want to cancel that reservation. That is the fun of The Menu. It is funny and disturbing and deeply uncomfortable, sometimes all at once, in the same scene. When the movie opened […] The post ‘The Menu’ Gave Ralph Fiennes Food for Thought appeared first on H...

The movie takes its title from Anne Hathaway’s character, but she knows she is not the only actress with a big role in bringing this unsettling story to life. That distinction belongs to Dakota Johnson too, whose character ends up caught in a situation that just gets more disturbing the longer the movie goes on. […] The post Anne Hathaway on Dakota Johnson’s Dark Turn in ‘V...

It’s easy for a movie like The Post to get lost in Steven Spielberg’s filmography. After all, this is the director who gave us Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan and a whole lot more. Most filmmakers would be thrilled to have even one of those on their résumé. There’s […] The post Why Steven Spielberg Felt Lucky Cast...

Few actors have earned the kind of respect and affection that Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan have enjoyed throughout their remarkable careers. She’s an Oscar-winning actress whose work has captivated audiences for decades. He’s a former James Bond who has successfully reinvented himself across film and television. Put these two screen legends together, and you’ve […] The p...

More than 50 years after The Brady Bunch left primetime television, somehow we are all still talking about Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy. Barry Williams knows there is something deeper behind the show’s staying power. That is pretty remarkable for a sitcom that originally ran from 1969 to 1974. There were no giant […] The post Barry Williams Knows Why ‘The Brady Bunch...

Some movies become huge cultural landmarks. Others simply become really good movies to find on a lazy afternoon. Necessary Roughness falls nicely into that second category. Released in 1991, the football comedy starred Scott Bakula as Paul Blake, a former high school quarterback who never went to college and suddenly gets another chance when the […] The post ‘Necessary Roughness’...

Playing a U.S. ambassador on TV is one thing. Doing it for real, with actual international crises and messy political relationships and the odd diplomatic nightmare thrown in? Totally different job. And after four seasons of Netflix’s The Diplomat, Keri Russell has a whole new respect for the people who do it every single day. […] The post Keri Russell Sees Diplomacy Differently After...

Back in 1996, this tiny independent movie about struggling actors, bad dates and a group of friends trying to make it in Hollywood landed in theaters. No big budget. No all-star cast. Just sharp dialogue, characters you actually remembered and a whole lot of laughs. It came out on October 18, 1996, and people just […] The post ‘Swingers’ 30th Anniversary: Why It’s Still Money app...

Back in 1998, Armageddon gave audiences a pretty simple plan for saving Earth from an asteroid: call Bruce Willis, grab a team of oil drillers, send them into space, put Aerosmith on the soundtrack and hope everything works out before the entire planet gets wiped out. That was Armageddon, and subtle it was not. Released […] The post ‘Armageddon’: Michael Bay Knew the Science Was...

 There are movie titles that require a little explanation. Cocaine Bear was never one of them. When the movie arrived in theaters in 2023, audiences knew exactly what they were getting. There was a bear. There was cocaine. And director Elizabeth Banks was not particularly interested in pretending the situation was going to remain calm. […] The post ‘Cocaine Bear’: How Elizab...

For many television viewers, Tuesday night was Smallville night. You could always count on Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor and plenty of strange things happening in that little Kansas town. After all, growing up knowing you’re going to become Superman isn’t exactly a normal childhood. October 16 marks the 25th anniversary of Smallville, which […] The post ‘Smallville&#821...

Friday the 13th arrived in 1980 and helped turn Jason Voorhees and Crystal Lake into permanent pieces of horror history. Now Crystal Lake is taking audiences back into that world, with Linda Cardellini stepping into the mythology for Peacock’s new series. And according to Cardellini, there may be a pretty simple reason people keep coming […] The post Linda Cardellini Teases the Thrills...

Helen Mirren’s latest television role comes with a particularly entertaining bit of James Bond trivia. Hollywood has a funny way of bringing people back into each other’s orbit. On MobLand, Mirren shares the screen with another actor who once played 007. On 1923, Mirren worked alongside Timothy Dalton, who played James Bond in The Living […] The post Helen Mirren’s Perfect...

Scott Caan may have been born and raised in Hollywood, but New York was never exactly foreign territory. That matters now. The actor is back inside the NCIS universe with NCIS: New York, this time as a regular alongside LL Cool J. And while Caan is playing a brand-new character, there is something familiar about […] The post Scott Caan: Dad James Caan Shaped ‘NCIS: New York’ Role...

Some movie relationships become bigger than the story they started in. Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi definitely belong on that list. More than 40 years after The Karate Kid introduced Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita as the unlikely student and teacher, their relationship still sits at the heart of the franchise. Sequels followed, generations discovered […] The post ‘The Karate Kid’:...

Twenty years ago, Tina Fey introduced television audiences to Liz Lemon, Jack Donaghy, Tracy Jordan and one of the most wonderfully dysfunctional workplaces in television history. On October 11, 2006, 30 Rock premiered on NBC, bringing viewers behind the scenes of a fictional sketch comedy show where keeping the cameras rolling was sometimes the easiest […] The post ’30 Rock’ Tur...

A Few Good Men has never really been one of them. More than three decades after Tom Cruise walked into a military courtroom and went toe-to-toe with Jack Nicholson, the 1992 drama keeps finding new viewers. Plenty of us remember seeing it when it was new, which makes watching another generation discover it through streaming […] The post Why ‘A Few Good Men’ Still Holds Up appeare...

Before Saturday Night Live became an institution, it was just a new television show trying to make it to air. Nobody knew what would come next. There would eventually be decades of sketches, breakout stars, catchphrases, movies and controversies. Generations of comedians would grow up dreaming about Studio 8H. On October 11, 1975, though, they […] The post ‘Saturday Night’: Jason...

How Colin Farrell built the real-time tension in Phone Booth is part of what makes the thriller still work so well. A phone rings. Most people would probably let it go. Unfortunately for Colin Farrell, answering that call is where everything starts going very, very wrong in Phone Booth. The thriller takes an incredibly simple […] The post How Colin Farrell Built The Real-Time Tension In Phon...

Mike Colter is no stranger to Robert King and Michelle King, or to fans of their television shows. From The Good Wife to starring for four seasons on the beloved series Evil, Colter has spent years working in the Kings’ television world. Now he is returning to it with their new legal drama, Cupertino. This […] The post ‘Cupertino’ Was An Easy Sell To Star Mike Colter appear...

How Michael Douglas ever wondered whether he had what it took to make it in Hollywood is hard to imagine. Almost 60 years later, we already know how that story turned out. He became a movie star, an Oscar-winning actor, an Oscar-winning producer and one of those performers whose career seems to have touched just […] The post How Michael Douglas’s ‘Helluva Ride’ Almost Never...

Released on October 6, 2006, The Departed brought together one of the most impressive casts of its era and gave Martin Scorsese another shot at a world of crime, loyalty, betrayal, and people who are rarely what they seem. Two decades later, the movie has lost almost none of its punch. Even when you know […] The post ‘The Departed’ at 20: Why Scorsese’s Hit Still Packs a Pu...