There comes a time in every blogger’s life when she’s asked to interview someone she’s had some fun writing about, and the decision must be made: Do I own the fact that I’ve said this man makes me want to procreate, or do I not? Because I’m professional (really), I decided that Nathan Fillion need not hear about that last Friday, when ABC offered me a few minutes on the phone with him during a tightly-scheduled satellite press tour to promote Castle (Mondays, 10 p.
As some might say: "What an excellent day for an exorcism…" It has been decades since The Exorcist started terrifying moviegoers. Despite countless imitators and special-effects advancements made over that time, the 1973 film remains unparalleled as a terrifying and disturbing cinematic experience. Stories about how it was made are almost as unsettling. Director William Friedkin, who earned an Oscar nomination for the film, sat down for a Q&A after a 2012 film screening for the ICM Partners talent agency to discuss some of the most infamous legends surrounding the movie.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the fifth episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Marvel is opening up about the bombshell cameo that arrived in the penultimate episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Comedy great Julia Louis-Dreyfus made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in the Disney+ series as Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine — or just Val, as she told Wyatt Russell's John Walker. But also, don't call her Val.
Written by the FBI agents who placed a recording device in mobster Paul Castellano’s Staten Island home, this glimpse of life behind dark glasses and silk suits will delight Mafia watchers everywhere. But its most avid readers will be those with a special interest in the subject — other mobsters, for as the authors point out, when these guys read, they like to read about themselves (”the illiterates wait for the movie”).
In a fight against impossible odds for survival, sometimes even the small efforts to prevail can provide a little bit of hope. But when those efforts are swiftly dashed apart, extinguishing that glimmer, the result only magnifies the desperation. With the in-home release of The Finest Hours next week, Entertainment Weekly has been given an exclusive look at one such scene that was cut from the final version. Based on a true story, the film chronicles the 1952 Coast Guard rescue of merchant mariners trapped on the tanker the SS Pendelton after a nor’easter rips the ship in half.
Set before and during Operation Desert Storm, The Fist of God (Bantam) reads like a thinly disguised World War II adventure novel. Despite the attention paid to contemporary geopolitics, Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Deceiver) practically insists that readers translate Iraq into Nazi Germany, Baghdad into Berlin, Saddam Hussein into Adolf Hitler, and the Persian Gulf of the 1990s into Western Europe circa 1944. No moral ambiguity, please.
What are those, Barry!? Grant Gustin's Barry Allen is receiving a major footwear upgrade for The Flash season 8. During DC FanDome on Saturday, the CW superhero show revealed that the Scarlett Speedster will finally receive the iconic gold boots this year. His new suit also features a newly designed center crest and wings. Check out his new look below: Whereas The Flash wasted no time diving into the hero's complex comic book mythology (like introducing time travel midway through season 1), the show has taken a relatively slow approach to the evolution of his suit.
It's been 10 years since we walked into the Foster household. Groundbreaking series The Fosters centered a multiracial blended family and brought something new to the television landscape when it premiered in June of 2013. Created by Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige, the show followed married couple Stef and Lena Adams Foster (played by Teri Polo and Sherri Saum respectively) and their children, both biological and adopted. Through this family's stories, the ABC Family drama covered the realities of the foster care system, brought a slew of firsts when it came to LGBTQ representation, and covered ground that few other shows were at the time of its five-season run.
Friends fans, this one is for you: You can now collect pocket-size versions of your favorite Friends characters thanks to a new launch from Fisher-Price. Folks who own sizable figurine collections, whether it be Funko Pops or dolls, won't want to miss this Fisher-Price Little People drop. Yes, the beloved toy line from your childhood (did anyone else have the yellow bus?) is now offering a collectible set of Little People inspired by Friends, which is made specifically for adults who can't get enough of the show.
Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS[/caption] On the twelfth day before Christmas, the universe sent to me a Rajtastic episode of The Big Bang Theory. After a string of storylines centered around the BBT lovebirds in which Raj was reduced to the role of cast jester, our favorite astrophysicist returned with a bang tonight. While the boys played up the geek stereotype while simultaneously playing Dungeons & Dragons, Koothrappali joined the gals, who were reaffirming some stereotypes of their own by sporting scant apparel, for a girls night out.