Prime Video has revealed the first trailer for Madden, the David O. Russell-directed biopic starring Nicolas Cage as legendary NFL coach-turned-NFL broadcaster John Madden and Christian Bale as Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis. Russell also wrote the film, working off an earlier screenplay drafted Cambron Clark. Along with Cage and Bale, the cast includes John Mulaney as Trip Hawkins; Kathryn Hahn as Virginia Madden; Sienna Miller as Carol Davis; Joel Murray as Pat Summerall; and Shane Gillis.
One of the favorite things about Christmas is settling down to watch Christmas movies, free from work and school obligations. It's one of the best ways to just relax during the holiday frenzy. Still, with so many streaming services, figuring out what to watch can be difficult to even figure out what to watch, purely from decision overload. That's why we narrowed down the list for you.
Could the students who snickered their way through those first SpongeBob adventures have foreseen the franchise persisting 25 years on, even after metabolising the most lysergic pharmaceuticals? Such longevity is partly down to extra-commercial considerations, in that the series has a capacity for tickling adults' funny bones possibly even those now fully grown students as well as the very young. Though it can't claim anything quite as unexpected as the David Hasselhoff cameo in 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie not so much a high bar as an unforgettably wonky one feature four thinks nothing of making Clancy Brown talk like a pirate while handing royalty cheques to Barbra Streisand and Yello. Anything can still happen in Bikini Bottom.
Hannibal Lecter's first movie appearance was in 1986's Manhunter, starring Brian Cox. It took director and writer Michael Mann just five weeks to adapt Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon for the screen. But when it came to adapting his own work Heat 2, co-authored with Meg Gardiner as both a prequel and sequel to his 1995 film Heat Mann discovered the pain of self-editing.
Josh Safdie's sports drama "Marty Supreme" follows Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a talented but impulsive table tennis player in the 1950s who's determined to become the top player in the world. Along the way, he gets distracted by side hustles, a fling with an aging starlet ( Gwyneth Paltrow), and retrieving a gangster's (Abel Ferrara) lost dog, all of which almost leads to self-sabotage on an epic scale.
The romcom originally included a relationship between the headmistress (Anne Reid) of the school that hosts the final Christmas concert, and her partner Geraldine (Frances de la Tour). Deleted scenes show the headmistress return from school to find her partner, who is terminally ill, in bed. They laugh and drink wine, before it cuts to them sleeping in bed together, Geraldine painfully coughing.
"Cinematography does it all for me," Grammy-winning musician Raphael Saadiq told IndieWire over Zoom. The R&B icon, who has seen decades of success as a solo artist, as a member of the groups Tony! Toni! Toné! and Lucy Pearl, and as a writer/producer for everyone from Erykah Badu and Earth, Wind & Fire, to Alicia Keys, John Legend, and a few key names he'll get into later, has been explaining the way films have inspired a few of his biggest hits.
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New details have emerged about the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, whose bodies were discovered on Sunday 14 December in their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Their death certificates have been released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, obtained by TMZ and reported by multiple US outlets. They record that Rob Reiner's body was found at 15.45, and Singer Reiner's at 15.46.
Woo stood center stage at Madison Square Garden with one simple question for a sold-out crowd: This is the anthem of 2025. Are you ready to seal the Honmoon with me tonight? before launching into Golden, transforming iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball into a deafening sing-along and proving his evolution from animated demon to real-life pop phenomenon. While K-Pop Demon Hunters has become a cultural marvel, amassing more than 352 million views.
Clea Duvall directed 2020's Happiest Season. As well as Stewart the film also stars Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Mary Holland, Victor Garber, and Mary Steenburgen. Stewart plays Abby Holland, a lesbian who has been dating Harper Caldwell (Davis) for a year. Not a fan of Christmas, Abby is invited to spend the holidays with Harper's conservative family who it turns out Harper hasn't come out to yet.
In 2022, I was living in a flat in north London above a chicken shop, with two flatmates and a cockroach infestation (what did we expect, said the landlord, living above a takeaway?). My flatmate was from Lithuania, and was due to go home in January, and our other flatmate, his girlfriend, was away for Christmas. I'd been home to Canada the month before, so for Christmas Day itself it was just the two of us.
The teaser shows Evans riding up to a home on a motorcycle. He takes off his helmet and walks to the door. Once inside, he takes out his Captain America suit. The teaser then shows Rogers looking adoringly at a baby as he holds the child in his arms. The screen goes to black as the words "Steve Rogers Will Return in Avengers: Doomsday" fade up.
"So, some of you may or may not know that I was in the hospital very ill this fall with Urosepsis. It was not easy. It's been a very, very challenging four months. And I want everybody to know that I am on the road to a full recovery. I'm not there yet, but I'm on the road to that."
What is this relationship? Over the weekend, Ben and Jen were spotted doing some holiday shopping with Affleck's 13-year-old son, Samuel, whom he shares with the only other woman he knows, Jennifer Garner. Is this normal behavior for a celebrity ex-stepfamily? Or better yet, is there even a standard for "normal" behavior when it comes to being an ex-stepfamily? Society longs to know.
