"Veep" star Louis-Dreyfus tearfully shared during her Emmy acceptance speech that her father, William Louis-Dreyfus, had passed away on Friday. "I'm so glad that he liked 'Veep' because his opinion was the one that really mattered," Louis-Dreyfus said as she accepted the statue for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series.
JUST in time for Halloween, celebrated horror film maker Rob Zombie has unleashed his latest gore-filled offering - and this time out, Welsh acting and poetry play a prominent part in the on-screen carnage. Not only has the director and Grammy Award-winning musician cast a Welshman in the role of the show-stealing leading bad guy, but he's also quoted Swansea's most celebrated poet as well.
As we first reported last month Lionsgate has finally decided to dig into their monstrous, decades-spanning inventory of Vestron Video titles and start releasing certain films in newly remastered collector's editions. Their inaugural title, Chopping Mall , hits shelves on 9/27, and after spending some time with a review copy I'm happy to say it should be a must-own release for fans of the film as it's a definite upgrade from all previous versions.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of James Cameron's blockbuster sequel Aliens , and to celebrate the release of the new Blu-ray edition of the film , we're counting down The 12 Most Badass Big Screen Action Heroes . Check out our list in the gallery below! What makes Sigourney Weaver's Ripley and the others on our list such perennial conveyers of the badass arts? Is it their style? Their swagger? Their bravery in the face of certain danger and doom? Is it just that they look cool checking fools and wiping out big bads? How about all of those reasons and more.
Back in 1997 - before X-Men changed how superhero movies were made - there was a comic book movie called Spawn . It was about a cult favorite character who was a reluctant soldier for the demons of hell and the movie was really, really bad.
"American Horror Story" has spent five seasons building a reputation for having striking visuals, off-the-rails writing, and plenty of movie references peppered throughout. One could easily get a crash course on the history of genre cinema just by studying the references that Ryan Murphy and his team have pulled from countless films.
Though movies often get a bum wrap for "not being original," thanks to remakes, sequels, and adaptations, there's one place that picks up the films and gives them an even longer life - television. There are already a ton of TV shows in development that are based on movies and this season will see the premiere of even more like Taken , Training Day , and Westworld , just to name a few.
The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience's imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian emigre in Manhattan who believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Alex Winter, left, and Keanu Reeves star as goofballs Bill and Ted in the two 1980s/'90s comedies "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey," now available in a three-disc Blu-ray set with bountiful bonus features. The animated features "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Iron Giant" lead newly released vintage titles on Blu-ray and DVD this week.