As a box-office draw, Arnold Schwarzenegger 's best years were from the late 1980s through the mid 1990s. That overlaps significantly with his biggest years as an action hero, from 1984's The Terminator to 1994's True Lies .
With shows like The Walking Dead , Game Of Thrones , and Stranger Things dominating daily pop culture talk, folks are having real discussions as to whether or not television has surpassed film as the dominant medium. We like to think this change was super-recent, but while there has definitely been an increase in quality and budgeting for television in the last decade, TV's been kicking narrative ass for awhile.
The third season of Fargo centers around brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy. The pair couldn't be more different, and yet they're both portrayed by star Ewan McGregor.
Over the years, he also appeared in films such as " The Rat Race ", "Muscle Beach Party", "Bikini Beach", " Pajama Party ", " Beach Blanket Bingo ", " Kelly's Heroes ", "Innocent Blood" and " Casino " - as well as providing the voice of Mr. Potato Head in the hit "Toy Story" movies. "A God died today".
The great veteran director-producer Walter Hill unleashes a corker of a grindhouse exploitation film with "The Assignment." The San Francisco-set, Vancouver-shot revenge thriller tells the story of an unwanted gender reassignment surgery performed upon a ruthless and relentless hit man named Frank Kitchen .
Brendan Fraser has been cast opposite Max Irons and Mira Sorvino in Condor , AT&T Audience Network 's 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV. Inspired by Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor , and written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, Condor follows Joe Turner , a young CIA analyst whose idealism is tested when he stumbles onto a terrible but brilliant plan that threatens the lives of millions.
Don Rickles, the master insult comic who created laughs with ridicule and sarcasm in a decades-long career that earned him the facetious nickname "Mr. Warmth," died on Thursday at his Los Angeles home from kidney failure, his publicist said. He was 90. Rickles, who said he developed his brand of mockery humor because he was no good at telling traditional jokes, had recently postponed some performances, including a show set for May in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was pushed back to November just this week.
You may not know The Assignment by name -- it's had a number of different titles, after all, at various points known as TomBoy: A Revenger's Tale and Assignment -- but you might recognize it by its premise: Sigourney Weaver plays a vengeful plastic surgeon who performs a retaliatory sex-change operation on the assassin who killed her brother, turning Michelle Rodriguez wearing a prosthetic penis into just Michelle Rodriguez. It's...wild.
Tons of stage and TV, of course, and the skinny yet square-jawed, 67-year-old English actor has done his movie duty in everything from a Joan Collins sex thriller to roles as a Royal Air Force officer , Nazi officer , vampire boss , transitioning zombie , betrayed husband , cranky aging rock star and all-but-required service in several "Harry Potter," "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" episodes.