When John Krasinski took to the stage last month after the world premiere of his movie "A Quiet Place" at the South by Southwest Film Festival, he seemed startled and surprised not only by the intensity of the audience's response but also, perhaps, even by the movie itself. "Who made that film and why?" he exhorted the crowd.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
Steven Spielberg's massive new movie "Ready Player One" not only riffs on the filmmaker's legacy, but harkens back to the breezy and imaginative fun of his biggest crowd-pleasers. Spielberg's influence on both popcorn blockbusters and history-based prestige films really can't be overstated: This was, after all, the man who gave us both "Schindler's List" and "Jurassic Park" - and in the same year.
Classic horror films over the history of cinema are full of towering men like Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and others.
It was 1971. Both Steven Spielberg and Steven Bochco were in their 20s, just staring out and yet to make their mark as icons of film and TV.
The Frankenstein story has become an archetype, with many direct and loose media adaptations and others that reference it including the Universal and Hammer film series, the blaxploitation movie The Universal film that shot Boris Karloff to stardom as the Monster takes many major and minor liberties with Mary Shelley's novel. They include changing Victor Frankenstein's first name to Henry and making his creation unable to speak.
We said a man, named Jonathan Aws, spotted a basking shark gliding through the water between Mermaids Quay and Cardiff Bay Barrage. We described how he was filming boats with his sons, Michael and Sean, when he spotted a dorsal fin on Saturday.
April is finally here and that means we're in for a treat this month with new summer shows and movies. Outside of the obvious Avengers: Infinity War that's expected to be the end of many fan-favorite Marvel heroes, we have an HBO documentary about one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, as well as a feature film from the same network starring Al Pacino as football coach Joe Paterno.
'Jurassic Park' star Jeff Goldblum has opened up about how he had to fight to keep Ian Malcolm in the original film. Jeff Goldblum may be making a comeback to the 'Jurassic Park' franchise in 'Jurassic World 2', bringing the Dr. Ian Malcolm character back to the big screen for the first time in two decades, but it wasn't always going to be the case.