Van Helsing Adds Kim Coates as Production Resumes on Final Season

Syfy’s Van Helsing has added to its cast as it becomes the first U.S. series to resume filming in Canada, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The first three episodes of the fifth and final season had been filmed in January/February in Bratislava, Slovakia, ahead of the pandemic-dictated shutdown in mid-March. Production has now resumed in the […]

Anne V. Coates, Legendary Editor of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and Many More, Has Died at 92

Anne V. Coates, the editor responsible for the single-greatest match cut in movie history, has died at the age of 92. Coates’ career spanned 60 years, in which she edited scores of films, including Lawrence of Arabia, Out of Sight, and many, many more. The greatest match cut in the history of film was an accident. It […]

Stop What You’re Doing and Read Ta-Nehisi Coates on Trump and White Supremacy

We haven’t done one of our regular “recommended reading” posts in a while, so consider this an emergency bulletin: this morning, The Atlantic published a new essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates on Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and white supremacy. It is, unsurprisingly, essential. “For Trump,” the Between the World and Me author writes, “it almost seems […]

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan Are Collaborating Once Again, This Time on a Film Penned By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan first showed the dynamism of their work together with Fruitvale Station and Creed, the first being Coogler’s directorial debut feature, following a day in the life of Oscar Grant, who, at the end of that day, would be killed, while unarmed, in the Fruitvale BART Station by a police officer. […]