Casting movie stars can be a tricky proposition, especially if you’re making a big-budget film with unproven talent. In 1987, that’s exactly what Kevin Costner was. He’d appeared in three box-office bombs in 1985 (“American Flyers,” “Silverado,” and “Fandango”), and, prior to this, had been cut out of Lawrence Kasdan’s Baby Boomer smash “The Big […]
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Bob Hoskins Invented the Modern Blockbuster Performance in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’
There is a man squatting at the lowest point of his personal and professional life. He’s a classic film-noir detective living from job to job in Hollywood in the late 1940s, the dark hero of an ’80s neo-noir. The man used to be on the LAPD, but now he’s just a hacky private investigator who’s […]
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins to chair federal pharmacare committee
Ontario MPP Eric Hoskins has resigned as health minister to chair a federal government advisory council with a goal of creating a national pharmacare plan.
Superhero Bits: Doctor Strange Science, X-23’s Claws, Bob Hoskins as Wolverine & More
Has Trevante Rhodes had talks about potentially playing Green Lantern? Do movie goers want to see more R-rated superhero movies? How much real science went into the recreation of the Doctor Strange multiverse? Who did X-Men comics writer Chris Claremont envision as playing Wolverine in the 1980s? Why are X-23‘s claws more deadly than Wolverine‘s? […]