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Director Michael Showalter is coming off plenty of acclaim for directing the consistently and frequently praised romantic comedy The Big Sick from last year (it’s on Amazon Prime right now if you haven’t seen it). It was his third film behind the camera, and it continued his meteoric rise in quality as a filmmaker following […]
Apple isn’t sleeping on its upcoming foray into scripted TV: The tech giant is developing the thriller drama Are You Sleeping, starring Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) and produced by Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine shingle, our sister site Deadline reports. RELATED
Ava DuVernay is keeping herself very, very busy these days, between the last week’s mid-second-season finale of her OWN TV series Queen Sugar, her recently-announced Netflix mini-series on the Central Park Five, and the upcoming release of her highly-anticipated film adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. But apparently she’s also going to skip […]
Fox Searchlight has shared the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s next film — and from the trailer it looks Pan’s Labyrinth-level brutal, sweet, and gorgeous. Like that film — about a girl engaging with a fantastical realm as a distraction from the atrocities being committed around her just following the Spanish Civil War — Del […]
Wednesday’s episode of The 100, a clan-on-clan fight to the death, is among the biggest and bloodiest in the series’ history — and star Marie Avgeropoulos has the battle scars to prove it. RELATEDThe 100‘s Lindsey Morgan Star Breaks Down Raven’s ‘Selfish’ Decision: ‘I Was Shocked’ “My toenail is still black,” Octavia’s portrayer tells TVLine. “There’s a […]
When last we saw The 100‘s Octavia, she was seeking shelter from a downpour of toxic rain — while turning up the heat with Season 4 newcomer Ilian. So, what’s next? RELATEDMay Sweeps/Finale Preview: Get 140+ Spoilers, Plus Exclusive Photos! Octavia is seen again when The 100 returns Wednesday (The CW, 9/8c), and even though most of her […]
Thirty-eight years after it was first published in 1979, Octavia Butler’s Kindred remains one of the most uncategorizable, and uncompromising, narratives about slavery in the United States. It relates the story of Dana, a black woman in the 1970s, who finds herself pulled back through time to rescue Rufus, a white boy from a slaveholding […]
Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for her role in Hidden Figures, joined the SNL crew last evening and took a few digs at Trump, awards shows, and her own Hollywood history. (Has Spencer really played a nurse nine times? Ugh.) Despite being thrown some real stinkers during the […]
Saturday Night Live came back this weekend for their first episode of March. Hosting duties fell upon the shoulders of Oscar winner Octavia Spencer. While the actress appeared to be up to the challenge, the writing staff didn’t really seem to meet her in the middle. The result was a mostly mediocre episode with some […]
Octavia Spencer couldn’t have asked for worse material for her Saturday Night Live hosting debut. VIDEOSSNL Cold Open Recreates Forrest Gump With Kate McKinnon’s Jeff Sessions Save for a terrific, Forrest Gump-inspired cold open, where the Oscar-winning actress ever-so-briefly reprised her role from The Help opposite Kate McKinnon’s Jeff Sessions, Spencer was wasted in a series of uninspired, practically unwatchable […]
