Paramount Pictures Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” celebrates its 71st anniversary later this year, but rewatching it in March 2025, the movie plays differently than it ever has before. If you’ve never seen it, or you need a refresher on the plot, the film stars James Stewart as a photographer who’s broken his leg and is confined to his New York City apartment while he recovers. Bored out of his mind after having been there for weeks, he starts looking out his window and spying on his neighbors, only to notice some one of them participate in some … suspicious activity, and he becomes obsessed with figuring out what’s really going on. Watching the film again this week, I was struck by how many similarities there are to what we’re experiencing now. The
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“Emilia Perez” and “Wicked” won the live action feature categories at the 75th ACE Eddie Awards, were handed out Friday night at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The event was originally slated to be held on Jan, 18 but was postponed due to the L.A. fires. In response to the fires, the event also pivoted to a heartfelt fundraising event with a “come as you are” dress code. Juliette Welfling won the best edited dramatic feature category for “Emilia Pérez” and Myron Kerstein claimed the best edited comedic feature award for “Wicked.” Accepting the award, Kerstein thanked “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu–who received Golden Eddie during the ceremony–saying “you’ve changed my life for the better and restored my hope for both the world and for cinema.” Mary Blee won the animated feature
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Although otherwise “The Substance” had monstrous luck at the 2025 Academy Awards, Coralie Fargeat’s horror film starring Demi Moore did walk away with one Oscar for Best Hair and Makeup Design, as it was favored to do. Now, however, producer Nicolas Royer has weighed in on acrimony between members of the hair and makeup team that has been brewing both before and after the Oscar ceremony. You might well think that an entire team would qualify equally for an Academy Award; or that one single representative, the department head, would automatically be the nominee for an Oscar category. But each Hair and Makeup nomination is limited to three nominees. This in part reflects the complex way that prosthetics, hair design, and conventional makeup all work together to transform actors into
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Hackman died with his wife and dog in their New Mexico home. He was famous for movies such as ‘The French Connection’ and ‘Unforgiven’. Gene Hackman in ‘The Firm’. Photo: Paramount Pictures. Preview: Gene Hackman has died at the age of 95. He was found dead with his wife, Betsy Arakawa at their home. Hackman’s career spanned decades –– but he retired early. Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose roles ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found dead along with his wife and dog at their home. He was 95. Their death has already sent shockwaves around the acting community, and with the Oscars mere days away, the producers will likely be scrambling to
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By Robert Scucci | Updated 1 hour ago Of all the Batman movies that have been released over the past several decades, 1995’s Batman Forever receives what I consider to be a lot of unnecessary hate. Losing points among die-hard Batman fans for being incredibly campy and over-the-top when compared to Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman returns (and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight series), Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever isn’t remembered fondly because it’s not dark and brooding like its predecessors or successors, but rather bright, explosive, stylish, and corny, much like the 1960s iteration of Batman that featured Adam West as the Dark Knight and Burt Ward as Robin. I don’t necessarily see this stylistic pivot as a reason to hate on Batman Forever because when you look at any movie