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Mark Hamill on ‘The Life of Chuck,’ His ‘Star Wars’ Legacy, and How AI Actors Are ‘Terrible, Ghastly, Ghoulish…and Weird’

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By Clayton Davis According To The variety Mark Hamill has spent nearly five decades in the spotlight, but the actor insists he’s still learning to disappear. “The definition of a character actor is an actor that disappears, and you see only the character,” Hamill says about his role in Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck,” which won the Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award in 2024 before being acquired by Neon. In Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella, Hamill plays an aging accountant — an intimate and surprising departure from the larger-than-life characters that made him famous, such as Luke Skywalker from the “Star Wars” series. The film, which stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Karen Gillan, explores memory, mortality and the marks we leave ...

Oct82025 by cineverseNo Comments

Dick Van Dyke Jokes ‘It’d Be Funny if I Didn’t Make It’ to 100 Years Old: ‘If I Had Known I Was Going to Live This Long, I Would’ve Taken Better Care of Myself

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By Zack Sharf According To The variety Dick Van Dyke recently attended the Vandy High Tea event in Malibu, Calif. and joked about his landmark 100th birthday, which is coming up later this year in December. The icon quipped: “That’s right. I’m not officially 100 until December. Two months. Two months. It’d be funny if I didn’t make it” (via People). Reflecting on the milestone birthday in a more serious tone, Van Dyke added: “I brag sometimes about how I made it to 100 and the truth is, if I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself. And it is frustrating because I don’t know what I did right. Other than her [wife Arlene], I didn’t do anything right.” Van Dyke married Arlene Silver in 2012. The couple was in attendance at the Va...

Oct72025 by cineverseNo Comments

Lukas Gage on His Memoir, Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis and That Infamous Viral Audition Video

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By Marc Malkin According To The variety Lukas Gage is living his true authentic life like never before. The openly gay 30-year-old actor – best known for “The White Lotus,” “You” and “Companion,” among others – tells all in his new memoir, “I Wrote This for Attention.” He writes candidly and humorously about his traumatic childhood, substance abuse, STDs, checking into a mental health treatment center and his short-lived marriage to celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton. “I’m an over-sharer,” Gage tells me during a Zoom video interview from his publisher Simon & Schuster’s offices in New York City. “I probably say too much. But I love memoirs where they overshare and maybe crossing the line, but they entice people to have conversations about thi...

Sep302025 by cineverseNo Comments

Momo’ Review: Martin Freeman Controls Time in Sentimental Fantasy Boasting Not-So-Distant Futuristic Threats

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By Carlos Aguilar According To The variety Given the pressures of modern existence, it’s clear why an adaptation of Michael Ende’s 1973 novel “Momo” would appear utterly relevant in 2025. More than ever, the hours in the day seem insufficient. In writer-director Christian Ditter’s glossy take on the fantastical story about the preciousness of time, an enigmatic red-haired girl named Momo (Alexa Goodall) lives inside the amphitheater of an unnamed European city (perhaps closest in look to Rome). Locals take an interest in Momo given her special talent for listening to people. When someone confides in her, the speaker feels magically compelled to be truthful. They leave the exchange feeling relieved and acknowledged, a rarity in the attention-starved era of the internet. Strangely...

Sep242025 by cineverseNo Comments

The Bride’ Trailer: Christian Bale Is Frankenstein and Jessie Buckley His Reanimated Bride in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gritty Horror

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By Lauren Coates According To The variety She’s alive! Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s monster movie “The Bride,” starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. The film’s official synopsis reads: “A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.” Inspired by James Whale’s “Bride of Frankenstein” and Mary Shelley’s 1818 “Frankenstein” novel, “The Bride” stars Buckley in the titular role, while Bale plays Frankenstein’s monster. The cast also includes Penélop...

Sep132025 by cineverseNo Comments

Hamnet,’ ‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘No Other Choice’ to Screen Texas Premieres at Austin Film Festival – Film News in Brief

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By Jazz Tangcay, Leia Mendoza, Andrew McGowan, Giana Levy According To The variety Austin Film Festival has announced the second wave of screenings set to premiere during this year’s festival lineup. The festival will run Oct. 23 to Oct. 30. Newly added Texas premieres will include Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice,” and the U.S. premiere of “Sacrificios.” his year’s world premieres are Kelly Kipscomb’s “Bite To Bite,” Jared Bonner and Josh Flanagan’s “Pickleheads,” following the world of pickleball, “Armadillo Man: The Trips of Jim Franklin,” the short bio-documentary about a concert poster artist who helped create the Austin musi...

Sep92025 by cineverseNo Comments

Guillermo del Toro on Sunday Paintings With Other Directors and the Brutality and Grace of ‘Frankenstein’: ‘Both Can Exist in the Same Body

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By Clayton Davis According To The variety Guillermo del Toro doesn’t just direct monsters — he understands them. The Oscar-winning auteur behind “The Shape of Water” (2017) and “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) has built a career elevating genre cinema through stories of misunderstood outsiders. But with his long-awaited adaptation of “Frankenstein,” the Mexican filmmaker has returned to what he calls his creative origin — and maybe his most personal film yet. “To me, the point of origin was ‘Frankenstein,’” del Toro tells Variety. “This is not a monster movie. This is a story about what it means to be human.” Del Toro’s take on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel isn’t horror in the conventional sense — it’s myth, metaphor and opera. After decades in development, “Frankenstein” finally pr...