Was babysitting and was asked if they could watch something scary. Not wanting to be responsible for nightmares I opted for child friendly horror and brought up something from my own childhood, Are you afraid of the dark?

They weren’t that interested but then I noticed that this kid looked strangely familiar. Lo and behold, this is the first appearance of Ryan Gosling.

So that got me thinking, what movies or tv shows have you watched that were the first appearances of now super famous actors?

I think it would be either Dustin Hoffmann or Jack Nicholson for me. I admittedly haven’t seen even half of either actor’s filmography, but I don’t think I need to see Anger Management again and I would be thrilled to see One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest again.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been going through Ray Liotta’s entire filmography but hit a real roadblock with the 1981 TV film Crazy Times. I personally reached out to Warner Bros. Licensing, and they officially confirmed that the master tape for this film is safe in their vault.

The film also features early performances by David Caruso, Michael Paré, and Amy Madigan. However, corporate policy prevents the studio from releasing copies to individuals, so an official archival release is our only way to see it!

Change.org notes that petitions reaching 1,000 supporters are 5x more likely to get more attention and that can help reach a studio decision maker's attention. I created a petition to show Warner Archive that there is a real audience ready to buy or stream this piece of TV history and this coming of age story set in the 1950’s.

Please take 10 seconds to sign and share and thank you for your support in bring this film out of the vault!

LINK:
https://c.org/rg6KLr97Nb

Hi everyone,

I’m hoping someone with cinema experience might be able to give me a rough idea of costs.

We’re looking at hiring a small private screen at a local independent cinema in England for a family Christmas get together (around 25 people). The cinema has quoted us for the screen hire, but they’ve said that if we want a Christmas film that they aren’t already showing that week, there may be an additional licensing fee.

We’re considering films like The Muppet Christmas Carol or The Polar Express.

Does anyone know roughly what sort of additional licence fees cinemas usually pay for a private screening of an older Christmas film? Are we talking tens of pounds, hundreds, or potentially much more?

I appreciate the cinema will be the only one who can give the exact figure. I’m just trying to get a ballpark idea before we decide.

Thanks!

Watching the Other Mommy trailer again, and thinking about Jessica Chastain’s career and how bonkers it truly is. She’s so so chaotic, there are at least 4 careers rolled into her last 15 years. 

Her prestige + acclaimed films from 2011-2014 - Tree of Life, Zero Dark Thirty, A Most Violent Year, Interstellar.

Her “leading stah” phase from 2015-2017, steadfast no-nonsense ladies in Miss Sloane, Mollys Game etc. 

The random commercial slop + action phase from 2018-2020. Ava, 355, Huntsman, Dark Phoenix.

Just when literally everyone wrote her out, critically and commercially, she gets in the running for the Triple Crown in 2021-2023, with an Oscar win + back-to-back Emmy/Tony nods. And gives her best performance (imo) in Scenes from a Marriage.

A normal actress would have done the most obvious prestige film out there but no…..out of no f*ing where she works with a Mexican director Michel Franco in two utterly obscure, austere arthouse movies, circa 2023-2025. Which probably 2 people saw, at some prestigious film festival.

And now, in the year of 2026, she’s…….Other Mommy????? in some live-action Coraline.

Truly one of the most adventurous actresses out there, and compared to other actresses in her generation (think Kate Winslet, Amy Adams, Michelle Williams etc) she’s just so much more interesting.

1986! Ralph shares the story behind the hook stunt: "The person who owned the property with that big fishing pond mentioned how it was filled with barracuda. That's all they had to tell me, and I was like, "I'm not diving into there!"

I gotta say, this looks VERY not good. Like straight to streaming anthology show episode quality.

Did we really need another The Substance or The Beauty?

What is the obsession with making theatrical release movies starring virtually unknown villains without the hero present?

This is my first year doing it. It's so exciting and also, as I see it, an amazing way to introduce many people to films and directors that are different from what they're used to.

I believe there should exist a 53rd category, though. A category for that movie you've been painfully ruling out time and time again in various categories and that, in the end and to your great regret, ends up being left out. House (1977) by Ôbayashi was that one for me.

I mean, I will watch it asap tbh. But it truly deserved to be there.

*For categories:

• 2. Watch a film not on your watchlist;
• 22. Watch a film rated 2.0-2.9 stars;
• 31. Watch a film rated 3.7 stars.

I'll pick those movies on the spot, winging it, right before I watch them

I’m curious because I have no interest in the movie, because I already know the story, and I’m just not interested in the big spectacle.

Are people going into this movie with no previous knowledge of the story? Is there any real reason to see it if you 1. Already know the story and 2. Aren’t interested in the visuals or the action ?

I organized an AMA/Q&A with legendary filmmaker/screenwriter Nicolas Winding Refn. He has previously directed films/series Drive, Only God Forgives, Bronson, The Neon Demon, Pusher trilogy, Copenhagen Cowboy, Too Old To Die Young, Valhalla Rising, and more.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1v3mkcv/i_am_nicolas_winding_refn_director_of_drive_the/

He will be back at 4:45 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

His new film, Her Private Hell, premiered at Cannes in May and is out in theaters via Neon this weekend. It stars Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton.

Thank you :)

hi all i totally lacked in getting tickets for the odyssey (70mm IMAX) - if anyone is selling one ticket for either science museum or BFI, i would be super interested. shoot me a message thanks :)

Giving that it's been 10 years since the movie came out which is crazy to think about.

Hi, folks. I've lately half-recalled a movie I watched ages and ages ago on a late movie or Saturday afternoon "chiller theater" show. I can't remember the title though. It definitely starred Vincent Price, and I want to say it had Barbara Steele in it but I can't be 100% sure about that. It was a late 50s / early 60s horror thriller type movie.

What I can recall is that it was set in some Medieval-ish castle. Price played a nobleman whose first wife had died a while back. He was remarried to a gold-digger second wife (either Steele or a "Barbara Steele" type actress) but had a pure & virtuous daughter from his first marriage.

Two scenes I can recall: In the first, Price's character had an obsessive fear about being buried alive. For reasons I can't remember, the family suspected that Price's first wife may have not been dead when she was interred. They unearth her grave, open the coffin, and her skeleton is in such a pose to suggest that yes, she had awakened after being buried and desperately tried to claw her way out. (That visual of her skeleton gave me loads of nightmares as a young'un).

The second scene takes place in the castle dungeon / torture chamber. Price's second wife and her illicit lover had been conducting a long-game scheme to frighten Price to death. After making him think his first wife's ghost was coming back to haunt him, Price tumbles down a long stairway and presumably breaks his neck. His evil second wife then gloats over his body, spitefully staring into his vacant eyes and jeering him and saying something to the effect of "Wasn't that so funny?" But then, Price answers her! He survived the fall after all, only had gone mad and then became a villain who tortures his second wife and her lover. It was actually a surprising twist that I totally did not see coming.

Does this sound familiar to any of you? I know I saw this at least a few times. I tried checking Price's IMDB page, but trying to narrow down one horror movie he did in the 1960s is like the needle in the haystack.

A love story that feels beautifully messy, painfully real, and impossible to forget.

I expected a romance, but what I got was a deeply human story about love, time, and making the most of the moments we have. Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh have incredible chemistry, and the non-linear storytelling makes every emotional beat land even harder. One of the most memorable romantic dramas in recent years

There are a lot of thoughts I have about Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey as a kind of secular myth-making, neither history nor fantasy, but what I want to focus on in this post is my sister's observation as we left the theater, which went roughly like this:

"Do you know how we've seen arguments that a lot of movies in the 2000s, like Nolan's Batman films, were a traumatic response to 9/11 and the War on Terror? I think this was a Trump and J6 traumatic response film."

Her argument, elaborated on the way home and later, boils down to a few points:

1. Much of the focus on the film is given over to Odysseus's belief that his act of tainted gift-giving broke the traditions that held their rules together, and that this is comparable to the norms that held back abuses.

2. Violent people took advantage of breaking norms to threaten "civilization" (a word that comes up a lot in the movie in a way that often felt jarring.) This is represented by Agamemnon and the "Sea People" (themselves a somewhat tortured metaphor given their already complex and difficult-to-identify place in history.)

3. While the current system (the "Age of Bronze" that Odysseus is strangely cognizant of as if he had a later Ancient Greek conception of material culture ages rather than a Mycenaean one) will be torn apart by these people, but perhaps if we hold to the traditions we can build anew (as represented by the vague implication that Odysseus and Penelope are off to found Rome, like the Trojans are said to have in the Aeneid.)

While I'm not sure I agree with her 100%, the idea stuck with me, and I wanted to share it. I will admit it's a bit wild and doesn't fit cleanly, but it stuck with me.