Beau Starr, the American actor best known for playing Sheriff Ben Meeker in “Halloween 4” and “Halloween 5,” has died, according to TMZ. He was 81 years old. TMZ confirmed the death via Beau’s younger brother, Mike, who said the actor died of natural causes at his Vancouver home. Mike described his brother as “very […]VarietyRead More
Ryan Kiera Armstrong, who was set to star in Hulu’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot as a new paranormal butt kicker, shared a video message on her Instagram Story Saturday afternoon after original star Sarah Michelle Gellar said the streamer was no longer moving forward with the sequel series. “I’m sure many of you have…
The “Pluribus” costume designer almost had a very easy job. On a panel at SXSW, while discussing his Apple TV sci-fi hit, Vince Gilligan said he considered that the hundreds of characters that make up the hive mind should be naked. “We talked about [how] they didn’t need to wear clothes at all, but we’re…
Variety is exclusively unveiling a new clip from “Light Pillar,” the feature debut from Chinese writer-director Xu Zao, which is in the Berlin Film Festival’s Perspectives section. Dubai-based company Cercamon recently acquired worldwide sales rights to the production, which screens in competition for the best first feature award in the strand. “Light Pillar” follows a…
Stephen Hibbert, a writer and actor who went from the Groundlings to writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” and “Mad TV” to a cult role as the Gimp in “Pulp Fiction,” died March 2 in Denver, Colorado. He was 68. Family members confirmed the death to Rolling Stone and Fox News Digital and said…
Female friendships demand something a little extra. As that famous America Ferrera monologue in “Barbie” reminded us, it’s tough to be a woman — or, in the case of the two off-kilter leads of the uniquely witty “Extra Geography,” to be in that transitional and equally contradictory period known as girlhood. On top of the…
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains major spoilers from “Home,” the third episode “For All Mankind” Season 5, now streaming on Apple TV. There’s a poignant irony that on the same day the Artemis II is set to return to Earth after being the first crewed mission to orbit the moon in half a century, Apple…
