By Abb Jones The Reelness Oscar-winning director and actor Robert Redford, whose matinee idol good looks landed him in a multitude of iconic films, and whose business savvy behind the camera led to his founding of the world-famous Sundance Film Festival, has died at his home in Sundance, Utah at the age of 89. Following […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness The Pitt, The Studio and Adolescence were the big winners at Sunday’s 2025 Emmy awards in Los Angeles, hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze and broadcast on CBS and Paramount+. Perhaps most notable was Stephen Colbert’s rousing speech for Late Night with Stephen Colbert‘s win in the TV Talk Show category. […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness In the wake of the CBS announcement that it was ending The Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after Colbert criticized CBS’s settlement of a Trump lawsuit (parent company Paramount just won the Trump-influenced FCC approval of their merger with Skydance Media), South Park, the popular satire cartoon series […]
Acclaimed horror director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) turns his attention to a Western dark comedy, in his upcoming film, Eddington, starring Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Austin Butler. It is set in 2020 during the COVID pandemic in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, where a standoff between a small-town sheriff […]
Josh Hartnett is a mercenary forced to team up with the high-value asset he’s tracking on an international flight after he realizes the plane is filled with assassins trying to kill them both, in the upcoming action/comedy Fight or Flight. Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton), Katie Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) and Marko Zaror (John Wick: Chapter 4) round […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Val Kilmer, the charismatic actor best known for such films as Top Gun, The Doors, Batman Returns and Tombstone, has died of pneumonia in Los Angeles. He was 65. Born on New Year’s Eve in 1959, the Los Angeles native was the youngest person accepted at the time into the […]
Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are reuniting on the big screen, 22 years after their mother/daughter characters Tess and Anna accidentally got switched into each other’s bodies in the 2003 fantasy/comedy Freaky Friday. This time, however, the fun gets even freakier, when a new switch up also includes Anna’s daughter and soon-to-be-stepdaughter. Among the […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Ted Lasso is returning to the pitch. Nearly two years after the Emmy award winning AppleTV+ series concluded, star Jason Sudeikis has closed a deal to reprise his role as the title character, manager of the fictional AFC Richmond soccer club in London. “Ted Lasso has been nothing short of […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness Anora was the big winner at the 2025 Oscars, hosted Sunday night by former late night TV host Conan O’Brien at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. The dramedy about a sex worker who stands up to a Russian oligarch who tries to annul her quickie marriage to his son […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arawara and one of their three dogs have been found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hackman was 95. Arawara, a former classical pianist, was 64. Santa Fe County authorities made the discovery Wednesday afternoon. (Update: autopsies have revealed that […]