On finding empathy for Fritz Von Erich and the scenes left on the cutting-room floor. The Iron Claw patriarch talks training for the role and coming full circle from his days on the short-lived FX series Lights Out. Photo: A24 The Iron Claw patriarch talks training for the role and coming full circle from his days on the short-lived FX series Lights Out. For nearly his entire four-decade career, Holt McCallany has been playing guys you don’t want to cross.

Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. It can be said that the struggle over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has been largely settled for a long time now — to the detriment of history. “What do you make of the fact that, after that assassination, some version of him is made to be an untouchable hero?

Remember the cute sidekick from Jojo Rabbit? He can stay home alone now. Feel old yet? Disney+ just dropped the trailer for Home Sweet Home Alone, the first new entry into the beloved Home Alone franchise since a TV movie called Home Alone: The Holiday Heist aired on ABC Family back in 2012. The trailer makes it seem less like a sequel and more like an extremely faithful beat-for-beat rehash of John Hughes’s original for a new era that only knows the Culkins as sexy adults.

Everyone, prepare yourselves for Annabelle vs. the Purge. According to Deadline, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster are in “advanced talks” to merge. M3gan, the killer-robot-doll film made by both companies, is something of a test run of this merger-to-be. Blumhouse is responsible for much of Universal’s horror output, heading up such properties as the latest Halloweens, perfect horror comedies Happy Death Day and Freaky, and The Purge series.

Five Nights at Freddy’s Horror video games are in the middle of a renaissance of sorts. Recent offerings haven’t just been collectively scarier than those that have come before — they’ve also been the most thoughtful, experimental, and compelling crop of games we’ve seen since the genre as we know it sprang from the polygonal shadows of 1992’s Alone in the Dark. 2015 in particular has been a standout year for horror games, with one of the most talked-about being the fall release SOMA.

The House of the Dragon Scorecard is an accounting of the events of this week’s episode in which points are awarded to characters on a scale of 0 to 10. Points will be awarded for any or no reason. It took three episodes and two of the worst murder plots you’ve ever seen, but Rhaenyra and Alicent are finally talking again. Kind of. It’s more whispering than talking, seeing as one of them is undercover and holding a knife.

“She’s still very much in the beginning of processing her own grief, and suddenly she’s just an object for the people’s grief to be projected onto.” Spoilers for House of the Dragon season two, episode two below. While most of the Targaryens and their allies in King’s Landing are scheming and looking for something to give them an edge against their rivals for the Iron Throne, there’s one member of Team Green to whom the Small Council isn’t turning for insights.

Before landing his breakout role as Jaime on Broad City, Arturo Castro often had to choose between buying a Metrocard or a meal. The Guatemalan-born actor hustled for years in New York City, booking parts in commercials and in theatre while deciding on whether or not to keep his day job. Castro was so set on becoming an actor that he left his native country to move to New York with a willingness to audition for anything.

“My job is to convince the audience that Oppenheimer knows what he’s doing. I really spent most of the time working on his psychology.” This article was originally published on July 28, 2023. At the 2024 Oscars, Cillian Murphy won the award for Best Actor for his performance in Oppenheimer. “Cillian, I’m making a movie. It’s called Oppenheimer and I’d like you to play Oppenheimer.” With those words, Christopher Nolan introduced Cillian Murphy to the role that may wind up defining the Irish actor’s career.

The story behind one of I Think You Should Leave’s funniest moments from season two. Corncob TV’s Coffin Flop. Photo: Netflix Corncob TV’s Coffin Flop. One of the very first sketches that kicks off the second season of I Think You Should Leave is a PSA for a little-known television network called Corncob TV, which — according to a network representative played by Tim Robinson — is at risk of being removed from Spectrum’s channel offerings.