Category: Actor News
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Is Finding The Way Back, starring Ben Affleck, based on a true story?
Yes. No. A little bit of both. No, Finding the Way Back isn’t about any specific person’s life story. But yes, it reflects the truth that too many people endure, including Oscar winner Ben Affleck, playing the main character. Finding the Way Back is the redemption story about a fictional character, Jack Cunningham. He grew up…
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Top 10 Stories from Sundance Film Festival 2020
The Sundance Film Festival recently wrapped up. The festival, founded by Robert Redford, is intended to give exposure to new and diverse voices. Often, there are movies that debut at Sundance that we end up talking about all year. For instance, Golden Globe nominee The Farewell. As always, a lot happened over the course of…
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Golden Man’s Top 10 Films of 2019
2019 was an eclectic year for movies and one I’m kind of sad to leave behind. This year, the studios threw everything they had at the screen, from biopics to horror films, from dark comedies to three hour epics. I know I had a good time at the movies this year because it was really…
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The Trouble With Doctor Dolittle
Dolittle is Robert Downey Jr.’s first movie to be released after his triumphant turn as Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame. (C’mon, Academy. Don’t let me down. Nominate him!) Unfortunately, the trailer looks less than stellar. In fact, Hollywood doesn’t have the best record when it comes to adaptations of Hugh Lofting’s children’s book character who…
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Who played Alan Parrish in Jumanji?
Robin Williams played the older version of Alan Parrish, the boy who had been stuck in the game for 26 years. Adam Hann-Byrd played the young version of Alan Parrish. Little needs be said about the iconic Robin Williams. He graced the screen in over 100 movies/shows and won an Oscar and numerous other awards…
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Who appears in every Star Wars movie?
Do you know who appears in every Star Wars film? It used to be easy to answer this: until Solo, R2-D2 and C-3PO were in every film, even if just a short cameo, as in Rogue One. But squeezing them into Solo would have been pure fan-service and narratively unnecessary. We did get a new…
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Tom Hanks and Fred (Mr) Rogers are cousins
Ancestry.com has discovered that Tom Hanks and Fred Rogers are sixth cousins. That’s made all the more relevant due to Tom Hanks playing Fred Rogers in the critically-acclaimed movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. (Bringing a whole new meaning to getting into character.) “It all just comes together, you see,” Hanks told Access Hollywood when…
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Disney announces release dates for upcoming MCU Phase 4 movies and Disney+ shows
Okay, deep breath. Thanos is snapped away along with his minions, and Ironman (luv u 3000) is hanging out with his daughter in the Soul Stone. That’s the past. It’s time to create new stories, heroes, villains and get the MCU Phase 4 underway. Here’s the movie/TV lineup Disney has announced: 2020 May 1st, 2020…
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Ray McKinnon in Ford v Ferrari – where have I seen him before?
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The actor Ray McKinnon plays Phil Remington in Ford v Ferrari — Le Mans ’66 for those on the right side of the Atlantic. Ray McKinnon may not be a household name — I had to look him up myself — but I recognized him straight away when I saw him because he plays a very similar…
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The Essential Kristen Stewart – Her Best Films
The Charlie’s Angels reboot comes out soon, starring one of my favorite actresses: Kristen Stewart. She began acting at age eight and has nineteen years of experience under her belt, giving her quite a resume. So for anyone who wants to catch up on her career before the new movie, or who just wants to…
