George Clooney made a birthday wish come true for one elderly fan in England after making a surprise visit to her senior living facility. The Ocean’s Eleven star and his wife Amal own a countryside home near the Sunrise Sonning Retirement and Assisted Living Facility in Reading, and staff members recently decided to reach out to the actor in a bid to convince him to stop by and make Pat Adams’ dreams a reality.
Category: Action Movies
Filmart: Chinese Actors Say Farewell to Hollywood
No longer content to play underdeveloped roles in overstuffed tentpoles, China’s screen talents are turning down L.A. offers in search of bigger paydays, greater exposure and meatier roles at home. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Hong Kong’s A-list talent weren’t considered true superstars until they had made their mark in Hollywood.
How cult filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto ends up in Scorsese’s Silence
Director of cult classic Tetsuo had always admired the Hollywood legend’s films and was surprised his own work was recognised by Scorcese at an audition for the role of a Christian villager in the samurai-era epic Violence pulsates in Shinya Tsukamoto’s early films, driving stories into nightmarish fantasies like in the award-winning 1989 Tetsuo , which ridicules middle-class conformity with a man-becomes-machine metamorphosis. His more recent works still depict violence, though the Japanese director says the nature of the violence has changed – from whimsical “cyberpunk” horror to horrifying reality.
Islamic State using more suicide vehicles and armed drones in Mosul
Islamic State fighters were increasingly using Mad Max-style suicide vehicles and commercial drones armed with grenades in their defense of the Iraqi town of Mosul, Australia’s defense chief said Wednesday. Australian Defense Force Chief Mark Binskin likened the vehicles used by the Islamic State group against Iraqi government troops to those featured in the George Miller-directed post-apocalyptic movie franchise.
‘The Present,’ Despite Cate Blanchett, Might Be the Worst Play to Ever Hit Broadway
Fearful of being labeled “the boy who cried wolf,” I had just about decided to refrain from calling Broadway shows “the worst thing I’ve ever seen.” Then I went to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and suffered through a relentless three-hour pile of noisy, pointless and pretentious junk called The Present.