The great debaters have taken to the internet to talk about Denzel Washington’s recent interview. After the Oscar winner, 69, said he was not familiar with the work of late director Stanley Kubrick, fans were left in an online frenzy. Washington sat down in November for a chat with Collider correspondent Steve Weintraub to promote … Read more
Shelley Duvall has died of complications from diabetes. She was 75. “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” her longtime partner, “Breakfast Club” musician Dan Gilroy, 77, said to the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. Duvall had a long and storied career, but her most … Read more
It was a sacrilegious scrubbing. Last week, actor Matthew Modine made a horrifying discovery on Amazon Prime. The platform seemingly had altered the iconic poster for Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 war movie, “Full Metal Jacket,” starring Modine and Vincent D’Onofrio. The phrase “Born to Kill,” scribbled on a camo Marine helmet, was suddenly gone. The digital … Read more
What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke? Matthew Modine, who starred in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick war comedy “Full Metal Jacket,” is outraged that Amazon changed the artwork on the platform’s landing page to rent the film. Modine, 65, took to X, formerly Twitter, to slam the streamer for tweaking the poster … Read more
Stanley Kubrick was just an average Jewish kid, born in Manhattan in 1928 and raised in The Bronx. He read comic books and pulp novels, played chess, and rooted for the Yankees. He also watched every movie he could, often skipping school to go to 25-cent matinees. But as authors Robert P. Kolker and Nathan … Read more