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Mark Rydell, the director ofCinderella LibertyandThe Rosewho received an Oscar nomination for guiding Henry Fonda inOn Golden Pond, the final film from the iconic actor, has died. He was 97. Rydell died Thursday of natural causes at theMotion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his daughter, Amy Rydell, told The Hollywood Reporter. Rydell also was an actor who played one-half of a young couple that drove the CBS daytime soapAs the World Turnsto No. 1 in the ratings in the 1950s. He later portrayed a brutal mobster in Robert Altman‘s The Long Goodbye(1973), the real-life mob…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have tragic news to report from the world of reality television. Tyler Duckworth — the reality star best known for his appearances on multiple MTV reality shows — has passed away. He was just 44 years old. Duckworth made his debut on The Real World: Key West back in 2006. He went on to star on six seasons of The Challenge, winning two of them. News of Tyler’s death comes courtesy of his mother, who revealed his unexpected passing on Facebook: “My son, Tyler, passed away earlier this week. Cause of death has yet to…
The Librarians, which premiered at Sundance in early 2025 and broadcast on PBS in early 2026, has been years in the making, but the battle at its core still forges on. The Kim Snyder-directed documentary, which recently has been nominated for a primetime Emmy, follows librarians throughout the U.S. as they fight against attempts from state politicians and community members to ban specific books from public school libraries. This removal push — which proponents have framed as an attempt to take “pornography” or inappropriate materials out of schools but which opponents call politically motivated censorship — remains ultra-relevant today as…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Whatever you think of Taylor Frankie Paul, most think considerably worse of her infamous exes. Ex-husband Tate Paul’s latest filing seeks to unseal court records. Specifically, it looks like he’s trying to gain access to her drug test results — and, perhaps, allow the world to know, too. What does he have to gain from unsealing records that the court has already seen? Taylor Frankie Paul attends Hulu’s Get Real House at Casa Lago on April 22, 2025. (Photo Credit: Monica Schipper/Getty Images) Tate wants to unseal Taylor’s drug test results TMZ reports that Tate Paul…
Tanzania-born director Neema Ngelime is working on her feature documentary debut. And the essayistic project has a title with poetic vibes: The Ones With the Tempered Flowers.It was among the works-in-progress presented at the 2026 edition ofOpen Doors, theLocarno Film Festival‘s co-production platform and talent development program for filmmakers from equity-seeking communities and regions where artistic expression is at risk. The Tanzania-Kenya co-production is being produced by Ivy Kiru. The filmmaker has so far made shorts, namely A CountryInACorner, Hooyo, Why Here and An OdetoATime I Loved Bread. At the end of the Locarno Open Doors program, her new project…
For this year’s Korean Cinema Award, the Busan International Film Festival will be honoring one of its own — the event’s founding OG, in fact. Kim Dong-ho, who established BIFF in 1996 and ran the event for its first 14 years, will receive the prize at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 6. The award goes annually to figures who have advanced Korean cinema’s standing in the world — and few, perhaps, are as worthy as the founder of the festival himself. When BIFF launched in 1996, Korean films were still routinely submitted to government censors for pre-screening before public…
Over the past few months, Murphy has posted first looks of actors returning in character on his Instagram. This has included Jessica Lange as Constance Langdon (Murder House), Sarah Paulson as Cordelia Goode, aka The Supreme, (Coven) and Emma Roberts as Madison Montgomery (Coven). Speaking with Entertainment Tonight at The Shards premiere in July, Murphy further revealed more details on the seasons’ characters brings together elements from previous seasons. “Everybody thinks it’s aCovenseason and it’s not. It’s all the seasons,” he said. “Sarah Paulson is playing six or seven roles. Jessica Lange is playing all four of her iconic characters.…
The New York Film Festival has announced the lineup for its Currents section, featuring films that expand the possibilities of the medium, including boundaries of narrative and form. The slate of 15 feature films and 28 short films has as its centerpiece the world premiere of Bardi, from filmmaker and photographer Tala Hadid, for which she immersed herself in the world of horse riders in Morocco. Other notable Currents selections include feminist meditation At Night, from experimental filmmaker Beatrice Gibson; Sebastian Brameshuber’s London, about a driver and ride sharers traveling along the Westautobahn; Bruno Dumont’s observational yet fanciful Red Rocks,…
Christy Knowings, who starred on the beloved Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That, has died. She was 46. After suffering an asthma attack that left her with brain damage on Friday, Knowings was hospitalized and placed on life support, a family member told TMZ. Her family made the decision to take her off it on Tuesday and she died later that night at a Los Angeles-area hospital. Knowings appeared on 32 episodes of All That, from 1997 to 2000. The series, dubbed the “Saturday Night Live for kids,” featured comedic skits and parodies performed by children and teens, as well…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have tragic news to report from the world of television today: Christy Knowings — the comic actress best known for her work on Nickelodeon’s beloved sketch show All That — has passed away. She was just 46 years old. According to People, Knowings suffered an asthma attack on August 7 and was hospitalized at a Los Angeles-area hospital. She was subsequently placed on life support and died on August 11. Knowings’ family reportedly made the decision to remove her from life support after the attack resulted in severe brain damage. The actress joined the cast…