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EXCLUSIVE: Aml Ameen (I May Destroy You), four-time Emmy nominee CCH Pounder (The Shield), Michael Potts (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), Bill Irwin (Legion), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Gus Halper (Fear the Walking Dead), Johnny Ramey (Poz Roz), Carra Patterson (Turner & Hooch), and Adrienn…

It should be no surprise to see executive producer Alexander Payne and producers Albert Berger’s and Ron Yerxa’s names on the credits for the new film The Last Shift, set in an ignored and decaying midwestern American town and focusing on a man retiring after 38 years working the same job in a greasy drive-thru…

In Andrew Cohn’s The Last Shift, Oscar-nominated actor Richard Jenkins plays Stanley, a man who is working his last shift at his fast food job when things suddenly take an unexpected turn. For many of the cast, their resume includes some fast food experience. “Worked at Fuddrucker’s for two weeks,” said Da'Vine Joy…

Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name tells the true story of the efforts in the 1970s by Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) to make a movie based on his stage persona Dolemite. Murphy's co-stars and collaborators told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York how they filled in Moore's crazy ensemble. Wesley Snipes…

“You know you do this after every relationship?” he says. “Do what?” she asks. “No offense, but you kinda overthink things a little.” Cut to a street scene that explains his point. Cut back to her: “Uh, I think I tend to think about things the exact right amount, thank you.” For context, take a look at the first…

In the Netflix film, Dolemite Is My Name, actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph steps into the role of Lady Reed, a comedian, actress and a frequent collaborator of the comedy legend Rudy Ray Moore who made some of the most memorable cult classic Dolemite films from the ’70s. Everyone knew about Moore but as for Lady Reed…