Jonathan Pryce had a leg up playing the leader of the world's Catholics in the Netflix film The Two Popes. Everyone tells him he and Pope Francis look identical.
"The day he was created Pope, yeah, the Internet was full of images of the two of us together, Pope Francis and me…Even one of my sons called me and, just to…
Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, arguably two of the greatest actors ever to come out of the British Isles, have surprisingly only worked together once before. The two Welshmen collaborated on a special one-night production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the presence of Prince Charles in December 1992. But as…
We have waited 700 years to live in a time when there are two popes alive at the same moment, but because this unique event has given way to a beguiling new film about the intersection between Popes Benedict and Francis, as imagined by screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Mereilles, it has been well…
Netflix’s The Two Popes, from director Fernando Meirelles and starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, has been making the rounds of the festival circuit, winning awards (including the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, Hamptons Film Festival) and today the streamer is giving non-fest-goers a chance to see…
“Haunting” is a word critics overuse, but sometimes nothing else will do. Still, I’ll do my best to avoid it – after this review of The Height of the Storm, the thoughtful and engrossing new play by Florian Zeller, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s…
What happens in the Vatican stays in the Vatican. Here’s the first trailer for The Two Popes, Netflix’s film based on the true story of — as the streamer puts it — “one of the most dramatic transitions of power in the last 2,000 years.”
Frustrated with the direction of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Bergoglio (Jonathan…
EXCLUSIVE:Paul Schneider (Channel Zero) and Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones) are set for lead roles opposite Rebecca Hall in Tales From the Loop,Amazon's hourlong genre series based on the acclaimed sci-fi art of Simon Stålenhag. It comes from writer Nathaniel Halpern, director Mark Romanek, Matt Reeves' 6th…
Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixoteis finally making its way to theaters after an arduous journey — and they have a new trailer to prove it. The film, which made its world premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, will play via via Screen Media and Fathom Events in over 700 U.S. cinemas and select…
Back in the '80s, Glenn Close became the original “bunny boiler.” As Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, she may have cooked up a child's pet, but for Close, that character was a lot more complex than the crazy woman scorned that audiences often perceived. However, a generation of gleeful misogynists seized so hard upon…
When Glenn Close picked up a Golden Globe for her performance in The Wife last week, her acceptance speech reduced some of the biggest players in Hollywood to tears. And for good reason. Close talked about not allowing yourself to be be subjugated by others, and how it's not too late to acknowledge a long-held…
Here comes Santa Hans, here comes Santa Hans, right toward Santa McClane! With serious apologies to Gene Autry, we check in on what some call the Ultimate Christmas Movie, Die Hard, which is celebrating 30 years of spreading holiday cheer, and spatter.
Now Fox has gone and done a holiday-themed recut of the trailer…
Glenn Close has won multiple Tonys, Emmys and numerous other awards in her storied career. She also is, perplexingly, a frequent Oscar bridesmaid, having been nominated six times but still without a win. That finally and deservedly could change this year with The Wife, in which she delivers what might be her greatest…
