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Making a Star Wars movie can be a thankless job. Reviewing one can be too. Rest easy, I will not be revealing any spoilers about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — and there would be a lot of them — but instead I am taking on the central questions for the final chapter in the nine-episode movie series: Does it work…

We are mere weeks away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but as Disney and Lucasfilm close the final chapter of this saga, director JJ Abrams as well as stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac took the dais at CCXP to share the end of this adventure with the passionate fans in Sao…

Oscar Isaac will lead the cast of Paul Schrader's revenge thriller The Card Counter, which HanWay Films will launch sales on at AFM. Based on an original screenplay by Schrader, pic sees Isaac star as William Tell, a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy…

If it seems The Addams Family always has been a part of our family, it is because they have for more than 80 years, since Charles Addams introduced the gothicly amusing clan in a series of New Yorker cartoons beginning in 1938. They’ve never gone far from the pop culture, whether as a hit 1960s ABC sitcom, a couple of…

Greta Gerwig and Oscar Isaac will star in an Off Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, directed by the Tony-winning Sam Gold for New York Theater Workshop’s 2019/20 season, the NYTW announced today. Performance schedules and additional casting will be announced later, but the production is expected to…

It’s hideous. It’s horrible. It’s home, Addams Family-style. MGM’s new teaser trailer for the upcoming Conrad Vernon-Greg Tiernan reimagining of the macabre clan – amazingly, the first-ever animated feature version of The Addams Family – seems to breathe fresh life into the old graveyard gang. The first significant…

“You cannot go back to your normal life after tonight. You guys need to own the fact that what we’re about to do is criminal,” warns Ben Affleck’s character in the newly released trailer for the J.C. Chandor-directed Netflix film Triple Frontier. Affleck heads the A-list ensemble that includes Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunn…

Oscar Isaac is in negotiations to join the cast of Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic. Deadline has confirmed the talks but no deal has been closed, we hear. If it makes, Isaac would play the father of Timothée Chalamet, who will star as Paul Atreides. Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista…

“Do we finally get to use our skills for our own benefit?” is the question that resonates through the new trailer for the forthcoming Netflix action-drama Triple Frontier. J.C. Chandor directs the feature co-written by him and Mark Boal about a group of former Special Forces operatives played by Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaa…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Isaac, who most recently starred in and produced Chris Weitz’s MGM movie Operation Finale and is reprising the role of Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Episode IX, has signed with WME for representation in all areas. Isaac, who won a Golden Globe in 2016 for HBO’s Show Me a Hero, has several film projects in…

Dan Fogelman, creator and executive producer of NBC’s megahit This Is Us, takes that multigenerational story approach in a different and often darker direction in Life Itself, a new feature film he wrote and directed. Fans of the series will recognize some of the style points, but as I say in my video review (click…

Fresh off of its premiere in Venice, the first trailer for Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe as the legendary painter Vincent van Gogh has been released. With Schnabel’s distinct The Diving Bell and the Butterfly style, At Eternity’s Gate follows the life of van Gogh, but is not a traditional…