Lisa Laman

1 week ago | comicbook.com | Lisa Laman

From the very beginning of her acting career, Saoirse Ronan had been an acclaimed actress. Her third onscreen acting credit, playing 13-year-old Briony Tallis in Atonement, resulted in her first Oscar nomination. From there, she immediately catapulted to working with filmmakers like Peter Jackson, Peter Weir, Wes Anderson, John Crowley, Greta Gerwig, Steve McQueen, and more. Ronan’s an accomplished performer, famous for taking on challenging roles and her iconic line deliveries.

1 week ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

It’s for the best that the Mission: Impossible movies are winding down. I say that as someone who swears Impossible installments like Ghost Protocol or Fallout have some of the best action sequences ever put on celluloid. However, director Christopher McQuarrie and producer/leading man Tom Cruise’s audacious attempt to close out the saga with a sprawling two-part odyssey has shown that this series is starting to run low on ideas. The homages to older entries are becoming too burdensome.

1 week ago | culturess.com | Lisa Laman

Note: All figures discussed here are three-day grosses. This piece was written on May 25, 2025. Only twice in the history of the domestic box office have two new movies simultaneously opened to $60+ million. The first was over June 21-23, 2013. That's when Monsters University and World War Z both dominated the box office. Then there was the Barbenheimer craze of July 21-23, 2023. Barbie and Oppenheimer were simply unstoppable that frame. Now, we have a third instance of this rare phenomenon.

1 week ago | looper.com | Lisa Laman

Throughout history, there have been many instances of actors winning multiple Oscars for various performances in their extensive filmographies. There's even a handful of film characters that have secured multiple Oscar wins for different actors, such as Joaquin Phoenix and Heath Ledger for the Joker or Ariana DeBose and Rita Moreno for "West Side Story's" Anita.

1 week ago | comicbook.com | Lisa Laman

In hindsight, it’s amazing that a show as amazing and unabashedly gruesome as Hannibal aired on a major broadcast network, let alone NBC. Today, the program would inevitably be a streaming original production or perhaps a prestige HBO show, but back in the 2012-2013 era, when Hannibal premiered, though, the very first major American streaming show (House of Cards) was waiting in the wings to debut on Netflix in February 2013.