Mathew Plale

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The Criterion Collection has announced their July 2025 slate of titles, delivering Stanley Kubrick, a film noir classic, an underrated New Hollywood gem, and more. Let’s check out what Criterion has in store:First up is Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat (spine #1269), a scorcher of a noir that offers Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria Grahame in some of their finest performances (and don’t forget Lee Marvin!).

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The marketing team behind Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu did a stellar job at keeping Count Orlok hidden in the shadows. While the director offered some teases as to what his version of the pseudo-Dracula would look like, viewers had no idea until the film was released just how he would differ from versions past. And while Bill Skarsgård’s take had its core similarities to those played by Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski, there was a little something extra.

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A number of dead bodies turn up in 1998’s Wild Things: Sam, Kelly, Ray, that random dude floating in the river…Wait, what? As it turns out, the deaths weren’t just happening on screen but also near the set, as the crew soon found out that sometimes people are exactly what they appear to be…Kevin Bacon recently told Variety that one of the Florida locations for Wild Things brought some unique problems that brought a slight disruption to filming.

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Courtney Henggeler, who played Amanda Russo, wife to Ralph Macchio’s Daniel in Cobra Kai, has officially retired from acting. According to a post made late last month, the 46-year-old actress is leaving the business just a few weeks after the Netflix series concluded. In a post on her Substack from March 30th, Courtney Henggeler wrote, “After 20 plus years of fighting the good fight in the acting business, I hung up my gloves on Friday,” referring to two days prior.

1 week ago | joblo.com | Mathew Plale

And the Oscar goes to…Sean Penn. It was seven words that Bill Murray did not want to hear, as evidenced by his face at the Kodak Theatre on February 29, 2004. Of his fellow nominees Johnny Depp, Ben Kingsley and Jude Law, he’s clearly the one most affected by the envelope Nicole Kidman was holding. But more than two decades on, Bill Murray has a very different perspective on his Oscar loss.