Tom Gliatto

4 days ago | people.com | Tom Gliatto

Pedro Pascal (left) as Joel and Bella Ramsey as Ellie in 'The Last of Us'. Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO8 Warning: this story contains spoilers from the April 20 episode of The Last of Us season 2. So: That happened. What (you ask) is "that"? A momentous shocker on the second episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, season 2, that’s what. A twist that upended the entire show. Pedro Pascal’s character, Joel, was killed. He was dealt a few brutal whacks from a golf club and then viciously pummeled.

1 week ago | people.com | Tom Gliatto

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. Photo: Courtesy of HBO (2) In the fourth episode of the bruising, at times frustrating season 2 of HBO's The Last of Us, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is given a moment to catch her breath and gather her thoughts — something as rare as a blue moon on this acclaimed hit about a world overrun by monstrous, fungal-infected zombies with heads that look like an unappetizing new variety of red oakleaf lettuce.

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Reporting for his first professional acting job at age 13, Val Kilmer already knew one thing: He would refuse to compromise his artist’s soul—and certainly not for a cheeseburger ad. Especially when it wasn’t even a good cheeseburger. “The thing tasted like cardboard,” he wrote in his 2020 memoir I’m Your Huckleberry. “The director kept telling me to put my heart into it.

2 weeks ago | people.com | Tom Gliatto

Val Kilmer on the cover of PEOPLE. Photo: Douglas Kirkland/Corbis/Getty; George Holz/Trunk Archive PEOPLE pays tribute to the Top Gun and Heat actor, who died of pneumonia on April 1. Former colleagues including Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer share their memories of the one-of-a-kind Hollywood rebel with PEOPLE. "I don't see that he ever changed. He was always eccentric," director David Zucker, who worked with Kilmer four decades ago and saw him through the years.

4 weeks ago | people.com | Tom Gliatto

PEOPLE's Reasons to Love California issue; Will Ferrell in 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.'. Photo: Frank Masi/Dreamworks The first film studio was built by inventor Thomas Edison in the 1890s in West Orange, New Jersey — but, as you're probably aware, audiences worldwide don't identify the Garden State as the home of the American movie industry, and haven't for well over a century.