Warning: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4. Stranger Things season 4 has many big reveals and cameos, but one in particular led to what executive producer and director Shawn Levy calls "one of the biggest Rubik's Cube challenges" of his career. With Max (Sadie Sink) chosen as the next victim of Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), the new villain on the scene in Hawkins uses his psychic abilities to haunt her with visions of her dead brother, Billy. Read More...
A lot has been made recently about movie stars losing drastic amounts of weight for roles. Probably too much. Our knee-jerk reverence for this extreme form of artistic commitment tends to confuse shocking physical transformations with great acting. Or conversely, it can reduce what are accomplished performances to self-indulgent actorly stunts. But when Christian Bale ghoulishly turned himself into a skin-and-bones specter in The Fighter and Michael Fassbender wasted away as political prisoner Bobby Sands in Hunger, we felt like we were spying on two actors dangerously blurring the line between Method and madness. Read More...
Dallas really had a lot of nerve with its season 9 finale — and it even disgruntled some of the show's own stars. In the now-infamous 1986 episode, the prime-time CBS soap resurrected Patrick Duffy's character, Bobby Ewing, who had been killed off at the end of the prior season, and retconned season 9 as a lengthy dream of Ewing's wife, Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal). The decision not only incensed viewers, it also upset some of the cast members whose storylines were rendered completely invalid. Read More...
