Tag: Amazing Stories
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‘Ponyboi’ First Look: Dylan O’Brien and Victoria Pedretti Lead Queer Sex Worker Drama
Dylan O’Brien is a bloody mess in the upcoming drama “Ponyboi.”Based on the 2019 award-winning short film of the same name, “Ponyboi” stars O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, and Indya Moore, with writer-director River Gallo leading the feature.The official synopsis reads: Ponyboi is an intersex runaway. He works at a laundromat and hustles as a sex worker.…
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‘Amazing Stories’ Review: Reboot Premiere ‘The Cellar’ Is a Safe, Inoffensive Time Travel Tale
There’s almost no way to talk about “Amazing Stories” without invoking “The Twilight Zone.” Both shows, with initial seasons released less than a year apart, are reworkings of TV anthologies of decades past, executive produced by household name filmmakers, and exist as a gambit to cement another corner of a potential subscriber base for a…
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Robert Forster, Oscar-Nommed Star of ‘Jackie Brown,’ Dies at 78
Robert Forster, a prolific character actor who was nominated for an Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown” and appeared in more than 100 films, died Friday in Los Angeles of brain cancer. He was 78.Tarantino created the bail bondsman character Max Cherry with Forster in mind, and the role netted him his first Academy Award…