Tag: The Big Lebowski
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The Retirement Plan review – Nicolas Cage dials down the freaky in disposable comedy
Cage plays a former hitman forced to come out of retirement in this mostly fun action comedy drama with a really stupid plotNicolas Cage looks for all the world like a man drawing his pension early and letting it all hang out. Here he is on the beach wearing a Hawaiian shirt, warm beer in…
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10 Best ‘The Big Lebowski’ Quotes, Ranked
The Coen Brothers are an incomparable screenwriting, directing, and producing duo, who have showcased their aptitude for writing unforgettably hilarious lines of dialogue since the release of their first out-and-out comedy, 1987’s Raising Arizona. From Fargo to Burn After Reading, to A Serious Man the Coens know their way around a gleefully unabashed farce or…
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IndieWire After Dark: Midnight Movies for the Streaming Age
If a “midnight movie” is streamed on a laptop at two o’clock in the afternoon — and no one is there to obsess about it with you — is it even a midnight movie?Some films automatically qualify as midnight movies thanks to subject matter or conceptual guts; Divine didn’t eat dog shit for you to…
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Jeff Bridges Thinks ‘Iron Man’ Is The Best Marvel Film But “It Drove Me Completely Crazy”
After a lymphoma scare in 2020 and an even worse Covid-19 scare in 2021, Jeff Bridges is back in action in FX On Hulu‘s “The Old Man.” And while the long-time actor’s career is well into its golden years, with his last film roles coming in 2018, it’s great that Bridge is still alive, thriving,…
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Jeff Bridges ‘Excited’ to Keep Filming FX’s ‘Old Man’ with Cancer Now in Remission
Actor Jeff Bridges shared the good news early Monday that his cancer is now in remission and his battle against Covid “is in the rearview mirror.” The Oscar-winning “Crazy Heart” star and “The Big Lebowski” icon revealed a diagnosis of lymphoma back in October 2020. Bridges is also the star and executive producer of FX’s…
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David Thewlis: ‘It does get to you, spending more waking hours as a character than oneself’
The actor on his new novel about an irascible director, his faux-feud with Christopher Eccleston and his ‘secret’ marriageBlackpool-born David Thewlis, 58, studied acting at Guildhall school of music and drama. His breakout role was the lead in Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked, for which he won the best actor award at Cannes. Subsequent film…
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Cool Stuff: Sideshow’s New ‘The Big Lebowski’ Figure Will Really Tie the Room Together
Say you’ve got the perfect bowling bag, a good stock of White Russians, and a sweet rug, but the room just still doesn’t have the right vibe? Sideshow has you covered with an all-new collectible figure inspired by the cult classic flick The Big Lebowski. That’s right, they made a little Lebowski. The Dude Sixth…
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Jeff Bridges Reveals Cancer Diagnosis, Says He’s Starting Treatment
Jeff Bridges took to Twitter Monday evening to reveal he’s been diagnosed with lymphoma. In a nod to his iconic role in “The Big Lebowski,” the Academy Award-winning actor tweeted, “As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light. I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Although it is a serious disease, I feel…