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The 1979 version of Dracula gave us a gift that keeps on giving: Frank Langella as an incredibly erotic, engaging, and seductive titular vampire.

Screenshot: TriStar Pictures, Photo: Getty: Clayton Chase Fisher Stevens’ character in Short Circuit wasn’t always supposed to be an Indian man. Ben was actually supposed to be a white grad student, but director John Badham decided that it’d be better to have the character be Indian. But in a move that makes absolutely no sense, instead of recasting the role to be played by an Indian actor, Badham kept Stevens in the role, and he donned brownface. Production went above and beyond to make Stevens look Indian, to the point where he looks and sounds unrecognizable, and actually passes as ...

Scott Feinberg, right, with Daniel Day-Lewis He'll continue in his role as THR's longtime awards columnist and the host of its 'Awards Chatter' podcast. Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter's longtime awards columnist and the host of THR's Awards Chatter podcast, will join Chapman University’s film school as a trustee professor in the fall. In his new part-time position, Feinberg (who will continue as a full-time staffer at THR) will take over the Chapman "Master Classes," a series of interviews with some of Hollywood’s best-known actors and filmmakers, held at the university's Dod...

There is nothing very remarkable about "The Hard Way," except for its comic energy, but the energy of this movie is everything, reminding me of the wisecracking, hard-boiled screwball comedies of the 1940s, back when they assumed the audience knew how to listen fast. You have to listen really fast during this movie, but what you get is an earful of James Woods in full flower, and Michael J. Fox so hyper he ventilates. Woods plays the kind of role where, if they hadn't been able to hire him, they would have had to shut down the movie. Who else could play this rapid-fire, angry, violent, foul-m...

For Your Viewing Pleasure Featuring Classic Movies, Recent Hits, Full TV Seasons, and More Dec 23, 2020 By Mark Redfern and Austin Trunick Photography by Wendy Lynch Redfern If you were smart and careful, you spent much of 2020 indoors thanks to the deadly pandemic. With many movie theaters closed much of 2020, with bars and restaurants often unavailable, with live music an impossibility; we all turned to home entertainment and that often meant our screens. Netflix and other streaming services can only offer so many choices and few people subscribe to every service, so 2020 was a good y...