We celebrate Louis Gossett Jr’s legacy with a look at five of his best films for the eighties and nineties. Earlier today, we were sad to hear that veteran character actor Louis Gossett Jr had passed away at 87. While we have to get used to the fact that our favorite actors are all human, … Read more
Louis Gossett Jr., the Oscar-winning star of An Officer and a Gentlemen, has died. According to the Associated Press, Gossett passed away Friday morning in Santa Monica, California. His family has not revealed a cause of death. He was 87 years old. Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Gossett attended NYU, where he studied theater. (A high school English … Read more
He explored that cruel past in the landmark 1977 television miniseries “Roots”. Gossett won a Primetime Emmy for the role of Fiddler. It wasn’t an easy part to play. Fiddler, an enslaved person, is tasked with helping to break the younger Kunta Kinte, played by LeVar Burton, and make a proud young Mandinka into an … Read more
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire director Gil Kenan has explained why Dana Barrett and Louis Tully didn’t appear in the movie. So maybe Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire hasn’t exactly been a worthwhile installment in the ongoing franchise (then again, what has since the ‘80s?). But it has at least given fans another slice of nostalgia, bringing back the … Read more
Ahead of its return in 2024, AMC has unveiled the first Interview with the Vampire Season 2 clip from the upcoming next installment to its hit supernatural drama, based on Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles novel series. Thanks to the SAG-AFTRA waiver that AMC was able to obtain, production on Season 2 has already resumed … Read more
Louis Leterrier has been directing movies in and out of Hollywood since 2005. His newest movie is Fast X, the tenth main installment of the Fast & Furious franchise. This is Leterrier’s first return to American cinema since 2016 and his reunion with actor Jason Statham for the first time since Transporter 2. Before we … Read more
FastXwhat is meant to be the first part of a two-film finale to the Fast & Furious franchise, was barely into production when the film took a turn. (Car jokes!) Original director Justin Lin, who had been with the franchise off and on since The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift decided to leave the … Read more
Fast X director Louis Leterrier teases a vertical quarter-mile race, proving there’s still new things for the franchise to do with cars. Tea Fast & Furious franchise has tackled a number of physics-defying stunts over the last twenty years, including taking a rocket car to space. Although FastX director Louis Leterrier has promised slightly more … Read more