Actors 4 years ago

Luke Bracey, From Sydney beaches to Hollywood stardom

Luke Bracey Photo via The Movie Database (TMDB) Born April 26, 1989 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Occupation Actor Known for Hacksaw Ridge, Elvis, The Best of Me Luke Bracey is a popular Australian actor and model who…

Actors 4 years ago

Emma Roberts, the actress who made playing mean her own kind of freedom

She came from Hollywood's most recognized family and went the other direction. Emma Roberts spent a decade building…

Actors 4 years ago

Charlize Theron, the actress who built a franchise she could not keep

She won the Oscar by physically disappearing into a serial killer, became the most commanding action figure in…

Actors 4 years ago

Hugh Grant, the accidental star who makes better villains than heroes

Four decades into a career he never planned, Hugh Grant remains the only major British actor who found…

Directors 4 years ago

William Hjortsberg, the novelist who gave noir a theology and spent twenty years on the man it missed

Harry Angel fell into something no detective’s handbook had a name for. So did his creator — a…

Actors 4 years ago

John Huston, the director who knew exactly what obsession costs and kept paying it anyway

John Huston directed 37 films across nearly five decades, from a debut noir that redefined how Hollywood told…

Authors 4 years ago

Dashiell Hammett, who gave crime fiction its spine and then went quiet for good

Five novels. Five years. Then nothing. Dashiell Hammett produced the entire hardboiled canon between 1929 and 1934, created…

Actors 4 years ago

Ingrid Bergman, the actress America condemned and couldn’t stop watching

The senator who condemned her from the floor of the United States Senate probably assumed that would be…

Actors 4 years ago

Julianne Moore, the actress who made losing control a matter of precision

Five Oscar nominations. The Triple Crown of acting at Berlin, Venice, and Cannes. A Netflix number one in…

Actors 4 years ago

Will Smith, the actor who spent thirty years becoming the safest man in Hollywood

There was a version of Will Smith that no executive, no algorithm, and no audience had ever dared…

Actors 4 years ago

Jim Jefferies, the provocateur who discovered that sobriety is funnier than whisky

His early career was built on shock, excess, and saying the things other comedians wouldn't touch. Twenty-five years…

Directors 4 years ago

Neil Jordan, the director who kept finding his country’s ghosts in other people’s genres

The Irish filmmaker arrived as a novelist, won an Oscar with a love story that nobody was prepared…

Actors 4 years ago

Reese Witherspoon, the actress who stopped asking Hollywood for better roles

She won an Academy Award and found herself still waiting for a good script. What happened next turned…