AnnaSophia Robb, Star of Netflix’s ‘Rebel Ridge,’ Joins Kathy Bates, John...
AnnaSophia Robb has joined Kathy Bates, John Malkovich, Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Root and Lewis Pullman in the cast of “Thelma.” The Exchange is selling the film at Berlin’s European Film Market. Robb...
View ArticleLA Screenings: Networks Offer Starry Standouts as Writers Strike Impacts New...
The major broadcast networks are trying very hard this year to do what they do best – create franchise drama series built around the adventures of larger-than-life characters. Kathy Bates, Kaitlin...
View Article‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Dream Cast of Laura Linney, Maggie Smith and Kathy...
“The Miracle Club” may not be a faith-based movie in the traditional sense (that is, a film made with an explicitly evangelical Christian agenda), but this Ireland-set art-house offering is a movie...
View Article‘Are You There God?’ Stars Kathy Bates and Abby Ryder Fortson Wrote Letters...
Abby Ryder Forstson was so excited by the possibility of being cast in “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,” she wrote a letter to the filmmakers expressing how she related to the 12-year-old...
View ArticleRoadside Attractions Acquires U.S. Rights to Comedy ‘Summer Camp’ Starring...
Roadside Attractions has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the upcoming comedy “Summer Camp,” starring Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard. The film is set for release on May 31. The...
View Article‘Summer Camp’ Review: Star-Studded Comedy Preaches Fun, but Forgets to Cut...
It happens to many of us above a certain age. You wake up one day, and realize that your life involves neither your childhood besties, nor the carefree bliss you once took for granted. With that in...
View Article‘The Great Lillian Hall’ Review: Jessica Lange Is Grand as a Legendary Stage...
Lange, a beauty at 75, has a face that has only grown more expressive with the years. In "The Great Lillian Hall," that face is a map of emotion we read. Even when Lillian is being deceptive (even when...
View ArticleKathy Bates on When She’ll Actually Retire, Her 100-Lb. Weight Loss and...
Before landing the lead role in “Matlock,” Kathy Bates was “contemplating semi-retirement.” Now, she might never stop. “My friends say I’ll probably be like Molière and die in my chair on the stage,”...
View ArticleKathy Bates Won an Oscar and Her Mom Told Her: ‘You Didn’t Discover the Cure...
Kathy Bates won the Oscar for best actress in 1991 for her chilling performance as Annie Wilkes in Rob Reiner’s “Misery.” It was one of the high points of Bates’ esteemed career, but it didn’t exactly...
View ArticleKathy Bates’‘Matlock’ Is a Clever, Meta Spin on the Reboot: TV Review
CBS aired the pilot of its “Matlock” revival, penned by Jennie Snyder Urman of “Jane the Virgin,” weeks before the rest of the season begins its rollout this week. That’s given audiences time to absorb...
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