From the wise-cracking sidekick to the wily trickster, the just-out-of-reach love interest to the grizzled mentor, archetypal characters fit into age-old storytelling patterns. The most popular ...

In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast features in-depth conversations with today’s most noteworthy actors and creators. Join host and senior editor Vinnie Mancuso for this guide to living the ...

Slasher films have been much-maligned since they first carved their way into cinemas. (The Hollywood Reporter famously called “Friday the 13th” both “sick and sickening” and “blatant ...

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You’ve likely heard of the male gaze, the concept coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1973 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In her writing, she notes that the ...

Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” film series, based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, is the latest big-budget franchise that’s getting a revamp. A year after Warner Bros.

Last month, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay ended his run as Clifford Bradshaw in the West End’s Cabaret. Now, he’s starring in Matthew López’s Reverberation at Bristol Old Vic through Nov. 2.

Fake blood is a carefully crafted concoction that mimics the look and consistency of real blood, without the inconvenience of actual exsanguination. It can take many different forms and come from ...

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Mariska Hargitay has go-to advice for theater actors who show up on the set of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” for the first time: Though you’re used to playing to the back of the house ...

If you believe in the phrase “two heads are better than one,” you’ll probably make a terrible surgeon, but you just might be right for a comedy double act. As the name suggests, the art form ...

Whether it’s Anthony Hopkins’ empathetic portrayal of dementia in “The Father” or Kirsten Dunst’s depiction of existential depression in “Melancholia,” mental illness can make a ...