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Director Ava DuVernay has recalled how Little Richard would tip her $100 (£81) a week while she was working as a waitress in Los Angeles.
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The acclaimed filmmaker shared her anecdote about the late rock star following the news of his death from bone cancer on Saturday (May 9).
“I served soul food brunch to Little Richard every Sunday for a year while waitressing at Aunt Ki

"I am sick being friends with a pervy psycho!" Vertical Entertainment has unveiled an official trailer for an indie coming-of-age, sexual awakening comedy called Yes, God, Yes, which originally premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last year. This semi-autobiographical film is described as "a fresh, fun look at what solo explorations of sexuality can look like for a girl in the Midwest." Alice, a devout Catholic teen in the early 2000s, discovers her sexuality and the pleasures of masturbation, a

"Something terrible happened to her." Dark Sky Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie horror titled The Deeper You Dig, which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, and also stopped by FrightFest and Fantastic Fest. "This journey into the underworld crawls under your skin and draws you into your deepest, darkest nightmares." Ivy and Echo are not your typical mother-daughter team. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore a farmhouse, an accident leads to Ech

Jake Gyllenhaal has performed “a love song in the age of quarantine” as part of a viral monologue series.
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The actor is the latest star to take part in the 24 Hour Plays series, which sees pieces written and recorded within a 24-hour period and adhering to social distancing instructions.
Gyllenhaal shared his performance of ‘Across The Way’, which was written for him by Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori and

8 Ways Ellen Ripley’s Arc in ‘Aliens’ Represents Unrivaled Maternal Instinct
Mother’s Day is upon us; an occasion on which we celebrate mothers and their gargantuan influence on society. As we honor motherhood’s badassery, it seems only fitting that we also pay homage to one of the greatest maternal protagonists of all-time, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). First introduced in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien, Ripley isn’t as formidable a force a

Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes has admitted that she wanted UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to die from the coronavirus.
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Last month, Johnson was admitted to intensive care after testing positive for the coronavirus. He has since made a full recovery.
Speaking with Adam Hills on TV program The Last Leg Locked Down Under, Margolyes, who played Professor Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2,&nb

Avengers: Endgame directors the Russo Brothers have launched a new “pizza film school” on Instagram.
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The new series, hosted every Friday on Instagram Live, will see the pair giving fans movie recommendations and talk about films that have inspired them.
“Like a lot of you, our families have been watching movies together during quarantine,&rd

Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has blamed Marvel for the delay in starting work on a third movie in the series.
Deadpool 2 came out in 2018, and last December, Ryan Reynolds confirmed that a third movie was in production at Marvel Studios.Read more: ‘Deadpool 2’ – Film ReviewTalking of a third movie, which he previously said will “totally happen” at the start of 2019, creator Rob Liefeld blamed Marvel – who became involved with Deadpool after the film&rsquo

Andy Serkis has raised £280,000 with his The Hobbit readathon this week.
The actor, who plays Gollum in the classic film series, read the whole J.R.R. Tolkein book in one sitting on Friday (May 8).Read more: The Lord Of The Rings TV series: everything we know so farIt took the actor just under 11 hours to finish the book, and he was watched by upwards of 650,000 people.
The money raised will be split evenly between NHS Charities Together and children’s charity Best Beginnings, o