Samantha Morton doesn’t have much screen time in “The Odyssey,” but when she appears about halfway through the epic action, she takes over the movie. In an electrifying sequence that lasts approximately 10 minutes, Morton gives a searing, richly textured performance as Circe, a sorceress who transforms Odysseus’s men into pigs. In Homer’s epic, Circe
Freddy Cannon, a veteran of the early rock scene whose hits of the late ’50s and early ’60s included the top 10 hits “Palisades Park,” “Tallahassee Lassie” and “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,” died Friday at age 89. A representative said Cannon, who lived in Oxnard, California, died in hospice after being recently diagnosed
Following the news that the FIFA World Cup final will feature its first-ever halftime show, The Cure’s Robert Smith took to social media to criticize the announcement. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH… #Breadandcircuses #MUGWANK #pleasejustfuckoff,” Smith wrote on The Cure’s Instagram account. Curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, artists will include Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira and BTS. In a statement,
Paramount Pictures’ upcoming “Call of Duty” movie, from writer Taylor Sheridan, will be based on the “Modern Warfare” games from the Xbox-owned first-person shooter franchise. Plot details for the film have been kept under wraps since it was first announced in September 2025. But during a “Call of Duty in Culture Panel” promoting the October
Then, a homerist, an archaeologist and a dentist walk into a bar. Fresh from a Thursday night screening of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a group of 17 people spent the evening doing what scholars have done with Homer’s epic for nearly 3,000 years: arguing about it. “We had a really intense debate,” says Joel P.
Jim Parsons recently said on the “All Out with Jon Dean” podcast (via People) that he was “miserable” during the height of his long-running TBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.” “I look back now and realize there were many ways in which, in some of the best moments of my life, I was miserable,” Parsons
