7 posts tagged ‘mark ruffalo’
2024 Critics Choice Awards: Check out the big red carpet arrivals
AV Club,
After last week’s Golden Globes, awards season continues in full swing with the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards. Chelsea Handler returns to host the ceremony—let’s hope the monologue powers-that-be are on her side. The top TV nominees include The Morning Show (yes, really) and Succession, while the Barbenheimer… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
Gizmodo,
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. Read more...
Congress: Maybe We Shouldn't Let AI Destroy the News Media
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Read more...
Have we ever been as happy as Paul Giamatti reminiscing about being an orangutan?
Paul Giamatti’s cinematic roles tend to land on the dour or frustrated side—something used to great effect in his latest critical success, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. And yet, there’s also a deep capacity for sudden sparks of joy lurking underneath Giamatti’s performances, one we might previously have described… Read more...
Mark Ruffalo wanted to challenge audiences' perception of him as The Hulk with Poor Things
There are so many places one might recognize Mark Ruffalo from: as the adorable love interest from 13 Going On 30, the sperm donor from The Kids Are Alright, the journalist from Spotlight… the list goes on. But there is, of course, one inescapable, monumental recurring role that has been Ruffalo’s defining character… Read more...
Poor Things Puts a Shocking and Fantastic Spin on a Classic Tale
At its core, Poor Things is the relatively simple story of a woman growing up and finding herself. However, in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), it tells that tale in the most fantastical, imaginative, disturbing, and hilarious way possible. Words that, in fact, also describe the… Read more...
Edward Norton fought with Marvel to make a "serious" Hulk movie, which is probably why they fired him
Many lessons have been extracted from the success of Marvel’s original Iron Man over the last 15 years: Jon Favreau’s unlikely (at the time) box office winner took a B-tier comic book hero and made him the biggest name on the planet, largely by going low-key on the comic book lore, and heavy on the charisma, creating… Read more...