Oscar Actors: McKellen, Ian–Getting Old, Working with Johnny Depp

McKellen is currently promoting Soderbergh’s dark comedy The Christophers, in which he stars alongside Michaela Coel and James Corden.

Now and Forever (1934): Henry Hathaway’s Sentimental Melodrama, Starring Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple

Gary Cooper’s crooked father is reformed by his trusting daughter, played by Shirley Temple.

Legend of the Lost (1957): Hathaway’s Pseudo-Adventure, Starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi

Blast from the Past: One of John Wayne and Sophia Loren’s Worst Pictures.

Invite, The: Olivia Wilde’s Dramedy, Starring Set Rogen, Edward Norton, Penelope Cruz–Trailer

The Invite marks Wilde’s third time as a director, after Booksmart in 2019 and Don’t Worry Darling in 2023

War Game, The (1965): Revisiting Peter Watkins’ Urgent, Horrifying Docudrama about Nuclear Crisis and its Aftermath

Watkins is forcing the viewers to examine their own perception of “reality,” or rather what passes as reality, events that are image-controlled (and thus dangerously manipulative) by the power elite.