keira knightley

  • Silent Night Offers a Downbeat Blend of Doomsday and Christmas

    Silent Night Offers a Downbeat Blend of Doomsday and Christmas

    There are tons of movies about humans trying to negotiate the post-apocalypse. Less common are films about people counting down until the end of the world — though they certainly exist, with approaches as varied as Roland Emmerich’s big, loud disaster flick 2012 and Lars von Trier’s pensive, nihilistic Melancholia. Writer-director Camille Griffin’s Silent Night…


  • The Star Wars Prequels Hid Quite a Few Famous Actors

    The Star Wars Prequels Hid Quite a Few Famous Actors

    The Star Wars prequel trilogy itself didn’t launch a lot of its actors into stardom. However, it didn’t manage to hire a great many people who became stars after Darth Vader yelled his famous “Nooooooo!” at the end of Revenge of the Sith. To celebrate the prequel reunion that Disney+’s new Obi-Wan TV series is…