From Fargo to The Den, these reboots were made for gawking – The Irish Times

This week, Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, announced that a planned Hulu reboot was not going ahead because of a Buffyphobic television executive. This is weird, because the original show was among the most groundbreaking on television and everything gets a reboot these days. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer … Read more

‘Perks of fame involve vanity, ego and sex – all three get you in trouble’ – The Irish Times

“Try to keep your cool,” my 16-year-old daughter instructed as I left the house to interview Andrew McCarthy. The night before we had rewatched one of his most enduring movies from the 1980s, Pretty in Pink. That movie turns 40 years old this year, but the universal language of teenage longing is so perfectly expressed … Read more

Outrageously funny and cameo-packed Seth Rogen love letter to cinema – The Irish Times

In 2014, Seth Rogen nearly dismantled a Hollywood studio by accident when his Kim Jong-un send-up The Interview brought down the wrath of North Korean hackers on the heads of executives at Sony Pictures. A decade and a bit on, the wheel has turned full circle, with Rogen playing the head of fictional Continental Studios … Read more