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Admit it: you've always been a little curious about "Dungeons & Dragons," haven't you? Maybe you heard someone talking about the game at work. Or maybe you have a cousin who spoke about their home campaigns at the last family gathering. But with the release of "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," suddenly you're seeing tabletop roleplaying games everywhere you look. It feels like a sign from on high -- or, at the very least, a blossoming hyperfixation. But that hyperfixation comes with a lot of questions. For example, how do you learn more about roleplaying games? Are there games other than "Dungeons & Dragons" you should try? And even if you know what you want to play, how do you find a group to join? Thankfully, as someone who started playing roleplaying games at the tender age of 35, I have some pretty strong opinions on how to make the leap. So let's break this down into a couple of simple steps anyone can follow.

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Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart penning the newsletter this week in what has been a (surprise, surprise) hugely busy week in the world of international TV and film. We really should stop qualifying that. Read on. And sign up for our weekly Insider here. Regulation Nation Bill the Media: It’s been a long time coming […]Deadline https://ift.tt/qryo8np March 31, 2023 at 11:58AM

UK streamer ITVX is to look into the life of fake CIA agent and bigamist William Allen Jordan in a three-part doc series. The Other Mrs Jordan will unpick the life of Jordan, who convinced his British wife Mary Turner Thompson that he was a CIA operative working in counter-terrorism in the early 2000s until […]Deadline https://ift.tt/7WfnyYG March 31, 2023 at 11:00AM

"The Haunting of Hill House" is one of the best horror shows ever made, and one of the best TV shows of the past decade, regardless of genre. Mike Flanagan's first TV series is more than an adaptation -- it is an homage and a love letter to Shirley Jackson's novel that it is loosely based on. It follows the Crain siblings across two timelines: how they as kids survived living in a haunted house of horrors, and how they as adults reckon with past traumas and tragic deaths. The show is a beautiful exploration of grief, a ghost story that is both a tear-jerker but also very spooky. Flanagan weaves together emotions like he's a tailor, with a deeply unsettling sense of horror that is not about jump scares or intense gore. Instead, it's more of a slow meditation on grief covered in layers upon layers of dread and uneasiness. The story doesn't necessarily terrify you but offers a consistent sense of fear throughout, with the knowledge that something is wrong.

EXCLUSIVE: What started as a short open letter about working conditions in the UK unscripted sector has turned into a full-on campaign with backing from more than 1,000 people and the nation’s largest broadcasting union. Off the back of the open letter signed by more than 1,000 TV industry workers in less than a week, […]Deadline https://ift.tt/r67FMSP March 31, 2023 at 10:00AM

EXCLUSIVE: Venice Film Festival, Netflix and The Gotham Film & Media Institute are teaming up on a program of movies at iconic New York venue, the Paris Theater. Scroll down for program lineup in full. Titled Venice Film Festival Presents: Next Generation, the four day event (April 20-23) will showcase films from the first ten years […]Deadline https://ift.tt/jUoLOHg March 30, 2023 at 01:50PM

In the climactic scene of "The Mandalorian" season 3, episode 3, "The Convert" -- a "Brazil"-influenced, Coruscant-set cautionary tale about the machines of power and the stubbornness of evil -- poor Dr. Penn Pershing has been betrayed, while acting with good intentions. Now he's strapped to a table, about to be brainwashed by a feared former Imperial tool called the "mind flayer." In the depths of his terror and despair, he pleads for mercy with the Mon Calamari doctor, telling him: "It was a trap!" You know, like Admiral Ackbar? Remember when Admiral Ackbar said "it's a trap!" in "Return of the Jedi"? And people liked that line, and when internet memes were invented it became a meme? It's just like the meme, except now someone is saying it to a Mon Calamari character instead? Isn't that funn-- Oh, Dr. Pershing just got his brain fried. The latest chapter of "The Mandalorian," "The

Julie and her fianc fell in love with the original details of this house, like the original hardwood and arched doorways. And when it came to furnishing it, they got thrifty: "Our home is about 80% secondhand and 20% new items." READ MORE... Apartment Therapy| Saving the world, one room at a time https://ift.tt/Pc60bX2 March 30, 2023 at 01:00PM

Roku said today it plans to lay off 200 employees, or 6% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring plan as the drumbeat of staff cuts across the industry continues. Roku laid off 200 last fall on advertising woes and a challenging economy, both of which are still rocky. Roku said in a statement […]Deadline https://ift.tt/zt6X4SF March 30, 2023 at 01:13PM

When it comes to diversity in film, streaming far outpaced theatrical releases last year, according to a new report from UCLA, which found that diversity has taken “a step back in theatrical films but strides forward in streaming.” The report found that women and people of color fared far better in the streamers than in […]Deadline https://ift.tt/318ohg5 March 30, 2023 at 01:00PM

The French movie sector saw investment and activity return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, while streamer contributions rose, according to the annual production report of France’s National Cinema Centre. Overall, there was $1.28 billion (1.18 billion euros) worth of investment in feature film production in 2022, against €1.44 billion (1.33 billion euros) in 2021 and […]Deadline https://ift.tt/NIQiS31 March 30, 2023 at 10:55AM

EXCLUSIVE: British visual effects outfit Union is launching its first international studio in Montreal, Canada, as it looks to expand the services it offers its clients in feature film and high-end television.  The new studio, which comes as Union enters its 15th year, is based in a refurbished industrial building called Le Nordelec between Griffintown and […]Deadline https://ift.tt/41Gprj2 March 30, 2023 at 09:42AM

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EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Ryder, a figurehead for the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, has renewed his call for an industry-wide anti-racism body following the British Film Institute’s admission that it mishandled a discrimination complaint. Ryder revealed that high-level industry talks took place earlier this year over establishing an independent arbiter for racism complaints. Ofcom, […]Deadline https://ift.tt/uPAjUeh March 29, 2023 at 12:02PM

This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Ted Lasso" season 3. "Ted Lasso" has been having a bit of a rough time, and I don't just mean the usually-winsome soccer coach himself. The beloved Apple TV+ comedy has been having what can only be described as growing pains so far in its third season, which is a bit disconcerting considering it may be the show's last . So far, the new episodes have been overly-long and not especially funny , and have divided up the cast into somewhat isolated and depressing plotlines. Of course, if it were a soccer game, "Ted Lasso" season 3 would only be in its first quarter; the season is set to have twelve episodes, and the show still has plenty of time to course-correct its uneven tone and rather muted comedy. While episode three, titled "4-5-1," didn't exactly squash all our worries about the show's conclusion, it did, at least, seem eager to speed past some of the roadblocks the fi

Former Amazon Studios Europe boss Georgia Brown is to chair the BFI’s Skills Task Force, which has been assembled to address major skills shortages in the UK film and TV sector over the next five years. The Task Force has buy-in from streamers including Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV + and Disney, U.S. studios including […]Deadline https://ift.tt/bdG80xV March 29, 2023 at 10:00AM

LA Confidential and Memento star Guy Pearce has made a lengthy apology after tweeting about the debate around roles for trans actors. Pearce, whose breakout role was as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, had questioned the debate around trans actors playing both trans and non-trans characters in a […]Deadline https://ift.tt/GB1P6E7 March 29, 2023 at 09:22AM

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has greenlit a UK original drama series based on Sarah Pinborough’s sleep deprivation thriller novel Insomnia. The adaptation will be produced by Left Bank Pictures, the UK production company that reimagined Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes for Netflix in 2021. Pinborough will adapt Insomnia for the screen, telling the story of successful career woman […]Deadline https://ift.tt/u80laPj March 29, 2023 at 09:09AM

"The Matrix," it's been said, is a story with myriad interpretations. It's part messianic myth, part trans allegory, part exploration of choice theory. At the end of the day though, "The Matrix" is also a love story. This probably wasn't very obvious until the saga pivoted from the sleek, apocalyptic action of the initial trilogy and dove headfirst into romance with "The Matrix Resurrections." But the films have actually always been about love: if you didn't realize it before, you may not have been looking hard enough. The romance between Neo (Keanu Reeves) and his ride-or-die, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), is one of the major pillars of the "Matrix" saga. Their love is not the showiest aspect of the series — and until recently, one might have seen it as more of an afterthought. But even before "Resurrections" dedicated its story to the earth-altering power of love, Neo and Trinity were the template for sci-fi romance.

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EXCLUSIVE: BBC News will make sweeping changes to its news channel presenting line-up from next week, with a number of seasoned anchors dropping off air. The British broadcaster is merging its UK and World News stations into a single channel, with changes gradually being introduced from April 3. Audiences are unlikely to notice a “big […]Deadline https://ift.tt/pPlsOiA March 28, 2023 at 12:22PM

Rejoice, cinephiles, for we are all a lot closer to seeing Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon." Originally set to release in 2022, the movie was pushed back a year. Now, it's been confirmed by Variety that after a premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the film will enjoy a theatrical run, first in limited release on October 6, 2023, before going wide on October 20. The theatrical distribution comes courtesy of Paramount Pictures, but "Killers of the Flower Moon" is an Apple Studios production and will stream on Apple TV+ once its time in theaters is over. We've written before how the hybrid release of "Killers of the Flower Moon" could be the harbinger of streaming services' new money-making strategy.  The theatrical exhibition offers a direct cash return and a publicity build-up for the online release; that's something Scorsese's last picture, 2019's Netflix-produced "The Irishman" didn't take

Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff’s company Plattform Produktion has issued an apology to Berlin-based Argentinian artist Lola Arias over the use of her name in the 2017 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner The Square. “We understand that the use of Lola Arias’ name, which was not discussed as clearly as it should have been, created a […]Deadline https://ift.tt/5KayU1d March 28, 2023 at 11:03AM

The following contains spoilers for "All Quiet on the Western Front." The biggest difference between the two theatrical versions of "All Quiet on the Western Front" is the specific perspective they bring to the story of German soldier Paul Bäumer and his friends and fellow enlistees during World War I. There have actually been three adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," but one was a TV movie. The original 1930 theatrical version was the first literary adaptation to win Best Picture and the first film to ever win both that category and Best Director at the 3rd Academy Awards. Now, over nine decades later, the most recent Netflix adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" has joined the ranks of "Parasite," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and "Fanny and Alexander" to become one of four foreign-language films with the most wins in Oscar history. It nabbed Best

"From DIY to beach finds, there are so many budget-friendly ways to make your space somewhere you're excited to be," explains Kelsey. Some of her favorite budget hacks in her rental apartment include: framing matchbooks for art, hacked IKEA console, custom desk, and more. READ MORE... Apartment Therapy| Saving the world, one room at a time https://ift.tt/7FENjon March 27, 2023 at 01:00PM

Late in the new film "John Wick: Chapter 4," the grizzled and bloodied eponymous antihero has a simple task in front of him: climb some stairs. But the simplicity of the task is quickly overtaken by a few trifling details. First, he has only a few minutes to make it to the top of the stairs, at which point he will have to take place in a live-or-die duel, which absolutely must occur at sunrise. Second, a seemingly infinite number of men are lying in wait to stop him from reaching the top of the stairs. Third, John has to climb over 200 steps. Oh, and midway through, John is kicked all the way to the bottom of the stairs, making it so he has to climb them  twice . This extended sequence is the "John Wick" series in a microcosm: its simplicity is quickly upended, the various bits of combat are visceral and intense because of the precise and coherent action choreography, and it's incredible to behold. What once started as a simple revenge tale about an ex-assassi

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EXCLUSIVE: Antonio Díaz, one of Europe’s highest grossing illusionists, will bring his El Mago Pop show to Broadway this summer, with a limited two-week engagement set for August. El Mago Pop – which is also Díaz’s alter ego stage name – will begin two weeks of performances at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Thursday, August […]Deadline https://ift.tt/i2ABOtM March 27, 2023 at 12:00PM

Quentin Tarantino turns 60 today, and to celebrate the fact he was ambushed with cake by Jamie Foxx in front of 2,000 people at the London Palladium last night. Don’t go looking online for photographs of the occasion, though: the surprise came at the end of a two-night event promoting the director’s recent memoir Cinema […]Deadline https://ift.tt/0R2ISot March 27, 2023 at 11:12AM

Keke Palmer had a hell of a 2022, starring in Jordan Peele's excellent scary, funny blockbuster "Nope," earning critical praise for her portrayal of Emerald Haywood. Then, she hosted the best episode of "Saturday Night Live" season 48 , proving she still had those comedic chops she'd developed during her younger years at Nickelodeon. Even if the 2023 Oscars did completely ignore "Nope,"  there's no doubt Palmer came out of the whole thing with a buzz surrounding her. Which should help build anticipation for her newly announced comedy project, "The Backup." As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter , Palmer will enlist the help of Kevin Hart's production skills and Hartbeat production company for the movie, which is being overseen by Universal and was announced in mid-March 2023. The actress will also produce the film, which is in the early stages of pre-production and promises to showcase Palmer's comedic sensibilities.

This post contains major spoilers for the first two episodes of "Rabbit Hole." If you've watched the first two episodes of Paramount+'s new thriller, "Rabbit Hole," your brain has likely already exploded by the surprising reveal about Charles Dance's character, Dr. Ben Wilson. Over the course of the first two episodes, we learn some things about Kiefer Sutherland's character, John Weir. Weir specializes in corporate espionage, yes, but we also find out via a series of flashbacks that his father apparently killed himself with a shotgun to the head when he was a boy. It turns out, however, that the death of Weir's father was a cover-up — Weir's dad is alive and well in the present day, and he happens to be played by Charles Dance. Ben is a major character in the series, and it turns out that Dance was at the top of Sutherland's list to play the part. "Kiefer suggested Charles for it," co-showrunner Glenn Ficarra told me i

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The lead judge on the UK’s most popular entertainment show, Strictly Come Dancing, has hinted she may quit her role after receiving huge amounts of online abuse during the 2022 season. Shirley Ballas, who has been a judge on the show since 2017, has revealed she received unprecedented criticism during last year’s run, with trolls […]Deadline https://ift.tt/1HsGx52 March 26, 2023 at 12:10PM

Andrew V. McLaglan's 1963 film "McLintock!" is a loose Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (c. 1592), a problematic play to say the least. The story of Shakespeare's play involves a willful and bitter young woman named Kate who refuses to settle down and get married. This upsets Kate's younger sister Bianca, as she will not be permitted to marry until Kate is married. A man named Petruchio is hired to, as the title says, tame the shrew, transforming an outspoken and willful woman into a dutiful wife. By the end, he does. One can easily see the play's misogynist leanings. Critically speaking, one might be able to see a satire at play, however. Or perhaps it's merely sexist.  "McLintock!" is equally tetchy, with John Wayne playing the Petruchio role, and Maureen O'Hara playing Kate. The story was altered somewhat to explain that Kate and Petrucho, called G.W. in the film, were once married, and