A great final season makes you feel like the writers knew the ending the whole time. A bad one makes you notice the seams, because the show starts rushing, stalling, or changing the rules midstream. When a series goes straight to hell at the end, it usually means I lose all hope in the art of cinema because they kill the very reason I started watching the show for.
The shows below all had something going for them earlier. Some were cultural events, some were guilty pleasures, and some were genuinely brilliant for stretches. Then the final season arrives, and you can feel choices getting forced, arcs getting skipped, and payoffs landing without the buildup. These 11 shows below gave endings that geniunely hurt.
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‘Stranger Things’ (2016–2025)
Season 5
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I still remember how Stranger Things used to make a simple bike ride feel like an emergency in retro. In Season 5, though, the show tried to close every open thread at once, and you can feel the strain when the story keeps jumping to the next ‘big moment’ before the last one has time to sit. Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is still watchable because she sells the fear like it’s personal, but the season keeps asking her to carry scenes that need more setup.
The worst part is the pacing. You can tell it’s the end, because every episode is trying to be a finale, and it turns the middle stretch into constant payoff mode. Vecna’s endgame has good ideas in it, but the show leans too hard on callbacks and fan service when it should be tightening the logic. I still had fun watching parts of it, but the final run doesn’t feel as clean as the earlier seasons at their peak.
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‘Dexter’ (2006–2013)
Season 8
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DexterSeason 8 feels like the writers knew they needed to end Dexter and still couldn’t agree on what the ending should say about him. Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) spends the season bouncing between confession, escape, and moral reset, and it never adds up into one clear direction. Even the new characters and reveals feel like they arrived late to a party that was already winding down.
It’s not that the show needed a happy ending. It needed an ending that matched eight years of tension, and instead, you get a messy last-minute pivot. Deb’s arc gets handled in a way that feels careless, and the finale turns into a sprint where big choices happen because the clock says so, not because the story earned them. The lumberjack finish is famous for a reason, and not in a good way.
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‘How I Met Your Mother’ (2005–2014)
Season 9
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The last season of How I Met Your Mother stretches one wedding weekend into an entire season, and it starts feeling like you’re watching the show stall for time. But that’s not it. It’s that they built all that suspense to reveal the woman, only to destroy it. Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) has good moments, of course. It is heartfelt, of course. But the structure makes the season all ruined and weird, and it makes you feel that you watched the whole thing for nothing.
It makes people mad to this day. It also burns through huge life events in minutes, and the ending choice lands like whiplash you didn’t ask for. It’s a rare case where the last few scenes rewrite the whole vibe, and I don’t want to name any actors that would spoil the show, but in hindsight, maybe that would be good.
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‘Killing Eve’ (2018–2022)
Season 4
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The earlier seasons of Killing Eve worked because the tension was intimate. By Season 4, the show keeps moving pieces around without giving you the emotional steps, so the relationship at the center starts feeling like it’s being pushed by plot. Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is still electric, but the season keeps sidelining what the audience actually came for.
You can tell the writers wanted to be shocking more than satisfying. The tone jumps, the villains blur together, and the final beats feel like a punchline to a long build. Eve (Sandra Oh) deserved a cleaner arc, and the show’s last stretch chooses chaos when it needed clarity. It ends in a way that feels like the show is arguing with its own fans.
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‘True Blood’ (2008–2014)
Season 7
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By the time True Blood hits Season 7, you can feel the series running on fumes. It’s still got the Bon Temps flavor, but the season keeps tossing in threats and side plots that don’t carry weight. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is doing her best to hold the center, yet the writing keeps drifting away from what made the show fun and messy in the first place.
The Hep-V storyline drags, the character choices start feeling random, and the show spends a lot of time resetting relationships instead of progressing them. The finale tries to hand out closure like party favors, but it doesn’t feel earned for everyone. You finish True Detective Season 7 remembering the show’s highs and wondering why the goodbye felt so flat.
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‘House of Cards’ (2013–2018)
Season 6
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House of Cards Season 6 had an impossible job after the show lost its lead, and you can feel the rewiring in every episode. Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) steps forward, and she’s a strong enough presence to carry a political thriller. The problem is the season keeps juggling new threats without building the slow dread that used to make the show addictive.
Instead of that tight, chess-match storytelling, you get a lot of noise. The season’s mystery about Frank’s death never feels clean, and the Doug stuff turns into soap-opera logic at the worst time. There are scenes that work, but the overall run feels like a show trying to survive its own scandal more than finishing its story.
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‘The 100’ (2014–2020)
Season 7
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The 100 Season 7 is where the show finally broke its own rhythm. The show always had wild swings, but the final season adds new mythology so fast that you don’t get time to feel the consequences. Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor) is still a believable lead, yet the season keeps pulling focus away from the relationships that made the earlier chaos matter.
Then it starts making choices that feel like they’re meant to spark discourse instead of serving the characters. The Bellamy arc is the big example, and the ‘transcendence’ ending lands with a weird spiritual shortcut after years of gritty survival logic. You can enjoy parts of the season, but as a final chapter, it doesn’t feel like the show you fell in love with.
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‘Westworld’ (2016–2022)
Season 4
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I wanted Westworld to go out with a clean, mind-bending finish. But Westworld Season 4 has moments that hit, especially when Christina (Evan Rachel Wood) slowly realizes what she actually is. The problem is the season feels like it’s setting up a next chapter that never arrives, and that makes the ending feel like a pause, not a conclusion.
The finale swings big with the Hoover Dam and the Sublime, and it’s interesting on paper. In execution, it’s hard to shake the feeling that you’re watching a show writing its own reboot while the audience is waiting for closure. If HBO had given it one more season, this might read differently. As the final season, it leaves you hanging.
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‘Lost’ (2004–2010)
Season 6
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The thing about Lost is that it trained people to watch like detectives. Season 6 leans into the flash-sideways idea, and some of it is genuinely moving, but a lot of viewers kept waiting for the show to cash its mysteries in a clear way. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) is strong in the final run, and the emotional intent is obvious, even when the logic feels slippery.
The finale works for people who wanted a spiritual goodbye, and it frustrates people who wanted receipts. The season answers some things, dodges others, and the last stretch turns into a feelings-first ending after years of puzzle-box momentum. I get why it has defenders, but it’s also the kind of finish that makes you argue with friends for hours.
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‘Game of Thrones’ (2011–2019)
Season 8
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Game of Thrones Season 8 is still the benchmark for a final season collapse because you can literally feel the show speeding up. In hindsight, though, on a rewatch, you do get a sense that writers, of course, were setting that specific character up to sit on the iron throne at the end, but still, it shouldn’t have been done that way. Especially because the other characters didn’t get proper goodbyes.
Game of Thrones spent years building political pressure, then the last run starts resolving massive arcs in single scenes. Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) sells every moment, but the writing rushes her turn so hard that it lands like a shortcut instead of tragedy. Same goes for Kit Harrington’s Jon Snow. It’s not that the ending choice had to be different. It needed time. The Battle of Winterfell has spectacle, but the strategy is messy, and the finale tries to wrap the world up with a council scene that feels oddly small. When you rewatch earlier seasons, you can’t help noticing how much careful storytelling got traded for speed.
Nick Cannon Wild ‘n Out With His Kids … at Craig’s!!!
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Nick Cannon had his hands full with his kids Tuesday … taking them to dinner at a famous Los Angeles hot spot — though he couldn’t manage to get his whole brood together.
The actor and rapper was spotted leaving Craig’s — a well-known joint in West Hollywood — with five of his children … several pizza boxes tucked under his arm and a bag in hand.
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Unclear if the crew ate at the restaurant or if Cannon just took everyone to quickly pick up takeout … but, either way, it seems Cannon was on full dad duty.
While Nick almost certainly had a lot on his plate with five kids … that’s less than half of the children he has.
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As you know … Nick is the father of 12 kids — his son Zen passed away in 2021 when he was just 5 months old — and he’s talked quite a bit about his active parenting.
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He once revealed he’s like Santa Claus on Christmas Day … bouncing around between houses, with gifts in tow, to see all of his children.
Five kids this time … but, we can’t wait to see Nick pull up with all his children one day. Stay tuned!
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Alan Ritchson is now one of the biggest stars in the world thanks to his blockbuster performance as Reacher in Lee Child’s hit Prime Video series. The show has aired three full seasons in the last few years, with one more expected to come later this year. Ritchson has also branched out to other non-Reacher projects in the last few years, especially in 2024, when he teamed up with Henry Cavill for The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The WWII action epic comes from director Guy Ritchie, but despite the massive star power behind it, it flopped at the box office. Ritchson also teamed up with Hilary Swank for Ordinary Angels, shortly after he starred in Fast X. It’s unclear if he will reprise his role as Aimes in the final Fast & Furious movie, which will be released in 2028.
Last year, Ritchson strengthened his Prime Video partnership with Playdate, the action comedy co-starring comedy legend Kevin James. The film follows a man who has recently been let go from his job and decides to become a stay-at-home dad. Things go south when he accepts a playdate invitation from another stay-at-home dad who turns out to be much more of a loose cannon. Playdate was billed as a much more comedic Reacher replacement that still allowed Ritchson to flex his action muscles, but the film was panned by critics and audiences alike, earning scores of 23% and 57% from reviewers and fans on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, despite these poor reviews, the thriller is still in the Prime Video global top 10 more than two months removed from its premiere. It continues to prove the doubters wrong.
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In just a few weeks, Ritchson will shift to the biggest streaming service in the world with Netflix for his new sci-fi action thriller, War Machine. The film follows the final remaining recruits of a grueling special ops boot camp who encounter a dangerous threat from beyond this world that they could not possibly have prepared for. The sci-fi thriller has been set for release on March 6, and it’s already been hailed as one of Netflix’s most ambitious action movies ever. The film co-stars Dennis Quaid and Esai Morales, and it was directed by Patrick Hughes.
Check out Playdate and Reacher on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Ritchson’s future projects.
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Wuthering Heights is among the all-time classics that always find an audience with every new adaptation. Each generation has a favorite version of Emily Brontë‘s classic, as filmmakers ranging from William Wyler to Emerald Fennell have taken their own approach to the iconic novel. The latest in the line is Fennell’s version starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, which is a sizzling, dark, stylized reimagining of the beloved story.
Wuthering Heights is a multi-generational, gothic tale of destructive love and revenge between an orphan, Heathcliff, and Catherine Earnshaw, his soulmate. Since the two can’t be together because of the class divide, Catherine marries Edgar Linton for social status. To take revenge on the family, a scorned Heathcliff returns years later to systematically destroy them. Each filmmaker adapts the story to the times, either leaving or adding parts, while the themes of love, revenge, and class divide remain relevant and the most relatable parts of the tale.
While Wyler’s 1939 version is considered a classic and Fennell’s is the latest, there’s a version of the tale that is closest to the original book – BBC’s 2009 British television adaptation starring Tom Hardy as Heathcliff and Charlotte Riley as Catherine Earnshaw. The two had an amazing chemistry with Hardy’s brooding take on Heathcliff, and even turned into an off-screen romance as the two got married after the two-part British drama came out. It seems like while Fennell’s version is captivating a global audience, fans of the Hardy-led adaptation are enjoying the series on PVOD.
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Wuthering Heights is among the top 20 PVOD titles on Apple TV, according to FlixPatrol, and is doing particularly well in Australia, securing the #3 spot. The series has no critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, but it does boast a respectable audience score of 84%. The miniseries also stars Andrew Lincoln as Edgar Linton, Kevin McNally as Mr. Earnshaw, Burn Gorman as Hindley Earnshaw, Sarah Lancashire as Nelly Dean, and Rosalind Halstead as Isabella Linton, among many others.
Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Captivating Audiences in Theaters
With source material as strong as Wuthering Heights and a talented director, Fennell, the Robbie and Elordi-led movie is being appreciated globally. While the internet is full of debates about Fennell’s interpretation, the movie has earned $152 million globally, by far, on an $80 million budget. The gothic romance has divided critics and audiences, who gave it 77% and 59% on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively. The site’s consensus says, “Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights might not be the stuff of high literature but it is a visually vibrant pleasure.”
Meanwhile, you can check out Hardy-led Wuthering Heights on PVOD platforms such as Apple TV and Amazon. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
The Western may not dominate Hollywood the way it once did, but it’s never truly left the cultural conversation. In recent years, creators like Taylor Sheridan have revived the genre through modern sagas like Yellowstone and period-driven stories like 1883 and 1923. Even awards-season contenders like 2025’s Train Dreams have proven there’s still room for dusty landscapes and emotional reckonings on the big screen, not to mention modern classics like True Grit and 3:10 to Yuma — ironically both remakes of older westerns.
But long before prestige cable and neo-Westerns, there was one trilogy that reshaped the genre entirely — a trio of films that every cowboy epic since has been chasing, and now, that trilogy is about to disappear from streaming. The Dollars Trilogy — A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — is officially leaving Prime Video on February 28, giving fans less than a month to revisit one of cinema’s most influential runs.
Directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, the trilogy didn’t just popularize the Spaghetti Western — it redefined what a Western hero could look like. Eastwood’s cigarillo-smoking antihero, the “Man With No Name,” first rides into town in A Fistful of Dollars, a gritty tale of gang warfare in the border town of San Miguel. The sequel pairs Eastwood’s drifter with a rival bounty hunter in pursuit of a dangerous outlaw, before The Good, the Bad and the Ugly perfected the formula.
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How Good Is ‘The Dollars Trilogy’?
Collider’s Blu-ray review stated thatThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly is pure cinema — not necessarily profound in theme, but undeniably masterful in execution, stretching style, sound, and image into something unforgettable. The review emphasized that the film demands to be seen big and heard loud, praising high-definition releases for enhancing Leone’s grand, operatic style. While Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West may be his crowning achievement, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly stands only a breath behind — one of the defining Spaghetti Westerns and an essential piece of film history.
This is one of the great Spaghetti westerns, and though Leone’s next, Once Upon a Time in the West, is his masterpiece, this is only spitting distance from that. This is an absolute must-have.
The Dollars Trilogy leaves Prime Video at the end of February.
Lauren Chapin — who played the youngest child, Kathy “Kitten” Anderson, on the beloved 1950s TV show “Father Knows Best” — has died.
Her son, Matthew Chapin, announced the news on social media Tuesday evening, writing … “After a long hard fought battle over the past 5 years, the time has come. My mother Lauren Chapin passed away from her battle with cancer tonight.”
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Lauren kicked off her acting career with an uncredited role in 1954’s “A Star Is Born” starring Judy Garland as well as the CBS series “Lux Video Theatre” before being cast as the precocious Kitten in ‘FKB.’
“Father Knows Best” ran for 6 seasons, and after it ended, she appeared on an installment of “General Electric Theater” alongside Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows as well as the 1976 comedy musical “The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.” She also returned for a ‘FKB’ reunion and Christmas special in 1977, and played Ace’s mom in 1980’s “Scout’s Honor.”
She took a decades-long acting hiatus before snagging a recurring role in the family drama “School Bus Diaries” in 2016.
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Lauren had a difficut life, claiming her father sexually abused her as a child. She also dealt with substance abuse and legal woes, and was addicted to heroin until she was 25, according to the Orlando Sentinel. She was also married and divorced by the age of 19.
Reflecting on her past woes, she told the Sentinel in 2001 … “The most important thing is not that we have a past. But it’s what we do with the present that counts.”
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In her adult life, she managed artists, including her daughter, Latin pop singer Summer Healy-Chapin. She also worked as a counter manager for Guerlain perfume in Florida in 2001 and was heavily involved in her church.
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She wrote 2 books helped raise more than $2 million for underprivileged and abused children as well.
Demi Lovato is giving a glimpse into her daily routine in preparation for her “It’s Not That Deep Tour,” which kicks off in April. This comes after the singer canceled several tour dates, citing she needed more time to rest and focus on her health before taking the stage once again.
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Demi Lovato Shares The Challenges Of Touring
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Lovato is getting ready to entertain fans on stage once again, a couple of years after saying that she wasn’t sure she would ever go on tour again. The singer-songwriter completed the “Holy Fvck Tour” in 2022, which took a toll on her.
Lovato talked to People about her past statement, saying that the reason she wanted to stop touring was because of “how taxing it can be on the body, on the mind.” Regardless, she has now decided to go back on the road for her fans.
Despite knowing how tiring touring can be, Lovato said that the outcome is rewarding. “It’s the feeling when I see a fan crying through a smile because they’re so excited to be there,” she shared.
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The former Disney star said she is left speechless whenever she sees fans enjoying her music. “As hard as touring can be, it is so much fun, and that’s what I’m looking forward to is the connection with my fans,” she added.
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The Singer Is Training For Peak Performance
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Lovato, who is now 33 years old, has been training her body in order to be in tip-top shape for her tour. She has been religiously going to the gym for several months, adding that she does a lot of cardio exercises. “I’m doing a lot of cario so I’m not out of breath when I sing and dance at the same time,” she explained.
Moreover, the “Sorry Not Sorry” singer also exercises specific areas of her body, as she has back issues that she wants to take care of before her tour. “I have some back issues and getting my glutes and my quads strong so that I’m protecting my body,” Lovato said.
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Lovato is also religiously rehearsing, sharing how excited she is for the tour, adding, “I can’t wait!”
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Demi Lovato Is Mentally Preparing As Well
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Apart from training her body, Lovato is also mentally preparing herself by making sure she remembers all the lyrics to her songs, something that she, at times, forgets due to her ADHD, a diagnosis she shared with The New York Times in 2021. “Turns out I have ADHD, but I’m not bipolar,” she told the publication, correcting a prior diagnosis she once thought she had.
At times, Lovato says her mind wanders in the middle of a song, and she loses her focus. “I’ll see a poster in the audience or something, lose my focus and forget the words to my own songs,” she shared.
Lovato has also released nine albums to date, and because she’s had to learn the lyrics of so many songs over the course of her career, she sometimes forgets the words.
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The Singer Shares The Difficulty Of Being Apart From Her Husband
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Another challenge Lovato will be facing once her tour starts is being away from her husband, musician Jordan Lutes aka Jutes, whom she married in 2025.
According to the singer, they make an effort not to be apart for longer than two weeks. Lutes, she says, will go and see her for the first month of her tour, but the succeeding dates may be more difficult, as he himself will be on the road.
“So we’ll be away from each other for a little bit longer than two weeks, which will be a little difficult, but I’ve got my fans to keep me company, and it’ll be great,” Lovato shared.
Demi Lovato Canceled Some Tour Dates
On February 10, as The Blast previously reported, Lovato took to Instagram to cancel five shows from her tour in order to “protect” her health, admitting that she might have “overextended what may be possible.”
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The “It’s Not That Deep Tour” was originally supposed to start on April 8, but with shows canceled in Charlotte, Nashville, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Denver, the start date has been moved to April 13 in Orlando.
Lovato’s tour spans 18 dates and will wrap up on May 25.
TMZ reported on Tuesday, February 24, that it had obtained audio in which a police dispatcher noted that the person who called 911 said they were at Katherine’s home in the Hollywood Hills but unable to enter a bedroom on the property.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Us Weekly that officers responded to a radio call of a possible suicide attempt on Monday, February 23, at 6:43 p.m. The LAPD said responding officers found a deceased female at the location. A cause of death has not yet been determined.
Martin’s family confirmed Katherine’s death in a statement to Us on Tuesday. She was 42.
Martin Short’s daughter Katherine Hartley Short’s neighbors are “sad” over the death of the “great” resident. A next door neighbor exclusively tells Us Weekly that Katherine was a “great neighbor and gardener,” ahead of her death at age 42, which her family confirmed on Tuesday, February 24. “It’s incredibly sad,” the resident, who wishes to […]
“It is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short. The Short family is devastated by this loss and asks for privacy at this time,” the actor and comedian’s rep said. “Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world.”
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Martin, 75, adopted Katherine with his late wife, Nancy Dolman. The couple also shared adopted sons Oliver, 39, and Henry, 36. Nancy died at age 58 in August 2010 after a battle with ovarian cancer.
Some of Katherine’s neighbors in the Hollywood Hills remembered her on Tuesday, with a next-door neighbor describing her as a “great neighbor and gardener.”
“She was very nice, but this is a quiet neighborhood, and to be fair, we don’t see too many neighbors usually out,” said another neighbor, who added that Katherine was a respectful neighbor who didn’t throw parties and wasn’t loud.
Martin previously opened up about the impact of his wife’s death on the Short family.
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In a 2012 interview with The Guardian, the Only Murders in the Building star said “it’s been a tough two years” for his children.
“This is the thing of life that we live in denial about, that it will ever happen to us or our loved ones, and when it does, you gain a little and you suffer a little,” Martin said at the time. “There’s no big surprise.”
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In 2014, the Emmy winner shared more details about how he and his family remembered Nancy after her death.
“[Nancy] had once said to me, ‘I don’t want a funeral and I don’t want a memorial. Throw a party, or not.’ She just was so irritated that she was losing this battle, she didn’t want to think about it,” Martin said on The Meredith Vieira Show. “So I just followed her wishes. We went up, we had a party with about 30 close friends and family. She was cremated. The kids and I went into a boat, we sprinkled the ashes into the water, and we jumped into the ashes.”
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Hilary Duff Comin’ Clean About ‘Toxic’ Mom Group …And Past Lindsay Lohan Feud!
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Hilary Duff is comin’ clean about the “toxic” mom group fiasco that took the internet by storm last month … and is even addressing past drama with Lindsay Lohan!
The “Roommates” singer reflected on all the drama — new and old — on her Wednesday appearance on “Call Her Daddy.” She first recalls her teenage “nemesis” Lindsay … who she was often pitted against back in the early aughts — and with whom she was notoriously involved in a love triangle with the late Aaron Carter.
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But, the singer and actress confirmed any beef with LiLo was buried way back in the day … saying they came to an understanding one night at the club and even took a shot together!
Hilary noted people didn’t have to “connect very many dots” and pushed back at the narrative, explaining … “It sucks to read something that’s not true, and it sucks on behalf of six women and all of their lives.”
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When the word “Kaiju” enters a conversation, most people tend to think of Godzilla. The King of the Monsters’ debut in 1954 was both iconic and chilling, especially since he was meant to serve as an allegory for the horrors that nuclear warfare could bring upon the Earth. While there have beensome valiant attempts, very few monster movies come close to capturing the blend of allegory and spectacle of Godzilla. That all changed in 2016 when Nacho Vigalondo delivered one of the strangest yet unique monster movies with Colossal.
Colossal follows the life of Gloria (Anne Hathaway), a writer struggling with her alcoholic tendencies and the end of her relationship. At her rope’s end, she travels back to her hometown of Mainhead, New Hampshire, where she takes up a job at a bar run by her childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis). Around the same time, a massive reptilian monster starts ripping through Seoul, South Korea. It’s revealed that the monster is connected to Gloria’s actions; if she dances, it dances, and if she walks, it walks — though it ends up causing more destruction in the process. What really makes Colossal a standout is how it uses the monster as a metaphor for alcoholism and its destructive effects.
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Colossal was a turning point in Anne Hathaway’s career. While she’d previously played a literal princess in The Princess Diaries, a struggling journalist in The Devil Wears Prada, and impressed fans with her turn as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, Colossal lets her tap into her inner messiness to play Gloria. Gloria’s alcohol issues, much like the monster stomping through Seoul, make a mess of her life. She loses her job, her boyfriend, and is directly responsible for causing untold damage halfway around the world. Part of the draw of Colossal is watching Hathaway play a character who’s the complete opposite of her usual roles, and nailing it in the process.
If Hathaway’s performance in Colossal is a surprise, then no one was prepared for the extremely dark turn Sudeikis takes as Oscar. Midway through Colossal, it’s revealed that Oscar can control his own massive avatar, a giant robot. It’s also revealed that he is a monster himself: he bullies one of his friends, Joel (Austin Stowell), for showing romantic interest in Gloria, and starts verbally belittling her as she begins to gain control over her monster. It’s a pattern that fits an abusive relationship to a T, and it’s utterly shocking to see the man who would later play the incredibly kind Ted Lasso play such a despicable human being. Yet it also shows that Sudeikis has incredible range as an actor.
“It’s going to be the cheapest Godzilla movie ever, I promise. It’s going to be a serious Godzilla movie, but I’ve got an idea that’s going to make it so cheap that you will feel betrayed.”
Toho and Voltage eventually settled out of court, which turned out to be a boon to the indie world. Following its TIFF premiere, Colossal was scooped up by NEON, which has become one of the world’s biggest independent film distributors. NEON’s list of films includes Academy Award winners like Parasiteand Anora, as well as sleeper hits like Hulu’s Palm Springs. None of it would be possible without Colossal, which shows that Godzilla isn’t the only giant monster that can rule the movie screen.
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