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Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for Widow’s Bay Episode 4.
Summary
If Episode 4 of the Apple TV horror-comedy series Widow’s Bay taught us anything, it’s that self-help books can be hazardous to your health on the quaint but creepy island off the coast of New England. While it seems like the biggest horror would come from the lack of wi-fi and spotty cell reception, there is something about the town’s lore that’s darker and more dangerous for the locals and tourists. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is desperate and determined to build a better future for his teenage son as he works to turn the island into a tourist destination. The problem with his otherwise admirable goal is that, after decades of calm, the old stories that seem more creative fiction than reality have started happening again.
Patricia (Kate O’Flynn) would love nothing more than to be of value to Tom in his goals, in a way that she wasn’t in high school, where the mean girls purposely ignored and excluded her. With the mayor and local conspiracy theorist Wyck (Stephen Root), she finds a sense of comradery that she just can’t make work with her former classmates. After showing up at a social gathering where she was ostracized, she becomes set on throwing her own party to impress the people who openly dislike her and get her groove on, on the dance floor. And while she thinks she’s actually really done it, surrounded by a room full of lively people, she quickly realizes that her dream come true is more of a nightmare, as her self-help book turns out to be a grimoire, her party tiara is actually a crown made of antlers, and you don’t even want to know what’s in the punch.
Collider recently got the opportunity to chat one-on-one with O’Flynn about how excited she was to shoot Episode 4, entitled “Beach Reads.” During the interview, she discussed digging into Patricia’s pain, working with the costume designer to find her character’s style, the misdirected hatred that Patricia finds herself at the center of, getting to dance at the party, Patricia’s reaction to learning what was really going on, that animal headpiece, the boogeyman, and how Patricia just wants to feel like she’s of value in her town.
Collider: When you read Episode 4, what was your reaction? Did you know all of this about Patricia at the start of the series, or did this episode provide layers to her that surprised you?
KATE O’FLYNN: I had no idea. I’d done two tapes, and I was about to meet (director) Hiro [Murai] and (creator) Katie [Dippold] on a Zoom. And then, I read this episode, and it was so exciting to me. It was just such a thrill. I didn’t see it coming. And then, the synapses started pinging, with all the different colors of Patricia and all the different layers to her, with the Carrie references, the Wicker Man references, and the potential for showing the pain of what she’s going through and the ecstasy of what she feels at the party, fulfilling something that she would have dreamt about for years. I was really, really excited when I read it.
What were you told about her, about this town, and about the series in the very beginning? Because this is not a show that’s easy to describe, did you know what it would evolve into by the end of the season?
O’FLYNN: No, I don’t think any of the actors did. I think Katie would say that when you start Episode 1, you have no idea that it’s going to end where it ends. So, every time we got a script during filming, it was a page-turner to find out what happens. I remember auditioning, and the humor was not meant to be broad. They gave Barry as a reference, in terms of the tone. It just made sense to me, actually, reading the script. The world that Katie had created was very clear. It felt grounded. And all the characters, I recognized those personalities. As odd as it sounds, it really didn’t feel weird to me. It felt familiar.
I think it helps that a lot of that gets established before anything weird does happen.
O’FLYNN: Yeah. I remember the first read-through with the core cast – Matthew [Rhys], Kingston [Rumi Southwick], Stephen [Root], Dale [Dickey] and Kevin [Carroll]. We hadn’t read together, and it was all new, but it felt like there was a silent understanding of what it was and a good chemistry in the room. We were all on the same page without having talked about it.
When Patricia shows up with this group of women that are all hanging out together, they’re not particularly nice or welcoming when she comes in the door. She brings a bottle of wine, but they make snide comments about the kind of wine she brings. They don’t really include her in their conversations, and they snap at her when she goes to open a cabinet. The only one who’s really nice to her is the newest resident in town. How does Patricia feel about that?
O’FLYNN: What’s great about her is that she tries, and she just keeps trying. She’s looking for connection. She’s in a room of wolves, basically, and she’s so excited to find this new person that doesn’t know her history and her reputation. Actually, they seem like they’re on a level. In another world, they’d be friends. There is huge excitement for Patricia because she doesn’t have any friends, and she has been stuck in that role and dynamic since high school. She has never been able to reinvent herself. It’s huge. And then, it’s such a crushing blow when Shelby sides with the pack.
There’s that moment when she gets the drink spilled on her, so she has to go to the bathroom to clean up, and she thinks she’s going to return to this new friend, only to find her with the other women? How do you think she felt in that moment?
O’FLYNN: I think it’s really upsetting, but she’s used to it. There is this resilience in her where she’s like, “Yeah, I’ll take the photo, and I’m going to go home.” It’s painful for her.
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We see that she’s left the party and is walking down the street, but we don’t see what happened in that moment in between. Do you think she even told anyone she was leaving?
O’FLYNN: No. I think everyone turned their back. People probably just quietly turned their backs, and she hovered around a bit too long thinking, “What do I do? I should go.” And then, she goes very quietly, and no one says bye. That’s what I think. Maybe in the first three episodes, you’re like, “What’s her deal?” She’s quietly passive-aggressive. And then, in Episode 4, you get to see what she’s been dealing with.
There’s something so sad about watching her looking through that book and getting to the page of worst features and circling them on the body. What did you think of that moment?
O’FLYNN: You’re seeing Patricia on her own. There’s no pretense there. She’s a funny mix of optimism and pain. It’s not like she’s someone that would really dwell on those insecurities, going about her day. But on her own, you see her at her most vulnerable.
How would you describe her style? Is it reflective of who she is?
O’FLYNN: I loved working with Alex Bovaird, the costume designer. She’s a genius. It took us a while to find Patricia. It was like, how does she exist in the real world? Her interior world is really big and strong. She’s very imaginative and creative, and that comes out in her poetry and her paintings and in her style. It’s slightly conservative. It’s modest. She tries to spark joy in her colleagues with a fun brooch but also needs to be practical because she’s got to walk around so she has practical shoes. It was about finding those subtle details to make her different to the other women. They’re normcore, and she’s got something else going on.
Patricia might be a little awkward, but she’s a good person. Why do you think all these other women consistently pick on her? They tell her to let her story about the boogeyman go, but they don’t let it go either. Do you feel like that’s just an excuse and that they would just find another reason to pick on her if it wasn’t that?
O’FLYNN: Yeah. Don’t you find that people bond over finding someone to not like? It can be quite a connecting thing. Patricia can’t shapeshift. She is herself, she doesn’t always say the right things, and she can be a bit annoying, but they really go for her. They think she’s lying. They’ve lost all their friends, so they’re really upset about that, and it’s misdirected at her. It’s like she’s almost to blame for the death of all these women. The extent of the hatred for her is like she’s to blame for the death of these girls. It’s misdirected.
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You did get to do a bit of dancing in this episode at the party. Did anyone coach you on what to do? Was that all you did?
O’FLYNN: Yeah. Sam [Donovan], the director, was like, “Listen, we’ve got a choreographer and we can workshop it.” I was like, “Okay, great.” So, I met with this lovely woman. Patricia is someone who watches VHS tapes of these music videos, and it’s quite an eclectic mix. She will rewind and try to get a move down in her back pocket to maybe bring out at a party one day. That’s her dream. So, we came up with a few moves from ‘90s hip-hop, and something from “Rhythm of the Night” that’s quite Bob Fosse and broad spectrum. And then, I just riffed off that and came up with a few of my own things that felt right for Patricia. It felt important that that moment was just her loving life.
There’s the moment that everything flips in this episode, and we learn that Patricia hasn’t actually been using a self-help book, that she wasn’t really wearing a tiara, and that there’s some sort of demonic spell book and animal headpiece happening instead. And then, there’s also the punch. What do you think it was like for her to realize what was going on and to figure out what was happening?
O’FLYNN: I think her stomach went to her feet. It’s absolutely horrific. And just the slow realization of, “Oh, my God, what have I done? Have I killed all these people?” She goes straight into trying to fix it mode, but it’s horrifying for her. When I read it in the script, I found it so funny because I didn’t see it coming. And then, doing it and watching it, it’s weirdly heartbreaking in a way that I wasn’t expecting. With this show, you never quite know what something is going to feel like or what any moment is going to be. That’s what’s so exciting about it.
Do you think she really believed things had turned around for her before that moment happened?
O’FLYNN: Yeah. She doesn’t see it coming that she was under a spell. There’s a hope in her that’s like, “Oh, my God, this is it. I figured it out. People love me. I’ve done it.” There’s maybe a niggling doubt with Rosemary, because Rosemary is always saying something, but she shuts it out until she can’t anymore. When you see all the dead birds and everything, it’s pretty disgusting.
Did you actually get to wear whatever the animal headpiece was?
O’FLYNN: There were three different versions of what that headpiece should be. It needed to not be funny. It needed to be scary. It needed to be the right height. Was the animal going to have teeth or no teeth? There was a bird’s nest in one of them. Hitting the right tone with the headpiece took quite a lot of figuring out. And it was quite heavy. So much craft, talent and work had gone into it, I didn’t want it to fall off my head.
Patricia is at her lowest point when Tom and Wyck pull up and tell her to join them. What do you enjoy about that trio of the three of them? Where does she see herself in that trio? Where does she believe she fits in with them?
O’FLYNN: You’re absolutely right. She’s at her lowest point, so it’s so delightful to then suddenly have everything she’s been wanting – connection, a tribe, her buddies. Suddenly, there’s an inkling that she’s with her people – these two other weirdo outsiders. She’s gone through the fire, come out the other side, and it was there all along, in a way. They’re an unlikely band, and I always like seeing that – people that are unlikely to hang out together. It’s not like they would go to a bar and have a drink, but they find themselves in this situation, bonded in this and trying to solve this mystery and save the island.
What is her deal with the boogeyman? Does she know for sure that it was the boogeyman in her house? Does she just think that’s who it was?
O’FLYNN: She did have the experience of the boogeyman, but she did lie about the calls. She realized that everyone else had the calls, and she wanted to beef up her story, so she lied about that. That’s when it all came undone. But it did happen.
In that moment, when they realize that Reverend Bryce is dead and hanging on the other side of the door in the church, it’s almost scarier than having to face and defeat a Sea Hag or a Boogeyman.
O’FLYNN: Yes, because it’s real. It’s a real person taking their own life. I would agree that that is the scariest.
Is Patricia someone who’s terrified by the unexplainable things that go on in this town, or does she find a little bit of excitement in it?
O’FLYNN: There is something uniting about having something to fight for or fight against or figure out that makes her feel of value and part of something, and she has her gang. That’s what it’s about, rather than getting excited, necessarily, about the weirdness of the things that are happening. Because that’s happening, she has friends. The building of the world of Widow’s Bay is so confidently drawn by Katie and the writing team and Hiro that you could put a lens on any of the town hall characters and there’s a lot of backstory, a lot of folklore, and a lot of things to be found in this community. I was delighted that the spotlight shone on Patricia on this episode.
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April 29, 2026
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As if the divorce saga is not enough, Dorit Kemsley‘s estranged husband has driven into another drama.
As Paul Kemsley continues to fight his way through his split from the reality star, the businessman was recently caught causing mild damage to his neighbor’s property and carrying on almost unbothered.
Dorit Kemsley and Paul Kemsley’s ongoing divorce has been laced with several dramas, including reports of him defaulting on mortgage payments on their $6 million mansion.

Paul was spotted on Tuesday, May 12, moving his expensive Range Rover out into the street, but the plans changed midway, and he rammed into a Toyota RAV4, which his neighbor’s caregiver reportedly owned.
The entrepreneur was spotted zooming off with a noticeable dent in his car, and when he returned, he did not pay any attention to the other car either; he strolled into the building.
He, however, addressed TMZ briefly about the incident, stressing that he miscalculated by initially thinking his New Range Rover had braked for him. To his surprise, he noticed the brief contact with the Toyota left the “world’s tiniest mark” on his car.
Paul added that he actually went over to the affected person and apologized, alongside an offer to pay for the fix. In his words:
“Entirely my fault. Although, in fairness, trying to reverse while subconsciously searching for paparazzi hiding in bushes is probably not recommended by Land Rover.”

The property developer has credited their decision to appear on Bravo’s franchise as the catalyst for their marital issues. As shared by The Blast, Paul admitted that he and Dorit internalized some of the wrong narratives being fueled by producers of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” about their marriage.
Now that the chapter is closed, Paul expressed that he is looking forward to moving on from such a low moment in his life. Most importantly for him, his entire life is not defined by carefully edited snippets on a show by ratings-centered producers.
Paul added that the reason why he avoided addressing Dorit’s stories about the reason for their separation and divorce on the show was to shield their children from unhealthy drama. According to him: “I wouldn’t have encouraged it, and I would have strongly recommended — in any capacity, my capacity as a manager, as a business guy, father and husband — if I’d have had somebody who would listen, I’d say, ‘That is the wrong thing to do.’”

The Bravo star and her former partner locked horns in court over the custody of their children as the reality star gunned for sole legal and physical custody.
Paul instantly kicked back, gunning for joint custody as a healthier option and insisting that his estranged wife does not have to pay him spousal support.
Insiders have noted that Dorit’s pursuit for sole custody may have been linked to concerns over the property developer’s relationship with alcohol.
As for the reality star, she is laser-focused on ensuring her kids’ happiness through it all and becoming a better version of herself.
Paul came clean about battling alcoholism in the past, admitting that it played a role in his failed marriage, but Dorit also saw it as an avenue to weaponize his nightmare with alcohol.
The property developer continued that Dorit intended to use his struggle as a means to score cheap points while ignoring all his efforts to stay sober.

Last week, The Blast shared that Dorit issued a response to her estranged husband’s offer that his home could serve as a solace for the reality star and their two children.
According to the Bravo star, that offer was dead on arrival because in her wildest dream, she would not have done that.
Paul revealed that he had moved out of their former shared home with plans to sell it off before it gets foreclosed.
The sprawling mansion located in Encino, California, features six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, and covers nearly 9,000 square feet, but is unfortunately burdened by a significant debt.
The property developer has accused his estranged wife of refusing to cooperate in negotiations surrounding the property.
He continued that she has been erratic, confrontational, and evasive with communications in the process. He has now approached the court to sign off on an immediate sale of the home to protect whatever equity remains.
Currently, the home carries roughly $6 million in mortgage debt, making the family’s financial situation extremely dire.

The estranged couple’s divorce drama took another dramatic turn when Paul claimed she was trying to cleverly extract money for a getaway from him by sending one of their kids to make the request.
In his filing, Paul stressed that their children have come to him for money in order to book and pay the bills for their vacation.
“While I was attempting to address financial issues with [Dorit], she enlisted our [kid] to send text messages to me requesting money for Dorit’s personal expenses, including a trip she wanted to take with the children,” Paul declared.
In the evidence shared by Paul, which was screenshots of his conversation with their child, he was seen engaging in a witty back-and-forth with the kid, seemingly uncovering whatever grand scheme was created to collect funds from him.
Roomies, the internet thinks Big Mama has officially entered motherhood after a viral video showed her sitting in a rocking chair while celebrating Mother’s Day. Latto honored new and expecting moms with her first annual Big Mama Day celebration, gifting more than 150 mommies some special items. In a video shared on her Win Some Give Some Foundation’s social media page, Latto looked relaxed and cozy in a chair, and now fans are speculating that she has welcomed her first child.
In a now-viral video, Latto wished expecting moms and new moms a Happy Mother’s Day while her foundation celebrated its first annual Big Mama Day. Fans instantly jumped into detective mode after spotting her sitting in a rocking chair in the clip. Some folks even pointed out that her calling it her “first Mother’s Day” basically gave away that she officially entered her mommy era. Meanwhile, others swore they could hear sweet little baby coos in the background. Peep the video below.
Latto’s Win Some Give Some Foundation’s comment section was flooded with reactions from fans. Plenty of folks said they just know her baby is here because Big Mama was definitely giving new mom energy,
Instagram user @thee_original_smiley wrote, “The baby is here!! I hear the little baby sounds. ❤️❤️ congratulations! Especially the ‘it’s my first mother’s days.’”
Instagram user @_chynese_ wrote, “She in a rocking chair sounding exhausted she definitely had her baby 😍”
While Instagram user @prettyboiimikey.__ wrote, “BIG MAMA DONE GAVE BIRTHHH🥹❤️ !!! Omggggg !!! Im so emotionalll.”
Then Instagram user @fineassjayluh wrote, “she had that baby she been too MIA and that belly was large 😂”
Another Instagram user @prettyricantx wrote, “Oh baby our little baby has been born , I know I see you Ina rocking chair and I know what I heard 🥹🥹🥹🥰🙏🏽”
Instagram user @kewlgurlkellz wrote, “Thought Y’all Were Being Delulu At First But I Definitely Heard The Baby Too Awww 😭”
While another Instagram user @emilynkohara wrote, “I knew she already had her baby 😭😭 I already know she’s going to be the best mommy to her baby 🤍”
Then another Instagram user @amor_bella_ wrote, “The baby is definitely here 😍”
Finally, Instagram user @___.soblessed.___ wrote, “We know that rock baby is here.”
Although Latto hasn’t shared too many details about her pregnancy, she did give fans a peek at their drip and special gifts from her famous aunties and uncles. Back in April, the rapper shared a video showing all the sweet gifts she received from close friends like Flo Milli, Sexyy Red, G Herbo, T.I. and Tiny Harris, Usher and his wife, Jennifer Goicoechea, and Angel Reese. Listen, they did NOT play about her mini-me one bit. As Latto said herself, they came “overly loaded” with designer items, icy jewelry and toys for her little one.
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By Chris Snellgrove
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Euphoria, the HBO teen drama, has been responsible for launching some pretty big careers. Without this show, Zendaya probably wouldn’t be a beloved Marvel movie star, and Jacob Elordi wouldn’t be an Oscar-nominated horror icon. Of course, the breakout Euphoria star the internet loves the most is Sydney Sweeney, someone whose buxom beauty has made her the internet’s favorite fantasy lady. Unfortunately for this blonde bombshell, the show that helped make her career is now trying to break her career in the most humiliating possible way.
Her Euphoria character, Cassie, has a current story arc where she makes money on OnlyFans. That’s not so crazy on paper. Every day, more young, well-endowed women are using this platform to make cold, hard cash. But this plotline is just a thinly veiled excuse to put her into a number of strange situations that seem like the barely concealed fetishes of the showrunner. As degrading clips from Euphoria continue to go viral, we are left with only one conclusion: Sam Levinson is deliberately using his hit TV show to humiliate Sydney Sweeney.

Since you’re probably not watching Euphoria, here’s a quick breakdown of what’s been happening to Sydney Sweeney’s character, Cassie. In short, she is trying to pay for her expensive wedding to Jacob Elordi’s character (Nate), so she turns to OnlyFans as a way to raise the $50,000 she needs.
With the help of former friend turned current manager, she begins carving out some weird, kinky niches for herself on OF. This includes dressing and acting like a dog and dressing and acting like a baby. Recently, she even acted like a giant, complete with a scene of her stomping all over town, Godzilla style.

Even if you’ve never watched Euphoria, you’ve probably seen some of the viral images, GIFs, and memes centered on her character and asked, “What in God’s name is Sydney Sweeney doing?” The simple answer is that she’s doing whatever she is told. She doesn’t write the scripts or choose her character’s arc. Instead, the actor must obey Sam Levinson, the acclaimed showrunner of Euphoria.
Why is Levinson making his hottest actor do all of this crazy stuff, though? My pet theory (unlike Sweeney, it doesn’t have ears or a tail) is that he is doing so to humiliate her, effectively flooding the internet with degrading images of her.

All of these bizarre things Sydney Sweeney is doing as part of her OnlyFans character arc correspond to very specific kinks. Dressing and acting like a dog is part of pet play, where a submissive acts like an animal and a dominant pretends to own them. Dressing like a baby is part of infantilization. Even her recent, kaiju-style hijinks correspond to a giantess kink (also known as macrophilia), in which Titan-sized women tease, overpower, crush, and even kill submissive, standard-sized men.
Now, I’m not here to kinkshame anyone. There’s no problem if you’re into any of the stuff that Sweeney is doing on Euphoria, and you’re probably really digging seeing clips of the world’s hottest leading lady making niche content for mainstream television.
For Sweeney, though, that’s the real problem. Scenes and images of what she is doing on Euphoria keep getting shared, without context, online. When normies search “Sydney Sweeney” on the internet, these images are some of the first things they see. Meanwhile, when kinksters search for things like “pet play” or “giantess,” you guessed it … these images are some of the first things they see!

Again, there’s nothing wrong with any of this, but mainstream audiences generally find the things Sweeney is doing on Euphoria now to be weird and degrading. By making her do one weird thing after another, Sam Levinson has consistently humiliated Sydney Sweeney, associating her acting (possibly permanently) with degrading things.
That would be bad enough for any young actor, but it’s particularly bad for Sweeney, someone who (through movies like Christy) is fervently trying to be seen as a serious actress and not just a body. Unfortunately, her name is now synonymous with some of the wildest acts this side of Eyes Wide Shut.

Obviously, there’s no proof that this is Levinson’s intent. But it’s worth noting that some of the stuff (like her acting like a baby) is strictly forbidden by OnlyFans in real-life, so none of this adds to the verisimilitude of the plot. All it does is drag down a rising star in a kind of bizarre humiliation ritual that does very little but objectify her in front of increasingly horny audiences. If Sweeney isn’t down with things like onscreen pet play in Euphoria, then all of this is just weird and degrading. If she is into it, though, then there’s not much left to say.
Except, of course: “Who’s a good girl? You’re a good girl!”
Decades before becoming the schlockmaster behind movies like 2026’s Deep Water, Renny Harlin crafted many of the great works of 1990s action filmmaking. Besides Die Hard 2, the Finnish filmmaker also directed the amnesiac spy classic The Long Kiss Goodnight and the genre-killing Cutthroat Island, but his finest work was 1993’s Cliffhanger. A Sylvester Stallone vehicle set among the mountains, Cliffhanger had everything: magnificent vistas, avalanches, and an internationally organized theft of U.S. Treasury bonds during a Dark Knight Rises-esque plane hijacking. Cliffhanger might be “Die Hard in the mountains,” but Harlin got the most from the setting and its star.
Compared to Die Hard’s famously vulnerable portrayal of then-comedy star Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone’s 1980s run of action films had turned him into an invincible cartoon character. With massive muscles, immaculately coiffed hair, and a seeming inability to lose any fights onscreen, Stallone’s only real competition for the title of ‘80s action king was the similarly unbreakable Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even movies punctuated by sentiment or pain, like Rocky and First Blood, grew into franchises where those qualities were gradually phased out in favor of (mostly pretty awesome) adolescent power fantasies. But Cliffhanger was almost a classy take on the traditional Stallone character, with a screenplay that received the actor’s traditional rewrites.
Despite being best known as an action star, Sylvester Stallone has a strong history of writing and directing his films as well. From his mainstream breakthrough with writing and starring in 1976’s Rocky, Stallone took all creative elements of filmmaking seriously. It’s hard to miss his writing credits on ‘80s movies as varied as Rhinestone, Cobra (one of Stallone’s most brutal films), and Over the Top (as well as every entry in the Rocky and Rambo franchises). He could use his script-rewrite privilege on certain films to give himself more to do as an actor — bigger action scenes, punchier one-liners — while making sure the movies fit his public image as an actor. But by the early ‘90s, Stallone’s career was seeing as many lows as highs, especially in comedy films where he had little to no creative influence. Cliffhanger had been slowly brewing all the while. Before Cliffhanger came together, Renny Harlin and Carolco had spent years developing Gale Force, which would have cast Stallone as a man defending a seaside town against marauders at the peak of a hurricane.
As a film from the Carolco company that had produced all three Rambo films, it would have been right up Stallone’s wheelhouse. According to Entertainment Weekly, after spending nearly $2 million on scripts and treatments, Carolco scrapped Gale Force in favor of Cliffhanger.
Gabe is a classic Stallone character — stoic, isolated, and capable.
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Cliffhanger’s long development and rough road to production (including multiple production stops due to Carolco’s failure to pay crew, according to the June 1993 issue of Spy magazine) followed several poorly performing movies for Sylvester Stallone. His attempts at branching out into comedy with movies like John Landis’ surprisingly funny flop, Oscar, and 1992’s notorious naughty old lady comedy Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (a ’90s so-bad-it’s-good classic) revealed his limits. Cliffhanger, casting him as a tough and reliable mountain ranger fighting thieves in icy caves, reminded audiences of what made him such an effective action hero. In the movie’s vertigo-inducing prologue, we see what makes Gabe Walker tick, and why he walked away from the mountain ranger lifestyle, as his decision-making inadvertently leads to the death of his best friend Hal’s (Michael Rooker) girlfriend. As ridiculous as the scene can be, it announces the movie’s massive sense of scale and lets Stallone’s emotions anchor the whole film.
With a script majorly rewritten by Stallone, you might expect Cliffhanger to feature numerous scenes of Gabe Walker as an untouchable killer with remarkable survival instincts. And you’d be right — the reveal that he survived an avalanche plays like a gag. But the movie’s strength is spending time with its ensemble. Besides Stallone’s future Guardians of the Galaxy co-star Rooker, John Lithgow’s villainous Qualen is a great Hans Gruber type, and his henchmen are memorable too. Cliffhanger’s generosity of spirit, disaster movie energy, and excessive touches ensure that while Stallone comes off best, the entire film clicks as an ensemble action thriller. Considering how the ‘90s had gone for him up to that point, Cliffhanger’s a redemption story for Stallone, one he had to write for himself.
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Edge-of-your-seat suspense, unforgettable left turns, and hidden gems are waiting to hijack your night.
By Robert Scucci
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I love watching Steven Seagal movies. Under Siege (1992) is Die Hard on a boat, and it’s actually a great watch thanks to the supporting cast involved, especially Tommy Lee Jones. Hard to Kill (1990) is amazing because the most badass thing Seagal says in the entire film happens when he’s alone in his bedroom, muttering about taking the evil senator on his TV to the blood bank. And how could we talk about Steven Seagal without mentioning On Deadly Ground (1994), a cautionary tale about corporations destroying the environment that somehow involves Seagal, the good guy, blowing up half of Alaska?
At face value, these movies are tremendously entertaining, but not for the reasons you’d think. Most of the entertainment value comes from Seagal believing he’s a living, breathing legend, even though most of the fight scenes involve him talking tough, running awkwardly, and wiggling his hands around. But if you really want a Steven Seagal punisher that could double as a drinking game, it has to be 2006’s Attack Force.

And what would that drinking game be, you ask? Every time Seagal opens his mouth and it sounds like a Martin Sheen impersonator is dubbing over the dialogue, you take a sip of whatever you’ve got. Be warned: you’ll probably need your stomach pumped if you actually commit to this bit.
As of this writing, I’ve written 1,945 articles for this site, most of them movie reviews. Usually, I’ll knock out a quick summary, talk about the themes, break down intention versus execution, and figure out who the movie is actually for. Attack Force finally broke me. This movie isn’t about anything or for anyone, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t laugh my face off the entire time I watched it.

To the best of my understanding, Attack Force follows Steven Seagal’s Commander Marshall Lawson, who, as expected, suffers from a terminal case of “Damn, he’s good” syndrome. On this mission, however, a commander is only as good as his team, and his squad gets wiped out almost immediately by a stripper named Reina (Evelyne Armela O’Bami). Marshall, with help from his girlfriend Tia (Lisa Lovbrand), discovers that Reina murdered his team while high on a new party drug called CTX, which Tia co-developed alongside corrupt nightclub owner Aroon (Adam Croasdell).
Though Tia helped create CTX, she wants nothing to do with Aroon’s comically evil plan to taint Paris’ water supply with the drug because it turns anybody who takes it into a bloodthirsty maniac with an insatiable appetite for flesh, or something close to that. There’s a lot of dialogue about animal instincts and violent mammalian impulses, but none of it really clarifies anything. There are also reports that earlier versions of the film involved aliens, so who the hell knows what happened here?

Long story short, Steven Seagal wears these weird talon gloves that let him punch and slash people at the same time, a bunch of people die, and then the movie abruptly ends with zero explanation or closure. I’m trying to make it make sense, but I’m a writer, not a miracle worker.
The most insane thing about Attack Force is the sloppy overdubbing. Legend has it that there were so many rewrites after production wrapped that entire chunks of dialogue had to be replaced in post. The problem is nobody was available for reshoots, so a healthy percentage of Seagal’s lines were redubbed by a guy who sounds more like Martin Sheen than the actor he’s supposed to be portraying. We’re not talking about little touch-ups either. There are scenes where Seagal switches between two completely different voices within the same conversation. He’ll start speaking normally, the next few sentences are dubbed over, and then the exchange suddenly snaps back to his real voice like nothing happened.

To add insult to injury, the hand-to-hand combat sequences in this movie are ridiculous. Most of Seagal’s fighting at this point in his career involves him glaring intensely, waving his hands around like he’s performing interpretive dance, and relying on frantic camerawork to disguise the fact that a past-his-prime action star is basically doing the Macarena while people fling themselves across the room after running into him. I wish I was exaggerating, but if you watch Attack Force for any reason, I hope it’s to study these production disasters for the love of the game because the movie has absolutely nothing else going for it.
Attack Force may genuinely be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I say this as somebody who once gave Buttcrack (1998) a five-star review. At least Buttcrack knows exactly what it is. It’s a bunch of people trying to make the dumbest movie imaginable and somehow landing a distribution deal in the process. I can respect that, and I do respect that. Attack Force, by all appearances, was a legitimate attempt at a sci-fi action thriller, but there’s barely any sci-fi, no thrills whatsoever, and action scenes that feel like they’re on life support waiting for somebody to pull the plug. I respect none of this.


As of this writing, you can stream Attack Force for free on Tubi. Seriously, don’t pay for this one.
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Roommates, it looks like a new chapter may be loading for one Hollywood heavyweight — and let’s just say the timing has fans deep in their feels. After weathering one of the most difficult periods of his life in the public eye, Jamie Foxx has been keeping things lowkey, focusing on family, gratitude, and what’s next. Now, sources close to the actor say his future is getting even brighter… and a little louder too.
According to reports, Jamie Foxx and his girlfriend, Alyce Huckstepp, are expecting their first child together. The exciting news comes after the couple quietly built their relationship away from social media and public attention following dating rumors that first surfaced back in 2023. Fans also spotted Alyce supporting Jamie during his emotional return to the spotlight after his serious health scare, standing proudly beside him in a video shared by Gayle King as he celebrated his comeback.
Jamie stepping into this season of life hits differently for supporters who watched him battle through his medical emergency and emotional recovery over the last few years. While the actor has always kept his romantic life private, he’s never hidden how deeply he loves being a father. From co-hosting ‘Beat Shazam’ with his eldest daughter Corinne to sharing heartfelt moments about his youngest daughter Anelise helping him during his hospitalization, Jamie has consistently shown the world that fatherhood is one of his proudest roles. Now, at 58, the Oscar winner is reportedly preparing to embrace the newborn stage all over again.
Chileeee — didn’t Jamie Foxx swear off dating white women during his Netflix special? While reflecting on surviving the 2023 brain bleed and stroke that nearly took his life in ‘What Had Happened Was…,’ the comedian suddenly broke into song telling the crowd, “I’ve been cured… no more white girls,” before joking, “I’m back on the Black side of town!” The comments instantly had fans bringing up his past relationships, including his years-long romance with Katie Holmes and previous relationship with Connie Kline, the mother of his oldest daughter Corinne Foxx. While many took the moment as classic Jamie Foxx comedy, social media is now debating whether the actor was joking or dead serious, especially given this alleged pregnancy news! He and Alyce have not addressed the TMZ report or made any official announcements.
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Andy Cohen is offering some clarification regarding Lisa Kudrow’s viral comment about The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
“It blew up that people were saying she was calling me out on fakery on the show,” Cohen, 57, explained during the Wednesday, May 13, episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live.
Cohen explained to cohost John Hill that the scene in question was when Dorit Kemsley stranded Erika Jayne and Kyle Richards following their “huge fight” in a “little” Italian town.
“Dorit said, ‘Screw you,’ and got in the Mercedes van and left,” Cohen explained. “What Lisa was pointing out was there was another Mercedes van there, so they weren’t stranded.”

Cohen noted that they reached out to the showrunner about the second van. (It’s also important to note that Dorit actually told Kyle and Erika to “go f*** yourselves” before leaving them.)
“I remember hearing from production, like, ‘Whoa, Dorit stranded them in town,’” he said. “The other car was the crew vehicle that was taking the crew somewhere else and took the crew somewhere else.”
Cohen added, “So Kyle and Erika then called the house to ask for a ride back. They called the house and that’s why the van that had just dropped off the crew then returned to get Erika and Kyle.”
He said that Erika and Kyle “walking on the street” waiting for a car “was real,” explaining that the women were waiting “for some time” since the van had to drop off the RHOBH crew before returning.
“It’s not even that interesting,” Cohen concluded. “I’m sorry to bore you guys, but that is what happened.”
The RHOBH episode, which originally aired in March, has been dissected on social media with several fans bringing up the two-van theory.
Kudrow, 62, appeared to hint on the Monday, May 11, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that she believed Kyle and Erika getting stranded was a scripted moment.
“I saw the Beverly Hills [episode] — you don’t want me to discuss it. I am telling you right now,” she said. “I am just going to say Black Mercedes sprinter twins. I caught that, I’m sorry.”
The Italy fight came as Kyle and Dorit’s continued to fracture. By the RHOBH season 15 reunion, which concluded earlier this month, the two women still haven’t reached a resolution.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 is now streaming on Peacock.
Whew, Roomies! Folks online aren’t the only ones who have thoughts on Chrisean Rock linking up with Blueface. Jaidyn Alexis has entered the chat and weighed in on their viral hangout too! Although fans think Chrisean’s popping out on tour with him ruffled her feathers, she’s clearing the air on where she stands and how she feels about their chill sessions.
Recently, LiveBitez dropped clips from Jaidyn Alex’s livestream, where she seemingly reacted to Blueface and Chrisean Rock hanging out. If you’ve been out of the loop, viral clips showed Chrisean popping out on Blueface’s tour, with other videos capturing her on his tour bus after the show. During the stream, Jaidyn made it clear she was not surprised that they were back to linking up. “Don’t y’all see what he do,” she said in the clip. Jaidyn’s friend, who also appeared on the stream, cracked jokes about Rock and Blue’s chill session, saying a circus usually brings out special acts. Jaidyn responded by saying, “So bring out all your acts, babe. Additionally, she said people probably thought she would be crashing out over them, but she “doesn’t really give a f**k.”
The internet was flooded with reactions after viral videos showed Chrisean and Blueface kicking it together while he was on tour. Chrisean even posted a Snapchat video of them play boxing and offering to train him for his next fight. Fans know Blue previously lost his fight to Chibu, while Rock made her professional boxing debut against Zenith Zion on April 25 and won.
After social media was flooded with reactions to her hangout with Blue, Chrisean hopped online to set the record straight and let folks know she’s not spinning the block or tapping back into her old ways. In a lengthy Instagram Story message, ther rapper said she just wants peace and chose respect over resentment when it comes to him.
“I forgave because I value peace more than carrying anger. No, we are not together I just choose respect over resentment. I’ve learned that not every battle is meant to destroy you. Some are meant to grow you. I prayed, faced things head on and left it in Yahweh’s hands.”
Rock also told fans she’s in a different space in her life now and that old version of her doesn’t exist anymore. “Y’all keep saying ChriseanRock was with Blueface No No No Chrisean was with Johnathan the old Chrisean died. Don’t let that go over your head. -Holy Hands”
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