Charlize Theron’s first role didn’t suggest the massive success coming her way: She had a nonspeaking part as a follower of the deadly Eli in 1995’s Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. She broke ...

Renee Zellweger had small parts in Dazed and Confused and Reality Bites, but her first lead was in 1995’s The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (aka The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next ...

Hillary Swank made her film debut in 1992’s horror comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer — the Kristy Swanson film that inspired the Sarah Michelle Gellar TV show — playing the supporting part of Kimberly ...

Patricia Arquette is excellent as troubled teen Kristen Parker in 1987’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, in which she’s almost eaten by a snakelife Freddie Krueger but gets a nice assist ...

Drew Barrymore broke out with her childhood role as Gertie in E.T., but her first onscreen role was in Ken Russell’s creepy Altered States, which also marked the film debut of William Hurt. Barrymore ...

In 1980 — the same year he starred in the sitcom Bosom Buddies — Tom Hanks appeared in the creepy horror movie He Knows You’re Alone, in which he played Elliott, a young man skeptical of a woman named ...

Basically the gold standard of stars who turned horror careers into just plain thriving movie careers, Jamie Lee Curtis starred as Laurie Strode in the original 1978 Halloween and then reprised the ...

Director Kristoffer Borgli’s pitch-black Norwegian comedy relentlessly mocks people who will do anything for social media attention — and the fact that their phony schemes work. It tells the story of ...

A smart, ruthless satire of Hollywood and social media, Rotting in the Sun stars the film’s director and co-writer, Sebastián Silva, who plays a fictionalized, depressed, drugged-out, very ...

This beloved Norman Lear sitcom ran on NBC from 1972 to 1977, starring Redd Foxx as widowed junk dealer Fred G. Sanford and Desmond Wilson as his son, Lamont, who stays at home to look after him ...

Strays is the R-rated story of a dog (voiced by Will Ferrell) who gets a pack together to seek revenge on his former owner. Critic Peter Rainer of FilmWeek calls it the “dog movie equivalent of Bad ...

Rachel Annette Helson is a Tony-nominated Broadway producer, an actor whose credits include The Knick, Power, and Law & Order ...