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Steven Spilly: A Versatile and Dedicated Actor Lighting Up the Stage and Screen

Steven Spilly is a talented actor known for his dynamic performances on both stage and screen. Born and raised in Seven Hills, Australia, he developed a passion for acting at a young age and has since made a name for himself in the industry. With his incredible range and unwavering dedication, Spilly has captivated audiences worldwide and established himself as a rising star.

One of the defining moments in Spilly's career came with his breakout role in the critically acclaimed film "In the Red" in 1999. This remarkable performance not only put him on the map but also garnered him rave reviews and nominations for several prestigious awards. Audiences and critics alike were mesmerized by Spilly's ability to breathe life into complex characters, showcasing his remarkable talent and potential.

Since then, Spilly has continued to shine brightly, gracing both the silver screen and the small screen with his presence. His filmography boasts an impressive array of diverse roles, demonstrating his versatility and ability to adapt to any character. From intense dramas to lighthearted comedies, Spilly effortlessly immerses himself in each role, leaving a lasting impression on viewers.

Despite his success in film and television, Steven Spilly remains connected to his theatrical roots. He has returned to the stage, captivating audiences with his powerful performances in various productions, both in Australia and abroad. His stage presence and commitment to his craft have solidified his reputation as a multifaceted actor, capable of delivering compelling performances across different mediums.

What sets Steven Spilly apart is not only his talent but also his unwavering dedication to his craft. He continually seeks opportunities for growth and improvement, participating in workshops and training sessions to enhance his skills. By staying current with industry trends and techniques, Spilly ensures that he remains at the forefront of his profession. This commitment to self-improvement reflects his genuine passion for acting and his desire to deliver the best possible performances to his audience.

Beyond his professional endeavors, Steven Spilly is a proud resident of Seven Hills, his hometown. He actively engages with the community, participating in various events and supporting charitable causes. Spilly's involvement in community initiatives demonstrates his generosity of spirit and his desire to give back to the place that nurtured his talent.

Despite his busy schedule, Spilly remains a dedicated family man who values his personal life. He understands the importance of balance and makes time for his loved ones amidst his demanding career. This commitment to his family showcases his grounded nature and his appreciation for the relationships that shape his life.

As a supporter of the arts, Steven Spilly encourages aspiring actors and artists to pursue their dreams. He recognizes the transformative power of the arts and the impact they can have on individuals and communities. Through his own journey, he serves as an inspiration to countless aspiring actors, reminding them that with passion, hard work, and perseverance, their dreams can become a reality.

If you haven't had the chance to witness Steven Spilly's incredible talent, be sure to keep an eye out for his upcoming projects. Whether he graces the stage or lights up the silver screen, his performances are not to be missed. With his versatility, dedication, and genuine passion for his craft, Steven Spilly continues to captivate audiences and leave an indelible mark on the world of acting.

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9 Straight-to-Streaming Blockbusters to Watch While You Wait for Tenet's Release

Once upon a time, movie fans had a lot to look forward to in the way of summer 2020 theatrical releases. The twenty-fifth James Bond flick No Time to Die was set to kick things off in April, and in May, Scarlett Johnasson's overdue MCU standalone film Black Widow and the next Fast and Furious flick F9 were scheduled to drop. Then, Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman 1984 was scheduled to hit theaters in June, and the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick was expected the same month. And of course Christopher Nolan's Tenet, seemingly the last hope for some semblance of a blockbuster this year, continues to get pushed back indefinitely. That's just a small sample of the major movies which were delayed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The silver lining of social distancing was that there was already a bounty of streaming and video-on-demand options on the way — and  many which pivoted to streaming debuts amid the shutdowns — to provide us all more than enough great movie options to keep audiences entertained in our own  at-home theaters.

Stay home and stay safe with these cineplex-quality films that are streaming on popular streaming services right now.

Spike Lee's latest joint, Da 5 Bloods, hit Netflix smack dab in the middle of nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd, and, as with most of his filmography, the movie offers a timely, scathing rebuke of the history of America's treatment of Black people — this time, through the lens of the "bloods," Black soldiers who fought on the front lines in Vietnam. The story's action is carried forward by the decades-later reunion of one platoon, as they journey back to recover their lost leader's remains and the pile of gold they found and stowed away on the battlefield. But the takeaway from the pic — apart from the fact that Delroy Lindo delivers a tour-de-force performance — is that it sheds light on another oft-unrecognized sacrifice and segment of our nation's history.x96 tv box

If not a Netflix Original by design, Sam Hargrave's Extraction, a  Chris Hemsworth-led action pic, would've easily made the marquee of the local cineplex in a normal year. Not since  The Haunting of Hill House have we seen such an impressive extended single-take shot, and Hemsworth's turn as a disillusioned mercenary who reluctantly accepts an assignment to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned drug lord from a vicious rival is extremely watchable if you're looking to dig into a tub of popcorn and have a good time. Chances are, you'll be left wanting much more after the credits roll, and the good news is that Extraction 2 is already in the works.

Don't let the tight runtime fool you; Greyhound is still very much a war epic at just 1 hour and 31 minutes. The film — which Tom Hanks adapted from C.S. Forester's The Good Shepherd and which was directed by Aaron Schneider — features Hanks as the fictional commanding officer of a U.S. Navy vessel who must lead a convoy of Allied ships through the perilous Black Pit, a stretch of sea inaccessible to air support during the Battle of the Atlantic. For that three-day period, Hanks' Commander Ernest Krause is relentlessly tested and taunted by a "wolfpack" of U-boats, and it's on him to shepherd the ships across the Atlantic. There's little fluff to be found in this film, but the action is, to borrow an oft-used phrase in the film, "steady as you go."

For anyone who wasn't lucky enough to see the celebrated Broadway musical Hamilton live, especially when show creator  Lin-Manuel Miranda still led the original cast, director Thomas Kail captured a stunning 2016 performance of the show, with plans for the film to release wide in 2021. Once the coronavirus pandemic put all of Hollywood on hold, though, the pic — a musical biography of Alexander Hamilton told with a soundtrack of hip-hop, R&B, and soul — was redirected to a pre-Fourth of July release on Disney+ and gave audiences at home plenty of reasons to sing this Independence Day.

An anticipated romance movie smuggled inside of an action comedy, The Lovebirds was supposed to premiere at SXSW in March 2020 before everything shut down. That allowed Netflix to gobble it up, so nearly all the world could still see Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae play a couple on the rocks who learn to love each other again after accidentally becoming involved in a murder the same day they were going to break up. It's full of the kind of raucous humor that sees Nanjiani kicked in the face by a horse, all the while bringing Rae's and Nanjiani's characters closer together for a happy ending.

Gina Prince-Bythewood's action thriller The Old Guard is more than just your ordinary shoot-'em-up-bang-bang-style popcorn flick. The pic stars  Charlize Theron as Andy, the ancient leader of a race of semi-immortals who secretly work to save the world, one fight at a time, and take on a reluctant new member in KiKi Layne's Nile. Although The Old Guard does offer plenty of high-octane sequences, the characters also deliver some thoughtful commentary about the heroes' burden of watching the world continue to self-destruct no matter how many bad guys they vanquish, along with some sublime LGBTQ representation.

The less you know about Palm Springs going into it, the better, but it's probably no secret at this point that this delightful comedy features Andy Samberg and  Cristin Milioti as a pair of wedding goers who find themselves trapped in a time loop. Their performances are at once goofy and grounded, and there are plenty of surprises packed into every precious minute of this wild, incredibly fun rom-com with touches of sci-fi. x96 max plus

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have teamed up for a lot of action dramas over the years (see also: Lone Survivor, Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon, and Mile 22), but  Spenser Confidential marks their first film which even flirts with comedy — and it's all the better for it. The premise of the movie is simple enough; Wahlberg stars as an ex-cop who did his time for beating up his crooked boss and returns to find that his department is enmeshed a very sordid scandal that only he, his mentor Henry (Alan Arkin), his gentle giant roommate Hawk (Winston Duke), and his on-and-off-again girlfriend Cissy (Iliza Schlesinger) can untangle. But what might otherwise be a rote cop drama is immediately elevated by the movie's commitment to being a very Boston drama with a lot of sharp humor sprinkled in at just the right moments.

OK, maybe this one wouldn't have been a major blockbuster, but it's already destined to be an indie sci-fi classic talked about by elite cinephiles for years to come. The winner of Sundance's 2019 Best Narrative Feature Audience Award is set in 1950s New Mexico and follows a young woman and a man who investigate mysterious audio that appears to be coming from space, but skips special effects for mounting mood and incredible filmmaking. Andrew Patterson's directorial debut is a stunner, showing off his unique eye with what are sure to be his trademark one-take shots involving hundreds of extras, multiple locations, and a camera that never wants to turn off. There's a mesmerizing scene involving the young woman operating a switchboard that's already become one of my favorite scenes in film history, and I can't wait to see what Patterson comes at us with next.

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Matt Zoller Seitz's Top Ten Films of 2018

It was more difficult putting together my 2018 Top 10 list than it has been in years past because I recently relocated from New York, which screens everything, to Cincinnati, which gets things later—and movie distributors did not make certain titles available for screening even though they were theoretically in contention for awards from critics' groups that I belong to. That being said, the films on this list made such a powerful impression on me that it's hard to imagine anything dislodging them—particularly my #1, #2, #3 and #4 choices, all of which I saw three times or more. The first entry on the list is actually two films with a total running time of four hours. At four viewings, that means I gave the project 16 hours of my life. I consider it time well spent. 

10. "Bodied" 

Joseph Kahn's battle rap comedy-drama is an exuberant satire on race and class, but it's also a sports movie about a gifted but arrogant newcomer who has a gift for treachery and can't seem to resist the urge to use it. 

9. "Minding the Gap" 

Far and away the best in a series of 2018 skateboarding movies, fiction and nonfiction, this documentary by first-time feature filmmaker Bing Liu is an autobiographical account of coming of age on wheels in a dying Rust Belt town, while trying not to let its demons destroy what's left of youthful optimism.

8. "Searching" 

The story of a father trying to find his missing daughter plays out entirely as a series of screens and screens-within screens, as he goes on the Internet and tries to solve the mystery. Aneesh Chaganty's thriller initially threatens to be a better idea for a movie than an actual movie, but the plot unfolds so deftly, always playing fair with the audience, that by the end you're exhilarated and moved. Star John Cho, who's on a web cam for most of the movie's running time, holds it all together, delivering a symposium in how to act in closeup. 

7. "Hereditary" 

This directorial debut from Ari Aster is the first American horror film in years that had me practically crawling out of my own skin. The ludicrous and super-creepy final act feels like an assault on reason itself.

6. "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" 

A mesmerizing anthology from Joel and Ethan Coen that was originally intended as episodes of a Netflix anthology series, but functions quite well as a self-contained series of riffs on ambition, community, mortality and fate. As immense, idealistic, horrifying, lyrical and problematic as the Western genre itself. 

5. "Shoah: Four Sisters" 

A posthumous gift from the great documentarian and historical witness Claude Lanzmann, this is a quartet of short features consisting of previously unseen footage shot for his landmark, nearly nine-hour "Shoah." But each story is shaped so perfectly, with a bare minimum of shots, that the films seem to be rediscovering the reason that nonfiction cinema was created.

4. "Private Life" 

Movies about delusional couples struggling through life don't get thought of as cinematic when they're rooted as strongly in the real as this one. Writer/director Tamara Jenkins' film about fertility and disillusionment is laugh-out-loud funny but also very artful in the way it tells its story with image and sound, as well as performance and dialogue. This is a great American indie comedy in the tradition of "Moonstruck," "Walking and Talking," "Trees Lounge" and "Big Night," with one of the great final shots I've seen in years.

3. "Sorry to Bother You" 

Boots Riley's shockingly funny (and sometimes just shocking) debut as writer/director is a gonzo satire on capitalism, racism, gender relations, and the way everyday life can just grind a person down. The jokes are like tiny Molotov cocktails tossed at the viewer's preconceived notions of what American cinema can do. I know some of my colleagues think it loses steam in the last third, but I think that's when it reaches its full, awesome potential. This movie took me back to my formative filmgoing years. when I saw "Repo Man," "Brazil" and "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" multiple times in the theater.

2. "Annihilation"

My favorite science fiction movie since "Ex Machina," and not surprisingly the product of the same filmmaker, writer/director Alex Garland, this freaky exploration movie is about decay and rebirth, self-destruction and reinvention. It's so subtly structured that you don't realize until you watch it a second, third or fourth time how much information has been embedded in every scene, all of it important. The last ten minutes maybe be the only attempt at a "2001: A Space Odyssey"-type of mind-blowing, conversation piece ending, post-Kubrick, that actually sticks the landing.

1. "A Bread Factory, Part 1: For the Sake of Gold" and "A Bread Factory, Part 2: Walk With Me Awhile"

This matched set of features from writer/director Patrick Wang ("In the Family") is a beautiful, all-encompassing experience as well as a story. Set in and around a struggling nonprofit arts center in a dying upstate New York town, and featuring superb anchoring performances by Tyne Daly and Elisabeth Henry as the couple that owns the place, it's at once realistic and fanciful, satirical and goofy. And it's conformable enough with its elastic, "anything goes" mentality to make the art itself (including snippets of plays, poetry readings and musical performances) part of the fabric of the tale. It's a throwback to the last gasp of American indie film vitality, the 1990s, as well as the tradition of intimate yet staggeringly ambitious (and long) European art films like "Scenes from a Marriage," "The Best Intentions," "Out 1" and "Berlin Alexanderplatz." In an era where theatrical films are increasingly about huge things crashing into other huge things, the "Bread Factory" films are a reminder that there's more than one way to be cinematic.

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