Like the ‘bots he clashed with in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Mark Wahlberg has some serious shape-shifting abilities. The 43-year-old actor shed a startling 60 pounds to play Jim Bennett — a ...

Watching either version of “The Gambler” is akin to witnessing a man slowly sinking into the pit of quicksand in which he voluntarily stepped; it's even worse, really, since that same man willfully ...

Rogers played the character Brady Hawkes in a series of TV movies based on his hit song “The Gambler.” He appeared in the series from the first installment in 1980 until the final one in 1994 (titled ...

Unlike Karel Reisz and James Toback's original 1974 Gambler, the Mark Wahlberg-led update assumes a belief in gambling addiction. Someone who loses thousands upon thousands to roulette was probably ...

A song about a road-weary gambler asking for a cigarette and slug of whiskey in a train car doesn’t exactly scream children’s programming, but in 1979, Kenny Rogers combined the two when he performed ...

The 1974 film told the tale of a successful English professor who succumbs to a gambling addition, which forces him to extort money from his mother and convince one of his students to shave points in ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

A remake of the 1974 film of the same name, “The Gambler” stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who charts a course of self-destruction aiming to reset his life by losing everything, having found life as a ...

At year’s end and with little fanfare comes one of the very best movies of 2014. Rupert Wyatt’s spellbinding THE GAMBLER is a dangerously cool drama with a heart, a brain, a terrific lead performance ...