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Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar-winning actor best known for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movie franchise and the acid-tongued Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey, died Friday, her publicist and children confirmed. The iconic actress was 89. Her professional acting career began in the …

Viggo Mortensen’s career-defining role as Aragorn was not originally meant to be. In fact, the film trilogy had an entirely different actor cast in the role before a dramatic change had Mortensen flying from America to New Zealand at the last minute to give one of his most memorable performances. …

ScarlettVixen has officially released Mario Adventure 3, a ROM hack (the legality of playing games with ROMs is nebulous at best) for Super Mario Bros. 3, which has been in development for 20 years. The developer stated, “It’s been an extremely long project, but after 12 years, it’s finally here. …