In this week’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo is on a mission to discuss “The Old Man.” The FX and Hulu series follows a retired former spy who is hiding from the agency that once employed him; his life is suddenly upended by a man he hasn’t seen in thirty years. The spy series stars Jeff Bridges, Amy Brenneman, John Lithgow, Alia Shawkat, Bill Heck, and more. 

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Family is blood and biology on the surface, but found families—those who are there for us no matter what kinship exists— have taken a central position in our culture in recent years. Those notions, identity, who we are, and the limits of family and fatherhood all come into play in the compelling second season of FX’s “The Old Man” starring Jeff Bridges. Growing beyond just a thrilling spy thriller about an aging ex-CIA agent on the run, Dan Chase(Bridges), and the former ally set to chase him down FBI Assistant Director Harold Harper (John Lithgow), “The Old Man” deeply evolves in season two, arguably different enough that it could turn off viewers more inclined to the thriller action elements of its inaugural season.

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“This is a warning: the next time, you’re not going to see it coming,” Jeff Bridges says in the new trailer for FX’s “The Old Man.” If you’re unfamiliar with this series, you should get acquainted with it immediately—it was one of the best prestige series of the last few years. Developed by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine with key episodes directed by Jon Watts (Sony‘s “Spider-Man” trilogy), also an executive producer, “The Old Man” debuted in the summer of 2022.

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Terry Gilliam hasn’t shot a movie since 2018’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a film that took him nearly 30 years to make. So let’s call the seven years between that movie and Gilliam’s upcoming “The Carnival At The End Of Days” a well-deserved break.  The British filmmaker plans to shoot the new film this year, and Premiere reports it has quite the cast attached to it, led by none other than disgraced actor Johnny Depp.

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Every year in the spring, Film at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the film industry with the prestigious Chaplin Award. This year’s honoree is Academy Award-winning actor, beloved screen icon, and the dude himself, Jeff Bridges, the actor known for unforgettable classics like “The Last Picture Show,” “Fearless,” “The Big Lebowski,” “True Grit,” “Heaven’s Gate,” “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,” “Starman, “Crazy Heart” and more.

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Twenty-five years on, The Dude still abides. And Jeff Bridges would abide by a sequel to the 1998 cult classic, but only if the Coen Brothers direct it.

READ MORE: Ethan Coen’s ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Tops Focus Features CinemaCon Previews

IndieWire (via People) reports that the actor would agree to a follow-up to “The Big Lebowski,” with one condition: Joel and Ethan Coen both return to helm it.

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After a lymphoma scare in 2020 and an even worse COVID-19 scare in 2021, Jeff Bridges is back in action in FX On Hulu‘s “The Old Man.” And while the long-time actor’s career is well into its golden years, with his last film roles coming in 2018, it’s great that Bridge is still alive, thriving, and being The Dude. After all, he’s had some amazing roles over the years, including “The Big Lebowski,” “Fat City,” “The Fisher King,” and more.

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Being haunted by the ghosts of our past can sound a little cliché at times, but when there’s not much of your personal future left, all one can do is reflect. And when you crossed a lot of moral lines, betrayed former allies beyond the pale of forgiveness, deceived your masters, and worked for the murderous American CIA regime in Afghanistan during the war-torn 1980s, the specters of your various sins are going to eventually catch up with you.

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It’s a grim scene at the beginning of the trailer for “The Old Man,” a CIA revenge thriller starring Jeff Bridges. Bridges, a CIA hitman who thought he was out of the game calls his daughter (Ali Shawkat) says goodbye, says he loves her, and says they’ll never see each other again.

That’s the premise of this long-gestating FX thriller that was delayed by COVID and then once again delayed by Bridges’ 2020/2021 cancer scare.

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After being delayed for nearly two years, FX‘s drama series “The Old Man” is finally set to return on June 17, with streaming availability the next day on Hulu. Production had been shut down due to the usual Covid complications, but also had been delayed because of lead actor Jeff Bridges‘ cancer scare. Thankfully, the actor has received a clean bill of health.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Our latest, extra-jam-packed look at the new release shelf includes noteworthy indies, genre flicks on 4K, a handful of horror favorites, and the usual assortment of classics on Blu-ray.

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When you read the name Jon Watts in a headline lately, it normally is something to do with the filmmaker’s unenviable position as the filmmaker in the middle of the Disney/Sony Spider-Man rights situation. But hey, this time, Watts is in the news and it’s not superhero-related at all. In fact, this new project might be the most interesting thing he’s signed on for since “Cop Car.”

According to FX, Watts has signed on to helm the pilot episode of the upcoming series “The Old Man,” starring Jeff Bridges.

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Jeff Bridges joins the ever-growing list of A-list Hollywood legends making their debuts on prestige TV series. Unfortunately, much to the dismay of ‘Big Lebowski’ fans, it appears that Bridges will play someone that’s about the polar opposite of The Dude in “The Old Man.”

According to THR, Bridges has agreed to star in the upcoming FX series “The Old Man.” In the series, which is based on the novel by Thomas Perry, Bridges will portray a former CIA operative that is trying to enjoy his retirement off the grid.

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As predicted, it would appear the return of the Dude, that was teased by actor Jeff Bridges has little to do with any sequels or spin-offs of “The Big Lebowski.” Instead, the Dude returns in a new ad for beer.

In the new Super Bowl ad for Stella Artois, we are first shown Sarah Jessica Parker, bringing back her famous Carrie Bradshaw character from “Sex and the City.” Instead of her customary Cosmopolitan, the well-dressed lady orders a Stella Artois, causing great shock from those in the restaurant.

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The Dude returns…maybe?

Actor Jeff Bridges, who played the iconic Dude in the classic Coen Brothers film “The Big Lebowski,” shared an interesting teaser on his Twitter that points to a new project that just might resurrect his most famous character. But honestly, it’s probably just a Super Bowl commercial.

In the teaser, it just shows the Dude walking across camera, lowering his glasses, and chuckling, followed by a tumbleweed rolling down the street.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions have recruited some notable names not nominated this year to present at the 76th Golden Globes on Sunday night. And it’s going to be quite a busy show as it seems obvious some of these presenters will be introducing the 10 nominated films in the Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical categories

READ MORE: Snubs and Surprises of the 2019 Golden Globes nominations

Joining hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg will be Halle Berry (Golden Globe Award winner and six-time award nominee), Chadwick Boseman, Sterling K.

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Not only will actor Jeff Bridges go down in history as The Dude, but he’s also getting another title to add to his resume – Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient.

Today, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, aka the folks behind the Golden Globes, have announced that Bridges will be the 2019 recipient of the coveted DeMille Award at next month’s awards ceremony. The Cecil B.

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It’s been 20 years since the film world was introduced to the iconic character known as The Dude. That’s right, in 1998, following the Oscar-winning success of “Fargo,” Joel and Ethan Coen released “The Big Lebowski.” And frankly, at the time, no one knew what the hell to think about it. But over the course of years, ‘Lebowski’ has turned into one of the biggest cult classic films of all time.

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Where you are, and when you are, make you who you are, in Drew Goddard‘s deliriously over-designed, entertainingly inventive, surprisingly sprawling “Bad Times at the El Royale” which has its fixation with location and period right there in the title. The place is the El Royale — a bifurcated motel half in California, half in Nevada with a divider line running down the middle of the cavernous lobby.

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It’s time to check-in, but be on your toes because you’re not ready for what the night has in store. Drew Goddard is back, but this time with a 1960’s crime-noir “Bad Times at the El Royale,” which he has set up in a similar fashion to “Cabin in the Woods.” This time, however, instead of five college friends spending a little vacation time at a remote forest cabin not expecting the horrors that await them, we have seven strangers, who all seem very willing to deceive others for the secrets they’re trying to keep.

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When considering Best Actress contenders one name has been dropped from the conversation, “Victoria and Abdul’s” Judi Dench.  The Oscar winner and seven-time nominee hasn’t made it to the Dolby Theater since 2014 for “Philomena,” but when she has a starring role she usually has a good chance of being a fixture during the season.  So, if she ends up with a SAG Award nomination in a few weeks just remember she’s also one of the few actors who have earned three nominations in one year from her peers in the guild. 

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“Only The Brave” — formerly known by the much better title, “Granite Mountain Hotshots” — is definitely a movie that’s coming out, even if we keep forgetting that it’s coming out. Again, maybe that bland title is helping it slip from our memory. But Sony Pictures is here to remind you one last time that the firefighting drama will be landing in cinemas later this month.

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From the hero’s luxe orange tuxedo jacket to the villainess’s Valentino Rockstud pumps, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” oozes style (and even offers it for sale). But the visual pleasures don’t end there; for his sequel to “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” director Matthew Vaughn continues his reign as a helmer whose obsession with the look of a film pays off for the audience. However, despite all the beauty, elegance and energy seen on screen, “The Golden Circle” has all the endurance of an Instagram post.

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Of all the movies hitting the fall, the one that makes us feel the most ‘oh yeah, that’s apparently a movie that exists’ is “Only The Brave.” Telling the true (and suddenly and grimly topical after the devastating wildfires on the West Coast)story of the Yamell Hill Fire in June 2013, we can only imagine that one of the reasons it doesn’t stick in our heads is because it’s gone through about five title changes, it was originally called “No Exit,” then “Granite Mountain,” then “Granite Mountain Hotshots,” before circling all the way back round to something generic like “Only The Brave.”

Nevertheless, the film, about the Arizona fire that claimed the life of 19 firefighters four years back, has the kind of cast that you’d think we might recall — Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch, Jennifer Connelly, Geoff Stults, Ben Hardy, Scott Haze, Alex Russell and Andie MacDowell, among others.

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Allan Loeb certainly isn’t a household name, but there’s a pretty good chance you’ve might’ve seen one or two of his credited movies. Whether it’s “21,” “The Switch,” “The Dilemma,” “Just Go With It,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” “Rock of Ages” or last year’s regrettable “Collateral Beauty,” just to name a handful, Loeb is one of those screenwriters who’s quick to diversify his resume but never able to prove his skills.

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