Whose Episode Is It?
It’s an all-hands-on-deck installment, since a number of plotlines need to make incremental progress without anything too exciting happening quite yet. There are a couple of decent scenes, but it’s mostly people saying stuff you already knew or doing stuff they’ve already done in previous episodes. Nothing’s really terrible, but nothing really makes much of an impression, either, so it’s difficult to get worked up one way or the other. The purpose of “The King, the Widow, and Rick” is to get us from point A to point B as painlessly and perfunctorily as possible. It is the “Justice League” of “Walking Dead” episodes.
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It’s an all-hands-on-deck installment, since a number of plotlines need to make incremental progress without anything too exciting happening quite yet. There are a couple of decent scenes, but it’s mostly people saying stuff you already knew or doing stuff they’ve already done in previous episodes. Nothing’s really terrible, but nothing really makes much of an impression, either, so it’s difficult to get worked up one way or the other. The purpose of “The King, the Widow, and Rick” is to get us from point A to point B as painlessly and perfunctorily as possible. It is the “Justice League” of “Walking Dead” episodes.
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Most of the zombie stuff this season has been tied to the war, so we haven’t really had...
- 11/27/2017
- by Jeff Stone
- Indiewire
As awards season takes over Hollywood, keep up with all the ins, outs, and big accolades with our bi-weekly Awards Roundup column.
-The 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Timothée Chalamet with the Rising Star Award – Actor at its annual Film Awards Gala for his performance in “Call Me by Your Name.” The Film Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, will be held Tuesday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival runs January 4 – 15, 2018. Past recipients of the Rising Star Award include Ruth Negga, Alicia Vikander, Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Kendrick, Dakota Fanning, Terrence Howard, and Adam Beach.
“Timothée Chalamet gives a stirring performance as Elio, a 17-year-old on the brink of passion and self-discovery. It’s an intimate and erotic performance that transports the audience to another time and place and stays with us long after we’ve left the theater,” said Festival...
-The 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Timothée Chalamet with the Rising Star Award – Actor at its annual Film Awards Gala for his performance in “Call Me by Your Name.” The Film Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, will be held Tuesday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival runs January 4 – 15, 2018. Past recipients of the Rising Star Award include Ruth Negga, Alicia Vikander, Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Kendrick, Dakota Fanning, Terrence Howard, and Adam Beach.
“Timothée Chalamet gives a stirring performance as Elio, a 17-year-old on the brink of passion and self-discovery. It’s an intimate and erotic performance that transports the audience to another time and place and stays with us long after we’ve left the theater,” said Festival...
- 11/17/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Poor John Carpenter. Like nearly all of the truly great horror filmmakers, his movies are destined to be misunderstood in their time, only finding the proper appreciation several years after the fact when the rest of the world is finally able to catch up to what he’s doing. It’s not always the case, of course, as he has had a handful of commercial hits; for many years, his breakthrough movie Halloween was the most successful independent film ever made. It was the rare instance in which audiences were tuned in to what Carpenter was doing at the time he was doing it. Most of his other great films—and he has more great films than almost any other director working in the genre—took years to connect with the public. Don’t blame Carpenter for that. He’s a man ahead of his time.
It has been 30 years...
It has been 30 years...
- 7/5/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
“Wouldn’t it be great to have a scene where a character who claimed to be God was in the episode, but [a man of the cloth named] Matt is like, ‘You’re in my story. God is in my story.’ And God is basically like, ‘No, no, no. Everybody’s in my story.'”
“Meanwhile, there’s an orgy going on.”
If the battle between an egomaniacal reverend and God Himself doesn’t appeal to you, then the orgy has to, right? One would hope so, but the conversation described by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta above is an intense disagreement between two people. They’re in conflict over who’s in control. Their desires shift over the course of the conversation, but the conflict remains.
And, yes, there’s an orgy in the background.
Heated dialogue is a regular source of drama in television, given it’s a character-based medium and characters need to...
“Meanwhile, there’s an orgy going on.”
If the battle between an egomaniacal reverend and God Himself doesn’t appeal to you, then the orgy has to, right? One would hope so, but the conversation described by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta above is an intense disagreement between two people. They’re in conflict over who’s in control. Their desires shift over the course of the conversation, but the conflict remains.
And, yes, there’s an orgy in the background.
Heated dialogue is a regular source of drama in television, given it’s a character-based medium and characters need to...
- 5/24/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
A boat orgy, simulated sex with a lion, and a conversation with an ex-Olympian who thinks he’s God: That’s how Matt Jamison found peace.
So it should come as no surprise that the actor who played our not-so-good reverend thinks the person who wrote his story is a little bit mad.
“Matt is Damon Lindelof,” Christopher Eccleston said in an interview with IndieWire. “The showrunner leaves his family and goes on a mad quest to prove something. [So] I think the secret to Matt, for everybody watching, is always to think of him as a showrunner in American television.”
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“That’s a joke!” he said, after a brief pause. “Well, it’s only half a joke.”
Eccleston has been put through a lot on “The Leftovers,” as Matt’s ongoing journey has required the former...
So it should come as no surprise that the actor who played our not-so-good reverend thinks the person who wrote his story is a little bit mad.
“Matt is Damon Lindelof,” Christopher Eccleston said in an interview with IndieWire. “The showrunner leaves his family and goes on a mad quest to prove something. [So] I think the secret to Matt, for everybody watching, is always to think of him as a showrunner in American television.”
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“That’s a joke!” he said, after a brief pause. “Well, it’s only half a joke.”
Eccleston has been put through a lot on “The Leftovers,” as Matt’s ongoing journey has required the former...
- 5/15/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
One week after the election of Donald Trump, Paul Verhoeven was at the Film Society of Lincoln Center presenting “Starship Troopers,” a 1997 film that highlighted the fascist possibilities of American society. It was a connection that wasn’t lost on the provocative 77 year-old filmmaker, who the Film Society is honoring this month with a two-week retrospective.
In discussing the recent news that Sony and producer Neal H. Moritz (“Fast & Furious” franchise) were going to reboot “Starship Troopers,” Verhoeven didn’t pull any punches during a Q&A.
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According to the Dutch filmmaker, the reason Hollywood’s remakes (“Total Recall,” “Robocop”) and sequels (“Basic Instinct,” “Robocop,” “Starship Troopers) of his films fail is “the studios always wanted not to have a layer of lightness, a layer of irony, sarcasm, satire.”
Referring to the announcement that the new “Starship Troopers” reboot would...
In discussing the recent news that Sony and producer Neal H. Moritz (“Fast & Furious” franchise) were going to reboot “Starship Troopers,” Verhoeven didn’t pull any punches during a Q&A.
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According to the Dutch filmmaker, the reason Hollywood’s remakes (“Total Recall,” “Robocop”) and sequels (“Basic Instinct,” “Robocop,” “Starship Troopers) of his films fail is “the studios always wanted not to have a layer of lightness, a layer of irony, sarcasm, satire.”
Referring to the announcement that the new “Starship Troopers” reboot would...
- 11/16/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Robert Eggers, the writer/director behind the indie horror hit “The Witch,” confirmed with IndieWire that his next film will be the remake of “Nosferatu” for former Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8. While a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Eggers said he never intended for his next film to be a remake of the 1922 iconic horror classic by the legendary German director F. W. Murnau.
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“[It’s shocking] to me,” said Eggers. “It feels ugly and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting for a filmmaker in my place to do ‘Nosferatu’ next. I was really planning on waiting a while, but that’s how fate shook out.”
Eggers’ history with the vampire story of Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck, goes back a long way. Growing up, he was hooked on classic horror...
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“[It’s shocking] to me,” said Eggers. “It feels ugly and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting for a filmmaker in my place to do ‘Nosferatu’ next. I was really planning on waiting a while, but that’s how fate shook out.”
Eggers’ history with the vampire story of Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck, goes back a long way. Growing up, he was hooked on classic horror...
- 11/11/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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Producer Chad Hodge (“Wayward Pines”) is having quite a successful fall: His new stage take on the 1942 movie musical classic “Holiday Inn” just hit Broadway, and his scripted adaptation of the young adult book trilogy “Darkest Minds” is set to be directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and star Amandla Stenberg.
But right now, Hodge’s focus is on the long-awaited premiere of his next big TV project finally premieres this month, the TNT drama “Good Behavior.”
“Good Behavior” stars Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”) as Letty Raines, a thief and con artist who’s out of prison and trying to be a better person. She’s back to her old tricks, stealing and giving into her addictions, when she encounters an assassin, played by Juan Diego Botto.
The...
Producer Chad Hodge (“Wayward Pines”) is having quite a successful fall: His new stage take on the 1942 movie musical classic “Holiday Inn” just hit Broadway, and his scripted adaptation of the young adult book trilogy “Darkest Minds” is set to be directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and star Amandla Stenberg.
But right now, Hodge’s focus is on the long-awaited premiere of his next big TV project finally premieres this month, the TNT drama “Good Behavior.”
“Good Behavior” stars Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”) as Letty Raines, a thief and con artist who’s out of prison and trying to be a better person. She’s back to her old tricks, stealing and giving into her addictions, when she encounters an assassin, played by Juan Diego Botto.
The...
- 11/4/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
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Richard E Grant is the latest actor to chalk up credits on both Doctor Who and that other big beast of Sf and fantasy television Game of Thrones – according to a swiftly removed reference on his agent’s website anyway. Although it’s yet to be officially confirmed, it looks as though the non-canonical Ninth Doctor will...
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Richard E Grant is the latest actor to chalk up credits on both Doctor Who and that other big beast of Sf and fantasy television Game of Thrones – according to a swiftly removed reference on his agent’s website anyway. Although it’s yet to be officially confirmed, it looks as though the non-canonical Ninth Doctor will...
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- 9/10/2015
- by Jonathan Appleton
- Kasterborous.com
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