With the arrival of Rebecca on Netflix, director Ben Wheatley appeared on the latest edition of The Breakdown series to discuss the film. Wheatley kicked things off by explaining his interest in adapting Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, which was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. “It …
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Saturday Night Live opened with a sketch about the vice presidential debate and “the fly” that stole the show, with the cold open also spoofing the 1986 sci-fi film The Fly. Compared to the season premiere’s insane Biden vs. Trump showdown, the debate between Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris and Beck …
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The Walking Dead actress Lauren Cohan didn’t think she would reprise her character Maggie Greene in the show’s season 10 finale, which airs this Sunday, October 4th. But after the cancellation of Whiskey Cavalier, in which she starred, it only seemed right to return to her most iconic role. “[Showrunner] …
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After a very long wait (only some of it due to the pandemic), Fargo is finally back. I reviewed the fourth season earlier this month, and I have specific thoughts on this week’s two episodes, “Welcome to the Alternate Economy” and “The Land of Taking and Killing,” coming up just …
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A new teaser for WandaVision, the highly anticipated live-action series from Marvel Studios — which stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany as Vision — was released during the 72nd Emmy Awards telecast on Sunday night. The short clip featured the characters in a classic black-and-white sitcom …
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In the trailer for horror-thriller film Synchronic, New Orleans paramedics Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) head to several calls, which appear on the surface as accidents, though clues — such as “Time is a lie” written on a wall and opened packages of a party drug dubbed “Synchronic” …
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UPDATE (9/23):You can now watch The Princess Bride full-cast table read on-demand — with a donation to the Wisconsin Democratic Party. *** The cast of The Princess Bride, one of the best movies of all time (no hyperbole), reunited Sunday night to perform a table read in support of the …
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Here’s what Cuties, the debut feature from French-Senegalese filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré, is: the story of an 11-year-old named Amy (Fathia Youssouf) who’s stuck watching her family fall apart and is trying to find a place for herself in the world. Here’s what it is not: a salacious bit of pedo-bait …
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Andrea Riseborough stars as a long-distance corporate assassin in the sci-fi horror filmPossessor, out October 9th. Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg (son of filmmaker David Cronenberg), the trailer features Riseborough as Tasya Vos, who uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to execute high-profile targets. She …
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Showtime has released the official trailer for its upcoming two-part limited series The Comey Rule, starring Jeff Daniels as former FBI director James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump. The two-part series will premiere on consecutive nights — Sunday, September 27th and Monday, September 28th — at 9:00 …
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