Life as a so-called teenager is one full of braces, pimples, break-ups, and trying to stay afloat in school. It’s hard to navigate your way in the world when everything about life feels like it stinks, and it seems like you have little to no power. Luckily, these TV shows can give any young teens out there some much-needed comfort, and provide comfort or nostalgia to those who are older but experienced something similar....
Oscar Isaac has been one of Hollywood’s busiest actors of the past decade, starring in multiple box office hits and critical darlings each year. Before the 2013 acclaim of Inside Llewyn Davis, Isaac was busy racking up supporting performances. He scored a small part alongside Benicio del Toro in a 2008 biopic of Che Guevara. With larger roles in Agora and Robin Hood as the villainous Prince John, Isaac showed his strength at portraying male authority, a skill he continues to put to use....
Thor: Love and Thunder returns the Norse god to his bulging biceps in a hilarious sequel that borders on slapstick. Director/co-writer Taika Waititi continues to put his stamp on the Marvel Cinematic Universe with another deliciously offbeat take on superhero adventures. Christian Bale and Natalie Portman bring slivers of dramatic heft in a Guns N’ Roses fueled narrative with consequential developments. Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth) quest to find his true purpose veers into unexpected philosophical territory....
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is about to return for its 47th year. The festival is the perfect opportunity for people in the film industry to interact, learn, and of course, watch some of the most brilliant movies from across the world. TIFF has become of the most important film festivals, with Variety calling it “second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars, and market activity”. That is why the films showcased at this particular festival are considered the best of that time period....
Timothy Hutton talks about the upcoming series finale Timothy Hutton has returned to the small screen in a very big way. Hutton stars as ex-insurance investigator Nathan Ford in Leverage, which airs its first season finale on Tuesday, February 24 at 10 PM ET on TNT. Hutton held a conference call to discuss the upcoming finale and here’s what he had to say. We understand that this is a band of thieves basically and we’re starting to see the consequences of that now with the team kind of falling apart....
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that A-list actors Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson may reunite for a new project entitled El Presidente. It will be the first time the two actors have worked together on-screen since the 1992 classic A Few Good Men. Warner Bros. recently bought the script from Parks and Recreation writer Daniel J. Goor, which centers on a straight-laced Secret Service agent who gets assigned to protect an unsavory ex-President....
CBS has picked up two new pilots, one is a comedy from John Hamburg and a drama from Gary Scott Thompson. The Captain is a single-camera comedy about a young writer whose life changes when he moves into a legendary old Hollywood apartment building. Hamburg wrote the script and will direct and executive produce. The drama, Protect and Serve, revolves around cops living in the Los Angeles suburbs who deal with the stress of police life on and off the job, adds The Hollywood Reporter....
Comedy Central and Daniel Tosh have agreed to a contract extension for three additional seasons of Tosh.0, it was announced today by Kent Alterman, President, Comedy Central. The new seasons of Tosh.0 will keep Comedy Central’s Tuesday night anchor in originals through 2020 with the 10th season to debut on Tuesday, March 27 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Here’s what Daniel Tosh had to say in a statement about the renewal....
Tricia Helfer gives some tidbits on Burn Notice and Battlestar Galactica Tricia Helfer has been one hot commodity since signing on to the hit Sci Fi Channel series Battlestar Galactica and has parlayed that success into a recurring role as Carla on the hit USA Network series Burn Notice, which will air its second season finale on Thursday, March 5 at 10 PM ET on the USA Network. Helfer held a conference call to discuss the finale for Burn Notice and also talked about Battlestar Galactica as well, so here’s what she had to say....
Early December saw the 2022 release of BFI’s Sight & Sound Poll, in which they unveiled their determinations for the best films of all time. In 2012 (the poll is conducted amongst film critics every 10 years), Vertigo topped the list, dethroning Citizen Kane for the first time since 1962. This year, a similar thing happened, but with a film that had never once even entered the top 10: the experimental, feminist classic Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles....
If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, there will be potential SPOILERS below, especially concerning the fate of Father Gabriel Stokes, played by Seth Gilliam. For fans who have been following The Walking Dead comics, last night’s episode included a very specific Easter Egg, which could be foreshadowing the fate of Father Gabriel in next week’s Walking Dead Season 8 midseason finale. This is your last chance to avoid spoilers, so read on at your own risk...
In just a few short days, AMC’s The Walking Dead returns with its Season 8 mid-season premiere, which has long been confirmed as the episode where Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) will die. To honor this beloved character, one of the few who has managed to survive since the first season, AMC has released a brief trailer which explores Carl’s Journey, with brief snippets of footage from seasons past that show how Carl exemplifies the traits of a “hero,” “fighter” and a “friend....
The Walking Dead Season 7 was quite a rough one for fans, with the show’s cast spread out over several different areas, and Rick (Andrew Lincoln) bowing to Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) every demand. That all changed in The Walking Dead Season 7 finale, when Rick united Alexandria with The Hilltop Colony and The Kingdom in their war with The Saviors. With production currently under way on the Season 8 premiere, producer Denise Huth shed some light on how different this premiere will be from the previous season....
In the first season your character was the antagonist, but in the second season, we’re almost kind of pulling for him so I’m kind of curious what you think about the transition for your character between seasons and if you feel that he’s become a more sympathetic character? Walton Goggins: I think that Boyd is continually changing. I think that from the pilot to episode two was a big swing in a completely different direction....
The Watchmen San Diego Comic-Con trailer offers up our best look yet at the upcoming HBO series from Damon Lindelof. Since the massively popular Game of Thrones ended, the network is looking for its next big thing and hoping the Watchmen series will do the trick. And so far, Lindelof’s series looks very promising. There was some confusion when the show was first announced, but it’s now clear what Lindelof is trying to achieve by bringing a different spin on Alan Moore’s iconic source material to the small screen....
Many fans have wondered how Zack Snyder could possibly cut his adaptation of Watchmen into a reasonable length for a feature film, and it seems like his director cut is over three hours in length. However, Snyder and his wife (and producer) Deborah told SCI FI Wire that the theatrical cut has now been shortened to two hours and thirty-five minutes. Zack Snyder added “The movie’s pretty long … compared to 300, which was an hour and 58 minutes....
In all the media that audiences consume, the question of authenticity always lingers. From the most fantastical of fiction series to the many documentaries consumed monthly, there is without a doubt that viewers will and have questioned the validity and ultimately the quality of a film or series depending on how authentic it is. What is interesting about this particular topic is that the search for authenticity comes from an infinite number of sources, and thus produces a plethora of worthwhile discussions that filmmakers and showrunners have either taken into account or have yet to platform....
The podcast format, as modern as it sounds, isn’t as innovative as you would think. After all, radio dramas were a thing more than 70 years ago. In fact, they were clearly more difficult to produce as technology was very limited, and sometimes, the plays were broadcast live to varied degrees of success. Orson Welles and his infamous show? Exactly. But in recent years, the popularity of fiction and true-crime podcasts has grown massively....
The CW has ordered full season pickups for all three of its freshmen series, The Originals, The Tomorrow People and Reign, it was announced today by Mark Pedowitz, President, The CW, who issued the following statement. Season to date on-air, The CW is up 9% year to year in total viewers, up 10% among adults 18-49, and is flat year to year in both adults and women 18-34. With DVR usage and digital viewing continuing to rise, 31% of The CW’s total broadcast audience now comes from time-shifted viewing after the original airdate....
The CW has our first look at Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen (aka The Green Arrow) in their upcoming pilot Arrow. Check him out at TVweb: CLICK HERE After being marooned for five years on a remote island, former billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) returns with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses to fight a war on crime in The CW’s Arrow....
