Category: Movie News
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Community Cut A Joke That Would Have Completely Changed Shirley’s Character
Dan Harmon’s “Community” was a show that hid its clever interplay between characters behind the veil of a traditional NBC sitcom. Set in the fictional Greendale Community College, “Community” started as a show revolving around a study group for a Spanish class. This group of characters would eventually find other courses to take together and…
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The Season Of Dexter With The Highest Body Count
Oh, Dexter. That lovable scamp. The Showtime crime drama series that housed the disturbed forensic analyst (played by Michael C. Hall) racked up a sky-high body count over its eight-season run, and even more in its 2021 limited revival series “Dexter: New Blood.” Though the first season of the “Dexter” series was based on Jeff…
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Hit the Road review – all of Iranian life on four wheels
Panah Panahi juggles joy, heartbreak and surreal humour in a road movie his imprisoned father would be proud ofEarlier this month, the irrepressible Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi found himself detained in Tehran and facing six years in jail. It’s the latest move in a long and largely fruitless campaign by the Iranian authorities to silence…
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Colin Farrell Was Not A Fan Of The Underwater Sequences In Thirteen Lives
In 2018, a junior association football (soccer) team of 12 children, ages 11-16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach decided to go spelunking in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand. While they were in there, heavy rains began to fall, and they became trapped by a flash flood. It took a team of incredibly…
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Peter Dinklage Didn’t Get A Great First Impression Of The Game Of Thrones Fanbase
Fandom can be brutal, and when fans think they know who should or shouldn’t play a role, they’re very vocal about it. Even with roles that are eventually praised, casting announcements often get a lot of backlash, especially when they’re based on an existing property. It was no different with the HBO juggernaut “Game of…
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Secret Invasion Is Undergoing Story-Focused Reshoots With A New Writer
Reshoots and rewrites are par for the course in Hollywood, and can be particularly extensive where the Marvel Cinematic Universe is concerned. While the haphazard nature of some last-minute changes to MCU movies and streaming shows may have hard-working VFX artists fed up with the studio at present, the general public can rest assured that this is all…
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‘Industry’ Review: Season 2 Is A Gripping Look At How Covid Upended The Corporate World
If any show were capable of holding up a mirror to society and reflecting the great pandemic corporate vibe shift underway, it would be HBO’s “Industry.” The hour-long dramedy returns from a nearly two-year hiatus, attributable largely to the pandemic it so acutely depicts on-screen, as sharp and incisive as ever. As the show picks…
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Teaser Trailer: Santiago Mitre’s Latest Stars Ricardo Darín & Is Headed For Venice
Five years on from their thrilling diplomatic drama “The Summit,” icons of Argentinian cinema Santiago Mitre and Ricardo Darín have teamed up once more for the Venice-bound “Argentina, 1985.” This time, however, their collaboration is much more fact than fiction, as the film seeks to bring one of Argentina’s most historic judicial trials to the…
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The Daily Stream: Hey Arnold! Is A Surprisingly Mature Show About Living In The Big City
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Series: “Hey Arnold!“Where You Can Stream It: Hulu, Paramount+The Pitch: This Nickelodeon cartoon follows the adventures of Arnold, a fourth-grader living with his grandparents in an inner-city…