Tag: Penny Dreadful
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Josh Hartnett’s Early Horror Roles Kickstarted His Career
“Beyond the Sea” may divide audiences, but what is undoubtedly a highlight to that Black Mirror episode, is the bleak, painful performance from Josh Hartnett. Space isn’t the only place the actor has found himself within the horror genre. He’s been among monsters in 30 Days of Night and was a monster hunter in Penny…
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The Gates review – retrofuturist tale of serial killer’s spirit on the rampage
Horror-thriller is a confusing mashup of science, religion and spiritualism, cursed with a sloppy script and bad actingThis horror-thriller occupies the same Victorian shadowlands as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Penny Dreadful; a not-quite-modern epoch, with its zesty mashup of science, religion and spiritualism, retrofuturist tech and plain retro beliefs. It makes an invigorating…
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Eva Green Tells Court: ‘Shitty’ B-Movie Could Have ‘Killed My Career’
Eva Green has told a London High Court that a low-budget version movie of a film she had signed on to make could have “killed my career.”The actor, who has appeared in “Casino Royale” and “Penny Dreadful” among other projects, entered the witness box on Monday afternoon for her lawsuit against White Lantern (Britannica) Ltd…
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‘Let The Right One In’: Showrunner Andrew Hinderaker Discusses The New Vampire Series & His Time On ‘Penny Dreadful’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]
In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, host Mike DeAngelo sinks his teeth into Showtime’s new vampire series, “Let the Right One In.” The show follows a father and a 12-year-old girl who traditionally live a closed-off life after the daughter is turned into a vampire as they return home to New…
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How ‘Slow Horses’ Took Over an Airport (and Wembley Stadium) to Deliver a Sneaky Series Opening
[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for the premiere episode of the Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses” .]The opening scene of “Slow Horses” is something of a magic trick. The new Apple TV+ series starts with eight minutes of well-constructed, spy-story flourish, the equivalent of a stage performer dazzling you with one hand while…
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Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns Says Writing Last Night In Soho And 1917 Was A Similar Process [Exclusive]
Krysty Wilson-Cairns started out writing short films before making the jump to television as a staff writer on the final season of the Showtime series “Penny Dreadful,” which was gone too soon. Now, Wilson-Cairns is co-writing feature films with the likes of Edgar Wright and Sam Mendes. Not bad company for an up-and-coming screenwriter.Wilson-Cairns is currently making…
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‘Last Night in Soho’ First Footage: A Mod Anya Taylor-Joy Bewitches in Edgar Wright’s Chic Thriller
Something is… not all right with Anya Taylor-Joy, dressed in mod garb, in the first footage from Edgar Wright’s upcoming, 1960s-set London thriller “Last Night in Soho.” The star of “The Queen’s Gambit” and “The Witch” (and also this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”) twirls and broods in neon light in the 15-second montage from the…
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‘Whistler Camp’, a Horror Film Set at a Gay Conversion Camp, Coming From Blumhouse and ‘Penny Dreadful’ Creator John Logan
Conversion therapy, the bogus and cruel pseudoscience that attempts to force LGBTQ+ people to change their sexual orientation, will inspire the horrors of Whistler Camp, a new Blumhouse horror movie that marks the directorial debut of Penny Dreadful creator John Logan. The film is set inside a gay conversion camp and is described as “a…
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Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney Join ‘The Miracle Club’
Maggie Smith (“Downton Abbey”), Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”) and Laura Linney (“Ozark”) will headline the cast of “The Miracle Club,” to be directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan (“Silent Witness”).Based on an original screenplay by Jimmy Smallhorne (“2by4”), Timothy Prager (“Crossing Lines”) and Josh Maurer, the film will follow the journey of a group of riotous working-class…
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‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’ Trailer: Nazis, Murder, and Shape-Shifting Natalie Dormer Plague 1930s Los Angeles
Victorian England is out and 1930s La is in here in the trailer for Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. The new series isn’t so much a sequel to the previous Penny Dreadful, but rather something of a spiritual successor. The new show deals with grisly murders in 1938 Los Angeles, and how they tie into…