The 18th edition of the Camden Intl. Film Festival, kicking off Sept. 15, will feature a handful of award-contending documentaries fresh off showings at Telluride and the Toronto film festivals. The Maine-based festival will unfold in a hybrid format, with both in-person events over a three-day period concluding Sept. 18, and online screenings available from Sept. 15 to Sept. 25 to audiences across North America.
This year’s Ciff highlights include the U.S. premiere of Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen’s Netflix release “In Her Hands,” which follows one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors during the months leading up to the Taliban takeover the country in 2021; Chris Smith’s “Sr.,” centered on the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. and his relationship to his son, Robert Downey Jr.; and Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” about Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall. Each of the three...
This year’s Ciff highlights include the U.S. premiere of Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen’s Netflix release “In Her Hands,” which follows one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors during the months leading up to the Taliban takeover the country in 2021; Chris Smith’s “Sr.,” centered on the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. and his relationship to his son, Robert Downey Jr.; and Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” about Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall. Each of the three...
- 8/22/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
“Die Hard” is one of the most popular and enduring action movie franchises. The films follow the adventures of John McClane (Bruce Willis), a New York City police officer who finds himself in a series of increasingly dangerous situations.
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The first “Die Hard” movie was released in 1988 and was an instant classic, spawning four sequels over the next two decades. If you’re a “Die Hard” fan, you might wonder what order you should watch the “Die Hard” films. Well, wonder no more! Here is a list of all the “Die Hard” movies in order.
All “Die Hard” Movies in Order of the Release Date Die Hard (1988) Die Hard 2 (1990) Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) All About the “Die Hard” Movie Franchise...
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The first “Die Hard” movie was released in 1988 and was an instant classic, spawning four sequels over the next two decades. If you’re a “Die Hard” fan, you might wonder what order you should watch the “Die Hard” films. Well, wonder no more! Here is a list of all the “Die Hard” movies in order.
All “Die Hard” Movies in Order of the Release Date Die Hard (1988) Die Hard 2 (1990) Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) All About the “Die Hard” Movie Franchise...
- 7/28/2022
- by Israr
- buddytv.com
For those looking to experience the best that indie filmmaking has to offer, an eclectic NYC festival is now back in full force this month. After a consolidated, virtual edition last year, BAMcinemaFest is now returning for a complete, in-person edition taking place at Bam Rose Cinemas beginning June 23. Ahead of the launch, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the trailer.
With a lineup that opens with the award-winning Aftershock, and includes the Lily Gladstone-led The Unknown Country, Free Chol Soo Lee from Julie Ha & Eugene Yi, Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet, and Ramin Bahrani’s 2nd Chance, and more, the trailer takes a playful look at this years’ offerings. Watch below and learn more here.
See the lineup below.
Thu, Jun 23 at 7pm: Aftershock
Fri, June 24 at 6:45pm: Cheee
Fri, June 24 at 9:30pm: Ferny & Luca
Sat, June 25 at 1:30pm: BAMcinemaFest Shorts Program 1
Sat, June...
With a lineup that opens with the award-winning Aftershock, and includes the Lily Gladstone-led The Unknown Country, Free Chol Soo Lee from Julie Ha & Eugene Yi, Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet, and Ramin Bahrani’s 2nd Chance, and more, the trailer takes a playful look at this years’ offerings. Watch below and learn more here.
See the lineup below.
Thu, Jun 23 at 7pm: Aftershock
Fri, June 24 at 6:45pm: Cheee
Fri, June 24 at 9:30pm: Ferny & Luca
Sat, June 25 at 1:30pm: BAMcinemaFest Shorts Program 1
Sat, June...
- 6/7/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Following Doc10 Film Festival’s opening night screening of “The Janes” on May 19, several original members The Jane Collective — an underground abortion clinic led by women in the pre-Roe v. Wade era — urged audience members to take to the streets and get focused on protecting women’s reproductive rights, now believed to be at risk with a new Supreme Court ruling in the works.
“The fight is not over,” said Marie Leaner, a former Jane. “It’s only just begun.”
“The Janes” is one of 10 docus that will screen during the four-day Chicago-based festival. The Doc10 screening of “The Janes,” which will debut on HBO June 8, drew more than 250 people — the festival’s largest crowd in its seven-year history. Ten former Janes were in attendance alongside the doc’s directors, Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes. The screening occurred just 17 days after a leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting that Roe v.
“The fight is not over,” said Marie Leaner, a former Jane. “It’s only just begun.”
“The Janes” is one of 10 docus that will screen during the four-day Chicago-based festival. The Doc10 screening of “The Janes,” which will debut on HBO June 8, drew more than 250 people — the festival’s largest crowd in its seven-year history. Ten former Janes were in attendance alongside the doc’s directors, Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes. The screening occurred just 17 days after a leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting that Roe v.
- 5/20/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – Doc10, the yearly Chicago documentary film festival, is on Day Two on May 20th, 2022, with the films (click links) Descendant (7pm), and the recommendation of the day Nothing Lasts Forever (9pm).
Rating: 5.0/5.0
”Nothing Lasts Forever” has the possibility to bring an entire industry, based on a lie, to its final irrelevance. The documentary explores the diamond industry, which has been shook up in the last ten years by the viability of so-called “synthetic” diamonds, which in truth are just … diamonds. The story is about this fact, and the ability of the DeBeers Company (the chief hoarder and price arbiters of diamonds) to create “an illusion so spectacular it turned into the truth,” according to the film’s primary debunker Aja Raden. She is countered by both DeBeers and diamond middle man Martin Rappaport, who keep insisting that it contains more importance, again based on the marketing they made up.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
”Nothing Lasts Forever” has the possibility to bring an entire industry, based on a lie, to its final irrelevance. The documentary explores the diamond industry, which has been shook up in the last ten years by the viability of so-called “synthetic” diamonds, which in truth are just … diamonds. The story is about this fact, and the ability of the DeBeers Company (the chief hoarder and price arbiters of diamonds) to create “an illusion so spectacular it turned into the truth,” according to the film’s primary debunker Aja Raden. She is countered by both DeBeers and diamond middle man Martin Rappaport, who keep insisting that it contains more importance, again based on the marketing they made up.
- 5/20/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Diamonds. They're forever. They're a girl's best friend. They're fancy, elegant, glamourous, and — usually — expensive. But what are they, really, other than solid carbon pulled from the ground? The diamond engagement ring is a staple; a fixture; a sign of true love. Why? Because that's what we've been led to believe. Because there's an entire industry built around this, and that industry is worth a fortune.
The fascinating, highly cinematic documentary "Nothing Last Forever" takes us into the shiny world of diamonds — and specifically pulls back the curtain to reveal that the wizard might be a fake. Director Jason...
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The fascinating, highly cinematic documentary "Nothing Last Forever" takes us into the shiny world of diamonds — and specifically pulls back the curtain to reveal that the wizard might be a fake. Director Jason...
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- 3/12/2022
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Screenwriter Jeb Stuart joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss a few of his favorite movies.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Die Hard (1988)
The Fugitive (1993)
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Detective (1968) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Dirty Harry (1971) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary, Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Rear Window (1954) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Vertigo (1958) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
North By Northwest (1959)
The Trouble With Harry (1955)
Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Wait Until Dark (1967) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Switchback (1997)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Getaway (1972) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
The Thin Man (1934)
Another 48 Hrs (1990)
Commando (1985) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Long Riders (1980)
The Warriors...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Die Hard (1988)
The Fugitive (1993)
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Detective (1968) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Dirty Harry (1971) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary, Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Rear Window (1954) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Vertigo (1958) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
North By Northwest (1959)
The Trouble With Harry (1955)
Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Wait Until Dark (1967) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Switchback (1997)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Getaway (1972) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
The Thin Man (1934)
Another 48 Hrs (1990)
Commando (1985) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Long Riders (1980)
The Warriors...
- 3/8/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
The film is up for five Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK-Ireland rights to Tribeca award-winning US feature The Novice, which it will release in cinemas and on digital platforms on April 1, 2022.
The film is the directorial debut of US writer-director Lauren Hadaway, and is based on her personal experience as a competitive collegiate rower.
Isabelle Fuhrman stars as an obsessive college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat.
The film debuted at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, winning three awards: best US narrative feature film,...
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK-Ireland rights to Tribeca award-winning US feature The Novice, which it will release in cinemas and on digital platforms on April 1, 2022.
The film is the directorial debut of US writer-director Lauren Hadaway, and is based on her personal experience as a competitive collegiate rower.
Isabelle Fuhrman stars as an obsessive college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat.
The film debuted at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, winning three awards: best US narrative feature film,...
- 2/16/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Jason Kohn’s documentary was produced for US cable network Showtime.
Dogwoof is to handle international sales on Jason Kohn’s documentary Nothing Lasts Forever, which received its world premiere at the Berlinale last week.
The London-based documentary specialist will present the feature to buyers at MipTV in April, after securing a deal with premium US cable network Showtime, which holds worldwide rights and will broadcast the film in the US and Canada. A North America premiere is set to take place at SXSW in March.
Filmed over a decade, Kohn infiltrated the secretive diamond industry to uncover a black market in synthetic diamonds,...
Dogwoof is to handle international sales on Jason Kohn’s documentary Nothing Lasts Forever, which received its world premiere at the Berlinale last week.
The London-based documentary specialist will present the feature to buyers at MipTV in April, after securing a deal with premium US cable network Showtime, which holds worldwide rights and will broadcast the film in the US and Canada. A North America premiere is set to take place at SXSW in March.
Filmed over a decade, Kohn infiltrated the secretive diamond industry to uncover a black market in synthetic diamonds,...
- 2/15/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Dogwoof will handle international sales for Jason Kohn’s “Nothing Lasts Forever” following its world premiere in Berlin.
Kohn spent ten years on the project, traversing across the world and speaking to industry insiders including Dusan Simic, Aja Raden, Martin Rappaport, Stephen Lussier and Chandu Sheta.
“Infiltrating the highly secretive diamond industry, Kohn uncovers a threat to the lucrative trade that could devalue every diamond ever mined, effectively destroying the universal symbol of love and commitment,” reads the logline.
Variety‘s Peter Debruge described “Nothing Lasts Forever” as “a solid, investigative documentary, shot and scored like a tight art-house thriller” in his review. “Kohn has created the rare documentary that transforms the way we understand the world, questioning so many of our core beliefs, including the very notion of what is ‘real.'”
Dogwoof will present “Nothing Lasts Forever” at MipTV in April.
Showtime has the worldwide rights to the doc,...
Kohn spent ten years on the project, traversing across the world and speaking to industry insiders including Dusan Simic, Aja Raden, Martin Rappaport, Stephen Lussier and Chandu Sheta.
“Infiltrating the highly secretive diamond industry, Kohn uncovers a threat to the lucrative trade that could devalue every diamond ever mined, effectively destroying the universal symbol of love and commitment,” reads the logline.
Variety‘s Peter Debruge described “Nothing Lasts Forever” as “a solid, investigative documentary, shot and scored like a tight art-house thriller” in his review. “Kohn has created the rare documentary that transforms the way we understand the world, questioning so many of our core beliefs, including the very notion of what is ‘real.'”
Dogwoof will present “Nothing Lasts Forever” at MipTV in April.
Showtime has the worldwide rights to the doc,...
- 2/15/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
It takes perhaps a billion years to make a diamond, and just 87 minutes to shatter so many of the misconceptions audiences have about them in “Nothing Lasts Forever.” Make that eight minutes. That’s roughly the point at which jewelry designer (and “Stone” author) Aja Raden — the only woman interviewed in Jason Kohn’s wild, decade-long delve into the secretive world of the diamond industry — offers up this gem: “The truth about diamonds is: They’re all exactly the same, and none of them are really worth anything.”
For some, that revelation could hit with the force of being told there’s no Santa Claus, even though it’s been an open secret for ages. Most audiences probably already have some inkling of how the De Beers diamond cartel took a not-particularly-rare stone and infused it with value by cornering the market, stockpiling most of the world’s supply and...
For some, that revelation could hit with the force of being told there’s no Santa Claus, even though it’s been an open secret for ages. Most audiences probably already have some inkling of how the De Beers diamond cartel took a not-particularly-rare stone and infused it with value by cornering the market, stockpiling most of the world’s supply and...
- 2/13/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Demystifying and questioning the very notion of authenticity, Jason Kohn’s informative and oddly riveting, diamond-documentary “Nothing Lasts Forever” is ostensibly about the oft-antagonistic relationship between natural and synthetic diamonds. Yet, diamonds are an in-road as Kohn explores the commodification of such abstractions as love and desire, questioning how exactly a shiny rock — one that isn’t even that rare — became a physical manifestation of commitment. What does it matter if a diamond is naturally mined or grown in a lab if the experts cannot even tell the difference?
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- 2/12/2022
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
In-person festival to run in Austin, Texas, from March 11-20.
A starry SXSW 2022 film line-up announced on Wednesday (2) includes world premieres of new work from Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Richard Linklater and Nicolas Cage, among many others.
The Austin, Texas, festival ran online editions over the past two years and is planned to take place from March 11-20 as an in-person event against a backdrop of declining Omicron infection levels across the United States.
The roster includes Irish filmmaker and actor Campbell-Hughes’s It Is In Us All (pictured) in Narrative Feature Competition starring Cosmo Jarvis, Claes Bang and Campbell-Hughes about a...
A starry SXSW 2022 film line-up announced on Wednesday (2) includes world premieres of new work from Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Richard Linklater and Nicolas Cage, among many others.
The Austin, Texas, festival ran online editions over the past two years and is planned to take place from March 11-20 as an in-person event against a backdrop of declining Omicron infection levels across the United States.
The roster includes Irish filmmaker and actor Campbell-Hughes’s It Is In Us All (pictured) in Narrative Feature Competition starring Cosmo Jarvis, Claes Bang and Campbell-Hughes about a...
- 2/2/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Films by auteurs Claire Denis, Hong Sangsoo and Rithy Panh are part of the lineup in competition at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival.
Berlin’s 2022 selection spans 18 movies, seven directed by women, which will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears. The films originate from 15 countries, with 17 serving as world premieres. Two of the films are first features, both from women.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian discussed the thematic throughline of “human and emotional bonds” across the selection, with the family unit serving as a key focal point in a number of movies. More than half are set in the present time, and two are within the pandemic era.
The festival hosts 12 returning filmmakers, eight of whom are in competition and five of whom already hold a Bear from Berlin.
The festival will go ahead as an in-person event, albeit with seating capacity in movie theaters reduced to 50% and without any parties or receptions.
Berlin’s 2022 selection spans 18 movies, seven directed by women, which will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears. The films originate from 15 countries, with 17 serving as world premieres. Two of the films are first features, both from women.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian discussed the thematic throughline of “human and emotional bonds” across the selection, with the family unit serving as a key focal point in a number of movies. More than half are set in the present time, and two are within the pandemic era.
The festival hosts 12 returning filmmakers, eight of whom are in competition and five of whom already hold a Bear from Berlin.
The festival will go ahead as an in-person event, albeit with seating capacity in movie theaters reduced to 50% and without any parties or receptions.
- 1/19/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
PoetBerlinale have announced the first 62 titles selected for the 72nd edition of their festival, set to take place physically from February 10 — 20.FORUMAfterwater (Dane Komljen)Poet (Darezhan Omirbayev)The Middle AgesEurope (Philip Scheffner)A Flower in the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire)Memoryland (Kim Quy Bui)My Two Voices (Lina Rodriguez)Nuclear Family (Erin Wilkerson, Travis Wilkerson)Super Natural (Jorge Jácome)The United States of America (James Benning)Forum EXPANDEDDragon Tooth (Rafael Castanheira Parrode)Home When You Return (Carl Elsaesser)Jail Bird in a Peacock Chair (James Gregory Atkinson)Sol in the Dark (Mawena Yehouessi)vs (Lydia Nsiah)PANORAMATalking About the Weather (Annika Pinske)The Apartment with Two Women (Kim Se-in)Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes)Swing Ride (Chiara Bellosi)Dreaming WallsKlondike (Maryna Er Gorbach)A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)Myanmar Diaries (The Myanmar Film Collective)Into My Name (Nicolò Bassetti)Nelly & Nadine (Magnus Gertten)We, Students! (Rafiki Fariala)Until Tomorrow (Ali Asgari...
- 12/15/2021
- MUBI
The 2022 Berlin International Film Festival has revealed its first titles, including seven films that have been invited to the Berlinale Special program. You can see the full list of confirmed films below.
Those seven include Peter Flinth’s Against The Ice, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Heida Reed and Charles Dance, and Laurent Larivière’s About Joan, starring Isabelle Huppert, which both play as Berlinale Special Galas.
The Panorama program has unveiled 13 titles, with Generation confirming eight features, and further films set for Forum and Forum Expanded.
The Panorama strand includes Myanmar Diaries, a doc/feature hybrid from the Myanmar Film Collective that highlights violence suffered by Burmese citizens.
“The pandemic has created distances – not only between people but also the way we see the world. Amongst the 2022 selection are films shot during the pandemic, reflecting on how it feels to be disconnected from others. It is with this first...
Those seven include Peter Flinth’s Against The Ice, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Heida Reed and Charles Dance, and Laurent Larivière’s About Joan, starring Isabelle Huppert, which both play as Berlinale Special Galas.
The Panorama program has unveiled 13 titles, with Generation confirming eight features, and further films set for Forum and Forum Expanded.
The Panorama strand includes Myanmar Diaries, a doc/feature hybrid from the Myanmar Film Collective that highlights violence suffered by Burmese citizens.
“The pandemic has created distances – not only between people but also the way we see the world. Amongst the 2022 selection are films shot during the pandemic, reflecting on how it feels to be disconnected from others. It is with this first...
- 12/15/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Guns firing, blood flying, goons dying, and an unlikely hero quipping before bringing down the big bad. Just your standard action movie, right? Now replace the blaring guitar or thunderous orchestra with “Jingle Bell Rock,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” and “The First Noel.” Wait… is this a holiday movie or Lethal Weapon?
Every year, the debate rages on. Bruce Willis, spraying machine gun fire. Hans, nonplussed, killing the world’s worst yuppie scumbag Ellis. Al, the redeemed killer cop, gunning down Karl in a surprise display of heroics. Sure, John McTiernan, Jeb Stuart, and Steven E. de Souza’s Die Hard is a certified classic of the action genre, but is it really a Christmas movie? There are arguments for and against this, but for whatever reason, the controversy has coalesced around Die Hard and forgotten the real action movie that deserves to be in the Christmas canon, and...
Every year, the debate rages on. Bruce Willis, spraying machine gun fire. Hans, nonplussed, killing the world’s worst yuppie scumbag Ellis. Al, the redeemed killer cop, gunning down Karl in a surprise display of heroics. Sure, John McTiernan, Jeb Stuart, and Steven E. de Souza’s Die Hard is a certified classic of the action genre, but is it really a Christmas movie? There are arguments for and against this, but for whatever reason, the controversy has coalesced around Die Hard and forgotten the real action movie that deserves to be in the Christmas canon, and...
- 11/26/2021
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
Mort Sahl, a trailblazing political satirist whose biting wit and uncompromising intellect broadened the world of conventional standup comedy, died Tuesday in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 94.
The New York Times confirmed his death with his friend, Lucy Mercer.
In 1953, when Sahl first appeared at the Hungry i, a San Francisco folk singer’s hangout, he was an unknown with little stage experience. But his rapid-fire monologues about politics, social trends and fads quickly earned him the nickname “Rebel Without a Pause.”
“The three great geniuses of the period were Nichols and May, Jonathan Winters and Mort Sahl,” Woody Allen told New York magazine in 2008. Allen credited Sahl’s intellectual brand of humor for getting him into comedy. “He was the best thing I ever saw,” Allen said in another interview. “He totally restructured comedy. He changed the rhythm of the jokes.”
In 2011, his live 1955 recording “Mort Sahl at Sunset...
The New York Times confirmed his death with his friend, Lucy Mercer.
In 1953, when Sahl first appeared at the Hungry i, a San Francisco folk singer’s hangout, he was an unknown with little stage experience. But his rapid-fire monologues about politics, social trends and fads quickly earned him the nickname “Rebel Without a Pause.”
“The three great geniuses of the period were Nichols and May, Jonathan Winters and Mort Sahl,” Woody Allen told New York magazine in 2008. Allen credited Sahl’s intellectual brand of humor for getting him into comedy. “He was the best thing I ever saw,” Allen said in another interview. “He totally restructured comedy. He changed the rhythm of the jokes.”
In 2011, his live 1955 recording “Mort Sahl at Sunset...
- 10/26/2021
- by Rick Schultz
- Variety Film + TV
Fans of The Outpost, if they choose to, can now prepare for the cancelled series‘ end by getting a sense of what all will be at stake during that final hour.
The CW’s acquired series follows Talon (played by Jessica Green), the lone survivor of a race called Blackbloods. Years after her entire village was destroyed by a gang of brutal mercenaries, she travels to a lawless fortress on the edge of the civilized world, as she tracks the killers of her family. On her journey to this outpost, Talon discovers she possesses an extraordinary and mysterious supernatural power...
The CW’s acquired series follows Talon (played by Jessica Green), the lone survivor of a race called Blackbloods. Years after her entire village was destroyed by a gang of brutal mercenaries, she travels to a lawless fortress on the edge of the civilized world, as she tracks the killers of her family. On her journey to this outpost, Talon discovers she possesses an extraordinary and mysterious supernatural power...
- 9/17/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
This Lucifer review contains spoilers.
Lucifer Season 5 Episode 16
“Never loving anyone is far worse than loss.”
Heads up, humans, there’s a new God in town, and Lucifer fans couldn’t be happier. The near perfect season finale, “A Chance at a Happy Ending,” gives fans of the Netflix series some resolution regarding Lucifer and Chloe’s turbulent love story while at the same time setting up what might be the ultimate paradigm shift. Good triumphs over evil, the Devil sits on Heaven’s throne, and all’s right with the universe.
There’s no real crime to solve this time, but the spectacular crash of the prison bus in the opening scene subtly reminds viewers of Lucifer’s desert experience in the season two finale, and in the end, provides a source for the reinforcements Team Lucifer requires in the later confrontation with Michael and his angel army. Of course,...
Lucifer Season 5 Episode 16
“Never loving anyone is far worse than loss.”
Heads up, humans, there’s a new God in town, and Lucifer fans couldn’t be happier. The near perfect season finale, “A Chance at a Happy Ending,” gives fans of the Netflix series some resolution regarding Lucifer and Chloe’s turbulent love story while at the same time setting up what might be the ultimate paradigm shift. Good triumphs over evil, the Devil sits on Heaven’s throne, and all’s right with the universe.
There’s no real crime to solve this time, but the spectacular crash of the prison bus in the opening scene subtly reminds viewers of Lucifer’s desert experience in the season two finale, and in the end, provides a source for the reinforcements Team Lucifer requires in the later confrontation with Michael and his angel army. Of course,...
- 5/29/2021
- by Dave Vitagliano
- Den of Geek
This Lucifer review contains spoilers.
Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15
“He’s not trying to win an election; he’s trying to win a war.”
Lucifer does heartwarming and heart wrenching as well as any television series when the story requires it, but nothing adequately prepares us for the devastating news of Detective Daniel Espinoza’s death at the hands of mercenaries hired by Lucifer’s brother Michael. However, it’s the powerful, multi-layered narrative in the season’s penultimate episode that vaults “Is This Really How It’s Going To End?!” into rarified critical air leaving an impossibly high benchmark for others to aspire to. And, oh year, it appears the Book of Revelation may come true.
By its basic premise, the show’s writers turn the biblical story of the archangel Samael, aka Lucifer, on its head and weave an updated version that asks viewers to judge God’s most...
Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15
“He’s not trying to win an election; he’s trying to win a war.”
Lucifer does heartwarming and heart wrenching as well as any television series when the story requires it, but nothing adequately prepares us for the devastating news of Detective Daniel Espinoza’s death at the hands of mercenaries hired by Lucifer’s brother Michael. However, it’s the powerful, multi-layered narrative in the season’s penultimate episode that vaults “Is This Really How It’s Going To End?!” into rarified critical air leaving an impossibly high benchmark for others to aspire to. And, oh year, it appears the Book of Revelation may come true.
By its basic premise, the show’s writers turn the biblical story of the archangel Samael, aka Lucifer, on its head and weave an updated version that asks viewers to judge God’s most...
- 5/29/2021
- by Dave Vitagliano
- Den of Geek
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for Die Hard fans.
While there may be a little less festive cheer to go around this December, one thing remains constant during the holiday season: the debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
And one man who probably knows better than most is screenwriter Doug Richardson. Besides Bruce Willis himself, Richardson has had a hand in more Die Hard films than almost anyone out there, starting with the similarly festive follow-up Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
While Willis is firmly in the “no” camp on the question of whether Die Hard and its sequel are Christmas movies, Richardson disagrees.
“It is a Christmas movie,” he tells Den of Geek.
“At this time of year, the internet starts to erupt over whether it’s a Christmas movie. It’s very amusing. But I think it fits the movie and...
While there may be a little less festive cheer to go around this December, one thing remains constant during the holiday season: the debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
And one man who probably knows better than most is screenwriter Doug Richardson. Besides Bruce Willis himself, Richardson has had a hand in more Die Hard films than almost anyone out there, starting with the similarly festive follow-up Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
While Willis is firmly in the “no” camp on the question of whether Die Hard and its sequel are Christmas movies, Richardson disagrees.
“It is a Christmas movie,” he tells Den of Geek.
“At this time of year, the internet starts to erupt over whether it’s a Christmas movie. It’s very amusing. But I think it fits the movie and...
- 12/18/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The upcoming fifth season of Lucifer has been billed as its final, but the potential for a sixth has been gaining traction, and the show being picked up for one is looking increasingly likely.
The series started strong, with many people praising Tom Ellis’ darkly charismatic portrayal of the eponymous protagonist, eventually leading to him being fitted into the Arrowverse multiverse with a magnificent cameo in the epic crossover “Crisis On Infinite Earths.”
Earlier this month, Warner Bros. Television began negotiations with Netflix to extend the show’s life beyond what was expected to be its end point. The discussions appear to be going very well, too, as TVLine had this to report on the matter:
“Negotiations between Warner Bros. Television and Netflix continue and both sides appear optimistic that a renewal deal will come to fruition. Length-wise, I’m hearing the bonus season would likely consist of between 10 and 13 episodes.
The series started strong, with many people praising Tom Ellis’ darkly charismatic portrayal of the eponymous protagonist, eventually leading to him being fitted into the Arrowverse multiverse with a magnificent cameo in the epic crossover “Crisis On Infinite Earths.”
Earlier this month, Warner Bros. Television began negotiations with Netflix to extend the show’s life beyond what was expected to be its end point. The discussions appear to be going very well, too, as TVLine had this to report on the matter:
“Negotiations between Warner Bros. Television and Netflix continue and both sides appear optimistic that a renewal deal will come to fruition. Length-wise, I’m hearing the bonus season would likely consist of between 10 and 13 episodes.
- 2/28/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
Sam Hunt has revealed the track list for his long-awaited second album Southside. The new project will be released April 3rd via McA.
Pre-orders for the album on Hunt’s website show the full list of 12 tracks on Southside, six of which have previously been released. Those include the 2017 songs “Drinkin’ Too Much” and the record-breaking smash “Body Like a Back Road,” plus “Downtown’s Dead,” “Kinfolks,” “Sinning With You,” and the Webb Pierce-sampling “Hard to Forget.” Among the as-yet-unreleased tunes are “2016,” “Young Once,” and “That Ain’t Beautiful.
Pre-orders for the album on Hunt’s website show the full list of 12 tracks on Southside, six of which have previously been released. Those include the 2017 songs “Drinkin’ Too Much” and the record-breaking smash “Body Like a Back Road,” plus “Downtown’s Dead,” “Kinfolks,” “Sinning With You,” and the Webb Pierce-sampling “Hard to Forget.” Among the as-yet-unreleased tunes are “2016,” “Young Once,” and “That Ain’t Beautiful.
- 2/12/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Yippie-ki-yay! Fans of the “Die Hard” movies can geek out with a new book that goes inside the entire saga with exclusive interviews with the cast and crew and and rare and unseen imagery including set photographs and concept art. Written by Variety senior producer David S. Cohen and James Mottram, “Die Hard: The Ultimate Visual History” is available on Nov. 13 from Insight Editions.
In the first chapter, screenwriter Jeb Stuart tells how a fight with his wife helped him crack the central character of the story.
Part 1: Die Hard
“Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the a–.” —John McClane
Road Rage
Jeb Stuart needed a paycheck.
Things shouldn’t have been this tight. He was a writer on the rise. After five years of graduate school, he’d written a hot spec script that had landed at Columbia Pictures...
In the first chapter, screenwriter Jeb Stuart tells how a fight with his wife helped him crack the central character of the story.
Part 1: Die Hard
“Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the a–.” —John McClane
Road Rage
Jeb Stuart needed a paycheck.
Things shouldn’t have been this tight. He was a writer on the rise. After five years of graduate school, he’d written a hot spec script that had landed at Columbia Pictures...
- 11/5/2018
- by James Mottram and David S. Cohen
- Variety Film + TV
There have been a few titles banded around for the next instalment of the franchise that refuses to die (hard). The day has finally come for an official title and it’s dubbed simple ‘McClane’.
The announcement came via producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura speaking to Empire. di Bonaventura stated;
“We want you to get invested in John McClane more than ever before. I don’t know how you do Die Hard without Bruce – the idea that he’s not very significant in this movie is not accurate at all. We are gonna explore John McClane in his twenties. But just as prominent is the 60-year-old version.”
The 6th instalment in the long-running saga is a prequel-sequel, flicking back and forth between Bruce Willis’s 60-year-old McClane and his younger self in his 20’s. 20-year-old McClane will be a regular cop in 1970s New York. Bruce Willis is also set to...
The announcement came via producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura speaking to Empire. di Bonaventura stated;
“We want you to get invested in John McClane more than ever before. I don’t know how you do Die Hard without Bruce – the idea that he’s not very significant in this movie is not accurate at all. We are gonna explore John McClane in his twenties. But just as prominent is the 60-year-old version.”
The 6th instalment in the long-running saga is a prequel-sequel, flicking back and forth between Bruce Willis’s 60-year-old McClane and his younger self in his 20’s. 20-year-old McClane will be a regular cop in 1970s New York. Bruce Willis is also set to...
- 9/4/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Die Hard 6, which has been touted as the origin story of Bruce Willis’ wise-cracking action hero of the classic franchise, has a new title. In an interview with the UK movie magazine Empire, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura said, “You can tell our intention by the fact that the title page we handed in says, McClane.
Deadline originally broke the story in 2015 that the next installment of the franchise was originally put on the drawing board as Die Hard: Year One at Fox with Live Free Or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman returning.
According to the Empire report, the sequel-prequel script features Willis as a 60-year-old McClane with a younger version of McClane in his 20s.
Said di Bonaventura, “We want you to get invested in John McClane more than ever before… We are gonna explore John McClane in his twenties. But just as prominent is the 60-year-old version.” The Conjuring...
Deadline originally broke the story in 2015 that the next installment of the franchise was originally put on the drawing board as Die Hard: Year One at Fox with Live Free Or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman returning.
According to the Empire report, the sequel-prequel script features Willis as a 60-year-old McClane with a younger version of McClane in his 20s.
Said di Bonaventura, “We want you to get invested in John McClane more than ever before… We are gonna explore John McClane in his twenties. But just as prominent is the 60-year-old version.” The Conjuring...
- 9/3/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione and Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Sam Hunt wanders the sleepy streets of Bernal, Mexico, in the new video for “Downtown’s Dead,” the moody follow-up single to his juggernaut “Body Like a Back Road.”
Filled with dusty scenes of a mostly empty town – including Bernal’s stunning cathedral – and Hunt drifting around on an old motorcycle, the clip captures the same aimless and untethered emotional space of the single. It’s all about a bar scene that no longer holds its charm – now that the woman who was once the life of Hunt’s parties isn’t around.
Filled with dusty scenes of a mostly empty town – including Bernal’s stunning cathedral – and Hunt drifting around on an old motorcycle, the clip captures the same aimless and untethered emotional space of the single. It’s all about a bar scene that no longer holds its charm – now that the woman who was once the life of Hunt’s parties isn’t around.
- 7/19/2018
- by Chris Parton
- Rollingstone.com
(This week marks the 30th anniversary of Die Hard, arguably the greatest action movie of all time. To celebrate, /Film is exploring the film from every angle with a series of articles. Today: a look back at the 1979 novel that inspired the film.) There are few movies that bring me pure, unadulterated joy the […]
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The post Nothing Lasts Forever: Comparing ‘Die Hard’ to the 1979 Novel That Inspired It appeared first on /Film.
- 7/12/2018
- by Jamie Jirak
- Slash Film
The 2018 season of Fox’s “The X-Files” — the second of the revival and 11th overall — is staging a spooky Emmy campaign for five of its cast members. Leads David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are of course back on the Emmy ballot as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Duchovny previously earned two nominations (1997-98) for the original run of “The X-Files,” while Anderson received four bids (1996-99) and won the 1998 Emmy for Best Drama Actress. This time around they’re joined by three of this season’s standout guest stars: Karin Konoval (“Plus One”), Haley Joel Osment (“Kitten”) and Fiona Vroom (“Nothing Lasts Forever”).
See‘The X-Files’ Season 11 finale: Are you happy with Gillian Anderson’s tearful goodbye as Scully? [Poll]
Character actress Konoval, who was one of our Emmy spotlights in January, played no less than four characters in Episode 6: Little Judy Poundstone, her twin brother Little Chucky Poundstone,...
See‘The X-Files’ Season 11 finale: Are you happy with Gillian Anderson’s tearful goodbye as Scully? [Poll]
Character actress Konoval, who was one of our Emmy spotlights in January, played no less than four characters in Episode 6: Little Judy Poundstone, her twin brother Little Chucky Poundstone,...
- 6/19/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.Trust your instincts. I had a notion during the teaser sequence of “Nothing Lasts Forever” (episode 9 of The X-Files’ 11th season, written by Karen Nielsen and directed by James Wong) that it would be best recapped alongside “My Struggle IV” (the season, and possibly series finale, written and directed by Xf creator Chris Carter). Amid the sanguine, pre-opening credits hubbub—a pair of cannibalistic physicians harvest (and taste-sample) human organs, only to be interrupted by an avenging angel vigilante named Juliet Bocanegra (Carlena Britch)—there’s a fleeting audio clip on a car radio of Tad O’Malley (Joel McHale), the paranoid host of an Alex Jones-esque media pageant who was last seen in Season 10's "My Struggle II," bellowing about mind-altering gases and chem trails. It’s a...
- 3/26/2018
- MUBI
Did “The X-Files” just set up Gillian Anderson‘s exit from the show she’s starred on for 11 seasons as FBI Agent Dana Scully? At the end of Wednesday’s episode, titled “Nothing Lasts Forever,” Scully whispered something to David Duchovny‘s Fox Mulder while praying in a church. “That’s my leap of faith forward,” she told him after whispering the ominous comment into his ear. “And I’d like to do it together.”
See ‘The X-Files’: Darin Morgan episodes through the years include ‘Clyde Bruckman,’ ‘Jose Chung’ and …
Mulder at first appeared caught off-guard by her words, then finally replied, “I’ve always wondered how this was gonna end.” As “Nothing Lasts Forever” was the last episode before next week’s Season 11 finale, it only makes sense that whatever Scully whispered to Mulder will be important to Scully’s endgame on the long-running series.
Earlier in the...
See ‘The X-Files’: Darin Morgan episodes through the years include ‘Clyde Bruckman,’ ‘Jose Chung’ and …
Mulder at first appeared caught off-guard by her words, then finally replied, “I’ve always wondered how this was gonna end.” As “Nothing Lasts Forever” was the last episode before next week’s Season 11 finale, it only makes sense that whatever Scully whispered to Mulder will be important to Scully’s endgame on the long-running series.
Earlier in the...
- 3/15/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
The X-Files just added another mystery to the pile. In "Nothing Lasts Forever," the penultimate episode of The X-Files season 11, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) had a deeply personal conversation about where they stand, mainly in each other's lives. At one point Scully leans in and whispers in Mulder's ear. "I don't know if any God is listening, but I am standing right here," Mulder told Scully. "And I am listening. Right beside you, all ears. That's my choice." Then she whispered in his ear, pulled away and said, "That's not my four-year-old self looking for a miracle," she said. "That's my leap of faith forward. And I'd like to do...
- 3/15/2018
- E! Online
Get the barf bucket ready. The second-to-last episode of The X-Files' 11th season may have been the goriest of the year, maybe even of the past two decades. With the strict Standards and Practices of the 1990s loosening, Mulder and Scully are able to test the bloody waters of modern network television in "Nothing Lasts Forever," as they literally stumble into a cannibal camp.
- 3/15/2018
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
[Editor’s note: Spoilers for “The X-Files” Season 11 Episode 9, “Nothing Lasts Forever,” follow.]
Previously, on “The X-Files”…
Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) solve weird crimes for the FBI, and a big part of their partnership is that Scully believes in God (and is a practicing Catholic). Meanwhile, Mulder believes in aliens, Scully, and not much else.
This Week’s Dossier
Somebody’s harvesting organs for non-organ-donation purposes, and Mulder and Scully are on the case to figure out why — but there’s really not much mystery to it after we get introduced to the wacky cult created by former film and TV star Barbara Beaumont (Fiona Vroom, whose goofy performance is one of the episode’s biggest positives), who is working with Dr. Luvenis (Jere Burns) to use the organs of their cult underlings to give themselves eternal beauty and life. (And hey, it seems to be working, given that Barbara’s in her 70s and Dr.
Previously, on “The X-Files”…
Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) solve weird crimes for the FBI, and a big part of their partnership is that Scully believes in God (and is a practicing Catholic). Meanwhile, Mulder believes in aliens, Scully, and not much else.
This Week’s Dossier
Somebody’s harvesting organs for non-organ-donation purposes, and Mulder and Scully are on the case to figure out why — but there’s really not much mystery to it after we get introduced to the wacky cult created by former film and TV star Barbara Beaumont (Fiona Vroom, whose goofy performance is one of the episode’s biggest positives), who is working with Dr. Luvenis (Jere Burns) to use the organs of their cult underlings to give themselves eternal beauty and life. (And hey, it seems to be working, given that Barbara’s in her 70s and Dr.
- 3/15/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
It would be going too far to say that “Nothing Lasts Forever” is The X-Files’ goriest episode. For one thing, the show has roughly half a gazillion entries to its credit, and I can’t be sure I remember them all clearly enough to make such a grand pronouncement; for another, “Home” exists. But the lengths to which a…
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- 3/15/2018
- by Zack Handlen
- avclub.com
Need to catch up? Check out the previous X-Files recap here.
This week’s X-Files — the last before the season (and probably series) finale — is simultaneously what I love and loathe about this show.
Let’s start with the loathe. The episode felt a lot like it could’ve run in the original seasons… like in Season 9, like “Sunshine Days.” (For those who haven’t watched since way back, that’s not a good thing.) It spends a whole lotta time hanging out with a kinda-creepy cult and not enough time with our favorite agents. And when we do get...
This week’s X-Files — the last before the season (and probably series) finale — is simultaneously what I love and loathe about this show.
Let’s start with the loathe. The episode felt a lot like it could’ve run in the original seasons… like in Season 9, like “Sunshine Days.” (For those who haven’t watched since way back, that’s not a good thing.) It spends a whole lotta time hanging out with a kinda-creepy cult and not enough time with our favorite agents. And when we do get...
- 3/15/2018
- TVLine.com
The Conjuring scribes, Chad and Carey Hayes have been picked up by 20th Century Fox to give the new Die Hard movie a rewrite.
Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) is in place to produce and direct the next instalment in the franchise with Lorenzo di Bonaventura is also taking a producers spot.
No story details have been confirmed, but word on the street says the film looks set to be an origin story where we see a younger actor portray McClane as a regular cop in 1970s New York. Bruce Willis is also set to appear in flashback scenes alongside the heart of the story. It has bee reported that the project will have a Die Hard: Year One type of feel, in reference to Frank Miller’s comic book Batman: Year One.
Also in the news – Ian McKellen & Helen Mirren cast in Bill Condon’s adaptation of...
Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) is in place to produce and direct the next instalment in the franchise with Lorenzo di Bonaventura is also taking a producers spot.
No story details have been confirmed, but word on the street says the film looks set to be an origin story where we see a younger actor portray McClane as a regular cop in 1970s New York. Bruce Willis is also set to appear in flashback scenes alongside the heart of the story. It has bee reported that the project will have a Die Hard: Year One type of feel, in reference to Frank Miller’s comic book Batman: Year One.
Also in the news – Ian McKellen & Helen Mirren cast in Bill Condon’s adaptation of...
- 3/13/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Nothing lasts forever — not even the stock bump from one of Hollywood’s premier studios looking to buy you out. Shares of 21st Century Fox dipped more than 3.6 percent in early trading on Wednesday, one day ahead of Disney’s anticipated acquisition of its studio and several of its cable channels, including FX and its regional sports networks. Still, it’s been a good run for Fox shareholders, with its stock jumping from about $25 a share in early November — when the Disney rumors first started swirling — to about $33 a share on Wednesday morning. Despite Wednesday’s downturn, shares of Fox.
- 12/13/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
The ‘Die Hard’ franchise is a series of films that are based on ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’, a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp. The first film ‘Die Hard’ was released in 1988 and ‘Die Hard 2’ followed in 1990. The third film in the series was ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’ which was released in 1995. The next installment came in 2007 with the release of ‘Live Free or Die Hard’. Finally, ‘’A Good Day to Die Hard’ was released in 2013. The series follows the adventures and situation that John McClane finds himself in and these are often violent and
20 Things You Never Knew about the Die Hard Franchise...
20 Things You Never Knew about the Die Hard Franchise...
- 11/29/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
When it comes to ABC’s forthcoming Roseanne revival, eight is apparently not enough.
TVLine has learned exclusively that the network — which initially commissioned eight new episodes of the classic family comedy — has ordered one additional episode, bringing the total to 9. Five episodes have already been shot and, according to sources, ABC execs are very pleased with what they are seeing.
At the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour last month, ABC president Channing Dungey assured Roseanne fans that the revival would harken back to the show’s Emmy-winning heyday. “We’ve now heard the broad strokes of the creative for these eight episodes,...
TVLine has learned exclusively that the network — which initially commissioned eight new episodes of the classic family comedy — has ordered one additional episode, bringing the total to 9. Five episodes have already been shot and, according to sources, ABC execs are very pleased with what they are seeing.
At the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour last month, ABC president Channing Dungey assured Roseanne fans that the revival would harken back to the show’s Emmy-winning heyday. “We’ve now heard the broad strokes of the creative for these eight episodes,...
- 11/13/2017
- TVLine.com
Buckle up, Grey’s Anatomy fans: The ABC drama is about to deliver another pants-soiling fall finale.
Thursday’s episode (8/7c, ABC) finds Grey Sloan’s entire computer system compromised by a hacker, causing chaos and panic throughout the hospital. Co-showrunner Krista Vernoff likens the William Harper-penned hour to an “edge-of-your-seat action movie,” although Vernoff admits she needed some convincing at first.
“When Bill pitched me the hacking [story] I said, ‘Don’t we usually do some great big giant storm or something?'” she recalls with. “And he said, ‘This is a great big giant storm. When people hack...
Thursday’s episode (8/7c, ABC) finds Grey Sloan’s entire computer system compromised by a hacker, causing chaos and panic throughout the hospital. Co-showrunner Krista Vernoff likens the William Harper-penned hour to an “edge-of-your-seat action movie,” although Vernoff admits she needed some convincing at first.
“When Bill pitched me the hacking [story] I said, ‘Don’t we usually do some great big giant storm or something?'” she recalls with. “And he said, ‘This is a great big giant storm. When people hack...
- 11/13/2017
- TVLine.com
It was just a couple of months ago that Grey’s Anatomy’s Jason George was telling TVLine that Ben and Bailey were the kind of marrieds who “work it out no matter what.” But as the time drew nearer for his character to cross over to the ABC drama’s upcoming firefighters spinoff, his outlook was beginning to change. Now, a breakup seems like “a genuine possibility,” he admitted at the show’s recent 300th-episode blowout. “Nothing lasts forever.”
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In...
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- 11/12/2017
- TVLine.com
Need an escape from the deluge of soul-crushing headlines out of Hollywood and the White House? TVLine’s Quotes of the Week is the perfect Sunday afternoon distraction.
This time around, we’ve got a high tolerance for crazy on Jane the Virgin, a genuinely crazy source of inspiration on Project Runway and a reference to Hell’s most notorious occupant on Lucifer.
Also included in this week’s round-up: double doses of The Big Bang Theory, The Flash and NCIS: Los Angeles, and a callback to Katherine Heigl’s time on Grey’s Anatomy.
Check out the attached gallery...
This time around, we’ve got a high tolerance for crazy on Jane the Virgin, a genuinely crazy source of inspiration on Project Runway and a reference to Hell’s most notorious occupant on Lucifer.
Also included in this week’s round-up: double doses of The Big Bang Theory, The Flash and NCIS: Los Angeles, and a callback to Katherine Heigl’s time on Grey’s Anatomy.
Check out the attached gallery...
- 11/12/2017
- TVLine.com
Mack does not want the team to split up to explore their creepy outer space whereabouts — and for good reason — in the highly enjoyable (and long-awaited) first promo for Season 5 of ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
RelatedMarvel’s Inhumans Finale Recap: Attilan Is Not a Place, It’s a People — Grade the Season
Season 4 ended with Coulson & Co.’s Framework-foiling victory celebration being cut short by the arrival of stone-cold agents of some sort. Judging by the promo, the team wound up deposited on some sort of space station or ship, where they are presumed...
RelatedMarvel’s Inhumans Finale Recap: Attilan Is Not a Place, It’s a People — Grade the Season
Season 4 ended with Coulson & Co.’s Framework-foiling victory celebration being cut short by the arrival of stone-cold agents of some sort. Judging by the promo, the team wound up deposited on some sort of space station or ship, where they are presumed...
- 11/11/2017
- TVLine.com
‘Twas ultimately a test of regular, human wills as Marvel’s Inhumans brought its eight-episode run to a close on Friday night. In the end, who was left standing as the king of Attilan?
RelatedThe Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Battle Kree, Alien Movie Tropes in Season 5 Promo
Reassembling on Attilan, Black Bolt, Medusa and Crystal went to put an end to Maximus’ power play, only to learn that the self-installed king had put a fail safe in motion — if he doesn’t scan his palm at the control center every hour on the hour, the dome that protects their city from...
RelatedThe Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Battle Kree, Alien Movie Tropes in Season 5 Promo
Reassembling on Attilan, Black Bolt, Medusa and Crystal went to put an end to Maximus’ power play, only to learn that the self-installed king had put a fail safe in motion — if he doesn’t scan his palm at the control center every hour on the hour, the dome that protects their city from...
- 11/11/2017
- TVLine.com
The Once Upon a Time creators promised “big reveals” in this week’s Regina-centric hour — and indeed many were conjured.
RelatedOnce Upon a Time Casts Riverdale‘s Tiera Skovbye as [Spoiler]’s Daughter
In The Other Realm…. | In flashbacks, we saw Regina bide her time while Henry and Ella were away by bumping into Drizella and being coaxed into teaching the lass magic, rather than leave her to try to steal some. And after one helluva “trust” test, in which Regina dropped a piece of castle wall onto herself, only to have Drizella blast it away in time, the formerly Evil...
RelatedOnce Upon a Time Casts Riverdale‘s Tiera Skovbye as [Spoiler]’s Daughter
In The Other Realm…. | In flashbacks, we saw Regina bide her time while Henry and Ella were away by bumping into Drizella and being coaxed into teaching the lass magic, rather than leave her to try to steal some. And after one helluva “trust” test, in which Regina dropped a piece of castle wall onto herself, only to have Drizella blast it away in time, the formerly Evil...
- 11/11/2017
- TVLine.com
ABC is giving a vote of confidence to two of its freshman series.
The network has ordered three more episodes of the Jason Ritter-led spiritual drama Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, according to our sister site Variety, taking its Season 1 total to 15 episodes. Ritter stars as an aimless slacker who’s given a divine mission to find righteous souls around the world; Kimberly Hebert Gregory co-stars as his celestial guide Yvette, with JoAnna Garcia Swisher playing Kevin’s sister Amy.
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The network has ordered three more episodes of the Jason Ritter-led spiritual drama Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, according to our sister site Variety, taking its Season 1 total to 15 episodes. Ritter stars as an aimless slacker who’s given a divine mission to find righteous souls around the world; Kimberly Hebert Gregory co-stars as his celestial guide Yvette, with JoAnna Garcia Swisher playing Kevin’s sister Amy.
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- 11/11/2017
- TVLine.com
Grey’s Anatomy aired its landmark 300th episode Thursday night (read our recap), and, coincidentally, that also happens to be the number of questions we were left with at the conclusion of the nostalgic hour. Luckily, co-showrunner Krista Vernoff — who also penned the satisfying installment — agreed to hop on the phone with TVLine to tackle a dozen of the biggest head-scratchers.
Tvline | I want to start at the end with that really great Ellis cameo, which would have packed a bigger emotional punch had her name not appeared in the opening credits.
[Heavy Sigh] Listen…
Tvline | I know this is, at the end of the day,...
Tvline | I want to start at the end with that really great Ellis cameo, which would have packed a bigger emotional punch had her name not appeared in the opening credits.
[Heavy Sigh] Listen…
Tvline | I know this is, at the end of the day,...
- 11/10/2017
- TVLine.com
A post shared by taraji p henson (@tarajiphenson) on Oct 5, 2017 at 5:39pm Pdt Taraji P. Henson is mourning the death of her dog, Uncle Willie. On Thursday, the Empire star honored her pup with a touching tribute on Instagram. "Although I understand Nothing lasts forever the pain is still very real," she wrote. "#RipUncleWillie He made it 16 long years. He truly was #BenjaminButton I will miss you soooooooooo much!!!
- 10/6/2017
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
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