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As Season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery drew to its epic close after a season of war with the Klingons and a harrowing excursion into the Mirror Universe, the crew of the USS Discovery answered a distress call from none other than the legendary USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. Season 2 picks up immediately from that …
Photo Credit: Peter Yang for Variety Edgar Wright of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and Baby Driver fame mentions in an article by Empire that his next project will be a psychological horror film based in London and inspired by Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now and Roman Polanski's Repulsion. It will also have a female …
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Dance is one of the most physical, brutal expressions of emotion, requiring a loosening of the body and the senses that can be as poetic as it is frightening. Over the last 70 years, there has been a cinematic rise in the portrayal of danseuses-macabres who give up body, love and soul for their performance. …
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It’s been nearly two years since Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed novel was adapted for a breathtaking (and sometimes off-book) television adaptation. A lot has changed in that time, too, with multiple show runners and cast members checking out between seasons. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, who served as the first season’s show runners, stepped away and …
The third episode of True Detective's third season continued the show's promising start from last week, when we saw the first two episodes air back to back. This week we saw relationships take center stage, really allowing us as an audience to see Roland West in particular in a better light and ending any worries …
Featured Image Photo Credit: Danny Moloshok/Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP Tuesday morning, the 91st Academy Awards were announced by Tracee Ellis Ross and Kumail Nanjiani. The host-free telecast will be broadcast live February 24th on NBC. Although the nominations do show a lot of this year's award show darlings, there is also a few surprises as well. Here …
It is often said that if one begins at the top the only way to go from there is down. M. Night Shyamalan seems to be the living Hollywood embodiment of this idea. He burst onto the Hollywood scene in 1999 with The Sixth Sense, a film that garnered lavish praise from critics and …
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The power of the human spirit and the inherent will to survive is a fascinating aspect of our makeup, perhaps never explored more interestingly than in All Is Lost. The 2013 film by J. C. Chandor is nothing short of a cinematic miracle, preserving for all time one of the screen's most celebrated actors in …
With one full season and a New Year’s Day special under the latest TARDIS team’s belt, it looks like the focus might be shifting in the next season to Yasmin Khan. Since the bulk of season 11 focused on Ryan’s growth and relationship with Graham, it felt like police officer and school mate Yaz’s story …
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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with actor Michael Beasley, who is quickly making a name for himself in Hollywood. Called "the King of Hollywood South" by none other than Denzel Washington, Michael has appeared in well over 60 productions in less than ten years time. In this interview, we got to discuss some …