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THE STRAIN: Guillermo Del Toro talks Season 2 and HELLBOY III – Interview

Corey Stoll is Ephraim Goodweather in THE STRAIN - Season 2 | ©2015 FX/Robert Sebree

With writer Chuck Hogan, filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has created THE STRAIN franchise three times – first as a trilogy of novels, then as graphic novels and now as the series running in its second season Sundays at 10 on FX Network, which has renewed the show for next year. Del Toro and Hogan both serve as executive producers on the chronicle of hive-minded vampires, called the Strigoi taking over New York City (and the world) under the command of a sinister Master. Del Toro, acclaimed for PAN’S LABYRINTH, the HELLBOY films, PACIFIC RIM and more, wrote (with Matthew Robbins) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HITMAN: AGENT 47

HITMAN AGENT 47 | © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Thomas Kretschmann, Ciaran Hinds Writers: Skip Woods and Michael Finch, story by Skip Woods, based on the videogame from Eidos Interactive Director: Aleksander Bach Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: August 21, 2015 2007’s HITMAN, based on the Eidos Interactive videogame, was no great shakes. It wasn’t incompetent, but it seemed to suffer from an internal struggle, wanting to be a movie, but clinging to its less plot-and-character-driven roots. Now HITMAN: AGENT 47 is here. The good news is that it’s definitely a movie, and one with some decent plot twists […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SINISTER 2

SINISTER 2 | © 2015 Gramercy Pictures

Rating: R Stars: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Sloan, Dartanian Sloan, Lea Coco, Tate Ellington Writers: Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill, based on characters they created Director: Ciaran Foy Distributor: Gramercy Pictures Release Date: August  21, 2015 The original SINISTER, released in 2012, was a very good, creepy horror movie. Its writers, Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill, have scripted a sequel, SINISTER 2, that maintains the mythology while shifting the point of view around to do something new. There are meta reasons – that is, if one starts guessing why certain narrative and stylistic choices may have been […]Read On »


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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: The Scoop on Season 1 – Part 1 – exclusive interview

Lexi Johnson as Gloria having a bit of a snack on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD | © 2015 Justin Lubin/AMC

Created by THE WALKING DEAD comics originator Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson, AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, which premieres Sunday, August 23, is set in the same universe but a little earlier. We’re in urban/suburban Los Angeles, where a large blended family of a high-school English teacher (Cliff Curtis), his high-school guidance counselor girlfriend (Kim Dickens), her two teenaged children (Alycia Debnam-Carey, Frank Dillane) and the teacher’s ex-wife (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and adolescent son (Lorenzo James Henrie), are all caught up in the early stages of a mysterious epidemic. Adam Davidson, who directed the FEAR THE WALKING DEAD pilot and then […]Read On »


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MR. ROBOT: Rami Malek on USA’s surprise hit series – interview

Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson in the USA series MR. ROBOT | © 2015 David Giesbrecht/USA Network

In USA’s freshman hit series MR. ROBOT, Rami Malek stars as Elliot Alderson. Elliot is a socially isolated, brilliant computer hacker who joins the team founded by the mysterious title character, played by Christian Slater, to take down corporations and change the social order. Malek, a native of Los Angeles, had his first onscreen role in THE GILMORE GIRLS. Since then, he’s been in series including THE WAR AT HOME, 24 and THE PACIFIC, and features including LARRY CROWNE, NEED FOR SPEED, OLDBOY and SHORT TERM 12, as well as the NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM and TWILIGHT franchises. Created by […]Read On »


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Blu-ray and DVD Reviews for the Week of August 18, 2015

WALT DISNEY SHORT FILMS COLLECTION | © 2015 Disney Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS SHORT FILMS COLLECTION – This is a pretty awesome treat from Disney. The studio giant has made available for the first time a collection of its short films that have won numerous awards over the years. Contained within are 12 short films featuring […]Read On »


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SENSE8: J. Michael Straczynski talks Season 1- exclusive interview

Doona Bae stars as Sun Bak in the Netflix series Sens8 | © 2015 Netflix

Producer/scenarist J. Michael Straczynski created (and wrote most of) the series BABYLON 5 and JEREMIAH and wrote the screenplay for the Clint Eastwood-directed CHANGELING, among many other credits. When Straczynski teamed up with the sibling team of Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski (the auteurs of THE MATRIX trilogy), the result was Netflix’s SENSE8, now streaming its twelve-episode first season. SENSE8 revolves around the idea that humanity is taking a little evolutionary step forward. Eight people, all born at the same time around the world – Mexico, San Francisco, Chicago, Germany, Iceland, Korea, India, Africa – discover that they can not […]Read On »


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MOLLY MOON AND THE INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM: Raffey Cassidy talks new film – Exclusive Interview

MOLLY MOON AND THE INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM logo | ©2015 Amber Entertainment

English actress Raffey Cassidy is just turning thirteen years old, but she’s already got leads in two 2015 big-screen features. Earlier this year, she played the android Athena opposite George Clooney in TOMORROWLAND, and now she’s starring as the title heroine in MOLLY MOON AND THE INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM opposite Emily Watson and Dominic Monaghan. Cassidy has also played the daughter of Jeremy Piven’s title character in the PBS series MR. SELFRIDGE, and the young version of Kristen Stewart’s Snow White in SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN and Eva Green’s Angelique in Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS. Cassidy recently got […]Read On »


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THE STRAIN: Carlton Cuse on Season 2 and teases THE STRAIN in space! – Exclusive Interview

THE STRAIN - Sesaon 2 Key Art | ©2015 FX

Carlton Cuse is one of those people who seems like he could use a clone. He’s not only executive producer and show runner on FX’s THE STRAIN, now in its second season and picked up for a third Sundays at 10 PM, but he’s also executive producer on USA’s upcoming science-fiction thriller COLONY and on Season 4 of A&E’s dark drama BATES MOTEL. We caught up with Cuse just after he had addressed the Television Critics Association press tour at a panel held by FX for THE STRAIN, the vampire apocalypse series developed by Cuse’s fellow executive producers Guillermo Del […]Read On »


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TV Review: BONES – Season 10 – “The Murder in the Middle East”

David Boreanaz and Tamara Taylor in BONES - Season 10 - "Murder in the Middle East" | ©2015 Fox/Patrick McElhenney

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Boyd, Pej Vahdat, Houshang Touzie Writer: Michael Peterson, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Milan Cheylov Network: Fox Network, Thursdays @ 8 PM Airdate: May 14, 2015 Throughout Season 10 of BONES, there have been frequent references to lab boss Cam’s (Tamara Taylor) worries about her quasi-fiance Arastoo (Pej Vahdat) while he’s in Tehran tending to his sick brother. There have also been instances of Booth (David Boreanaz) succumbing to his gambling addiction, while lying about it to his […]Read On »


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