Earlier this year, it was revealed HBO and PlayStation Productions were adapting the hit PlayStation video game The Last of Us into a television series with Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and The Last of Us video game creative director Neil Druckmann co-writing the project. During an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Chernobyl Special (via IGN), Mazin explained that the series […]
Alan Parker: One of Britain’s Greatest Directors
Tom Jolliffe celebrates the career of the late Alan Parker, one of the finest directors to come out of Britain… It was saddening to hear of Alan Parker’s passing. He was a director with a number of iconic and essential cinematic works on his CV. In fact it’s a CV littered with so much quality […]
Bryan Fuller recalls NBC originally wanting Hugh Grant or John Cusack as Hannibal instead of Mads Mikkelsen
Although Anthony Hopkins gave an iconic and award-winning performance as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Mads Mikkelsen reinvented the character for a whole new generation in NBC’s Hannibal. However, in a recent interview with Collider, Bryan Fuller, the creator of the TV series Hannibal, recalled the network’s original resistance to casting Mikkelsen in the […]
The Sopranos and Goodfellas writers teaming for new mob drama series
THR is reporting that The Sopranos writer and executive produce and Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter is teaming with Goodfellas and Casino screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi for a new mob drama series for Showtime. As per the trade, Winter will write the as-yet-untitled series, “which is based on Pileggi’s in-depth chronology of organized crime in America, […]
Comic Book Preview – Dark Nights: Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights #1
The Dark Nights: Death Metal tie-in one-shot Legends of the Dark Knights #1 is out this week, and you can check out the official preview of the issue right here… The DC Universe has become engulfed by the Dark Multiverse, where demons dwell and reality is overrun by monstrous versions of the Dark Knight, all […]
Chernobyl leads winners of BAFTA’s 2020 British Academy Television Awards
The winners of the 2020 British Academy Television Awards were presented virtually last night, with Sky and HBO’s acclaimed limited series Chernobyl picking up the awards for Best Mini-Series and Best Actor (Jared Harris) to add to the seven BAFTA TV Craft Awards it picked up earlier in the month. Other big winners included The […]
Movie Review – Holy Trinity (2019)
Holy Trinity, 2019. Directed by Molly Hewitt. Starring Molly Hewitt, Theo Germaine, Heather Lynn, and Imp Queen. SYNOPSIS: A sex-positive dominatrix in Chicago discovers a newfound (and drug-induced) talent for speaking to the dead. Holy Trinity did something I didn’t think was possible in 2020: it reminded me of a John Waters movie. That’s a […]
Movie Review – Flash Gordon Special 40th Anniversary Restoration
Flash Gordon (Special 40th Anniversary Restoration), 1980. Directed by Mike Hodges. Starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, Topol, Peter Wyngarde and Richard O’Brien. SYNOPSIS: A football player and a travel agent find themselves facing the wrath of an alien warlord, with the fate of the Earth […]
FX releases new teaser trailer for Fargo season 4
FX has revealed another teaser trailer for the fourth season of the acclaimed anthology series Fargo. Set in 1950, this season follows the story of two criminal syndicates – led by Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzman – who together control an alternate economy, until tragedy strikes, disturbing their uneasy peace; watch it here… https://twitter.com/FargoFX/status/1289002840938094592 In […]
Janelle Monáe horror Antebellum pulled from August release
After originally losing its April 24th release due to the global health crisis, Antebellum, the new horror film starring Janelle Monáe, has now been pulled from its August 21st release date by Lionsgate. While no reasoning was given for the indefinite delay, it’s safe to assume the change comes from the studio’s wavering hope that theatres […]
