Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) has signed on to the cast of the upcoming adaptation of Vince Flynn’s American Assassin, where he’ll play “a mysterious official intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.” Dylan O’Brien is leading the cast as CIA counter-terrorist operative Mitch Rapp, while Keaton as […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
Taylor Kitsch to write, direct and star in Pieces
Taylor Kitsch is set to make his directorial debut with the drama Pieces, which is based on his own screenplay and will also see him taking on the lead role. Deadline reports that Pieces revolves around three best friends from Detroit who change the course of their lives by intercepting a drug run. Kitsch is producing the […]
Taylor Kitsch joins Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
The Wrap is reporting that Taylor Kitsch has lined up his first project following the second season of True Detective, joining Jessica Chastain and Kit Harington in Xavier Dolan’s English-language debut The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. The film is described as “a drama that follows a young actor [Harington] who recalls the […]
Former Gambit Taylor Kitsch gives Channing Tatum his blessing
Channing Tatum may be playing Ragin’ Cajun Remy LeBeau in 2016’s Gambit solo film, but he’s not the first actor to play the card-throwing mutant on the big screen. That title belongs to True Detective and Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch, who played the character in the critically derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine. When the X-Men universe was course-corrected with last year’s X-Men: Days […]
HBO confirms Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch and Kelly Reilly for True Detective season 2
Having already announced two of its leads in Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn, HBO has now officially confirmed that Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch and Kelly Reilly have joined the cast of True Detective for its hotly-anticipated second season. Thanks to EW, we’ve got descriptions for their characters, as well as those of Farrell and Vaughn, […]
Waco Episode 6 Review – ‘Day 51’
Red Stewart reviews the final episode of Waco… When I was done watching the Waco finale, I looked at my notes and saw something surprising: I had only written down four things. Typically when reviewing a television show or movie, critics will have pages worth of notes to go through when constructing their final published assessment. When […]
Waco Episode 3 Review – ‘Operation Showtime’
Red Stewart reviews the third episode of Waco… “Operation Showtime” (taking its name from the real-life ATF raid) opens up with a scene we saw in the pilot: Koresh walking outside to plead with the surrounding ATF agents. At the time, we didn’t know when that was happening. Now that we do, there’s a retrospective […]
Waco Episode 2 Review – ‘The Strangers Across the Street’
Red Stewart reviews the second episode of Waco… A storm is alluded to a couple of times in ‘The Stranger Across the Street’, first as a Biblical event entailing the opening of the Fifth Seal and subsequent arrival of the Armies of Babylon, and second as a literal hurricane. In most cases I would have […]
Waco Episode 1 Review – ‘Visions and Omens’
Red Stewart reviews the first episode of Waco… I remember first learning about the Waco Siege during the Bundy Standoff in 2014. Many news outlets at the time were making comparisons between the two, leading me to look it up on Wikipedia. I don’t remember much about it, and I’ve refrained from revisiting that article […]
