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4K Ultra HD Review – Westworld (1973)

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Westworld, 1973. Directed by Michael Crichton. Starring Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw, Linda Gaye Scott. SYNOPSIS: At a holiday amusement park in the future, the robotic creations malfunction and start to operate on their own. Isn’t it great that we now live in an era where a lot of the […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Westworld (1973)

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Westworld, 1973. Directed by Michael Crichton. Starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, and James Brolin. SYNOPSIS: Westworld, Michael Crichton’s 1973 theatrical debut as a director that was turned into a wildly inconsistent HBO series a few years ago, gets the Arrow Video treatment. If you’re a fan, you’ll appreciate the physical swag included here, along with […]

7 Great Dystopian Thrillers of the 1970s

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Casey Chong takes a trip back to the 1970s for a selection of great dystopian thriller movies… The 1970s were a decade of auteur-driven cinema that prioritized artistic freedom and, of course, the rise of the modern blockbusters populated by Jaws and Star Wars. The same decade also saw the emergence of movies that focused […]

Jonathan Nolan on Westworld: “We’d like to finish the story we started”

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When Westworld was abruptly cancelled after four critically-acclaimed seasons, it was believed it would join the pantheon of great unfinished shows, but co-creator Jonathan Nolan has hinted that there may come a time when the park’s robots are sparked back into life.  While on the press tour for his forthcoming adaptation of videogame series Fallout, […]

James Marsden speaks about Westworld cancellation: “We had plans to finish it the way we wanted to”

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At the end of last year HBO announced that they would be closing the gates to Westworld forever and removing the show from their streaming services, leaving viewers who were hoping for a fifth and final season that would answer the multitude of questions posed by showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, extremely disappointed.  Well, […]

Westworld creators turned down offer to do Season 5 with a smaller budget

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Westworld is another casualty in the game David Zaslav is playing at Warner Bros. Discovery, though it seems like it’s not all on Zaslav on why Westworld is ending as it looks like the masterminds behind the series opted out of making a fifth season for a lot cheaper. THR reports that showrunners Lisa Joy […]

Love Life cancelled and pulled from HBO Max alongside Westworld and The Nevers

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As WBD CEO David Zaslav continues his cuts across the board, HBO Max has cancelled the dramedy Love Life after two seasons. Not only that, the series has already been pulled from HBO Max along with all four seasons of Westworld and the first half of The Nevers. Love Life was an anthology series which followed characters navigating their relationships and […]

Take control of Westworld as pre-registration opens for new mobile game

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Get ready to take control of Westworld, with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that pre-registration is now open for the upcoming Westworld mobile game, based upon the hit HBO series. In the Westworld mobile game, players will assume the role of a newly hired Delos Trainee, who has been granted access to the Delos Park Training Simulation […]

Westworld’s Evan Rachel Wood says the audience are supposed to work out the twists

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Speaking to Vulture, Evan Rachel Wood took a break from talking about her new projects, to answer a few questions about Season 2 of HBO’s acclaimed drama series Westworld.  Not only teasing that there may be more than one world visited in the next season (with the first season of Westworld teasing a Samurai World), Wood – who […]