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Charlotte (Allison Williams) could have been one of the world’s greatest cello-players, studying under the elite and demanding mentorship of Anton Bachoff (Steven Weber) at his exclusive musical academy. However her mother’s illness draws her away from that life and for well over a decade she becomes her mother’s...
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For a series that keeps reinventing ways to explore its core-programming, Westworld‘s third season looks set to do the same with a teaser trailer that debuted alongside the finale of HBO‘s other world-building epic, Game of Thrones. Yet both shows could still be defined with the former’s well-worn phrase...
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It’s sometimes noted that famous actors have an entourage and security that may seem overwhelming and out of proportion. But sometimes there are moments that show why such are needed – because while a majority of people attend promotional events to meet their favourite stars, some come for less...
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Industry site Deadline is reporting that Mel Gibson is being busy lining-up a range of familiar faces for his announced remake of The Wild Bunch. The re-imagining of the classic blood-and-guts western, originally directed in 1969 by Sam Peckinpah, has been on the fast(ish) track for the last year,...
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And, so after twelve years, The Big Bang Theory bows out and the primetime schedules take a fundamental shift… Some have blamed Jim Parsons for the show coming to a close and it’s true that it was his choice to call it a day, rather than a collective cast...
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Angelina Jolie was due to return to the live-action version (and reinvention) of the animated Sleeping Beauty story, reprising her role of the apparently (at least partially) misunderstood ‘evil’ queen Maleficent in 2020. However the film, subtitled ‘Mistress of Evil‘, has now been moved up to October of this...
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There are a raft of familiar names now attached to a three-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol which is due for broadcast this coming winter season on FX in America and the BBC in the UK. Following in the steps of George C. Scott, Alastair...
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Those of a certain age will remember the 1993 Sly Stallone action adventure movie Cliffhanger, directed by Renny Harlin and in which Stallone played Gabe Walker, a rescue mountaineer… one who finds that the people he’s about to ‘rescue’ need him for more nefarious purposes. The film also starred...
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“When your best friend is murdered before your 17th birthday, you don’t develop a keen sense of mercy…” So muses Kristen Bell’s Veronica Mars as she heads back to tv. The original critically-acclaimed ‘teen-noir’ television series depicted Bell as Veronica, a young girl who was just about to finish...
Charlotte (Allison Williams) could have been one of the world’s greatest cello-players, studying under the elite and demanding mentorship of Anton Bachoff (Steven Weber) at his exclusive musical academy. However her mother’s illness draws her away from that life and for well over a decade she becomes her mother’s...
For a series that keeps reinventing ways to explore its core-programming, Westworld‘s third season looks set to do the same with a teaser trailer that debuted alongside the finale of HBO‘s other world-building epic, Game of Thrones. Yet both shows could still be defined with the former’s well-worn phrase...
It’s sometimes noted that famous actors have an entourage and security that may seem overwhelming and out of proportion. But sometimes there are moments that show why such are needed – because while a majority of people attend promotional events to meet their favourite stars, some come for less...
Industry site Deadline is reporting that Mel Gibson is being busy lining-up a range of familiar faces for his announced remake of The Wild Bunch. The re-imagining of the classic blood-and-guts western, originally directed in 1969 by Sam Peckinpah, has been on the fast(ish) track for the last year,...
And, so after twelve years, The Big Bang Theory bows out and the primetime schedules take a fundamental shift… Some have blamed Jim Parsons for the show coming to a close and it’s true that it was his choice to call it a day, rather than a collective cast...
Angelina Jolie was due to return to the live-action version (and reinvention) of the animated Sleeping Beauty story, reprising her role of the apparently (at least partially) misunderstood ‘evil’ queen Maleficent in 2020. However the film, subtitled ‘Mistress of Evil‘, has now been moved up to October of this...
There are a raft of familiar names now attached to a three-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol which is due for broadcast this coming winter season on FX in America and the BBC in the UK. Following in the steps of George C. Scott, Alastair...
Those of a certain age will remember the 1993 Sly Stallone action adventure movie Cliffhanger, directed by Renny Harlin and in which Stallone played Gabe Walker, a rescue mountaineer… one who finds that the people he’s about to ‘rescue’ need him for more nefarious purposes. The film also starred...
“When your best friend is murdered before your 17th birthday, you don’t develop a keen sense of mercy…” So muses Kristen Bell’s Veronica Mars as she heads back to tv. The original critically-acclaimed ‘teen-noir’ television series depicted Bell as Veronica, a young girl who was just about to finish...
