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It’s been a damn good couple of weeks for quality TV. Shows like Mad Men and The American have delivered some shocking yet brilliant content, and if you’re not caught up yet on Hannibal, then you might want to avoid this post. It’s all about season three, the direction of the show and who done what spoilers. You have been warned, with …

Generally when we post trailers around here, it’s for new, upcoming movies. Well, this next movie only gets half of that right. When rising young star River Phoenix tragically died of a drug overdose in 1993, he was in the process of filming Dutch director George Sluizer’s psychological thriller, Dark Blood. With only two-thirds of the film in the can, and Phoenix’s family …

You’ve got to feel bad for Edgar Wright. He’s been working for years now on prepping an Ant-Man film, and in the blink of a hasty script rewrite, he’s out of the picture. Bloody creative differences. Still, his departure is Marvel’s loss, as Wright is one of the best directors around today. So what’s next for him? Well, it looks …

Coming off the massive success of Django Unchained, everybody was eagerly looking forward to Quentin Tarantino’s next western, The Hateful Eight, a potboiler of a tale about a diverse group of individuals – including bandits, bounty hunters, a Southern general and more – who are all forced to hole up together in haberdashery during a blizzard. Unfortunately, Tarantino unceremoniously shelved it earlier in the …

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but 150 seems to have become the new 90. No, people aren’t suddenly living longer. I’m referring to the fact that the running time of several recent Hollywood blockbusters have all been hovering around the bladder-bursting 2.5 hour mark, and sometimes even beyond. With so many of these big budget flicks being adaptations of …

You think of Daredevil, and you most likely picture Ben Afflek in the role of the man without fear, in a film that was less than successful, despite being rock-solid and well cast. A decade later, and Marvel is ready to give ol’ hornhead a second chance, but this time, on a smaller scale that could allow for more freedom …

I have no idea what the back half of 2014 has to offer in terms of TV thrills, but whatever comes down the tubes is going to have to be miraculously good to top HBO’s True Detective. Creator/writer/producer Nic Pizzolatto’s decades spanning gothic crime drama anthology series, under Cary Fukunag’s taut direction, was a masterpiece in layered storytelling and just plain …