Since 2010 we have been following the ups and downs, the sides to sides, and the sometimes just-barrelling-straight-on-through’s of Steve Buscemi’s gangster emperor Nucky Thompson, as he fought tooth and nail to hold onto and expand his empire. And after four seasons that has seen HBO’s Boardwalk Empire heaped with as much awards as it had shocking and memorable moments, the …
Time is a flat circle, as Matthew McConaughey’s Rust informed us with that distinctive drawl, which means we’ll see the same stuff coming around to happen again and again. And that’s exactly how it was on HBO’s brilliant True Detective, whose first season had barely concluded before the internet began doing what it always does, and spat out rumour after rumour …
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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 …
Everybody needs a guilty pleasure; that one thing they know is bad for them but they do it anyway. I don’t do drugs of any kind, I’m a very moderate drinker and I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. So to balance out this wholesomeness, I read trashy Dan Brown novels and religiously watch True Blood. While there appears to …
John Oliver imagines an equal world in Nintendo, and it's awesome.
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: May 16, 2014
All good things must come to an end, especially when said good things go off the rails a bit. The six seasons we’ve seen thus far of True Blood – Alan Ball’s bloody, sexy, guilty pleasure vampire show all about the misadventures of Anna Paquin’s telepathic half-fairy”Soockeh” Stackhouse, her many supernatural suitors and the complete lunacy of their little corner of Louisiana …
City life is a game of optimality. In the small studio apartments of Vancouver …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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