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Mark Wahlberg & Winston Duke team for Netflix’s Spenser Confidential trailer

Posted 7 years ago

After teaming for such films as LONE SURVIVOR (2013), DEEPWATER HORIZON (2016), PATRIOT'S DAY (2016), and MILE 22 (2018), director Peter Berg and Boston-born actor Mark Wahlberg are gearing up for SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL, an upcoming crime-drama that finds an ex-felon...

David Lynch interrogates a talking monkey in bizarre new Netflix short film

Posted 7 years ago

Okay, wow. I'm just now getting back to my regular work schedule after vacationing in Florida for five days, and the first thing I encounter is TWIN PEAKS mastermind David Lynch interrogating a monkey as part of a Netflix short...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: King of New York

Posted 7 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...

First glimpse of Sylvester Stallone’s look for Samaritan soars online

Posted 7 years ago

Although Sylvester Stallone is arguably the greatest action star in history, he's mostly stayed out of the world of comicbook films. Besides JUDGE DREDD and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2, Stallone has stuck to flexing his oiled muscles, breaking...

Netflix to spend a whopping $17 billion on content this year

Posted 7 years ago

You know at this point Netflix should just change their company tagline to "Netflix: We're Not Fu&#ing Around Anymore." When the erstwhile company launched on April 14, 1998 as the world's first online DVD rental store, the landscape was very...

Christian Bale and David O. Russell primed to reteam for new film

Posted 7 years ago

If you've never read the excellent book Rebels On The Backlot by Sharon Waxman, I highly recommend it. It's an excellent and insightful look into how several maverick directors from the 1990s like David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino took the...

AMC renews Better Call Saul for sixth and final season

Posted 7 years ago

Spin-off shows are a tricky thing. Sometimes they can be resounding successes like Frasier. However, you're bound to get an occasional Joey as well. Thankfully, AMC's Better Call Saul (a spinoff of Breaking Bad) has gone the former route. The...

The UnPopular Opinion: Serenity (2019)

Posted 7 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

Review: The Irishman

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: An Irish truck driver, Frank Sheehan (Robert De Niro), is taken under the wing of mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci). Through this connection, he’s put to work as Jimmy Hoffa’s (Al Pacino) right-hand man, eventually rising to power...

Cast This: Jake Gittes (Netflix’s Chinatown prequel series)

Posted 7 years ago

Kevin Everything old is new again. We've seen plenty of classic films and TV shows brought back in some form in recent years, either as a reboot, revival, or long-delayed sequel/prequel. It seems that Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN will be the...

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