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Timothy Olyphant of Deadwood and Justified provides the voice of the Terminator in the Netflix anime series Terminator Zero

Timothy Olyphant: Justified hero Raylan Givens may return in new FX series

Posted 5 years ago

Based upon the novels of Elmore Leonard, Justified was a contemporary western series that starred Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens, a Deputy U.S. Marshal enforcing his own brand of justice in eastern Kentucky. The series remains one of my absolute...

Legendary Actor, Robert Forster, has passed away

Posted 7 years ago

Some sad news to start off the weekend. Robert Forster, silver screen legend of more than 100 pictures, has died after a short battle with brain cancer. The actor, well known for his Academy Award nominated turn in Quentin Tarantino's JACKIE...

The Ice Cream Truck poster is a sweet pink treat

Posted 9 years ago

I have seen bits and pieces of info pass through AITH the last few weeks on the upcoming Jeff Daniel Phillips-starring flick THE ICE CREAM TRUCK but nothing really caught my interest, personally. Until today that is. Today we have...

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Making movies is a rough business in these clips for Epix’s Get Shorty

Posted 9 years ago

I've never come across a single person who has told me that making movies is easy, though I would imagine that dealing with dead bodies, pre-madonnas, and itchy trigger-fingered thugs is a whole other kettle of fish. Do you remember...

Ray Romano & Chris O’Dowd topline Epix’s Get Shorty series

Posted 10 years ago

Replace John Travolta and Gene Hackman with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano, and you've now got yourself the starring cast for Epix's series adaptation of GET SHORTY. Announced earlier this summer, the series would position O'Dowd as Miles Daly, the...

Get Shorty is the latest feature film of yesteryear to get adapted for TV

Posted 10 years ago

GET SHORTY was one of those films that took place during the renaissance period of John Travolta's rebirth in the mid-90s. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name, the film centered around a loan shark who decided to make a...

Quentin Tarantino is considering adapting Forty Lashes Less One for TV

Posted 11 years ago

With THE HATEFUL EIGHT ready to drop into theaters, Quentin Tarantino can now turn his attention to future projects, and during a conversation with Premiere, the director revealed that one of them might be a small screen take on the...

Cool Videos: NSFW Supercut of all 171 times Sam Jackson has said motherf-er

Posted 12 years ago

Alex Samuel L. Jackson is a national treasure. There are very few actors out there who I feel instantly make a movie more watchable. Morgan Freeman is one and Samuel L. Jackson is another. Both actors have iconic voices and...

Tim Robbins, Jennifer Aniston and Isla Fisher in Life of Crime trailer

Posted 12 years ago

Elmore Leonard is widely known for writing great crime stories that have paved the way for some solid cinema (OUT OF SIGHT, GET SHORTY, JACKIE BROWN). If you fear it's been too long since you've gotten your Leonard fix, you...

Elmore Leonard, author of Out of Sight, 3:10 to Yuma, and Jackie Brown, has died

Posted 13 years ago

Elmore Leonard, the famed author of numerous gritty crime thrillers, has passed away at the age of 87 due to complications from a stroke. A Detroit native, known as “Dutch” amongst friends and family, Leonard leaves behind a tremendous legacy...

R.I.P. character actor Dennis Farina (1944-2013)

Posted 13 years ago

Dennis Farina, character actor extraordinaire, has passed away at the age of 69. An 18 year veteran of the Chicago Police, Farina got his break in show business on the Michael Mann film THIEF in 1981. From there, Farina went...