How Antoine Fuqua got Denzel Washington to saddle up for Magnificent Seven

Posted 10 years ago

I love a good western flick and one my my favourites, if not the favourite, is John Sturges' THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. It's a simple story of good guys vs bad guys but the stellar cast of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen,...

Robert Downey Jr. and Nic Pizzolatto teaming up for HBO series

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What do you do when you're one of the biggest movie-stars on the planet and have run out of room to store your dump trucks full of Marvel money? If you're Robert Downey Jr., you team up with True Detective's...

HBO’s programming chief says a third season of True Detective “is not dead”

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The sophomore season of True Detective failed to win over most fans, although our own Alex Maidy defends it in one of his recent Unpopular Opinion columns. While there's no denying that Nic Pizzolatto is a genius in his own...

TIFF unveils 1st slate of galas and presentations; Magnificent Seven to open

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It’s about that time for arguably the world’s most exciting film festival; TIFF! The 41st Toronto International Film Festival kicks off on September 8th and you can bet that our own Chris Bumbray will be in attendance, seeing more movies...

The Good, The Bad & The Badass: Ethan Hawke

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Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of master director Brian De Palma. This week, we go back in front of the camera to examine the work of one of our most prolific leading men/ character actors…...

The Magnificent Seven kills ’em all in the latest trailer

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Director Antoine Fuqua (SOUTHPAW, THE EQUALIZER) brings his modern vision to a classic story in the remake of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople...

Matthew McConaughey would come back for more True Detective

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The future doesn't look bright for more seasons of TRUE DETECTIVE on HBO. After two very different seasons (the second of which was not as well-received as the first), it appears HBO is ready to move onto other things under Casey...

The UnPopular Opinion: True Detective (Season 2)

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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...

We may have seen the last of HBO’s True Detective

Posted 10 years ago

Not too long ago, HBO's TRUE DETECTIVE took the world by storm, offering up tremendous performances by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey amidst all the speculation about the Yellow King and Carcosa and putting the new dramatic anthology on the...

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