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TV Review: Carnival Row

Posted 7 years ago

Synopsis: Set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But...

TV Review: Too Old To Die Young

Posted 7 years ago

Synopsis: Follows a grieving police officer who, along with the man who shot his partner, finds himself in an underworld filled with working-class hit men, Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins sent from Mexico, Russian mafia captains and gangs of teenage killers....

TV Review: What/If

Posted 7 years ago

Synopsis: Neo-noir social thriller WHAT/IF explores the ripple effects of what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things. The first season of the Netflix original series focuses on a mysterious woman's lucrative, but dubious offer to a cash-strapped pair of...

Renée Zellweger plays a dangerous game in Netflix’s What/If teaser trailer

Posted 7 years ago

Relationships are often like a body of water in that when someone casts a stone into the blissful calm, ripples can echo out, effecting everything within the splash zone. All it takes is a pebble to disturb the tide. And...

Interstellar noir comic Hadrian’s Wall to be adapted for the big screen

Posted 7 years ago

Hot off of last night's news that Drew Goddard is set to write and possibly direct an adaptation of Nick Drnaso's Sabrina, it's been said that another indie comic book property is getting the big screen treatment. Today it was announced that...

Movie Endings Explained – Memento (video)

Posted 8 years ago

Movie endings, they’re usually pretty straight forward right? Everything pays off, the main characters learn something, and our heroes ride off into the sunset. Sometimes though, we don’t get the typical ending from a movie, we get something much more...

Anthony Mackie to star as Takeshi Kovacs for Altered Carbon Season 2

Posted 8 years ago

Netflix has announced that Laeta Kalogridis's dystopian science-fiction cyberpunk noir TV series, ALTERED CARBON, is getting a second season on the popular streaming network. Along with the news of a follow-up season comes the casting of AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR actor Anthony Mackie...

SyFy’s Happy trailer shows off more bloody mayhem and cartoon antics

Posted 9 years ago

Who hasn’t had an imaginary friend at some point in their life? Playing with you when no one else would, going on cool adventures together, them telling you to burn the house and skin the non-believers. Pretty normal stuff, really....

Puppet noir Happytime Murders finally gets release date

Posted 9 years ago

I've actually been keeping a close eye on the development of HAPPYTIME MURDERS. It's a dark noir set in a world where puppets and humans co-exist, and is about two clashing detectives – one human and one puppet – who are...

Blade Runner 2049 will apparently state if Deckard is a Replicant or not

Posted 9 years ago

The question, "is Harrison Ford's Deckard a Replicant or not?" is one of the most hotly debated topics in movie fandom, alongside "who is the best Starfleet captain?", and "how the hell did that T-Rex sneak up on people in JURASSIC PARK?"....

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