Rebel Wilson had a Pitch Perfect payday on Wednesday, when she was awarded $3.66 million by an Australian judge in a defamation case against a magazine publisher who printed articles that she said cost her film roles in Hollywood.
The 37-year-old star had sued Bauer Media — publisher of the Australian magazines Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly, Nw and Ok — after they published reports in 2015 claiming she lied about her age, origins of her first name and her upbringing.
The articles cited a former classmate, who accused the Bridesmaids star of being seven years older than what the media had been reporting.
The 37-year-old star had sued Bauer Media — publisher of the Australian magazines Woman’s Day, Australian Women’s Weekly, Nw and Ok — after they published reports in 2015 claiming she lied about her age, origins of her first name and her upbringing.
The articles cited a former classmate, who accused the Bridesmaids star of being seven years older than what the media had been reporting.
- 9/13/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Soccer star Julie Johnston wanted to make sure her wedding to NFL player Zach Ertz included all the traditional customs, but with some personalized touches to make the day all theirs.
So along with her father walking her down the aisle, dining and dancing, the day included a flower girl and ring bearer decked out in the couple’s sports jerseys, a cake topper and cappuccinos embossed with footballs and soccer balls and an after-party stocked with the pair’s favorite candy, Justin’s peanut butter cups.
“We wanted pops of just us, not just a typical wedding,” the bride,...
So along with her father walking her down the aisle, dining and dancing, the day included a flower girl and ring bearer decked out in the couple’s sports jerseys, a cake topper and cappuccinos embossed with footballs and soccer balls and an after-party stocked with the pair’s favorite candy, Justin’s peanut butter cups.
“We wanted pops of just us, not just a typical wedding,” the bride,...
- 4/6/2017
- by Hilary Shenfeld
- PEOPLE.com
Nick Harley Mar 23, 2017
The penultimate episode of Legion's first season answers burning questions and provides unexpected twists. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Fear the Walking Dead: renewed for season 3
1.7 Chapter Seven
After episode seven ended, hardcore fans of Legion’s source material could be heard screaming “I told you so!” as loud as the voices in David Haller’s head. Amahl Farouk, The Shadow King, has been officially confirmed as the main antagonist of the season, as hinted at by the name of David’s imaginary dog from his childhood. We also learned that Legion is staying true to the comics and that Professor Charles Xavier, whose wheelchair is briefly glimpsed, is David’s true father. Fans of the comics and the overall X-Men universe are probably simultaneously shocked and thrilled that the idiosyncratic world of Legion will hew closer to the X-Men material than previously thought.
The penultimate episode of Legion's first season answers burning questions and provides unexpected twists. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Fear the Walking Dead: renewed for season 3
1.7 Chapter Seven
After episode seven ended, hardcore fans of Legion’s source material could be heard screaming “I told you so!” as loud as the voices in David Haller’s head. Amahl Farouk, The Shadow King, has been officially confirmed as the main antagonist of the season, as hinted at by the name of David’s imaginary dog from his childhood. We also learned that Legion is staying true to the comics and that Professor Charles Xavier, whose wheelchair is briefly glimpsed, is David’s true father. Fans of the comics and the overall X-Men universe are probably simultaneously shocked and thrilled that the idiosyncratic world of Legion will hew closer to the X-Men material than previously thought.
- 3/23/2017
- Den of Geek
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Legion recap here.
Good news, everyone! This week’s Legion cleared up a lot about what’s really going on in David’s head — and also set the stage for a guns-blazing showdown in next week’s finale.
Things look pretty bad at the start: Kerry is still being chased by that creep Walter through the halls of Clockworks, while Lenny interrogates Nurse Amy about the day her family adopted David as a baby. (“What did he do with it?” she demands to know — “it” being a metal X insignia, it looks like.
Good news, everyone! This week’s Legion cleared up a lot about what’s really going on in David’s head — and also set the stage for a guns-blazing showdown in next week’s finale.
Things look pretty bad at the start: Kerry is still being chased by that creep Walter through the halls of Clockworks, while Lenny interrogates Nurse Amy about the day her family adopted David as a baby. (“What did he do with it?” she demands to know — “it” being a metal X insignia, it looks like.
- 3/23/2017
- TVLine.com
Nick Harley Mar 16, 2017
Legion offers intriguing insights into where this all could be heading in another delightfully twisted episode...
This review contains spoilers.
See related The Walking Dead: win prizes with Sky! The Walking Dead: Norman Reedus, Greg Nicotero and Christian Serratos interview
1.6 Chapter Six
Primarily I’ve had nothing but positive things to say about Legion’s addictively disorienting first season, but I have criticised the show in the past for stalling the story. That ends tonight; this episode’s recess from the plot while David, Syd, and the Summerland crew are trapped inside David’s mind with The Devil with the Yellow Eyes is not only full of the stylistic flourishes that make the series great, but it’s also illuminating. This episode begs the viewer to look at the series from a different perspective while delivering key pieces of information and hints about where things might be heading.
Legion offers intriguing insights into where this all could be heading in another delightfully twisted episode...
This review contains spoilers.
See related The Walking Dead: win prizes with Sky! The Walking Dead: Norman Reedus, Greg Nicotero and Christian Serratos interview
1.6 Chapter Six
Primarily I’ve had nothing but positive things to say about Legion’s addictively disorienting first season, but I have criticised the show in the past for stalling the story. That ends tonight; this episode’s recess from the plot while David, Syd, and the Summerland crew are trapped inside David’s mind with The Devil with the Yellow Eyes is not only full of the stylistic flourishes that make the series great, but it’s also illuminating. This episode begs the viewer to look at the series from a different perspective while delivering key pieces of information and hints about where things might be heading.
- 3/16/2017
- Den of Geek
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Legion recap here.
Syd’s meds are starting to wear off… or are they just kicking in?
Our weird new reality continued this week on Legion, with Syd and the Summerland gang stuck as mental patients at Clockworks — unless this is all just a dream. (But that’s really the subtitle of this whole show, isn’t it? Legion: Unless This Is All Just a Dream.)
Lenny’s in therapist mode, treating each of the characters we’ve come to know. Melanie is twitchy and awkward, and Lenny thinks she made...
Syd’s meds are starting to wear off… or are they just kicking in?
Our weird new reality continued this week on Legion, with Syd and the Summerland gang stuck as mental patients at Clockworks — unless this is all just a dream. (But that’s really the subtitle of this whole show, isn’t it? Legion: Unless This Is All Just a Dream.)
Lenny’s in therapist mode, treating each of the characters we’ve come to know. Melanie is twitchy and awkward, and Lenny thinks she made...
- 3/16/2017
- TVLine.com
Nick Harley Mar 9, 2017
Our villain's true nature is finally revealed on a spellbinding new episode of FX's Legion. Read our spoiler-filled review here...
This review contains spoilers.
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1.5 Chapter Five
Legion is unreal. No other show on air is taking narrative and stylistic risks like this, and who would have ever thought such invention was possible with a Marvel property? Certainly an almost 80 year history of amazing fantasies, cosmic adventures, and elaborate science fiction in the comics proves that there’s a wealth of mind-bending source material available, but for all intents and purposes it would be much easier and safer to make a series like Netflix’s new, bland Iron Fist than to create something as challenging and visionary as Legion. Kudos to Noah Hawley and the kind folks at FX, take a bow.
Anyway, Legion...
Our villain's true nature is finally revealed on a spellbinding new episode of FX's Legion. Read our spoiler-filled review here...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Preacher renewed for longer second season Preacher episode 10 review: Call And Response
1.5 Chapter Five
Legion is unreal. No other show on air is taking narrative and stylistic risks like this, and who would have ever thought such invention was possible with a Marvel property? Certainly an almost 80 year history of amazing fantasies, cosmic adventures, and elaborate science fiction in the comics proves that there’s a wealth of mind-bending source material available, but for all intents and purposes it would be much easier and safer to make a series like Netflix’s new, bland Iron Fist than to create something as challenging and visionary as Legion. Kudos to Noah Hawley and the kind folks at FX, take a bow.
Anyway, Legion...
- 3/9/2017
- Den of Geek
David and Syd make a Rainbow Connection, but they don't get a pot of gold at the end. The color is more yellow, if you get my meaning.
In Legion Season 1 Episode 5, David comes back from the astral plane, but he isn't the same guy who left. We now know that Yellow Eyes is mind wrestling for control of David and his immense power, and guess who has the upper hand?
It all starts out cool enough since David has found a way to finally get together with Syd.
I'm glad the writers came up with a solution for them to have a proper romance because the whole "not touching" thing was getting old.
The astral plane creation suggestion by Ollie is pretty easy for David, and he creates a white room love nest for his boo Syd.
David: I think I know what I am.
Syd: You do?
David: I'm the magic man.
In Legion Season 1 Episode 5, David comes back from the astral plane, but he isn't the same guy who left. We now know that Yellow Eyes is mind wrestling for control of David and his immense power, and guess who has the upper hand?
It all starts out cool enough since David has found a way to finally get together with Syd.
I'm glad the writers came up with a solution for them to have a proper romance because the whole "not touching" thing was getting old.
The astral plane creation suggestion by Ollie is pretty easy for David, and he creates a white room love nest for his boo Syd.
David: I think I know what I am.
Syd: You do?
David: I'm the magic man.
- 3/9/2017
- by Ron Gilmer
- TVfanatic
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Legion recap here.
We’re more than halfway through this first season of Legion now, and we’re starting to understand how David’s mutant mind works (and doesn’t work). But this week’s episode threw a few new curveballs at us… including a truly Wtf moment at the end that threatened to take us all the way back to square one.
David and Syd bring a wounded Kerry back to Summerland so Cary can patch up his bodymate. And David has a newfound confidence — you could even call it arrogance — after rescuing Syd.
We’re more than halfway through this first season of Legion now, and we’re starting to understand how David’s mutant mind works (and doesn’t work). But this week’s episode threw a few new curveballs at us… including a truly Wtf moment at the end that threatened to take us all the way back to square one.
David and Syd bring a wounded Kerry back to Summerland so Cary can patch up his bodymate. And David has a newfound confidence — you could even call it arrogance — after rescuing Syd.
- 3/9/2017
- TVLine.com
Nick Harley Mar 2, 2017
Legion keeps reminding us that memory can't be trusted, so is that why we feel like we've seen this all before?
This review contains spoilers.
1.4 Chapter Four
After Legion’s confident, stylish pilot episode, I was immediately impressed with Noah Hawley’s slice of the Marvel universe. However, in that first review, I worried about Legion favouring style over substance and now four episodes in, that worry is starting to manifest itself. I’m a savvy viewer; I don’t need every plot detail spoon fed and I’m fine lingering in mystery, but that being said, I really feel like we’re spinning our wheels here. A lack of forward momentum seems to be shrouded by new questions, delivered in eye-catching ways, sure, but the rabbit hole is starting to look shallow.
A somewhat climactic ending aside, Chapter Four bides its time throwing small wrinkles into David’s story,...
Legion keeps reminding us that memory can't be trusted, so is that why we feel like we've seen this all before?
This review contains spoilers.
1.4 Chapter Four
After Legion’s confident, stylish pilot episode, I was immediately impressed with Noah Hawley’s slice of the Marvel universe. However, in that first review, I worried about Legion favouring style over substance and now four episodes in, that worry is starting to manifest itself. I’m a savvy viewer; I don’t need every plot detail spoon fed and I’m fine lingering in mystery, but that being said, I really feel like we’re spinning our wheels here. A lack of forward momentum seems to be shrouded by new questions, delivered in eye-catching ways, sure, but the rabbit hole is starting to look shallow.
A somewhat climactic ending aside, Chapter Four bides its time throwing small wrinkles into David’s story,...
- 3/2/2017
- Den of Geek
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Legion recap here.
Were you hoping that things would start to make sense this week on Legion? Well… my condolences. But we did see some action!
David’s still stuck in that sedated dream from last week, and even Ptonomy can’t seem to pinpoint where his mind is, saying he’s “somewhere between memory and a dream.” Melanie wants to know how David ended up in Clockworks, so Syd, Ptonomy and Kerry go snoop around his old therapist Dr. Poole’s office. Ptonomy finds the doctor’s tape recorder all busted up,...
Were you hoping that things would start to make sense this week on Legion? Well… my condolences. But we did see some action!
David’s still stuck in that sedated dream from last week, and even Ptonomy can’t seem to pinpoint where his mind is, saying he’s “somewhere between memory and a dream.” Melanie wants to know how David ended up in Clockworks, so Syd, Ptonomy and Kerry go snoop around his old therapist Dr. Poole’s office. Ptonomy finds the doctor’s tape recorder all busted up,...
- 3/2/2017
- TVLine.com
Nick Harley Feb 24, 2017
When Legion leans into its horror influences, things get very interesting...
This review contains spoilers.
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1.3 Chapter Three
The best superhero stories experiment with genre. The Dark Knight is a crime drama, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a classic espionage tale, Guardians Of The Galaxy is a space opera, and Deadpool is a satire. By using the conventions of other genres, these films told heroic tales that felt fresh in the face of superhero fatigue. Instead of Jessica Jones playing like a superhero show with noir elements, it stands apart as a detective series that just so happens to feature a super strong protagonist.
Legion has had a chance to try on a couple different hats in its early episodes, indulging in psychedelic surrealism,...
When Legion leans into its horror influences, things get very interesting...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Michael Keaton headed to Kong: Skull Island Looking back at Peter Jackson's King Kong Godzilla Vs King Kong set for 2020
1.3 Chapter Three
The best superhero stories experiment with genre. The Dark Knight is a crime drama, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a classic espionage tale, Guardians Of The Galaxy is a space opera, and Deadpool is a satire. By using the conventions of other genres, these films told heroic tales that felt fresh in the face of superhero fatigue. Instead of Jessica Jones playing like a superhero show with noir elements, it stands apart as a detective series that just so happens to feature a super strong protagonist.
Legion has had a chance to try on a couple different hats in its early episodes, indulging in psychedelic surrealism,...
- 2/23/2017
- Den of Geek
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Legion recap here.
Another week of Legion, another week of delving into the thicket of repressed angst that is David’s brain. But things got even wilder this week… and more dangerous for everyone involved.
David is still worried about his sister Amy, who’s being interrogated by that Phil Spector-looking creep, The Eye. But he dives back into more memory work with Melanie, who promises they’ll speed things up by focusing on big events. (“The s—t that scares you the most,” as Ptonomy puts it.) They zap back...
Another week of Legion, another week of delving into the thicket of repressed angst that is David’s brain. But things got even wilder this week… and more dangerous for everyone involved.
David is still worried about his sister Amy, who’s being interrogated by that Phil Spector-looking creep, The Eye. But he dives back into more memory work with Melanie, who promises they’ll speed things up by focusing on big events. (“The s—t that scares you the most,” as Ptonomy puts it.) They zap back...
- 2/23/2017
- TVLine.com
The third episode of Legion takes us farther into the history of David Haller, the man who is either a schizophrenic, a “mutant,” or both. It opens with three minutes of what would be nonsense on almost any other show, but here, it’s right at home.
David sits on the dock of an opaque pond while someone repeatedly asks, “shall we begin,” the mutants of Summerland begin their day, random images come across the screen (David’s childhood dog, leeches in a tank, and his sister’s apparent kidnapping and interrogation by the sinister Division 3) and the disembodied voice of Melanie Bird’s husband Oliver (Jemaine Clement) tells her a parable. What makes it so odd is that, when the episode opens this way, we still don’t know who Oliver is or why his voice comes from a machine, and we don’t know what many of the images in this montage mean.
David sits on the dock of an opaque pond while someone repeatedly asks, “shall we begin,” the mutants of Summerland begin their day, random images come across the screen (David’s childhood dog, leeches in a tank, and his sister’s apparent kidnapping and interrogation by the sinister Division 3) and the disembodied voice of Melanie Bird’s husband Oliver (Jemaine Clement) tells her a parable. What makes it so odd is that, when the episode opens this way, we still don’t know who Oliver is or why his voice comes from a machine, and we don’t know what many of the images in this montage mean.
- 2/23/2017
- by D.F. Lovett
- We Got This Covered
If you guys can get through an episode of this show without a honking headache at the end, then boy, are you lucky!
The pace slows even more in Legion Season 1 Episode 3, but the mind bending trippiness doesn't let up one bit. Dreams within dreams, memories that aren't memories, and more general insanity makes this one Really hard to follow.
I'm still liking it, but I wonder if we are reaching a saturation point with the cray cray "unreliable narrator" structure of the show. It might be getting too weird for it's own good.
I love a show with lots of layers, and this one sure has that. But at a certain point, we as an audience need to know what the deal is regarding what the hell is Really going on.
Melanie: You're not just a telepath. You can control objects with your mind.
David: Control may be an overstatement.
The pace slows even more in Legion Season 1 Episode 3, but the mind bending trippiness doesn't let up one bit. Dreams within dreams, memories that aren't memories, and more general insanity makes this one Really hard to follow.
I'm still liking it, but I wonder if we are reaching a saturation point with the cray cray "unreliable narrator" structure of the show. It might be getting too weird for it's own good.
I love a show with lots of layers, and this one sure has that. But at a certain point, we as an audience need to know what the deal is regarding what the hell is Really going on.
Melanie: You're not just a telepath. You can control objects with your mind.
David: Control may be an overstatement.
- 2/23/2017
- by Ron Gilmer
- TVfanatic
Do the work. We heard that a lot in this episode, and it not only means something to the folks on the show.
This show demands that the audience to do the work as well, since it's so damned hard to follow at times!
At the beginning of Legion Season 1 Episode 2, we see David being taken by boat to the well hidden, idyllic Summerland camp, where Melanie Bird and her crew attempt to fix David.
The tone of this one is much different than the wild, visually stunning Legion Season 1 Episode 1 premiere, but it's just as trippy in it's own way.
Things move slower, and this episode has a more dream-like quality: less frenetic, at least at the beginning.
The exposition is helpful since Melanie lays out what the deal is in a pretty straightforward manner.
Melanie: David, your whole life people told you that were sick. What if...
This show demands that the audience to do the work as well, since it's so damned hard to follow at times!
At the beginning of Legion Season 1 Episode 2, we see David being taken by boat to the well hidden, idyllic Summerland camp, where Melanie Bird and her crew attempt to fix David.
The tone of this one is much different than the wild, visually stunning Legion Season 1 Episode 1 premiere, but it's just as trippy in it's own way.
Things move slower, and this episode has a more dream-like quality: less frenetic, at least at the beginning.
The exposition is helpful since Melanie lays out what the deal is in a pretty straightforward manner.
Melanie: David, your whole life people told you that were sick. What if...
- 2/16/2017
- by Ron Gilmer
- TVfanatic
After an absolutely bonkers series premiere that we’re still trying to make sense of, Legion slows down in Episode 2 and goes inward, deep into the twisted psyche of gifted mutant David Haller.
We pick up with David and Syd escaping into the woods and ominous military men (and that creepy henchman guy, The Eye) in hot pursuit. They arrive safely at Summerland, a gorgeous architectural marvel of a mutant retreat run by Dr. Melanie Bird. She shows David how to filter out all the noise in his head, like turning down a giant volume dial, and use his telepathic skills to hear her thoughts.
We pick up with David and Syd escaping into the woods and ominous military men (and that creepy henchman guy, The Eye) in hot pursuit. They arrive safely at Summerland, a gorgeous architectural marvel of a mutant retreat run by Dr. Melanie Bird. She shows David how to filter out all the noise in his head, like turning down a giant volume dial, and use his telepathic skills to hear her thoughts.
- 2/16/2017
- TVLine.com
This is definitely Not your Dad's Marvel TV show. And that's a very good thing.
Visually dazzling, whipsaw smart, subversive, yet with surprisingly wacky comedic elements, Legion Season 1 Episode 1 is one of the most innovative takes on the somewhat overdone superhero genre in many a year.
What really makes this one so good is the work of actor Dan Stevens, who plays our troubled hero David Haller.
Seems that David has been diagnosed with mental illness since childhood, which was hilariously depicted to the old Who tune "Happy Jack."
The whole look and feel of this show is just different, almost as if it takes place in the mod London 1960's.
David: It's just Thursday. Like the 260th Thursday as a passenger on the cruise ship "Mental Health." On the plus side I've mastered eating with a spoon.
Amy: You're getting better. The voices - you're not seeing things that aren't there?...
Visually dazzling, whipsaw smart, subversive, yet with surprisingly wacky comedic elements, Legion Season 1 Episode 1 is one of the most innovative takes on the somewhat overdone superhero genre in many a year.
What really makes this one so good is the work of actor Dan Stevens, who plays our troubled hero David Haller.
Seems that David has been diagnosed with mental illness since childhood, which was hilariously depicted to the old Who tune "Happy Jack."
The whole look and feel of this show is just different, almost as if it takes place in the mod London 1960's.
David: It's just Thursday. Like the 260th Thursday as a passenger on the cruise ship "Mental Health." On the plus side I've mastered eating with a spoon.
Amy: You're getting better. The voices - you're not seeing things that aren't there?...
- 2/9/2017
- by Ron Gilmer
- TVfanatic
An American television classic is about to get a fresh remix for a new generation.
One Day at a Time, the groundbreaking Norman Lear sitcom about a divorced mother of two, is being rebooted for Netflix, with season one premiering on Jan. 6. The show, which originally ran for nine seasons between 1975 and 1984 with stars Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington Jr., is now set in Los Angeles with Justina Machado and Rita Moreno as the matriarchs of a three-generation Cuban-American family.
More: 'One Day at a Time ' Star Pat Harrington Jr. Dead at 86
If the original’s bold storylines are any indication, the reboot of One Day at a Time will also give a current voice to countless struggling and striving families around the country and offer laughter through tears and tough times. Meanwhile, the most important life lessons learned from the original series still endure:
1. A great song is a timeless...
One Day at a Time, the groundbreaking Norman Lear sitcom about a divorced mother of two, is being rebooted for Netflix, with season one premiering on Jan. 6. The show, which originally ran for nine seasons between 1975 and 1984 with stars Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington Jr., is now set in Los Angeles with Justina Machado and Rita Moreno as the matriarchs of a three-generation Cuban-American family.
More: 'One Day at a Time ' Star Pat Harrington Jr. Dead at 86
If the original’s bold storylines are any indication, the reboot of One Day at a Time will also give a current voice to countless struggling and striving families around the country and offer laughter through tears and tough times. Meanwhile, the most important life lessons learned from the original series still endure:
1. A great song is a timeless...
- 1/6/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Find out what made our top 10 films of 2016 - and which films feature on Team Screen’s overall top 10.Scroll down for Screen’s overall top 10
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
- 12/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Spice Girls brought Girl Power to the masses in the late '90s with style, sass, and a string of bangers seldom equaled in the history of pop. Now, 18 years after first leaving the band, Geri Halliwell (a.k.a. Ginger Spice) shares her candid thoughts on each of her Spice sisters in an exclusive clip from this Saturday's episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now?Halliwell says that Victoria "Posh" Beckham was "quite shy" in the early days, but even then showed hints of her financial savvy. "What I loved about her was that she was a good business woman.
- 8/26/2016
- by Jordan Runtagh, @JordanRuntagh
- PEOPLE.com
Families who are still looking for loved ones after Thursday's Bastille Day attack are seeking information on Twitter. Coming together under the hashtags #Nice06 and #RechercheNice (#SearchNice) users have posted photos and descriptions of their friends, sisters, brothers and other relatives who were in Nice when a truck drove into the massive crowds celebrating the National holiday. Their hope is that with the help of social media they can locate or learn the fate of people they haven't been able to contact since the terrorist attack. "A friend is looking for her cousin. Her name is Morgane. There's no news of her,...
- 7/15/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
Families who are still looking for loved ones after Thursday's Bastille Day attack are seeking information on Twitter. Coming together under the hashtags #Nice06 and #RechercheNice (#SearchNice) users have posted photos and descriptions of their friends, sisters, brothers and other relatives who were in Nice when a truck drove into the massive crowds celebrating the National holiday. Their hope is that with the help of social media they can locate or learn the fate of people they haven't been able to contact since the terrorist attack. "A friend is looking for her cousin. Her name is Morgane. There's no news of her,...
- 7/15/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
Just when you thought FX had all but wrapped up its casting process for X-Men TV drama Legion, today brings news that Noah Hawley’s standalone series has added Katie Aselton to its star-studded ensemble.
That’s according to Entertainment Weekly, revealing that Aselton – best known for her role on fellow FX drama The League – is on board to play the part of Amy, older sister to Dan Stevens’ mercurial lead, David Haller. Indeed, Stevens’ troubled character is essentially Legion‘s anchor; one who is billed as a troubled “Omega-level mutant” who has “been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.”
It proves to be a trying experience for Aselton’s sibling character, too, who struggles to remain positive during David...
That’s according to Entertainment Weekly, revealing that Aselton – best known for her role on fellow FX drama The League – is on board to play the part of Amy, older sister to Dan Stevens’ mercurial lead, David Haller. Indeed, Stevens’ troubled character is essentially Legion‘s anchor; one who is billed as a troubled “Omega-level mutant” who has “been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.”
It proves to be a trying experience for Aselton’s sibling character, too, who struggles to remain positive during David...
- 3/1/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
When it comes to Rebel Wilson's real name and age, the actress says she doesn't have anything to hide. "If I was guilty of something, I mean, I don't really have any skeletons in my closet, which is why it's quite hard for people to write bad stuff about me," she said on ABC's Australia show Home Delivery on Wednesday. "You know, I don't have a drug addiction or a secret child. But I think when I did go to America, I kind of just stopped saying my age." The topic of Wilson's age made headlines last year when...
- 2/11/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Rob Leane Mar 23, 2017
Dan Stevens' David Haller is coming to the end of his first season on FX. The Legion episode 8 trailer is here...
Legion, the X-Men TV series from Fargo's Noah Hawley, which stars Dan Stevens as a mutant with split personality-based powers, alongside Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement and more, is currently airing on Thursdays on Fox UK. Next week's eighth episode will be the last one of the current season.
See related Fear the Walking Dead: renewed for season 3
Here's the trailer for Chapter Eight, the Legion season 1 finale...
Legion Professor X
In the comics, it's no secret that Stevens' aforementioned protagonist, David Haller, is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. The show, however, hasn't addressed this yet. It's unclear if it ever will.
But while Dan Stevens and Patrick Stewart were sat on James Corden's sofa, being interviewed about their recent projects, Stevens...
Dan Stevens' David Haller is coming to the end of his first season on FX. The Legion episode 8 trailer is here...
Legion, the X-Men TV series from Fargo's Noah Hawley, which stars Dan Stevens as a mutant with split personality-based powers, alongside Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement and more, is currently airing on Thursdays on Fox UK. Next week's eighth episode will be the last one of the current season.
See related Fear the Walking Dead: renewed for season 3
Here's the trailer for Chapter Eight, the Legion season 1 finale...
Legion Professor X
In the comics, it's no secret that Stevens' aforementioned protagonist, David Haller, is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. The show, however, hasn't addressed this yet. It's unclear if it ever will.
But while Dan Stevens and Patrick Stewart were sat on James Corden's sofa, being interviewed about their recent projects, Stevens...
- 1/6/2016
- Den of Geek
You've heard from a few members of our team of their quick lists of gratitude so naturally your host and obsessive ringleader, Nathaniel, must chime in. As you read this I'm surely already stuffing myself but this year I've planned ahead with a big diet and exercize program to commence on November 30th.
I'm thankful for...
..."rug" in Room, steering wheels in Mad Max Fury Road, the train sets in Carol and Ant-Man, and Gerda's evolving portraits of Lili in The Danish Girl
... Grandma's bonobos fixation
... Sarah Paulson's ability to elevate every single project she's in whether said project is awesome (Carol) or, let's say, "challenged" (Ahs: Hotel and Ahs in general for that matter)
... the way 2015's hottest topics kept reminding us of Cate Blanchett's Blue Jasmine speech in 2014
The world is round, people!"
...a tight squeeze, with shimmering bosom, in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth
... bits and...
I'm thankful for...
..."rug" in Room, steering wheels in Mad Max Fury Road, the train sets in Carol and Ant-Man, and Gerda's evolving portraits of Lili in The Danish Girl
... Grandma's bonobos fixation
... Sarah Paulson's ability to elevate every single project she's in whether said project is awesome (Carol) or, let's say, "challenged" (Ahs: Hotel and Ahs in general for that matter)
... the way 2015's hottest topics kept reminding us of Cate Blanchett's Blue Jasmine speech in 2014
The world is round, people!"
...a tight squeeze, with shimmering bosom, in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth
... bits and...
- 11/27/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
You have to admire the latest reboot from Under The Dome, the show that goes through sci-fi ideas at a rate of knots…
This review contains spoilers.
3.3 Redux
For a few beautiful months, there was hope in the world. Free from the dome, free from Chester’s Mill, life began to take direction. Things started to make sense. All that bonkers business to do with magic eggs and rains of blood was in the past. A future outside the orbit of Big Jim’s ego and beyond the whims of an impenetrable, unending wall of nonsense suddenly seemed possible.
And then? Under The Dome got renewed.
And we, its puzzlingly loyal viewers, were dragged from the gloopy safety of our cocoons and trapped inside for another thirteen weeks.
You have to admire this show’s stamina if nothing else. When it runs one idea into the ground, there are always...
This review contains spoilers.
3.3 Redux
For a few beautiful months, there was hope in the world. Free from the dome, free from Chester’s Mill, life began to take direction. Things started to make sense. All that bonkers business to do with magic eggs and rains of blood was in the past. A future outside the orbit of Big Jim’s ego and beyond the whims of an impenetrable, unending wall of nonsense suddenly seemed possible.
And then? Under The Dome got renewed.
And we, its puzzlingly loyal viewers, were dragged from the gloopy safety of our cocoons and trapped inside for another thirteen weeks.
You have to admire this show’s stamina if nothing else. When it runs one idea into the ground, there are always...
- 7/3/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Under The Dome is back with a ponderous double-length season 3 opener, which is already squandering its sci-fi potential...
This review contains spoilers.
3.1 Move On & 3.2 But I’m Not
Credit where it’s due. There were decent sci-fi ideas in Under The Dome’s season three opener: the cocoons, the alternate world, the strangle-happy alien disguised as a mild-mannered dead teen. Granted, they weren’t original sci-fi ideas, but they had potential. More potential at least than the tedious romances and ‘I love you/I’ve shot you!’ familial conflicts that pass for emotional drama round these parts.
But like a toddler first learning how to tell a joke, this show just can’t stop fluffing its punchlines. Under The Dome squandered every bit of promise the fake world concept had in record-breaking time, by a line uttered in the episode’s opening minutes. “We hope it takes us home,” said...
This review contains spoilers.
3.1 Move On & 3.2 But I’m Not
Credit where it’s due. There were decent sci-fi ideas in Under The Dome’s season three opener: the cocoons, the alternate world, the strangle-happy alien disguised as a mild-mannered dead teen. Granted, they weren’t original sci-fi ideas, but they had potential. More potential at least than the tedious romances and ‘I love you/I’ve shot you!’ familial conflicts that pass for emotional drama round these parts.
But like a toddler first learning how to tell a joke, this show just can’t stop fluffing its punchlines. Under The Dome squandered every bit of promise the fake world concept had in record-breaking time, by a line uttered in the episode’s opening minutes. “We hope it takes us home,” said...
- 6/27/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
A little more than a month ago, the minds behind Under the Dome insisted — nay, promised — that by the end of the CBS sci-fi drama’s third season, viewers at home would have all of their many questions answered.
And, despite The Great Egg Mystery of 2014 — which became one of the series’ biggest head-scratchers in Season 2 — I really do think those of us tuning into Under the Dome‘s third go-round have every reason to believe the bosses when they say our queries will be resolved.
Before we can get to those answers, though, Thursday’s season premiere offered up...
And, despite The Great Egg Mystery of 2014 — which became one of the series’ biggest head-scratchers in Season 2 — I really do think those of us tuning into Under the Dome‘s third go-round have every reason to believe the bosses when they say our queries will be resolved.
Before we can get to those answers, though, Thursday’s season premiere offered up...
- 6/26/2015
- TVLine.com
Mad Men’s writing and direction continue to be first-class as its final season moves towards an endgame for Don Draper...
This review contains spoilers.
7.10 The Forecast
What happens next? Don Draper was canvassing opinion in this week’s future anxiety-themed episode of Mad Men, and failing to find a satisfying answer. While 1970 America was asking itself what the new decade meant, its fictional analogue in the sharp suit was staring out of a window pondering the same question.
No matter who Don asked to do his “what we want from the future” homework, nobody could provide him with a good enough answer. The man signing million dollar cheques and sitting in an office decorated with awards scoffed at their material dreams of bigger accounts and personal fame. “And then?” was his repeated refrain. When you’ve got the dream job, made the cash, bought the Jaguar or the Hershey...
This review contains spoilers.
7.10 The Forecast
What happens next? Don Draper was canvassing opinion in this week’s future anxiety-themed episode of Mad Men, and failing to find a satisfying answer. While 1970 America was asking itself what the new decade meant, its fictional analogue in the sharp suit was staring out of a window pondering the same question.
No matter who Don asked to do his “what we want from the future” homework, nobody could provide him with a good enough answer. The man signing million dollar cheques and sitting in an office decorated with awards scoffed at their material dreams of bigger accounts and personal fame. “And then?” was his repeated refrain. When you’ve got the dream job, made the cash, bought the Jaguar or the Hershey...
- 4/20/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Join us for Screen’s Cannes line-up live blog…Cannes 2015Full line-upNEWS: Cannes Competition shows attempt to shake things upCOMMENT: surprises and no-shows
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don...
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don...
- 4/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Join us for Screen’s Cannes line-up live blog…Click here for the line-up of titles as they are announced
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don’t know Mel...
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don’t know Mel...
- 4/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The human condition. It is a tricky and complicated concept for us mortals to grasp in terms of our ugly, unpredictable behaviors. However, when one applies a revealing spotlight on the animal kingdom and takes a look at their on-screen aggression against humans it becomes a whole new ballgame. Occasionally, the source of frustration embedded in these wayward creatures is often times triggered by the psychological prompting of the bad seed humans responsible for their behavioral tirade against nature and man.
In Creature Feature: Top Ten Animals Gone Bad in the Movies we will look at the bombastic beasts gone ballistic in cinematic society. Maybe you have your own selections of haywire critters out to cause random havoc? If so then they probably would suffice within the theme of this movie column when detailing the animals that run amok on land, by sea or in the air.
The selections for...
In Creature Feature: Top Ten Animals Gone Bad in the Movies we will look at the bombastic beasts gone ballistic in cinematic society. Maybe you have your own selections of haywire critters out to cause random havoc? If so then they probably would suffice within the theme of this movie column when detailing the animals that run amok on land, by sea or in the air.
The selections for...
- 2/24/2015
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
Respire
Written by Melanie Laurent and Julien Lambroschini
Directed by Melanie Laurent
France, 2014
What is love? Love is a pain, love is death, love is a bitch. But friendship, that’s even worse. Friendship is nebulous; it’ll steal your affections, spread rumors about you, scrawl dirty lies on your locker. Life-affirming and, ultimately, life-ending, friendship is like coffee laced with slow-acting poison. At least that’s how it works in Melanie Laurent’s gorgeous Respire, an unsettling usurpation of your usual coming-of-age story, and one of the most confident sophomore films of recent memory.
A staggeringly tragic story of adolescent amity turned toxic, Laurent’s film taps the rhythm of high school life: the petty banter and cafeteria gossip, the birth and death of fleeting crushes, the caustic politics of inner-friend circles. Charlie (Josephine Japy), a mild-mannered young girl, has her circle of friends. Victoire (Roxane Duran) has been...
Written by Melanie Laurent and Julien Lambroschini
Directed by Melanie Laurent
France, 2014
What is love? Love is a pain, love is death, love is a bitch. But friendship, that’s even worse. Friendship is nebulous; it’ll steal your affections, spread rumors about you, scrawl dirty lies on your locker. Life-affirming and, ultimately, life-ending, friendship is like coffee laced with slow-acting poison. At least that’s how it works in Melanie Laurent’s gorgeous Respire, an unsettling usurpation of your usual coming-of-age story, and one of the most confident sophomore films of recent memory.
A staggeringly tragic story of adolescent amity turned toxic, Laurent’s film taps the rhythm of high school life: the petty banter and cafeteria gossip, the birth and death of fleeting crushes, the caustic politics of inner-friend circles. Charlie (Josephine Japy), a mild-mannered young girl, has her circle of friends. Victoire (Roxane Duran) has been...
- 2/19/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- SoundOnSight
Fiddle-dee-dee y'all it's Jason from Mnpp here with today's sweeping Southern epic edition of "Beauty vs Beast." Yes indeedy today is the 75th anniversary of the biggest movie that ever was and probably ever will be - David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind (if any movie's ownership belongs to its producer, it's this one) premiered in Atlanta on this day in 1939. Three hundred thousand people lined the streets surrounding the Loews Grand Theater, the cap of three days worth of festivities which brought over a million people to the city. Most of the stars attended, save Leslie Howard who'd returned to England because of WWII, as well as Hattie McDaniel and the other black actors in the film who would've been segegrated from the rest of the cast thanks to Jim Crow. (A situation echoed several months later when McDaniel had to make her way from the back...
- 12/16/2014
- by JA
- FilmExperience
Grace Victoria Cox, Alexander Koch
Stephen King’s works have been adapted into a number of features over the years, but few stories of his have been explored in a television medium. Last summer, CBS added to the latter list with an adaptation of the King novel Under The Dome, focusing on the town of Chester’s Mill as it saw itself cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious clear dome. The show’s second season drew to a close on September 22nd, and while it began with some promise, the season undid itself with inconsistent writing and plot developments that had no connection with each other, among other problems.
The biggest issue of Under the Dome’s second season has been the plot contrivances. Coincidences have driven a lot of the story forward in the season, and the most glaring example has been the Zenith arc.
Stephen King’s works have been adapted into a number of features over the years, but few stories of his have been explored in a television medium. Last summer, CBS added to the latter list with an adaptation of the King novel Under The Dome, focusing on the town of Chester’s Mill as it saw itself cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious clear dome. The show’s second season drew to a close on September 22nd, and while it began with some promise, the season undid itself with inconsistent writing and plot developments that had no connection with each other, among other problems.
The biggest issue of Under the Dome’s second season has been the plot contrivances. Coincidences have driven a lot of the story forward in the season, and the most glaring example has been the Zenith arc.
- 9/23/2014
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Under The Dome concludes its second season with an action and nonsense-crammed finale. Here's Frances' review...
This review contains spoilers.
2.13 Go Now
Farewell Big Jim, hello Big Bad Jim. Those fit-to-burst shirts of Dean Norris’ have been anticipating a Hulk-style eruption for two seasons now, and this week, it finally happened.
Pauline’s assisted-death sent Jim Rennie over the edge in the season two finale, which saw him have the last word in his and Rebeca’s ongoing faith vs. science debate via the blunt end of a hammer. “Rationalise that, science lady”, Dean Norris’ furious eyes seemed to say. At least Rebecca died doing what she loved – being a paper-thin avatar for the single, ultimately quashed, challenge to Under The Dome’s dominant theism.
From there, Jim went on to set fire to Pauline’s corpse, put a bullet in the head of food-hoarding bit-player Andrea and attempt...
This review contains spoilers.
2.13 Go Now
Farewell Big Jim, hello Big Bad Jim. Those fit-to-burst shirts of Dean Norris’ have been anticipating a Hulk-style eruption for two seasons now, and this week, it finally happened.
Pauline’s assisted-death sent Jim Rennie over the edge in the season two finale, which saw him have the last word in his and Rebeca’s ongoing faith vs. science debate via the blunt end of a hammer. “Rationalise that, science lady”, Dean Norris’ furious eyes seemed to say. At least Rebecca died doing what she loved – being a paper-thin avatar for the single, ultimately quashed, challenge to Under The Dome’s dominant theism.
From there, Jim went on to set fire to Pauline’s corpse, put a bullet in the head of food-hoarding bit-player Andrea and attempt...
- 9/23/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Under The Dome’s penultimate season 2 episode is like a compilation of all its maddest bits. Here’s Frances’ review…
This review contains spoilers.
2.12 Turn
This week, the people of Chester’s Mill were facing a problem that can’t be solved by a Surface Tablet, Julia’s Prius, or Rebecca Pine and her can of magic lima beans: the threat of cancellation. In a last-ditch attempt to bring viewers flocking back to their TV screens like so many magnetised Monarch butterflies, Turn threw everything it had into the mix, and the result was an episode so unimprovably stupid, you just couldn’t look away.
To wit, the dialogue from this week’s pre-credits scene:
Joe: It’s contracting!
Norrie: You mean it’s shrinking?
Joe: It keeps starting and stopping!
Rebecca: At least the dome stopped spinning and inverting the atmosphere and that’s why the temperature’s warmed up.
This review contains spoilers.
2.12 Turn
This week, the people of Chester’s Mill were facing a problem that can’t be solved by a Surface Tablet, Julia’s Prius, or Rebecca Pine and her can of magic lima beans: the threat of cancellation. In a last-ditch attempt to bring viewers flocking back to their TV screens like so many magnetised Monarch butterflies, Turn threw everything it had into the mix, and the result was an episode so unimprovably stupid, you just couldn’t look away.
To wit, the dialogue from this week’s pre-credits scene:
Joe: It’s contracting!
Norrie: You mean it’s shrinking?
Joe: It keeps starting and stopping!
Rebecca: At least the dome stopped spinning and inverting the atmosphere and that’s why the temperature’s warmed up.
- 9/16/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Of all the questions posed by Monday’s Under the Dome — and there were many — the one that prevailed was an issue of science versus faith.
Well, maybe that wasn’t only the important question. There’s also, “Why is the dome shrinking?” “How will the folks in Chester’s Mill ever get out?” and “What could a third season of this show possibly entail?”
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Here’s a brief recap of Season 2’s penultimate episode, “Turn”:
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Well, maybe that wasn’t only the important question. There’s also, “Why is the dome shrinking?” “How will the folks in Chester’s Mill ever get out?” and “What could a third season of this show possibly entail?”
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Here’s a brief recap of Season 2’s penultimate episode, “Turn”:
Related Fall TV Preview: Who’s In? Who’s Out? Your Guide to 100+ Casting Moves
Size Matters | Joe,...
- 9/16/2014
- TVLine.com
Chester's Mill experiences a life-threatening cold spell in this week's Under The Dome. Will they survive? What do you think?
This review contains spoilers.
2.11 Black Ice
Aka the one where an episode-long environmental threat almost kills everyone, then doesn’t. If Under The Dome were to get any more predictable… nope, there’s no way to finish that sentence; this show achieved peak predictability yonks ago.
Despite months of conditioning, a tiny part of me still dared to hope for a glimmer of surprise in Black Ice. Perhaps people really would start dying. Perhaps Lyle’s much-discussed apocalypse would arrive. Perhaps season two’s remaining episodes would be spent watching the whole damn lot of them go up in a thousand-foot high wall of flames. There’s always hope, I told myself.
Nurturing hope was very much the message of this week’s episode. Even re-enacting the final moments of...
This review contains spoilers.
2.11 Black Ice
Aka the one where an episode-long environmental threat almost kills everyone, then doesn’t. If Under The Dome were to get any more predictable… nope, there’s no way to finish that sentence; this show achieved peak predictability yonks ago.
Despite months of conditioning, a tiny part of me still dared to hope for a glimmer of surprise in Black Ice. Perhaps people really would start dying. Perhaps Lyle’s much-discussed apocalypse would arrive. Perhaps season two’s remaining episodes would be spent watching the whole damn lot of them go up in a thousand-foot high wall of flames. There’s always hope, I told myself.
Nurturing hope was very much the message of this week’s episode. Even re-enacting the final moments of...
- 9/9/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
We’re in the home stretch of Under the Dome‘s sophomore season, and in this Monday’s episode, the outlook seemed bleaker than ever for folks in Chester’s Mill.
Indeed, the plummeting temperatures that came about last week — er, two days ago, in Chester’s Mill time — have gotten worse, turning the town into a frozen tundra. How did our gang of misfits handle the crisis? Read on for the finer details of “Black Ice”:
Related It’s Official: James Corden to Replace Craig Ferguson as Late Late Show Host
Making Amends | When the town begins to freeze over,...
Indeed, the plummeting temperatures that came about last week — er, two days ago, in Chester’s Mill time — have gotten worse, turning the town into a frozen tundra. How did our gang of misfits handle the crisis? Read on for the finer details of “Black Ice”:
Related It’s Official: James Corden to Replace Craig Ferguson as Late Late Show Host
Making Amends | When the town begins to freeze over,...
- 9/9/2014
- TVLine.com
Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Under The Dome" episode 12 of season 2. The episode is entitled, "Turn," and it sounds like things will get even more dangerous and wild as the Chester's Mill townsfolk are now in danger of losing their lives due to a brutal crushing, and more! In the new,12th episode press release: The residents of Chester's Mill are going to find themselves at risk of being crushed to death. Press release number 2: When a new threat from the Dome intensifies, the residents of Chester’s Mill, will find themselves at risk of being crushed to death. In the meantime, Melanie’s health is going to continue to deteriorate as the fate of the egg remains unknown. Guest stars will feature: Brett Cullen (Don Barbara), John Elvis (Ben Drake), Max Ehrich (Hunter), and Mike Whaley (Malick). The episode was written by...
- 9/8/2014
- by Chris
- OnTheFlix
This week’s Under The Dome is all about the egg-xit strategy. Here’s Frances’ review…
This review contains spoilers.
2.10 The Fall
A moment’s silence please, to mark the passing of Phil Bushey, whose leap of faith landed him not on the soft rubber of the Zenith children’s playground but on the sharp end of a massive pointy rock. Rest in peace Phil - you may have spent your final days creeping about Chester’s Mill like the most arbitrary of arbitrary Scooby Doo villains but we’ll always remember you as the gambling addict, town sheriff, Skeeter Davis-loving DJ that none of the writers knew what to do with that you really were.
The Rennie men drove the action of The Fall (directed by E.R.'s Eriq La Salle, incidentally) by doing what the Rennie men do – making threats, pointing guns at people and locking women...
This review contains spoilers.
2.10 The Fall
A moment’s silence please, to mark the passing of Phil Bushey, whose leap of faith landed him not on the soft rubber of the Zenith children’s playground but on the sharp end of a massive pointy rock. Rest in peace Phil - you may have spent your final days creeping about Chester’s Mill like the most arbitrary of arbitrary Scooby Doo villains but we’ll always remember you as the gambling addict, town sheriff, Skeeter Davis-loving DJ that none of the writers knew what to do with that you really were.
The Rennie men drove the action of The Fall (directed by E.R.'s Eriq La Salle, incidentally) by doing what the Rennie men do – making threats, pointing guns at people and locking women...
- 9/2/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
On Monday’s Under the Dome, a whole lot of elements that we haven’t seen in weeks came back into play.
And I’m not just talking about Barbie, Sam, Hunter and Pauline returning from Zenith. No, our latest hour in Chester’s Mill also featured the first Disaster of the Week in a while, a brand spankin’ new premonition from Pauline and — most bittersweet of all — the brief return of Angie.
Here’s what went down during “The Fall”:
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Not-so-warm Welcome | We...
And I’m not just talking about Barbie, Sam, Hunter and Pauline returning from Zenith. No, our latest hour in Chester’s Mill also featured the first Disaster of the Week in a while, a brand spankin’ new premonition from Pauline and — most bittersweet of all — the brief return of Angie.
Here’s what went down during “The Fall”:
Related CBS Fall TV Scoops: Big Road Trip, Poi Problems, Defiant Good Wife and More
Not-so-warm Welcome | We...
- 9/2/2014
- TVLine.com
We knew it couldn’t last. The latest episode of Under The Dome is barmier than ever. Here’s Frances’ review…
This review contains spoilers.
2.9 The Red Door
Let’s take a big fat internet-eraser to last week’s review, in which some idiot stated that Under The Dome had swapped its barminess for a new sensible approach. That clearly isn’t the case. What seemed, over the past fortnight, like a reboot into safer, more generic territory was really just the show rearing up and readying itself for this week’s gigantic leap back to bonkers-land.
At least the audience knows where it stands again. No longer do we have to grudgingly concede that Under The Dome has smartened up its act and started to make actual sense. We’re all back in the state of baffled-yet-entertained carbon-monoxide-leak dizziness that the series has kept us in since the dome came down.
This review contains spoilers.
2.9 The Red Door
Let’s take a big fat internet-eraser to last week’s review, in which some idiot stated that Under The Dome had swapped its barminess for a new sensible approach. That clearly isn’t the case. What seemed, over the past fortnight, like a reboot into safer, more generic territory was really just the show rearing up and readying itself for this week’s gigantic leap back to bonkers-land.
At least the audience knows where it stands again. No longer do we have to grudgingly concede that Under The Dome has smartened up its act and started to make actual sense. We’re all back in the state of baffled-yet-entertained carbon-monoxide-leak dizziness that the series has kept us in since the dome came down.
- 8/26/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
It’s just like The Rolling Stones used to sing: “I see a red door and I want it… to take me through the space-time continuum into a new and unfamiliar place.”
Ok, I may have gotten that lyric wrong.
Regardless, the ninth installment of Under the Dome‘s second season — titled “The Red Door” — indeed brought us somewhere new: a few steps closer to understanding why the dome came down three weeks ago (as Barbie’s voiceover so often reminds us).
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Ok, I may have gotten that lyric wrong.
Regardless, the ninth installment of Under the Dome‘s second season — titled “The Red Door” — indeed brought us somewhere new: a few steps closer to understanding why the dome came down three weeks ago (as Barbie’s voiceover so often reminds us).
Related Big Bang Theory Wedding Scoop: Find Out Why Penny and Leonard Probably Won’t Tie the Knot...
- 8/26/2014
- TVLine.com
On Monday’s episode of Under the Dome, several key players got their wires crossed — both literally and figuratively.
Let’s take a closer look at “Awakening,” which, above all, found Barbie getting into more trouble than he ever encountered in Chester’s Mill.
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Lost In Translation | Forced to put quite a bit of trust into his father, Barbie asks his old man to get a message to Julia, which can be done via e-mail once Don gets the military firewall lifted. Barbie’s message is short, sweet and layered with a...
Let’s take a closer look at “Awakening,” which, above all, found Barbie getting into more trouble than he ever encountered in Chester’s Mill.
Related Leslie Bibb Joins CBS’ The Odd Couple
Lost In Translation | Forced to put quite a bit of trust into his father, Barbie asks his old man to get a message to Julia, which can be done via e-mail once Don gets the military firewall lifted. Barbie’s message is short, sweet and layered with a...
- 8/19/2014
- TVLine.com
This morning the Toronto Film Festival added several more films to their lineup including the world premiere of Thomas McCarthy's The Cobbler which stars Adam Sandler as a New York City cobbler who, disenchanted with the grind of daily life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. The film co-stars Method Man, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi and Dustin Hoffman. Additionally, Sundance standouts Infinity Polar Bear and Laggies starring Keira Knightley and Chloe Grace Moretz were added to the Gala selection. Joining The Cobbler as new additions to the Special Presentations field include Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria starring Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche and Two Days, One Night from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and starring Marion Cotillard. Both films made a splash at Cannes earlier this year,...
- 8/12/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Here they are, the winners and losers of this week’s Under The Dome episode, in their very own awards ceremony…
This review contains spoilers.
2.6 In The Dark
Awards season may be over in Hollywood, but for one week only, we’re dishing out shiny gongs to the most notable parts of this week’s Under The Dome. A round of applause, please, for our winners and nominees…
Most easily-resolved environmental threat of the week: Dust storm-induced suffocation, which is definitely, absolutely going to kill everyone in Chester’s Mill until they spray water on it so it doesn’t.
Rebecca Pine’s most disinterested explanation of an easily-resolved environmental threat of the week: “The acidity in the red rain must have fried the top-soil. Or something [shrugs] it’s fine, we’ll probably fix it with a Mad Max sort of windmill thing made out of science and whatever”.
Superfluous...
This review contains spoilers.
2.6 In The Dark
Awards season may be over in Hollywood, but for one week only, we’re dishing out shiny gongs to the most notable parts of this week’s Under The Dome. A round of applause, please, for our winners and nominees…
Most easily-resolved environmental threat of the week: Dust storm-induced suffocation, which is definitely, absolutely going to kill everyone in Chester’s Mill until they spray water on it so it doesn’t.
Rebecca Pine’s most disinterested explanation of an easily-resolved environmental threat of the week: “The acidity in the red rain must have fried the top-soil. Or something [shrugs] it’s fine, we’ll probably fix it with a Mad Max sort of windmill thing made out of science and whatever”.
Superfluous...
- 8/6/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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