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19 May

The Woman in the Window: Why ‘Grip Lit’ has Found its Natural Home on TV

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In The Woman in the Window, Amy Adams plays an agoraphobic woman who thinks she’s witnessed the murder of her female neighbor. But when the police investigate, the neighbor is alive and well. She’s also a completely different woman… Based on the best selling novel by A. J. Finn, which garnered positive reviews on its 2018 release, Joe Wright’s screen adaptation has not proven as much of a hit with critics.  Various complaints have been leveled against the movie, which owes more than a small debt to Alfred Hitchcock – not an easy comparison to weather – including that the…

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06 May

How Star Trek: Discovery’s Anthony Rapp Found Dungeons & Dragons Again

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During the pandemic, one thing has become clear: the need for play is great and can’t be denied. The nerds of yesteryear who played Dungeons & Dragons, grokked Spock, and looked for ways to express their geekiness, have found themselves in this time, reaching out and finding their people online to resort to playing a game they all knew well and loved “I guess it all started in junior high for me. In the early 80s, I was part of my ‘nerd crew,’” Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, who plays science officer and chief engineer Paul Stamets in the…

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30 Mar

Godzilla vs. Kong: How Junkie XL Found New Themes for Monsters’ Soundtrack

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Godzilla and King Kong are not characters one approaches lightly. As two of the most iconic monsters in cinema, the big ape and even bigger lizard carry plenty of history on their shoulders as they march into Godzilla vs. Kong, the new monster mash-up from Warner Bros. and HBO Max. Composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) is of course keenly aware of this since he had the task of updating their sounds for 2021. Holkenborg, a lifelong aficionado of nearly every style of music, cites the composer for the original King Kong (1933), Max Steiner, as a personal inspiration and…

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16 Feb

How Director John Carpenter Found His Second Career

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John Carpenter launched his career as a filmmaker in 1974 with the micro-budget sci-fi parody, Dark Star, and completed it, for all intents and purposes, in 2010 with his last full-length directorial effort to date, The Ward. But in between, the New York-born Carpenter created some of the most legendary cult classics of all time, including Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Prince of Darkness (1987), and They Live (1988). In addition to directing and writing, Carpenter—the son of a music professor—has composed or co-composed the scores for…

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12 Jan

Bethesda’s Indiana Jones: Clues We Found in the Trailer

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Just as we were getting over the shock of all the cat ears in that Bowser’s Fury trailer, we were blindsided by this tweet that reveals Wolfenstein developers MachineGames and publisher Bethesda are working on a new Indiana Jones game in association with the recently revived Lucasfilm Games brand. A new Indiana Jones game with an original story is in development from our studio, @MachineGames, and will be executive produced by Todd Howard, in collaboration with @LucasfilmGames. It'll be some time before we have more to reveal, but we’re very excited to share today’s news!— Bethesda (@bethesda) January 12, 2021…

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17 Dec

How the Cyberpunk 2077 Soundtrack Found Its Dystopian Sound in a Soviet-Era Synthesizer

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CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the the biggest video game release of 2020, transporting players to a gritty sci-fi world full of bio-augmented criminals and lowlives. True to its name, the game explores some pretty deep concepts about cyberspace and what life might be like in a futuristic transhuman society where technological advancements have turned us less human and more machine. So it’s no surprise that the game’s score often sounds like something recovered from the year 2077 and brought back to our time. At its very best, the soundtrack elevates this grim dystopia. In the wake of…

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25 Nov

Fatman: Why Mel Gibson Found Christmas Spirit at the End of a Gun

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Sometimes you find the Spirit of Christmas in the strangest of places. For brothers Eshom and Ian Nelms, it was at an awards season screening of Hacksaw Ridge in December 2016. The pair had already been dreaming of Fatman and its desperado Santa Claus for more than a decade when they attended the event. But they weren’t there that night for Santa; they came for a Q&A with Mel Gibson, the mercurial filmmaker who seemed to be on the cusp of reconciliation with Hollywood. Arriving to his own screening renewed and happy, and with a bushy gray beard worthy of…

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22 Oct

Link Tank: How the Nintendo Power Glove Found a Second Life

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The Nintendo Power Glove may have been a commercial dud, but its technical innovations changed the gaming industry. “The Power Glove was not a failure. Sure, the licensed accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System from 1989 remains an infamous piece of retro tech — a game controller made into a right-hand glove, as if an Apple keyboard were stitched to an oven mitt — and was sold at retail for less than a year. But it still made money for those who invested in it, and its technical innovations paved the way for the next 30 years of gaming.” Read…

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07 Oct

The WNUF Halloween Special: The Making of the Most Fun Found Footage Horror Movie Ever

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The following contains spoilers for WNUF Halloween Special. In 1987, local news station WNUF held a special publicity stunt on Halloween night. Reporter Frank Stewart, joined by paranormal investigators and a priest, entered the infamous (and presumably haunted) Webber House, an empty home that was the site of a gruesome double murder. Hoping to get some ratings by doing a live call-in séance and an exorcism, Stewart and the others bit off more than they could chew as the event went completely awry. While the televised special ended in confusion, a special VHS tape was discovered years later that showed…

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17 Sep

Netflix Challenger Doc: How The Filmmakers Found Redemption and Optimism From Tragedy

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The Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 was one of America’s most visceral tragedies. In real time, millions of Americans, including school children across the country, witnessed the shuttle disintegrate from a solid rocket booster failure, claiming the lives of all seven astronauts on board. The mission was of particular national interest because a high school teacher named Christa McAulife was selected to become the first private citizen in space, leading to increased media attention and fanfare.  Countless shows, documentaries, and books have covered all angles of the NASA mission gone horribly awry. Netflix’s new documentary series, Challenger: The Final…

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23 Mar

How Brittany Snow and Sam Richardson Found Rom-Com Chemistry in Hooking Up

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The last place you’d expect to find a meet-cute is in the hallway between a sex addiction support group and a cancer support group. That’s where the paths of Darla (Brittany Snow) and Bailey (Sam Richardson) cross in the new rom-com Hooking Up. What ensues can be loosely defined as a sex comedy, but one that doesn’t rely on raunchy gimmicks. Both Snow (Pitch Perfect), who also served as a producer on the film, and Richardson (VEEP, Detroiters) recently spoke with Den of Geek about making a sex positive comedy that also dives into the nuances and grey areas of…

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17 Apr

Lost & Found

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Seven interconnecting stories take place in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station. All segments are inspired by true stories, share a theme of something lost or found and characters that come in and out of each other's lives.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Mar 29, 2019

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16 Sep

The Girl In The Spider’s Web Just Found Its New Lisbeth

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Sony Pictures has officially announced the actress who will be replacing Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander for The Girl in the Spider's Web. Sony Pictures has officially announced the actress who will be replacing Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander for The Girl in the Spider's Web. Source from..

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