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13 Sep

Endeavour: Will There Be a Series 9?

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All prequels head towards a predetermined endpoint, the question is how long they spend getting there. In the case of ITV’s Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour, that endpoint won’t be the moment that the baton passes from Shaun Evans’ incarnation of the detective as a younger man to John Thaw’s first appearance as the character. “We don’t plan to take it up to 1987 – that’s a fairly safe bet!” Endeavour creator Russell Lewis told Den of Geek in 2019. Considering that it took six series for the drama to cover just half of the 1960s, that comes as no surprise.…
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13 Sep

The Eyes of Tammy Faye Review: Jessica Chastain Buries a Soul Somewhere in There

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The Bible says eyes are a window to the soul, and the scripture ain’t lying when it comes to The Eyes of Tammy Faye. If you can look past all the clutter and myriad distractions, there is a resilient and even boisterous spirit radiating from Jessica Chastain every time you meet her gaze. Yet it’s sometimes hard to notice—and not because of all the makeup and prosthetics they add to the actress’ face as the movie goes along. Rather what traps this richly textured performance is the glossy and fairly shallow biopic in which it’s situated. Here is a Hollywood…
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27 May

Line of Duty: Jed Mercurio ‘We Know There Are People Who Don’t Like the Show’

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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series six. When I tell Jed Mercurio that I felt bereft after the end of Line of Duty, he thanks me and jokes “Well, we do aim to leave people disappointed.” I’m talking about missing the communal viewing experience and frenzy of fan theories between episodes; he’s talking about a well-publicised outcry from some viewers that the finale’s ‘H’ mystery reveal was a let-down.      Speaking on Zoom three weeks after Line of Duty concluded – perhaps for good – Mercurio has answered the finale’s critics his way. On Twitter, he shared Audience Appreciation Index stats on the final series –…
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12 May

There Is No Evil

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Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce the death penalty, or resist and risk everything. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly affect their lives, their relationships, and their consciences. Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: May 14, 2021
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02 May

Line of Duty: Will There Be a Series 7?

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Warning: contains spoilers for the Line of Duty series six finale. “The genuine answer is we don’t know,” Line of Duty actor Martin Compston told the Shrine of Duty podcast last week about whether or not the BBC One crime drama will return. “But that’s nothing different for us. Jed always takes his time.” As reported by Radio Times, Compston explained, “After a series, [creator Jed Mercurio] always takes a couple of months… I think he likes to take the emotion out of it and sit down and look at all that.”  To judge by series six’s mammoth audience numbers, a seventh series would seem like a…
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07 Apr

Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Streaming Report Suggests There’s Limited Audience for Snyderverse

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In addition to being a rare four-hour blockbuster, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a.k.a. the Snyder Cut, has been one of the most fascinating movie experiments in some time.  Due in part to an unfailingly passionate fan campaign, Warner Brothers’ major DC superhero team-up got two bites at the apple, first with the studio-favored Justice League (2017), then with director Zack Snyder’s cut on HBO Max last month. The existence of the pair has provided an interesting case study in exactly what audiences really prefer. Based on fan response (and our own, albeit mixed, review), it would appear that a singular,…
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02 Apr

Godzilla vs. Kong Director Says There’s Enough Footage for ‘Five-Hour’ Cut

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At one hour and 53 minutes, Godzilla vs. Kong is the shortest of the four movies made so far in Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse. To be sure, none of the other movies are behemoths either. The longest, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, clocks in at a still reasonable two hours and 12 minutes. But with big tentpole films regularly running anywhere from two and a half to, uh, four hours these days, Godzilla vs. Kong is the briefest of an already relatively compact franchise. Apparently director Adam Wingard did shoot quite a bit more footage that was not used in…
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02 Apr

John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise Producer Says There Is More to the Story

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John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise is a deep dive into one of the most compelling and confounding serial killers in American history. Known as the Killer Clown, John Wayne Gacy assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and his arrest on Dec. 21, 1978. Peacock’s original six-part docuseries doesn’t limit coverage to the infamous headliner. The victims receive full and detailed histories. Journalists discuss Gacy’s impact on the news. The NBC News Studios documentary team interviews the investigators on the case, and family members of the victims. They also interview Gacy’s sister Karen Kuzma.…
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24 Mar

Why There Won’t Be an Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad

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In an interview earlier this week, WarnerMedia Studios CEO Ann Sarnoff stated definitively that the studio “won’t be developing David Ayer’s cut” of Suicide Squad, the DC-based movie that Ayer directed and that was heavily retooled in post-production before its 2016 release. While rumors and speculation about an “Ayer Cut” of the film–which was trashed by critics (and some fans) even as it climbed to an astonishing $747 million box office gross worldwide–have been around almost since the film came out, a nascent campaign to release Ayer’s original version of the film started in earnest last year following the news…
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26 Feb

Tom Holland: ‘Knowing the Russo Brothers Were There’ Convinced Him to Do Cherry

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Opening in theaters today (Friday, Feb. 26)–and before premiering on Apple TV+ next month–is Cherry, a drama based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by Nico Walker. Tom Holland stars as the title character, a young Cleveland man who joins the Army after his girlfriend announces she is going away to college. He returns home from Iraq with PTSD, develops an opioid addiction, and eventually turns to bank robbery to support his habit. The often harrowing film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, making it the first motion picture directed by the Cleveland-born brothers since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, the highest…
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04 Feb

Marcella: Will There Be a Season 4?

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ITV crime drama Marcella was always intended to be a trilogy, according to actor Anna Friel, but a return after season three is possible. Speaking to Hello Magazine ahead of the UK season launch last month, Friel said that “the end of the third season is very much left open. I guess it depends on how much the viewers here like it.” Marcella season three was released on Netflix outside the UK in summer 2020, but ITV fans had to wait until January 2021 to find out what happened next to the troubled detective after she was recruited as an…
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28 Jan

Will There Be a Search Party Season 5?

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This article contains spoilers for Search Party season 4. At this point, Search Party has done just about everything a dark comedy can be asked to do. Through four seasons, the show has: captured a Nancy Drew-style mystery through a millennial aesthetic, maneuvered through an unnerving, at times violent paranoid thriller, and deftly executed a wonky legal drama. Season 4 was to be the “captive” genre a la Misery and The Silence of the Lambs. And it successfully was…until the season’s final episode goes way, way off the reservation. This final half-hour finds our hero Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) unambiguously…
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31 Dec

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 12 Review: There is a Tide…

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This STAR TREK: DISCOVERY review contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 12 The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 is an intriguing mix of action and politics as Michael and Book infiltrate the stolen Discovery and Osyraa takes ship straight up to the Federation Headquarters’ front door in order to make an unexpected offer to Admiral Vance. “There is a Tide…” turns out to be a rather surprising hour, spending less time on Michael and Book’s undercover rescue antics and instead asking thorny moral questions that it’s not entirely clear that the season has earned the right to ask. Or…
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26 Dec

Bridgerton: Will There Be a Season 2?

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This Bridgerton article contains MAJOR spoilers for the first season. If you’re anything like us, then you binged Bridgerton, the new Netflix period romance series, very quickly and are now desperate for more. But will there be a Season 2? Almost certainly. While a second season of Bridgerton has yet to be officially announced, Production Weekly (via What’s on Netflix) has listed the show as being renewed for a while now, with a second season originally slated for filming starting in July 2020. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic made that production start date impossible, with the new filming start date now…
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23 Oct

Ron Howard Says There’s “Nothing Nostalgic” About the Willow TV Series

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Willow Ufgood is back! In a surprise announcement from Disney+ it was revealed that Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) alongside Jon Kasdan would be helming a new series expanding on the lore of the classic movie.   According to the streamer the yet unnamed Disney+ project “takes place years after the events of the original Willow film. It introduces all-new characters to the enchanted realm of fairy queens and two-headed Eborsisk monsters, and welcomes back its namesake hero, Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davies).”  The  announcement also included this intriguing quote from original Willow director Ron Howard who will return alongside leading…
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19 Oct

Lovecraft Country: Will There Be a Season 2?

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This article contains spoilers for the Lovecraft Country finale. Lovecraft Country is an unambiguous hit for HBO. The supernatural horror adaptation of Matt Ruff’s book of the same name helped prop the network up during the dog days of summer as the television landscape was unusually dry to the coronavirus pandemic.  Under normal circumstances, a Lovecraft Country season 2 would be a given and HBO would have already publicly announced its commission. But as the Lovecraft Country season 1 finale reveals, this might not be normal circumstances and the show really may have been envisioned as a one-season enterprise.  The…
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16 Oct

Is There More to Star Trek: Discovery’s Cat Than Meets the Eye?

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for the Season 3 premiere. In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Assignment: Earth,” Spock briefly takes care of Gary Seven’s cast Isis, and admits that he finds himself “strangely drawn to it.” In TNG, Data had his cat, Spot. In Enterprise, Captain Archer had his Beagle, Porthos. In Picard, Jean-Luc traded his fish for a pit bull named Number One. Kirk had a dog named Butler in Generations, and Janeway talked about how much she missed Irish setter, Mollie, in Voyager.  And now, the great pet tradition in Star Trek is…
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15 Oct

Will There Be a Darkwing Duck Spinoff?

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Darkwing Duck deserves a spinoff.  After several appearances in the new DuckTales series, the show has already done an immense amount of work to prove that the time for Darkwing Duck to return is now. We’ll be seeing even more evidence of that in an upcoming two-part DuckTales episode that features Darkwing Duck and the first appearance of Gosalyn in the new DuckTales continuity. With so many appearances and big special about to air, could this be the sign that there’s trouble and Darkwing Duck needs to be called in for his own spinoff? We spoke with DuckTales Executive Producer Matt…
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