Boardwalk Empire is one of the most important shows of the first half of the 2010s, unfairly forgotten by both critics and viewers by the end of the decade.
It would be hard to call Boardwalk Empire underrated; it was once adored and appreciated. Big studios just don't do shows like this anymore: historical dramas are now relegated to the miniseries format.
In an era of fantasy and endless nostalgia for the eighties and nineties, the multi-season historical drama looks like both a unique achievement and an echo of the past.
Boardwalk Empire Had the Perfect Cast And Crew
Boardwalk Empire in the early 2010s could only be released on HBO. Only the network that changed everyone's attitude toward television in the 2000s could invite the most important director of our time and so many talented actors for its new project.
The executive producer of Boardwalk Empire was Martin Scorsese himself.
It would be hard to call Boardwalk Empire underrated; it was once adored and appreciated. Big studios just don't do shows like this anymore: historical dramas are now relegated to the miniseries format.
In an era of fantasy and endless nostalgia for the eighties and nineties, the multi-season historical drama looks like both a unique achievement and an echo of the past.
Boardwalk Empire Had the Perfect Cast And Crew
Boardwalk Empire in the early 2010s could only be released on HBO. Only the network that changed everyone's attitude toward television in the 2000s could invite the most important director of our time and so many talented actors for its new project.
The executive producer of Boardwalk Empire was Martin Scorsese himself.
- 4/25/2024
- by zoe-wallace@startefacts.com (Zoe Wallace)
- STartefacts.com
Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos is teaming with producer wife Nicole Avant to host A Sense of Home’s gala on Oct. 21.
The fundraiser — introduced in 2019 as a way to support the organization’s mission of preventing homelessness by creating first-ever homes for youth aging out of foster care — will honor La La Land producer Gary Gilbert and wife Charlotte Gilbert, and Ruggable founder Jeneva Bell.
The event’s star-studded host committee also includes Jason Bateman and wife Amanda Anka, Rachel Zoe and husband Rodger Berman, Camila Morrone, Tobey Maguire, Kaia Gerber, Sara Gilbert, Drew Scott, Shawn and Serena Levy, Billy Ray and wife Stacy Sherman, Irena Medavoy, Jena King, Michael Rosenfeld, Rosanna Arquette, Julie and Jimmy Darmody, Holly Wiersma, Britt and Harvey Mason Jr., Kat Samick and others.
The program features celebrity DJ Michelle Pesce providing the night’s soundtrack on the decks, a silent art and experience auction, gourmet...
The fundraiser — introduced in 2019 as a way to support the organization’s mission of preventing homelessness by creating first-ever homes for youth aging out of foster care — will honor La La Land producer Gary Gilbert and wife Charlotte Gilbert, and Ruggable founder Jeneva Bell.
The event’s star-studded host committee also includes Jason Bateman and wife Amanda Anka, Rachel Zoe and husband Rodger Berman, Camila Morrone, Tobey Maguire, Kaia Gerber, Sara Gilbert, Drew Scott, Shawn and Serena Levy, Billy Ray and wife Stacy Sherman, Irena Medavoy, Jena King, Michael Rosenfeld, Rosanna Arquette, Julie and Jimmy Darmody, Holly Wiersma, Britt and Harvey Mason Jr., Kat Samick and others.
The program features celebrity DJ Michelle Pesce providing the night’s soundtrack on the decks, a silent art and experience auction, gourmet...
- 10/10/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dwelling on death isn’t exactly healthy if you think about it the wrong way — except TV deaths, which leave special, agonizing scars. Losing a TV character you’ve spent years with hits hard, and can often change the course of the series moving forward. Someone like prickly “Succession” patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) was integral not only to the narrative, but to how each and every other character relates to one another and to their core attributes and aspirations. “Succession” is simply not the same show without him.
To process (or calcify) our feelings, IndieWire’s TV team collected the 25 biggest TV deaths of the 21st century — deaths that were not only shocking and hurtful, but pivotal to the shows that delivered them. Eligible characters had to suffer a permanent death (also known as the Michael Cordero Clause), die within the series and not before it (the Boo from...
To process (or calcify) our feelings, IndieWire’s TV team collected the 25 biggest TV deaths of the 21st century — deaths that were not only shocking and hurtful, but pivotal to the shows that delivered them. Eligible characters had to suffer a permanent death (also known as the Michael Cordero Clause), die within the series and not before it (the Boo from...
- 4/10/2023
- by Ben Travers and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Jack Huston is set to make his feature directorial debut with Day of the Fight, a project that will reteam him with his Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt, who will star.
Huston will also write and produce the movie about a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present, on the day of his first fight since leaving prison. Production is underway in New York and New Jersey.
Day of the Fight will also star One Night in Miami‘s Nicolette Robinson, Oscar winner Joe Pesci, John Magaro and Ron Perlman.
Producers are also Josh Porter, Jai Stefan, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Colleen Camp. EPs are Todd Diener and William Santor. Financing was handled by Productivity Media, Inc.
Huston tells Deadline, “I am both humbled and honored to be directing my first film with such an incredible cast and crew. It truly is a privilege...
Huston will also write and produce the movie about a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present, on the day of his first fight since leaving prison. Production is underway in New York and New Jersey.
Day of the Fight will also star One Night in Miami‘s Nicolette Robinson, Oscar winner Joe Pesci, John Magaro and Ron Perlman.
Producers are also Josh Porter, Jai Stefan, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Colleen Camp. EPs are Todd Diener and William Santor. Financing was handled by Productivity Media, Inc.
Huston tells Deadline, “I am both humbled and honored to be directing my first film with such an incredible cast and crew. It truly is a privilege...
- 12/15/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
By the time the second season of HBO's Prohibition crime series "Boardwalk Empire" rolled around, its hero was on the outs, deeply in need of muscle as his various criminal enterprises caught up with him.
In a show already teeming with some of the finest character actors around, anybody who arrived to lend support to protagonist Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) would need to make an immediate impression on the audience. The actor would need to compete with known greats like Michael Stuhlbarg and Michael K. Williams, besides being a meaningful foil for Buscemi. Luckily for the show, this actor did.
He might not have had the name recognition of the rest of the show's cast, but Charlie Cox proved a potent screen presence on a show that was drowning in it. As the Irish mercenary Owen Sleater, he gave the show a light sense of charm that could distract from...
In a show already teeming with some of the finest character actors around, anybody who arrived to lend support to protagonist Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) would need to make an immediate impression on the audience. The actor would need to compete with known greats like Michael Stuhlbarg and Michael K. Williams, besides being a meaningful foil for Buscemi. Luckily for the show, this actor did.
He might not have had the name recognition of the rest of the show's cast, but Charlie Cox proved a potent screen presence on a show that was drowning in it. As the Irish mercenary Owen Sleater, he gave the show a light sense of charm that could distract from...
- 12/12/2022
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
"Boardwalk Empire" is something of an outlier in the so-called "Golden Age of Television." The show premiered on September 19, 2010 and received robust critical praise. Despite the reviews, "Boardwalk Empire" did not find the audience enjoyed by its contemporaries and it has not yet matched the reputation of its predecessors. One way or another, the story of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson has been outflanked by "Breaking Bad," "Game of Thrones," "The Sopranos," and "The Wire." Consequently, eight years after its expedited fifth and final season, it's time for something of a retrospective.Set during the 13 years of Prohibition, "Boardwalk Empire" spins fact and fiction into an exquisite tapestry of family, greed, lust, and brutal gangster politics. Nucky Thompson's grip on Atlantic City may be the show's center of gravity, but it also captures the zeitgeist of American organized crime in the early 20th century. The real-life figures are too numerous to quantify here,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Jack Hawkins
- Slash Film
Variations on the phrase "Kill your darlings" have been distributed as a piece of writing advice since at least 1914, when author Arthur Quiller-Couch presented it as a practical rule in his lecture "On Style." For showrunner Terence Winter and the writers' room of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," however, the idea of jettisoning the most precious parts of what they were writing extended beyond dialogue or individual scenes to include whole characters and the actors who played them.
Anytime you have a crime drama involving gangsters, character deaths go with the territory. As such, the Prohibition-set "Boardwalk Empire" killed off many characters throughout its five-season run, but they weren't only expendable redshirts, as "Star Trek" would call them. In fact, as anyone caught up with the show should know, the death of a major character became something of a season finale tradition for "Boardwalk Empire." In an Esquire interview (with spoilers) before...
Anytime you have a crime drama involving gangsters, character deaths go with the territory. As such, the Prohibition-set "Boardwalk Empire" killed off many characters throughout its five-season run, but they weren't only expendable redshirts, as "Star Trek" would call them. In fact, as anyone caught up with the show should know, the death of a major character became something of a season finale tradition for "Boardwalk Empire." In an Esquire interview (with spoilers) before...
- 8/20/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Over the course of five seasons, HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" interwove the fictional plot lines of a Prohibition-set crime drama with figures and events from real American history. Though it was based on a non-fiction book, "Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City," series creator Terence Winter took a page from the show's premium channel cousin "Deadwood" about what not to do in that he wanted to keep it from being easily spoiled by reading up on the history behind it. Steve Buscemi's antihero, Nucky Thompson, is only loosely based on politician and gangster Enoch L. Johnson, while other characters such as Nucky's protégé, Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), were invented out of whole cloth or, at best, nominally inspired by real people.
Winter enlisted the aid of researchers like Edward McGinty to keep "Boardwalk Empire" historically accurate, even as it went about dramatizing situations that never happened.
Winter enlisted the aid of researchers like Edward McGinty to keep "Boardwalk Empire" historically accurate, even as it went about dramatizing situations that never happened.
- 8/19/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Keanu Reeves has turned John Wick into an iconic action hero over the last seven years, but it turns out the role was originally written for an actor more in the vein of Harrison Ford or Clint Eastwood. Franchise producer Basil Iwanyk confirms in the new book “They Shouldn’t Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action,” that the title character was a 75-year-old man in the original script.
“One of my best friends is Charlie Ferraro at UTA, who sent me this script from Derek Kolstad called ‘Scorn,'” says Iwanyk in the book (via Entertainment Weekly). “The lead was a 75-year-old man, 25 years after being retired. It was the fun of watching Clint Eastwood kick ass. I thought, ‘Okay, there’s probably one or two names you could do this with: Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford....
“One of my best friends is Charlie Ferraro at UTA, who sent me this script from Derek Kolstad called ‘Scorn,'” says Iwanyk in the book (via Entertainment Weekly). “The lead was a 75-year-old man, 25 years after being retired. It was the fun of watching Clint Eastwood kick ass. I thought, ‘Okay, there’s probably one or two names you could do this with: Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford....
- 7/18/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Boardwalk Empire actor Michael Pitt has joined Open Road and Sculptor Media’s drama-thriller Black Flies opposite Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan and Katherine Waterston.
The movie, based on the Shannon Burke novel of the same name, takes an immersive view of life on the streets and one medic’s struggle to maintain his desire to help despite his growing fear that nothing he can do will make a difference. It is the story of lives that hang in the balance and the choices of two men caught in the middle. Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is ready to do good. In preparation for his dream of medical school, he hits the streets driving an ambulance alongside Rutkovsky (Penn), a grizzled veteran and one of New York’s best medics.
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is directing off the latest draft by Burke, with Ryan King also penning. Open Road took US rights for a theatrical release.
The movie, based on the Shannon Burke novel of the same name, takes an immersive view of life on the streets and one medic’s struggle to maintain his desire to help despite his growing fear that nothing he can do will make a difference. It is the story of lives that hang in the balance and the choices of two men caught in the middle. Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is ready to do good. In preparation for his dream of medical school, he hits the streets driving an ambulance alongside Rutkovsky (Penn), a grizzled veteran and one of New York’s best medics.
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is directing off the latest draft by Burke, with Ryan King also penning. Open Road took US rights for a theatrical release.
- 5/10/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Riverdale” star Kj Apa will star in Lionsgate’s new faith-based film “I Still Believe,” the studio announced during CinemaCon on Thursday.
Apa will play Jeremy Camp, a Grammy-nominated Christian music singer and songwriter with more than 5 million albums sold.
“I Still Believe” is described as an uplifting and inspiring true-life story of Christian music megastar Camp and his remarkable journey of love and loss that proves there is always hope and that faith tested is faith worth sharing.
Also Read: Christian Music Star Jeremy Camp Biopic in the Works at Lionsgate
Camp has had four RIAA-certified Gold albums, two American Music Awards nominations, 38 No. 1 songs, a Gold digital single with “There Will Be A Day” and was Billboard’s #2 Christian artist of the decade 2010.
Gary Sinise has been cast to play his father, Tom Camp, in the film.
Jon Erwin and Andrew Erwin, along with their producing partner Kevin Downes,...
Apa will play Jeremy Camp, a Grammy-nominated Christian music singer and songwriter with more than 5 million albums sold.
“I Still Believe” is described as an uplifting and inspiring true-life story of Christian music megastar Camp and his remarkable journey of love and loss that proves there is always hope and that faith tested is faith worth sharing.
Also Read: Christian Music Star Jeremy Camp Biopic in the Works at Lionsgate
Camp has had four RIAA-certified Gold albums, two American Music Awards nominations, 38 No. 1 songs, a Gold digital single with “There Will Be A Day” and was Billboard’s #2 Christian artist of the decade 2010.
Gary Sinise has been cast to play his father, Tom Camp, in the film.
Jon Erwin and Andrew Erwin, along with their producing partner Kevin Downes,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, Molly Gordon and Midori Francis are joining Universal Pictures/Point Grey’s R-rated comedy Good Boys, about four 12-year-old boys who skip school and embark on a day-long adventure fraught with comedic peril across the San Fernando Valley.
Jacob Tremblay is already headlining the comedy, written by The Office alums Lee Eisenberg & Gene Stupnitsky, who are also making their feature directorial debut here. Universal acquired the script earlier this year in a competitive situation and the project, billed as being in the spirit of Superbad and Sausage Party, goes before the cameras later this month for a scheduled August 16, 2019 release.
Universal Production Evp Erik Baiers will oversee with creative executive Mika Pryce for the studio. Josh Fagen is overseeing for Point Grey and Brady Fujikawa for Good Universe. Point Grey principals Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver are producing. Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane is Ep.
Jacob Tremblay is already headlining the comedy, written by The Office alums Lee Eisenberg & Gene Stupnitsky, who are also making their feature directorial debut here. Universal acquired the script earlier this year in a competitive situation and the project, billed as being in the spirit of Superbad and Sausage Party, goes before the cameras later this month for a scheduled August 16, 2019 release.
Universal Production Evp Erik Baiers will oversee with creative executive Mika Pryce for the studio. Josh Fagen is overseeing for Point Grey and Brady Fujikawa for Good Universe. Point Grey principals Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver are producing. Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane is Ep.
- 7/20/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Almost Famous star Billy Crudup has joined Julianne Moore’s U.S. remake of Susanne Bier’s After The Wedding. Crudup, who has also starred in Alien: Covenant and Spotlight, plays Oscar, the loving husband of Moore’s Theresa.
Deadline revealed in February that husband and wife team Moore and Bart Freundlich and Julianne Moore we’re remaking Bier’s Danish drama After The Wedding.
The film is written and directed by Wolves director Freundlich and produced by Joel Michaels (Terminator Salvation) and production will begin this spring.
Ingenious Media, Rock Island Films and Riverstone Pictures are now financing and Cornerstone Films, which launched the film at the European Film Market in Berlin, will sell in Cannes.
The film, which is set in New York, will provide a fresh update to the original by casting the two lead roles as women in the story of motherhood and family. It tells the story of Isabel,...
Deadline revealed in February that husband and wife team Moore and Bart Freundlich and Julianne Moore we’re remaking Bier’s Danish drama After The Wedding.
The film is written and directed by Wolves director Freundlich and produced by Joel Michaels (Terminator Salvation) and production will begin this spring.
Ingenious Media, Rock Island Films and Riverstone Pictures are now financing and Cornerstone Films, which launched the film at the European Film Market in Berlin, will sell in Cannes.
The film, which is set in New York, will provide a fresh update to the original by casting the two lead roles as women in the story of motherhood and family. It tells the story of Isabel,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Dwelling on death isn’t exactly healthy if you think about it the wrong way. “This Is Us” certainly spent a questionable amount of time wallowing in the grisly details of Jack Pearson’s demise (up until “Super Bowl Sunday”), but you don’t have to be so uncouth when re-examining loss. Historically, television is an emotionally helpful medium to contemplate a life’s end, given how personal it can feel to lose a character you’ve spent years with, you grew up watching, or you’ve come to count on seeing every week.
When looking back over the most memorable departures of the 21st century, it’s not simply about the saddest TV deaths or the most shocking offings. The most indelible deaths hold far more meaning than tears alone can convey. Below, IndieWire has gathered 25 of the most meaningful deaths we’ve seen so far. Only characters who...
When looking back over the most memorable departures of the 21st century, it’s not simply about the saddest TV deaths or the most shocking offings. The most indelible deaths hold far more meaning than tears alone can convey. Below, IndieWire has gathered 25 of the most meaningful deaths we’ve seen so far. Only characters who...
- 2/6/2018
- by Ben Travers, Hanh Nguyen, Steve Greene, Liz Shannon Miller and Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
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Tommy seeks absolution while there’s dissent in the ranks in the latest instalment of the ever-stylish Peaky Blinders…
This review contains spoilers.
Stop swearing? You’d have more luck getting the Shelby men to wear tutus, Pol.
Despite Polly’s toast in the same scene, episode three found the Shelby family anything but united. Harmony is impossible this series because the Shelbys can’t agree on what they are now they’ve struck it rich. Their new circumstances have splintered the family’s self-image. Each has a conflicting idea on what it means to be a Peaky Blinder nowadays, and it’s pulling them apart at the well-tailored seams.
Arthur and John are dangerously resentful at their demotion, Polly’s aspiring to the bohemian classes, Michael’s being kept for best but gagging for violence and Ada is still half-civilian, half-Shelby with her head turned by...
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Tommy seeks absolution while there’s dissent in the ranks in the latest instalment of the ever-stylish Peaky Blinders…
This review contains spoilers.
Stop swearing? You’d have more luck getting the Shelby men to wear tutus, Pol.
Despite Polly’s toast in the same scene, episode three found the Shelby family anything but united. Harmony is impossible this series because the Shelbys can’t agree on what they are now they’ve struck it rich. Their new circumstances have splintered the family’s self-image. Each has a conflicting idea on what it means to be a Peaky Blinder nowadays, and it’s pulling them apart at the well-tailored seams.
Arthur and John are dangerously resentful at their demotion, Polly’s aspiring to the bohemian classes, Michael’s being kept for best but gagging for violence and Ada is still half-civilian, half-Shelby with her head turned by...
- 5/19/2016
- Den of Geek
So, it's now been a couple of weeks since The Incident took place on Grey's Anatomy, and now that the dust has settled we're looking back on the other small-screen deaths that have left us similarly destroyed.
Below, we've listed 17 of the TV demises we're still not over. In no particular order. They all made us sad. We're not crying, it's just raining. On our faces.
Warning: Just in case this doesn't go without saying, spoilers galore lie ahead. Some of these shows are finished, some are still on, but all of the episodes referenced aired in 2014 or earlier.
1. Joyce Summers (Buffy)
Spoiler: Joss Whedon is going to show up a few times on this list. The man has a self-confessed cruel streak when it comes to offing beloved characters, but the death of Buffy Summers' mother is in a different league even by Whedon standards.
Five seasons in, we...
Below, we've listed 17 of the TV demises we're still not over. In no particular order. They all made us sad. We're not crying, it's just raining. On our faces.
Warning: Just in case this doesn't go without saying, spoilers galore lie ahead. Some of these shows are finished, some are still on, but all of the episodes referenced aired in 2014 or earlier.
1. Joyce Summers (Buffy)
Spoiler: Joss Whedon is going to show up a few times on this list. The man has a self-confessed cruel streak when it comes to offing beloved characters, but the death of Buffy Summers' mother is in a different league even by Whedon standards.
Five seasons in, we...
- 5/9/2015
- Digital Spy
Jim Jarmusch to executive produce Gabe Klinger’s Porto Mon Amour starring Anton Yelchin.
Jim Jarmusch has come on board as an executive producer of Gabe Klinger’s Porto Mon Amour (working title), which has just wrapped its shoot in Portugal before heading to Paris to finish shooting in March.
Jarmusch, the Us director of Only Lovers Left Alive and Ghost Dog, had already been involved with the project’s development.
The drama, set mostly in Portugal, stars Anton Yelchin and Lucie Lucas as a young man and woman who have a romantic encounter.
Klinger, who co-wrote the screenplay with Larry Gross (We Don’t Live Here Anymore, 48 Hours), produces alongside Rodrigo Areias, Patrick Cunningham and Jon Karas.
Bando a Parte and Double Play Films are the production companies.
Sonia Buchman and Nicolas R. de la Mothe serve as French co-producers.
Porto marks Klinger’s narrative feature debut; he previously directed the Venice-award-winning documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater.
The...
Jim Jarmusch has come on board as an executive producer of Gabe Klinger’s Porto Mon Amour (working title), which has just wrapped its shoot in Portugal before heading to Paris to finish shooting in March.
Jarmusch, the Us director of Only Lovers Left Alive and Ghost Dog, had already been involved with the project’s development.
The drama, set mostly in Portugal, stars Anton Yelchin and Lucie Lucas as a young man and woman who have a romantic encounter.
Klinger, who co-wrote the screenplay with Larry Gross (We Don’t Live Here Anymore, 48 Hours), produces alongside Rodrigo Areias, Patrick Cunningham and Jon Karas.
Bando a Parte and Double Play Films are the production companies.
Sonia Buchman and Nicolas R. de la Mothe serve as French co-producers.
Porto marks Klinger’s narrative feature debut; he previously directed the Venice-award-winning documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater.
The...
- 2/17/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
As Boardwalk Empire season 5 arrives on DVD, we chat to the man behind Charlie Luciano, Vincent Piazza…
Warning: this article contains Boardwalk Empire spoilers.
When Boardwalk Empire wrapped production last year it wasn’t without disappointment, not least because for some characters there was a sense that things were only just getting started. Chief among those was Charlie ‘Lucky’ Luciano, whose actor, Vincent Piazza, spoke to us about father figures, droopy eyes and reverse-engineering a Sicilian bad boy...
The end of Boardwalk is quite a big one for Charlie. We’ve seen him grow from the impatient young hothead of 1920 to someone a little more world-weary and considered. How did you approach the task of showing that ten-year growth while keeping true to the character?
Thank you for that. It was always the hope that we’d be able to get to the arc where he’s beginning to find...
Warning: this article contains Boardwalk Empire spoilers.
When Boardwalk Empire wrapped production last year it wasn’t without disappointment, not least because for some characters there was a sense that things were only just getting started. Chief among those was Charlie ‘Lucky’ Luciano, whose actor, Vincent Piazza, spoke to us about father figures, droopy eyes and reverse-engineering a Sicilian bad boy...
The end of Boardwalk is quite a big one for Charlie. We’ve seen him grow from the impatient young hothead of 1920 to someone a little more world-weary and considered. How did you approach the task of showing that ten-year growth while keeping true to the character?
Thank you for that. It was always the hope that we’d be able to get to the arc where he’s beginning to find...
- 1/6/2015
- by michaeln
- Den of Geek
"Boardwalk Empire" has come to an end. As I've done after each previous season — and as I also did at the start of this final one, just because of the big time jump and the decision to end the show — I spoke with the show's creator Terence Winter about everything that went down, and how he arrived at the various fates for Nucky, Margaret, Chalky, and his other creations, in addition to how he intertwined them with the real-life stories of Lucky Luciano, Al Capone and company. My finale review is here, and the Winter interview is coming up just as soon as I ask you an important question about Marlene Dietrich... How does it feel to be only a few days away from the finale airing? Terence Winter: Really bittersweet. It's funny; there's still "Boardwalk Empire"-related business that I have to do. Doing interviews, obviously, but little things for post,...
- 10/27/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The Hype Cycle: Contenders Arrive in Theaters
Excuse the absence in this column for the last few weeks. I’ve been covering the Chicago International Film Festival, catching up with a few of the Foreign Language Oscar contenders while there. Now however, many of these movies are finally making their ways into theaters, providing an extra wrinkle into the race as both critics and fans weigh in on their quality… click here to read the full article.
31 Days of Horror: 200 Greatest Horror Films
The hardest part about choosing my favourite horror films of all time, is deciding what stays and what goes. I started with a list that featured over 200 titles, and I think it took more time to pick and choose between them, than to actually sit down and write each capsule review. In order to hold on to my sanity, I decided to not include short films, documentaries,...
Excuse the absence in this column for the last few weeks. I’ve been covering the Chicago International Film Festival, catching up with a few of the Foreign Language Oscar contenders while there. Now however, many of these movies are finally making their ways into theaters, providing an extra wrinkle into the race as both critics and fans weigh in on their quality… click here to read the full article.
31 Days of Horror: 200 Greatest Horror Films
The hardest part about choosing my favourite horror films of all time, is deciding what stays and what goes. I started with a list that featured over 200 titles, and I think it took more time to pick and choose between them, than to actually sit down and write each capsule review. In order to hold on to my sanity, I decided to not include short films, documentaries,...
- 10/26/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
After five seasons, the HBO Prohibition drama Boardwalk Empire will end this coming Sunday. While the series has seen a lot of great characters come and go from Michael Pitt’s emotionally damaged Jimmy Darmody to the tragic, war-scarred Richard Harrow, Boardwalk Empire has always been Nucky’s story, even when he has been somewhat of a supporting character in it. The fifth and final season of Boardwalk has even double-downed on the show’s focus on Nucky, exploring his past in flashbacks while also putting him front and center in the present. Now, with only one episode Boardwalk Empire left and Nucky’s story almost complete, one question remains: will Nucky die in the show’s series finale? Personally, I don’t see any other way that Boardwalk Empire can end than with Nucky’s death. Luciano, Lansky, and Siegel have killed his bodyguard and taken Atlantic City from him,...
- 10/20/2014
- by Chris King
- TVovermind.com
Boardwalk Empire Season 5, Episode 7: “Friendless Child”
Written by Riccardo Diloreto, Cristine Chambers and Howard Korder
Directed by Allen Coulter
Airs Sundays at 9pm Est on HBO
Three seasons ago Enoch “Nucky” Thompson met his former protege, Jimmy Darmody, in a dusty field and told him that he wasn’t seeking redemption. And then he shot him in the head. Twice.
Things have changed.
In the ten years since that fateful night, the second of two life-changing moments for Nucky, Atlantic City’s former treasurer has found himself worn down like a statue on the shore. Each and every role of the tide has taken a little bit of him away, and now there’s nothing left but a sad old man who yearns to be a simple and decent person again.
In this sense, the irony of the past and present segments of “Friendless Child” rhyme like the alternating schemes of poetry.
Written by Riccardo Diloreto, Cristine Chambers and Howard Korder
Directed by Allen Coulter
Airs Sundays at 9pm Est on HBO
Three seasons ago Enoch “Nucky” Thompson met his former protege, Jimmy Darmody, in a dusty field and told him that he wasn’t seeking redemption. And then he shot him in the head. Twice.
Things have changed.
In the ten years since that fateful night, the second of two life-changing moments for Nucky, Atlantic City’s former treasurer has found himself worn down like a statue on the shore. Each and every role of the tide has taken a little bit of him away, and now there’s nothing left but a sad old man who yearns to be a simple and decent person again.
In this sense, the irony of the past and present segments of “Friendless Child” rhyme like the alternating schemes of poetry.
- 10/20/2014
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
Boardwalk Empire, Season 5, Episode 4: “Cuanto”
Written by Howard Korder & Cristine Chambers & Terence Winter
Directed by Jake Paltrow
Airs Sundays at 9pm Est on HBO
With “Cuanto” we mark the halfway point of the final season, and its first major death. As fans of Boardwalk will attest, though, the only real surprise was that it took as long as it did. If you were running the numbers in Vegas, or Atlantic City for that matter, the odds would come up quick that there will likely be a lot more to come. If only Arnold Rothstein was still around to roll the dice on that one.
Speaking of Rothstein, his former business partner arrived as the game-changer in last weeks episode, leaving this week to make good. Luckily she does at that. In fact, Margaret emerges as the star of the show in “Cuanto”, and it’s not hard to see why.
Written by Howard Korder & Cristine Chambers & Terence Winter
Directed by Jake Paltrow
Airs Sundays at 9pm Est on HBO
With “Cuanto” we mark the halfway point of the final season, and its first major death. As fans of Boardwalk will attest, though, the only real surprise was that it took as long as it did. If you were running the numbers in Vegas, or Atlantic City for that matter, the odds would come up quick that there will likely be a lot more to come. If only Arnold Rothstein was still around to roll the dice on that one.
Speaking of Rothstein, his former business partner arrived as the game-changer in last weeks episode, leaving this week to make good. Luckily she does at that. In fact, Margaret emerges as the star of the show in “Cuanto”, and it’s not hard to see why.
- 9/29/2014
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
When the new, final season of Boardwalk Empire starts Sunday, the Roaring Twenties will be over. The Depression will will have set in, and the end of Prohibition will be just a couple of years away. That, however, doesn’t mean that the aftermath of the series’ fourth season won’t linger, even as the show settles into 1931.
In its past four seasons, Boardwalk Empire has proved that it is interested in the entirety of the sprawling gangster culture of the 1920s, not just Nucky Thompson’s bootlegging business. By moving the action to 1931, the show will most certainly contend with the changing crime landscape.
In its past four seasons, Boardwalk Empire has proved that it is interested in the entirety of the sprawling gangster culture of the 1920s, not just Nucky Thompson’s bootlegging business. By moving the action to 1931, the show will most certainly contend with the changing crime landscape.
- 9/5/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW - Inside TV
It's almost time for the newest and final season of Boardwalk Empire to premiere on September 7th on HBO. While no one wants to see it go, we all wait in baited breaths for what is sure to be a killer finale both literally and figuratively knowing this show. So while we all say too soon, too soon at the shows upcoming eight episode series finale, we'll raise our glasses to the lost in Jimmy Darmody style and watch it go out with a bang.
- 9/2/2014
- by Jessica Naftaly
- BroadwayWorld.com
Boardwalk Empire's Final Season Premiere Date Revealed—Plus, Michael Pitt Wants Nucky "Assassinated"
The prohibition is ending soon. The fifth and final season of Boardwalk Empire is set to kick off on Sunday, Sept. 7, HBO announced on Thursday. The network's prohibition-era drama's final run will consist of eight episodes and will jump ahead to 1931 and find the characters in the midst of the Great Depression. And speaking of depression (See what we did there?), after two seasons, we're still not over the death of Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), at the hands of Atlantic City's lead gangster, Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), his former mentor. And the NYC junket for his new film, I Origins, Michael Pitt dished on how he'd like to see the series come to an end. One word:...
- 7/10/2014
- E! Online
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “The Trials of ‘Entertainment Weekly’: One Magazine’s 24 Years of Corporate Torture” — A stunner of a beautiful essay, Anne Helen Petersen at The Awl provides an exhaustive, thoroughly entertaining and slightly depressing look at what the search for synergy can do to a once-important voice. It’s a tale as old as time and as young as Botoxed flesh. “The editorial maxim was a simple one: Write the best story. Don’t worry about who owns the product, or even if it’s a popular one—just cover it in a way that’s compelling. That maxim was what gave EW its unique critical voice and, more importantly, its incredibly loyal readership. Over the course of the 90s and early 2000s, protecting that voice engendered more and more conglomerate animosity.” “Forgetting...
- 6/11/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
A review of tonight's "Hannibal" coming up just as soon as I build a pig maze... "I've never felt as alive as I did when I was killing him." -Will One of two things is happening between Hannibal and Will Graham right now: either Hannibal is succeeding in turning Will into a cannibal killer just like him, or Will is succeeding in tricking Hannibal into thinking that's what he's become. My money would be on the latter, if only because it would be a vastly bigger deviation from the source material than if Chilton turns out to be dead, or the change in characterization of Margot Verger. But it's a credit to what Bryan Fuller, Hugh Dancy and company are doing with the character that I'm at least willing to consider the possibility. Watching "Naka-Choko" felt a bit like attending a performance by a great magician. Even if you go in knowing it's fake,...
- 5/3/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Welcome to the weekend preview! Check out what’s happening this weekend and decide what you’re going to do, we can only help so much. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook because my mom says those are cool.
The Other Woman – Rt (24%) – Trailer
It’s The First Girlfriends Club this time! Instead of dumping an awful boyfriend who is cheating on you, why not take time and energy to seek revenge? You will seem lot more sane this way. How many jokes can Leslie Mann make about how old she is and how hot Kate Upton is? Let the drinking games commence! Oh dear, this sitcom storyline is nearly 2 hours long – may God have mercy on us all.
The Quiet Ones – Rt (36%) – Trailer
The film stars the great Jared Harris as a professor attempting to create a poltergeist. The film is being marketed as being based upon a true story,...
The Other Woman – Rt (24%) – Trailer
It’s The First Girlfriends Club this time! Instead of dumping an awful boyfriend who is cheating on you, why not take time and energy to seek revenge? You will seem lot more sane this way. How many jokes can Leslie Mann make about how old she is and how hot Kate Upton is? Let the drinking games commence! Oh dear, this sitcom storyline is nearly 2 hours long – may God have mercy on us all.
The Quiet Ones – Rt (36%) – Trailer
The film stars the great Jared Harris as a professor attempting to create a poltergeist. The film is being marketed as being based upon a true story,...
- 4/25/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Killing off a main character in a television show is a risky move: You're upending the show's world (and putting a coworker out of a job) in the hope that the shake-up will lead to something greater down the line. And guess what? Despite the ministrations of fans, who claim that they will never watch their favorite show without [insert character name here], it often works!
Below, 13 shows that did the same thing The Good Wife did Sunday night, and not only survived, but thrived.
Warning: Major spoilers for all of these shows below!
Teen Wolf
Character: Allison Argent (Crystal Reed)
Cause of death:...
Below, 13 shows that did the same thing The Good Wife did Sunday night, and not only survived, but thrived.
Warning: Major spoilers for all of these shows below!
Teen Wolf
Character: Allison Argent (Crystal Reed)
Cause of death:...
- 3/24/2014
- by Nate Jones
- People.com - TV Watch
With writers and producers planning the fifth and final season of "Boardwalk Empire," perhaps now is as good a time as any to look back on the prohibition-era gangster drama. And that's just what happened last night in at The Greene Space at Wnyc and Wqxr in New York City. Steve Buscemi and "The Sopranos" creator David Chase sat down for a conversation lasting over an hour about antiheroes, and the talk touched upon one of the more shocking season finales in "Boardwalk Empire" thus far. Needless to say **Spoilers Ahead** so if you haven't watch the show yet, don't complain (and why are you even reading this story to begin with?). Anyway, in the last episode of season two, Buscemi's gangland honcho Nucky Thompson brutally murders his young protegé Jimmy Darmody (played by Michael Pitt) after he had betrayed him. It put an end to one of the central...
- 3/4/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Michael Pitt is returning to TV in a major role on NBC’s dark thriller Hannibal.
Pitt is playing the character of Mason Verger, an unstable wealthy patient of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) who begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the deadly serial killer.
Pitt was last seen on TV starring in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire as Jimmy Darmody, a character that was shockingly killed off at the end of the second season. He also co-starred in the 2012 film Seven Psychopaths.
The Mason Verger role will be introduced late in the upcoming second season, which finds FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) in prison,...
Pitt is playing the character of Mason Verger, an unstable wealthy patient of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) who begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the deadly serial killer.
Pitt was last seen on TV starring in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire as Jimmy Darmody, a character that was shockingly killed off at the end of the second season. He also co-starred in the 2012 film Seven Psychopaths.
The Mason Verger role will be introduced late in the upcoming second season, which finds FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) in prison,...
- 1/31/2014
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Following an incredible stint playing Jimmy Darmody on Boardwalk Empire, Michael Pitt has been flying under the radar. Thankfully for us he hasn’t been taking a break. In fact, he’s been working hard with four films in the can. The first we’ll see him in is I Origins, Mike Cahill’s follow-up to the indie fave Another Earth. In the film Pitt plays Ian, a scientist whose specialty is studying the eye. Along with his lab partner (played by Brit Marling), the two try to create functioning eyes for species that can’t see. Okay, we may have lost you. Michael Pitt playing a white lab coat-wearing med student? Trust us, it gets good. I Origins explores not only our need to push the boundaries of science but is a deep story of love found, lost, and...
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- 1/22/2014
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Movies.com
When we last saw the BBC’s Sherlock Holmes, he watched from afar as John Watson beseeched, “Don’t be dead,” to a headstone bearing Sherlock’s name. Watson does this at the end of “The Reichenbach Fall” after seeing Sherlock seemingly leap to his demise, and I thought it bold of series creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat to tackle this update of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Final Problem” in their second series. A faked death on a show is as logistically tricky as a real one, and if there’s one thing that almost always creates a make or break moment for a TV show, it’s dealing with a major character’s death.
For a lot of shows, it’s a break moment. Perhaps some of the problem comes from the fact that a character’s death is often prompted by an actor’s exit from the show.
For a lot of shows, it’s a break moment. Perhaps some of the problem comes from the fact that a character’s death is often prompted by an actor’s exit from the show.
- 1/7/2014
- by Jen Krueger
- Comicmix.com
Review Michael Noble 26 Nov 2013 - 11:37
Boardwalk Empire finishes its fourth season confident in its imperial phase. Here's Michael's review...
This review contains spoilers
4.12 Farewell Daddy Blues
Of the ninety-four songs recorded by Ma Rainey, around a tenth mention ‘mama’, ‘papa’ or ‘daddy’ in the title. It makes her a rather handy contemporary reference for a season in which parental relationships have been integral and one in which their eventual severing has been inevitable. Farewell Daddy Blues, which takes its name from a 1924 Rainey recording, brings such concerns to their climax and completes the painful dissections where necessary.
Capone finally got Torrio’s blessing to take over the business. It took a hail of bullets to convince poor Johnny that the new world that Prohibition had created was a little too rich for an old man and more suited to his young protégé’s singular talents. The handover has come...
Boardwalk Empire finishes its fourth season confident in its imperial phase. Here's Michael's review...
This review contains spoilers
4.12 Farewell Daddy Blues
Of the ninety-four songs recorded by Ma Rainey, around a tenth mention ‘mama’, ‘papa’ or ‘daddy’ in the title. It makes her a rather handy contemporary reference for a season in which parental relationships have been integral and one in which their eventual severing has been inevitable. Farewell Daddy Blues, which takes its name from a 1924 Rainey recording, brings such concerns to their climax and completes the painful dissections where necessary.
Capone finally got Torrio’s blessing to take over the business. It took a hail of bullets to convince poor Johnny that the new world that Prohibition had created was a little too rich for an old man and more suited to his young protégé’s singular talents. The handover has come...
- 11/26/2013
- by michaeln
- Den of Geek
Spoiler alert: Stop reading if you don’t want to know who was killed on ‘Boardwalk Empire!’
Say it ain’t so! HBO’s Prohibition hit Boardwalk Empire made headlines two years ago when they killed off fan-favorite Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), and now they’ve done it again. The Nov. 24 finale brought a grim farewell to one of our all-time favorite characters, leaving us not exactly sure who we’re supposed to root for once Season 5 rolls along.
‘Boardwalk Empire’: Richard Harrow Is Shot And Killed Take Our Poll
Well that was depressing. Wwi vet Richard Harrow (Jack Huston) entered Boardwalk Empire back in Season 1 a broken man, and he departed during the Nov. 24 episode — bleeding to death under the boardwalk, natch — inches away from his well-deserved happy ending. He finally married Julia (Wrenn Schmidt), and was planning leave Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) and his life of crime...
Say it ain’t so! HBO’s Prohibition hit Boardwalk Empire made headlines two years ago when they killed off fan-favorite Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), and now they’ve done it again. The Nov. 24 finale brought a grim farewell to one of our all-time favorite characters, leaving us not exactly sure who we’re supposed to root for once Season 5 rolls along.
‘Boardwalk Empire’: Richard Harrow Is Shot And Killed Take Our Poll
Well that was depressing. Wwi vet Richard Harrow (Jack Huston) entered Boardwalk Empire back in Season 1 a broken man, and he departed during the Nov. 24 episode — bleeding to death under the boardwalk, natch — inches away from his well-deserved happy ending. He finally married Julia (Wrenn Schmidt), and was planning leave Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) and his life of crime...
- 11/25/2013
- by HL Intern
- HollywoodLife
[Spoilers ahead] Richard Harrow, we hardly knew ye. As soon as we saw the sun on Jack Huston's full face, after he made his way towards his sister, wife, father-in-law, and adopted son on a house porch, we knew it was over for him. This is how Richard saw himself or wished himself to be — not disfigured, not masked, but beautiful and loved. And then we saw him as he truly was: alone, under the boardwalk, mask discarded — dead from a wound inflicted during the gunfight where he tried to kill Dr. Narcisse (as a last favor to Nucky in exchange for finally disclosing the location of Jimmy Darmody's body). Huston, who is in London performing in a production of Strangers on a Train on the West End, called up Vulture to chat about what he called his "most beautiful ending," the phone call that ended it all,...
- 11/25/2013
- by Jennifer Vineyard
- Vulture
Spoiler alert: This recap contains major plot details about Boardwalk Empire's season finale, "Farewell Daddy Blues."
It was worth the slow burn.
That was, in my estimation, the best season finale in Boardwalk Empire's four seasons. It was also possibly the best episode in the series' run. Writers Terence Winter and Howard Korder, as well as director Tim Van Patten, did an exquisite job whetting the audience's appetite for Season Five with a succinct concluding montage featuring a brief update on all key players, and offering hope of,...
It was worth the slow burn.
That was, in my estimation, the best season finale in Boardwalk Empire's four seasons. It was also possibly the best episode in the series' run. Writers Terence Winter and Howard Korder, as well as director Tim Van Patten, did an exquisite job whetting the audience's appetite for Season Five with a succinct concluding montage featuring a brief update on all key players, and offering hope of,...
- 11/25/2013
- Rollingstone.com
“I want out.” – Nucky Thompson
There comes a time in every kingpin’s life when he (or she) wants out. That time is now for Nucky.
After staking his claim on the boardwalk and ousting Gyp Rosetti, his life has become the proverbial island. Margaret left him. He suspects a skunk in his basement, with all clues pointing towards his brother, Eli. Chalky’s on the lamb. And Dr. Narcisse and Masseria are ostensibly muscling old Nuck into an uncompromising position.
Once again Nucky wants the “picture perfect” home life, with a wife to come home and talk to and kids – or rather nephew, Willie – to pass on his legacy. Sadly, a wise godfather named Michael Corleone once said, “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”
So sorry, Nuck. There’s no escape for you from this road you’ve chosen.
Tonight’s season finale...
There comes a time in every kingpin’s life when he (or she) wants out. That time is now for Nucky.
After staking his claim on the boardwalk and ousting Gyp Rosetti, his life has become the proverbial island. Margaret left him. He suspects a skunk in his basement, with all clues pointing towards his brother, Eli. Chalky’s on the lamb. And Dr. Narcisse and Masseria are ostensibly muscling old Nuck into an uncompromising position.
Once again Nucky wants the “picture perfect” home life, with a wife to come home and talk to and kids – or rather nephew, Willie – to pass on his legacy. Sadly, a wise godfather named Michael Corleone once said, “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”
So sorry, Nuck. There’s no escape for you from this road you’ve chosen.
Tonight’s season finale...
- 11/25/2013
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
Three episodes ago, Nucky, after cleaning up Willie's little chemistry mishap, made a prescient remark: "The only thing you can count on is blood." He meant it in the sense of family, but there has been no lack of bloodshed on the boardwalk since then. What Nucky also couldn't foresee was that his comment will ring true for either himself or his nephew – and that the other will learn that loved ones are never to be trusted. Who will "win" and who will "lose" in this scenario remains to be seen,...
- 10/28/2013
- Rollingstone.com
During every season of Boardwalk Empire, we always start off with at least one question. How will all of these story lines converge by the end of the season? This isn’t a story of one family or neighborhood, but the story of many gangster families from New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Chicago. Election tampering in Boardwalk‘s frosh season brought everyone together. Then a civil war, spearheaded by Jimmy Darmody, took us through the end of season 2 – Rip Jimmy. In season 3, Nucky’s ambitions and problems Rosetti started a war across state lines.
Boardwalk Empire Season 4 is going back to the law as the driving factor in uniting the myriad of Boardwalk story arcs. However, instead of Agent Van Alden, who now goes by George Mueller, we have Warren Knox of the Bureau of Investigation. Knox is about more than just taking down Nucky Thompson. He’s out to prove a nationwide,...
Boardwalk Empire Season 4 is going back to the law as the driving factor in uniting the myriad of Boardwalk story arcs. However, instead of Agent Van Alden, who now goes by George Mueller, we have Warren Knox of the Bureau of Investigation. Knox is about more than just taking down Nucky Thompson. He’s out to prove a nationwide,...
- 10/6/2013
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
Review Michael Noble 24 Sep 2013 - 12:01
Honesty and disguise are the subtexts of this week's Boardwalk Empire. Here's Michael's review of Acres Of Diamonds...
This review contains spoilers.
4.3 Acres Of Diamonds
The recent death of James Gandolfini and the current hyper-popularity of Breaking Bad has generated an awful lot of chatter about the so-called ‘age of the anti-hero’. Examples abound of the compelling villain, but there’s a correlated minor tradition of the softly-spoken assassin. You know the type, excessively polite, well mannered, nice. The kind of guy you’d have over for Sunday dinner. Think Gus Fring or The Greek from The Wire. Consider Game of Thrones’ Lord Varys and ponder Hannibal Lecter, the ne plus ultra of affable psycho. Boardwalk Empire, a show of ambitious scope, now has two of the blighters and it was a real treat to bring them together so soon.
The Meeting of the...
Honesty and disguise are the subtexts of this week's Boardwalk Empire. Here's Michael's review of Acres Of Diamonds...
This review contains spoilers.
4.3 Acres Of Diamonds
The recent death of James Gandolfini and the current hyper-popularity of Breaking Bad has generated an awful lot of chatter about the so-called ‘age of the anti-hero’. Examples abound of the compelling villain, but there’s a correlated minor tradition of the softly-spoken assassin. You know the type, excessively polite, well mannered, nice. The kind of guy you’d have over for Sunday dinner. Think Gus Fring or The Greek from The Wire. Consider Game of Thrones’ Lord Varys and ponder Hannibal Lecter, the ne plus ultra of affable psycho. Boardwalk Empire, a show of ambitious scope, now has two of the blighters and it was a real treat to bring them together so soon.
The Meeting of the...
- 9/24/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
One hallmark of crime drama is that people die, and then detectives and private detectives and forensic detectives and DAs swoop in to find and then prosecute the killer.
And every now and then, victims really matter. "Homicide: Life on the Street" never quite solved the rape/murder of little Adena Watson. The entire first season of the U.K.'s "Prime Suspect" centered on the death of prostitute Della Mornay.
But when it comes to gangster drama, people also die, but they expire in large numbers and with such rapidity and with a near-complete lack of remorse (or even much emotion at all) from the killers that they become mere punctuation marks in stories of political maneuvering, economic competition and homicidal psychosis.
Given time, a show like this can bleed out its humanity, becoming little more than violence porn.
As aired on Sunday, Sept. 8, the season-four premiere of HBO's...
And every now and then, victims really matter. "Homicide: Life on the Street" never quite solved the rape/murder of little Adena Watson. The entire first season of the U.K.'s "Prime Suspect" centered on the death of prostitute Della Mornay.
But when it comes to gangster drama, people also die, but they expire in large numbers and with such rapidity and with a near-complete lack of remorse (or even much emotion at all) from the killers that they become mere punctuation marks in stories of political maneuvering, economic competition and homicidal psychosis.
Given time, a show like this can bleed out its humanity, becoming little more than violence porn.
As aired on Sunday, Sept. 8, the season-four premiere of HBO's...
- 9/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
He Plays Disfigured Wwi veteran Richard Harrow, who used his sniper skills in Atlantic City as a hit man for Boardwalk Empire mobster Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt). Following his killing spree in last season's finale, Richard hits the road in search of his family. "As we discover, he lived a farm life," Huston says. "He was always a crack shot, but war changed him. He's come back not knowing the world he left."
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- 9/6/2013
- by Bruce Fretts
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Why haven’t we heard more about how great Boardwalk Empire has become? Three seasons in, and the prohibition-era gangster story has finally come good on all the potential it showed when it debuted back in 2010, yet this year it was pushed out of the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys, overlooked for the impressive yet inferior Downton Abbey, House of Cards and Homeland. Rarely is the show mentioned alongside the very best that small screen drama currently has to offer, namely Mad Men and Breaking Bad, but if it keeps up the quality it manages to hit during the back end of Season 3 then it has every chance of establishing itself amongst the greats of this golden era of television.
It’s perhaps understandable that some people will require some convincing that Boardwalk has finally made the leap from very good to great. The first two seasons, while visually spectacular,...
It’s perhaps understandable that some people will require some convincing that Boardwalk has finally made the leap from very good to great. The first two seasons, while visually spectacular,...
- 8/7/2013
- by Joe Cunningham
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Check out the new trailer for "Boardwalk Empire," as Season Four of the gorgeously mounted Terence Winter Prohibition era gangster series gets underway on September 8 on HBO. (Spoilers for those who have not completed Season Three.) Season Three reeled under the loss of Michael Pitt, whose Jimmy Darmody at least showed some potential for climbing out of the dark criminality that is front and center on this series. So viewers had to hang onto Steve Buscemi’s always compelling Atlantic City boss Nucky Thompson, as well as the women in his life, including his smart wife (Kelly Macdonald), who was planning to leave him with her Irish lover, his right-hand man Owen Sleater (Charlie Cox) until events intervened. She seems to be done with Nucky, for the moment. This season brings some new players for Nucky to tangle with. “Only kings understand each other,” Harlem boss Valentin Narcisse (great character actor Jeffrey Wright) whispers.
- 7/15/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Boardwalk Empire “Boardwalk Empire”
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Terrence Winter
Original air date: September 19, 2010
“You can’t be half a gangster, Nucky. Not anymore.“ – Jimmy Darmody
The pilot to Boardwalk Empire had to live up to a wealth of expectations, from creator Terrence Winter’s success with HBO’s previous hit The Sopranos to the involvement and direction of Martin Scorsese. The 70 minute, beautifully shot episode brought Prohibition to life in rich detail with a stellar cast of characters. The episode captures the fraught tensions between those running “The World’s Playground” of Atlantic City and the onslaught of Prohibition.
Scorsese’s direction treats viewers to intricate and spectacular sets, fantastic costumes, and trademark Scorsese style, including long tracking shots, jump cuts, and brilliant parallel editing. So much intensity is captured in the simple intercut sequence of Jimmy’s son playing with his toy soldiers and the military training of the Prohibition agents.
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Terrence Winter
Original air date: September 19, 2010
“You can’t be half a gangster, Nucky. Not anymore.“ – Jimmy Darmody
The pilot to Boardwalk Empire had to live up to a wealth of expectations, from creator Terrence Winter’s success with HBO’s previous hit The Sopranos to the involvement and direction of Martin Scorsese. The 70 minute, beautifully shot episode brought Prohibition to life in rich detail with a stellar cast of characters. The episode captures the fraught tensions between those running “The World’s Playground” of Atlantic City and the onslaught of Prohibition.
Scorsese’s direction treats viewers to intricate and spectacular sets, fantastic costumes, and trademark Scorsese style, including long tracking shots, jump cuts, and brilliant parallel editing. So much intensity is captured in the simple intercut sequence of Jimmy’s son playing with his toy soldiers and the military training of the Prohibition agents.
- 6/7/2013
- by Katherine Springer
- SoundOnSight
Anthony D’Alessandro is Managing Editor of AwardsLine Rusty-voiced, sweet-natured, a tin mask covering up his facial World War I wound, Richard Harrow, as played flawlessly by Jack Huston, is the type of vigilante one might find in a DC Comic book, warts and all. But in HBO’s 1920s epic Boardwalk Empire, he’s a supporting character that creator Terence Winter and his writers transformed from late gangster Jimmy Darmody’s trusted sharpshooter into a human being. For the bulk of this season, Harrow refrained from killing off any bad guys as he wooed a war veteran’s daughter and acted as the surrogate father to Darmody’s orphaned son, Tommy. “Richard knows how to kill. He doesn’t do it well; he does it great,” says Huston about Harrow, who even puts fear in lead Atlantic City kingpin Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) “I reminded Terry that I was getting an itchy finger,...
- 1/13/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Boardwalk Empire has never failed to shock and devastate viewers by routinely killing off fan favourites while the evil and manipulative characters continue on living (see Gillian for further reference there). Thankfully, sometimes even the not-so-nice characters in Boardwalk Empire get their comeuppance in a surprising or grim way. Perhaps that is what makes this show such a thrilling, compelling and enthralling experience, nobody is safe in 1920s Atlantic City.
The show has stacked up quite a body count over the first three seasons with as many main characters biting the bullet as secondary ones. This list will focus on demises we did not see coming, characters that were really likeable and central to the show’s popularity and of course the plain contemptible villains who had it coming. Here are our 10 most shocking deaths that have come in the first three seasons of the acclaimed HBO crime drama.
Spoilers...
The show has stacked up quite a body count over the first three seasons with as many main characters biting the bullet as secondary ones. This list will focus on demises we did not see coming, characters that were really likeable and central to the show’s popularity and of course the plain contemptible villains who had it coming. Here are our 10 most shocking deaths that have come in the first three seasons of the acclaimed HBO crime drama.
Spoilers...
- 12/11/2012
- by John Markham
- Obsessed with Film
If you have yet to watch this week’s Boardwalk Empire finale, avert your eyes now. Everyone else, read on…
And here we thought September’s True Blood finale dropped a lot of hemoglobin. Sunday’s third-season ender of Boardwalk Empire boasted an almost three-figure body count, with the award for most pivotal death going to Bobby Cannavale’s ruthless gangster Gyp Rosetti. There were emotional casualties as well (we’re looking at you Margaret), as well as a handful of cliffhangers — several of which are about to be resolved right now.
In the following Q&A, Boardwalk Empire boss...
And here we thought September’s True Blood finale dropped a lot of hemoglobin. Sunday’s third-season ender of Boardwalk Empire boasted an almost three-figure body count, with the award for most pivotal death going to Bobby Cannavale’s ruthless gangster Gyp Rosetti. There were emotional casualties as well (we’re looking at you Margaret), as well as a handful of cliffhangers — several of which are about to be resolved right now.
In the following Q&A, Boardwalk Empire boss...
- 12/3/2012
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
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