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Our Us chums have seen Hulu's 11.22.63, now airing on Fox in the UK. Here are their spoiler-free thoughts on the Stephen King adaptation...
Spoiler Alert: President John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963 and nothing Stephen King can write will ever change that. Oh maybe he’ll change it for a little while, but it will change right back if you ever come out of the closet. That’s the basic premise of Hulu’s miniseries on the best-selling 2011 Stephen King novel 11/22/63.
“If you do something that really fucks with the past, the past fucks with you,” Warns diner owner Al Templeton, played by Chris Cooper, to his casual friend, the local high school English teacher Jake Epping, played by James Franco. Templeton has a tendency to age in spurts, not the regular acceleration of ageing that comes when the body ages, but in three-year-spurts that happen in about two minutes.
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Our Us chums have seen Hulu's 11.22.63, now airing on Fox in the UK. Here are their spoiler-free thoughts on the Stephen King adaptation...
Spoiler Alert: President John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963 and nothing Stephen King can write will ever change that. Oh maybe he’ll change it for a little while, but it will change right back if you ever come out of the closet. That’s the basic premise of Hulu’s miniseries on the best-selling 2011 Stephen King novel 11/22/63.
“If you do something that really fucks with the past, the past fucks with you,” Warns diner owner Al Templeton, played by Chris Cooper, to his casual friend, the local high school English teacher Jake Epping, played by James Franco. Templeton has a tendency to age in spurts, not the regular acceleration of ageing that comes when the body ages, but in three-year-spurts that happen in about two minutes.
- 4/11/2016
- Den of Geek
Hey Deadheads, it’s Ryne from The Moon is a Dead World. This week we add Resurrection‘s second season to our list of things to cover, as well as the usual stuff: Kevin with Under the Dome and The Strain, Shawn has Gotham and Z Nation, and I’ve got the rest.
The Lottery: “In Extremis” - Sunday, September 28 at 9 Pm
So I made it to The Lottery‘s season finale. For a little while I thought I was going to pull a Shawn and drop out, but I managed to stick with it to the end. I don’t want to say I hate The Lottery like I do Bitten, because that’s not really the case; but I do think that the show has a lot of really stupid subplots and obvious “twists,” and enjoyment of the show’s plot has dropped significantly from the first episode.
The Lottery: “In Extremis” - Sunday, September 28 at 9 Pm
So I made it to The Lottery‘s season finale. For a little while I thought I was going to pull a Shawn and drop out, but I managed to stick with it to the end. I don’t want to say I hate The Lottery like I do Bitten, because that’s not really the case; but I do think that the show has a lot of really stupid subplots and obvious “twists,” and enjoyment of the show’s plot has dropped significantly from the first episode.
- 10/9/2014
- by Ryne Barber
- The Liberal Dead
Billy finds fresh meat on the gothic horror table with The Strain, from the creative mind of Guillermo del Toro and friends...
Review
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Night Zero
In terms of having a pedigree, The Strain ticks all the critical boxes, and then some. I’m a huge fan of the work of Guillermo del Toro and this show is based on a series of novels that he and Chuck Hogan wrote. He also directs the opening episode, and Chuck Hogan also helped co-write it. What could possibly go wrong?
I was somewhat concerned that in the first couple of minutes this show managed to deliver at least two Wtf moments. But before I get to them, it’s worth noting that the arrival of an aircraft travelling from Germany to the USA where everyone is dead isn’t the most original opening for a TV series. Because that...
Review
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Night Zero
In terms of having a pedigree, The Strain ticks all the critical boxes, and then some. I’m a huge fan of the work of Guillermo del Toro and this show is based on a series of novels that he and Chuck Hogan wrote. He also directs the opening episode, and Chuck Hogan also helped co-write it. What could possibly go wrong?
I was somewhat concerned that in the first couple of minutes this show managed to deliver at least two Wtf moments. But before I get to them, it’s worth noting that the arrival of an aircraft travelling from Germany to the USA where everyone is dead isn’t the most original opening for a TV series. Because that...
- 7/15/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The Strain, the TV adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s vampire book, opened its premiere with a voiceover about hunger and its ability or inability to be satiated.
'The Strain' Recap
It’s February 8 at 8 p.m. and pilots are preparing to land a commercial airplane. A flight attendant in the back of the plane tells one of the flight attendants that something is on board that shouldn't be. They open the cargo hatch, close it, and whatever is inside bursts out and attacks. In a command center, they see the plane going dark and into a blind spot. They go outside to find the plane parked, all the window shades shut except for one.
In Astoria, Queens, New York City, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) with the Cdc arrives at a custody meeting with his estranged wife Kelly (Natalie Brown). He doesn’t want his marriage to end.
'The Strain' Recap
It’s February 8 at 8 p.m. and pilots are preparing to land a commercial airplane. A flight attendant in the back of the plane tells one of the flight attendants that something is on board that shouldn't be. They open the cargo hatch, close it, and whatever is inside bursts out and attacks. In a command center, they see the plane going dark and into a blind spot. They go outside to find the plane parked, all the window shades shut except for one.
In Astoria, Queens, New York City, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) with the Cdc arrives at a custody meeting with his estranged wife Kelly (Natalie Brown). He doesn’t want his marriage to end.
- 7/14/2014
- Uinterview
It’s time to forget everything you know about vampires.
Although the pop culture landscape is currently littered with blood-suckers — most of them very good-looking — the vampirism found in FX’s The Strain is entirely new (and way, way creepier).
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The thriller — produced by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Chuck Hogan (The Town) — makes no mention of vampires, in its first hour at least, which debuted Sunday at 10/9c.
Related Guillermo del Toro Touts The Strain‘s Extreme Scares: ‘You Need to Show the Audience You’re Not Kidding’
Rather,...
Although the pop culture landscape is currently littered with blood-suckers — most of them very good-looking — the vampirism found in FX’s The Strain is entirely new (and way, way creepier).
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The thriller — produced by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Chuck Hogan (The Town) — makes no mention of vampires, in its first hour at least, which debuted Sunday at 10/9c.
Related Guillermo del Toro Touts The Strain‘s Extreme Scares: ‘You Need to Show the Audience You’re Not Kidding’
Rather,...
- 7/14/2014
- TVLine.com
Vanity Fair interviews director John Hillcoat (Lawless, The Road) on his controversial Superbowl ad for Coke. I personally loved it. The right-wingers hate its reminder of America as melting pot.
NPR Jehane Noujaim's The Square, nominated for Best Documentary, is having trouble getting screened at home in Egypt
Theater Mania interviews the great Charles Busch (Die Mommy, Die!) about his career and new play "The Tribute Artist" in which he does impressions of Marilyn, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn among others. (I met Mr Busch at the anniversary Cabaret screening last year and he was so sweet)
Gothamist Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar campaign hits Lincoln Center soon for screenings and discussions of Children of Men and Gravity here in NYC. Ah c'mon Lincoln Center. Throw in Y Tu Mama Tambíen (still his best picture) and we'll totally be talking!
Pajiba on the whitewashing of Egyptian mythology on screen. Why not cast people of color.
NPR Jehane Noujaim's The Square, nominated for Best Documentary, is having trouble getting screened at home in Egypt
Theater Mania interviews the great Charles Busch (Die Mommy, Die!) about his career and new play "The Tribute Artist" in which he does impressions of Marilyn, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn among others. (I met Mr Busch at the anniversary Cabaret screening last year and he was so sweet)
Gothamist Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar campaign hits Lincoln Center soon for screenings and discussions of Children of Men and Gravity here in NYC. Ah c'mon Lincoln Center. Throw in Y Tu Mama Tambíen (still his best picture) and we'll totally be talking!
Pajiba on the whitewashing of Egyptian mythology on screen. Why not cast people of color.
- 2/5/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Los Angeles, Feb 5: Actor Kit Harington, who rose to fame playing the role of Jon Snow in popular TV series "Game of Thrones", will now feature in "Testament of Youth".
The 27-year-old will star with Alicia Vikander in the movie, which is the screen adaptation of an autobiography of a woman's experiences during World War I, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
David Heyman, who last produced "Gravity", is producing the movie that will be directed by James Kent.
Written by Vera Brittain and published in 1933, the autobiography tells how the author postponed her studies to serve as a nurse in the war during which she.
The 27-year-old will star with Alicia Vikander in the movie, which is the screen adaptation of an autobiography of a woman's experiences during World War I, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
David Heyman, who last produced "Gravity", is producing the movie that will be directed by James Kent.
Written by Vera Brittain and published in 1933, the autobiography tells how the author postponed her studies to serve as a nurse in the war during which she.
- 2/5/2014
- by Diksha Singh
- RealBollywood.com
Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, is set to star in the new film adaptation of Vera Brittain's war memoir Testament of Youth.
He will star opposite Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in the BBC Films feature being produced by David Heyman, directed by James Kent, with a screenplay written by Juliette Towhidi.
Alicia is portraying Vera Brittain (a role previously rumoured to have Saoirse Ronan attached) and Kit will play her fiance Roland.
Based on the classic First world war memoir, Testament of Youth is the true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit.
Kit Harington (represented in the UK by United Agents) landed the Game of Thrones role soon after graduating from Central drama school. He will next be...
He will star opposite Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in the BBC Films feature being produced by David Heyman, directed by James Kent, with a screenplay written by Juliette Towhidi.
Alicia is portraying Vera Brittain (a role previously rumoured to have Saoirse Ronan attached) and Kit will play her fiance Roland.
Based on the classic First world war memoir, Testament of Youth is the true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit.
Kit Harington (represented in the UK by United Agents) landed the Game of Thrones role soon after graduating from Central drama school. He will next be...
- 2/5/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
• Wolf of Wall Street co-stars and Oscar nominees Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill are reportedly set to re-team for an Atlanta Olympics bombing drama based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article “The Ballad of Richard Jewell.” Fox acquired the rights to the article and planned to develop it for Hill, who would play Jewell, the janitor who reported the suspicious bag and was subsequently accused of being a potential suspect in the bombing. DiCaprio would play the attorney at his side. [Deadline]
• Best Actor nominee Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) is attached to star in Gus Van Sant’s drama Sea of...
• Best Actor nominee Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) is attached to star in Gus Van Sant’s drama Sea of...
- 2/5/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
San Andreas 3D
"True Detective" star Alexandra Daddario has signed on to portray the female lead opposite Dwayne Johnson in Brad Peyton's action-adventure "San Andreas".
Johnson plays a helicopter pilot who journeys across the state of California to try and rescue his estranged daughter, after an enormous earthquake hits. [Source: Deadline]
My Name is Emily
Freddie Highmore ("Bates Motel") and James Nesbitt ("The Hobbit") are attached to star in Simon Fitzmaurice's "My Name is Emily" for Newgrange Pictures and Kennedy Films. Shooting begins this summer.
The story follows a 16-year-old who escapes from her foster home and, with the help of a boy who loves her, sets out to find her father who is locked up in a psychiatric institution. [Source: Screen]
Blanco
Franka Potente ("The Bourne Identity"), Amaury Nolasco ("Prison Break"), Audrey Esparza ("The Following"), Alex Hernandez ("Law & Order: Svu"), Sebastian Arcelus ("House of Cards"), Erik Laray Harvey ("Boardwalk Empire"), Elizabeth Rodriguez...
"True Detective" star Alexandra Daddario has signed on to portray the female lead opposite Dwayne Johnson in Brad Peyton's action-adventure "San Andreas".
Johnson plays a helicopter pilot who journeys across the state of California to try and rescue his estranged daughter, after an enormous earthquake hits. [Source: Deadline]
My Name is Emily
Freddie Highmore ("Bates Motel") and James Nesbitt ("The Hobbit") are attached to star in Simon Fitzmaurice's "My Name is Emily" for Newgrange Pictures and Kennedy Films. Shooting begins this summer.
The story follows a 16-year-old who escapes from her foster home and, with the help of a boy who loves her, sets out to find her father who is locked up in a psychiatric institution. [Source: Screen]
Blanco
Franka Potente ("The Bourne Identity"), Amaury Nolasco ("Prison Break"), Audrey Esparza ("The Following"), Alex Hernandez ("Law & Order: Svu"), Sebastian Arcelus ("House of Cards"), Erik Laray Harvey ("Boardwalk Empire"), Elizabeth Rodriguez...
- 2/5/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Assuming he and his abdominal muscles survived Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii (and we’re fairly certain he did, lest Anderson have a lot of explaining to do to the Game Of Thrones team about why he melted Jon Snow), Kit Harington is set to co-star in the adaptation of World War I autobiography Testament Of Youth.Alicia Vikander will star in the film, which James Kent is directing from Vera Britain’s book, originally published in 1933. She was about to take up a place at Oxford when the Great War started and her fiancé and brother were lost in battles. Turning her grief into practical action, Britain deferred her university studies and became a nurse on the frontlines.She later has difficulty resuming her normal life, but despite becoming part of what was known as the “lost generation”, she returned to Oxford and became a writer and womens' rights advocate.
- 2/4/2014
- EmpireOnline
“Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington will join Alicia Vikander in Vera Brittain biopic “Testament of Youth,” according to THR. James Kent is directing the film based on Brittain’s own autobiography of the same name. Brittain lived into her 70s and wrote three memoirs of her life before and after World War I, but Vikander [...]
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The post “Game of Thrones” Star Kit Harington Joins Alicia Vikander in “Testament of Youth” appeared first on Up and Comers.
- 2/4/2014
- by Linda Ge
- UpandComers
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