"It's important to finish things once we start them..." Vudu has revealed an official trailer for an indie crime comedy called Laroy, Texas, formerly known as just Laroy. This is officially set for a release starting in April, streaming directly on the Vudu service if anyone is interested in this tomfoolery. When Ray discovers that his wife is cheating on him, he decides he is going to kill himself. His plans suddenly change when a stranger mistakes him for a low-rent hitman. Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of Laroy alive. Starring John Magaro (from Past Lives & First Cow) as Ray, Steve Zahn as his kooky P.I. friend, Dylan Baker, Galadriel Stineman, Matthew Del Negro, Bob Clendenin, Brad Leland, Megan Stevenson, & Emily Pendergast.
- 3/8/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"This acting, this was always your dream?" Roadside Attractions has revealed an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Accidental Texan, made by storyboard artist / filmmaker Mark Lambert Bristol. Obviously enough, this originally premiered at the 2023 Dallas Film Festival last year, with a stop at the Heartland Film Festival in Indiana as well. The film is adapted from a novel called "Chocolate Lizards", which was the original title for this before they changed it to Accidental Texan. Fresh-faced actor Erwin finds himself stranded in Texas after a film shoot gone wrong, where he's taken under the wing of a nearly bankrupt oil driller. They set off on a wild Texas adventure to outwit a corrupt oil company to hit pay dirt before Merle's dreams are foreclosed, partnering with a kind waitress along the way. The ensemble cast features Rudy Pankow as Erwin, Carrie-Anne Moss as Faye, Thomas Haden Church as Merle,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Shane Atkinson’s debut sets itself in the ever-so-small town of Laroy. Ray (John Magaro) is a man living the simple life, married to the local beauty-pageant queen and working at his family’s hardware store alongside his brother, Junior (Matthew Del Negro). He’s not unhappy, but not quite happy either. His existence depends on raising enough money for his wife Stacy-Lynn (Megan Stevenson) to open a salon. Her happiness results in his own happiness. Unfortunately, she’s not happy––at least not with Ray.
An unabashed quasi-homage to the Coen brothers, Laroy concerns a case of mistaken identity. Ray happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and so when he’s assumed to be a hitman he obliges. As the confusion and dead bodies begin stacking up, Ray and his friend-turned-private eye Skip (Steve Zahn) must solve the plethora of crimes that lay in their wake.
An unabashed quasi-homage to the Coen brothers, Laroy concerns a case of mistaken identity. Ray happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and so when he’s assumed to be a hitman he obliges. As the confusion and dead bodies begin stacking up, Ray and his friend-turned-private eye Skip (Steve Zahn) must solve the plethora of crimes that lay in their wake.
- 6/22/2023
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
When Ray Jepsen (John Magaro) pulls into a strip club parking to blow his brains out, his plans for the rest of the week are the furthest thing from his mind. But that’s one of the many, many downsides of suicide that nobody talks about — you create scheduling nightmares for everyone else in your life. And it’s particularly inconvenient when a local sleazebag erroneously believes that he hired you to carry out a murder that must be done tomorrow.
But that’s just life in Laroy, Texas. Shane Atkinson’s feature directorial debut takes place in a fictional town where residents only have three interests: extramarital affairs, blackmailing each other about extramarital affairs, and child beauty pageants. When an obstacle hinders someone’s ability to enjoy those treasured pastimes, murder is the most popular solution.
While suicide is never the answer, it’s easy to understand why Ray is so bummed.
But that’s just life in Laroy, Texas. Shane Atkinson’s feature directorial debut takes place in a fictional town where residents only have three interests: extramarital affairs, blackmailing each other about extramarital affairs, and child beauty pageants. When an obstacle hinders someone’s ability to enjoy those treasured pastimes, murder is the most popular solution.
While suicide is never the answer, it’s easy to understand why Ray is so bummed.
- 6/9/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
In the music video for their latest single “My Babe,” indie rock outfit Spoon hearken to the Seventies to pay homage to variety show host Jack Clement. Inspired by the country music producer’s short-lived series Cowboy Jack Clement Show, the band performed in front of a recreation of the set’s signature orange glow. The band shared the video exclusively via Facebook. They also shared a remix of the track by dub producer Adrian Sherwood.
Brad Leland stars in the Jamie-James Medina-directed visual as the cowboy hat-wearing television host.
Brad Leland stars in the Jamie-James Medina-directed visual as the cowboy hat-wearing television host.
- 6/21/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Arriving Just in Time for Father’s Day, The Western Action/Adventure Hostile Territory Debuts on Blu-ray & DVD June 14 – Available on Digital Now. Here’s the trailer:
Written, directed by, and starring Brian Presley (The Great Alaskan Race), the action-packed western adventure Hostile Territory gallops onto Digital, Blu-ray and DVD June 14 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove (Presley) is willing to move heaven and earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack finds out his wife has died and that his children, presumed orphans, are heading deep into the West aboard a train crossing contested territory in the midst of clashes between American settlers and Native American tribes. Calgrove and another former soldier are joined by a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they race to intercept the orphan train before all hope is lost.
Written, directed by, and starring Brian Presley (The Great Alaskan Race), the action-packed western adventure Hostile Territory gallops onto Digital, Blu-ray and DVD June 14 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove (Presley) is willing to move heaven and earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack finds out his wife has died and that his children, presumed orphans, are heading deep into the West aboard a train crossing contested territory in the midst of clashes between American settlers and Native American tribes. Calgrove and another former soldier are joined by a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they race to intercept the orphan train before all hope is lost.
- 5/26/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"I hope you made peace with God..." Saban Films has revealed an official trailer for a new indie western titled Hostile Territory, joining the ranks of a growing set of westerns being made recently. Most of them are indies and most of them are forgettable, but they're making more and more these days. Set in post-civil war America, when a Union soldier is presumed dead, his children are mistakenly sent away on "the orphan train." This is a classic wild-west story of people uniting for the greater good, and children forced to grow up quickly. A former Pow teams up with a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they try to stop the train. Brian Presley writes & directs & stars in this film. He's joined by Matt McCoy, Brea Bee, Brad Leland, Lew Temple, Cooper North, and Craig Tate. This actually looks like it might be somewhat entertaining,...
- 3/14/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Saban Films has picked up North American rights to writer/director Brian Presley’s action-western Hostile Territory (previously titled The Orphan Train) and is planning a theatrical release for 2022.
The pic stars Matt McCoy (The Hand that Rocks the Cradle), Brea Bee (Silver Linings Playbook), Brad Leland (Deepwater Horizon), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Craig Tate (King Richard) and Presley.
Set in post-civil war America, Hostile Territory tells the story of a Union soldier who is presumed dead as a Pow. When his children are mistakenly sent away on an orphan train to be placed in a new home, unlikely individuals unite for the greater good and children are forced to grow up quickly in this wild-west fight for equality.
Producers are Brian Presley, Christian Sosa, Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh, and Taliah Agdeppa at P12 Films, with Sean Leigh Hart, Devyn Reggio, and Will Wallace executive producing.
The deal was...
The pic stars Matt McCoy (The Hand that Rocks the Cradle), Brea Bee (Silver Linings Playbook), Brad Leland (Deepwater Horizon), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Craig Tate (King Richard) and Presley.
Set in post-civil war America, Hostile Territory tells the story of a Union soldier who is presumed dead as a Pow. When his children are mistakenly sent away on an orphan train to be placed in a new home, unlikely individuals unite for the greater good and children are forced to grow up quickly in this wild-west fight for equality.
Producers are Brian Presley, Christian Sosa, Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh, and Taliah Agdeppa at P12 Films, with Sean Leigh Hart, Devyn Reggio, and Will Wallace executive producing.
The deal was...
- 1/10/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO's "The Last of Us" series adapts the acclaimed post-apocalyptic video games developed by Naughty Dog, with the games' creative director, Neil Druckmann, serving as co-showrunner alongside writer-producer Craig Mazin ("Chernobyl"). Yet, as visually faithful as the show is shaping up to be, it's also clear this won't be a beat-for-beat re-telling in terms of story. Season 1 alone will feature such original additions as Perry, a rebel played by Tommy's voice actor from the games, Jeffrey Pierce. Natasha Mumba ("Y: The Last Man") and Brad Leland ("Friday Night Lights") are similarly playing characters who were likely created for the series to aid...
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The post The Last of Us TV Series May Have Quietly Cast Nick Offerman appeared first on /Film.
- 12/6/2021
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Let’s put it out there that the acting when it came to bringing Buddy Garrity to life wasn’t bad at all, and his character arc was usually pretty confusing as well as frustrating since every time it would appear that he was about to be redeemed, he said or did something stupid and went crashing back down to be reviled again. Brad Leland did a great job with the character since he was one of the most reviled individuals on the show, especially since Buddy only ever appeared to be on one person’s side, and that was his own. This
Why Buddy Garrity Was The Worst Character on Friday Night Lights...
Why Buddy Garrity Was The Worst Character on Friday Night Lights...
- 9/6/2021
- by Tom Foster
- TVovermind.com
Land Trailer — Robin Wright‘s Land (2021) movie trailer has been released by Focus Features and stars Robin Wright, Demian Bichir, Kim Dickens, Warren Christie, Travis Gordon Phillips, Travis Willier, Jordan Gooden, Sarah Dawn Pledge, Vattanak Khun, Jill Maria Robinson, Laura Yenga, Barb Mitchell, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, and Brad Leland. Crew Jesse Chatham and [...]
Continue reading: Land (2021) Movie Trailer: Despondent Robin Wright Learns to Survive in the Wilderness by Demian Bichir...
Continue reading: Land (2021) Movie Trailer: Despondent Robin Wright Learns to Survive in the Wilderness by Demian Bichir...
- 12/23/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Do you ever get lonely out here?" "I know I'd be more lonely there than here. Focus Features has debuted the first trailer for Land, the feature directorial debut of Golden Globe-winning actress Robin Wright. This is officially set to premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in January, then open in theaters just a few weeks later in February (unless it's delayed because the pandemic is still keeping cinemas shut down). The film also stars Robin Wright as Edee Mathis who decides, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, packing up and leaving everything behind. She moves into the wilds of the Rockies in Wyoming, living off-the-grid in a remote cabin. The film is described as "the poignant story of one woman's search... for meaning in the vast and harsh American wilderness." Land also co-stars Demián Bichir, Kim Dickens, and Brad Leland. This looks like a soulful and spiritual film...
- 12/21/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Friday Night Lights cast members Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette), Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins), Derek Phillips (Billy Riggins) and Stacey Oristano (Mindy Collette/Mindy Riggins) reunited virtually Friday for an Atx Television Festival panel to kick off the event’s remote 2020 edition.
The four reminisced about some of their most memorable moments during the series. Palicki and Oristano noted one of their favorite places to shoot was the Collette house. “That’s the place where Derek ate crawfish and kissed me and I had an allergic reaction..- he got it all over his beard and then he kissed me and my face was like…” Oristano said.
They also imagined what their characters would have been doing during a Covid quarantine. “I think they would all be together,” said Kitsch. “We would murder each other!,” Oristano exclaimed.
“Obviously Tyra and Tim are married with five children, probably divorced like twice,” said Palicki.
The four reminisced about some of their most memorable moments during the series. Palicki and Oristano noted one of their favorite places to shoot was the Collette house. “That’s the place where Derek ate crawfish and kissed me and I had an allergic reaction..- he got it all over his beard and then he kissed me and my face was like…” Oristano said.
They also imagined what their characters would have been doing during a Covid quarantine. “I think they would all be together,” said Kitsch. “We would murder each other!,” Oristano exclaimed.
“Obviously Tyra and Tim are married with five children, probably divorced like twice,” said Palicki.
- 6/5/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s not just your old high school and college buddies that are using stay-at-home quarantines during the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to reconnect with you over Zoom. The casts and teams behind over a dozen beloved shows or films have reunited remotely in recent weeks just to pass the time. Many of the stars are doing conversations for charity, while others are staging full remote episodes or special performances just to perk up a fan’s day. In case you missed them earlier, here are all the reunions that took place since the shutdowns began, and we’ll add more as they inevitably take place.
“Chuck”
EW rallied the cast and crew of the NBC comedy series “Chuck” to not only reminisce about the show but also perform a table read of a fan-favorite episode from, the ninth episode of Season 3, “Chuck Versus the Beard.” Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski,...
“Chuck”
EW rallied the cast and crew of the NBC comedy series “Chuck” to not only reminisce about the show but also perform a table read of a fan-favorite episode from, the ninth episode of Season 3, “Chuck Versus the Beard.” Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski,...
- 5/11/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
We’ve all been spending a lot of time at home these days. But thanks to the wonders of technology, we can also take trips to Twin Peaks, Wisteria Lane or California’s most famous zip code, among other notable TV locales.
Since the days of self-quarantine began earlier this spring, dozens of stars from long-gone television shows have reunited virtually. By way of nostalgia-filled Zoom calls, short-form YouTube series and Instagram Live videos, the casts of nearly two dozen shows have come together to reminisce, including stars from Friday Night Lights, The Office, Glee, Melrose Place and other series.
Since the days of self-quarantine began earlier this spring, dozens of stars from long-gone television shows have reunited virtually. By way of nostalgia-filled Zoom calls, short-form YouTube series and Instagram Live videos, the casts of nearly two dozen shows have come together to reminisce, including stars from Friday Night Lights, The Office, Glee, Melrose Place and other series.
- 4/30/2020
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Texas forever! Close to nine years after Friday Night Lights aired its final episode on NBC, fans still can't get enough of the stars who made Dillon, Texas such a special city. In fact, thousands of fans came together to watch the cast reunite for a special Global Citizen #TogetherAtHome event that aims to encourage everyone to take action and stop the spread of the Coronavirus. Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette), Scott Porter (Jason Street), Derek Phillips (Billy Riggins), Aimee Teegarden (Julie Taylor), Gaius Charles (Smash Williams) and Brad Leland (Buddy Garrity) went down memory lane and looked back at the NBC series. They also updated fans on a possible reunion episode. After all, a...
- 4/24/2020
- E! Online
In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix released the trailer for Season 2 of “Dead to Me,” and Global Citizen announced a “Friday Night Lights” cast reunion to benefit the World Health Organization.
Dates
NBC has made adjustments to its upcoming schedule due to the recent addition of “A Parks and Recreation Special”: “Council of Dads” will now air its second episode on April 30 at 10 p.m., with an encore of the pilot airing an hour earlier at 9 p.m. Going forward, the series will air new episodes at 8 p.m. on Thursdays beginning on May 7. Also, “Blindspot” will now premiere its fifth and final season on May 8 at 9 p.m. and will continue in that time slot.
First Looks
Netflix has released the trailer for Season 2 of “Dead to Me.” The trailer shows Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) trying to keep their bloody high jinks a secret in suburbia.
Dates
NBC has made adjustments to its upcoming schedule due to the recent addition of “A Parks and Recreation Special”: “Council of Dads” will now air its second episode on April 30 at 10 p.m., with an encore of the pilot airing an hour earlier at 9 p.m. Going forward, the series will air new episodes at 8 p.m. on Thursdays beginning on May 7. Also, “Blindspot” will now premiere its fifth and final season on May 8 at 9 p.m. and will continue in that time slot.
First Looks
Netflix has released the trailer for Season 2 of “Dead to Me.” The trailer shows Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) trying to keep their bloody high jinks a secret in suburbia.
- 4/24/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Based on the same real-life story that inspired the 1995 animated feature “Balto” and Disney’s forthcoming “Togo”, “The Great Alaskan Race” promises at the very least to be a satisfying movie for dog lovers. What else could one expect, as its poster consists of a husky’s face in giant closeup? Unfortunately, it turns out that very least is still too much to ask for from this handsome but hokey drama, which barely seems to notice its canine players amid a focus on one-dimensional humans.
Chief among them is writer-director-producer-star Brian Presley (best known for TV soap “Port Charles”), playing the man who successfully delivered serum to Nome with his dog team during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic — a near-miraculous run still commemorated annually by the Iditarod Trail competition. That triumph over extremely adverse conditions should make for an exciting physical adventure.
Bound to seem rather tedious to children, while most adults...
Chief among them is writer-director-producer-star Brian Presley (best known for TV soap “Port Charles”), playing the man who successfully delivered serum to Nome with his dog team during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic — a near-miraculous run still commemorated annually by the Iditarod Trail competition. That triumph over extremely adverse conditions should make for an exciting physical adventure.
Bound to seem rather tedious to children, while most adults...
- 10/24/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
"You are choosing to transport this serum with a stone age solution!" "Have a little faith, will you?" P12 Films has debuted the first official trailer for a family adventure movie titled The Great Alaskan Race, made by writer / director Brian Presley. The movie is a recreation and retelling of the true story of the great serum run of Alaska in 1925. This original "race" across Alaska later became the iconic Iditarod trail sled dog race, still held every year. The legendary serum run originally occurred in the winter of 1924 to 1925 - Leonhard Seppala and his team of sled dogs traveled over 700 treacherous miles to save the small town of Nome from a deadly diphtheria outbreak. The Great Alaskan Race stars Brian Presley, Brad Leland, Treat Williams, Henry Thomas, Brea Bree, and Bruce Davison. Along with a bunch of cuddly dogs. The dialogue in this trailer is atrocious, but at least...
- 8/23/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Perfectly cast as the most overbearingly demanding Texas high school football coach to appear on screen since Jon Voight made life miserable for James Van Der Beek in “Varsity Blues,” Brad Leland is the most valuable player in “The Last Whistle,” a modestly engaging indie drama that attempts, with mixed results, to traverse the middle ground between blunt-force criticism of win-at-all-costs philosophy and sentimental celebration of influential father figures.
Leland, arguably best known for his role as a small-town football booster in the TV series “Friday Night Lights,” is fearlessly, even aggressively unsympathetic during much of his screen time here as Victor Trenton, a Fort Worth area high school football coach who’s introduced as a skilled tactician whose winning ways may lead to his being hired by a prestigious university — but only if his team continues to, well, win.
Partly because he’s eager to impress his potential employer,...
Leland, arguably best known for his role as a small-town football booster in the TV series “Friday Night Lights,” is fearlessly, even aggressively unsympathetic during much of his screen time here as Victor Trenton, a Fort Worth area high school football coach who’s introduced as a skilled tactician whose winning ways may lead to his being hired by a prestigious university — but only if his team continues to, well, win.
Partly because he’s eager to impress his potential employer,...
- 6/28/2019
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, AMC starts Artisan Films, Gravitas buys “Boy Genius,” Nesta Cooper gets cast opposite Salma Hayek and Rebel Road launches P12 as a distributor.
Marketing Move
AMC Theatres is launching a new program, AMC Artisan Films, as a programming-marketing effort to put a spotlight on character and narrative driven movies as an alternative to blockbusters.
“Because AMC is the industry’s top choice for blockbuster movies, many consumers don’t realize that we play more elevated and celebrated films than anyone else in North America,” said Elizabeth Frank, executive vice president of worldwide programming. “With the launch of AMC Artisan Films, we aim to expose more movie-goers to specialized films and increase their theatrical success.”
Frank said AMC is seeking earlier runs in platform releases while holding films longer in the theater to give audiences time to learn about them from other customers.
The idea...
Marketing Move
AMC Theatres is launching a new program, AMC Artisan Films, as a programming-marketing effort to put a spotlight on character and narrative driven movies as an alternative to blockbusters.
“Because AMC is the industry’s top choice for blockbuster movies, many consumers don’t realize that we play more elevated and celebrated films than anyone else in North America,” said Elizabeth Frank, executive vice president of worldwide programming. “With the launch of AMC Artisan Films, we aim to expose more movie-goers to specialized films and increase their theatrical success.”
Frank said AMC is seeking earlier runs in platform releases while holding films longer in the theater to give audiences time to learn about them from other customers.
The idea...
- 6/28/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Treat Williams, Henry Thomas and Bruce Davison head the cast of The Great Race, the directorial debut of Brian Presley, who also stars.
The action-adventure movie tells the true story of a team of sled dog mushers in 1925 who race through a blizzard to bring a needed antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, to prevent an outbreak of diphtheria. Presley, who plays the lead musher Leonhard Seppala, also wrote the script and produced the film through his newly formed production company Rebel Road Entertainment, along with producers Mark David and Will Wallace.
The Great Race also stars James Russo, Brad Leland...
The action-adventure movie tells the true story of a team of sled dog mushers in 1925 who race through a blizzard to bring a needed antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, to prevent an outbreak of diphtheria. Presley, who plays the lead musher Leonhard Seppala, also wrote the script and produced the film through his newly formed production company Rebel Road Entertainment, along with producers Mark David and Will Wallace.
The Great Race also stars James Russo, Brad Leland...
- 5/13/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Participants to receive $10,000 in services, and mentorship.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced the 10 projects selected for the third annual Screen Forward Labs running in New York from April 24-28.
The Ifp’s year-long fellowship for content creators with serialised projects provides participants with $10,000 worth of services and a comprehensive mentorship to bring their projects to fruition.
The Screen Forward Labs will culminate with all projects pitching to investors, distributors, tech companies and network executives at Ifp Film Week 2017.
The 2017 Screen Forward Episodic Lab fellows are: Aeris by creator, director and producer Lukas Huffman, co-producer Amy Zhang and executive producer Shin Campos; Anamnesis by co-creators, directors, writers, producers and editors Alex Calleros and Michael Tucker, producer Ryan McDuffie and executive producers Jeremy Norris and Patrick Norris; Angry Black Women from creators, writers and executive producers Dahéli Hall and HaJ and director Angie Browne; and Camp Abercorn by creator, director, writer and producer...
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced the 10 projects selected for the third annual Screen Forward Labs running in New York from April 24-28.
The Ifp’s year-long fellowship for content creators with serialised projects provides participants with $10,000 worth of services and a comprehensive mentorship to bring their projects to fruition.
The Screen Forward Labs will culminate with all projects pitching to investors, distributors, tech companies and network executives at Ifp Film Week 2017.
The 2017 Screen Forward Episodic Lab fellows are: Aeris by creator, director and producer Lukas Huffman, co-producer Amy Zhang and executive producer Shin Campos; Anamnesis by co-creators, directors, writers, producers and editors Alex Calleros and Michael Tucker, producer Ryan McDuffie and executive producers Jeremy Norris and Patrick Norris; Angry Black Women from creators, writers and executive producers Dahéli Hall and HaJ and director Angie Browne; and Camp Abercorn by creator, director, writer and producer...
- 4/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
New mom of two and Little Women: La star Terra Jolé made history as the first little person to compete on Dancing with the Stars last season, and now she’s back on Lifetime’s hit show and blogging about season 6 exclusively for People. Follow Jolé, 36, on Twitter!
Oh my goodness, it’s only the second episode and we are already in so deep! So, here comes another episode of Little Women: La.
We jump right into Briana and Matt working out. Hilarious! Honestly, Briana looks great already. She’s got an awesome body that popped right back into pre-pregnancy shape.
Oh my goodness, it’s only the second episode and we are already in so deep! So, here comes another episode of Little Women: La.
We jump right into Briana and Matt working out. Hilarious! Honestly, Briana looks great already. She’s got an awesome body that popped right back into pre-pregnancy shape.
- 3/8/2017
- by Melody Chiu
- PEOPLE.com
If you’ve been missing Sydney Bristow, better book a ticket to Austin, TX. The Atx Television Festival announced today it will be hosting an “Alias” writers’ room reunion featuring many of the show’s long-time scribes, including Ken Olin, Lawrence Trilling, Sarah Caplan, Monica Breen, Jeff Pinkner, Andre Nemec, and Josh Appelbaum.
Creator J.J. Abrams has yet to be confirmed, but additional panelists will be announced at a later date. Last year, the Atx Festival hosted a writers’ room reunion for “The O.C.” that included creator Josh Schwartz.
Also announced this afternoon was a “Parks and Recreation” community screening. For the first five seasons of the festival, the Austin-based event celebrated an Austin-based show: “Friday Night Lights.” But last year marked the final tailgate party / community screening for the beloved series, and festival programmers found a more than fitting replacement in “Parks and Recreation.”
Read More: ‘Puppy Bowl’: Adoptions,...
Creator J.J. Abrams has yet to be confirmed, but additional panelists will be announced at a later date. Last year, the Atx Festival hosted a writers’ room reunion for “The O.C.” that included creator Josh Schwartz.
Also announced this afternoon was a “Parks and Recreation” community screening. For the first five seasons of the festival, the Austin-based event celebrated an Austin-based show: “Friday Night Lights.” But last year marked the final tailgate party / community screening for the beloved series, and festival programmers found a more than fitting replacement in “Parks and Recreation.”
Read More: ‘Puppy Bowl’: Adoptions,...
- 2/3/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Does your memory go as far back as 2010, or have too many catastrophes and cataclysms blurred your vision? Peter Berg’s tense account of the Bp Gulf Oil Spill debacle covers twenty hours of technological peril, as Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell battle idiotic executives and a badly-cemented oil well that’s fixing to blow sky high — and to turn a massive floating oil rig into a hellish inferno.
Deepwater Horizon
Blu-ray + DVD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 97 min. / Street Date January 10, 2016 / 39.99
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich, David Maldonado, Kate Hudson, Brad Leland.
Cinematography Enriqaue Chediak
Film Editors Gabriel Fleming, Colby Parker Jr.
Original Music Steve Jablonsky
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand from an article by David Rohde, Stephanie Saul
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Mark Wahlberg, David Womark
Directed by Peter Berg
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What...
Deepwater Horizon
Blu-ray + DVD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 97 min. / Street Date January 10, 2016 / 39.99
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich, David Maldonado, Kate Hudson, Brad Leland.
Cinematography Enriqaue Chediak
Film Editors Gabriel Fleming, Colby Parker Jr.
Original Music Steve Jablonsky
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand from an article by David Rohde, Stephanie Saul
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Mark Wahlberg, David Womark
Directed by Peter Berg
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What...
- 12/27/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
The actor: By his own admission, Brad Leland continues “to play bad guys, rednecks, and cowboys, and all those sidekick-type characters.” But of all the shit kickers the actor has played, none endures like Buddy Garrity, who begins the TV version of Friday Night Lights as a pushy, nosy high school football booster and ends the series as one of the most sympathetic figures in the fictional West Texas town of Dillon. The drama celebrated its 10th anniversary at this year’s Atx Television Festival, where The A.V. Club spoke with Leland about Buddy’s redemptive arc, the time-killing habit he shares with Paul Rudd, and the surprising audition he gave for Thomas Haden Church.
Friday Night...
The actor: By his own admission, Brad Leland continues “to play bad guys, rednecks, and cowboys, and all those sidekick-type characters.” But of all the shit kickers the actor has played, none endures like Buddy Garrity, who begins the TV version of Friday Night Lights as a pushy, nosy high school football booster and ends the series as one of the most sympathetic figures in the fictional West Texas town of Dillon. The drama celebrated its 10th anniversary at this year’s Atx Television Festival, where The A.V. Club spoke with Leland about Buddy’s redemptive arc, the time-killing habit he shares with Paul Rudd, and the surprising audition he gave for Thomas Haden Church.
Friday Night...
- 12/19/2016
- by Erik Adams
- avclub.com
Texas forever! Check out Connie Britton's weekend Instagram posts. First she wished her Friday Night Lights co-star, Kyle Chandler, a happy birthday. After posting a picture of herself all dolled up for the the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, she then posted a photo of herself and Chandler, reuniting at the event. Friday Night Lights ended in 2011, after five seasons on NBC.Peter Berg's Texas High School football drama premiered almost 10 years ago, on Tuesday, October 6, 2006, starring Chandler and Britton as Eric and Tami Taylor. Friday Night Lights also starred Aimee Teegarden, Brad Leland, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Zach Gilford, Derek Phillips, Blue Deckert, Minka Kelly, Andrianne Palicki, Timothy F. Crowley, Louanne Stephens, Stacey Oristano, Scott Porter, Gaius Charles, Michael B. Jordan, Matt Lauria, Jurnee Smollett, Madison Burge, and Grey Damon.Read More…...
- 9/20/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Netflix can always be relied upon to provide audiences with unexpected gems but, as the streaming service continues to make progress in the production of new material, we not only get to hear about those gems in advance, but we get to anticipate their arrival and consume it immediately upon release. Such is the case with Little Evil – a new comedy coming from writer-director Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale Vs Evil) that is now set to star Evangeline Lilly and Adam Scott.
The premise has great comedic potential, while leaving room for Craig’s trademark scary edge. Gary (Adam Scott) marries Samantha (Evangeline Lilly) and in doing so, gains a six year old stepson (played by Owen Atlas). The honeymoon period is somewhat disrupted, however, because the child is revealed to be the Anti-Christ.
Such a plot would demand some deft work on the part of the cast, and in this case,...
The premise has great comedic potential, while leaving room for Craig’s trademark scary edge. Gary (Adam Scott) marries Samantha (Evangeline Lilly) and in doing so, gains a six year old stepson (played by Owen Atlas). The honeymoon period is somewhat disrupted, however, because the child is revealed to be the Anti-Christ.
Such a plot would demand some deft work on the part of the cast, and in this case,...
- 9/16/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Adam Scott and Evangeline Lilly will star in a horror comedy for Netflix. Little Evil follows Gary (Scott), who just married Samantha (Lilly) only to find out that her 6-year-old son is the Antichrist. Eli Craig, who is behind the cult horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, wrote and will direct the film for Netflix. Donald Faison and Chris D'Elia also will appear in the pic, along with Brad Williams, Bridget Everett, Clancy Brown, Marcus Terrell Smith and Tyler Labine. Owen Atlas will be playing the resident adolescent Antichrist. Bluegrass Films and Mandalay Pictures will produce
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- 9/15/2016
- by Mia Galuppo, Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Adam Scott and Evangeline Lilly have been cast as the lead roles in the Netflix comedy film “Little Evil,” TheWrap has learned. Scott will star as Gary, a man who has just married the woman of his dreams, Samantha (Lilly). But the honeymoon is short-lived when Gary begins to suspect that his new wife’s six-year-old son is actually the Antichrist. Production is slated to begin next week in Cleveland, Ohio. Chris D’Elia, Donald Faison, Clancy Brown, Brad Williams, Marcus Terrell Smith and Tyler Labine round out the cast for the latest Netflix original movie. Also Read: Spike Lee Sets 'She's Gotta Have It'.
- 9/15/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
The fall is about to get a whole lot funnier. Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman director Christopher Guest is finally back to feature filmmaking with the new Netflix-distributed comedy Mascots. Set in the world of “competitive mascots,” it will first premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before heading to Netflix in October, and today the first full-length trailer has landed.
Featuring the massive cast of Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Matt Griesser, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins, and Jim Piddock, check out the trailer below via EW for one of our most-anticipated films of the fall.
Director Christopher Guest (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) and members of his beloved stock company — Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch,...
Featuring the massive cast of Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Matt Griesser, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins, and Jim Piddock, check out the trailer below via EW for one of our most-anticipated films of the fall.
Director Christopher Guest (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) and members of his beloved stock company — Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Plus: ITN Distribution picks up horror-thriller Clowntown
Netflix said on Tuesday it will debut Mascots worldwide on October 13 following the comedy’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Mascots is directed by Christopher Guest, who directed Best In Show and Waiting For Guffman and starred in This Is Spinal Tap. The film centres on sports mascots competing for the most prestigious honour in their field — the Gold Fluffy.
Karen Murphy produces, and many of Guest’s regular actors star, including Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Susan Yeagley, and Sarah Baker.
Gravitas Ventures has secured worldwide VOD rights from Submarine to Daniel Gordon’s Don’t Look Down, the documentary about Richard Branson’s hot air balloon exploits in the 1980s and 1990s. The film premiered at Tribeca and will debut theatrically and on VOD in the Us in November...
Netflix said on Tuesday it will debut Mascots worldwide on October 13 following the comedy’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Mascots is directed by Christopher Guest, who directed Best In Show and Waiting For Guffman and starred in This Is Spinal Tap. The film centres on sports mascots competing for the most prestigious honour in their field — the Gold Fluffy.
Karen Murphy produces, and many of Guest’s regular actors star, including Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Susan Yeagley, and Sarah Baker.
Gravitas Ventures has secured worldwide VOD rights from Submarine to Daniel Gordon’s Don’t Look Down, the documentary about Richard Branson’s hot air balloon exploits in the 1980s and 1990s. The film premiered at Tribeca and will debut theatrically and on VOD in the Us in November...
- 8/2/2016
- by govi2016@lawnet.ucla.edu (Alec Govi)
- ScreenDaily
It’s the greatest of sporting honors, it’s the most respected of athletic achievements and it’s the one award that turns mascots into legends. It’s: The Gold Fluffy. The first teaser for Christopher Guest’s Netflix movie “Mascots” has been released.
Starring many of his regular troupe of actors, this latest comedy takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots where they compete for the most prestigious award in their field, the Gold Fluffy.
Read More: 7 New Netflix Shows to Binge Watch in August 2016 (And the Best Episodes of Each)
The Netflix original film features an all-star ensemble that includes Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins and Jim Piddock.
“Mascots” was written by...
Starring many of his regular troupe of actors, this latest comedy takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots where they compete for the most prestigious award in their field, the Gold Fluffy.
Read More: 7 New Netflix Shows to Binge Watch in August 2016 (And the Best Episodes of Each)
The Netflix original film features an all-star ensemble that includes Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins and Jim Piddock.
“Mascots” was written by...
- 8/2/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Netflix has slotted October 13 for the global premiere of Christopher Guest’s comedy Mascots. His latest film, which stars many of his regular troupe of actors, takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots where they compete for the most prestigious award in their field, the Gold Fluffy. Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O'Dowd, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett…...
- 8/2/2016
- Deadline
Netflix has slotted October 13 for the global premiere of Christopher Guest’s comedy Mascots. His latest film, which stars many of his regular troupe of actors, takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots where they compete for the most prestigious award in their field, the Gold Fluffy. Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O'Dowd, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett…...
- 8/2/2016
- Deadline TV
For the second year in a row, the Denver-based independent television festival SeriesFest has selected winners from its pool of 34 original pilots.
Read More: SeriesFest: There’s a Diy Way to Break into TV
Winning for Best Drama was “Farr,” a crime drama set in Northern Ireland (which also won the same prize at last fall’s ITVFest). Per the drama jury’s statement, “The pilot we would like to recognize is ‘Farr’ since we were invested in the characters and storyline. We can’t wait to see how it unfolds!”
Best Comedy was awarded to “Truth Slash Fiction,” which revolved around a teenage girl’s discovery of erotic fan fiction. According to the jury’s statement, “We decided to recognize work that exists as a true pilot – establishing a mood, conflicts, characters, relationships and an ongoing story that would make a compelling series. With our choices, we wanted to...
Read More: SeriesFest: There’s a Diy Way to Break into TV
Winning for Best Drama was “Farr,” a crime drama set in Northern Ireland (which also won the same prize at last fall’s ITVFest). Per the drama jury’s statement, “The pilot we would like to recognize is ‘Farr’ since we were invested in the characters and storyline. We can’t wait to see how it unfolds!”
Best Comedy was awarded to “Truth Slash Fiction,” which revolved around a teenage girl’s discovery of erotic fan fiction. According to the jury’s statement, “We decided to recognize work that exists as a true pilot – establishing a mood, conflicts, characters, relationships and an ongoing story that would make a compelling series. With our choices, we wanted to...
- 6/26/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Check out these videos and photos of the Friday Night Lights TV series cast reunion tailgate party, at the Atx Television Festival. Friday Night Lights premiered on NBC in 2006 and was cancelled after five seasons. Connie Britton (Tami Taylor) made a surprise visit. Her Nashville TV show was cancelled by ABC after four seasons, then renewed by Cmt the day prior to the gathering. Kyle Chandler (Coach Eric Taylor) was unable to attend, but Executive Producer Jason Katims was on hand.
Other Friday Night Lights alumni present include: Zach Gilford, Gaius Charles (Brian "Smash" Williams), Scott Porter (Jason Street), Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette), Jesse Plemons (Landry Clarke), Matt Lauria (Luke Cafferty), Dora Madison (Becky Sproles), Brad Leland (Buddy Garrity), Stacey Oristano (Mindy Riggins), Derek Phillips (Billy Riggins), Kevin Rankin (Herc), Katherine Willis (Joanne Street), and Louanne Stephens (Grandma, i.e. Mrs. Saracen).
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Other Friday Night Lights alumni present include: Zach Gilford, Gaius Charles (Brian "Smash" Williams), Scott Porter (Jason Street), Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette), Jesse Plemons (Landry Clarke), Matt Lauria (Luke Cafferty), Dora Madison (Becky Sproles), Brad Leland (Buddy Garrity), Stacey Oristano (Mindy Riggins), Derek Phillips (Billy Riggins), Kevin Rankin (Herc), Katherine Willis (Joanne Street), and Louanne Stephens (Grandma, i.e. Mrs. Saracen).
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- 6/14/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
A transition of showrunners is always a tricky move for any TV show to pull off, much less one as full throttle and unrelentingly scathing as HBO’s Veep. When the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, announced last year that he would be handing off the reigns to Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm alum David Mandel, it was easy to be the tiniest bit cautious. Among many great feats, Veep‘s ability to walk the tightrope of a “heightened” Washington, D.C. – and be consistently hilarious – was something almost too precious to sour.
And soured it is certainly n0t – Veep is, as ever, a head-spinning political satire with enough cracks made by its delightfully potty-mouthed cast of White House scallywags as to feel increasingly less fantastical, and more intriguingly realistic, the longer it goes on. That may be truer than ever in the show’s fifth year,...
A transition of showrunners is always a tricky move for any TV show to pull off, much less one as full throttle and unrelentingly scathing as HBO’s Veep. When the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, announced last year that he would be handing off the reigns to Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm alum David Mandel, it was easy to be the tiniest bit cautious. Among many great feats, Veep‘s ability to walk the tightrope of a “heightened” Washington, D.C. – and be consistently hilarious – was something almost too precious to sour.
And soured it is certainly n0t – Veep is, as ever, a head-spinning political satire with enough cracks made by its delightfully potty-mouthed cast of White House scallywags as to feel increasingly less fantastical, and more intriguingly realistic, the longer it goes on. That may be truer than ever in the show’s fifth year,...
- 4/22/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
A review of the "Veep" season finale coming up just as soon as I have incompatible shoes for this carpet... Earlier this season, I wondered if the show might find some way for the election to end with Selina as someone else's vice-president, allowing the show to revert to its original set-up. A part of me was amused by the thought of the contortions necessary to get us to that point, while another was dismayed at the idea that the show might have to hit the reset button so hard, given how much fun Selina-as-potus has been. We'll see if season 5 actually goes through with this tiebreaker mess, where Tom James becomes president, and Selina perhaps becomes his veep. But if the level of execution remains as good as it was throughout "Election Night," and this whole great season, then I don't know how much I care exactly what job...
- 6/15/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Justified, Season 6, Episode 5: “Sounding”
Written by Dave Andron and Leonard Chang
Directed by John Avnet
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
There’s a crackerjack sequence most of the way through “Sounding” wherein Boyd Crowder, his associates, and an old frenemy by the name of Zachariah Randolph (Jeff Fahey) start the process of finding an alternate route through to the Pizza Portal vault. The process reveals fissures – significant ones – but also a seriously combustive kick. At the risk of drawing a clumsy parallel, the (brilliantly directed) sequence is a fine metaphor for the episode itself, which finds the season at its entertaining and fast-paced yet, while simultaneously exposing a few of the season’s nagging issues – and potentially creating a significant new one.
Despite the gripes – still to come – there is a lot to like about “Sounding,” which in ways both subtle and not-so-subtle brings together the entire...
Written by Dave Andron and Leonard Chang
Directed by John Avnet
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
There’s a crackerjack sequence most of the way through “Sounding” wherein Boyd Crowder, his associates, and an old frenemy by the name of Zachariah Randolph (Jeff Fahey) start the process of finding an alternate route through to the Pizza Portal vault. The process reveals fissures – significant ones – but also a seriously combustive kick. At the risk of drawing a clumsy parallel, the (brilliantly directed) sequence is a fine metaphor for the episode itself, which finds the season at its entertaining and fast-paced yet, while simultaneously exposing a few of the season’s nagging issues – and potentially creating a significant new one.
Despite the gripes – still to come – there is a lot to like about “Sounding,” which in ways both subtle and not-so-subtle brings together the entire...
- 2/18/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
A review of tonight's "Justified" coming up just as soon as we decide whether we're going to flapjack or short bus the bad guys... "You see, Raylan, I've learned to think without arguing with myself." -Boyd Like the Elmore Leonard stories that inspired the series, "Justified" has a tendency to have very complicated plots, with each season featuring multiple groups of villains pursuing different agendas that frequently intersect and cause headaches for each other and Raylan Givens. The trick is to make the villains entertaining enough that we don't mind doing the mental calculations about who's after what, or waiting through the cryptic early episodes until we find out everyone's angle. When the bad guys are, for instance, Quarles and Limehouse, then it's no big deal trying to untangle that season's Gordian plot; when it's Daryl Crowe, then you start to notice how contorted things are getting. Last week's season...
- 1/28/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Justified, Season 6, Episode 2: “Cash Game”
Written by Dave Andron and VJ Boyd
Directed by Dean Parisot
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Truth be told: not a hell of a lot happens in “Cash Game.” Despite the fact that it only has eleven more episodes to go after this one, Justified is still Justified, and this has never been a series that’s felt the need to hurry up its seasons’ first acts. Instead, it uses its time to sell us on this season’s cast of rogues, as well as indulging in a pleasant number of comic asides, reminding us that, at its core, Justified is a fun series, though that has been difficult to remember throughout some of its recent, darker patches.
Much of the action this week directly follow’s from Boyd’s apparently failed heist last week, including the introduction of the mark, local...
Written by Dave Andron and VJ Boyd
Directed by Dean Parisot
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Truth be told: not a hell of a lot happens in “Cash Game.” Despite the fact that it only has eleven more episodes to go after this one, Justified is still Justified, and this has never been a series that’s felt the need to hurry up its seasons’ first acts. Instead, it uses its time to sell us on this season’s cast of rogues, as well as indulging in a pleasant number of comic asides, reminding us that, at its core, Justified is a fun series, though that has been difficult to remember throughout some of its recent, darker patches.
Much of the action this week directly follow’s from Boyd’s apparently failed heist last week, including the introduction of the mark, local...
- 1/28/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The opening hour of Justified’s last rodeo ended on a note that felt very much like a mission statement for what to expect out of the final season. It wasn’t just enough to have Dewey, Harlan’s county jester, meet his maker in grisly fashion, but to have it be at the hands of Boyd, a character who, despite all his past transgressions, is still someone we can’t help but root for. While your mileage may vary as to what fate you think Boyd deserves, taking Dewey out of the equation could have marked a major tonal shift for the series. Every village needs an idiot, after all, so with Dewey gone, there came a question of how many of its final hours Justified wanted to devote to yucking things up.
“Cash Game” is a less impactful hour of Justified than the one that preceded it, but...
“Cash Game” is a less impactful hour of Justified than the one that preceded it, but...
- 1/28/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
The writing of the late, great Elmore Leonard that inspired "Justified" — which begins its sixth and final season tonight at 10 on FX — could be incredibly self-aware at times. Characters in Leonard stories tend to be big fans of popular culture, and they know exactly which archetypes to compare themselves to, which roles they are playing (or think they're playing) in their particular story, and even like to predict how the story is will conclude. That level of meta commentary has waxed and waned over the previous five seasons of "Justified," but it's at top volume early in the new year (I've seen the first three episodes). Raylan (Timothy Olyphant), Boyd (Walton Goggins) and Ava (Joelle Carter) all know the story they've been tangled up in these last few years is about to finish up, and the only question is how. There's much talk of the way Harlan County itself has begun its death rattle,...
- 1/20/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Friday Night Lights is one of the greatest shows of recent time. The show struggled to stay on the air for two seasons before NBC decided to strike a deal with Direct TV that allowed the cable provider to air fresh new episodes of the series before NBC would air them later in the year. The tactic worked and the drama, that starred Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, was able to last for 5 glorious seasons. There may be a lot of fun facts you have never heard about this classis series. We at TV Overmind decided to do a little research and unearth some of these tidbits for your reading pleasure. And hey, we got to watch a few episodes of one of our favorite shows while doing it. 1. Connie Britton and Brad Leland both starred in the movie Connie Britton, who plays matriarch Tami Taylor, and Brad…
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- 12/26/2014
- by Tim Gerstenberger
- TVovermind.com
Tricia Helfer is Molly Parker, Texas Ranger. Bow down, Big Hats, and admire her evening gown.
I definitely had the wrong impression of ABC’s Killer Women, brought to you by Sofia Vergara. Thanks to the series’ aggressive promos, I assumed it might be campy and fun. This is horrible to admit, but I suspect Vergara’s personality and Modern Family character (which seem similar) led me to believe the show might be a caricature of the modern Western drama instead of a solid attempt at it. Ugh, I’m as bad as the rest of ‘em! (Men.)
Anyway, I’m dumb,...
I definitely had the wrong impression of ABC’s Killer Women, brought to you by Sofia Vergara. Thanks to the series’ aggressive promos, I assumed it might be campy and fun. This is horrible to admit, but I suspect Vergara’s personality and Modern Family character (which seem similar) led me to believe the show might be a caricature of the modern Western drama instead of a solid attempt at it. Ugh, I’m as bad as the rest of ‘em! (Men.)
Anyway, I’m dumb,...
- 1/8/2014
- by Annie Barrett
- EW.com - PopWatch
Damon Lindelof's follow-up to "Lost" is officially a go at HBO.
On Monday (Sept. 16), the pay cabler announced that it had given "The Leftovers" a 10-episode series order. Lindelof's project, which takes place after the Rapture occurs, but not quite like it's supposed to, was co-written by Tom Perrotta, based on Perrotta's novel of the same name.
The story of the people who didn't make the cut, and a world that will never be the same, stars Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Carrie Coon, Emily Meade, Amanda Warren, Ann Dowd, Michael Gaston, Max Carver, Charlie Carver, Annie Q, Paterson Joseph and Brad Leland.
Lindelof will serve as showrunner, as well as executive producer. He'll share Ep duties with Perrotta and Peter Berg, who also directed the pilot.
Are you looking forward to "The Leftovers" on HBO?...
On Monday (Sept. 16), the pay cabler announced that it had given "The Leftovers" a 10-episode series order. Lindelof's project, which takes place after the Rapture occurs, but not quite like it's supposed to, was co-written by Tom Perrotta, based on Perrotta's novel of the same name.
The story of the people who didn't make the cut, and a world that will never be the same, stars Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Carrie Coon, Emily Meade, Amanda Warren, Ann Dowd, Michael Gaston, Max Carver, Charlie Carver, Annie Q, Paterson Joseph and Brad Leland.
Lindelof will serve as showrunner, as well as executive producer. He'll share Ep duties with Perrotta and Peter Berg, who also directed the pilot.
Are you looking forward to "The Leftovers" on HBO?...
- 9/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Finally, finally, we’ll get a Damon Lindelof show back on our screens on a weekly basis. Finally. All Losties rejoice as the news spreads that HBO has picked up to 10-episode series Lindelof’s The Leftovers, based on the book by Tom Perrotta. The series revolves around a small town coping with life after many of its citizens have ascended to heaven in the rapture.
The news came first from Deadline, and hopefully we’ll be getting more info soon. With a stellar cast and a ridiculously talented writer/showrunner on a cable network, this is really going to be something to see. We’ll keep you posted about all things The Leftovers as they develop.
The Leftovers, starring Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Carrie Coon, Emily Meade, Amanda Warren, Ann Dowd, Michael Gaston, Max Carver, Charlie Carver, Annie Q, Paterson Joseph...
The news came first from Deadline, and hopefully we’ll be getting more info soon. With a stellar cast and a ridiculously talented writer/showrunner on a cable network, this is really going to be something to see. We’ll keep you posted about all things The Leftovers as they develop.
The Leftovers, starring Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Carrie Coon, Emily Meade, Amanda Warren, Ann Dowd, Michael Gaston, Max Carver, Charlie Carver, Annie Q, Paterson Joseph...
- 9/16/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
HBO has officially ordered Warner Bros’ The Leftovers to series, EW has confirmed. The order includes the show’s pilot and nine additional episodes.
Based on Tom Perrotta’s book, The Leftovers focuses on the people left behind after The Rapture occurs. Starring Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, and Brad Leland, among others, The Leftovers is executive produced by Tom Perrotta, Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger, and showrunner Damon Lindelof.
Lindelof and Perrotta penned the pilot script, which was then directed by Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg.
Based on Tom Perrotta’s book, The Leftovers focuses on the people left behind after The Rapture occurs. Starring Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, and Brad Leland, among others, The Leftovers is executive produced by Tom Perrotta, Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger, and showrunner Damon Lindelof.
Lindelof and Perrotta penned the pilot script, which was then directed by Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg.
- 9/16/2013
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside TV
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