Out of all the movies, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire had arguably the most unpredictable and staggering chain of plot twists in its finale, rivaled only by The Half-Blood Prince. Between the Goblet being a portal, Cedric dying in an instant, Voldemort’s resurrection, and Moody having been a Death Eater all along, there’s a lot to unpack in this installment’s finale.
Especially, if you haven’t been too attentive throughout the movie.
Voldemort’s Return Wasn’t GoF’s Biggest Twist
We just mentioned four major plot twists from The Goblet of Fire’s finale, but only one of them was genuinely shocking. We knew that something was seriously off with Harry’s participation in the Triwizard Tournament; we knew that Voldemort would be back at some point, so why not then; and we hadn’t known Cedric for long enough to have any idea of his life expectancy,...
Especially, if you haven’t been too attentive throughout the movie.
Voldemort’s Return Wasn’t GoF’s Biggest Twist
We just mentioned four major plot twists from The Goblet of Fire’s finale, but only one of them was genuinely shocking. We knew that something was seriously off with Harry’s participation in the Triwizard Tournament; we knew that Voldemort would be back at some point, so why not then; and we hadn’t known Cedric for long enough to have any idea of his life expectancy,...
- 5/23/2024
- by dean-black@startefacts.com (Dean Black)
- STartefacts.com
If you think modern microtransactions are bad, check out a few classic arcade games sometime. Sure, they might only ask for a quarter or 50 cents to play, but that’s just the starting price. As soon as you run out of lives, it’s time to feed the machine again. In theory, you might be able to beat an arcade game for just a quarter. Actually getting there took weeks or months of practice.
It wasn’t uncommon to have to drop $20, $50, or even more to see the ending of some old arcade games. And of course, that was just for one playthrough. Yup, classic gaming was a whole different beast from what we have in the 21st century with its host of mods and accessibility options. But even taking into account that these games were designed to make as much money as possible off of you, a few were truly devious.
It wasn’t uncommon to have to drop $20, $50, or even more to see the ending of some old arcade games. And of course, that was just for one playthrough. Yup, classic gaming was a whole different beast from what we have in the 21st century with its host of mods and accessibility options. But even taking into account that these games were designed to make as much money as possible off of you, a few were truly devious.
- 3/30/2024
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
Philippines media and entertainment company Abs-cbn is set to launch tentpole co-production The Bagman at this year’s Asia TV Forum & Market (Atf) in Singapore, with the star of the series, Arjo Atayde, also attending the event.
Set to begin production in January, the eight-part action drama sees Atayde reprising his character Benjo Malaya from the original digital series Bagman 1 and Bagman 2, which were sold to Netflix Philippines.
The spin-off of the original digital series also stars John Arcilla, who won best actor at the Venice film festival for Erik Matti’s On The Job 2: The Missing 8, and Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo, who won best actress at Cairo International Film Festival for Brillante Mendoza’s Mindanao.
The new series is co-produced by Abs-cbn International Productions, Nathan Studios, Rein Entertainment and Dreamscape Entertainment.
Atayde also previously starred in Abs-cbn’s hit crime thriller series Cattleya Killer and movies including Matti’s...
Set to begin production in January, the eight-part action drama sees Atayde reprising his character Benjo Malaya from the original digital series Bagman 1 and Bagman 2, which were sold to Netflix Philippines.
The spin-off of the original digital series also stars John Arcilla, who won best actor at the Venice film festival for Erik Matti’s On The Job 2: The Missing 8, and Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo, who won best actress at Cairo International Film Festival for Brillante Mendoza’s Mindanao.
The new series is co-produced by Abs-cbn International Productions, Nathan Studios, Rein Entertainment and Dreamscape Entertainment.
Atayde also previously starred in Abs-cbn’s hit crime thriller series Cattleya Killer and movies including Matti’s...
- 11/27/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Uma Thurman and Maya Hawke are making their onscreen debut together in the dark comedy crime movie “The Kill Room.”
Directed by Nicol Paone, the film centers on art gallery owner Patrice Capullo (Thurman) who enters a money laundering scheme with the mob to save her company. The only catch? Hitman Reggie’s (Manganiello) artwork inspired by his brutal killings leads him to become the biggest name in high art since Banksy. Now his fans — and crime syndicate enemies — are clamoring to uncover the identity of the anonymous artist only know as the Bagman.
Samuel L. Jackson stars as Reggie’s boss Gordon Davis, marking a “Pulp Fiction” reunion alongside Thurman. Hawke is among the many cast of characters seeking the Bagman, along with Debi Mazar, Dree Hemingway, Amy Keum, Candy Buckley, Larry Pine, Jennifer Kim, Matthew Maher, Tom Pecinka, and Alexander Sokovikov.
While the film marks Thurman and daughter Hawke first side-by-side acting roles,...
Directed by Nicol Paone, the film centers on art gallery owner Patrice Capullo (Thurman) who enters a money laundering scheme with the mob to save her company. The only catch? Hitman Reggie’s (Manganiello) artwork inspired by his brutal killings leads him to become the biggest name in high art since Banksy. Now his fans — and crime syndicate enemies — are clamoring to uncover the identity of the anonymous artist only know as the Bagman.
Samuel L. Jackson stars as Reggie’s boss Gordon Davis, marking a “Pulp Fiction” reunion alongside Thurman. Hawke is among the many cast of characters seeking the Bagman, along with Debi Mazar, Dree Hemingway, Amy Keum, Candy Buckley, Larry Pine, Jennifer Kim, Matthew Maher, Tom Pecinka, and Alexander Sokovikov.
While the film marks Thurman and daughter Hawke first side-by-side acting roles,...
- 8/7/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
It can’t go on. Must-watch TV shows have been arriving at an unmanageable rate for so long that releasing an excellent new series is now essentially an act of violence. Nobody has the time to be this thoroughly entertained.
Curation is our only solution. Recommendations that cut through promotional budgets and PR hype, leaving behind just the good stuff. Below, we’ve collected the best of the best from this year of UK television so far. If you only have time to watch a handful of shows in 2023, make them these gems. We’ll add any others that make the grade as the year goes on, and do please make your own recommendations below.
Happy Valley Series 3
Stream on: BBC iPlayer (UK); AMC+/BBC America/Acorn TV from May 22nd (US)
Series three is when the word-of-mouth enthusiasm for Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley started to break through even...
Curation is our only solution. Recommendations that cut through promotional budgets and PR hype, leaving behind just the good stuff. Below, we’ve collected the best of the best from this year of UK television so far. If you only have time to watch a handful of shows in 2023, make them these gems. We’ll add any others that make the grade as the year goes on, and do please make your own recommendations below.
Happy Valley Series 3
Stream on: BBC iPlayer (UK); AMC+/BBC America/Acorn TV from May 22nd (US)
Series three is when the word-of-mouth enthusiasm for Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley started to break through even...
- 8/7/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for the Endeavour Series 9 finale and the Inspector Morse finale.
There have scarcely been more elegant TV endings. In its final episode ‘Exeunt’, Endeavour bid farewell much in the restrained and upright manner of its central characters. Like them, it said a great deal without saying too much, and paid purposeful tributes with a light touch.
The finale’s last moments played out dialogue-free with a meaningful passing of the baton. As young Morse drove his black Jaguar Mk 1 out of the Blenheim Palace grounds, he passed a red Jaguar Mk 2 travelling in the opposite direction. Each driver clocked the other in their rear view mirror – the eyes of Shaun Evans in one, and the eyes of Inspector Morse star John Thaw in the other.
That moment was a call-back to almost the very same at the end of the 2012 Endeavour pilot ‘Overture’ in which Thaw’s...
There have scarcely been more elegant TV endings. In its final episode ‘Exeunt’, Endeavour bid farewell much in the restrained and upright manner of its central characters. Like them, it said a great deal without saying too much, and paid purposeful tributes with a light touch.
The finale’s last moments played out dialogue-free with a meaningful passing of the baton. As young Morse drove his black Jaguar Mk 1 out of the Blenheim Palace grounds, he passed a red Jaguar Mk 2 travelling in the opposite direction. Each driver clocked the other in their rear view mirror – the eyes of Shaun Evans in one, and the eyes of Inspector Morse star John Thaw in the other.
That moment was a call-back to almost the very same at the end of the 2012 Endeavour pilot ‘Overture’ in which Thaw’s...
- 3/13/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Rising-star Frankie Corio has signed with WME for representation. Corio is coming off her star-making performance in A24’s Aftersun opposite Paul Mescal. The role has earned critical acclaim as well as several accolades including a Critics Choice Award for Best Young Actress as well as an honor from the London Film Critics Circle for Best Young Performer.
The film has also received eight BAFTA nominations as well as British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film.
Next up, she has the Lionsgate pic Bagman, which bows this summer and also starred Sam Claflin. She is also repped by the Artists Partnership.
The film has also received eight BAFTA nominations as well as British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film.
Next up, she has the Lionsgate pic Bagman, which bows this summer and also starred Sam Claflin. She is also repped by the Artists Partnership.
- 1/13/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Aisha Porter-Christie has signed with CAA for representation.
Porter-Christie is a writer and director who is currently a consulting producer on Marvel and Disney+’s upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again.
Previously, she was a co-executive producer on The Boys spinoff Gen V and a supervising producer on Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec’s The Girls on the Bus.
Porter-Christie is currently writing Clifton for Peacock, a pitch she sold based on the book Running Out of Time, with My So-Called Company producing.
In features, she did a rewrite of On the 1-5 for Warner Bros., with 21 Laps producing, as well as the horror feature Bagman for Temple Hill and Lionsgate.
Porter-Christie spent her childhood in rural Jamaica, and her award-winning short films have screened at festivals worldwide including the Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Bahamas International Film Festival, the Vancouver Asian Film Festival...
Porter-Christie is a writer and director who is currently a consulting producer on Marvel and Disney+’s upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again.
Previously, she was a co-executive producer on The Boys spinoff Gen V and a supervising producer on Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec’s The Girls on the Bus.
Porter-Christie is currently writing Clifton for Peacock, a pitch she sold based on the book Running Out of Time, with My So-Called Company producing.
In features, she did a rewrite of On the 1-5 for Warner Bros., with 21 Laps producing, as well as the horror feature Bagman for Temple Hill and Lionsgate.
Porter-Christie spent her childhood in rural Jamaica, and her award-winning short films have screened at festivals worldwide including the Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Bahamas International Film Festival, the Vancouver Asian Film Festival...
- 1/10/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
For a historical podcast, Rachel Maddow’s new project could hardly be more timely. As the seditious conspiracy trial seeking to hold the Oath Keepers accountable for their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection ramps up in Washington, D.C., Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra explores a World War II-era prosecution known as the Great Sedition Trial of 1944.
The prosecution exposed a Nazi-backed plot that connected sitting members of Congress — many of them tied to the original, nativist America First movement — and militias and street thugs who wanted to overthrow the republic and install a fascist,...
The prosecution exposed a Nazi-backed plot that connected sitting members of Congress — many of them tied to the original, nativist America First movement — and militias and street thugs who wanted to overthrow the republic and install a fascist,...
- 10/3/2022
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor), Will Davis, Adelle Leonce (A Discovery of Witches), William Hope (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Steven Cree (Terminator: Dark Fate) and Sharon D Clarke will join The Hunger Games franchise’s Sam Claflin in the Lionsgate supernatural thriller, Bagman.
The film centers on Patrick McKee (Claflin), a father who desperately struggles against his deepest inner fear when a sinister threat from his childhood returns to haunt him. Only this time, the fight isn’t for himself; it’s for his family. Thomas will play Patrick’s wife Karina, with Cree as his brother, Liam. Davis is set for the title role of Bagman, with Leonce to portray Karina’s sister Anna. Hope will play Chief Isaacs, with Clarke as the therapist, Barbara.
Colm McCarthy (The Girl with All the Gifts) is directing from a script by John Hulme, with Temple Hill...
The film centers on Patrick McKee (Claflin), a father who desperately struggles against his deepest inner fear when a sinister threat from his childhood returns to haunt him. Only this time, the fight isn’t for himself; it’s for his family. Thomas will play Patrick’s wife Karina, with Cree as his brother, Liam. Davis is set for the title role of Bagman, with Leonce to portray Karina’s sister Anna. Hope will play Chief Isaacs, with Clarke as the therapist, Barbara.
Colm McCarthy (The Girl with All the Gifts) is directing from a script by John Hulme, with Temple Hill...
- 7/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“Forget money, I’m focused on dignity and loyalty.” Those were the disturbing words spoken the other day by my favorite agent who, alas, is facing the prospect of going out of business.
Fortunately, the agent in question is French and fictional; she works for Ask and is portrayed in Call My Agent!, the hit show that began its fourth and final season on Netflix this week. Talent agents and their entourages have pitched and connived their way on TV before, but the French show has found a binge following, even among Hollywood’s besieged tenpercenters, as Variety used to call them.
Faced with strikes and streamers, the agenting community has had to make some bold moves, redefining corporate goals and expanding job descriptions. Agents are now even repping politicians and their causes as well as actors.
Fortunately, the agent in question is French and fictional; she works for Ask and is portrayed in Call My Agent!, the hit show that began its fourth and final season on Netflix this week. Talent agents and their entourages have pitched and connived their way on TV before, but the French show has found a binge following, even among Hollywood’s besieged tenpercenters, as Variety used to call them.
Faced with strikes and streamers, the agenting community has had to make some bold moves, redefining corporate goals and expanding job descriptions. Agents are now even repping politicians and their causes as well as actors.
- 1/28/2021
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Sometimes it feels like there’s not much of a distinction left between “television” and everything else. As major media conglomerates hold investor presentations in which they present their upcoming streaming wares as “multiple-hour movies,” how is a beleaguered television fanbase supposed to distinguish TV shows from the dreaded, amorphous concept of “content”?
By episodes, of course! Episodes are one of the last remaining hallmarks of what makes the entity known as television distinct. Though we largely watch all our entertainment on the same kinds of screens nowadays, it’s television that lays claim to distinct episodes and distinct seasons as part of their larger gestalt. The Best TV Shows of 2020 deserve our commendation (and they will receive it very soon), but so too these smaller stories and pieces within them. The Best TV Episodes of 2020 are just as important to our appreciation of the medium and its long-term health.
By episodes, of course! Episodes are one of the last remaining hallmarks of what makes the entity known as television distinct. Though we largely watch all our entertainment on the same kinds of screens nowadays, it’s television that lays claim to distinct episodes and distinct seasons as part of their larger gestalt. The Best TV Shows of 2020 deserve our commendation (and they will receive it very soon), but so too these smaller stories and pieces within them. The Best TV Episodes of 2020 are just as important to our appreciation of the medium and its long-term health.
- 12/15/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Nearly three months after stepping down as president of Paramount’s Motion Picture Group when Emma Watts was hired for the top job, Wyck Godfrey has rejoined Marty Bowen as his partner in Temple Hill Entertainment. Godfrey exited the producing game when he signed on to the Paramount exec post in January 2018.
It restores a partnership that began when Godfrey talked Bowen into exiting his position as partner and top lit agent at UTA, where he repped such clients as Charlie Kaufman. The two have produced a swarm of hit films including the Twilight Saga and Maze Runner series, as well as The Fault In Our Stars, First Man and others.
It puts Godfrey back in business with Paramount, as that is where Temple Hill’s first look deal is. Among the projects Temple Hill is prepping are Bagman at Lionsgate, Happiest Season at TriStar, and Together Now at Netflix.
It restores a partnership that began when Godfrey talked Bowen into exiting his position as partner and top lit agent at UTA, where he repped such clients as Charlie Kaufman. The two have produced a swarm of hit films including the Twilight Saga and Maze Runner series, as well as The Fault In Our Stars, First Man and others.
It puts Godfrey back in business with Paramount, as that is where Temple Hill’s first look deal is. Among the projects Temple Hill is prepping are Bagman at Lionsgate, Happiest Season at TriStar, and Together Now at Netflix.
- 9/24/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Emmy Awards ballot for Best Drama Writing lists 240 episodes (from 147 series), so there will be seven nominees in this category for the first time since 1987, per the new rules. The six nominees last year were:
“Better Call Saul” season 4: “Winner” (Peter Gould & Thomas Schnauz) “Bodyguard” season 1: “Episode 1” (Jed Mercurio) “Game of Thrones” season 8: “The Iron Throne” (David Benioff & D. B. Weiss) “The Handmaid’s Tale” season 2B: “Holly” (Bruce Miller & Kira Snyder) “Killing Eve” season 2: “Nice and Neat” (Emerald Fennell) Winner — “Succession” season 1: “Nobody is Ever Missing” (Jesse Armstrong)
“Better Call Saul” and “Game of Thrones” are out of contention, but “Big Little Lies,” “The Crown” and “Stranger Things” are all back, having been nominated at the Emmys for their writing the last time that they were eligible. “Black Mirror” was snubbed in Best Movie/Limited Writing last year after consecutive wins; this is its...
“Better Call Saul” season 4: “Winner” (Peter Gould & Thomas Schnauz) “Bodyguard” season 1: “Episode 1” (Jed Mercurio) “Game of Thrones” season 8: “The Iron Throne” (David Benioff & D. B. Weiss) “The Handmaid’s Tale” season 2B: “Holly” (Bruce Miller & Kira Snyder) “Killing Eve” season 2: “Nice and Neat” (Emerald Fennell) Winner — “Succession” season 1: “Nobody is Ever Missing” (Jesse Armstrong)
“Better Call Saul” and “Game of Thrones” are out of contention, but “Big Little Lies,” “The Crown” and “Stranger Things” are all back, having been nominated at the Emmys for their writing the last time that they were eligible. “Black Mirror” was snubbed in Best Movie/Limited Writing last year after consecutive wins; this is its...
- 7/28/2020
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
Jonathan Banks has one of the coolest Emmy records and one of the most dubious ones. He is the only person to be nominated for three shows — “Wiseguy,” “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” — in Best Drama Supporting Actor, and he also shares the record, with Ed Begley Jr., for the most nominations without a win in the category at 0-6. If he doesn’t take home the gold this year on a potential (un)lucky seventh bid, then he’ll have that unfortunate record all to himself.
Banks tied the “St. Elsewhere” star’s record last year after losing to “Game of Thrones'” Peter Dinklage, who bagged a record-setting fourth statuette, breaking the tie he shared with Banks’ “Breaking Bad” co-star Aaron Paul. Banks and Begley are two of five men with six nominations — the second most in the category behind Dinklage’s eight — but the other three, Will...
Banks tied the “St. Elsewhere” star’s record last year after losing to “Game of Thrones'” Peter Dinklage, who bagged a record-setting fourth statuette, breaking the tie he shared with Banks’ “Breaking Bad” co-star Aaron Paul. Banks and Begley are two of five men with six nominations — the second most in the category behind Dinklage’s eight — but the other three, Will...
- 5/25/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Recently, Better Call Saul Season 5 finished airing, and it was the series' penultimate season.
The season provided the production quality we’ve come to expect from the series in many key aspects of filmmaking, such as cinematography, editing, score, writing, sound design, and acting.
Better Call Saul makes each of these aspects work together to provide us with countless memorable moments in the form of fantastic scenes.
We take a look back at five of the best scenes from the season.
Saul Goodman: Magic Man — Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 1, “Magic Man.”
Better Call Saul has always been excellent at montage sequences, and Season 5 hit us with quite a few great ones, such as Saul’s commercial shoot with the film students and Saul’s attempts at disrupting Mesa Verde’s construction plans.
The best montage of the bunch, though, comes at the very start, with a montage of...
The season provided the production quality we’ve come to expect from the series in many key aspects of filmmaking, such as cinematography, editing, score, writing, sound design, and acting.
Better Call Saul makes each of these aspects work together to provide us with countless memorable moments in the form of fantastic scenes.
We take a look back at five of the best scenes from the season.
Saul Goodman: Magic Man — Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 1, “Magic Man.”
Better Call Saul has always been excellent at montage sequences, and Season 5 hit us with quite a few great ones, such as Saul’s commercial shoot with the film students and Saul’s attempts at disrupting Mesa Verde’s construction plans.
The best montage of the bunch, though, comes at the very start, with a montage of...
- 5/5/2020
- by Tommy Czerpak
- TVfanatic
Better Call Saul Season 5 has ended a lengthy hiatus and presented criminal lawyer Saul Goodman in his full glory. At the Television Critics Association 2018 summer press tour, AMC went ahead and officially renewed Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s crime drama for a fifth season, the week before the fourth season even aired its first episode.
Better Call Saul is, of course, a Breaking Bad spinoff that tracks the evolution of slick attorney Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) into outright corrupt criminal attorney Saul Goodman. The show has been remarkably well received through four seasons and is a worthy follow-up prequel to one of TV’s best ever dramas. That last episode of season 4 sure took a big step in that direction.
Better Call Saul season 4 found Jimmy McGill fully embracing his new persona as Saul Goodman. Once at least pretending to be a respectable lawyer, Saul now every reason to...
Better Call Saul is, of course, a Breaking Bad spinoff that tracks the evolution of slick attorney Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) into outright corrupt criminal attorney Saul Goodman. The show has been remarkably well received through four seasons and is a worthy follow-up prequel to one of TV’s best ever dramas. That last episode of season 4 sure took a big step in that direction.
Better Call Saul season 4 found Jimmy McGill fully embracing his new persona as Saul Goodman. Once at least pretending to be a respectable lawyer, Saul now every reason to...
- 4/14/2020
- by jbindeck2015
- Den of Geek
A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Bad Choice Road,” coming up just as soon as I leave the Yankees to play amateur ring toss…
“Oh, Jesus, what have I got myself involved with here?” —Jimmy
So, do we need to start referring to Kim Wexler as The One Who Mocks?
“Bad Choice Road” begins with a sequel to the great montage from last season’s “Something Stupid.” Again, a cover of the Sinatra song plays as we see Jimmy and Kim in split screen. In that earlier episode,...
“Oh, Jesus, what have I got myself involved with here?” —Jimmy
So, do we need to start referring to Kim Wexler as The One Who Mocks?
“Bad Choice Road” begins with a sequel to the great montage from last season’s “Something Stupid.” Again, a cover of the Sinatra song plays as we see Jimmy and Kim in split screen. In that earlier episode,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Deep in production on “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story,” Vince Gilligan kept hearing about an episode of the upcoming Season 5 of “Better Call Saul.”
“We’re all in the same suite of offices and every time I would pass them in the hallway, this thing would get bigger and bigger in the telling,” Gilligan told IndieWire. “Gordon Smith and Peter Gould really tortured me because they were telling me for weeks and months in advance of reading the scripts how big it was gonna be. I’d say, ‘When am I gonna read this script you guys are cooking up for me?’ And they’d say, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be a wild one, man. It’s big!'”
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“We’re all in the same suite of offices and every time I would pass them in the hallway, this thing would get bigger and bigger in the telling,” Gilligan told IndieWire. “Gordon Smith and Peter Gould really tortured me because they were telling me for weeks and months in advance of reading the scripts how big it was gonna be. I’d say, ‘When am I gonna read this script you guys are cooking up for me?’ And they’d say, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be a wild one, man. It’s big!'”
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- 4/7/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
When “Killing Eve” began, its title’s threat, promise, or intimation (however you want to read it) felt immediate — as if in any episode, at any moment, intelligence officer Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) could fall prey to the inventive assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer). But such immediacy inevitably mitigated; success demanded extending their story, and the plot twisted itself into knots so the cat and mouse could work together (and two award-winning stars could share the screen). A forbidden romance became a dysfunctional relationship, and the enticement of inexplicable attraction turned into a confounding inability to explain why this cop and this killer are drawn to one another.
Season 3 wisely stops trying to explain it, but it also simplifies the story to an all-too-comfortable degree. “Killing Eve” has always been a procedural at heart, first as Eve studied Villanelle’s murders to get closer to her, and then as they teamed...
Season 3 wisely stops trying to explain it, but it also simplifies the story to an all-too-comfortable degree. “Killing Eve” has always been a procedural at heart, first as Eve studied Villanelle’s murders to get closer to her, and then as they teamed...
- 4/7/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Trigger alert: To those for whom the exquisite pain of first unrequited love still scalds, Episode 4 of this season of “My Brilliant Friend,” titled “The Kiss,” could freshen those wounds. It’s an effective juxtaposition to experience Lenu’s (Margherita Mazzucco) internal torment — over learning that the broodingly handsome and cocksure Nino Sarratore (Francesco Serpico) prefers her best friend Lila (Gaia Girace) to her — against the beautiful backdrop of Ischia, a volcanic island at the edge of the gulf of Naples. The emotions are volcanic, too, with Lenu devastated at the episode’s end by this awful revelation.
“The Kiss” is the first episode of the season to be directed by Alice Rohrwacher, whose sister, the actress Alba Rohrwacher, provides the narration for the series (and will presumably play the next phase of grown-up Lenu next season). The director of last year’s surreal Netflix movie “Happy as Lazzaro,” Rohrwacher...
“The Kiss” is the first episode of the season to be directed by Alice Rohrwacher, whose sister, the actress Alba Rohrwacher, provides the narration for the series (and will presumably play the next phase of grown-up Lenu next season). The director of last year’s surreal Netflix movie “Happy as Lazzaro,” Rohrwacher...
- 4/7/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Oh, how quickly the world can change.
We’ve discussed before that part of the greatness of Better Call Saul is the slow-burn transformation of Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman. There hasn’t been any singular event that turned Jimmy into Saul.
However, Jimmy’s journey to Saul doesn’t exactly coincide with his journey into becoming a “criminal” lawyer, and the journey to Saul took a huge leap forward on Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 8, "Bagman," and it did so in a single moment.
Up until this point, Jimmy had been using Saul to scheme his way into clientele and some extra cash. His biggest job was working with Lalo to get Krazy-8 out of prison, and that was mostly because Jimmy was forced into it.
And while all of Saul’s dealings have been shady, to say the least, none of them had truly plummeted him into the danger of the drug world,...
We’ve discussed before that part of the greatness of Better Call Saul is the slow-burn transformation of Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman. There hasn’t been any singular event that turned Jimmy into Saul.
However, Jimmy’s journey to Saul doesn’t exactly coincide with his journey into becoming a “criminal” lawyer, and the journey to Saul took a huge leap forward on Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 8, "Bagman," and it did so in a single moment.
Up until this point, Jimmy had been using Saul to scheme his way into clientele and some extra cash. His biggest job was working with Lalo to get Krazy-8 out of prison, and that was mostly because Jimmy was forced into it.
And while all of Saul’s dealings have been shady, to say the least, none of them had truly plummeted him into the danger of the drug world,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Tommy Czerpak
- TVfanatic
A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Bagman,” coming up just as soon as my strip steak is marinating in a secret blend of herbs and spices I call Old El Paso…
“That’s the price.” —Jimmy
If last week’s “Jmm” gave us the Better Call Saul equivalent of Walter White’s “I am the one who knocks!” speech, then “Bagman” is a spiritual prequel to one of the most beloved Breaking Bad episodes of all, Season Two’s “4 Days Out.” Once again, we have the show...
“That’s the price.” —Jimmy
If last week’s “Jmm” gave us the Better Call Saul equivalent of Walter White’s “I am the one who knocks!” speech, then “Bagman” is a spiritual prequel to one of the most beloved Breaking Bad episodes of all, Season Two’s “4 Days Out.” Once again, we have the show...
- 4/7/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
‘Better Call Saul’ Co-Creator Vince Gilligan on Directing the Most Challenging Episode of His Career
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “Bagman,” the eighth episode of of “Better Call Saul” Season 5.
Jimmy McGill’s descent into Saul Goodman has been on full display in Season 5 of AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” and on Monday’s episode, it took an even more dangerous turn.
Much to the concern of his now-wife Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) is becoming a “friend of the cartel,” as he represents the show’s current main villain — Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton), currently behind bars on murder charges.
In Episode 8, “Bagman,” after Jimmy/Saul manages to trick the judge into setting bail (thanks to information from Mike Ehrmantraut), Lalo dispatches him to the desert. It’s supposed to be easy, Jimmy/Saul tells a worried Kim, and he even convinces Lalo to give him an extra $100,000 for his troubles.
In the worlds of “Better Call Saul” and “Breaking Bad,...
Jimmy McGill’s descent into Saul Goodman has been on full display in Season 5 of AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” and on Monday’s episode, it took an even more dangerous turn.
Much to the concern of his now-wife Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) is becoming a “friend of the cartel,” as he represents the show’s current main villain — Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton), currently behind bars on murder charges.
In Episode 8, “Bagman,” after Jimmy/Saul manages to trick the judge into setting bail (thanks to information from Mike Ehrmantraut), Lalo dispatches him to the desert. It’s supposed to be easy, Jimmy/Saul tells a worried Kim, and he even convinces Lalo to give him an extra $100,000 for his troubles.
In the worlds of “Better Call Saul” and “Breaking Bad,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
[Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Better Call Saul” Season 5, Episode 8, “Bagman.”]
Add this to the list of “Better Call Saul” moments as profound as they are small: Jimmy McGill, waiting on a delivery of two massive bagfuls of cash, whispering to himself, “Yo soy abogado.” It’s a bilingual spin on the psych-up sessions we’ve seen Jimmy give himself plenty of times before. He’s a pro at rehearsing his own casualness. Here, though, he’s not just readying to tell The Cousins that he’s a lawyer. He’s telling himself.
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Watching Jimmy establish that line in his own conscience is made all the more poignant by the fact that the remainder of “Bagman” asks him to stray so far...
Add this to the list of “Better Call Saul” moments as profound as they are small: Jimmy McGill, waiting on a delivery of two massive bagfuls of cash, whispering to himself, “Yo soy abogado.” It’s a bilingual spin on the psych-up sessions we’ve seen Jimmy give himself plenty of times before. He’s a pro at rehearsing his own casualness. Here, though, he’s not just readying to tell The Cousins that he’s a lawyer. He’s telling himself.
More from IndieWire'Better Call Saul': Vince Gilligan on Filming the Toughest Scene of His Career and This Week's 'Breaking Bad' Nods'Killing Eve' Review: A Suitable Season 3 Settles Into an Edgeless Groove
Watching Jimmy establish that line in his own conscience is made all the more poignant by the fact that the remainder of “Bagman” asks him to stray so far...
- 4/7/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
I know it’s on brand for me, but I can’t help myself. “Bagman” is biblical, through and through. The desert, where almost all the action takes place, is where Moses endured the whining weakness of the Hebrew refugees who followed him—just as Mike endures the whining weakness of this windbag shyster in way over his…...
- 4/7/2020
- by Donna Bowman on TV Club, shared by Donna Bowman to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Peaky Blinders and Krypton director Colm McCarthy will direct Bagman, a horror thriller from Paramount Players.
Temple Hill’s John Fischer, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner are producing.
Written by John Hulme, the story centers on a father desperately struggling against his deepest inner fear when his childhood monster once again returns to haunt him. This time, however, the fight isn't for himself, it's for his family.
Temple Hill last produced the Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, which starred Ryan Gosling. On the television side, the company exec produces Mr. Robot and Looking for Alaska, an adaptation of the John Green novel that ...
Temple Hill’s John Fischer, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner are producing.
Written by John Hulme, the story centers on a father desperately struggling against his deepest inner fear when his childhood monster once again returns to haunt him. This time, however, the fight isn't for himself, it's for his family.
Temple Hill last produced the Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, which starred Ryan Gosling. On the television side, the company exec produces Mr. Robot and Looking for Alaska, an adaptation of the John Green novel that ...
- 10/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Peaky Blinders and Krypton director Colm McCarthy will direct Bagman, a horror thriller from Paramount Players.
Temple Hill’s John Fischer, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner are producing.
Written by John Hulme, the story centers on a father desperately struggling against his deepest inner fear when his childhood monster once again returns to haunt him. This time, however, the fight isn't for himself, it's for his family.
Temple Hill last produced the Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, which starred Ryan Gosling. On the television side, the company exec produces Mr. Robot and Looking for Alaska, an adaptation of the John Green novel that ...
Temple Hill’s John Fischer, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner are producing.
Written by John Hulme, the story centers on a father desperately struggling against his deepest inner fear when his childhood monster once again returns to haunt him. This time, however, the fight isn't for himself, it's for his family.
Temple Hill last produced the Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, which starred Ryan Gosling. On the television side, the company exec produces Mr. Robot and Looking for Alaska, an adaptation of the John Green novel that ...
- 10/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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