Starting June 10, HBO kicks off its summer documentary series, where ten weeks of non-fiction films air on Monday nights. Included in the program are buzzy festival titles like Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin's "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer," Liz Garbus' "Love Marilyn" and Lucy Walker's "The Crash R...
Read More »If movies were stocks, I’d tell you to invest your retirement funds into rapture/end of the world flicks. Coming out on this side of 2012, I would’ve thought that particular genre would be all dried up, but they seem to be in demand. “After Earth” and “Oblivion” explored Earths that were ravaged by...
Read More »When Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger collaborated on the Rolling Stones documentary “Shine A Light” they conceived an idea for a “Casino”-like movie set in the music biz of the 1970s. That was in 2010. Than in 2011 Scorsese and Jagger took the idea to HBO and brought on “Boardwalk Empire” writer Ter...
Read More »"The Leftovers," the HBO pilot based on Tom Perrotta's 2011 novel "The Leftovers" about the people left on Earth after the sudden, Rapture-like disappearance of a large chunk of the population, has found its lead.
Read More »While the return of "Arrested Development" and the finale of "Breaking Bad" are among the big television events of 2013, one big contender for 2014 has to be "The Spoils Of Babylon." The comedy event series brings together a great cast -- Will Ferrell, Kristin Wiig, Tobey Maguire, Jessica Alba, Mich...
Read More »AMC's released a poster for the final eight episodes of "Breaking Bad," which are set to begin on August 11 and which will close out the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a man who went from a downtrodden, financially strapped, cancer-ridden high school chemistry teacher to the Albuquerque are...
Read More »Dominic West ("The Wire") and Helena Bonham Carter ("The King’s Speech") will follow in the not-so-illustrious footsteps of "Liz & Dick" stars Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler when they take on the roles of Hollywood's most famously volatile couple in BBC America's TV movie "Burton & Taylor."
Read More »Acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns has taken on a project of epic proportions for PBS. "CANCER: The Emperor of All Maladies" is based on on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., with whom Burns will be closely collaborating ...
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