Thrills and chills! Twists and turns! Mind-warping philosophical rants, past occult conspiracies, and the highly stylized dialogue of a million film noirs from another dimension! These are the things that True Detective built its reputation on, the things that made its groundbreaking first season a prestige-TV alternative. And in this …
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Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and more spoof bowlers, music producers, performance artists and more in the trailer for Season Three – or Season 52, by their count – of Documentary Now. The show returns to IFC February 20th. The minute-long clip offers quick looks at the show’s next slate of …
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It’s a big week for streaming service trailers — we’ve got one Hulu doc on the world’s most famous sex doctor, and no less than five (!) Netflix-related projects dropping clips. Plus Amazon gives us a brief peek at its Jordan Peele-produced Lorena Bobbitt doc, and YouTube shows off its …
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During the Golden Globe Awards, Regina King used her Best Supporting Actress acceptance speech as a public pledge. The actress vowed that she will hire “50 percent” women for all the projects she produces over the next two years. The promise, she said, was part of the broader Time’s Up …
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You hear the water before you see it — a slight splashing sound happening somewhere outside the frame, the camera trained on a floor. Then it rushes in, covering the tiles like the tide. A square patch of sunlight is reflected in the soapy puddle; we see a plane, tiny …
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Jam Master Jay’s friends and family ponder the late DJ’s unsolved murder in the intriguing new trailer for Netflix docu-series ReMastered. The program’s latest installment, “Who Killed Jam Master Jay?,” launches globally on December 7th. The clip opens by surveying the musician’s rise to fame in the 1980s with pioneering …
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For those who wanted more of the artful meditation on societal misogyny that David Fincher brought to his 2011 film version of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Swedish crime drama The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, you have my condolences. The Girl in the Spider’s Web, directed with gun-to-the-head urgency by Fede …
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Several Harvey Weinstein accusers open up about their experiences with the disgraced producer in the powerful new trailer for the upcoming documentary,The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret. Barry Avrich directed the film, which is set to arrive on demand November 6th. The clip opens with a montage of prominent actors …
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All homes filled with dysfunctional families are alike; each house cursed by ghostly manifestations of past and present sins is haunted in its own way. Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of a decrepit, rotting mansion populated by things that go bump in the night (and in the psyche) is considered by …
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NBC has greenlit a new music-related TV talent competition called Songland, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Maroon 5‘s Adam Levine, who serves as a coach for the network’s The Voice, Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart and OneRepublic‘s Ryan Tedder are among the show’s executive producers. Where The Voice develops undiscovered singers, Songland …
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