"Bewitched: Seasons 3 & 4" (1966 - 1968) Comedy / Television Sixty Episodes Created by: Sol Saks Featuring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Dick Sargent and David White Uncle Arthur: [to Endora] "When I think of you as a blood relative, I long for a transfusion." The gradual high-definition restoration of Bewitched has been one of …
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"Bewitched: Seasons 5 & 6" (1968 - 1970) Comedy / Television Sixty Episodes Created by: Sol Saks Featuring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Dick Sargent and David White Uncle Arthur: [to Endora] "When I think of you as a blood relative, I long for a transfusion." With the high-definition restoration of Bewitched continuing across its later …
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"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Series One" (1962) Mystery / Television Running Time: 3000 minutes Created by: Alfred Hitchcock Featuring: James Mason, Robert Redford, Vera Miles, Peter Falk, Jayne Mansfield, Angie Dickinson, Tony Randall, John Forsythe, Peter Graves, Gene Barry, William Conrad, Bob Crane, Dean Stockwell, Diana Dors, Dabney Coleman, Gig Young, Christopher Lee, Martin Landau, …
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“I am Burt Reynolds” (1976) Documentary Running Time: 91 minutes Written & directed by: Adrian Buitenhuis Burt Reynolds: “Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had telling me to turn left at the couch. There's no appreciation of actors and no sense of …
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“Damages: The Complete Series” (2007-2012) Television Fifty Nine Episodes Created by: Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman Featuring: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Željko Ivanek, Noah Bean, Tate Donovan, Ted Danson, Anastasia Griffith, Marcia Gay Harden, Timothy Olyphant, William Hurt, Campbell Scott, Martin Short, Dylan Baker, John Goodman and Ryan Phillippe Martin Cutler: "If you were …
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“RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service” (2021 - Present) Television Drama Sixteen Episodes Created by: Imogen Banks, Mark Fennessy and Ian Meadows Featuring: Justine Clarke, Rob Collins, Stephen Peacocke, Emma Hamilton and Ash Ricardo Wayne: "Graham clipped a roo on his way down this morning. Graham hit a roo. Bet he loved that." RFDS, an Australian drama series, transports viewers to the vast …
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“Lee” (2024) Drama Running Time: 116 minutes Written by: Liz Hannah, John Collee, and Marion Hume Directed by: Ellen Kuras Featuring: Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Noémie Merlant, Josh O'Connor and Alexander Skarsgård Lee Miller: “I'm going to the front. Are you coming?” David E. Scherman: “That's not what I was expecting you to say.” Ellen Kuras's Lee is a cinematic exploration of the …
“We Are Lady Parts” (2021) Television Series Six Episodes Created by: Nida Manzoor Featuring: Anjana Vasan, Sarah Kameela Impey , Juliette Motamed, Faith Omole , Lucie Shorthouse and Aiysha Hart “Bashir with the good beardYou’re so pretty, you’re so pretty, you’re so prettyBashir with the good beardYou say you think I’m weirdBashir with the good beardWon’t you love me? Won’t you love me? …
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“Halloween II” (1981) Horror Running Time: 92 minutes Written by: John Carpenter and Debra Hill Directed by: Rick Rosenthal Featuring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence and Dick Warlock Sam Loomis: “I shot him six times! I shot him in the heart, but... he's not human!” "Halloween II" from 1981 is a sequel that emerges as a quintessential embodiment of the slasher genre's golden era. …
“The Fugitive Kind” (1960) Drama Running Time: 147 minutes Written by: Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams Directed by: Sidney Lumet Featuring: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton and Victor Jory Carol Cutrere: “Wild things leave skins behind them. They leave clean skins and teeth and white bones. And these are tokens, passed from one to another. So that the fugitive kind can follow their …
“Return of the Ape Man” (1944) Horror Running Time: 61 minutes Written by: Robert Charles Directed by: Philip Rosen Featuring: Bela Lugosi Prof. Dexter: “Some people's brains would never be missed!” Critical Commentary The history of cinema is dotted with a myriad of genres and subgenres that have captivated audiences for decades. One such genre that has consistently …
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“Special Ops: Lioness” (2023) Paramount+ has now premiered the full-length trailer for Taylor Sheridan’s latest original series “Special Ops: Lioness” for the service. It joins Sheridan’s expanding slate at Paramount which includes “Yellowstone,” “1883,” “1923,” “Tulsa King” and “Mayor of Kingstown” along with the “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” and an upcoming “Yellowstone” spin-off with Matthew McConaughey. …
Trailer: “Star Wars: Ahsoka” (2023) The full trailer has arrived for the “Star Wars: Ahsoka” series launching next month on the Disney+ service and with it a first look at Lars Mikkelsen in full costume as Grand Master Thrawn. Set after her appearances in “The Mandalorian” and “The Book of Boba Fett,” the series follows …
Trailer: Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” (2023) Sony Pictures and Apple Original Films have premiered the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s sweeping historical epic “Napoleon” which was shot across a large swath of last year in the United Kingdom. The project is dubbed a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic …
Trailer: “The Nun 2” (2023) New Line Cinema has released the first trailer for the next entry in “The Conjuring” cinematic universe – the sequel to 2018’s “The Nun”. Michael Chaves is directing the project, and filmmaker James Wan is producing this follow-up to the original “The Nun” which made an impressive $366 million worldwide …
Final Trailer: “Foundation - Season 2" (2023) Apple TV+ has released one last full-length trailer for the second season of its long-in-the-works adaptation of Isaac Asmiov’s hard sci-fi novel series “Foundation”. The story chronicles a band of exiles on their unprecedented journey to rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. Four crucial individuals …
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New Trailer: “Killers of the Flower Moon" The second official trailer has been released for Martin Scorsese’s $200 million-budgeted epic period drama “Killers of the Flower Moon” which boasts a 206 minute runtime. The story unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation – a string of …
Trailer: “Dune: Part Two” (2023) Warner Bros. Pictures has premiered the second official trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune: Part Two” (2023). The clip offers a first look at Christopher Walken as Emperor Shaddam IV. The sprawling tale adapts the back half of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 novel and wrapped filming in mid-December. The …
“The Witcher” Series 3: Part 1 Netflix has premiered yet one more trailer for the third season of its big-budget fantasy drama “The Witcher” based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski. The clip puts the focus on the first part of the new season, which will run for five episodes arriving this Thursday, June 29th. …
Trailer: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season Two” (2023) Paramount+ has released a new trailer for the second season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” this one showing off what’s to come on the season ahead following last week’s season premiere. There’s more of Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler in the crossover episode with …
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