“Lewis: Season 1 - 5 ” (2006-2015) Television Twenty Episodes Created by: Colin Dexter Featuring: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Rebecca Front, Clare Holman, Angela Griffin and Steve Toussaint [examining the scene of a murder - the victim has been hit over the head with a large mirror] Dr. Laura Hobson: “The jugular vein and carotid arteries were sliced right through.” DS James Hathaway: “By a …
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“The Carpetbaggers” (1964) Drama Running time: 150 minutes Written by: John Michael Hayes Directed by: Edward Dmytryk Featuring: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Bob Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Martin Balsam, Ralph Taeger, Archie Moore, Leif Erickson and Carroll Baker Jonas Cord: “What do you want to see on your honeymoon?” Monica Winthrop: “Lots of lovely ceilings!” Released recently on DVD and Blu-ray is the now …
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“Men Behaving Badly” (1992-2014) Television Comedy Forty-two Episodes Created by: Simon Nye Featuring: Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey, Leslie Ash, Caroline Quentin and Harry Enfield Tony: "Why does Dorothy still live with her parents?" Gary Strang: "Her Mother keeps threatening to kill herself if she moves out, I think she should risk it." Some shows remain popular for years and always seem …
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“Robin’s Nest” (1977-1981) Television Comedy Forty-eight Episodes Created by: Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer Featuring: Richard O'Sullivan, Tony Britton, Tessa Wyatt and David Kelly Robin: "Can you fill up the salt please Albert." Albert: "It'll take me a while to get the salt through the hole." Released in the next two weeks is a comedy series that lasted six series in the form …
“Cosmos: Possible Worlds ” (2020) Television/Documentary Thirteen Episodes Written & Directed by: Ann Druyan and Brannon Braga Featuring: Neil deGrasse Tyson Ann Druyan: “A world that tiny cannot possibly be the center of a cosmos of all that is, let alone the sole focus of its creator. The pale blue dot is a silent rebuke to the fundamentalist, the …
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CBS All Access has released the full trailer for their nine-episode series adaptation of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel “The Stand” which launches December 17th. https://videopress.com/v/c33Tc3so?preloadContent=metadata Josh Boone and Ben Cavell are the producers behind the series in which a computer error in a Defense Department laboratory leading to a pandemic and a bleak …
“Mank” (2020) Netflix has released the first trailer for “Mank” which arrives on the streamer on December 4th following a theatrical run in November. https://videopress.com/v/8UGS6pIF?preloadContent=metadata The story sees 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish the screenplay of …
“Trolls World Tour” (2020) Animation Running time: 90 minutes Written by: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Elizabeth Tippet, Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky Directed by: Walt Dohrn Featuring: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Rachel Bloom, Ozzy Osbourne, James Corden, Ron Funches, Kelly Clarkson, Anderson Paak, Sam Rockwell, George Clinton, Mary J. Blige, Anthony Ramos, Gustavo Dudamel, Kunal Nayyar, Icona Pop, Ester Dean, Flula Borg, J Balvin, Jamie Dornan, Red Velvet, Karan Soni, Charlyne Yi and Kenan Thompson Cloud Guy: “Anyhoo, what Poppy and …
“The Hunt” (2020) Thriller/Action Running time: 90 minutes Written and by: Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof Directd by: Craig Zobel Featuring: Betty Gilpin, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Emma Roberts, Ethan Suplee and Hilary Swank Staten Island: “Alright, listen to me. They grabbed us from all over, and they brought us here to kill us, and they’re still trying to kill us. And …
International Trailer: “Greyhound” (2020) Sony Pictures has unveiled the international trailer for the Tom Hanks-led “Greyhound”. https://videopress.com/v/RyQeEHSh?preloadContent=metadata This adaptation of “Horatio Hornblower” author C. S. Forester’s WW2 naval thriller novel “The Good Shepherd” and the project is helmed by Aaron Schneider who returns a decade after his last film “Get Low”. Hanks plays Ernest Krause, …
Trailer: “Black Widow” (2020) Marvel Studios has premiered the final trailer for “Black Widow” which is primarily set in the year gap between ‘Civil War’ and ‘Infinity War’ as Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff is on the run whilst dealing with some old business from her pre-SHIELD days she was a KGB-trained spy and assassin. https://videopress.com/v/HR0FKkRP?preloadContent=metadata …
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“Altered Carbon - Season Two” (2020)) TV Series/Sci-Fi Eight Episodes Created by: Laeta Kalogridis based on 'Altered Carbon' by Richard K. Morgan Featuring: Renée Elise Goldsberry, Anthony Mackie, Lela Loren, Simone Missick, Dina Shihabi and Torben Liebrecht Takeshi Kovacs: "This is a ghost story. Told in the age of eternal life. Technology has conquered death, but with …
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Trailer: “Candyman” (2020) The first trailer for the Nia DaCosta-directed and Jordan Peele-produced “Candyman” has arrived. https://videopress.com/v/Z3pK0HFx?preloadContent=metadata The newest entry in the horror franchise is dubbed a ‘spiritual sequel’ to the original rather than a reboot and returns to Cabrini Green – the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began. Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman …
International Trailer: “The Hunt” (2020) Universal Pictures has premiered an international trailer for their controversial action-thriller “The Hunt,” one with a bunch of new footage and a tonal change that downplays the dark comedy aspect. https://videopress.com/v/naHHmQpj?preloadContent=metadata In the film, twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they …
“Brigsby Bear” (2017) Comedy/Drama Running Time: 97 minutes Written by: Kyle Mooney & Kevin Costello Directed by: Dave McCary Featuring: Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Ryan Simpkins It can sometimes be refreshing to watch a comedy that has a real heart but does not compromise on its set up, it characters or its eventual …
“Ford v Ferrari” (2019) Drama Running time: 152 minutes Written by: Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth and Jason Keller Directed by: James Mangold Featuring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Remo Girone and Ray McKinnon Carroll Shelby: “We're lighter, we're faster, and if that don't work, we're nastier.” Released this week is what I consider to be one of the films of …
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New Trailer: “Westworld - Season Three” (2020) HBO has released the full trailer for the third season of its science-fiction drama “Westworld” which returns to the network March 15th. https://videopress.com/v/A0L2CRlG?preloadContent=metadata The new season sees Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), who broke free from the park confines, trading her world for a new one – ours. Set …
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Trailer: “The Plot Against America” (2020) HBO has released the full trailer for the six-episode limited drama series “The Plot Against America” based on the novel by Philip Roth, which will debut March 16th. https://videopress.com/v/a7Kqryio?controls=false&preloadContent=metadata The story is an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey as …
Teaser Trailer: "Stranger Things - Season Four" Netflix has released the first trailer for the upcoming fourth season of its beloved supernatural series “Stranger Things”. https://videopress.com/v/WHfcqPhW?preloadContent=metadata Titled ‘From Russia With Love’, the clip confirms that David Harbour’s Chief Hopper is alive and is in Russia at the start of the season. Filming on the new …
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EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures and have released Billie Eilish’s “No Time To Die” song, the official theme tune for the upcoming twenty-fifth James Bond film of the same name. The song is now up on Spotify and Apple Music, click the link below. https://videopress.com/v/GzFKxFTJ?preloadContent=metadata Eilish and Finneas O’Connell collaborated with the film’s composer Hans …
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