After racially-charged unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, made headlines this summer, there's no denying that civil rights biopic Selma is going to strike a chord with many when it releases this fall. Starring David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. and Carmen Ejogo as his wife Carmen Scott, the Ava DuVernay-directed pic centers on the influential march from Selma to Montgomery, which paved the way for the 1965 passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Director and actor Richard Attenborough has died at the age of 90, his son has said. An acclaimed performer who seamlessly segued from working in front of the camera to behind it, Attenborough earned two Oscars for his illuminating biopic Gandhi, for Best Picture and Best Director at the 1983 ceremony.
If action cinema has taught us anything over the past few years, it's this - don't, under any circumstances, screw with Liam Neeson. Alas, the generic baddies at the heart of this fall's dark crime thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones do exactly that and, in predictable fashion, pay for it dearly.
As if Evil Dead hadn't made split tongues freaky enough, the latest teaser for American Horror Story: Freak Show is here to elicit an involuntary shudder from us more squeamish of viewers. Hot on the heels of the first teaser giving us a (very scary) hand, this new clip certainly captures the creepy atmosphere and almost cartoonish horror of FX's series.
Over the years, American novelist and screenwriter Richard Price has seen many of his works make smooth transitions from the page to the screen. His book The Wanderers was adapted by Philip Kaufman into a now-iconic coming-of-age film, and Spike Lee's take on Clockers earned strong reviews. Additionally, Price's work as a screenwriter has been highly successful - among his accolades are an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay (for The Color of Money) and a Writers Guild of America Award (for HBO's The Wire, on which he served as a writer). Now, Sony is betting on Price's ability to deliver another strong drama by entering talks to adapt his upcoming work The Whites.
Perhaps when Once Upon a Time first hit ABC, it made a lot of sense for NBC execs to plot their own fantasy adventure series adapted from a children's classic. Times quickly changed, though - weak storylines caused many to drop that show, and its spinoff Once Upon a Time in Wonderland proved DOA. Now, NBC's planned series, Wizard of Oz reimagining Emerald City, won't even make it to that stage.
Last week's "Cairo" really felt like a penultimate episode for The Leftovers, both due to the heavy amounts of symbolism and its game-changing final moments, and now we know why. "The Garveys At Their Best," our second-t0-last venture into Mapleton (for 2014 at least - the show finally earned a sophomore season order from HBO), turns back time to October 13th, the day before the Sudden Departure, then reveals more of the event itself.
This week's deliciously tense and scary episode of The Strain leaves off on such a spectacular cliffhanger that it would feel disingenuous to kick off this review by talking about anything else. I'm talking about a strigoi SWAT team (?!?!?!?). Up until "For Services Rendered," The Strain has been relatively straightforward in its depiction of the series' bloodsuckers. Outside of Eichorst and the Master, who exhibit enhanced intelligence for reasons that the show has yet to explain, the strigoi are rabid animals, predators driven solely by their compulsion to feed. They can't speak and never betray an ounce of emotion - one reason Eph and Nora have come around to the idea of decapitating them is that they feel infected individuals lost anything that made them human the moment that the stinger went into their neck.
UPDATE: Director Josh Boone has responded to buzz that McConaughey is Warner Bros.' pick to play Flagg, denying the report in a set of tweets, which I've included below.
Where in the world has Steve Martin been lately? The celebrated comic actor's last big screen role was in the ill-received birding comedy The Big Year way back in 2011, and the only project he's taken on since has been animated caper Home, in which he lends his voice to an alien. Luckily, it appears that Martin may be making a comeback, with word that he's in talks to star in Magic Camp for Disney.
