Star Trek: Discovery EPs tease the future of the Federation—and the show
[Warning: Some light spoilers for back half of Star Trek: Discovery follow, along with a lot of praise from the show’s EPs for Sonequa Martin-Green.]
CBS All Access beams up another season of Star Trek: Discovery
The road to CBS All Access was rocky for Star Trek: Discovery, which arrived nine months behind schedule when it debuted in September. The latest entry in the Star Trek franchise was supposed to launch CBS’ standalone streaming service, but ended up ceding that spot to The Good Fight after losing Bryan Fuller as its…
Mirror, mirror: The cast and EP of Star Trek: Discovery on capturing turbulent times
Visiting the set of Star Trek: Discovery on the day of a total solar eclipse seems like a serendipitous meeting of geeky and nerdy interests. (I even credit the event as being the reason why I’m able to sit in the captain’s chair at one point). But the show films in Toronto, which is well out of the path of totality,…
America had never seen anything like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
People laughed. That’s the thing I remember the most from the sleepy art-house cinema where I first saw Ang Lee’s 2000 wuxia epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The first action scene, with its bodies sailing across rooftops gracefully, in ways that make an absolute mockery of earthly physics, looked strange and…
Doug Jones and Anthony Rapp board Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery has added Doug Jones and Anthony Rapp to its cast. According to Entertainment Weekly, Rapp will be playing a gay character, the franchise’s first originally written as such. As you may recall, earlier this summer Star Trek Beyond revealed that John Cho’s Sulu is gay, a decision that pissed off…
Star Trek: Discovery producer says Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast
Coming Soon is reporting on a recent conversation with Star Trek: Discovery producer Nicholas Meyer, in which Meyer revealed that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast of the CBS series. Meyer—who’s directed three Star Trek films, including The Wrath Of Khan—was in the middle of a…
Marco Polo season two trailer should excite the show’s dozen or so fans
If you’re excited for the upcoming sophomore season of the Netflix original series Marco Polo, you’re not alone—well, probably not. It’s hard to say, since the streaming network refuses to divulge how many, if any, people are watching it (or any of its other shows). But since it opted to pour a lot more money into…
Who would you like to see on Game Of Thrones?
This week’s question comes from TV Editor Erik Adams and is inspired by this weekend’s big premiere:
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Times have changed, and so, alas, has Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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There was a time when “the year 2000” sounded incredibly futuristic. It didn’t take long for that to become the distant past. When Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a sensation, introducing wuxia films to a wide American audience, virtually all movies of any note still premiered in theaters (where they were…
Strike Back roars into its final season as fun and confident as ever
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At several points during the first few episodes of the final season of Cinemax’s Strike Back, the various criminal elements arrayed against British intelligence agency Section 20 scramble to pull together more resources, terrified of what harm the operatives heading their way might do. Those fears are justified, as…
Here are the release dates for those Netflix original movies you’ve heard about
Netflix has been going on quite the shopping spree lately, setting up production deals and acquiring all sorts of original films. It’s easy to suspect the company’s desire to burn through so much cash so quickly is some sort of stunt à la Brewster’s Millions in which Netflix only gets more subscribers if it spends all…
Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Alba join the latest Jason Statham sequel
Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh, and Jessica Alba are joining the latest outing in a murder-fueled Jason Statham action franchise. No, not the one where he kills people with cars. Or massive explosions. Or the one where he has to run around killing gangsters so that he can recover his own stolen heart. This latest…
Michelle Yeoh to kick ass on Strike Back
Strike Back—Cinemax’s military TV show/live-action video game—may be getting an injection of martial arts. According to Variety, actor and martial artist Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is joining the show for its fourth and final season (having just wrapped up Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II). The…
Glee actor joins Crouching Tiger sequel
Get ready to see Lea Michele do some wire fighting, as kung fu meets Broadway in the sequel to the top-grossing foreign language film of all… okay, just kidding. It’s actually Harry Shum Jr., who plays football player-turned-dancer Mike Chang on Glee, who will be joining the follow-up to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon…
