Naomi Watts to star in HBO's Game Of Thrones spin-off
Details are starting to come together for the untitled Game Of Thrones spin-off/prequel that HBO is set to launch just…
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When BoJack Horseman rips stories from the headlines, someone’s bound to get hurt
Todd: “I know. It’s confusing. Not the bimonthly that means twice a month, the bimonthly that means every other month,…
Twin Peaks speaks for us all: “Finally”
This post discusses the plot of Twin Peaks’ latest episode, “Part 16.”
Sexy sexual mysteries will remain unsolved as Netflix cancels Gypsy
Netflix has definitely had an off-season, as the recent cancellations of The Get Down, Girlboss, Sense8, Marco Polo, and…
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A stage-setting Twin Peaks tells a story about telling a story
Twin Peaks’ “The Return, Part 10” is a story about telling a story: what to include, what to leave out, and what gets…
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Gypsy’s psychosexual drama is as subtle as syphilis
It boggles the mind that prestige actors like Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup wound up in a project like Gypsy. Sure,…
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Twin Peaks is showing us its strange, familiar face again
The most striking characteristic of the Twin Peaks revival is its patience. The series has always been more interested…
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A tween genius plots a murder in the contrived Book Of Henry
Henry Carpenter (Jaeden Lieberher, the kid from Midnight Special) is a tween super-genius who lives with his little…
Watch Naomi Watts do something besides yell “Dougie” with this primer on global slang
Naomi Watts is one of the shining lights of the new season of Twin Peaks, finding unexpected dimensions within a trite…
The A.V. Club to Dale Cooper: “You have to wake up”
There are currently two Dale Coopers on Twin Peaks. One is a demon using Coop’s body as a lantern-jawed vessel for…
Naomi Watts oversteps as a therapist in the Gypsy trailer
Naomi Watts, currently reuniting with David Lynch in Twin Peaks, has another TV project coming up. That would be the…
Say “Hello-oh-ohh!” to Twin Peaks’ Great Wally Brando Debate
This post discusses plot points from the third and fourth episodes of Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival.
Twin Peaks turns nostalgia and garmonbozia up to the max, for good or ill
In “The Return, Part 3,” exasperated as Lucy and Andy get sidetracked by seemingly irrelevant evidence, Hawk blurts…
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With Chuck, the boxer who inspired Rocky gets his own corny redemption story
There really was a Rocky Balboa. Well, sort of. His name was Chuck Wepner, and when he wasn’t throwing punches in the…
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3 Generations of good actors are let down by this long-shelved family drama
The Weinstein Company has one of the largest and most accommodating shelves in the movie business, able to bear the…
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It’s a small eternity before Shut In delivers anything resembling a thrill
A thriller that takes a long time to get even remotely thrilling, Shut In spends much of its first half assembling…
Room’s Jacob Tremblay gets Shut In again in new horror trailer
Someone needs to put a bell on Jacob Tremblay. The young actor, whose starring role in last year’s Room earned him…
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Matthew McConaughey gets lost in Gus Van Sant’s deathly dull Sea Of Trees
The screenplay for The Sea Of Trees, penned by Chris Sparling (Buried), is one of those narrative Rube Goldberg…
Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts are making a Hamlet retelling called Ophelia
Though she didn’t get cast as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider reboot, The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley is making up…
Naomi Watts bored with movie stardom, gets her own Netflix series instead
You know what’s exhausting? Making a highly successful career toggling back and forth between artistically fulfilling…