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Best Actor The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti, 2023. ph: Seacia Pavao / © Focus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection
Weekly Commentary: The realm of lead actor has been ruled by Cillian Murphy’s captivating portrayal in Nolan’s cinematic opus “Oppenheimer.” However, the final stretch of voting has seen two seasoned industry...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Actor The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti, 2023. ph: Seacia Pavao / © Focus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection
Weekly Commentary: The realm of lead actor has been ruled by Cillian Murphy’s captivating portrayal in Nolan’s cinematic opus “Oppenheimer.” However, the final stretch of voting has seen two seasoned industry...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the 96th Oscars® nominations today (January 23), live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s digital platforms, an international satellite feed and broadcast media.
Beetz and Quaid announced the nominees in 8 categories at 5:30 a.m. Pt, followed by the remaining 15 categories at 5:41 a.m. Pt, at the live event attended by international media and industry guests. For a complete list of nominees, visit the official Oscars website, www.oscar.com.
Academy members from each of the 18 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film, International Feature Film and Live Action Short Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.
Beetz and Quaid announced the nominees in 8 categories at 5:30 a.m. Pt, followed by the remaining 15 categories at 5:41 a.m. Pt, at the live event attended by international media and industry guests. For a complete list of nominees, visit the official Oscars website, www.oscar.com.
Academy members from each of the 18 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film, International Feature Film and Live Action Short Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.
- 1/23/2024
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you’ll see Da’Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore her hair when she played Louise “Weezy” Jefferson in the classic TV comedy The Jeffersons.
“I do this all the time with my characters,” Randolph tells me as she explains how she likes to distract herself from “Da’Vine,” and of how she has sacrificed much of her private life to her professional life.
In her portrait of Mary Lamb, the catering manager at an elite boys school, she felt like she was “walking this emotional, psychological tightrope,” because Mary’s only child has been killed fighting for his country in Vietnam.
It was a case of constant checks and balances because she didn’t want her Mary to be “whiny and cry. Didn’t...
“I do this all the time with my characters,” Randolph tells me as she explains how she likes to distract herself from “Da’Vine,” and of how she has sacrificed much of her private life to her professional life.
In her portrait of Mary Lamb, the catering manager at an elite boys school, she felt like she was “walking this emotional, psychological tightrope,” because Mary’s only child has been killed fighting for his country in Vietnam.
It was a case of constant checks and balances because she didn’t want her Mary to be “whiny and cry. Didn’t...
- 1/17/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Alexander Payne’s heart-tugging Christmas movie “The Holdovers” has been building upbeat word of mouth since it wowed crowds at Telluride, was runner-up at TIFF for the People’s Choice Award, and pulled audiences back to theaters ($18 million domestic).
Which is why it’s likely to score a scad of Oscar nominations. Payne has been nominated three times for Best Director and won twice for Adapted Screenplay (“Sideways” and “The Descendants”), but “The Holdovers” marks the feature-screenwriting debut of sitcom veteran David Hemingson, the sole credited writer on the film.
Payne’s lead actors usually land nominations, although Paul Giamatti was robbed for 2004’s “Sideways.” Now Academy voters have a chance to show their love for Giamatti, who is in rare form in “The Holdovers” as a hidebound prep school professor playing against rookie Dominic Sessa as a rebellious student, and wily veteran Da’Vine Joy Randolph as the school cook...
Which is why it’s likely to score a scad of Oscar nominations. Payne has been nominated three times for Best Director and won twice for Adapted Screenplay (“Sideways” and “The Descendants”), but “The Holdovers” marks the feature-screenwriting debut of sitcom veteran David Hemingson, the sole credited writer on the film.
Payne’s lead actors usually land nominations, although Paul Giamatti was robbed for 2004’s “Sideways.” Now Academy voters have a chance to show their love for Giamatti, who is in rare form in “The Holdovers” as a hidebound prep school professor playing against rookie Dominic Sessa as a rebellious student, and wily veteran Da’Vine Joy Randolph as the school cook...
- 1/2/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Paul Giamatti “has never been better” (Deadline) in acclaimed Academy Award® -winning director Alexander Payne’s newest film, The Holdovers, available to own with all-new exclusive bonus featurettes on Digital on December 29, 2023, and on Blu-ray and DVD on January 2, 2024 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 96% and nominated for 8 Critics Choice Awards® including Best Picture, The Holdovers delivers an expert balance of comedy and warmth.
“Raucously funny” (The Hollywood Reporter) and poignant, The Holdovers stars critically acclaimed actor Paul Giamatti, alongside the remarkable Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa in his feature film debut.
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged,...
“Raucously funny” (The Hollywood Reporter) and poignant, The Holdovers stars critically acclaimed actor Paul Giamatti, alongside the remarkable Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa in his feature film debut.
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged,...
- 12/21/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Clockwise from bottom left: Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers (Seacia Pavao/Focus Features), Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures), Emma Stone in Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures), and Charles Melton in May December (Netflix)Graphic: The A.V. Club
It’s not a controversial statement to say that Cillian Murphy turned...
It’s not a controversial statement to say that Cillian Murphy turned...
- 12/21/2023
- by Jen Lennon, Saloni Gajjar, William Hughes, Tim Lowery, Cindy White, Murtada Elfadl, and Luke Y. Thompson
- avclub.com
As always, the Film Independent Spirit Award nominations — see the full list here — gave a boost to a handful of potential Oscar contenders. While the Santa Monica beach Spirit Awards show on February 24, 2024 is some months off, nominations leaders “American Fiction” (Amazon/MGM), “May December” (Netflix), and “Past Lives” (A24), with five nominations each including Best Feature, are looking good for Oscar attention.
The Spirit Awards nominating committees are comprised of film professionals from every side of the industry. The winners are voted on by members of Film Independent.
While Todd Haynes for “May December” and Celine Song for “Past Lives,” who also landed Best Director slots, are long shots for Best Director Oscar nominations, this recognition boosts their chances of a Best Picture or Screenplay nod. It’s all about creating must-sees for Oscar voters.
Gender-neutral acting nods went to lead performance contenders Natalie Portman for “May December,” Greta Lee for “Past Lives,...
The Spirit Awards nominating committees are comprised of film professionals from every side of the industry. The winners are voted on by members of Film Independent.
While Todd Haynes for “May December” and Celine Song for “Past Lives,” who also landed Best Director slots, are long shots for Best Director Oscar nominations, this recognition boosts their chances of a Best Picture or Screenplay nod. It’s all about creating must-sees for Oscar voters.
Gender-neutral acting nods went to lead performance contenders Natalie Portman for “May December,” Greta Lee for “Past Lives,...
- 12/5/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Paul Giamatti stars as Paul Hunham in director Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Seacia Pavao / © 2023 Focus Features LLC After working with Alexander Payne in Sideways, Paul Giamatti had long hoped he would get to work with Payne again. Now, he’s gotten that chance with The Holdovers, a dramatic comedy directed by Payne. After getting to spend more time on the set with Payne during filming on the new movie, Giamatti said he thinks Payne’s only gotten better as a director in the two decades since they first worked together. (Click on the media bar below to hear Paul Giamatti) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Paul-_Giamatti_Alexander_Payne_The_Holdovers_.mp3 The Holdovers is now playing in theaters.
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Credit: Seacia Pavao / © 2023 Focus Features LLC After working with Alexander Payne in Sideways, Paul Giamatti had long hoped he would get to work with Payne again. Now, he’s gotten that chance with The Holdovers, a dramatic comedy directed by Payne. After getting to spend more time on the set with Payne during filming on the new movie, Giamatti said he thinks Payne’s only gotten better as a director in the two decades since they first worked together. (Click on the media bar below to hear Paul Giamatti) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Paul-_Giamatti_Alexander_Payne_The_Holdovers_.mp3 The Holdovers is now playing in theaters.
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- 12/1/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
From left: The Hateful Eight (The Weinstein Company), The Killer (Netflix), I Care A Lot (Seacia Pavao/Netflix), Uncut Gems (A24)Graphic: The A.V. Club
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the...
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the...
- 11/11/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Director Alexander Payne with stars Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph on the set of The HangoversPhoto: Seacia Pavao (Focus Features)
Christmas is coming early for cinephiles this year. The Holdovers, the long-awaited reteaming of classic comedy duo Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne, rolls out in theaters nationwide on November...
Christmas is coming early for cinephiles this year. The Holdovers, the long-awaited reteaming of classic comedy duo Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne, rolls out in theaters nationwide on November...
- 11/9/2023
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
Alexander Payne’s career of quietly incisive, off-kilter human comedies has rarely met a tonal match quite so perfect as actor Paul Giamatti.
The Oscar-nominated actor so memorably captured the absurdity, heartache and rage of fledgling middle age in Payne’s Oscar-winning “Sideways” that it seemed only a matter of time before he and the filmmaker found their way back together.
To hear Payne tell it, giving Giamatti another starring vehicle with “The Holdovers” was a reunion 20 years in the making.
“I’ve had a bunch of good actors in my career and been really lucky, and they’ve all been really great and cooperative and stuff, but I have a special place in my heart for Paul Giamatti, because we really got on great 20 years ago,” Payne told TheWrap, putting on a country twang to hit the point home. “I’ve been looking for the time to work with...
The Oscar-nominated actor so memorably captured the absurdity, heartache and rage of fledgling middle age in Payne’s Oscar-winning “Sideways” that it seemed only a matter of time before he and the filmmaker found their way back together.
To hear Payne tell it, giving Giamatti another starring vehicle with “The Holdovers” was a reunion 20 years in the making.
“I’ve had a bunch of good actors in my career and been really lucky, and they’ve all been really great and cooperative and stuff, but I have a special place in my heart for Paul Giamatti, because we really got on great 20 years ago,” Payne told TheWrap, putting on a country twang to hit the point home. “I’ve been looking for the time to work with...
- 11/6/2023
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
On a weekend when “Five Weeks at Freddy’s” (Universal) dropped 76 percent and overall grosses were $65 million on a traditionally prime release date, it could have been worse. With limited studio alternatives, there were some good holds among longer-run films, and solid expansions for “Priscilla” (A24) and “The Holdovers” (Focus). “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” (AMC) showed particular strength with a 13 percent drop in its fourth weekend.
“Freddy’s” added $19.4 million after its unexpectedly massive opening. It’s also a massive fall — one of the biggest ever for its level of initial gross, and more so for a film with an A- Cinemascore. Still, let’s be honest: A month ago, a prediction of “Freddy’s” grossing nearly $20 million its second weekend would be considered delusional.
The Blumhouse videogame adaptation is now at $113 million domestic, $217 million total worldwide off a film budgeted at $20 million pre-marketing. Already, that’s a massive...
“Freddy’s” added $19.4 million after its unexpectedly massive opening. It’s also a massive fall — one of the biggest ever for its level of initial gross, and more so for a film with an A- Cinemascore. Still, let’s be honest: A month ago, a prediction of “Freddy’s” grossing nearly $20 million its second weekend would be considered delusional.
The Blumhouse videogame adaptation is now at $113 million domestic, $217 million total worldwide off a film budgeted at $20 million pre-marketing. Already, that’s a massive...
- 11/5/2023
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
There may be nothing more boomer than comparing Gen Z’s box-office juggernaut to a movie released before their parents were born. Nevertheless, that’s what this boomer is doing: The staggering opening for “Five Nights at Freddy’s” (Universal) is as shocking as the success of “Easy Rider” 54 years ago for its sense of upheaval and disruption.
Like Peter Fonda’s low-budget motorcycle cross-country drama “Easy Rider” in 1969, we are seeing moviegoers under 25 embrace a film as their own while it leaves older viewers baffled. Similarly, its success will have significant strategic impact for the future of production and distribution.
Blumhouse Productions’ $20 million video game adaptation opened to an estimated $78 million and $152 million worldwide. With its lower ticket prices, that total translates to a bigger audience than the first weekends of either “Taylor Swift The Eras Tour” (AMC) or “Oppenheimer” (Universal).
It’s a shocker. Sure, rules can be broken...
Like Peter Fonda’s low-budget motorcycle cross-country drama “Easy Rider” in 1969, we are seeing moviegoers under 25 embrace a film as their own while it leaves older viewers baffled. Similarly, its success will have significant strategic impact for the future of production and distribution.
Blumhouse Productions’ $20 million video game adaptation opened to an estimated $78 million and $152 million worldwide. With its lower ticket prices, that total translates to a bigger audience than the first weekends of either “Taylor Swift The Eras Tour” (AMC) or “Oppenheimer” (Universal).
It’s a shocker. Sure, rules can be broken...
- 10/29/2023
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
The list of directors who get to do exactly what they want onscreen is not long. Even big-budget, A-list directors not named Scorsese or Nolan must work within commercial IP.
Alexander Payne is different. For one, his budgets have never exceeded eight figures or even close For another, this final-cut pro is always nurturing multiple projects in various stages of completion. Payne has so many knocking around in his head that during our Zoom interview he has to keep reminding himself which film he’s discussing.
The state of his development slate is “undisciplined,” he said. “When I have the time to sit down and work on it and make the time. You get these questions, like: ‘What is your daily writing routine?’ Well, none. I have to say: ‘I’m directing now,’ or ‘I’m editing now.’ I have to tell myself, ‘Oh, I’m writing now.'”
“The Holdovers” gestated for years.
Alexander Payne is different. For one, his budgets have never exceeded eight figures or even close For another, this final-cut pro is always nurturing multiple projects in various stages of completion. Payne has so many knocking around in his head that during our Zoom interview he has to keep reminding himself which film he’s discussing.
The state of his development slate is “undisciplined,” he said. “When I have the time to sit down and work on it and make the time. You get these questions, like: ‘What is your daily writing routine?’ Well, none. I have to say: ‘I’m directing now,’ or ‘I’m editing now.’ I have to tell myself, ‘Oh, I’m writing now.'”
“The Holdovers” gestated for years.
- 10/25/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
HO_00837_R (l-r.) Director Alexander Payne and actors Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph on the set of their film The Holdovers, a Focus Features release. Credit: Seacia Pavao / © 2023 Focus Features LLC
Cinema St. Louis (Csl) is thrilled to unveil the 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff), set to captivate audiences from November 9th to 19th at the historic Hi-Pointe Theatre, Csl’s new forever home, as well as at multiple venues across the city including the Alamo Drafthouse, Webster University, Washington University and more.
Highlights of this year’s fest include:
Sliff’s Opening Night Party on 11/9 at the Hi-Pointe, where the fest will celebrate 50 Years of Hip-Hop in St. Louis, as explored through both film and music Signe Baumane on hand to accept this year’s Women in Film Award at a showing of her newest film, “My Love Affair with Marriage” on 11/11 La Passion de Dodin Bouffant...
Cinema St. Louis (Csl) is thrilled to unveil the 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff), set to captivate audiences from November 9th to 19th at the historic Hi-Pointe Theatre, Csl’s new forever home, as well as at multiple venues across the city including the Alamo Drafthouse, Webster University, Washington University and more.
Highlights of this year’s fest include:
Sliff’s Opening Night Party on 11/9 at the Hi-Pointe, where the fest will celebrate 50 Years of Hip-Hop in St. Louis, as explored through both film and music Signe Baumane on hand to accept this year’s Women in Film Award at a showing of her newest film, “My Love Affair with Marriage” on 11/11 La Passion de Dodin Bouffant...
- 10/6/2023
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With the early fall festivals Venice, Telluride, and Toronto in the rear view, we have now screened (most) of the key players in the upcoming Oscar race. We will catch up with some key films at the New York Film Festival, though, which is selling tickets fast to such buzzy titles as the September 29 opener, Todd Haynes’ Cannes premiere “May December” (Netflix), starring Best Actress Oscar-winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, which could use a fresh boost; Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein marital drama “Maestro” (Netflix), costarring Cooper and Carey Mulligan; Garth Davis’ dystopian “Foe” (Amazon), starring Irish actors Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan with American accents (sort of); and the October 15 closer, Michael Mann’s Venice biopic “Ferrari” (Neon), starring Oscar nominee Adam Driver and winner Penelope Cruz (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”).
But until then, here’s how the fall festival Oscar contenders played out, ahead of NYFF and such...
But until then, here’s how the fall festival Oscar contenders played out, ahead of NYFF and such...
- 9/28/2023
- by Anne Thompson and Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Dominic Sessa stars as Angus Tully and Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham in director Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2023 Focus Features LLC
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-holdovers
From this first trailer, this film looks delightful, the cast spot-on and the story will pull at your heart-strings.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is best known for her work in Dolemite Is My Name (2019) as Lady Reed and The United States vs. Billie Holiday...
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-holdovers
From this first trailer, this film looks delightful, the cast spot-on and the story will pull at your heart-strings.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is best known for her work in Dolemite Is My Name (2019) as Lady Reed and The United States vs. Billie Holiday...
- 7/18/2023
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Focus Features has just released the trailer for director Alexander Payne’s new film The Holdovers. The film will be in select theater in New York and Los Angeles on October 27th, in limited release on November 3rd, and in theaters nationwide on November 3rd.
Synopsis: From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them, a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa), and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
Dominic Sessa and Da’Vine in “The Holdovers,” a Focus Features release.
Credit: Seacia Pavao/© 2023 Focus Features LLC.
About The Film
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, introducing Dominic...
Synopsis: From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them, a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa), and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
Dominic Sessa and Da’Vine in “The Holdovers,” a Focus Features release.
Credit: Seacia Pavao/© 2023 Focus Features LLC.
About The Film
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, introducing Dominic...
- 7/18/2023
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
Dexter: New Blood may have ended with Dexter Morgan’s death, but the idea of Michael C. Hall’s character will return to TV screens soon enough. Hall’s involvement in Showtime’s planned New Blood Season 2 and the prequel series Origins isn’t confirmed yet. But the network has shared some details about the second season of New Blood and the serial killer’s prequel story. Here’s what we know about the next season of Dexter: New Blood and the prequel series Dexter: Origins.
Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan | Seacia Pavao/Showtime ‘Dexter: New Blood’ Season 2 is confirmed
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed another season of Dexter: New Blood is in the works at Showtime. Paramount Global executive Chris McCarthy announced Showtime is developing a new version of Dexter: New Blood. It will “depict the ongoing emergence of Dexter’s son Harrison [Jack Alcott].”
Clyde Phillips, who oversaw...
Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan | Seacia Pavao/Showtime ‘Dexter: New Blood’ Season 2 is confirmed
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed another season of Dexter: New Blood is in the works at Showtime. Paramount Global executive Chris McCarthy announced Showtime is developing a new version of Dexter: New Blood. It will “depict the ongoing emergence of Dexter’s son Harrison [Jack Alcott].”
Clyde Phillips, who oversaw...
- 2/7/2023
- by Lauren Anderson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Showtime is letting dead things lie as the premium channel kills off hopes for a second season of Dexter: New Blood, the sequel spinoff to their former Emmy darling, Dexter. According to TV Line, New Blood is officially dead in the water as Showtime plans to pivot with its future for the tormented serial killer. As fans will recall, Dexter ran on Showtime from 2006 to 2013 and it followed the criminal exploits of serial killer Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall). Following a less-than-satisfying finale, viewers finally got some answers about what happened to Dexter following the original show’s run when the sequel spinoff debuted in 2022. (Credit: Seacia Pavao/Showtime) The show’s concluding episode certainly set up a path for Dexter’s son Harrison (Jack Alcott) who reunited with him partway through the season. After Dexter’s misdeeds in town, Harrison follows in dear old dad’s footsteps, killing the titular serial killer.
- 1/31/2023
- TV Insider
It’s about bloody time! Die-hard Dexter fans who didn’t love the 2006–13 series’ controversial finale — principled serial killer Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) faked his death and went into hiding in Oregon — get a do-over with this 10-episode revival. The former Miami Pd blood spatter expert now resides in idyllic (fictional) Iron Lake, New York, under the name Jim Lindsay (a nod to Dexter novelist Jeff Lindsay). He “is trying to be as innocuous and untempted [to kill] as possible,” explains exec producer Clyde Phillips. (Credit: Seacia Pavao/Showtime) But this truck-stop town “is sort of a Bermuda Triangle of women who go missing.” Which means Dexter’s Dark Passenger — the inner voice that leads him to eliminate bad guys — can’t be ignored. Continues Phillips: “This is Dexter, so people are going to die.” One target: the imposing Kurt Caldwell (Clancy Brown), who “has too much bad history.” Expect to see a few familiar faces,...
- 9/12/2021
- TV Insider
Dexter: New Blood is making way for some old blood as the newest trailer released by Showtime unveils the return of Jennifer Carpenter as his adoptive sister Debra Morgan. The revealing teaser sees Michael C. Hall‘s titular killer living under the alias of James Lindsay in the small fictional town of Iron Lake, New York. Set 10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, his life has changed a lot since taking on his new identity. (Credit: Seacia Pavao/Showtime) Embracing a romance with the town’s police chief Angela Bishop (Julia Jones), Dexter is attempting to put his past behind him, but old habits die hard. As the trailer teases a slew of missing young people without any rhyme or reason for their disappearances, Dexter’s Dark Passenger begins to awaken. Whispering in his ear is the apparent ghost of Debra who tells Dexter, “You are a serial killer,...
- 9/9/2021
- TV Insider
Eight years following the first season of NOS4A2, Charlie Manx is back with a vengeance and Vic McQueen is determined to stop him once and for all in the official trailer for the show's second season.
An adaptation of Joe Hill's novel of the same name, NOS4A2 Season 2 will premiere with back-to-back episodes on Sunday, June 21st on AMC and BBC America (moving a few weeks from its previous June 1st premiere date).
You can check out the new trailer and photos below, and visit our online hub to catch up on our previous coverage of NOS4A2 Season 2.
"AMC today released the official trailer and new episodic images for season two of supernatural horror series NOS4A2, which premieres on Sunday, June 21 at 10:00pm Et/9c on AMC and BBC America. The series’ second season stars Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto and rising star Ashleigh Cummings, along with Jahkara Smith,...
An adaptation of Joe Hill's novel of the same name, NOS4A2 Season 2 will premiere with back-to-back episodes on Sunday, June 21st on AMC and BBC America (moving a few weeks from its previous June 1st premiere date).
You can check out the new trailer and photos below, and visit our online hub to catch up on our previous coverage of NOS4A2 Season 2.
"AMC today released the official trailer and new episodic images for season two of supernatural horror series NOS4A2, which premieres on Sunday, June 21 at 10:00pm Et/9c on AMC and BBC America. The series’ second season stars Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto and rising star Ashleigh Cummings, along with Jahkara Smith,...
- 5/26/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Sienna Miller as Deb in American Woman. Photo Credit: Seacia Pavao. Courtesy of Roadside Attractions
Sienna Miller stars as a single mother in rural small town in Pennsylvania whose life is transformed by a tragic event. American Woman is both a character study and blue-collar family drama. It is the kind of human drama that some worry is being squeezed out of theaters by blockbuster action and superhero movies. The film follows the ups and downs in this working-class woman’s life over several years, but while it has length, it does not have as much depth, although it does treat the characters with respect. Sienna Miller turns in a fine performance but director Jake Scott never lets us really get inside the head of this American woman.
Deb Callahan (Miller) is a 32-year-old woman who still acts a bit like a teen, despite being the single parent of a teen herself.
Sienna Miller stars as a single mother in rural small town in Pennsylvania whose life is transformed by a tragic event. American Woman is both a character study and blue-collar family drama. It is the kind of human drama that some worry is being squeezed out of theaters by blockbuster action and superhero movies. The film follows the ups and downs in this working-class woman’s life over several years, but while it has length, it does not have as much depth, although it does treat the characters with respect. Sienna Miller turns in a fine performance but director Jake Scott never lets us really get inside the head of this American woman.
Deb Callahan (Miller) is a 32-year-old woman who still acts a bit like a teen, despite being the single parent of a teen herself.
- 6/14/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
When Mickey’s crazy stepson Leon is killed in a construction ‘accident’, nobody in the working class neighborhood of God’s Pocket is sorry he’s gone. Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boy’s mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a life and death struggle between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay.
The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins and John Turturro.
Acclaimed actor John Slattery makes an impressive jump behind the camera with an assured directorial debut that shows he has a razor-sharp eye for conveying the absurdity, cruelty, desperation, and tragic optimism of the people he portrays. Like life, his scenes seamlessly fuse humor and heartbreak, but it’s Slattery’s wit and confident style that make the portrait so authentic.
The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins and John Turturro.
Acclaimed actor John Slattery makes an impressive jump behind the camera with an assured directorial debut that shows he has a razor-sharp eye for conveying the absurdity, cruelty, desperation, and tragic optimism of the people he portrays. Like life, his scenes seamlessly fuse humor and heartbreak, but it’s Slattery’s wit and confident style that make the portrait so authentic.
- 5/12/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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