The Coen Brothers preview their idiosyncratic Western vision with a new trailer for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the duo’s upcoming Netflix anthology film. “Well, folks, things have a way of escalating our here in the west,” says Tim Blake Nelson’s titular, quick-witted gunslinger, introducing a stylish montage from the …
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For decades, television shows existed in two distinct states – alive or dead. Other than fan fiction, there wasn’t much hope for a canceled show to resurface. Not so anymore. Today, a television death sentence can be more easily commuted. Just ask fans of Brooklyn Nine-Nine,Luciferand The Expanse, three shows …
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In the first episode of Altered Carbon, Netflix‘s bid for a big, dystopic sci-fi-blockbuster series, Takeshi Kovacs, played by Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman, drops to the floor, his naked body oozing out of body bag full of gelatinous preservatives that have kept this new corpus intact. With a fit of …
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It looked like any old Super Bowl movie trailer, just another 30-second spot dropping during one of the single most watched sports events of the year. The logo for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company pops up, old footage of Matt Reeves’ 2008 hit Cloverfield begins playing and then we …
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“I want you to know the only reason I’m consenting to this is because I wish to clear my name.” With those words, a twentysomething Brooklyn artist named Nola Darling introduced herself to the world – and, in the process, so did Spike Lee, a prodigiously talented twentysomething writer-director who …
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