Showtime has ordered the eight-part limited series GOOD LORD BIRD from Blumhouse Television, based on the National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird by bestselling author James McBride. Ethan Hawke will star as 19th-century abolitionist John Brown and is co-writing and executive producing with author and producer Mark Richard. Series details follow.
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Predestination – A Classic Time Travel Story!
A guy walks into a bar. The bartender asks what he’ll have. ‘Old Underwear. Leave the bottle,’ It’s a quiet night and the two begin to chat. When he’s about halfway through the bottle, the guy says, ‘I’ll bet you the rest of this bottle that I’ve got the best story you’ve ever heard.’ The […]
Memorable Trailer: Regression!
Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke have starred together in a horror movie (the things that come to you when you’re not looking), called Regression – directed by Alejandro Amenabar (The Others). Watson plays a young woman who has accused her father of an unspeakable crime – a crime he confesses to but does not remember […]
Blu-Ray: Heinlein Classic Becomes Predestination!
The Spierig Brothers have a distinctly skewed take on genre film – take their ‘vampires won’ film Daybreakers – and they make smart, unique entertainments. It is only natural, then, that they’d adapt the ultimate time travel short story – Robert A. Heinlein’s All You Zombies – for film. It’s one of the trickiest time […]
Biker Movie Trailer: Cymbeline!
William Shakespeare wrote a biker movie with an amazing cast ()! Who knew? Check out the trailer for Cymbeline following the jump.
Unsettling Trailer: Good Kill – War is a First-Person Shooter!
As one of the characters says in the trailer, ‘War is a first-person shooter.’ Good Kill is a unique war movie that looks at today’s drone warfare from the point of view of Tom Egan, a former combat pilot turned drone pilot, and asks just what does today’s warfare mean? Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz […]
Behind The Scenes: The Making of Boyhood!
Richard Linklater’s film Boyhood was shot, a bit at a time, over twelve years to capture the ups and downs in the life of a single boy and his family. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette – and introducing Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater, Boyhood is getting huge buzz during ‘awards season’ and has already […]
Wibbly-Wobbly Trailer: Predestintion – Tim Loops & Time Cops!
Ethan Hawke’s Predestination has finally been given a release – it’s already been seen in New Zealand and Australia, as well as on the festival circuit where it’s gotten some pretty decent reviews. Predestination is based on the classic Robert A. Heinlein short story, All You Zombies and was written and directed by The Spierig […]
First Look: Predestination!
On his last assignment, a Temproal Agent is sent after the one criminal mastermind he’s never been able to stop. Ethan Hawke is the Temporal Agent; Aussie newcomer Sarah Snook is a new recruit who is described as a predestination paradox. Predestined – based on the Robert A. Heinlein short story, All You Zombies – […]
Getaway Is Awful!
Surprise! Selena Gomez can act! Bigger (or lesser, depending on your point of view) surprise – it doesn’t matter because Getaway is so far beyond awful that it even fails to be bad enough to be good.
The Purge: Sleek, Suspenseful, Almost Successful Satire on a Dime!
The Purge is a fast-paced, occasionally thought-provoking bit of microbudget mayhem that postulates an America that is nearly unemployment and crime-free – the latter through the annual event that gives the movie its name: Purge Night – twelve hours during which any crime, up to and including murder, is legal.