Based on the Joe R. Lansdale novel, Hap and Leonard: Two Bear Mambo finds Hap and Leonard looking to bring Hap’s latest ex, Florida Grange, home from Grovetown – where she seems to have gone missing. Grovetown – a slice of small town America from a simpler time – the Klan, segregation and worse… Hap […]
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How Long Have I Been Down Trailer: Altered Carbon!
After 250 years, a detective (Joel Kinnaman) is revived – in a new body – and asked to solve the murder of the man who hires him (James Purefoy). In a world where human consciousness can be uploaded to an unlimited number of bodies, this will not be as easy as it sounds. Altered Carbon […]
Louis Gossett Jr. Joins Hap and Leonard for Season Three!
The third season of SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard will be subtitled The Two-Bear Mambo and adapt that Joe R. Lansdale novel for television. Set once again in East Texas just before Christmas of 1989, Hap and Leonard scramble to locate Florida Grange, who has gone missing in the Klan-infested town of Grovetown. Oscar®-winner Louis Gossett […]
Production Begins on Season Three of Hap and Leonard!
SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard has begun production on its third season – which will be based on the Joe. R. Lansdale novel, The Two Bear Mambo. In season three, when Florida Grange goes missing in the Klan-infested town of Grovetown, Hap and Leonard set out to find her. Louis Gossett Jr., Corbin Bernsen and Andrew Dice […]
Hap and Leonard Renewed for The Two-Bear Mambo!
SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard has been renewed for a third season – subtitled The Two-Bear Mambo (inspired by the novel of the same name by Joe R. Lansdale). Hap and Leonard will return in 2018.
Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo – Wrapping Up Loose Ends Can Be Troubling!
The second season finale of Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo (Wednesdays, 10/9C) wraps up the last loose ends of the season – who was BB and who killed him? All of the details that have made this season so memorable – deeply unexpected circumstances; characters that are fully formed and relatable; that hint of the […]
Hap and Leonard – Framed!
The second episode of Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo (SundanceTV, Wednesdays, 10/9C) finds Leonard in jail and his lawyer, Florida and Hap trying to get him out. Ticking Mojo maintains the slow burn build of the mystery behind the body found under the floorboards of Leonard’s (Michael Kenneth Williams) house; presents a possible killer and […]
Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo Looms O’er The Ides of March!
Joe R. Lansdale’s southern fried, swamp rock duo of ne’er-do-wells, Hap and Leonard, have staked out a home on SundanceTV. After a critically-acclaimed first season that ended on a doozy of a cliffhanger (what was that thing doing in Uncle Chester’s basement, anyway?), the duo return – caught in the middle of a murder mystery with […]
Frankenstein Just Wants To Save Her Son!
Ever since Boris Karloff donned the flat top and neck bolts in James Whale’s Frankenstein, there have been many attempts to capture the essence of Mary Shelley’s Classic novel. Jed Mercurio’s 2007 take – available on home video today – updates the story with Dr. Victoria Frankenstein working to develop artificial organic organs for transplants […]
The Following: The Cult of the Serial Killer Takes a New Shape!
Fox’s ambitious new drama, The Following (Mondays, 9/8C), plays out as a gory chess match between a dour, taciturn ex-FBI agent and a cheerful, personable serial killer who goes from ‘making art’ to spawning a religion based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. It’s also the first television series to star Kevin Bacon, so […]
TELEVISION: Diamonds – Mini-Series Gallops Madly Off In All Directions!
ABC’s mini-series, Diamonds [Sunday and Tuesday, 9/8C]wants to be the Blood Diamonds of television when it’s more like a morality play that fuses that excellent film with the baser aspects of 24 – and throws in some primetime soap that’s significantly less than 99 & 44/100% pure [or fun…]. When Senator Joan Cameron’s daughter is […]