After the tumultuous events of the show’s fifth episode, M. Night Shyamalan, executive producer on FOX’s Wayward Pines (Thursdays, 9/8C), spoke with a group of journalists/bloggers about thosee revelations and why they were made. He also teased the second half of the season (as much as he could). If you’ve been DVRing the show, you […]
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FOX Gives You Wayward Pines In Five Minutes!
If you’ve been watching Wayward Pines (FOX, Thursdays, 9/8C), you know what a leap the show took last week. If you haven’t been watching, you’re missing one weird and wonderfully odd show. What started off as some hybrid of The Prisoner and Twin Peaks suddenly became something else entirely. With Wayward Pines pre-empted this week, […]
Wayward Pines – Good Weird Fun!
While on assignment to find two fellow Secret Service agents who have gone missing, Special Agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a forest of pine trees. He stumbles into the lovely town of Wayward Pines shortly thereafter. Then things go terribly awry. From the Lost-ian opening shot to the Twin Peaks-like mountain town to echoes […]
M. Night Shyamalan Talks the Whys and Wherefores of Wayward Pines!
M. Night Shyamalan, at his best, has given us twisty horror (The Sixth Sense) and possibly the best superhero origin story so far (Unbreakable). While his love of twist endings may have led to some (much) less successful movies, he has always produced films that weren’t pale imitations of what was already out there. His […]
FOX’s Wayward Pines Gets Global Preview!
In its first ever global preview event, FOX is making the series premiere of M. Night Shyamalan’s Wayward Pines available for free via pay-TV providers FOX NOW and FOX.com, domestically, and Facebook worldwide on pay-tv providers FOX Play and International FOX.com pages. The eerie series follows a Secret Service agent (Matt Dillon) as he tries to investigate […]
Killer Trailer: Wayward Pines!
A Secret Service agent, looking for two agents who have gone missing, finds himself in Wayward Pines – seemingly a perfect small town. Perfect, that is, until he discovers he can’t leave – and receives an ominous phone call… Wayward Pines stars Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino and Terrence Howard. It premiers on FOX on Thursday, May 14th […]
After Earth Only Soars in Brief Moments!
The story comes from Will Smith and he and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith are among its producers – so there’s definitely the possibility that After Earth is some hybrid of vanity/ego project. While it’s not the greatest movie Smith has ever been in (see: Wild Wild West), neither is it the turkey that director […]
2011 Razzies: Shyamalan Leads The Way!
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender was the big winner at 2011 Golden Raspberry Awards [The Razzies] – capturing Worst Picture, Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. Runner-up Sex and the City 2 took Worst Actress, Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel. Somehow, the […]
The Last Airbender: Book One: Water – It’s Not as Bad as Lady in the Water!
The question is this: how does one adapt over four hundred minutes of story from twenty episodes of an excellent animated series into a one hundred-minute movie? The answer is, apparently, not very well. A slightly less pressing question might be: why did anyone think a hastily applied 3D conversion would help this muddled excuse […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Happening: Almost… by Sheldon Wiebe
Any great mystery, espionage or horror movie lives or dies on its writer and director combining to provide suspense – the ominous shadow here, the piercing music sting there – while creating characters we can relate to and placing them in situations that leave them more and more unable to cope, or adapt, until some […]