Oliver Platt plays supermarket king, Stavros Milos on FX’s hit show, Fargo (Tuesdays, 10/9C). Recently he spoke with a group of journalists/bloggers about how Calgary’s coldest winter in twenty years helped keep things real on the shoot – and what it takes to play a character like Stavros, who has such a fascinating arc on […]
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Saul Goodman Goes to Fargo!
Breaking Bad’s Bob Odenkirk is among four actors named as new cast members on FX’s Fargo miniseries. He, Oliver Platt, Kate Walsh and Glenn Howerton join a cast that already includes Billy nob Thornton, Martin Freeman and Colin Hanks. For details, check out the press release after the jump.
DVD: Cancer Isn’t Funny But The Big C Is!
Showtime’s relentlessly peculiar comedy The Big C is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Centered around the character of Cathy Jamison, it is the story of how a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer [stage four melanoma] only learns how to live once she learns she’s dying.
TELEVISION: Oscar®-Nominee Gabourey Sidibe Joins Showtime Series The Big C!
Gabourey Sidibe, Academy Award® Best Actress nominee for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, is joining the cast of Showtime’s upcoming half-hour series The Big C in a recurring role. The Big C stars multiple-award winner Laura Linney as a repressed wife and mother named Cathy who begins to reclaim her life after […]
MOVIE REVIEW: 2012 – Great Bad B-Movie Fun on an Epic Scale!
It starts with an Indian geologist, Dr. Satnam Tsurutami [Jimy Mistry] alerting American geologist Dr. Adrian Helmsley [Chiwetal Ejiofor] of rising temperatures in the world’s deepest copper mine [handily already mined out]. This is tied into abnormally strong sun flares and sufficient neutrinos that they have a mutating effect… Well, you get the idea. Scientific […]