Taboo (FX, Tuesdays, 10/9C) continues to add layers of character and suspense as it creeps into darker and darker territory. Blacklisted, James Delaney takes alternative roads to continue his plans to keep the family trading company alive, while the reveal of his secret affair with his half-sister, Zilpha, leads to an unsettling result for her. […]
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Taboo Has Become Must-See TV!
The second episode of Taboo (FX, Tuesdays, 10/9C) finds James Delaney setting out to make his plans a reality. Suggestions made in the series premiere are affirmed and dangers encountered. The unfolding of events continues at its measured pace, drawing us in with its details and atmosphere. The first scene of this week’s episode confirms […]
Taboo: Dickensian Drama Gives FX Quality Period Piece!
A hooded figure rows ashore in the rain. That same figure digs in the earth before he stands and we see James Keziah Delaney – though we don’t learn his name just yet. Next he enters a room in which is laid out a corpse with coins over its eyes – which he takes and […]
Tom Hardy’s FX Series Taboo To Premiere In January!
FX original drama Taboo – starring Tom Hardy – will premiere on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 (10/9C). The series, set in 1814, follows James Keziah Delaney, who has returned home to London from Africa to inherit his father’s shipping empire – or what’s left of it. The series was created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), Hardy and […]
Poisonous Teaser: Taboo!
James Keziah Delaney returns to London to take up the trading company he’s inherited from his father. Unfortunately, circumstances have that business a bit of a poisoned chalice. Fortunately, Delaney is ‘a very dangerous man to know’ (even if he does say so himself). Taboo is coming soon to FX. Check out the new trailer […]
Mad Max: Fury Road – Gonzo Chase Movie Is Pure Max!
George Miller has done something genuinely impressive with Mad Max: Fury Road – he’s made Max part of an ensemble – and not even the biggest part of the ensemble – and it works. Brilliantly! Fury Road is thinly plotted – a tyrant’s five breeding wives are taken to freedom by a formerly trusted female […]
Insane Trailer: Mad Max: Fury Road!
The new trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road has just been released by Warner Bros. If the movie is half as much fun, it’ll be killer! Check it out after the jump. Mad Max: Fury Road
Troubling Trailer: Child 44!
1953: A disgraced Russian cop (he wouldn’t denounce his wife s a traitor) is saddled with the investigation into the ‘accidental’ death of a young boy – but the boy was clearly murdered. His investigation leads to the discovery of others, also ignored or covered up – ‘murder is a capitalist disease!’ Tom Hardy stars […]
Toronto Film Critics Name Boyhood Best Film!
Boyhood picked up three awards from the Toronto Film Critics Association last night – Best Film, Best Director – Richard Linklater, and Best Supporting Actress – Patricia Arquette. Tom Hardy took Best Actor honors for Locke; Marion Cotillar was named Best actress for her work in The Immigrant, and J.K. Simmons got Best Supporting Actor […]
Mayhem Trailer: Mad Max: Fury Road!
George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road has a new trailer and it is one crazy ride! Buckle up and check it out after the jump. Mad Max Fury Road stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron and will be in theaters on May, 2015.
The Drop: James Gandolfini’s Fine Finale; Tom Hardy’s Best Yet!
If you see a gun in the first act of a movie, it must go off in the third. I’m paraphrasing there, The Drop does in fact show you a gun in the first act – more than one, actually – and, from there, the movie moves implacably to its inevitable, yet not quite expected […]