Month: August 2015
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Review: Fear The Walking Dead
Fear The Walking Dead is a 9 episode prequel to The Walking Dead and currently showing on AMC prior to the opening of the new season of The Walking Dead. So far, there have been two episodes. This series is set in Los Angeles at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse we’ve seen so much…
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Watch This: Trailer for He Named Me Malala
He Named Me Malala is a documentary by Davis Guggenheim about Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai. After the Taliban tried to kill her for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education, Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai emerged as a leading advocate for children’s rights and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Now 18, Malala is…
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The New Season on Independent Lens
It made the news when Lois Vossen was promoted to executive producer of the PBS documentary series Independent Lens. That makes Vossen one of the top ranking people at PBS. The series she’ll head caught my attention when I saw the articles about her promotion. The commitment to independent film she talks about is wonderful…
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The Wiz LIVE Announces Cast
NBC will air The Wiz LIVE! in December and the casting announcements so far have been inspiring. Dorothy will be newcomer Shanice Williams. Williams will be on stage with Mary J. Blige as Evillene, Queen Latifah as The Wiz, David Alan Grier as the Cowardly Lion, Uzo Aduba as Glinda, Amber Riley as Addaperle, and…
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Happy Valley S 2 Now Filming: New Series Cast Revealed
And here… we… go! #HappyValley pic.twitter.com/62ZR0etf3j — Red Production Co. (@RedProductionCo) August 24, 2015 With this short note, Twitter carried the announcement of the beginning of filming for season 2 of the BBC drama Happy Valley. The 6 episode season again stars Sarah Lancashire as police sergeant Catherine Cawood. Returning are James Norton as Tommy…
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3 Reasons to Love Dark Matter
Dark Matter stars Roger R. Cross, Jodelle Ferland, Anthony Lemke, Zoie Palmer, Melissa O’Neil, Marc Bendavid, and Alex Mallari Jr. as the characters Six, Five, Three, The Android, Two, One, and Four. Here are 3 reasons why I love this sci fi space drama. 1. Nobody Knows Who They Are Six people and and a…
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Ties That Bind
I’ve watched a couple of episodes of Ties That Bind. It’s a family story. The mom Allison McLean (Kelli Williams) is a cop. Jonathan Scarfe is her husband Matt. They have two teens of their own. When Allison puts her brother (Luke Perry) behind bars while the mother of her brother’s two kids is in rehab,…
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Yahoo!: The Rise of the Female Superhero
Yahoo! produced an excellent report called The Rise of the Female Superhero. It features writers, editors, actors, producers, and fans talking about female superheroes. You may have already seen it on the Yahoo! site, but I tried to watch it several times last week and had numerous problems getting it to work. (Possibly because Yahoo!…
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Watch This: Season 4 Preview and Sneak Peek for Longmire
Longmire was dropped by its old network after 3 seasons and was picked up amid a great fan outburst by Netflix. Season 4 will be starting on Netflix on September 10. In the meantime, you can watch all of the first 3 seasons on Netflix. To quote Longmire, “It’s not that you come back, it’s…
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Watch This: Trailer for Carol
Carol is a love story set in the 1950s. It stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as the two lovers. Back in the 50s, we would have called that “forbidden love.”