Tag: Kevin Spacey
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Watch This: Trailer for House of Cards, the final season
I confess, I stopped watching House of Cards when Trump was elected. It was all too much with a real-life horrible man in the White House and a character no better than him at the top of House of Cards.
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Watch This: Trailer for House of Cards season 5
House of Cards season 5 begins on Netflix on May 30. The creepy President Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) sounds even creepier in this trailer.
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Go Read a Play
My book club just read An Enemy of the People, an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It’s about a doctor who knows his town is about to open a spa using water polluted by a tannery upriver. The night before this discussion about a whistleblower, I watched Rachel Weisz in The Whistleblower. The…
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Watch This: Trailer for House of Cards season 4
House of Cards season 4 comes down to Underwood vs. Underwood in this trailer. Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are back as Frank and Claire Underwood in this political drama set in the world’s most ruthless centers of power.
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Brain Dump: House of Cards, Empire, The Americans, The Fosters
It’s a brain dump day. Just a little bit of one thing or another in disconnected ramblings. House of Cards When Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) finally has all the power in the world in his hands, he becomes a tyrant and a bigger ass than he ever was. And when Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) has…
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House of Cards: Trailers, Posters and Dates
The release date on Netflix for House of Cards is Friday, February 27. All 13 episodes of season 3 will be available then. In season 3, Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is the President, Claire (Robin Wright) is First Lady. I forget the exact details of how Frank Underwood manipulated himself into the Presidency. I must…
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How Best to Show Texting in a Film
I need the huge ridiculous Grandma fonts to be able to read texts in a film, so I appreciate the solutions that make the text nice and big. I could read almost none of the tiny-sized texts in House of Cards, but I did appreciate the looks that Kevin Spacey threw at the camera after…
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Reflections on House of Cards, season 2
Season 2 of House of Cards appeared on Netflix on Valentine’s Day. If it was meant to be a little billet-doux from Netflix to sweeten up our weekend, it failed the sweetness test. It more than made up for it in the drama department, however. I want to share my reactions to this series without…
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Trailer: House of Cards, season 2
If you have Netflix and haven’t watched the first season of House of Cards I recommend you watch it. It’s excellent in every possible way storytelling and acting can be excellent. The first season won 3 Emmy awards. Season 2 will be released February 14, 2014. Here’s the trailer from Netflix. Among the many featured…
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New TV season shows I can’t wait to see
The summer shows are fun and I love quite a few of them, but I’m eager for the new seasons of some old favorites. Here’s what I’m looking forward to. What about you? Lost Girl Season 4 can’t get here soon enough for me. It airs first in Canada on Showcase beginning in November. Then…