Tag: history
Writers’ Room Developing Shogun Seasons 2 and 3
Variety reports that FX has a team of writers working on a potential second and third season of Shogun. This comes after news that FX was considering moving the series from limited to drama at the Emmys and producer-star Hiroyuki Sanada signing an ongoing contract. The show’s creators, Justin Mar...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Imagine Inglourious Basterds without the intelligent plotting, the engaging dialogue, the captivating characters, the witty humor, the expert pacing, the unbearable tension, or the palpable stakes, but with an undue smugness and the tone of the Suicide Squad movies, and you’ve got a good picture...
Read MoreREVIEW: Oppenheimer (2023)
Oppenheimer is a masterpiece. Usually, I don’t like to throw words like that around so soon after seeing a movie, but when this one ends, you’ve got to exhale. This a three-hour-long film about people discussing theoretical physics that’s more exhilarating than many thrillers, filled with basi...
Read MoreREVIEW: Chevalier (2023)
This weekend saw the release of Chevalier, the latest musician biopic. This time, the gimmick is that it’s a period piece telling the lost life story of a black classical musician and composer. I didn’t know anything about Chevalier; when I first heard the title, I assumed it referred to...
Read MoreREVIEW: American Crime Story: Impeachment – Episode 10, “The Wilderness”
*SPOILERS* In “The Wilderness,” Monica lands a book deal to pay off her lawyers. Ken Starr’s report is delivered to the steps of Congress. The report is also posted online for the reading pleasure of Ann Coulter. Contrary to Bill Clinton’s advisors’ claims, the Republicans begin drafting...
Read MoreNolan’s Next May Nab Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon
A spy and a superhero may help develop the atomic bomb. Deadline reports that Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. are in talks to join Christopher Nolan’s next movie, Oppenheimer. Based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film is about Oppenheimer an...
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