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“Boardwalk Empire” Season 3 preview

September 15, 2012 Matthew Grimm

So many razor-edged bad people swagger about Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire that, even having shed one of its primary POV characters, it is instantly, retoxifyingly addictive as the epic criminal sojourn of Nucky Thompson and Atlantic City resumes. Boardwalk Empire’s third season kicks off this Sunday, Sept. 16, on HBO with all the kaleidoscopic shifts of alliance, de rigueur corruption and entrancing sepia-inflected period production design that first wowed critics and audiences in the fall of 2010 and drew 18 Emmy nominations the next summer. Winter and fellow executive producers Martin Scorsese, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Tim Van Patten […]

“Spartacus: War of the Damned”: Go behind the scenes

September 14, 2012 StayTuned Staff

OK, it’s a ways away, but we know there are lots of you Spartacus fans out there, and that many of you will be looking for any insight into the new season that you can find. Starz isn’t giving away much in the way of secrets at this point — the season doesn’t actually begin until January — but they have released a “behind the scenes” video clip for Spartacus: War of the Damned, which will mark the final season of the Spartacus series. Currently filming in New Zealand, the new season begins following the defeat of Roman commander Gaius […]

“The Mob Doctor”: “ER” meets “The Sopranos” meets “Dr. Faustus”

September 14, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

“The Mob Doctor” diagnosis: Cheesy, pulpy drama From its opening — where a mob goon with a screwdriver impaled in his head needs an emergency removal — to its over-the-top acting of the pilot episode’s “guest star” Michael Rappaport, and everything in between, FOX’s new series The Mob Doctor, which premieres Sept. 17 at 9pm ET/PT and airs Mondays, is an odd pastiche of mob movie-meets medical drama-meets thriller, with some offbeat humor thrown in. “It’s going to be fun to see how far we can push her,” says co-creator and co-executive producer Rob Wright. Wright is referring to the series’ […]

ReelzChannel’s “Bomb Girls” brings Meg Tilly back into the spotlight

September 11, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Meg Tilly thought she would just dip her toe back into acting. Having last appeared onscreen in 1995, the Academy Award-nominated actress (Agnes of God) appeared in three episodes of the Syfy series Caprica, which reunited her with her old friend Eric Stoltz. Then came a stage production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Victoria, British Columbia. Finally, she was invited to hear about a new drama for Canadian television that would tell the little-known story of women who worked in munitions factories during World War II. Not expecting to say yes, but happy to listen, Tilly found herself […]

VOD Spotlight: Kristen Stewart talks “Snow White and the Huntsman”

September 11, 2012 StayTuned Staff

A number of fairy tales of old have been revisited on both the big and small screens in recent years, from the retelling of “Rapunzel” in Disney’s Tangled to the various tales that are touched on in ABC’s Once Upon a Time. But few are recast as darkly as Snow White & the Huntsman, starring the Twilight saga’s Kristen Stewart. A far cry from the 1937 Disney-animated film that set the standard for virtually all fairy tale motion pictures to follow, this reimagined version tells the story of the fairest woman in all the land whose beating heart is the […]

“Sons of Anarchy” continues streak of unlikely guest stars in Season 5

September 6, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Henry Rollins, Danny Trejo, Mitch Pileggi, Chuck Zito … these are the sort of tough guys you expect to see turning up on a show like Sons of Anarchy. The relentless, take-no-prisoners biker drama traffics heavily in R-rated-levels of sex, violence and profanity, so there is always a healthy amount of sweaty machismo on display. But what makes SOA exceptional is its ability to surprise. When it was announced that guest stars for the upcoming Season 5 would include Community funny man Joel McHale (as a con artist) and High School Musical alum Ashley Tisdale (as a high-priced hooker), viewers […]

“Breaking Bad” Season 5.1 recap: Gliding Over … and out

September 4, 2012 Matthew Grimm

Mike is gone. It seemed inevitable given the collision course he and Walter White were on from Episode 1 of Breaking Bad’s fifth season. It sucks because Jonathan Banks played Mike, the fixer’s fixer, with such brilliant rough-concrete surety as to be the compass of the ad hoc crime syndicate White (Bryan Cranston) presumed to create after assassinating their meth-kingpin boss, Gus, with jaw-dropping horror at Season 4’s end. Yet it is par for Breaking Bad because creator Vince Gilligan has a similar surety when it comes to finding those nerve-nexuses in narrative tension and seemingly following his characters’ natural […]

A&E medical thriller “Coma” reunites Geena Davis and Ridley Scott

August 31, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor

A&E’s two-part movie miniseries Coma (Sept. 3-4 at 9pm ET) is based on the Robin Cook novel and comes from executive producers Ridley and Tony Scott (Tony died in an apparent suicide on Aug. 19) boasting an all-star cast: Lauren Ambrose, Steven Pasquale, Geena Davis, James Woods, Ellen Burstyn and Richard Dreyfuss. The medical thriller follows a young doctor (Ambrose) who discovers that something sinister is going on at her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table. A&E medical thriller Coma reunites Geena Davis and Ridley Scott By John Crook […]

“The Newsroom” episode 10 recap: The Greater Fool

August 28, 2012 Matthew Grimm

What have we learned from Season 1 of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom? What we were supposed to learn was that some things matter and some things don’t. We know from the Real Life The Newsroom mirrors that America has been ushered off the rails by information gatekeepers who have undertaken a slow-creep away from measuring the truth of cartoonish official stories and toward prioritization of superfluous wank. This yields an apostasy from reason wherein society loses the capacity to solve problems because it actively prevents too many people from understanding what the problem, in fact, is. An important thing, for […]

VOD Spotlight: Zac Efron toughens up for “The Lucky One”

August 28, 2012 StayTuned Staff

It’s been a solid six years since Zac Efron burst onto the screen in the Disney Channel’s smash hit High School Musical. And even though he’s grown up considerably in those six years, it’s hard to imagine that skinny, musical kid as a buff Marine. But it’s a role he took on for the Scott Hicks-directed film The Lucky One, based on Nicholas Sparks’ (The Notebook) novel about a soldier, Logan, on his third tour in Iraq, who finds a picture of a smiling woman that becomes something of a good-luck talisman for him, and that he feels helps him […]