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Gary Cole is “An Officer and a Murderer” in Lifetime’s harrowing true-crime film

July 20, 2012 Lori Acken

I got my first — and terrifyingly memorable — look at Gary Cole in 1984, when I was a college girl living in a ramshackle house with a bunch of other college girls, and he starred in Fatal Vision, the chilling NBC miniseries about the case of Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald, a real-life doctor and Green Beret convicted of killing his family. The telefilm was a smash and Cole went on to have one of the most varied and prolific film and television careers in the business, including standout roles in The West Wing, Entourage, Talladega Nights … and, of course, […]

See the cast of “Spartacus: War of the Damned” in gladiator boot camp

July 20, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Are you not entertained? Well, the cast of Starz’s Spartacus: War of the Damned is doing its best to make sure you will be when the final season of the blood-soaked series debuts in January. Stars like Lima McIntyre, Manu Bennett, Dustin Clare and Cynthia Addai-Robinson are put through their paces, running drills, flipping tires, and testing their limits in order to get in shape for the upcoming season’s large-scale battle scenes. Here’s a taste of what they went through:

“The Newsroom” Episode 4 recap: Love, Gun

July 17, 2012 Matthew Grimm

Kathryn Hahn popped up on Episode 4 of The Newsroom, playing a rambunctious, randy, pistol-packing date of curmudgeonly hero Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels). McAvoy, you’ll recall, is a conservative TV anchorman who, in midlife pique, has decided to tell the truth, working in tandem with MacKenzie (Emily Mortimer) his former girlfriend-who-blew-up-the-relationship-by-schtupping-her-ex, and their unabashed truthtelling putting both on a hot-seat. As important, Kathryn Hahn was on-screen for two minutes. I point this out because Kathryn Hahn rules your face, whether you know it or not. But there was too much going on in this week’s episode to give Kathryn Hahn anything […]

“Breaking Bad” Season 5 premiere recap

July 16, 2012 Matthew Grimm

A scruffy, stolid, bespectacled guy gabs absently with a chatty Denny’s waitress. He makes the number 52 with the bacon on his plate. It is his birthday, he says, which she says rates him a free meal. He meets a guy in the bathroom, exchanges money for a car-key, leaves a hundred for his free birthday breakfast and exits to appraise the trunk full of the heavy machine gun and cache of ammunition he just purchased. Thus begins the long-anticipated Season 5 of AMC’s Breaking Bad, creator Vince Gilligan telling us again subtly what he has been telling us for […]

Comic-Con 2012: “Fringe” Season 5 preview

July 15, 2012 StayTuned Staff

To put an exclamation point on the year that saw TV overtake movies as Comic-Con’s biggest attraction, the cast of Fringe held court in the massive Hall H to show a hoard of ardent fans a sneak peek at the fifth and final season of the sci-fi series that got its start at Comic-Con’s inaugural Preview Night four years ago. Here is what audiences saw.

Comic-Con 2012: “Game of Thrones” introduces 14 new cast members for Season 3

July 14, 2012 StayTuned Staff

The runaway HBO fantasy hit Game of Thrones is widening its universe for Season 3, introducing a whopping 14 new cast members. The audience at Comic-Con in San Diego got a sneak peek at the actors and actresses playing these new characters, and here is what they saw.

HBO’s “The Newsroom” provides enough Sorkinisms but needs more darkness

July 13, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor

By Matthew Grimm I want to like Aaron Sorkin’s latest exercise in being America’s conscience. I want to like The Newsroom because Emily Mortimer’s eyes melt my soul and because, in an age where Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have become the unqualified best news hour on TV by routinely shaming the institution of telejournalism, it seems to beg for an HBO/Showtime/AMC treatment. I want to see a gutty deconstruction of how it has come to fail on so many levels at its mission of effecting the informed citizenry that makes democracy work. The Newsroom flirts with this. But as […]

Comic-Con 2012: “Revolution” review

July 12, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Maybe J.J. Abrams has been watching too many episodes of Life After People, or reading Alan Weisman’s landmark book The World Without Us. Not that I’m complaining, nor will viewers, I imagine, once his latest TV venture, Revolution, hits the small screen. Taking place 15 years after a worldwide blackout deprived humanity of all use of electricity — no iPhones, no TVs, no lights, not even any batteries — the leftover population is struggling to make a new civilization by living in pre-20th century conditions. Goat herders and corn growers now line the streets of Chicago, and holistic healers are all […]

Comic-Con 2012: “Cult” review

July 11, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Continuing The CW’s descent into darkness that began with the surprisingly lurid Arrow, Cult is a meta-upon-meta scare series that tries to blur the line between what’s real and what’s paranoid fantasy. A small but devoted fan base is obsessed, to put it lightly, with the series Cult, which airs on The CW (!). It’s about a messianic figure named Billy Grimm (Robert Knepper) whose followers obey him with a Manson-esque furor. But there’s one former follower, Kelly (Alona Tal), who is now with law enforcement and is trying to save some of her family members still in Billly’s grasp, […]

Comic-Con 2012: “The Following” review

July 11, 2012 StayTuned Staff

If you knew there was only one series this fall created by Kevin Williamson, the guru behind Scream and The Vampire Diaries, it’s doubtful you’d think it was this one. Cult, a CW show that plays with horror-movie tropes, seems a much more likely candidate, but apparently Williamson had a stone in his shoe and felt like conjuring up something a lot nastier. The Following is a thriller that pulls no punches, casting Kevin Bacon as a washed-up former FBI agent Ryan Hardy, whose epic battle with the Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) left him battered and […]