Hunger Games Catching Fire movie poster
Month: May 2013
Michael Mann twisted Miami Vice into something thrillingly new
It’s nice to see that the film Miami Vice (2006) is finally starting to get some recognition:
Then there’s the atmosphere. The movie opens and ends seemingly mid-scene; there is no set-up and no sense of resolution. The tone is doomy; writer-director Michael Mann—who executive-produced the TV series—refashions leads Tubbs and Crockett (Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) into weary professionals. The world they inhabit is murky and fatalistic; everything matters only insofar as it continues the flow of information (for the police) or the flow of cash (for the criminals). It’s a movie about drug dealers that features no drugs and a movie about cops that features no arrests. Its characters exist within an endless cycle of informants and moles, takedowns and retributions, seizures and countermeasures.
Arrested Development on Netflix Teaser
“I don’t pay you to put evil notions into my head. The ones already there don’t need company.”
– Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones, “The Bear and the Maiden Fair”
NBC, are you trying to kill Hannibal?
First NBC refuses to air the fourth episode of their very good Hannibal series and now they’re cutting a full 15 minutes out of the eighth episode of the series. 15 minutes removed means that the actual show will be about 30 minutes long which isn’t a lot of story time for a series like Hannibal.
I get that NBC is trying to extra-extra supersize the last episode of The Office, but why do it at the expense of one of their new dramas? Why not extra-extra-extra supersize The Office, air something like the very first episode of The Office after and then show the COMPLETE Hannibal the next week? C’mon!
