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Sailor Moon is the defining magical girl anime. While there are many, many beloved entries in the genre, there is just something about Usagi and her journey that has managed to have lovers of glitter and transformation sequences in a choke hold for over 30 years. Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts have always been more than a little cutting-edge when it comes to their stories, tackling themes and concepts that would feel more at home in something like Puella Magi Madoka Magica. But, that is when fans need to remember that those darker series took a lot of their DNA from the Pretty Guardian herself.

The magical girl genre is one of the oldest anime genres out there, even before Sailor Moon came onto the scene to codify the canon of expectations for magical girl tropes. This also means that the earlier entries become more surprising. There is an understanding...

Tyrion Lannister is a complicated character, and perhaps one of the most profound in Game of Thrones for his various contributions. Shunned by his family, he is forced into exile to avoid the brunt their prejudice. He proves his intelligence and political acumen at several points throughout the HBO series, especially while serving under Daenerys as the Hand of the Queen.

It's not really a stretch to claim Tyrion as one of the prime movers of the storyline. That said, there are an embarrassingly large number of occasions in which he has behaved in an uncharacteristically shortsighted manner. In Tyrion's defense, he is a human being at the end of the day, but a few of these instances are downright preposterous.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on February 24, 2025: Tyrion Lannister may be the smartest character in Game of Thrones, but in a world like Westeros, that doesn't always mean too much.

British sitcom star Pauline Quirke will step back from professional duties after being diagnosed with dementia.

Her husband, Steve Sheen, released a statement saying the Birds of a Feather actress had been diagnosed with the condition in 2021. The 65-year-old Quirke will now end all professional and commercial activities, Sheen’s statement read.

In recent years, she has been focused on The Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts, which provides extracurricular opportunities for young people who want to experience the performing arts.

Quirke is best known for her role as Sharon Theodopolopodous in British sitcom Birds of a Feather, which at its peak in the 1990s drew average audiences of over 12 million per episode. The show starred Quirke and Linda Robson as working-class Essex women who begin living together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery.

Its first run, which began on BBC1 in 1989, ended in 1998, and it...

It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2024––another year in which he not only premiered a new film, but shot another and is prepping another to begin production shortly––he still got plenty of watching in.

Along with catching up on 2024’s new releases, he took in plenty of classics, including Opening Night, Jaws, Casablanca, All About Eve, The Conversation, Alien, and nine viewings of various Star Wars films. He also got an early look at Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals of Amziah King and after beginning production on Black Bag on May 7, he had a first cut on June 23.

See the list below via his official site.

01/02 Blaming, Elizabeth Taylor

01/04 The Conversation

01/05 Predators, American Greed

01/06 The Curse

01/09 The Curse

01/10 Break Point (3)

01/11 Break Point (3), Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone,...

One of the Terminator franchise's biggest commercial disappointments has found streaming success on Netflix. Since the first movie was released in 1984, there have been six Terminator movies and two television series in the long-running franchise. The franchise's first movie, directed and written by James Cameron, set the tone and established Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, along with presenting the now iconic characters of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese.

The first sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is widely considered to be the franchise's best movie, along with being one of the best all-time movie sequels. None of the ensuing movies, released from 2003-2019, were able to reach the same level of acclaim as the original two installments. The franchise expanded onto television with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which aired from 2008-2009, along with Terminator Zero, an anime series that debuted on Netflix in 2024.

Terminator: Dark Fate Is A Netflix Streaming...

Christmas action turned out to be a widely popular genre this year, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Red One taking over Prime Video and Taron Egerton's Carry-On breaking records on Netflix. The two action films have received a lot of popularity, and Carry-On continues to be a huge success for the streaming service.

Netflix confirmed Carry-On continues to be a major hit on the streaming service, topping the charts for the week between Dec. 16 and Dec 23 with 55.1 million views, equivalent to 110.2 million hours viewed. This is an even stronger week than the first one, as the film debuted with 42 million views. It beat other Christmas titles from the streamer, becoming the number-one movie in 88 countries in its second week, including the U.S. and Canada.

Related Dwayne Johnson's Red One Receives More Good News as it Sleighs to Amazon's Biggest Streaming Debut

This is the true Christmas magic.

Michael Keaton's action thriller that made only $8.7 million at the box office in 2021 becomes a global Netflix hit three years later. After gaining recognition for his comedic performance in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice in 1988, Keaton rose to greater fame for his portrayal of the iconic superhero in Burton's Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). In the following years, Keaton starred in various comedies and dramas, such as Clean and Sober, Much Ado About Nothing, The Paper, Multiplicity, Jack Frost, Herbie: Fully Loaded, and The Other Guys.

Keaton's career saw a resurgence in 2014 after starring in Birdman, playing a washed-up actor seeking a comeback and earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Since then, he's starred in several dramas, such as the Best Picture winner Spotlight, while also returning to his iconic roles as Batman in 2023's The Flash and in 2024's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. In recent years, Keaton has also...

Carry-On, a film about traveling through the airport at Christmas, is on course to break into Netflix’s top ten films of all time.

The thriller, which stars Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, and Sofia Carson, bested its performance last week by adding another 55M views on top of last week’s 42M number. It remains number one on Netflix’s weekly film charts, having already become Netflix’s biggest launch of a film this year.

Given that it has scored 97M views in its first ten days, Carry-On, which was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and produced by Amblin Partners, it could well enter Netflix’s top ten films of all time. For reference, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery wrapped up 136.3M views in its first month to take the ten spot, Jennifer Lopez’s The Mother is number nine with 136.4M views, We Can Be Heroes got 137.3M for...

Quincy Jones died last Sunday night at age 91—another entertainment legend who shuffled off this mortal coil this year before the country once again made the ass-backwards decision to put Trump in office. A lot has already been said about his multi-Grammy-winning discography, which includes producing and arranging music not...

Legendary music producer and composer Quincy Jones, who amassed 28 Grammy Award wins across his multi-decade career, died on Sunday at the age of 91.

“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the Jones family said in a statement obtained by our sister site Variety. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him. He is truly one of a kind and we will miss him dearly; we take comfort and immense...

On Thursday October 3 2024, Oxygen broadcasts Dateline: The Smoking Gun!

In Cold Blood Season 1 Episode 1 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode titled “In Cold Blood” of *Dateline: The Smoking Gun* on Oxygen promises to delve into a gripping and mysterious case. The episode focuses on the tragic murder of Kim Dorsey, whose lifeless body was discovered in her bedroom, setting the stage for a complex investigation. From the very beginning, the crime scene presented a chaotic environment, leaving investigators with more questions than answers.

As the episode unfolds, viewers will learn about the various elements at the scene that puzzled law enforcement. Amid the confusion, one particular item stood out as being out of place. This crucial piece of evidence could hold the key to uncovering the identity of Kim Dorsey’s killer. Investigators are faced with the challenge of piecing together the clues to form a clearer picture of what transpired that fateful day.

The upcoming Doctor Who spinoff, The War Between The Land and the Sea, is inspired by the "Cold Blood" storyline from the fifth season. The show may bring back the Silurians, as the Sea Devils are distant relatives, hinting at a possible connection to the main series. While drawing inspiration from "Cold Blood," the spinoff will need to make major changes to avoid copying the original ending.

The War Between The Land and the Sea is an upcoming spinoff in the world of Doctor Who, following the Sea Devils as they are brought into conflict with the human race. The show was announced by Doctor Whos showrunner Russell T. Davies at San Diego Comic-Con in 2024, where the two lead actors Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw were also revealed. Details about The War Between The Land and the Sea are still sparse, but the plot seems very similar to another story in Doctor Whos past.

Doctor Who will tap into its environmentalist history in the new five-part BBC One/Disney+ spinoff announced by showrunner Russell T Davies at Sdcc 2024. The long-rumoured Sea Devils show will concern “a race that lives beneath the oceans,” who awaken to see their underwater home in a perilous state due to humanity’s actions.

“We have wrecked the place,” explained Davies at last Friday’s Hall H Doctor Who panel, “and it is war.”

Fighting that war “on an epic scale” will be Unit, headed up in its current incarnation by Kate Lethbridge Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and her secret honey/Squad Five colonel Christopher Ibrahim (Alexander Devrient). They’ll be joined by two as-yet-unknown lead characters played by Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, alongside others yet to be announced.

The Sea Devils are relatives of Doctor Who’s Silurians – another advanced reptilian Earth race that predates humanity and who consider...

Exclusive: Sarah Lind (A Wounded Fawn) is the newest addition to The Necklace, the indie horror flick from director Juan Pablo Arias Munoz that’s shooting in Atlanta. As previously announced, Jacob Moran, Madeleine McGraw, Violet McGraw and Felix Solis will also star.

Written by John Ducey, The Necklace watches as the Davis family navigates through tough times in 1960. Laura Davis (Lind) has separated from her husband Frank due to his unpredictable temper, fueled by alcohol. As Laura returns to work as a nurse, her daughters, 11-year-old Ellen (Violet McGraw) and 16-year-old Judy (Madeleine McGraw), grapple with the changes in their family dynamics. The plot thickens when Frank attempts to win Laura back with a beautiful antique necklace, which turns out to be a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy from long ago, putting Laura and her daughters in grave danger.

Daniel Aspromonte and Christina Moore are producing the film,...

The following contains minor spoilers for Demon Slayer.

As a proper shonen action anime, Demon Slayer is packed with deadly and exciting villains for heroes like Tanjiro Kamado to fight. These villains nearly all of them demons vary a great deal in their powers, abilities, appearance, and backstories. They also vary somewhat in how evil they are, since a few demons are either relatively tame or never had a chance to prove how wicked and horrible they are.

Regardless of powers and abilities, some Demon Slayer villains are much crueler and more vicious than others, meaning some have the true heart of a villain while others are just going through the motions as antagonists for the demon slayers to fight. True acts of evil are nearly impossible to forgive or forget, such as abusing the weak, turning friends against each other, or creating sorrow and misery for the fun of it.

Exclusive: On April 18th of this year, at a parole board hearing in New Hampshire, convicted murderer James Parker was granted parole for his role in the brutal 2001 stabbing murders of Half and Suzanne Zantop, a pair of married Dartmouth professors. After acquiring rights to Judgment Ridge, a work of nonfiction detailing the chilly story of those murders, producers Randy and Steven Toll have enlisted Matthew Gentile (American Murderer) to direct a feature adaptation from his own script.

Written by Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff, Judgment Ridge evokes clear memories of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, as it delves deeply into the inexplicable behavior that led to these ruthless murders. It was at age 16 that Parker conspired with his best friend to commit the murders of the Zantrops. He and co-conspirator Robert Tulloch came to commit the crime after plotting to put together the $10,000 they needed to move to...

This article contains graphic descriptions of violence and includes Spoilers for Under the Bridge.

Rebecca Godfrey takes on a more active role in investigating Reena Virks murder in Under the Bridge episode 5. The comparison to Truman Capote and Perry Smith shows Rebeccas strategy of gaining inside information from suspects. Real life contrasts with the fictional storyline as Rebecca shifts from journalist to active participant in the case.

Hulus Under the Bridge episode 5 includes a mention of the name Perry Smith, referencing a 65-year-old murder. While this series follows the true story of the murder of Reena Virk, it also fictionalizes characters and details. One big change is the choice to make the author of the eponymous source novel a main character in Under the Bridge, actually having an active role in the case instead of functioning as a journalist.

In Under the Bridge episode 5, Rebecca Godfrey helps Cam by becoming...

Prepare for a gripping night of crime-solving with Season 2 Episode 8 of “Mean Girl Murders,” airing at 9:00 Pm on Monday, May 13, 2024, on Investigation Discovery. In this intense installment, viewers are drawn into the aftermath of a shocking shooting that rocks the affluent neighborhood of Uptown.

The episode kicks off with a chilling look at surveillance footage from the crime scene, setting the stage for a complex investigation. As detectives delve deeper, they uncover a web of secrets and betrayal lurking beneath the surface of the upscale community.

With a list of suspects emerging and motives rooted in economic envy, the detectives race against the clock to unravel the truth behind the crime. As tensions escalate and suspicions mount, viewers are taken on a thrilling journey through the dark underbelly of privilege and power.

Don’t miss Season 2 Episode 8 of “Mean Girl Murders” on Investigation Discovery at 9:00 Pm on Monday,...

Created by Ryan Murphy and Jaffe Cohen, Feud season 2 is a fictional retelling of a real-life American novelist and screenwriter, Truman Capote, and his group of socialite friends, or maybe we’d better call them frenemies. These two episodes depicted the beginning of Truman’s friendship with his group of socialites, whom he used to call the swans. Even though Truman Capote was well appreciated by his swans, a feud among them marked the beginning of the end of their relationship. Let’s see what led Truman to cut his ties with his swans.

Spoilers Ahead

How Did Paley Meet Truman?

The first episode of Feud season 2 opened in 1984, with Truman Capote wandering around a graveyard when he laid his eyes on a flock of swans swimming on a nearby lake. The scene shifted back to 1968, when Truman paid a visit to his closest friend, Babe Paley, a socialite married...

I remember exactly where I was when I discovered Philip Seymour Hoffman had died. I was at a revival screening of the 1979 version of Battlestar: Galactica at a Montreal theatre, waiting for the film to start when my email blew up. Here at JoBlo, whenever an icon dies, it tends to become a thread that allows us all to vent a little, and Hoffman’s death destroyed many of us.

It shook me up in a lot of ways, as I had just seen him at the Sundance Film Festival a few weeks earlier, where he had two films, A Most Wanted Man and God’s Pocket. In hindsight, it’s easy to say he didn’t look quite right, but honestly, I had no clue anything was wrong with him. Of course, in the days following his death, we learned that addiction had taken its toll on perhaps the most outstanding actor of his generation,...

Plot: Acclaimed writer Truman Capote surrounded himself with a coterie of society’s most elite women – rich, glamorous socialites who defined a bygone era of high society New York – whom he nicknamed “the swans.” Enchanted and captivated by these doyennes, Capote ingratiated himself into their lives, befriending them and becoming their confidante, only to ultimately betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets. When an excerpt from the book, Answered Prayers, Capote’s planned magnum opus, was published in Esquire, it effectively destroyed his relationship with his swans, banished him from the high society he so loved and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.

Review: It has been six years since Ryan Murphy’s debut season of Feud chronicled the difficult relationship between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. That stellar series was a brilliant...

Benedict Fitzgerald, the co-writer of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, has died. He was 74.

Fitzgerald died Jan. 17 after a long illness at his home in Marsala, Sicily, his cousin Nancy Morgan Ritter told The Hollywood Reporter.

Best known for his work on Gibson’s 2004 Biblical epic, the highest-grossing Christian film, as well as the highest-grossing independent film of all time, Fitzgerald’s other credits include co-writing the screenplay for John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979), the adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s novel.

Born on March 9, 1949, in New York, Fitzgerald was born into a literary household. His deeply Catholic mother, Sally, was a writer and editor and his father, Robert, was a poet, United States Poet Laureate (1984-1985), critic, and famed translator of classic ancient Greek and Latin texts, who was responsible for perhaps the most well-known translation of Homer’s The Odyssey.

In the late 1950s, Fitzgerald’s family...

"The Agony" sees the start of the Lincoln County War, with tensions escalating between Murphy, Tunstall, and their enforcer cowboys. Tunstall's murder by the Jesse Evans Gang propels Billy to seek revenge, vowing to kill everyone responsible. Billy forms the Regulators, a group dedicated to avenging Tunstall's death, with Dick Brewer as their leader.

Billy the Kid season 2, episode 3 titled "The Agony" features the true starting point of the Lincoln County War that involved real-life Old West outlaw Billy the Kid. Prior to episode 3, season 2 largely laid the foundational tension for the inevitable war between Lawrence Murphy, John Tunstall, and each of their gunslinging cowboy enforcers. Murphy and Tunstall businesses had been competing in Lincoln County for too long, which forced the drunkard Murphy and the superior Sante Fe Ring led by powerful New Mexico landowner Thomas Catron to take matters, and the law itself, into their own hands.

Billy the Kid...

Death is not permanent for many companions on Doctor Who, with characters like Amy Pond, Rory Williams, and Clara Oswald experiencing multiple deaths and coming back to life. Time travel complicates the concept of death on the show, with characters dying before their own births or during events that are later reversed or wiped from existence. Despite the dangers they face, the Doctor always tries their best to save their companions, even if they can't save everyone. Amy, Rory, and Clara all have bittersweet endings but find some form of peace in the afterlife.

Doctor Who has seen many companions over its 60-year run, and several of them have stared death in the face and sent it away, but there are some of these supporting characters who have in fact died and then come back to life. Death isn't an unusual concept in Doctor Who. Even when the Doctor tries...

Kix played their final concert ever on Sunday night (September 17th) at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland — just down the road from the band’s home city of Baltimore.

The hard rock vets were joined by former guitarists Ronnie Younkins and Brad Divens for what proved to be a celebratory, career-spanning set.

All of Kix’s biggest hits from their MTV glam-metal glory days were included in the set, most notably cuts from 1985’s Midnite Dynamite (“Midnite Dynamite”; “Scarlet Fever”; “Cold Shower”) and 1988’s Blow My Fuse.

Early in the set, Younkins joined the band onstage for the first two songs (“Atomic Bombs” and “The Kid”) before Divens took part in renditions of early Kix material (“For Shame” and “Mighty Mouth”) hailing from his stint in the band (1982-1983). Younkins and Divens then formed a triple-guitar attack with longtime Kix axeman Brian Forsythe for the four-song finale.

We originally...

As players walk the streets of Night City as V in Cyberpunk 2077, an overpowered character build that can deliver a quick and often deadly response to the city’s many dangers is essential. Players can combine Weapons, Armor, Cyberware, Stats, and Perks to build V exactly how they want, whether it’s a street-smart blade-wielding samurai, a quick and quiet Netrunner operating from stealth, or a tough brute who lets their Gorilla Arms do all the talking.

Players have dozens of possible overpowered character builds, ranging from building Cyberpunk Edgerunners’ David Martinez to pumping points into Cyberpunk 2077’s best Melee Annihilation build. There’s no single build that outshines all the others, making it tricky for players to settle on just one. However, a jack-of-all-trades build for V that combines elements of stealth, gun combat, and the Monowire gives players the flexibility to respond well to any situation. Players should...

Hard rock veterans Kix have announced their retirement following one final concert on September 17th at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. It will be a hometown sendoff for the band, which formed in Maryland in 1977.

Frontman Steve Whiteman revealed the news while performing onstage at that very venue on Sunday (May 7th) at part of the M3 Rock Festival. Tickets for the final show go on sale Tuesday (May 9th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. If the concert sells out, fans can also look for tickets via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

“We’ve decided that after 45 years of doing this, I think we’re gonna call it a career,” Whiteman told the audience [as transcribed by Blabbermouth]. “Not tonight. We’re gonna do a show here September 17th. It’s been a long, long, long road. And my health is failing. [nm3161318 autoKix...

Michael James Gubitosi, more famously known as Robert Blake, died at the age of 89 in Los Angeles from heart disease. The news comes from Blake's niece Noreen Austin and was reported by Deadline. Blake was a Hollywood lifer, getting his start as a child in the MGM film "Bridal Suite" before assuming the role of Porky in the "Our Gang" and "The Little Rascals" shorts from 1939 to 1944. He continued performing well into his teen years, taking a brief hiatus in his 20s after he was drafted into the United States Army.

Blake reportedly developed a severe substance abuse problem in the years that followed but turned back to acting to get his life on track. He re-emerged playing more adult, dramatic roles, appearing in films like "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "In Cold Blood," and a string of studio Westerns under the stage name "Bobby Blake." He would eventually pivot...

Amy and Rory’s relationship was among the highlights of Matt Smith’s tenure as the Doctor on Doctor Who, bringing a much-needed romance and compassion to the show despite a complex timeline. Their relationship went through many stages, following the couple as they attempted to balance their complicated marriage with the exciting world of traveling with the Doctor. The two lives didn’t always fit together perfectly, but Amy and Rory managed to make it work for the sake of their friend.

Unlike the other incarnations of the Doctor that preceded him, Smith’s Doctor spent the overwhelming majority of his time with Amy and Rory. They developed a bond unlike anything he’d ever experienced before (at least platonically), which is why their relationship was so important to him. Amy and Rory experienced several sad moments and tragic failures in their relationship, but it was their unbreakable bond...

Doctor Who’s “The Pandorica Opens” introduced one of the most dangerous and intimidating villains in the entire show: The Pandorica Alliance. Composed of the Doctor’s greatest enemies and the most powerful warrior races in the universe, the Alliance was the universe’s final push to bring the Doctor down for good. Doctor Who often sees the Doctor and his companions traveling across time and space in pursuit of protecting the universe, and while he’s come across plenty of threatening aliens throughout his lives, it’s not often that those monsters use their shared hatred of the Time Lord to band together.

The Pandorica Alliance included some of Doctor Who’s scariest aliens and most formidable fighters, truly posing a threat to the Doctor for the first time in a long while. “The Pandorica Opens” marked the conclusion of the show’s fifth season, bringing together all the...

Rory Williams was a close companion of the Eleventh Doctor throughout his time on Doctor Who, but his adventurous spirit often found him crossing paths with death. Though none of these deaths were actually permanent, Rory often found himself in trouble thanks to his unwavering loyalty to his wife, Amy Pond. The pair traveled with the Doctor for several years, and although most of their adventures were harmless, they often found themselves on hostile planets with creatures that wanted to see them dead. And unfortunately for Rory, he was usually the first one to fall.

Eventually, Amy and Rory left Doctor Who in season 7 after they were "killed" by the Weeping Angels in the highly emotional episode “The Angels Take Manhattan." While the Doctor had always been able to revive Rory by rewriting the laws of the universe and exploiting his time-traveling abilities, a dangerous paradox prevented him from saving his friends on this occasion.

Tom Hollander, Calista Flockhart and Diam Rne Lane have joined Feud: Capote’s Women, the second installment of FX’s anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Plan B, we have learned. Reps for FX and 20th Television, which is behind the Feud franchise, declined comment.

They join previously announced Naomi Watts and Chloë Sevigny. Hollander will star as Truman Capote, Flockhart as Lee Radziwill and Lane as Slim Keith. As previously announced, Watts stars as Babe Paley, wife of CBS head Bill Paley, and Sevigny portrays C.Z. Guest.

An adaptation of Laurence Leamer’s bestselling book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, the miniseries is set in the 1970s, and ends with Truman Capote’s death in 1984. It chronicles the tale of the famous wunderkind author as he stabs several of his female friends — whom he called his “swans” — in...

The third feature by Ali Mosaffa will probe the hidden corners where the histories of Iran and the former Czechoslovakia intersect. Iranian filmmaker Ali Mosaffa, a Karlovy Vary International Film Festival regular, introduced his latest project, Absence, during the festival’s virtual industry strand, Kviff Eastern Promises. Both of Mosaffa’s two previous features bowed in the main competition at Kviff: Portrait of a Lady Far Away (2005) and The Last Step (2012). Mosaffa wrote and is producing, starring in and directing Absence, which is described as a mystical thriller and is being made as a co-production between Iran, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The film’s protagonist arrives in Prague from Tehran to find out more about his father’s past as a communist expatriate in Czechoslovakia. A resident of the flat where Rouzbeh’s father lived fell out of a window, and the protagonist soon finds out that it was his half-brother,...

Tiberiusfilm Ltd. (Tfl), the company behind the multi-award winning horror film Lilith and action thriller Prey, in Cold Blood is announcing the completion of their new horror film Paranormal Attraction, starring Brooklyn Haley, Nicole Cinaglia , Eden Shea Beck and Hunter Johnson.

The film was written by Richard J. Aguirre and directed by Alex T. Hwang, and produced by Kathleen W. Hwang, Pat Kusnadi, and Thomas Haley.

Paranormal Attraction tells the dark and sinister tale of a young woman, Sara Myer (Brooklyn Haley), who moves into an abandoned house with a tragic and mysterious past. As Sarah begins to purge the house of the previous owner’s belongings, she begins to uncover its deadly secrets. Rookie police officer Evelyn Bennett (Nicole Cinaglia) helps her investigate the mysterious happenings and captures Sara’s heart. Will they learn the secrets of the house or will the house claim Sara’s soul?

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Exclusive: CBS has assembled an all-star, all-female creative team for Cold Shoulder, a cop drama from two former broadcast network toppers-turned-producers, Nina Tassler and Gail Berman, Little Women producer Denise Di Novi, Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante and former CSI: New York showrunner Pam Veasey.

Written by Veasey, Cold Shoulder is based on the novel of the same name by La Plante. In it, after a police officer is unable to prevent the death of her partner in the line of duty, she seeks help from a fellow detective as she attempts to pick up the pieces of her broken life at home and on the force.

Veasey and La Plante executive produce alongside Tassler and Dinovi through their PatMa Productions; and Berman, now chairman of Fox Entertainment-owned SideCar, through her previous company, The Jackal Group. CBS Television Studios is the studio,

Tassler and Di Novi launched PatMa in 2018. Earlier this year,...

Jean Reno in the thriller Cold Blood. Photo credit: Screen Media

French action star Jean Reno re-teams with Thierry Arbogast, the cinematographer on La Femme Nikita and,The Fifth Element, for action thriller Cold Blood. In this English-language French-Ukrainian film, Jean Reno plays a legendary hit man, the kind of role he has played well many times. With the help of cinematographer Arbogast, stunning locations, and a good supporting cast, they do their best to add style and suspense to this action thriller. Unfortunately, it is not enough to overcome the messy, nonsensical script.

Reno plays a retired hit man living in a remote cabin in Washington State when a young woman (Sara Lind), who has been injured in a snowmobile accident, suddenly turns up nearly on his doorstep. This begins a twisty tale built around the assassination of a mysterious billionaire, a tale of secrets, power, and money, with...

The presence of Jean Reno in Cold Blood is undoubtedly meant to invoke memories of better movies like Leon: The Professional and Nikita. Sadly, that only exacerbates how poor this is. Cold Blood is a cliched and thoroughly mediocre action flick, trafficking almost exclusively in plot points we’ve seen done before, and better. Reno looks bored, the filmmaking is indifferent, and the 90 minute running time drags by. It’s the sort of project that you can’t figure out why it got the green light? Who wanted to see this? The folks involved barely seemed like they wanted to make it. It’s just an absolute slog to get though. The film is a mix of action, drama, and mystery, though it doesn’t do any of that particularly well. When a snowmobile crashes in a secluded area, a young woman (Sarah Lind) is hurt. Dragging herself away from the wreck,...

Spider-Man: Far from Home is weaving an expansive web over the Fourth of July holiday frame, pushing new specialties to find space in upcoming weeks. There are a few brave indies hoping to grab some residuals over the long weekend, however. Sundance doc Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love will launch in several L.A. and New York locations. Distributor Roadside Attractions is hoping to ride a wave of music docs that have scored well in the box office with summer rollouts in recent years. Thriller Skin in the Game dramatizes the human trafficking in America. Specialty label Kandoo Films, which also produced the title, is releasing it day-and-date. Gravitas Ventures, meanwhile, is spearheading on-demand for the Armed Forces action-drama Above the Best. The producers are organizing limited theatrical events/showings for the feature, including one this weekend in Houston.

Additional limited releases over the holiday include Screen Media action-thriller Cold Blood...

As the minutes slowly tick by in the lifeless thriller “Cold Blood,” it’s easy to mourn for what might have been. Jean Reno stars as Henry, a veteran hitman seeking isolation in a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest, which could have made for a contemplative and melancholy reimagining of his signature role in Luc Besson’s “Léon: The Professional.” When Henry is forced to care for a mysterious, injured woman who interrupts his solitude, one envisions a close-quarters psychological cat-and-mouse game between two dangerous and deeply secretive people. It turns out we get neither of those, just a bland and forgettable B-movie that came and went quickly in France last May and looks to do the same upon its day-and-date release in the U.S.

Reno, who turns 71 this month, hasn’t burned through the credibility he amassed with the cool kids during his long-ago career peak working with Besson.

Powerful characters often become strong and resilient after living through a tense situation that’s outside society’s norms. Two distinctly different characters are being brought together in the new action thriller, ‘Cold Blood,’ as they’re both facing the difficulties of their perspective life choices. In honor of Screen Media releasing the film in theaters and On […]

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Cold Blood looks almost like a spiritual sequel to Léon: The Professional–especially since both films star Jean Reno as an elite assassin whose life is turned upside down by an unexpected arrival on his doorstep. Give our exclusive clip a spin embedded at the top of the article. Peep the synopsis and trailer below. Synopsis:French […] The post Check Out Our Exclusive Clip from Ultra-Violent Thriller Cold Blood appeared first on Dread Central.

If you’re a fan of actor Jean Reno (The Professional), you might be interested in checking out his new action thriller Cold Blood. The first trailer has been released for the movie, and it looks like it will be a pretty good action flick!

The film tells the story of a legendary hitman named Henry, who “retires in isolation to the barren North American wilderness. When he rescues a woman from a snowmobile accident, he discovers she may be harboring a secret that could force a return to his lethal ways.” I guess retirement for Henry doesn’t go as planned as he has to decide whether or not to risk his own life to save this woman.

The movie also stars Sarah Lind as Melody, Joe Anderson, David Gyasi, Ihor Ciszkewycz, François Guétary, and Samantha Bond.

The movie was directed by Frédéric Petitjean and it will be released on July 5th.

"Tell me where she is!" Screen Media Films has released the official Us trailer for the indie action thriller titled Cold Blood, originally titled Cold Blood Legacy for its French release just last month. Cold Blood tells the story of Henry, a legendary hitman enjoying the isolation of his lakeside cabin deep within the vast wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. When the solitude of his well-earned retirement is shattered by the arrival of a young woman, the survivor of a snowmobile accident, Henry must decide whether to risk his own life to save hers. Starring Jean Reno as Henry, with Sarah Lind as Melody, plus a cast including Joe Anderson, David Gyasi, Ihor Ciszkewycz, François Guétary, and Samantha Bond. This looks like so many other retired hitman films, and reminds me of Daughter of the Wolf. Check out the footage below. Here's the official Us trailer (+ two official posters) for Frédéric Petitjean's Cold Blood,...

Not so much reprising a famed role as he is tiredly schlepping it back up onscreen, Jean Reno once again plays a hitman — and one who really should retire by now — in French director Frédéric Petitjean’s generic English-language thriller, Cold Blood Legacy.

Well-shot (by Luc Besson regular Thierry Arbogast) but otherwise entirely forgettable, this tale of a hired gun crossing paths with a female fugitive is a dumbed and watered-down version of better, similar movies Reno has done before, especially Besson favorites like La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional. Released theatrically by Paramount in France, where the ...

Not so much reprising a famed role as he is tiredly schlepping it back up onscreen, Jean Reno once again plays a hitman — and one who really should retire by now — in French director Frédéric Petitjean’s generic English-language thriller, Cold Blood Legacy.

Well-shot (by Luc Besson regular Thierry Arbogast) but otherwise entirely forgettable, this tale of a hired gun crossing paths with a female fugitive is a dumbed and watered-down version of better, similar movies Reno has done before, especially Besson favorites like La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional. Released theatrically by Paramount in France, where the ...