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Identity Crises Season 2 Episode 10 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Expedition Files,” titled “Identity Crises,” promises to delve into two intriguing historical mysteries. Scheduled to air on Discovery, this episode aims to uncover new evidence surrounding the legendary figure, Billy the Kid. Many believe this notorious outlaw may have lived a longer life than previously thought, possibly under an assumed name. This revelation could change the way history views one of the Wild West’s most famous characters.

In addition to exploring Billy the Kid’s potential secret life, the episode will also take a closer look at the enigmatic “Man in the Iron Mask.” Modern scholars will weigh in on the theories surrounding this mysterious figure, whose true identity has puzzled historians for centuries. The episode will feature discussions and analyses that seek to shed light on who this masked man really...

With an ongoing narrative that’s lasted for the better part of a century, DC Comics has one of the most convoluted fictional continuities in of all time. After countless Crises, Rebirths, and a Flashpoint here and there, there’s not a single character or aspect of the DC Universe that hasn’t been impacted by a retcon in one way or another.

Many of these retcons have become integral to fans’ conceptions of the World’s Greatest Heroes, while more than a few still have their fair share of detractors. But each one of the retcons in this list had an undeniable effect on the DC Universe - and its fans.

Better: Superboy Prime Punching the Multiverse Infinite Crisis: Secret Files and Origins #1 by Marv Wolfman, Dan Jurgens, Art Thibert, Cam Smith, Nelson DeCastro, Jerry Ordway, Guy Major, Jeromy Cox, and Travis Lanham

Comics are known for having some undeniably outrageous happenings,...

Antonio Banderas, Edgar Wright, Jean Michel Jarre, Chance the Rapper and even the Italian prime minister were among the people paying to legendary film composer Ennio Morricone early Monday, who died following complications from a fall. He was 91.

Over seven decades, Morricone contributed to over 520 scores including, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Cinema Paradiso” and “Once Upon a Time in the West.” Morricone won the Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Academy Award in 2016 for “The Hateful Eight.”

Director Edgar Wright led the tributes on social media saying, “Where to even begin with iconic composer Ennio Morricone? He could make an average movie into a must-see, a good movie into art, and a great movie into legend. He hasn’t been off my stereo my entire life. What a legacy of work he leaves behind. Rip.”

Where to even begin with iconic composer Ennio Morricone?...

Jim Dandy Dec 6, 2017

More change comes for the Legends of Tomorrow ahead of the midseason break, and it left us floored. Spoilers ahead...

This review contains spoilers.

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3.9 Beebo The God Of War

So, Jax left.

About halfway through the episode, I wrote in my notes "Man, how are they going to make this emotionally poignant when it's so goddamn funny?" So needless to say I didn't see the end of Beebo The God Of War coming, which is part of why Jax's departure hit me that hard.

It makes perfect sense as to why. After last week and the death of Martin Stein, he's powerless, alone and a bit of a loose appendage on the Legends. If he stuck around, we'd be constantly wondering when he would get his Firestorm powers back.

Crooked treasure hunters tangle with menacing black gangsters in this crime-action siege movie from 1992, with a fine filmmaker pedigree. The late Bill Paxton leads a great cast — William Sadler, Ice-t, Art Evans — in a tense standoff that turns into a murderous ordeal when it’s discovered that a million-dollar cache of gold is to be had. The Shout Selects extras include an informative interview with co-writer Bob Gale.

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Shout! Factory ‘Shout Selects’

1992 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 101 min. / Street Date June 27, 2017 / 27.99

Starring: Bill Paxton, Ice-t, William Sadler, Ice Cube, Art Evans, De’voreaux White, Bruce A. Young, Glenn Plummer, Stoney Jackson, T.E. Russell, Tiny Lister.

Cinematography: Lloyd Ahern II

Film Editor: Freeman Davies

Original Music: Ry Cooder

Written by Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis

Produced by Neil Canton

Directed by Walter Hill

A lot of movies struggle and strain and suffer to get made, and then...

Within its first half hour, “Ismael’s Ghosts” weaves together espionage, melodrama, supernatural hauntings, and a filmmaker’s creative crisis. It’s the most ambitious movie to date from French director Arnaud Desplechin, whose ensemble dramas “A Christmas Tale” and “My Golden Years” also dealt with characters coping with their troubled pasts. This time, it’s a wild hodgepodge of genres that often risk collapsing on top of each other. At its best, the movie is a freewheeling gambit, hurtling in multiple directions at once, and it’s thrilling to watch Desplechin try juggle them all.

“Ismael’s Ghosts” within the confines of a movie imagined by its main character: a dense, labyrinthine spy story involving the experiences of young recruit Ivan (Louie Garrel) who’s services straight out of school. Minutes into that setup, Desplechin pulls out to reveal the world of disheveled writer-director Ismael (Mathieu Amalric), a rugged,...

On January 24, halfway through the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Sundance received its annual reconfirmation of its long-legged success: The Oscar nominations. This year it’s Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea,” and documentaries “Life, Animated” and “Oj: Made in America.” (Another five docs were shortlisted.)

Among its many other achievements, Sundance breaks out new talent. Agents, casting directors, producers, and filmmakers trawl screening rooms, looking for their next find. They network and party and pass buzz as they go, even when they must plow through blizzards to do it.

Here’s a look at what we might be celebrating this time next year. But remember, it’s a long long way from January to January.

“Call Me By Your Name”

The most obvious Oscar movie stood out from a sea of aspiring American indies, which is likely what Sony Pictures Classics had in mind when they scooped up the film...

Since late October, Abigail Spencer has been in that special “zone” actors rarely enter, where they’re starring in two series airing simultaneously. On NBC’s Timeless, she plays Lucy Preston, a history professor enlisted for a series of daring trips through time, while on Sundance’s Rectify, she plays Amantha, a onetime murder suspect’s sister, who’s been on a wild journey of her own.

With Timeless about to unspool its final two episodes of the fall (Mondays at 10/9c, before breaking until Jan. 16) and Rectify entering its final two weeks ever, TVLine spoke with Spencer about her very distinct,...

34 years later, Sydney Pollack’s “Tootsie” remains a relatively incisive look at gender in society, even if the film’s concluding reaffirmation of traditional roles has aged less well than the questions the films poses before it. Yet a lost behind-the-scenes featurette reveals the production of “Tootsie” as fighting for identity itself.

Read More: Actors Name Tootsie The Greatest Movie Of All Time in New Poll

The video centers on a confessional interview with Pollack on the set of the film that airs out his grievances of working with lead Dustin Hoffman.

“Legally I have control of the picture. But that doesn’t mean I owe him a lot morally, which I do,” he says. “You can’t make an actor do anything. Make him do anything. Now, I can’t direct a scene I don’t believe in either, and sometimes both things have happened.”

The interview centers around...

Take a look at the roots of American campaign image consciousness, and the then-new techniques of cinéma vérité to bring a new 'reality' for film documentaries. Four groundbreaking films cover the Kennedy-Humphrey presidential primary, and put us in the Oval Office for a showdown against Alabama governor George Wallace. The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates Blu-ray Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, Faces of November The Criterion Collection 808 1960 -1964 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 53, 52, 53, 12 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 26, 2016 / 39.95 Starring John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, McGeorge Bundy, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Goodwin, Albert Gore Sr., Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Pierre Salinger, Haile Selassie, John Steinbeck, George Wallace, Vivian Malone, Burke Marshall, Nicholas Katzenbach, John Dore, Jack Greenberg; Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Peter Lawford. Cinematography Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker,...

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Looking for good books about the movies to read? We've got a bumper selection of recommendations right here...

A confession. I actually started writing this article in 2013, and the reason you've only reading it now is that I've made sure I've read every book on this list, save for one or two where I've marked otherwise. As such, what you're getting is a very personal list of recommendations. Each of these books has at least something to it that I think is of interest to someone wanting to learn more about film - or just enjoy stories of movie making.

I've tended to avoid picture books, with one exception, as these ones I've chosen are all intended to be chock-full of words, to relax with at the end of a long day. Which is what I did. There are one or two notable omissions, as I'm still...

Thursday’s Vampire Diaries formally reunited Alaric with (the body of) the love of his life, and it turns out her portrayer was just as surprised by Jo’s revival as most of the CW drama’s fans.

RelatedPost Mortem: Vampire Diaries Ep Explains Bonnie’s New Relationship, Damon’s Dark Plan, the Latest ‘Steroline’ Crisis and More

“I got the call telling me I was on hold for such-and-such a date to go back, and my jaw dropped,” Jodi Lyn O’Keefe tells TVLine. “I was like, ‘I’m not the only one to stay dead on this show?...

Films set to show at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), updated as announcements are made in the run up to the event.

Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.

Tiff 40

Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.

GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...

The Toronto International Film Festival’s prominence on the festival circuit has only grown over the years, with films from numerous different fields having gone on to critical and commercial acclaim. Among the festival’s different categories are Tiff Docs and Vanguard. Tiff Docs allows documentaries to get their own spotlight at the festival, giving acclaimed documentarians such as Michael Moore and Frederick Wiseman a platform for their films. The Vanguard section, on the other hand, showcases films that aren’t easily categorisable into a specific genre. With the Canadian Films lineup announcement having revealed the first set of films playing in each group, Tiff today revealed more of the lineup in each section. The list of newly announced films, with their official synopses, is as follows.

Tiff Docs

Amazing Grace, directed by Sydney Pollack, making its International Premiere

Sydney Pollack’s film of Aretha Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace.’ Filmed...

Read More: Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham Talk Feminism and Give Advice To Aspiring Writers A week ago, "Trainwreck" director Judd Apatow took the stage of the prestigious Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and rattled off first draft versions of some new stand-up material. But while the jokes received roars of laughter from the audience, at the end he trailed off, claiming that he didn't have a good closer.  Last night on "The Tonight Show," the comedy director delivered a polished version of that set, but also found his closer -- some much expected (if you follow him on Twitter) but still surprising Bill Cosby jokes.  Watch above as Apatow eviscerates Cosby, after expressing his sympathy for the nerdy kids his daughter refuses to date.  Read More: Judd Apatow and John Cassavetes: Two Sides of the Same Crisis...

We look at the films that slipped through Hollywood's net, from biblical epics to a time travelling Gladiator sequel...

This article contains a spoiler for Gladiator.

If you're one of those frustrated over the quality of many of the blockbusters that make it to the inside of a multiplex, then ponder the following. For each of these were supposed to be major projects, that for one reason or another, stalled on their way to the big screen. Some still may make it. But for many others, the journey is over. Here are the big blockbusters that never were...

1. Airframe

The late Michael Crichton scored another residential on the bestseller list with his impressive thriller, Airframe. It was published in 1996, just after films of Crichton works such as Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure and the immortal Congo had proven to be hits of various sizes.

So: a hit book, another techno thriller,...

Update 02.23.15:

Winners are now indicated. I correctly guessed only 9 out of the 24 categories.

Previous 02.22.15:

Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tonight’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed at the lefthand side. Keep in mind: those Xes don’t represent whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win, based on what little I can grasp about how the Academy thinks. (I’ve also noted which nominees I think should win. Kindly note that this is not necessarily my take on who did the best performance/writing/FX/whatever of the year, but whom I think is best among the nominees.)

Also noted are the two films — The Salt of the Earth (a documentary nominee) and Wild Tales (a foreign-language nominee) — that I haven’t been able to see.

I suspect I won’t be able to make it through the ceremony...

The 2015 Oscars are in the books and it was Birdman taking home four awards including the coveted Best Picture along with a Best Director win for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu as well as an Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki) win. But Birdman wasn't the only film to take home four Oscars as The Grand Budapest Hotel had a small bit of domination in the below-the-line categories winning for Production Design, Costumes, Makeup & Hairstyling and Original Score (Alexandre Desplat). The only other multiple award winner was Whiplash, which took home Best Supporting Actor (J.K. Simmons), Best Film Editing and Sound Mixing. Otherwise, it was singles across the board and while there were a few interesting wins below the line, the top awards went pretty much by the books. Patricia Arquette took home Boyhood's only Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) won Best Actor over...

It's a wonderful night for Oscar... Oscar Oscar... Who will win? Wrong host. Neil Patrick Harris is MCing Sunday (February 22) night's Academy Awards, which is coming down to a "Birdman"/"Boyhood" showdown for the big prize. Thanks to The Guilds, we're all expecting a "Birdman" victory, but could there be exciting upsets in store? Click through, follow along and join (or start) the conversation below... 8:25 p.m. Et. That's a lot of Red Carpet coverage. My favorite moment was Terrence Howard playing "American Idol" nerd with Ryan Seacrest. 8:28 p.m. Really, ABC? You don't need a critical citation to call "American Crime" "an extraordinary new drama"? Well, if you say so yourself! 8:30 p.m. Let's Go! 8:30 p.m. Neil Patrick Harris rises onto the stage like a fire-free phoenix. "Tonight we honor Hollywood's best and whitest," he says, helping people playing Oscars Bingo at home. 8:31 p.

A Woman Under the Influence

Directed by John Cassavetes

Written by John Cassavetes

1974, USA

“Woman is a symptom of Man” — Jacques Lacan

A Woman Under the Influence (1974) tells the story of a marriage in crisis. Mabel (Gena Rowlands) is suffering from an unnamed psychological condition that is threatening to tear her family apart. Her husband, Nick (Peter Faulk), desperately tries to keep everything together but he is being stretched beyond his own sanity. The children are passive in the beginning until the finale where they become extremely defensive of their mother, pushing their father away, becoming angelic, innocent buffers to Nick’s violent attempts to break her spell.

Cassavetes depicts marriage in A Woman Under the Influence as a battle where two competing definitions of reality constantly clash. Nick is stuck in an ideal memory of his wife when she was happy, most likely before they had children but Cassavetes...

The 2015 Oscar nominations were announced this morning and while I've already furnished a few thoughts on the omissions and surprises right here I figured we would go down the line and see what stands out. Who and what films were "snubbed", what are the biggest "surprises" and so on and so forth. Rage is sure to follow in the comments and what better time than now to get it all off your chest as we lead up to the 87th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, February 22c Let's take a look and see what the verdict is on these nominations, which I will ask you to vote on at the bottom of this post. Best Picture No real surprises here as I had all eight of these films getting a nomination for Best Picture. The only difference between this list and mine, however, was I had Gone Girl getting a nomination,...

Neil Patrick Harris hosting ceremony on February 22, 2015

Best Picture

“Amerian Sniper” – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan

“Birdman” – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole

“Boyhood” – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson

“The Imitation Game” – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman

“Selma” – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner

“The Theory of Everything” – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten

“Whiplash” – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster

Best Actor

Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”

Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”

Benedict Cumberbatch,...

This morning brought the 2015 Oscar nominations announced by directors Alfonso Cuar?n (Gravity) and J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens), actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. At first glance, the first things I notice are no nominations for Selma in Director or Actor and no The Lego Movie in Best Animated Feature. Jennifer Aniston (Cake) missed out on a nomination as Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) took that fifth and final slot as the most likely replacement. Continuing on the actress front, or Supporting Actress in this case, Rene Russo (Nightcrawler) did not land a nomination as many thought she might and no, it wasn't Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year) as many others thought it may be. It was Laura Dern (Wild) taking that final slot and a bit of a wasted nomination if you ask me. In the Best Actor...

Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for director David Dobkin’s (Wedding Crashers) upcoming thriller/family drama The Judge. Robert Downey Jr. plays an attorney who returns home for his mother’s funeral only to learn that his estranged father (Robert Duvall), a judge who suffers from Alzheimer’s, has been accused of murder. This new look at the film has a decidedly more emo, awards-baiting, tone than the first trailer. I'm curious to see the film myself, as I can sit through a bad movie just for a good Downey Jr. performance, but the early word out of Tiff has not been kind (I suspect that we'll have our own review of this one up soon). Hit the jump to check out the new trailer for The Judge. The film also stars Vera Farmiga, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Billy Bob Thornton, Dax Shepard, Leighton Meester, Ken Howard,...

The James Clayton column: James explores the path to Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, and where we might be heading next...

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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes is a film about apes. The title isn't misleading or a metaphor or anything. This is a movie about primates and though there are human protagonists sharing screentime and functioning as significant pieces in the plot, it's very much an ape affair. Key characters - Caesar, Cornelia, Koba - are all chimpanzees.

Actually, that's not completely true. In fact it's a damn dirty ape lie for Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes is a work of great deception. This fresh bestial blockbuster employs the most state-of-art moviemaking technology to achieve its trickery, ironically bringing the primitive world to visceral life on screen by using the most advanced techniques available.

The truth about those convincing, hyper-real chimpanzees? Caesar is played by Andy Serkis,...

The Normal Heart (which airs May 25 on HBO) is the story of a great love. Not just the one between Ned (Mark Ruffalo) and his boyfriend Felix (Matt Bomer), who’s dying of AIDS, or the one that finds both men fighting to keep their friends alive during the early 1980s, before anyone really knew what this so-called “gay cancer” was. It’s the one that starts with the HBO project’s creator, Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story), and his infatuation with something he read back in college.

Murphy was first introduced to Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart...

First stop, the Annie Awards which honor excellence in the animated world. And the winners are:

Best Animated Feature:

Frozen, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production:

Chipotle Scarecrow, Chipotle Creative Department, Moonbot Studios

Best Animated Short Subject:

Get A Horse!,Walt Disney Animation Studios

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial:

Despicable Me 2, Cinemark - Universal Pictures

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children:

Disney Sofia the First - Disney Television Animation

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children.s Audience:

Adventure Time, Cartoon Network Studios

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production:

Futurama,20th Century Fox Television

Best Animated Video Game:

The Last of Us, Naughty Dog

Best Student Film

Wedding Cake, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Viola Baier, Iris Frisch

Animated Effects in an Animated Production:

Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, Jason Mayer, The Croods, DreamWorks Animation

Animated Effects in a Live Action Production:

Michael Balog,...

Top 10 Ryan Lambie 17 Sep 2013 - 05:58

What can videogames tell us about the volatile east-west relations in the 1980s? Ryan takes a look at 10 unique titles from the Cold War...

Videogames are often talked about in terms of nostalgia or their pioneering place in the medium’s evolution, but how often are they described as social or historical documents? The spread of videogaming’s broader popularity in the 70s to the golden age of arcades in the 1980s took place within the shadow of the Cold War’s final years, so it’s only logical that their content reflects that period in history.

After World War II rumbled to a close in 1945, the post-war period brought with it not an era of unprecedented peace, but one of anxiety and distrust; the Us and the Ussr were two superpowers locked in a state of terse rivalry, and the threat of nuclear...

Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in ‘Mata Hari’: The wrath of the censors (See previous post: "Ramon Novarro in One of the Best Silent Movies.") George Fitzmaurice’s romantic spy melodrama Mata Hari (1931) was well received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by moviegoers. The Greta Garbo / Ramon Novarro combo — the first time Novarro took second billing since becoming a star — turned Mata Hari into a major worldwide blockbuster, with $2.22 million in worldwide rentals. The film became Garbo’s biggest international success to date, and Novarro’s highest-grossing picture after Ben-Hur. (Photo: Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in Mata Hari.) Among MGM’s 1932 releases — Mata Hari opened on December 31, 1931 — only W.S. Van Dyke’s Tarzan, the Ape Man, featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Edmund Goulding’s all-star Best Picture Academy Award winner Grand Hotel (also with Garbo, in addition to Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and...

This year, the fall television schedule is a decidedly crazy beast. I know, that doesn’t seem like the sort of thing that separates any year from any other, but television is in the midst of dizzying spins of theory, and comparisons to previous years show some serious changes.

Most striking is probably the extent to which the big networks are content to leave each other alone. Also noticeable is the unspoken admission that perhaps DVRs exist, and the schedule doesn’t really need to worry quite as much about who is watching what at the exact moment it airs. We’re still pretending to a degree, but there are hints.

At the moment, you’ve only got a quick look, but we will be constantly updating this page as any changes occur, and as the new shows are available for review (sure, we’ve seen them, but we aren’t supposed to “review” them…...

The nominations have been announced for the 2013 BAFTA Television Awards. "The Girl," the TV movie about Alfred Hitchcock's relationship with actress Tippi Hedren, leads all with eight nominations, followed by Benedict Cumberbatch's "Parade's End" with seven.

Popular U.K. drama "Downton Abbey" has received zero nominations this time around. It previously received nominations as Best Drama Series and Supporting acting nominations for Brendan Coyle and Maggie Smith. U.S. series "Game of Thrones" and "Homeland" each scored a pair of nominations.

The TV BAFTAs will be awarded May 12 in London. The complete list of nominees is below:

Leading Actor

Ben Whishaw - Richard II (The Hollow Crown)

Derek Jacobi - Last Tango in Halifax

Sean Bean - Accused (Tracie's Story)

Toby Jones- The Girl

Leading Actress

Anne Reid - Last Tango in Halifax

Rebecca Hall - Parade's End

Sheridan Smith - Mrs Biggs

Sienna Miller - The Girl...

Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Here's a new feature that was fun to put together (though quite time-consuming, which makes me worry about my ability to do this every month). I look back at rock, pop, and R&B albums that came out five years ago, ten years ago, etc.

1967

Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)

There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.

Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...

Speaking for myself, I've looked forward to The Newsroom for months. The trailer filled us with hopes for a fast-paced depiction of a cantenkerous Olbermann who sits at an anchor desk, dispenses angry soundbites, and would consider getting "Fourth" and "Estate" tattooed on his knuckles. He's Howard Beale with some of Rachel Maddow's composure and erudition. Yay, journalism personalities! I've missed them.

But after watching last night's premiere on HBO, I realize that The Newsroom disappointed in a few key areas. Though I believed the backstage drama of Jeff Daniels' character's Will McAvoy and his show News Night, I questioned how much of The Newsroom was truly revelatory and not just Aaron Sorkin's newest way of stuffing speedy, auctioneer elocution into professionals' mouths and expecting everyone to seem "awesome." Can The Newsroom's characters really be considered brilliant if they're all armed with the same freakishly well-spoken grit?...

As Snow White and the Huntsman shows, there's a fourth age for women in film - the queen bitch, finds Tom Shone

"Picasso had his blue period, and this is my bitch period." So said Charlize Theron at the Wondercon convention earlier this year on her recent run of roles, first as a boyfriend-snatching hot mess in last year's Young Adult, and now the evil stepmom in Snow White and the Huntsman. Critics have agreed that Theron steals the show as the embittered Queen Ravenna, clinging by her extendable fingernails to a patriarchal kingdom in which women can only acquire power through their looks, until someone younger, fairer, and with a bigger vampire-franchise fan-base comes along. Any resemblance to actual feudal hierarchies, living or dead, is entirely accidental. Hollywood, as we all know, harbors a deep respect for the glories of the mature woman, utterly disdaining of the lollipopped Lolitas...

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Bradford Dillman: A Compulsively Watchable Actor

By Harvey Chartrand

In a career that has spanned 43 years, Bradford Dillman accumulated more than 500 film and TV credits. The slim, handsome and patrician Dillman may have been the busiest actor in Hollywood during the late sixties and early seventies, working non-stop for years. In 1971 alone, Dillman starred in seven full-length feature films. And this protean output doesn’t include guest appearances on six TV shows that same year.

Yale-educated Dillman first drew good notices in the early 1950s on the Broadway stage and in live TV shows, such as Climax and Kraft Television Theatre. After making theatrical history playing Edmund Tyrone in the first-ever production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night in 1956, Dillman landed the role of blueblood psychopath Artie Straus in the crime-and-punishment thriller Compulsion (1959), for which he...

The news must have had every paid up member of the Conservative Party choking on their breakfast cup of tea. In a thousand Home Counties bungalows, men called Jeremy or Brian must have reached for their writing paper and fountain pens to compose a strongly worded letter to the Telegraph. The reason behind their outrage was the actress Meryl Streep. Or to put it more precisely, not Meryl Streep herself. Jeremy and Brian probably quite like Meryl Streep. What they can’t tolerate is the idea of Meryl Streep, American as crippling medical bills, donning a wig, putting on an accent and playing Margaret Thatcher.

The Iron Lady opens in cinemas this week. Opinion on Thatcher as a person might be divided, but opinion on Streep’s portrayal of the woman who invented Mr Whippy icecream and kicked the Argies out of a sodden little pile of rock called the Falklands,...

On TV this Tuesday: Steven Spielberg and John Williams make beautiful music together, Dinozzo divulges a secret, New Girl‘s new romance and an Unforgettable guest star. As a supplement to TVLine’s original feature stories (linked to below), here are 10 other programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm AFI’s Master Class: The Art of Collaboration (TCM) | In the first in a series of specials produced by Turner Classic Movies in partnership with the American Film Institute, filmmaker Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams sit down with each other to share an in-depth look at their 40-year collaboration. Sure,...

Okay, so, time and again we’ve heard people complaining about the Star Wars prequels, whether it’s passionate blog posts on this very site, RedLetterMedia’s incredible film-by-film breakdowns or just someone weeping in their local HMV because of what Lucas has done to their beloved saga.

But, what were people expecting? What could have made the Star Wars prequels great and worthy of the original trilogy? You’ve all had time to soak in the hundreds of hours of extra features on the Blu-rays and compare and contrast the old with the new. (Provided you didn’t kick your foot through your television in anger at all of Lucas’ pointless CG revisions.)

Personally I think the story of Anakin Skywalker was a story not worth telling, it’s basically like having a six hour flashback sequence that would occur once Luke realises Darth Vader is his father. Imagine...

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The Doom Cake: Cake Recipes… for Disaster from WordAndFilm.com (Suggested by slc717)

Reframed: Robert Altman’s California Split from PopMatters.com

Take Five: Louis Malle Films from The Playlist

Are You Sitting Uncomfortably? The Films Of Todd Solondz from TheQuietus.com (Suggested by talktodoran)

Movie Guide to a Mid-Life Crisis from VirginMedia.com (Suggested by aligray)

What’s Bad About Women Behaving Badly in Film? from AVClub.com

The Golden Age of Cinemas from Independent.co.uk

The Worst Line Readings of All Time from FunnyOrDie.com

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It was a time of sex, cynicism and Star Wars - and endless lampoons of the old Batman TV shows. Almost inconceivably, given the era that we live in, there had never been a superhero movie that wasn't cheap, laughable, aimed at kids - or all three. So when Superman producers the Salkind brothers decided to follow up their success of the Musketeers movies with another ambitious two-part movie project, they knew they'd need to throw high-level talent at the first ever serious cinematic account of the Man Of Steel.

Enter Richard Donner, riding a high wave of interest from The Omen; enter Marlon Brando, superstar Gene Hackman, Godfather screenwriter Mario Puzo...enter years of hard-working hell inventing entirely new cinematic processes to make us all believe a man can fly. And enter unknown actor Christopher Reeve, ready to take on the dual role of Clark Kent and Kal-El in what remains a definitive interpretation.

“It’s radical. It could wipe clean the entire slate of Fringe.”

So said Joshua Jackson in an interview with EW.com a few weeks ago about the season finale of the Fox sci-fi series. It was a bold claim, and hard to appreciate without knowing what was going to happen in “The Day We Died.” But now we know. Spoiler Alert For The DVR Set! The finale was part Crisis On Infinite Earths and part “Days of Future Past” with a touch of A Christmas Carol (“Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come” section): After activating the so-called “doomsday...

Welcome to No Fact Zone’s weekly roundup of cultural references on The Colbert Report. From Darcy to Danger Mouse, String Theory to Shakespeare, we’ve got the keys to this week’s obscure, oddball, and occasionally obscene cultural shout-outs (hey!).

Konnichi wa /Konbanwa Zoners! What a great week back after vacation. Stephen and the gang were in top form yet again. I don’t think I have ever been as hungry after watching a show as I was after this weeks episodes – candy bars, pistachio ice cream, shawarmas – I was practically chomping at the bit to run for a midnight treat, but I refrained…this time. I was moved by the attention to the needs of the Japanese with his donation reminders. With everything going on right now, it’s easy for us to lose focus. Oh and Jimmy Fallon – what can I say? He found a devoted fan...

Twitter-watching during convention weekends can be a rewarding endeavor, especially when Adam Hughes draws the White Queen and posts photographic evidence. Hughes and Yildiray Cinar both shared some artwork last night, just as reactions to Gary Busey on "Celebrity Apprentice" began rolling in.

The most famous new comics-related artwork of the weekend showed up on Google, however, in memory of Will Eisner, who would have turned 94 on Sunday. Tweets on all of these subjects, as well as a brilliant proposal for Galactus' next herald have been collected after the jump.

I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for March 7, 2011.

@AH_AdamHughes Last sketch of the weekend... yfrog.com/h8whhwtj

-Adam Hughes, Artist ("Wonder Woman," "Catwoman")

@ycinar And done! http://twitpic.com/46zfrj

-Yildiray Cinar, Artist ("Legion Of Super Heroes," "Noble Causes")

"Celebrity Apprentice" pt. 1: @Philjimeneznyc I typically hate "The Celebrity Apprentice" for any number of reasons.

As soon as we thought we could predict the outcome of the Oscars, here comes another surprise! This one's brought to you by the Writers Guild of America. Picked for Best Original Screenplay was Christopher Nolan's "Inception." The director, famously dissed for not getting a Best Director Oscar nomination, may just win the Best Original Screenplay come Oscar night. Oscar front-runner, "The King's Speech" was not nominated because it didn't quality under union rules which prompted Nolan to say during his WGA acceptance award that he looked forward to a time when he could accept the award "without qualification."

That could be the beginning of a great script Mr. Nolan, go write it :happy

For adapted screenplay, I'm happy to report that Aaron Sorkin's fantastic script won! Based on "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich, "The Social Network" was the only film last year that I predicted to win this very category.

John Forsythe was a leading actor on stage, screen and television from the late 1940s, but was never seen in one of his best known roles. He lent his distinctive voice to the role of Charles Townsend, who sent an array of lovely agents on various cases by speaker phone in the Charlie’s Angels television series from 1976 to 1981. The Angels originally included Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith, and were later joined by Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack, and Tanya Roberts. He reprised his role for feature film adaptations twenty years later, Charlie’s Angels (2000) and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu as a new generation of beautiful detectives. Forsythe became a silver-haired sex symbol in his sixties, when he starred as ruthless oil tycoon Blake Carrington in the ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty from 1981 to 1989. He frequently found himself at the...

Mort Abrahams, a producer and production executive on TV and film projects ranging from "Route 66" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." to "The Iceman Cometh" and "A Delicate Balance," died May 28 in Sherman Oaks of natural causes. He was 93.

As a producer at Music Corporation of America in the 1950s, Abrahams was an exec producer on early TV shows including "Suspicion," "Kraft Suspense Theatre" and "G.E. Theatre," hosted by Ronald Reagan.

For Herbert B. Leonard Prods. and ABC, he produced the on-the-road adventure "Route 66" in 1962-63 and the spy-themed "U.N.C.L.E." in 1964-65.

Abrahams left for Arthur Jacobs' Apjac Prods. in 1966 for a job as executive vp to handle production and/or writing chores on films such as "Doctor Dolittle" (1967), "Planet of the Apes" (1968), "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969), "The Chairman" (1969) starring Gregory Peck and "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (1970).

From 1969-71, he was vp in...