The Starz spy-fi series Counterpart ended its critically praised first season Sunday with more questions than answers. In a climactic moment, Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) — a secret agent from our Earth — killed Alexander Pope (Stephen Rea), the mysterious leader of Project Indigo, an organization bent on revenge for the deadly flu pandemic that decimated his alternate Earth 20 years before, killing more than half a billion people.
Silk was captured by Ian Shaw (Nicholas Pinnock), an aggressive agent from the Department of Housekeeping for the Office of Interchange (aka the spy agency in charge of hiding and regulating ...
Silk was captured by Ian Shaw (Nicholas Pinnock), an aggressive agent from the Department of Housekeeping for the Office of Interchange (aka the spy agency in charge of hiding and regulating ...
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[This story contains spoilers from the season-one finale of Starz's Counterpart.]
Starz wrapped the first season of its critically praised spy-fi drama Counterpart on Sunday with two shocking deaths and the cold war between the parallel worlds suddenly getting a whole lot hotter. At the center of it all were the two Howard Silks — the super spy and his meek doppelganger, both played by series star J.K. Simmons.
During the hour, Howard Alpha — desperate to go back to his world — meets with Alexander Pope (Stephen Rea) to beg for his help. Pope offers to assist in ...
Starz wrapped the first season of its critically praised spy-fi drama Counterpart on Sunday with two shocking deaths and the cold war between the parallel worlds suddenly getting a whole lot hotter. At the center of it all were the two Howard Silks — the super spy and his meek doppelganger, both played by series star J.K. Simmons.
During the hour, Howard Alpha — desperate to go back to his world — meets with Alexander Pope (Stephen Rea) to beg for his help. Pope offers to assist in ...
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[This story contains spoilers from the season one finale of Starz's Counterpart.]
Starz wrapped the critically acclaimed first season of spy-fi drama Counterpart on Sunday, ending with a tense diplomatic standoff, a game-changing death and the two Howard Silks (J.K. Simmons) trapped in one another's foreign world.
Howard Alpha (from our world) is desperate to get back to his comatose wife Emily (Olivia Williams), but his only option is to beg for help from the mysterious leader of Project Indigo, Alexander Pope (Stephen Rea). Pope agrees to assist him, but only if Howard agrees to become his ...
Starz wrapped the critically acclaimed first season of spy-fi drama Counterpart on Sunday, ending with a tense diplomatic standoff, a game-changing death and the two Howard Silks (J.K. Simmons) trapped in one another's foreign world.
Howard Alpha (from our world) is desperate to get back to his comatose wife Emily (Olivia Williams), but his only option is to beg for help from the mysterious leader of Project Indigo, Alexander Pope (Stephen Rea). Pope agrees to assist him, but only if Howard agrees to become his ...
After establishing his reputation as a playwright, Martin McDonagh made a remarkably confident movie debut in 2004 directing the Oscar-winning, half-hour Six Shooter, set on a train in his native Ireland, where grieving widower Brendan Gleeson is confronted by a gun-toting psychopath. He followed it up in 2008 with his first feature, the dazzling, accomplished In Bruges, a conscious cross between Hemingway's The Killers and Beckett's Waiting for Godot in which Gleeson and Colin Farrell play Irish hitmen waiting for their psychopathic British boss to dictate their next assignment. Now McDonagh has moved to the States, where his hero, Colin Farrell, is Marty, an incipient alcoholic Irish playwright working on a Hollywood film, and the number of psychopaths involved has exponentially advanced to seven.
At the opening of the startling and funny Seven Psychopaths the camera pans across the hills above Los Angeles, taking in the iconic sign that has loomed over...
At the opening of the startling and funny Seven Psychopaths the camera pans across the hills above Los Angeles, taking in the iconic sign that has loomed over...
- 12/9/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
From the cavorting skeletons of medieval danse macabre through to Saturday Night Fever, the terror of mortality has always mingled with joie de vivre on the dancefloor
The metaphoric relationship between dancing and sex is a two-way street, as in "rockin' and rollin'" and the euphemistic "horizontal tango", a term so cheesy it should turn all right-minded people into wallflowers. Latin dancing, in particular, we think of as a public analogue of intercourse. Inevitably The Simpsons has spoofed this idea with a dance called La Penetrada, which promises to make "sex look like church". In literary circles, Eros graces Jane Austen's dances, despite all the juvenile giggling over red breeches and the stubbornness of the leading man. One of the central cinematic examples of dance as erotic affirmation surely belongs to Saturday Night Fever, with John Travolta's exuberant pelvis nodding "Yes, yes, yes!" to all of life's propositions.
The metaphoric relationship between dancing and sex is a two-way street, as in "rockin' and rollin'" and the euphemistic "horizontal tango", a term so cheesy it should turn all right-minded people into wallflowers. Latin dancing, in particular, we think of as a public analogue of intercourse. Inevitably The Simpsons has spoofed this idea with a dance called La Penetrada, which promises to make "sex look like church". In literary circles, Eros graces Jane Austen's dances, despite all the juvenile giggling over red breeches and the stubbornness of the leading man. One of the central cinematic examples of dance as erotic affirmation surely belongs to Saturday Night Fever, with John Travolta's exuberant pelvis nodding "Yes, yes, yes!" to all of life's propositions.
- 10/26/2012
- by Laurence Scott
- The Guardian - Film News
The Ides of March’s Evan Rachel Wood is attached to star as the lead character in new road movie, 18 Wheel Butterfly.
Furthermore, indie producer Aaron Magnani has also attached Big Sur’s helmer Michael Polish to direct.
18 Wheel Butterfly indie is written by newcomer Christian Divine and described as a mix between Thelma and Louise and Smokey and the Bandit.
I am not sure if the film’s title is an allusion to a line of Alexander Pope’s poem ‘Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot’: ‘Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?’
As you may know the line is frequently interpreted as questioning why someone would put massive effort into achieving something minor or trivial, or who would punish a minor crook with a disproportional penalty.
If it’s not the case, still there are obvious similarities.
However, set in Texas during the summer of 1977, 18 Wheel Butterfly will star Wood as Rainbeaux,...
Furthermore, indie producer Aaron Magnani has also attached Big Sur’s helmer Michael Polish to direct.
18 Wheel Butterfly indie is written by newcomer Christian Divine and described as a mix between Thelma and Louise and Smokey and the Bandit.
I am not sure if the film’s title is an allusion to a line of Alexander Pope’s poem ‘Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot’: ‘Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?’
As you may know the line is frequently interpreted as questioning why someone would put massive effort into achieving something minor or trivial, or who would punish a minor crook with a disproportional penalty.
If it’s not the case, still there are obvious similarities.
However, set in Texas during the summer of 1977, 18 Wheel Butterfly will star Wood as Rainbeaux,...
- 8/29/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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