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Flix FlashbackWho could play this character better than Mohanlal in prime form? No, that’s not a question and yes, the remake is a bad idea.Krishna KumarSeason (1989) opens with a brief, cryptic voice-over narration by Jeevan (Mohanlal), a handcuffed convict in a police vehicle, as he’s resigned to the idea of another prison term; this time, he’s in for two years. It’s not a hero’s account of how he got here – it’s part complaint (he’s going to miss the sight of fog setting in over the roads), part acceptance of the inevitable (he even lets out a half-chuckle). There’s no affectation here, this is no plodding lead-in, but with every re-watch of the film, this sounds so right – a casual, teasing opening note to what would unfold as a dark story of drug deals, deception and revenge served cold. Writer-director P Padmarajan...

CinemaWhile some say it is for business reasons, others believe it is to bring in more variety into the industry.Anjana ShekarIn Mohanlal’s Malayalam thriller Big Brother, actor Arbaaz Khan, best known for his role in the Hindi film Dabangg (a film that he also produced) played Vedantham Ips. In his blockbuster Lucifer, it was Vivek Oberoi who was the villain challenging him. In Vijay’s Tamil film Bigil that released last year, actor Jackie Shroff played Jk Sharma, President of the All India Football Federation. In the Telugu film Vinaya Vidheya Rama, actor Vivek Oberoi played Raja Bhai Munna, Bihari Kingpin. Over the years, south Indian cinema has imported many Bollywood stars to act as the villain for many reasons. Take, for instance, Sivakarthikeyan’s Hero in which Abhay Deol played Mahadev, a corrupt “corporate monster” who lobotomises young students for coming up with cool inventions. Abhay, who...

Who knew? Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead revealed that, for all of the Saviors’ bloodlust and tough-as-leather posturing, Negan’s organization is run pretty much like The Office’s Dunder Mifflin. (All they were missing was a water cooler and a perky receptionist.) “The Big Scary U” also filled us in on what happened to Gabriel after he made the mistake of choosing Negan’s trailer as a Season-8-premiere hiding place, brought to a head the mounting tension between Rick and Daryl, and really kinda made you want to see Michonne. Why? Read on…

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Whose Episode Is It?

It’s a Negan episode. Wait, don’t go! It’s actually much better than it sounds! In fact, “The Big Scary U” is not only the best episode of Season 8, it might be better than any episode from Season 7. And it manages this feat by simply giving Negan some depth and motivation, an actual character for us to consider, instead of a one-note psychopath. It also gives poor Jeffrey Dean Morgan something to do other than bluster, and he admirably rises to the occasion.

“The Big Scary U” also goes a long way in confirming that this season will finally seriously address the moral costs of living in the zombie apocalypse, as it both establishes Negan’s philosophy and questions Rick’s methodology. It even manages to address this in different storylines involving multiple characters, which is a rarity for the standard recent “Walking Dead...

We're a little more than halfway through the The Walking Dead's fall season, and so far no line line of dialogue has been more memorable than Negan's warning in the premiere: "I hope you got your shittin' pants on ... because you are about to shit your pants." Still, the big bad boss does try to top himself in the latest episode, when he suggests that Gregory is "a thin-dicked politician, threading the needle with your thin, thin dick." A pattern's emerging here: Not only does Negan communicate almost exclusively in vulgarities,...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead. (And trust us, this one’s so good, you’ll want to watch first, read later.)

In what may have been Season 8’s first truly great episode of The Walking Dead, Sunday’s “Some Guy” started with Ezekiel being shaken to his theatrical core by the massacre with which “Monsters” ended, and concluded with the king being shaken to whatever is even deeper than one’s core by the next tragedy to strike. What could possibly have been worse than the bulk of his battalion being gunned down?...

Though Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead was the third in a row to feature almost non-stop smackdowns and shoot-’em-ups, battle fatigue and fatalities were beginning to be less of a concern than crises of conscience. In fact, the speed at which sides were forming (with Daryl, Morgan and Tara on Team Kill ’Em All, and Jesus, suddenly Rick and maybe Maggie on Team Live and Let Live) strongly suggested that, before the Saviors were vanquished, the allied forces would be fighting one another. Which characters wouldn’t still be around to see the conflict resolved? Read on…...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Season 8 premiere of The Walking Dead. If you’ve yet to watch, pretend Negan’s about to take a swing and look away.

The Season 8 premiere (and 100th episode) of The Walking Dead was filled with inspiring fighting words about how the world belonged to Rick and our heroes, the allied forces were going to live in peace and harmony, they’d all be together forever, yadda, yadda, yadda. But the all-cried-out look in Rick’s red-rimmed eyes, seen in (I think) flash-forwards, served as a stark reminder that turning all that talk...

Global Genes hosted the highly anticipated and globally-recognized 6th Annual Rare Tribute to Champions of Hope Awards and Rare Patient Advocacy Summit on September 14-16.

The weekend-long festivities culminated Saturday at the Tribute award program hosted at the City National Grove of Anaheim, where more than 700 patients, celebrities, advocacy leaders, biotech and pharmaceutical executives, healthcare professionals, philanthropists, and scientists came together to support the fight against rare disease. The heartfelt awards, presentations, and performances raised over $1.75 million for rare disease education, awareness, advocacy, and patient scholarships to access programs. Of the total funds raised, more than $75,000 was donated through an on-stage ask at the Saturday evening event in direct support for the Global Genes Rare Patient Impact Grant Program.

The weekend celebrations were a star-studded affair with celebrity award presenters and guests in attendance including Jim O’Heir (Parks and Recreation), Madison McLaughlin (Supernatural, Arrow), Jillian Rose Reed (MTV’s...

How do you like these apples: Showtime has ordered a drama pilot for City on a Hill, a gritty thriller based on an original idea by Ben Affleck and Chuck MacLean and chronicling the clean-up of Boston’s early-1990s crime problem.

Affleck will executive-produce the project with Matt Damon, director Gavin O’Connor, James Mangold and Jennifer Todd.

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A fictional account of what was called the “Boston Miracle,” City on a Hill follows an African-American District Attorney who comes in from Brooklyn advocating change, and the unlikely alliance he forms...

Film adaptation based on book by John Wukovits.

Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang have announced they are developing an adaptation of John Wukovits’ Hell From The Heavens: The Epic Story Of The USS Laffey And World War II’s Greatest Kamikaze Attack.

Rosalind Ross will write the adaptation under the working title of Kamikaze.

On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the destroyer USS Laffey withstood an unrelenting kamikaze attack. After 80 minutes, 22 continuous air attacks and four direct bomb hits, six Japanese fighter planes crashed into the ship, setting the destroyer ablaze. Thirty-two men died and 71 were wounded that day.

The ship’s captain Frederick Julian Becton refused to give up and he and his crew fought on and ultimately won the day, earning the Laffey the name ‘The Ship That Would Not Die.’

Nunnari will produce alongside Hollywood Gang’s Shannon Gaulding.

Nunnari, best known for producing the thrillers Se7en, The Departed, and 300, is...

At the halfway point of the year, it’s only right that we reflect on the best that 2017 TV has had to offer. But even though we’ve singled out our picks for the greatest shows from the past six months, that still leaves plenty of quality TV experiences unpraised.

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With that in mind, we singled out 20 of the best TV episodes of the year. Some are from shows we’ll already given high marks to, while others are standout installments from series that sadly flew under the radar as they aired. The result is a cross-section of TV that covers comedy, drama, tragedy, triumph and all the spaces in between.

20. “Legion” – Season 1, Episode 6, “Chapter 6”

It’s almost too fitting that a man named Hiro directed the best episode of FX’s non-superhero superhero series, “Legion.” An hour-long dance through David...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for the “Silicon Valley” Season 4 finale, Episode 10, “Server Error.”]

After a season of departures, setbacks and the central team of aspiring tech moguls ending up way farther away from their goals than they had expected, Season 4 of “Silicon Valley” could really only have ended one way. In a mirror of a Season 2 cliffhanger, newly shaven Gavin Belson sat across from Richard Hendricks, the former offering a sweetheart acquisition deal to the person he gifted a industry-changing patent to just a few weeks before.

Rather than accept the offer from the newly reinstated Hooli chairman, Richard declined, even after being reminded that the only reason his company is still viable is by a rare bit of Gavin Belson altruism. Richard began the series as a lovable pushover, an unlikely CEO in the Silicon Valley world, where tech bros play pickup basketball games on the same court as the NBA champions. But whether it was a gradually built up thicker skin...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for the “Silicon Valley” Season 4 finale, Episode 10, “Server Error.”]

In a season filled with tech metaphors, none of them were as apt as an overheated garage server being lightly attended to with hand-operated fans. As Anton slowly broiled under the weight of unwieldy Melcher data, it was a fitting encapsulation of the monumental stress that “Silicon Valley” put on its main characters this year. The road to technological relevance has never been easy for these guys, but this season finale gave them a solution and a ticket out of the rut they’ve been in for the past few weeks.

It’s a solution that didn’t seem likely at the outset of this episode, as Dinesh looped videos of more Hooliphone explosions caught on surveillance cameras. The Pied Piper gang has been forced to face consequences in the past, but watching potential users in physical pain brought about by their actions seem to be a tipping point for...

The following story contains spoilers about Silicon Valley‘s Season 4 finale — proceed at your own peril

Richard’s dream of booting up a new Internet moved closer to reality in Silicon Valley‘s Season 4 finale, setting the stage for a potentially game-changing fifth season. But obstacles await, and Pied Piper will be marching into what promises to be a messy battle down a soldier: As previously confirmed, Sunday’s season-ender marked the end of the road for T.J. Miller, whose stoner-ego Erlich Bachman embarked on a new life in Tibet. But is the scene-steaking dope-head gone for good? That’s...

On Sunday night’s “Silicon Valley,” the world got its first taste of Hoolicon, a three-day cacophony of product launches and tech seminars that’s one part Apple Keynote and one part self-help conference.

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Episode 8, “The Keenan Vortex,” even produced a 30-second ad for the weekend event, dripping with faux and self-importance. (Spoiler warning for fans who were busy watching the Tonys: There’s a surprise cameo at the end that won’t make much sense if you’re not fully caught up.)

The most transformative technology event in the world. See you all at Hoolicon. pic.twitter.com/vNM5W9IdGl

— Silicon Valley (@SiliconHBO) June 12, 2017

Like with other notable companies and venture firms from the show, “Silicon Valley” has made an insanely detailed official Hoolicon website, complete with a speakers lineup and...

Well, it almost happened. For a minute, the Pied Piper crew finally seemed to be happy. Champagne was flowing, spirits were high and it looked like this group finally had the financial and creative freedom to fulfill the dreams that their occasionally fearful leader has had all season.

And then, as it always seems to in the world of “Silicon Valley,” the fluffy clouds lifted. It’s another weekly example of how the show continues to dangle a happy future in front of its characters, only to pull it away and show them that the way they wanted to find happiness was an illusion all along (or a virtual reality, if you will).

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In a bit of karmic retribution, at the end of “The Keenan Vortex,” it’s Erlich who ends up the most distraught,...

Given the amount of turnover and plot machinations that go into the average season of “Silicon Valley,” more than a few episodes feel like the show hitting the reset button.

Last week’s “The Blood Boy” played out like a midseason finale, with Gavin Belson bidding farewell to his part in the Pied Piper-ssaince. Saying adieu to his part in Richard’s new internet, Gavin the enemy-turned-ally pulled his own version of the Terminator goodbye, ascending the steps of his private plane having just turned over his patent to Richard instead of lowering himself into a vat of sacrificial molten metal.

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But earlier this week, news broke that another poster-worthy cast member would be leaving as well, with reports that T.J. Miller would not be returning for “Silicon Valley” Season 5. As a result, Sunday...

Horse-mating scenes aside, “Silicon Valley” has now really gone beyond the pale. In Sunday’s episode, tech “maverick” and Hooli founder Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) made use of a “blood boy” — receiving a blood transfusion from a young man in an effort to life-hack his way to the fountain of youth. As it turns out, the practice depicted in Season 4’s Episode 5 isn’t out of reach in real life. In the episode, aptly titled “The Blood Boy,” Gavin listens to a presentation from Richard while his “transfusion associate” Bryce (Graham Rogers) sits by his side, supplying him with his young blood.

Jian Yang’s Erlich impression. Big Head’s sudden ascension through the guest lecture circuit. Gavin Belson’s failed key-card swipe. Last night’s “Silicon Valley” was an episode that kept the Season 4 hot streak alive with some unsurprisingly delightful developments.

But there’s one that has them all beat.

While going through the files of their early investor Peter Gregory, Richard (Thomas Middleditch) discovers that the man who once gave Pied Piper some much-needed runway also may have left the key to building a brand new, decentralized internet.

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Jared (Zach Woods), Richard’s partner in amateur sleuthing, helps them both realize this discovery means that a new internet might be more viable than either of them thought. Richard’s newfound excitement leads to a back-and-forth of happy enthusiasm.

When we last left our merry band of tech innovators, programmers and start up investors the infamous company Pied Piper had taken yet another dramatic pivot. The algorithm company CEO and founder Richard (Thomas Middleditch) had once hoped would revolutionize video compression was pushed to the side for an increasingly popular video chat application developed by Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani). And, if you’ve ever worked even tangentially close to the tech sector it made a lot of sense and in a way that has always been the biggest strength of Mike Judge’s “Silicon Valley.”

Read More: ‘Silicon Valley’ Embarks On A Tech Venture In New Trailer For Season 4

Sure, corporate giant Hooli (think Yahoo having overstayed its welcome) and its incredulously dumb “Chief Innovation Officer” Gavin Benson (Matt Ross) is an increasingly less funny cartoon in the background, but the obstacles Richard, Dinesh, Gilfoye (Martin Starr) and Jared (the show’s secret weapon,...

Three episodes were provided prior to broadcast.

Given the constantly evolving and paradigm shifting nature of the titular Californian hotspot, HBO’s furiously funny comedy series Silicon Valley has a nearly endless stream of real-life absurdity to parody each season. From a dire life-or-death live stream (with crystal-clear video!) to the nuts and bolts of running and operating a start-up company, the show constantly feels topical, resonant, and meaningful without an ounce of trying-too-hard bogging it down.

Creator Mike Judge has built a world that teeters slightly on the edge of unreality, but he never goes full-force into that abyss. The setting is tangible, the characters are believable (and crushingly relatable), and the always-an-underdog plot arcs are feverishly entertaining. Season 4 of Silicon Valley keeps that deft mix of humor, heart, and all-hell-breaking-loose potent and strong in the first few episodes sent for review, proving that – like Pied Piper – the show...

When it comes to chasing your dreams, there’s a fine line between crazy and courageous, and the fast-moving, boom or bust world of Silicon Valley — satirized in HBO’s award-winning comedy of the same name — blurs the line into obscurity. Over three seasons, Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) and his friends have seen more extreme ups and downs while trying to monetize their landmark algorithm than most people experience in their lifetime. Entering Season 4, they’ve got a shot at evening things out and making good, stable money.

But is that enough? Is stability what these men, and Richard Hendricks, in particular, are really chasing? Would they be happy if they were millionaires, coasting through life, free from the pressures and thrills of the chase? That each character would likely answer differently gives you an idea of where “Silicon Valley” is headed in Season 4, but simply by posing the question,...

Ahead of the Season 4 premiere on April 23, HBO has released the official trailer and key art for its acclaimed comedy Silicon Valley. At the end of Season 3, Jared's (Zach Woods) clickfarm scam had been discovered and covered up, a scandal threatened to gut Hooli king Gavin Belson (Matt Ross), a side project could become an accidental focus, and Erlich (T.J. Miller) and Big Head (Josh Brener) have a new asset. Thomas Middleditch stars as Richard Hendricks, the…...

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[Spoilers follow for “The Walking Dead” Season 7, Episode 13, “Bury Me Here.”]

Whose Episode Is It?

We’re with the Kingdom this week, and Morgan takes center stage. Morgan’s story this week is so central, in fact, that his decisions eclipse the ostensibly important key decisions of other characters, dulling the impact of the overall story. It also doesn’t help that the first half of “Bury Me Here” plays out in extremely predictable fashion.

A Shred of Humanity

I’ve always been fascinated by the way “The Walking Dead” approaches Morgan, since he’s one of the only characters to preach non-violence on a show that often endorses the opposite (remember when Tyreese got put in the “Kill more or I kill this baby” situation?). So it was probably just a matter of time before the show found a way to get Morgan back on the murder train,...

The path to war with the Saviors just got a whole lot shorter.

Though Daryl saved Carol from being a victim of Richard’s scheme to spur Ezekiel to action, Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead found the king’s right-hand man coming up with an alternative plan, which, right on cue, went disastrously awry. How disastrously? By the end of the hour, two characters were dead — and neither of them were Saviors. That disastrously. Read on for all the gory deets.

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‘Just...

Because irony is dead and no one ever reads past the headline, reactions to Amazon’s Resistance Radio — a tie-in program for “The Man in the High Castle,” an alternate-history series in which the Nazis were victorious in World War II — have been just as silly as you’d expect. Many seem to have believed that the radio show, in which members of the fictional resistance discuss the Third Reich’s evils and attempt to galvanize one another, is in fact aimed at the Trump administration — and responded accordingly.

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Like “The Americans,” “The Man in the High Castle” has taken on a strange new resonance following last year’s election; that so many would jump to this conclusion about Resistance Radio is one of those hilarious-but-dispiriting...

Sneak Peek footage, plus images from "The Walking Dead" Season 7 episode "Bury Me Here", airing March 12, 2017 on AMC:

"...things do not go as planned when a group of 'Kingdommers' deliver goods to the 'Saviors' during a routine supply drop-off..."

Episode guest stars include Cooper Andrews as 'Jerry', Daniel Newman as 'Daniel', Kerry Cahill as 'Dianne'...

...Joshua Mikel as 'Jared', Jayson Warner Smith as 'Gavin' and Carlos Navarro as 'Alvaro'.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Walking Dead: Bury Me Here"...

Crowley’s son came back!

Gavin may have been absent since Supernatural Season 9, but a ghost case involving the ship he was supposed to have ben brought him back to the story on Supernatural Season 12 Episode 13.

Plus, Mary revealed her British Men of Letters secret. But was it a good move?

TV Fanatic staff writers Sean McKenna and Christine Laskodi and The Winchester Family Business' Alice and Nightsky weigh in on “Family Feud.”

So join them in the latest Supernatural Round Table!

What was your favorite scene or quote?

Alice: As I look back and try to remember all the forgettable scenes in this episode, not to mention the quotes, I’ll go with the one scene I actually remember; the ending one.

Actually, it started with Rowena and Crowley in the bus station. Their talk about why Rowena helped Gavin was awesome. The reason was most unexpected.

Then...

Remember Gavin MacLeod? Crowley’s son?

His last appearance was on Supernatural Season 9 Episode 21 when he was pulled through time by Abaddon and then whisked away by Crowley to start a new life in the 21st century.

Sam and Dean mentioned that Gavin sticking around rather than returning to his own time to die on a ship would mess with history and time, and yet, after Crowley got him away, the storyline was dropped.

So it was rather exciting to have Gavin mentioned and reappear on Supernatural Season 12 Episode 13.

Granted, it felt a bit like the writers got together and suddenly remembered there was a dangling thread from about three seasons ago, and they wanted to tie up loose ends.

But with all the talk of cosmic consequences and dealing with Gavin’s life in the present day, it fit right in line with what’s been going on with Supernatural Season 12.

Though,...

Supernatural looks to be continuing its callbacks to the past.

Where the return of the Colt took place on Supernatural Season 12 Episode 12, these photos from Supernatural Season 12 Episode 13 seem to indicate that Crowley's son, Gavin, will be back.

Gavin was supposed to have died on a ship in the past before Abaddon brought him to the present on Supernatural Season 9 Episode 21. But rather than being sent back in order to avoid messing with time, Crowley whisked him away.

So what does his reappearance mean now?

It looks like Rowena is involved, so talk about a family reunion.

Get ready for a new episode when you take a peak at these pictures from "Family Feud."

1. Gavin MacLeod returns - Supernatural Season 12 Episode 13 Crowley's son has been in hiding since his father whisked him away in Supernatural Season 9. It looks like Gavin has been bus hopping, but he may have been found by Sam and Dean.

Is Once Upon a Time staging a musical battle between good and evil? Will Bones ride off into the sunset? Will a robbery uncover an NCIS agent’s secret? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.

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Since you were first to share the news about Once Upon a Time’s musical episode, do you have more info? Is our Queen going to sing? —Lisa

Aww, flattery will get you everywhere, Lisa. It will also get you this confirmation that Lana Parrilla will...

Last night on “The Late Late Show,” Anna Kendrick, Billy Eichner and host James Corden performed a mini pop musical that chronicled the journey of a woman’s life from birth to adolescence to marriage to parenthood. “We’ve got 14 songs, 10 sets, 1 take, and 0 pressure,” Corden declared at the top before diving into the cheery musical. Watch the video below.

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As one can reasonably surmise, the songs featured in the musical correspond to various life milestones. Eichner sings Salt n Pepa’s “Push It” as Kendrick’s character is born, who in turn sings Adele’s “Hello” as she emerges from the womb. Both Kendrick and Corden sing the Madonna songs “Papa Don’t Preach” and “Like a Virgin” to symbolize the emotional turbulence of high school. Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” soundtracks Kendrick’s...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Bleecker Street has announced it has acquired U.S. and select territory rights to “The Man Who Invented Christmas,” to be directed by Bharat Nalluri. The film will start shooting next month and is targeting a holiday 2017 release date.

The cast includes Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Jonathan Pryce as Dickens’ father. The Solution is handling rights for the rest of the world. The script is written by Susan Coyne and is based on the book “The Man Who Invented Christmas” by Les Standiford, published by Crown. The film recounts how Charles Dickens created the classic holiday fable, “A Christmas Carol.”

– Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has announced it has acquired exclusive distribution rights...

Superfans of sadly deceased ABC sitcoms got a treat on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of EW Popfest and the writers of “Happy Endings.” Stars Casey Wilson, Damon Wayans Jr., Eliza Coupe, Elisha Cuthbert, Adam Pally and Zackary Knighton, as well as creator David Caspe and more, reunited for the table read of what was officially decreed to be Episode 401, “Happy to Be Here,” a “lost episode” of the series.

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The episode featured Penny and Max trying to reunite the gang three years after the end of the Season 3 finale, which (as revealed in flashbacks) occurred moments before a massive fight between Brad and Jane broke up the show’s ultimate power couple and also tore their friend group apart. Traveling the world from London (where Alex has found some success) to Japan (where Jane heads up Toyota’s...

Would you confess to a crime you didn’t commit? What if you hadn’t slept? What if you hadn’t had anything to drink for half a day? What would convince you to say your were guilty, even if you weren’t?

That’s what Bull Season 1 Episode 5 asked. Could you be coerced into a confession for something you didn’t do?

The answer was different for everyone and some people were obviously harder to break than others. What bothered me the most was when Detective Murphy insisted that every killer swears they’re innocent.

Doesn’t every innocent person do that, too?

The four techniques to coerce a confession were fascinating, and I could see how they could work. Given enough time and the right kind of leverage, I think we could all be bullied into saying something that wasn’t true, which begs the question, when does...

The tech smart and not so business savvy group of guys are back.

HBO released Silicon Valley: The Complete Third Season on Digital HD this week. It is available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Instant Video, Vudo, Xbox Video, Best Buy’s Cinema Now, Nook, Playstation Video and Verizon Fios.

Here’s the synopsis for the third season:

After last season's shocking ending, which found Pied Piper celebrating legal victory just as Richard (Thomas Middleditch) was ousted as CEO, Season 3 picks up where we left off, with Richard offered the diminished role of Cto and the rest of his team – Erlich (T.J. Miller), Jared (Zach Woods), Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) – facing the question of just how far their loyalty extends. With a new no-nonsense CEO hell-bent on transforming everything from Pied Piper's offices to its business agenda, the guys must find a way to triumph...

Musician Rick Springfield ("True Detective," "Ricki and the Flash") has been cast as the new vessel for Lucifer in the upcoming twelfth season of The CW's "Supernatural".

Lucifer has been a recurring character since the fifth season with Mark Pellegrino taking on the role for the most part. The Devil has popped into other forms though over time including Jared Padalecki's Sam and more recently Misha Collins' Castiel from whom he was thrown out towards the end of last season.

Now he's found a new one with Springfield playing a rock star named Vince Vicente who is down on his luck and trying to make a comeback. Executive producers Robert Singer and Andrew Dabb announced the news during the show's Comic Con panel on Sunday.

With Amara and her reunion with her brother God at the end of last season, the question is - how in the hell...

It was a family affair at Supernatural‘s San Diego Comic-Con panel on Sunday, with Mary Winchester’s return the hot topic during the session.

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Mom’s comeback “presents a dynamic that we haven’t had in quite a while — or ever,” Jensen Ackles previewed. “When mom left, Sam was a baby and Dean was a child. The children that she knew are now men, so the relationship is kind of nonexistent because there isn’t one. It’s an interesting situation, them trying to bridge that massive gap.”

Since Mary wasn...

In 2008, Burnie Burns and Gavin Free of online entertainment and production company Rooster Teeth saw a YouTube video of an Indian man performing a cosmic head massage. Watching the video triggered an Asmr, or automated sensory meridian response, experience for them both, and the two became incredibly fascinated with this man, Baba Sen — known as the “cosmic barber.” Over the next eight years, Burns and Free continually discussed the phenomenon of Asmr — an experience of a relaxing sensation triggered by many things such as whispered voices — and hoped to be able to get a head massage from Baba one day.

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Those jokes of traveling halfway across the world for something that would last ten minutes suddenly became a possibility with the company’s two-part documentary “World’s Greatest Head Massage: An Asmr Journey.” Directed by Mat Hames,...

After stints on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” and “Big Love,” Matt Ross is a familiar face. But if he has his way, that will soon change.

“I don’t want to be ungrateful, but the truth of the matter is that I don’t really audition or pursue acting at this point in my life,” he said. “Television has allowed me to not take on directing jobs I don’t want to take. I can cobble together a living.”

While Ross is wonderful as scheming tech executive Gavin Belson on Mike Judge’s hit show, and was memorable as polygamous cult henchman Alby Grant, he’s determined to define himself as a director. He made his debut in 2012 with microbudget romance “28 Hotel Rooms,” but “Captain Fantastic” is a picture window into the career that the 46-year-old Ross envisions for himself. A decidedly more polished work starring Viggo Mortensen, the film...

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“11.22.63”

The Clothespin

Time-jumping Jake (James Franco) may have been a man of the modern world, but even he was not ready to hear about Sadie’s (Sarah Gadon) wedding day deflowering by her ex-husband Johnny (T.R. Knight) that involved him having a clothespin clipped down between his legs and raping her. Wait, what? While we put a pin in that moment (aka, hit pause) so we could frantically Google “clothespin penis,” it dawned on us just how twisted Johnny actually was and how it was just a taste of the sadism to come. (Hanh Nguyen)

“The Americans”

“The Americans” Says Goodbye to Two Favorites

“The Americans” is always shocking when you least expect it, and never was that better exemplified than in Season 4 — first when Nina’s luck finally ran out in Episode 4, and soon after when we said goodbye to Martha in...

Who saw that coming?

No, not the twist ending of “The Uptick,” “Silicon Valley’s” Season 3 finale — not exactly. Erlich’s (T.J. Miller) sneaky plan to save Pied Piper from the clutches of Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) did come out of nowhere, and even if savvy viewers were observant enough to put together the financial capabilities of Bachmanity and how it would save Richard (Thomas Middleditch) from squalor, predicting that ending would’ve been gutsy.

Why? Because Season 3 marks the happiest ending for “Silicon Valley” to date — arguably, the only happy ending. And not only that, but the decision to unite all our favorite characters under one roof trims the fat in a way the show was unwilling to do before.

Remembering the previous finales is a bit like recalling a great date that ended with, “Oh, did I forget to mention my boyfriend?” — something Jared wouldn’t understand because,...

Silicon Valley, Season 3, Episode 5: “The Empty Chair”

Written by Megan Amram

Directed by Eric Appel

Airs Sunday at 10pm on HBO

As funny as Silicon Valley can be, it’s rarely a good times show; Richard Hendricks requires a minimum level of crisis in order to reach peak nervous mania, and the show’s writing is at its most inspired when the stakes are highest. Season three of Silicon Valley has consisted of crisis after crisis, allow the show to focus on its strengths. The Empty Chair is a rare reprieve, a lull in the succession of catastrophes.

It’s been 10 days since Laurie fired Pied Piper’s contentious CEO. She’s been meeting with candidates, both qualified and unqualified (Big Head even got an invitation), but no one has gotten the job yet. While Laurie is looking for a new leader, Pied Piper is running out of money.

Silicon Valley, Season 3, Episode 3: “Maleant Data Systems Solutions”

Written by Donick Cary

Directed by Charlie McDowell

Airs Sundays at 10pm on HBO

At the end of last week’s very funny but somewhat stuffed episode, Richard’s plan to circumvent Jack’s wishes had been discovered and he was in danger of being fired for his insubordination/fraud. This week, Richard retains some of his cunning in negotiations with Jack. Part of what makes Thomas Middleditch so funny as Richard is that he has resisted any kind of major character evolution. Richard never became a confident leader, and his position as CEO of Pied Piper was solely based on the fact that he created the product, not any kind of leadership skills. In “Maleant Data Systems Solutions,” Silicon Valley starts to present a version of Richard who’s actually capable of leading a company in a successful direction.

Rather than being fired,...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Belgica (Felix van Groeningen)

Writer/director Felix van Groeningen based Belgica’s script on his father’s experiences running a nightclub in Ghent. How closely the story hews to the real events is anyone’s guess, though the boilerplate “though inspired by true events, all persons depicted are fictitious” title card which opens the film suggests that it might hit too close to home for more than a few real-life people.

The Performer | Louie Anderson

The Show | Baskets

The Episode | “Family Portrait” (March 24, 2016)

The Performance | The casting of male comic Anderson as the mother of Zach Galifianakis’ sad, rudderless clown has been far more than a gimmick for FX’s freshman comedy Baskets. It’s been an inarguable revelation.

All season long, using downcast glances, withering smiles and the occasional flash of childlike excitement (usually over the most mundane of developments), Anderson has brought a strange honesty to the honestly strange role of Christine Baskets, a lonely, occasionally caustic woman haunted by her husband’s suicide, hopelessly addicted to sweets and...

Here are the major film and television trailers that were released this week.

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, the newest documentary from filmmaker Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog’s exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

Love, a new Netflix original series co-created by Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, and Paul Rust, and co-starring Rust and Gillian Jacobs

A program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment and other things they were hoping to avoid.

Jane Got a Gun (Us trailer), directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, and Ewan McGregor

A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.

Baskets, a new FX series co-created by Zach Galifianakis, Louis Ck, and Jonathan Krisel, and starring Galifianakis

After failing at a prestigious French clowning college,...

Wesley Mead Dec 20, 2016

Looking for some TV to fill you with festive cheer? Here are the next 20 episodes in our list of the top 100 Xmas TV episodes ever...

This article first appeared in December 2015. Read entries 100 - 81 on this list, here.

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Since the medium’s infancy, viewers have enjoyed sharing holidays with their favourite television characters. We grow invested in our friends on screen over the years; spending Christmas with them is a rite of passage, a chance for us to share tradition from our world with the fictional ones we see on screen. Some shows embrace the season wholeheartedly, characters in good spirits and enjoying the trappings of the season; others skew a little darker, bringing the more oppressive, burdensome side of the holidays to life. Either way, Christmas episodes tend to demonstrate the strengths of our favourite series,...

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Looking for some TV to fill you with festive cheer? Here are the next 20 episodes in our list of the top 100 Xmas TV episodes ever...

Read entries 100 - 81 on this list, here.

Since the medium’s infancy, viewers have enjoyed sharing holidays with their favourite television characters. We grow invested in our friends on screen over the years; spending Christmas with them is a rite of passage, a chance for us to share tradition from our world with the fictional ones we see on screen. Some shows embrace the season wholeheartedly, characters in good spirits and enjoying the trappings of the season; others skew a little darker, bringing the more oppressive, burdensome side of the holidays to life. Either way, Christmas episodes tend to demonstrate the strengths of our favourite series, and it’s long been a festive ritual of mine to wheel out old DVD sets...