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Monk, an early-2000s police procedural dramedy, brought viewers eight beloved seasons of mysteries, tears, laughs, and quirky antics. The show follows the life of former detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), a brilliant San Francisco police consultant who lives with obsessive-compulsive disorder and is struggling to cope with his day-to-day life after his wife Trudy Monk is killed.

It is no surprise that the Monk series is pure comedic genius given the creator (Andy Breckman)’s years of experience as a Saturday Night Live sketch writer. Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford, Bitty Schram, and Traylor Howard make up the supporting cast of this iconic comedy crime drama, and the show takes a beautifully compassionate approach to Adrian’s Ocd without sacrificing the ability to recognize Adrian's frequently humorous nature. Some of the best Monk episodes stem from Mr. Monk’s endearing mannerisms.

Mr. Monk Gets Interrupted Monk Has To Start His...

The death of Adrian Monk’s (Tony Shalhoub) beloved wife, Trudy, was a major anchor point of the 2002 crime dramedy Monk. With the 2023 movie release and Netflix adding the original show back to their platform 15 years after Monk ended, viewers may be struggling to recall what happened to Trudy. In December of 1997, well before the events of the first episode, Trudy Monk (Melora Hardin) was tragically murdered in a parking garage when a bomb was planted in her car. The perpetrators were a mystery, and one that even the brilliant former detective Adrian Monk struggled to solve.

Throughout the show, Monk’s primary motivation was to find his wife’s killer, and he gradually unveiled several compelling pieces of evidence to help him do so, many of which were revealed to him by corrupt wealthy financier, Dale J. “the Whale” Biederbeck III (Tim Curry). After eight seasons, it seemed Adrian...

A new episode of the Awfully Good Horror Movies video series has just been released, and with this one we’ve decided to take a look at the M. Night Shyamalan misstep known as The Happening (watch it Here). You can hear all about it in the video embedded above!

Written and directed by Shyamalan, who also produced the film alongside Sam Mercer and Barry Mendel, The Happening has the following synopsis: An apocalyptic threat to humanity arrives out of the clear blue sky with a series of violent, inexplicable deaths spreading across the country. The cause of the terrifying phenomenon remains unknown, prompting science teacher Elliot Moore, his wife Alma, and his colleague Julian to try to elude the invisible killer in Pennsylvania’s farmland. Soon it becomes clear that no one is safe.

The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Betty Buckley, Ashlyn Sanchez, Frank Collison,...

Death is the ultimate leveler. It comes for everyone in the end, no matter your station in life. Never is that more unsettlingly apparent than in 1988’s The Blob, directed by Chuck Russell from a script he co-wrote with Frank Darabont. The creature feature lets loose a gelatinous pink blob of goo upon the small town of Arborville, California, where it wreaks havoc with its insatiable appetite. It doesn’t care about archetypical hero or villain roles; its sole aim is to devour.

The eponymous Blob acts as a giant slithering stomach, dissolving its food for digestion with extreme acidity. That means that not only is the body count high for this ever-growing creature, but the deaths are deliciously mean-spirited and unforgettable thanks to gruesome special makeup effects from Tony Gardner and an incredible team of artists. Russell and Darabont reinforce the SFX showcase with unpredictability and meticulous characterization to...

When the pandemic hit it was Steven Soderberg’s Contagion rather than M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening that people wanted to revisit. Perhaps Mark Wahlberg running away from the wind wasn’t the vibe people were looking for. Revisiting this much maligned but secretly wonderful curio in light of where we are in the world now, though, throws up some interesting parallels. The big difference between the way the characters in The Happening dealt with their pandemic and what’s going on in the world now is lockdown. What the characters battling the airborne infection in The Happening should have done is self isolate….

M Night Shyamalan’s eco-horror was released in 2008 after his declining run of hits, which began with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs (pretty well liked), The Village (opinion is divided) and The Lady in the Water (bad).

Perhaps because of Night’s rise and fall,...

Showtime announced today that filming has finished on David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks revival series. Ahead of its 2017 premiere, the series’ complete cast—including returning actors as well as those who are new to the series—has been revealed.

Newcomers to the series include Monica Bellucci, Jim Belushi, Michael Cera, Jeremy Davies, Laura Dern, Sky Ferreira, Robert Forster, Meg Foster, Ashley Judd, David Koechner, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Lillard, Derek Mears, Sara Paxton, Ernie Hudson, Naomi Watts, Trent Reznor, The Walking Dead‘s Josh McDermitt, and many more.

Returning actors include Kyle MacLachlan, Ray Wise, Harry Dean Stanton, Alicia Witt, and more. Below, we have the official press release and full cast list:

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – April 25, 2016 – Principal photography has concluded on the highly-anticipated new Twin Peaks for Showtime. And today, Showtime, David Lynch and Mark Frost are revealing a key piece of the mystery:...

Showtime revealed the full cast list for its upcoming "Twin Peaks" revival, and it's nothing short of insane -- and insanely long.

The ensemble includes a whopping 217 actors -- yes, you read that right -- and amid all the returning faces, there are also a bunch of surprising, big-name newbies along for the ride this time around. (We've embedded the entire list at the end of this post.)

Original cast members that will be back include many previously-announced people, and the ensemble will feature the likes of Kyle MacLachlan, Sherilyn Fenn, Madchen Amick, Sheryl Lee, Dana Ashbrook, David Duchovny, Miguel Ferrer, Grace Zabriskie, Peggy Lipton, Ray Wise, Wendy Robie, Russ Tamblyn, and Catherine E. Coulson, among many others.

As for the newcomers, some of the bold names that stand out include Monica Bellucci, Jim Belushi, Michael Cera, Laura Dern, Jay R. Ferguson (a.k.a. Stan from "Mad Men"), Ernie Hudson ("Ghostbusters"), Ashley Judd,...

The new "Twin Peaks" isn't slated to debut on Showtime until 2017, but a flurry of speculation about it happened last week with a tweet from Go For Locations indicating that filming had wrapped on the "first two seasons" of the series.

The episode count for the David Lynch-directed series was always in question, but that tweet suggested we'd be getting even more episodes than originally planned. Said tweet has since been deleted, so we'll have to wait to see how that pans out.

in the meantime in more official news, Showtime, Lynch and Mark Frost has released the official cast list for the new series with a whopping 217 names across the various episodes - a list that includes some real surprise big name inclusions such as Monica Bellucci, Michael Cera, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eddie Vedder, Ashley Judd, Ernie Hudson, Jim Belushi, Richard Chamberlain, Laura Dern,...

Silicon Valley, Season 2, Episode 5, “Server Space”

Written by Sonny Lee

Directed by Mike Judge

Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on HBO

It’s not every week you get to experience a monkey using a robot arm to masturbate.

Silicon Valley is a show about pride. Even with all its expertly dumb gags, like the aforementioned monkey spanking the monkey and Richard’s paranoia that his night sweats are going to turn into bed wetting, the show is following through with this idea that pride is the main motivator for the movers and shakers within Silicon Valley. At Hooli, that pride is causing Gavin Belson to not care about one of the brightest minds in the world, who has come to work for his company. Instead, Belson is putting all of his effort into a guy who spends valuable resources making a giant potato cannon that may have the power to kill.

A trailer for Martin Owen's horror satire 'L.A. Slasher' has arrived bringing with it slickness, a classic 80's tune and an Andy Dick voiceover. 'Death to Reality' cries out the new trailer so much so that you could be mistaken to think that that is the actual title to the feature from writer/director Owen. 'L.A. Slasher' stars Mischa Barton ('Apartment 1303'), Dave Bautista, Marisa Lauren, Danny Trejo ('VANish'), Abigail Wright, Drake Bell, Andy Dick, Brooke Hogan, Eric Roberts, Frank Collison, Elizabeth Morris, Korrina Rico and hottie Tori Black (below). And even though the trailer has a souped-up music video feel to it hopefully the accompanying synopsis below will help clear things up a bit....

Writer/director Martin Owen's satirical horror 'L.A. Slasher' has completed post-production and is now available for distribution. Described as a biting, social satire about reality TV and the glorification of people who are famous for simply being famous the project stars the likes of Mischa Barton ('Apartment 1303'), Dave Bautista, Marisa Lauren, Danny Trejo ('VANish'), Abigail Wright, Drake Bell, Andy Dick, Brooke Hogan, Eric Roberts, Frank Collison, Elizabeth Morris, Korrina Rico and pornstar Tori Black. You can check out the new teaser poster below which features a bloody look at an iconic celebrity of yesteryear....

Two of my favourite Full Moon flicks, Dollman and Demonic Toys, have been given the Blu-ray treatment by the folks at 88 Films. Already owning the pair on DVD we take a look at these new releases to see how they compare and if the new Blus are worthy of an upgrade…

Dollman

Stars: Tim Thomerson, Jackie Earle Haley, Kamala Lopez, Humberto Ortiz, Nicholas Guest, Judd Omen, Frank Collison | Written by Chris Roghair | Directed by Albert Pyun

Former funnyman, turned TV stalwart, turned action star, Tim Thomerson had already made a name for himself in the Empire Pictures/Full Moon franchise Trancers before spoofing the very same character and his take no crap persona in Dollman for one of my favourite directors, Albert Pyun.

Brick Bardo (Thomerson) is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth,...

We have added the new Metallica themed official movie trailer for director Spencer Susser's critically drama "Hesher." The film stars Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson, John Carroll Lynch, Devin Brochu, Piper Laurie, Audrey Wasilewski, Frank Collison and Monica Staggs.Watch the cool looking, cleverly cut movie trailer below;"Hesher" is released across the Us from May 13th.Loud music. Pornography. Burning crap to the ground. These are a few of Hesher's favorite things. And they are what Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) brings into the lives of Tj (Devin Brochu) and his father Paul (Rainn Wilson) when he takes up residence in their garage uninvited.Grief-stricken by the loss of Tj's mother in a car accident, Paul can't muster the strength to evict the...

The first trailer has arrived for the new drama Hesher, which will be released in theaters on April 15. NataliePortman.com had the trailer on their site and we have got it below for your to watch. I have also included a bunch of photos for the film as well. This movie looks great and how could you ignore that awesomeness that is Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Loud music. Pornography. Burning shit to the ground. These are a few of Hesher’s favorite things. And they are what Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) brings into the lives of Tj (Devin Brochu) and his father, Paul (Rainn Wilson) when he takes up residence in their garage uninvited.

Grief-stricken by the loss of Tj’s mother in a car accident, Paul can’t muster the strength to evict the strange squatter, and soon the long-haired, tattooed Hesher becomes a fixture in the household. Like a force of nature,...

Today 20th Century Fox provided Bloody-Disgusting with several new stills from M. Night Shyamalan's (Signs, Sixth Sense, The Village) latest horror configuration, The Happening, which hits theaters everywhere Friday, June 13. Although once again the pictures don't reveal all that much, there are still a few cool ones mingling inside. The pic, which will mark Shyamalan's first R-rated effort, follows a couple who go on the run from an apocalyptic crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Robert Bailey Jr., Spencer Breslin, Jeremy Strong, Frank Collison and Victoria Clark all star.

Today we received the first four official stills from M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Robert Bailey Jr., Spencer Breslin, Jeremy Strong, Frank Collison and Victoria Clark. The pic, which will mark Shyamalan's first R-rated effort, follows a couple who go on the run from an apocalyptic crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Read on for the pics and see what's happening on June 13.

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In "The Whole Ten Yards", a sequel to 2000's broad, crowd-pleasing farce "The Whole Nine Yards", a new director fails to maintain a firm hand on the tiller, so things spin swiftly out of control with uneven acting and misfired physical gags. A solid returning cast -- Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet and Natasha Henstridge -- and good will developed in the previous hit-man comedy should guarantee a solid opening. But laughs are in much too short supply here to sustain any major boxoffice run. Ancillary markets look more promising.

Give the new writer and director team of George Gallo and Howard Deutch credit, though, for making a genuine sequel and not, as most sequels turn out, a glorified remake. The characters have all moved on to new abodes and spouses, and everyone seems determined to make his or her new life work, while still longing for aspects of the old.

Retired hit man Jimmy Tudeski (Willis) has settled into his Mexican hideaway with a newfound interest in cooking, cleaning and decorating. Meanwhile, his bride, Jill (Peet), wants to take over his old career -- that of a hired assassin -- only she is no damn good, invariably killing her target by accident rather than the old-fashioned way of actually shooting a victim.

Jimmy's one-time neighbor Oz Oseransky (Perry) has moved his dental practice from Montreal to Los Angeles and taken Jimmy's ex, Cynthia (Henstridge), as his wife. Then newly paroled Hungarian mob boss Lazlo Gogolak comes gunning for Jimmy, whom he blames for the death of his favorite son, Yanni. Kevin Pollak played Yanni in the original film. In the new film, the father is played by ... Kevin Pollak in Mr. Magoo glasses and prosthetic jowls but with the same nutty accent that mixes up Js with Ys and Vs with Ws.

Gallo's overly mechanical plot has the Gogolak gang kidnap Cynthia -- rather easily, you can't help noticing -- so a panicky Oz will scamper to his hit-man pal in Mexico, thus leading the gang to their quarry. Only Jimmy -- again you can't help noticing -- is well prepared for the assassination attempt and easily escapes with Oz, whom Jimmy intends to kill at his first opportunity, and Jill, with whom he is going through a rough marital patch because of the lack of an offspring and a bit of erectile dysfunction.

Everyone high-tails it back to L.A. for more double crosses, another kidnapping and even more pratfalls. The tiredness of Gallo's script, recycled as it is from old movies, is equaled by the crudeness and, increasingly, desperation of the physical humor. It is a rare scene in which Perry does not fall down or run into something inanimate. Willis, now in touch with his softer side, is prone to fits of sobbing at inopportune moments. Pollak has a running gag where he continually hits and berates one of his sons (Frank Collison), which grows increasingly unfunny with each slap. The gang itself handles firearms so poorly that there is never any chance a protagonist will actually get hit by a bullet.

One of the film's more awkward scenes has Willis and Perry getting drunk, with Willis' character becoming increasingly maudlin and teary-eyed with each shot. The scene is not only not funny but undermines a character who, for the story and gags to work, must be several steps ahead of his enemies. Then, too, the film's final twist -- which you can't help noticing a mile away -- renders the scene nonsensical.

Deutch and Gallo have retooled the original characters in ways that often ill-fit their actors. Rather than laughs stemming from Willis' stoic, imperturbable demeanor, they now must come from over-the-top emoting. Perry's character in turn has gone from physical bumbler to out-of-control maniac. Peet, so attracted by sheer toughness, and Henstridge, the cucumber-cool operative, have actually become the more interesting characters, yet the script explores the women's lives in only a cursory manner.

Tech credits are standard.

THE WHOLE TEN YARDS

Warner Bros.

Franchise Pictures presents a Cheyenne Enterprises production in association with Zweite Academy Film

Credits:

Director: Howard Deutch

Screenwriter: George Gallo

Based on characters created by: Mitchell Kapner

Producers: Elie Samaha, Arnold Rifkin, David Willis, Allan Kaufman

Executive producers: Andrew Stevens, Tracee Stanley, David Bergstein, Oliver Hengst

Director of photography: Neil Roach

Production designer: Virginia Randolph-Weaver

Music: John Debney

Costume designer: Rudy Dillon

Editor: Seth Flaum. Cast: Jimmy Tudeski: Bruce Willis

Oz Oseransky: Matthew Perry

Jill: Amanda Peet

Cynthia: Natasha Henstridge

Lazlo: Kevin Pollak

Strabo: Frank Collison

Zevo: Johnny Messner

Running time -- 99 minutes

MPAA rating PG-13...