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[Warning: The below contains major spoilers for The Ark Season 2 Finale.] After everything they’ve been through including losing Lt. Spencer Lane (Reece Ritchie), Ark One finally reached an inhabitable planet during the Season 2 finale of The Ark. However, there is something not quite right on Trappist 1D. It was believed that Evelyn Maddox (Jelena Stupljanin) had died in a tragic accident, but that was all proven to be a smokescreen for what was really going on here. It turns out the Ark 15 megalomaniac had perfected William Trust’s implant technology and used it to control those on the colony. Members of Ark One fall under the control of the technology, even Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke). Thankfully Lane’s twin Ian (also played by Richie) and others still on the ship figured out the plan. Maddox’s daughter Kelly Fowler proved to be the hero here as her nanites were used to create a killswitch for...

Whoever said you needed aliens and ray guns to have a thriving space odyssey series? Not The Ark! This show doesn’t need the CGI gimmicks to deliver incredible storytelling with characters who feel like friends.

This was the epitome of a finale. From start to finish, I was on the edge of my seat, fully enthralled. Hats off to Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner. This was a roller coaster of an ending.

The Ark took a lot of chances with the story this season, and despite a few pitfalls, only the episodes and choices that left a lasting impression are remembered.

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This finale perfectly balanced between leaving things open for the future and a soft close in case The Ark doesn’t receive a renewal.

After that finale, though, Syfy would be crazy not to get on board for another season!

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Um, was this an episode of The Ark or a very dark and gritty episode of Impractical Jokers? “It Will Be Over Soon” played like an episode of Big Brother that turned into a “reverse heist.” Is that a thing?

Either way, the writers and hands behind this episode certainly made good use of every second. With this being the last episode before the finale, there’s no time to waste on anything other than the main plot.

You know things are only going to get worse before they get better. I also have a sneaking suspicion we are about to see the return of an “ally” to The Ark.

(Aleksandar Letic/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./Syfy) The Big Bad Wolf Is Knocking At The Ark One’s Door, And It Might Very Well Be Evelyn Maddox

If you read my review for The Ark Season 2 Episode 10, you already know...

[Warning: The below contains spoilers from The Ark Season 2 Premiere.] With Proxima B turned to fiery dust, the question leading into Season 2 of The Ark was who of our planetary heroes were left aboard a severely damaged Ark One. Along with now Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke), Lt. Spencer Lane (Reece Ritchie), Lt. James Brice (Richard Fleeshman), and Alicia Nevins (Stacey Read), there were others who managed to survive the blast. Among them were Brice’s main squeeze Eva Markovi (Tiana Upcheva), and Felix Strickland. Sadly, for William Trust (Paul Murray) and the team Dr. Cat Brandice (Christina Wolfe) was not so lucky. It was seemingly dire for Dr. Sanjivni Kabir (Shalini Peiris), who was saved by Kelly Fowler (Samantha Glassner) of all people. The murderous daughter of Evelyn Maddox (Jelena Stupljanin), who by the way, has a plastic-gel (explosive) failsafe inside her body, implanted by her own mother. Things also looked fatal for Angus Medford...

The wait is almost over until we check back into the spacey world of The Ark for Season 2 (premiering July 17). The series is Set 100 years into the future, and the road to planetary colonization has been anything but smooth when surviving members of the Ark One crew prematurely woke up from their cryo-pods to find themselves in a dire situation. They were left to pick up the pieces of a failing ship, hoping to live and continue their adventures. It’s a similar scenario for our brave heroes going into the next chapter of the popular Syfy series. We know Lt. Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke), Lt. Spencer Lane (Reece Ritchie), Lt. James Brice (Richard Fleeshman), and Alicia Nevins (Stacey Read) are among those to survive but there could be casualties aboard Ark One after the explosion of Proxima B, the planet they’d hope to inhabit. Garnet brokered a deal...

Prepare to board Season 2 of The Ark. Set 100 years into the future where a planetary colonization mission goes awry. After Proxima B exploded in the Syfy show’s finale, whoever is left of the Ark One crew must not only find a way to survive but continue to their mission for a planet to inhabit. At the helm is Lt. Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke), who remained alive during the initial blasts alongside Lt. Spencer Lane (Reece Ritchie), Lt. James Brice (Richard Fleeshman), and Alicia Nevins (Stacey Read). Through the fight for survival, they must depend on the help of Ark 15 and its devious leader Evelyn Maddox (Jelena Stupljanin). Going into Season 2, there are questions of who else from Ark One survived and how they may get back on course to finding a new home to inhabit. Here Burke and co-creators and showrunners Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner tease what’s to come.

An elegant hybrid of true-story exposé and slow-moving arthouse thriller, Serbian director Miroslav Terzić’s sober sophomore feature “Stitches” takes a familiar idea — a lone crusader taking on a corrupt system in pursuit of the truth — but delivers an unusually thoughtful, psychologically compelling character study. Taking its cue from Snežana Bogdanović’s eerily composed but fathomless central performance as a middle-aged Belgrade-based seamstress who believes she was deceived 18 years earlier by doctors who claimed her baby was stillborn, the film makes a confident drama of a cruel chapter in recent Serbian history.

Ana (Bogdanović), the wife of Jovan (Marko Baćović) and mother of teenage daughter Ivana (Jovana Stojiljković), is quiet to the point of being withdrawn. Or rather, we would think she’s withdrawn if it weren’t for an arresting, almost surreal opening scene that shows her stalking another woman, like a predator, from a safe distance. Though neither...

Jelena Stupljanin (pronounced Elena Stup-Yanin) is in a good humor. The award-winning Serbian-born actor, who has lived in New York City for the last six years and is a happy member of the Rising Phoenix Repertory since 2010, has a leading role in the award-winning film "Cirkus Columbia." Directed by Bosnian Oscar winner Danis Tanovic ("No Man's Land," 2001) and slated for release Feb. 17 and March 9 in N.Y. and L.A. respectively, the movie earned Stupljanin the best actress award from the Alexandria Film Festival. At the time of the interview, she was about to leave for the Berlin Film Festival to pick up the award, which she wasn't able to receive earlier "because of the Arab Spring revolution that was preventing us from being in Egypt," she recalls in excellent English, but with a marked accent. Set in 1991, following the fall of the Communist regime in Bosnia-Herzegovina,...

Cirkus Columbia

Directed by Danis Tanovic

Written and Directed by Danis Tanovic and Ivica Djikic

Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2010

The situation is a familiar one; a middle-aged man returns to his former hometown with a beautiful young girlfriend and shows off his good fortune to his old friends. When Divko Buntic (Miki Manojlovic) pulls up in a luxury car into the small Bosnian town, the onlookers’ response is the expected mix of jealousy and hatred. After making it big in Germany, he returns triumphantly to showcase his power in the newly capitalist Bosnia region. His next step is to kick his estranged wife and young adult son out of their house and move right inside. This premise appears to set up an obvious family drama, but the actual result provides an interesting shift on our expectations.

Set in 1991 just prior to the Yugoslav Wars, Cirkus Columbia offers an intimate look at the...

The United Solo Festival, a two-week festival of one-person theatrical performances, concluded on Sunday night with an awards ceremony at Theatre Row in New York City, hosted by four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason."Our mission, to showcase the uniqueness of solo theater, has been accomplished," said Omar Sangare, the festival's founder and artistic director, in a written statement. "Having witnessed the popularity of these one-person shows, we feel encouraged to do it again with the second annual festival next year."The award recipients are:Best production: Bill Bowers, "It Goes Without Saying"Best one-man show: John Paul Karliak, "Donna/Madonna"Best one-woman show: Danusia Trevino, "Wonder Bread"Best solo actor: Brian Stanton, "Blank"Best solo actress: Jelena Stupljanin, "Revolting Women/Woman Bomb-Sade"Best directing: Austin Pendleton, "Clutter: I'm Saving My Life and It's Killing Me"Best script: Bob Brader, "Spitting in the Face of the Devil"Best use of set:...

Ok, here we are to continue our little chat about this year’s Venice Film Festival and some interesting titles that we’ll have a chance to see on its traditional home on the Venice Lido.

Mira Furlan and Miki Manojlovic in Cirkus Columbia

Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land, Triage) and his project Cirkus Columbia is definitely one of them, which is already being described as a “romantic saga” which “covers the end of a century that tragically announced the arrival of a new era in the Balkans”.

Here’s the Cirkus Columbia synopsis: “A small town in south Herzegovina, in the wake of the war. After years of communist rule, a new democratic government is elected, and this means that all the sinners of the ex-system are suddenly forgiven.

This is a sign for Divko Buntic to return home and start a series of little revenges after years of exile.