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Review: THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, Love Will Tear Us Apart

Rose Leslie and Theo James star in a beguiling new series from Steven Moffat ('Dr. Who').

Sundance 2022 Review: PHOENIX RISING Breaks Heart-Shaped Glasses

In Amy Berg's documentary miniseries, Evan Rachel Wood goes on the record about her abusive relationship with shock rocker Marilyn Manson.

Review: THE NEVERS, Don't Call It a Comeback, They've Been Here For Years

Joss Whedon’s (Avengers, Firefly, Angel, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer) banishment from public life has been as swift as it has been brutal. By all accounts, Whedon’s fall from professional grace was well-deserved. After the box-office failure and critical drubbing of...

Review: LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Gives HBO Another Genre-Bending Triumph

Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, and Courtney B. Vance star in the series, executive produced by showrunner Misha Green, and now streaming on HBO Max.

Now Streaming: PERRY MASON Meets SCOOB! and DOOM PATROL

Also on HBO Max: Crunchyroll and 'Gone With the Wind,' recontextualized.

Review: DIEGO MARADONA Doco, Director Asif Kapadia's Third Masterpiece

Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy) strikes gold again with the near-perfect biopic of footballer Diego Maradona. The documentary director depicts what many consider ‘the hand of god’ in such a way that highlights both Maradona’s immense skills as a player, and...

Notes on Streaming: MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND Unsettles With Disturbing, Quiet Force

Plus: 'Gentleman Jack' and 'Cobra Kai' meet expectations.

Notes on Streaming: Gregg Araki's NOW APOCALYPSE, Singapore's GRISSE, Turkey's IMMORTALS

We've got it all: young people, historical action, and Turkish vampires.

Notes on Streaming: TRUE DETECTIVE, Jeremy Saulnier Launches Season 3

Jeremy Saulnier directed the first two episodes of the new season on HBO, which immediately makes the series more interesting for me.

TRUE DETECTIVE Season 3 Finds Its Director, GREEN ROOM's Jeremy Saulnier

Well, HBO did it - they made me excited for another season of True Detective. The permium cable company announced today that a third season of Nic Pizzolatto's crime anthology True Detective is happening and it's found its director in Green...

Destroy All Monsters: Thanks, GIRLS!

I'm not going to add much to the discussion of Girls, where other writers have ably carried the conversation, besides returning to a point I made a few years ago: I'm glad this show exists, has existed, did exist; and...

Interview: A New Mother of Dragons? GAME OF THRONES' Ellie Kendrick On Fan Theories and "The Door"

Fans of HBO’s blockbuster Games of Thrones have embraced Ellie Kendrick’s portrayal of the tough as nails Meera Reed, one of the self-appointed protectors of the youngest Stark siblings. Celebrating the release of the show’s sixth season on home video,...

WASTELAND: Quality Television Made in the Czech Republic

HBO Europe rolls out a bleak mystery miniseries Wasteland

Destroy All Monsters: HBO's WESTWORLD and the "Entertainment" of Sexual Violence

Trigger warning, sexual violence (and spoilers too, I guess, if you don't want the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of Westworld spoiled for you): at the end of the Westworld pilot's extended opening fake-out, a human man drags...

The Trailer For VINYL Spins Out Of Control

The brainchild of Martin Scorsese, Terrence Winter and Mick Jagger, the show Vinyl is coming to HBO this January. Today, we've got a whopper of a trailer.Charting the days of proto-punk and early hip-hop in 1970s New York City, Vinyl...

HALFWORLDS: Watch The Trailer For Anwar's Dark HBO Fantasy

Indonesian director Joko Anwar - a long time favorite around these parts - makes the move to television with the upcoming HBO Asia original series Halfworlds. A dark fantasy tale about supernatural creatures living amongst us, Halfworlds hits the air...

DEADWOOD Alive? F-Bombs Away!

Deadwood was buried under its own genius after just three seasons, and a mere 2980 f-bombs! It remains one of the fucking standout TV experiences of my fucking life, and the latest hints at a possible fucking movie are sure to...

VINYL: Watch The Teaser For Scorsese And Jagger's HBO Series

How's this for a dream team for HBO? Martin Scorsese, Terrence Winter - exec producer of Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos - and Mick Jagger putting together what basically boils down to the Madmen of the 70's recording industry starring...

WESTWORLD: Watch The Teaser For The HBO Scifi Series

HBO handed the keys to their series re-imagining of classic cult film Westworld to Jonathan Nolan some time back and while - true to typical Nolan form - information has been relatively scarce since the network has just released a...

HALFWORLDS: First Look At Joko Anwar's HBO Asia Series

Here at ScreenAnarchy we are big fans of Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar, and were thrilled by the news back in May that he would be writing and directing Halfworlds, an 8-part original series for HBO Asia.Production is well underway and...