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Variety: Danger, Will Robinson! Cast Members Recall ‘Lost in Space’ on its 50th Anniversary
When it premiered on September 15, 1965, the CBS sci-fi adventure “Lost in Space” met with little enthusiasm from TV viewers. But the show, which originally debuted in black and white, gained popularity during its second month on the air, and eventually cracked the top ten weekly programs by January. To mark its 50th anniversary, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released a lavish 18-disk Blu-ray boxed set, featuring all 83 episodes of the campy space saga.
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Variety: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Episode 3 Recap
Building on the momentum of the previous episode, Sunday’s third installment of “Fear the Walking Dead” featured some of the most frightening moments in the series so far, as well as some of the dumbest. This wildly uneven entry probably won’t sway viewers who’ve already grown tired of the bland main characters, but might please fans who value well-orchestrated shivers and expertly crafted gore effects.
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Variety: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Episode 2 Recap
After a slow-burn premiere that spent more time on the humdrum problems of an unremarkable L.A. family than it did on the looming apocalypse, Sunday’s second episode of “Fear the Walking Dead” turned up the heat considerably. The result was a tension-filled hour of television that improved on last week’s debut in every way.
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Variety: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Premiere Recap
Emphasizing suspense and atmosphere over action and gore, Sunday’s 90-minute premiere of AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” begins with a slight variation on the memorable opening moments of “The Walking Dead.” At the start of that series, Sheriff Rick Grimes awoke in an abandoned hospital after being injured in a violent shootout. In tonight’s episode, 19-year old junkie Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) wakes up in an abandoned Los Angeles church and gets rushed to the hospital after being hit by a car while fleeing from a hungry zombie.
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Variety: ‘True Detective’ Season 2 Finale Recap
For a series named after a lurid men’s crime magazine, the second season of HBO’s “True Detective” was woefully short on pulp, and tonight’s feature-length finale was no exception. While last week’s ungainly info-dump managed to unmask the killers of both Caspere and Stan, expose two conspiracies, introduce a love story and kill off a main character, tonight’s underwhelming conclusion barely had enough plot to fill up 30 minutes, let alone 90.
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Variety: The Secret ‘Fantastic Four’ Film You Weren’t Meant to See
When audiences see 20th Century Fox’s “Fantastic Four” reboot this weekend, they’ll likely assume that it’s the third entry in the cinematic superhero saga. But a new documentary hopes to dispel that myth once and for all.
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Variety: ‘True Detective’ Recap: The Walls Close In
Though it probably wasn’t enough to change the minds of frustrated viewers whose complaints about the second season of “True Detective” prompted HBO’s president of programming to publicly defend the series earlier this week, tonight’s penultimate episode, at the very least, tied up several loose ends.
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Variety: Eli Roth & Courtney Love at ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ Live Read
“It’s probably the first film that didn’t condescend to American teenagers.”
So began Film Independent’s curator Elvis Mitchell as he introduced a special Live Read Thursday of Cameron Crowe’s script for the 1982 comedy “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” The event concluded this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival with a one-night-only reading, chosen and directed by filmmaker Eli Roth, and performed exclusively for those present in the audience. As always, no recordings were allowed.
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Variety: ‘Jaws’ Anniversary: 10 Movies That Are Better Than The Book
When novelist John le Carré famously quipped that “having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes” he summed up the disappointment that countless authors feel about the often lackluster adaptations of their work. And yet, on rare occasions, the exact opposite can be true. Case in point: the Oscar-winning “Jaws,” which drastically improved upon Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel. As Steven Spielberg’s shark classic celebrates its 40th anniversary, here are ten movies that bettered their literary source material.
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Variety: The Best and Worst Disaster Movies of All Time
Moviegoers have thrilled to disaster since the dawn of the silent film era. From the 1901 drama “Fire!” about a burning house to the 1928 epic “Noah’s Ark,” whose climactic flood scene drowned three actors, Hollywood has reveled in catastrophe from the very beginning. The genre exploded in popularity during the ’70s with a string of blockbusters featuring all-star casts. Though the trend soon faded, the development of CGI effects brought it roaring back to life two decades later. The chaos continues on May 29 with the release of “San Andreas,” about a massive quake that destroys California. While we wait to assess the damage, here are ten essential disaster movies, plus five that barely register on the Richter scale.
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