Photo by Netflix By now you’re probably done watching “House of Cards” on Netflix and you’re waiting for “Daredevil” to come out next month. But in the meantime, Netflix has
When you hear that writers Vince Gilligan (“Breaking Bad”) and David Shore (“House”) have made an original show starring Dean Winters (Mayhem from Allstate) and Josh Duhamel (“Transformers”) with Bryan Singer (“The Usual Suspects”) directing the pilot, you probably get your hopes up for an exciting series.
Netflix subscribers of the world rejoice, then get comfortable and cancel your weekend plans: “House of Cards” has returned and the dark political drama is as binge-worthy as ever. The award-winning streaming series’ third season was released at midnight last Friday to the delight of ravenous fans the world over.
A friend of mine recommended the film “Fifty Shades of Grey,” claiming that the movie was better than the book. After seeing the movie and never reading the book, I can only assume that the screenplay was written on toilet paper. E.L James’s famous fan-fiction novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” tells the story of college undergraduate Anastasia Steele who falls for a young, successful business entrepreneur with quite a few whips and ball gags in his closet.
SCAD aTVfest showed a special screening of the documentary film “Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson,” on Feb. 5th in the Digital Media Center. The documentary film tells the story of little known 19th century painter Edith Wilkinson.
Last week on February 7th, SCAD Atlanta’s aTVfest premiered a two-episode sneak peak of the upcoming series “American Crime” at the SCAD Show theater. The star of the new series, Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton (“Ordinary People,” “Leverage”) was honored with SCAD’s annual Icon Award for his work of over thirty years as an actor.
SCAD students, professors and other TV lovers all packed into Panel Room B at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday morning for aTVfest’s Television Roundtable. The media panel, moderated by Savannah-based dramatic writing professor Chris Auer, engaged in a sweeping and insightful industry discussion, focusing first on the way in which the fluidity of new media is transforming television as we know it.
What does a film involving hippie detectives, neo-Nazis, drug smugglers and a missing rich guy create? Surprisingly nothing that exciting. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”), “Inherent Vice” is set in 1970 and follows private investigator/hippie Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix, “Her”) who’s hired by his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston, “Michael Clayton”) to track down her missing current lover, a real-estate mogul named Michael Z. Wolfmann (Eric Roberts, “The Expendables”).
With the excellent “Interstellar,” director Christopher Nolan continues his career-long crusade against mindless moviemaking. This film is an artful, operatic science fiction epic with a potent emotional core. It’s Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” on steroids, and my top winter break entertainment recommendation.
On episode four of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” Beth, who was previously taken at the end of season four by a black car with a white cross, wakes up and discovers the former way of life: electricity, the ticking clock on the wall. She’s also startled when police officer Dawn and Dr. Steve Edwards enter the room.