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HBO Renews Luck After Only One Episode

It looks like 1.1 million viewers was enough for HBO to renew Luck for a second season. The horse racing drama, which focuses on the seedy underbelly of the gambling world, premiered this past Sunday nearly a month after the premium cable network presented a sneak peak of the pilot episode.  read more

Luck Review: "Pilot" (Episode 1.01)

Luck, as the omnipresent banner ads on some of your favorite websites have informed you, is HBO’s newest series. Even before its release, Luck suffers the cosmic misfortune of being an HBO show marketed as a gritty crime series, which undoubtedly carries with it the expectations of (arguably) the two greatest TV shows of all time, The Sopranos and The Wire, as well as HBO’s current foray into the genre with Boardwalk Empire. The counterbalance to that stroke of bad luck is the pedigree of its creators and cast. From the top down, creator David Milch has been in TV...  read more

Watch the Trailer For HBO's Luck

After this week’s shocking season finale of Boardwalk Empire (you can find our review here) HBO treated viewers to the pilot episode of its next epic drama Luck.  read more

The Greatest Era in Film History: 10 Movies From '70s America

For me, the single best era in film history will always be the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s, the short period just after the general public got sick of the mundane, cloying dramas and comedies the ‘60s, but before the studios discovered the lucrative benefits of franchises.  read more

Watch a Teaser for HBO Horse Racing Series Luck

The highly-anticipated new HBO series from Deadwood creator David Milch and award-winning director Michael Mann just received a short, but exciting teaser. The horse racing series entitled Luck stars acting veterans Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte and looks to dive into the dirty world of gambling and horse racing. In another words, this won't be The Secretariat or Seabiscuit.   read more

Dustin Hoffman to Make His Directorial Debut with Quartet

Dustin Hoffman will final make his directorial debut with _Quartet_, a film based on a play about four aging Opera singers. This comes three decades after his first attempt, _Straight Times_, spent months in development hell before being scrapped completely.  read more

Make Me Over: Ten Movies That Should Have Won The Best Makeup Award

Ah, the Best Makeup category. It’s had a steady place on the red carpet since Rick Baker’s An American Werewolf in London won an Oscar in 1981. And while it may not get much publicity, theatrical makeup has been essential to the suspension of disbelief inherent to film and theatre for thousands of years. Here, then, are some of the best foam, fur, rubber and paint jobs that should have won Academy Awards over the last 30 years....  read more

Ten Memorable Oscar Acceptance Speeches

You've just walked up to the podium in a daze. After bracing yourself for the disappointment that you've been trying to convince yourself you shouldn't feel, some movie star in a bejeweled dress tears open an envelope and calls your name. Now all eyes in the room—and in millions of living rooms—are on you, and you have to say something funny and something poignant and thank all of the people who need to be thanked, and the giant clock that only you can see is counting down, just like Charlie Kauffman said it would. It takes a special talent to...  read more

Last Chance Harvey

With two Oscar-winning leads, Last Chance Harvey is the kind of...  read more