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Guillermo Del Toro's latest is based on the 1946 novel of the same name, and is the second adaptation after a 1947 film. Del Toro always has a thing for monsters, but there are no literal ones in this one. As always, the human ones are the worst monsters ( Read more... )

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Still working my way through stuff on Paramount+, and I discovered that David Hewlett's in this one, so why not? He was only in five out of 13 episodes, and his character was a shifty weasel without a lot of screen time, so that alone is not worth investing your viewing time.

I knew this was a series spinoff of Silence of the Lambs (1991), but ( Read more... )

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I actually sought this one out because I read that David Hewlett will appear in season two, so... :)

The plot is centered around a fictional crash investigation team, trying to discover the truth about what happened to a flight that crashed into the Atlantic. I've watched enough Air Disasters (aka Mayday) to recognize some elements from actual ( Read more... )

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I'll be totally upfront and say I only watched this because David Hewlett's in it. He actually had a larger role that I expected, plus his sister Kate is in a couple of scenes, and his wife, Jane Loughman, is a producer ( Read more... )

When I first put Haunter in my Netflix queue, I didn't even realize David Hewlett was in it and that it would pick up my "marathon" of Hewlett movies. It's directed by Vincenzo Natali, who is a friends with Hewlett and often puts at least a cameo for him in his films. What interested me about this one is it sounded like a scary film, but not a gory ( Read more... )

Anglophenia: Benedict Cumberbatch Confirms ‘Sherlock’ Season Four

So... how long do we have to wait this time around? Will knowing it's going to happen before series three airs help fandom get through with minimal shakes?

The Mary Sue: Robert Downey Jr. Says Awesome Things About Women In Superhero Action Films"There’s all these genre movies and ( Read more... )

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Zen Pencils: "CARL SAGAN: Make the most of this life"

The artist takes quotations from "inspirational folks" and transforms them into cartoon quotes. This one takes a quote from a Carl Sagan when he was hospitalized and facing his own mortality and uses it to illustrate a modern (yet not so much) issue. Some might take Sagan's word as a condemnation ( Read more... )

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