Revenge‘s January 13, 2013 episode is titled “Sabotage” and finds Jack (Nick Wechsler) standing up for his brother and Aiden (Barry Sloane) learning the truth about a family member.
The Plot: A jealous lover, a dangerous ally, a deadly takedown – just another day in the Hamptons. Emily (Emily VanCamp) and Aiden prepare for their next plan of attack. A fundraiser and wine auction provide the perfect backdrop for Emily and Aiden’s next plan of attack, while Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) strategically plots her next move. Meanwhile, Jack, Declan (Joshua Bowman) and Amanda struggle with what lies ahead.
Dexter‘s coming off one of its best seasons ever and Homeland should be able to return to glory when it comes back for season #3, and Showtime’s now revealed when they’ll be returning both shows to our television screens. Dexter will be back for season eight on Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 9pm, changing things up this year by airing during the summer. That critically acclaimed series will be immediately followed by the premiere of Ray Donovan starring Liev Schreiber at 10pm.
Homeland fans will have to wait until Sunday, September 29th at 9pm to see what’s happening in the complicated world of Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) and Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes). And Showtime will be debuting their new series Masters of Sex starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan following Homeland at 10pm.
Ryan Gosling stars as LAPD Sgt. Jerry Wooters, a member of a secret group of cops charged with ending mob boss Mickey Cohen’s criminal reign over Los Angeles, in Warner Bros Pictures’ Gangster Squad. And in this interview video courtesy of WB, Gosling discusses what attracted him to the character. He also discusses the story, his character’s relationship to Emma Stone’s character, working with Stone (they also played a couple in Crazy, Stupid, Love) and Josh Brolin, and how well Gangster Squad captures the era.
The Plot:
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and – if he has his way – every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
The cast of Warner Bros Pictures’ crime drama Gangster Squad hit the red carpet in Hollywood on January 7, 2013 for the film’s premiere. Among the stars showing up for the premiere screening were Ryan Gosling (who posed for photos with his mom), Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Mireille Enos, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena, and Giovanni Ribisi.
Check out this collection of exclusive photos from the red carpet.
Season five of Star Wars: The Clone Wars continues on January 12, 2013 at 9:30am with episode 13, “Point of No Return.” The episode finds R2-D2 and his group racing to stop a sabotaged Jedi cruiser.
The Plot: All is not right aboard a seemingly abandoned Jedi cruiser. Colonel Gascon and his droid team learn the ship is a death trap pointed towards an important Republic conference, and must work against time to stop this catastrophe-in-the-making in “Point of No Return.”
Fandango’s hosting a live Q&A with the Silver Linings Playbook cast and writer/director David O. Russell. Participating in the event will be Oscar nominees Bradley Cooper (Best Actor), Jennifer Lawrence (Best Actress), Jacki Weaver (Best Supporting Actress) and Robert De Niro (Best Supporting Actor), as well as Chris Tucker, Paul Herman and Dash Mihok, with Fandango’s Dave Karger moderating.
The Plot:
Life doesn’t always go according to plan.
Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything — his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert De Niro) after spending 8 months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation.
All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet – and to share their family’s obsession with their favorite Philadelphia football team. When Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he’ll do something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives.
L.A. Reid, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears and Simon Cowell on the set of THE X FACTOR airing on FOX. - Photo Credit: Ray Mickshaw / FOX.
Fox hasn’t released an official confirmation, however, Britney Spears has made it known she will not be returning for a second season as a judge on The X Factor. The news comes as no surprise since it’s been rumored for days that the next season would find a new panel of judges joining Simon Cowell for the singing competition.
Spears official statement said:
“I’ve made the very difficult decision not to return for another season. I had an incredible time doing the show, and I love the other judges and I am so proud of my teens but it’s time for me to get back in the studio.
Watching them all do their thing up on that stage every week made me miss performing so much! I can’t wait to get back out there and do what I love most.”
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in Warner Bros Pictures’ ‘Gangster Squad’ (Photo by Wilson Webb)
“We’re not trying to solve a case. We’re going to war,” says Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin), a tough, honest cop who’s been given the task of trying to drive gangster kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) out of 1949 Los Angeles in the crime drama Gangster Squad.
Cohen rules L.A. with his Tommy gun-carrying goons, crooked politicians, and paid-off policemen. He has even managed to keep the Chicago mob out of his city and is planning to increase his profits with a crooked wire betting scheme. Chief Parker (Nick Nolte), frustrated and fed up with losing the City of the Angels to Cohen, gives the greenlight to O’Mara for his unofficial squad of men to harass and attack Cohen any way they can.
O’Mara hand-picks a small group of men, including his friend Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) who’s already going up against Cohen in the romance department by seducing one of his ladies, Grace Faraday (Emma Stone). Together, O’Mara and Wooters begin to wage war against the most powerful mobster in the city.
Unoriginal and uninspired, Gangster Squad is a predictable action crime drama that desperately wants to be The Untouchables-meets-L.A. Confidential but fails miserably. This is a weak, poorly-written film with cliché characters and an over-the-top performance by Sean Penn as the mob boss Mickey Cohen. In fact, Penn, with the horrible make-up to look like Cohen, only ends up looking like a reject from the 1990 Dick Tracy movie starring Warren Beatty.
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone have zero chemistry together as the rogue cop and gangster’s moll who are having a torrid affair. Their scenes together are the worst in the film, with painfully cheesy dialogue that’s sure to incite groans from the audience.
The action scenes in the movie, especially the shootouts, are a direct rip-off of the great Brian De Palma crime film The Untouchables but without the style, excitement and wonderful direction of De Palma.
The only decent performance in the film is given by Brolin as O’Mara, the straight, tough, and likable detective determined to bust Cohen no matter what it takes. He has the best and only good scene early in the film when O’Mara goes up against some of Cohen’s thugs solo, trying to save a naïve young woman from being raped.
Gangster Squad is an uneven, empty and shallow crime film that will have the audience wishing they were home watching Sean Connery as Jimmy Malone asking Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness, “And now what are you prepared to do?!”
GRADE: D-
Gangster Squad hits theaters on January 11, 2013 and is rated R for strong violence and language.
I…Can’t…Wait! Please hurry up March 31st so we can revisit the fantasy world of Game of Thrones for season 3. As a huge fan of the books, I’m really looking forward to seeing how HBO and the executive producers, writers and directors handle transitioning the third book of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Storm of Swords, to the screen. The latest teaser features the three-eyed raven with “The Rains of Castamere” by The National accompanying his flight.
And also in the news, George R.R. Martin has confirmed which season three episode he wrote. Says Martin on his official blog that’s not a blog:
“The episode I scripted for the third season of HBO’s GAME OF THRONES has been retitled.
It was formerly ‘Autumn Storms,’ which I never much liked… but the episode did have a lot of rain in it.
The rain went away. So did the title.
The episode is now ‘Chains.’ I like that better. And it works on both a literal and metaphorical level.
It will still be the seventh show of the season, episode 307.”
Warner Bros is delving into the relationship between Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey with 42, the dramatic film set for theatrical release on April 12, 2013. Written and directed by Brian Helgeland, the movie stars Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Lucas Black, and Hamish Linklater.
The Plot:
Hero is a word we hear often in sports, but heroism is not always about achievements on the field of play. 42 tells the story of two men—the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey—whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) put himself at the forefront of history when he signed Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to the team, breaking Major League Baseball’s infamous color line. But the deal also put both Robinson and Rickey in the firing line of the public, the press and even other players.
Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and restraint by not reacting in kind, knowing that any incident could destroy his and Rickey’s hopes. Instead, Number 42 let his talent on the field do the talking—ultimately winning over fans and his teammates, silencing his critics, and paving the way for others to follow.
Dexter‘s coming off one of its best seasons ever and Homeland should be able to return to glory when it comes back for season #3, and Showtime’s now revealed when they’ll be returning both shows to our television screens. Dexter will be back for season eight on Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 9pm, changing things up this year by airing during the summer. That critically acclaimed series will be immediately followed by the premiere of Ray Donovan starring Liev Schreiber at 10pm.
