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‘Sexy Beast’ Prequel Series Not Moving Forward At Paramount Network Anymore

July 14, 2020 12:01 pm

It’s almost two years that we’ve been talking about the forthcoming “Sexy Beast” TV series. And over that time, all signs have pointed to the series actually getting made, with Paramount Network ordering an en...

Karyn Kusama To Direct ‘Sexy Beast’ Prequel Series For Paramount Network

Harry Frazer

July 12, 2019 10:57 am

News, Television

Paramount Network has ordered a series adaptation of the 2000 film “Sexy Beast,” set to be a prequel series to the film. And if that wasn't good enough, the network has hired an incredible filmmaker to help bri...

Critically-Acclaimed Crime Thriller ‘Sexy Beast’ Getting Prequel TV Series

Charles Barfield

August 17, 2018 10:29 am

News, Television

In the age of reboots, remakes, and reimaginings, viewers have seen so many of their beloved franchises and classic films get new iterations on TV. Hell, we’re even getting a new “ALF.” But one of the more surp...

The 50 Best Crime Movies Of The 21st Century So Far

Oliver Lyttelton

June 27, 2017 2:45 pm

Features, News

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If you go and see “Baby Driver” this weekend expecting another gag-heavy comedy in the vein of Edgar Wright’s earlier films, you’ll likely be in a shock. The absolutely tremendous car-chase-musical (read our re...

The Art Of Cursing In Cinema

Samantha Vacca

October 25, 2016 5:32 pm

News

Ah, swear words! We're taught from such a young age to abstain from using profane language that the desire to use it becomes almost inherent the older we get. An f-bomb here, a slip of the tongue there, these w...

Review: ‘Down Terrace’ Not Quite A New Gangster Classic, But Still Damn Good

Erik McClanahan

October 7, 2010 2:55 pm

News

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Crime stories have a long and celebrated lineage in film. Like horror, it’s a fun, but often disappointing genre. You have to wade through a lot of shit to get to the gold. But when they're good, they're really...

Jacques Audiard Eyeing ‘The Princess’ Gangster’ & ‘A Prophet 2’

Oliver Lyttelton

February 1, 2010 3:02 pm

News

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French writer/director Jacques Audiard has leapt onto the world stage in a big way in the past few years with the double whammy of "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" and the Oscar-contending gangster epic "A Prop...

Best of The Decade: The Playlist’s Best Films Of 2001

Rodrigo Perez

December 1, 2009 7:23 pm

News

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Yesterday you read our Best Films of 200o. Today, on to 2001...What was the state of cinema? Oscar-wise, in 2001 the Academy Awards made some bold nominations, but of course awarded the safer "Gladiator" before...

LFF ’09 Review: ’44 Inch Chest’

Oliver Lyttelton

October 19, 2009 12:13 pm

News

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Since their debut on the staggeringly good "Sexy Beast," writers Louis Mellis and David Scinto have been more or less absent from the film world -- Mellis is one of half-a-dozen credited writers on the messy co...

Jonathan Glazer’s Dead Weather Video: ‘Treat Me Like Your Mother’

Rodrigo Perez

July 13, 2009 9:33 pm

News

We've gone on about this one a few times -- the new Jonathan Glazer ("Sexy Beast") directed short film/video for Dead Weather's new single -- and it debuted on Cinemax this weekend, but we gotta say, the antic...

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