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Cannavale is the perfect actor to bridge the punk and the godfather. His character onBoardwalk Empiregrew up in a cave in Sperlinga, Sicily. Dr. Cruz onNurse Jackiewas Cuban, but was defined by something entirely different. Cannavale had his first film roles inNight Falls on Manhattanin 1997 andThe Bone Collectorwith Denzel Washington in 1999. Cannavale was married to Lumets daughter at the time. When the series ended (too soon), Cannavale closed out the last five episodes ofAlly McBealin 2002....

The Coen Brothers are in playful mode with this tribute to old Hollywood. The results have been some of the finest and most affecting films of their career(s). A terrific Josh Brolin stars as Eddie Mannix, the studio fixer who is almost a walking oxymoron. Ad content continues below On paper this sounds like fun and intermittently it is. Hail, Caesar!is out in theaters Friday (Feb. 5).

This article originally appeared onDen of Geek UK. Had I missed something? But it remains a good, solid project in its own right. But Aniston, to her credit, puts a shift in and makes it work. For most readers of this site,Office Spaceis not an underrated movie. Again, though, we see Aniston taking a slightly different role here, playing with expectation once more. Everyone gets acted off the screen by Hawthorne, of course....

The National Wrestling Alliance still livesand not just in memory. This may come as a surprise to many. I, for one, assumed the once powerful wrestling organization died out long ago. It was only after seeing a recent reference on a wrestling blog that I discovered otherwise. This era of wrestling developed whats commonly referred to as the territory system. The NWA featured a board of promoters from local organizations who would vote to choose the world champion....

Long-time comic readers will be familiar with the concept of What If? Its a question asked when a creator wants to play with familiar characters outside their normal setting or circumstances. Smiths clearly having fun playing up Collins nerdy enthusiasm that makes him so unappealing to most women. (One might wonder whether Smith was deliberately emulating one of hisDoctor Whofans when portraying the character.) It also delivers the Shakespearean level of theatrics found in the betterUnderworldmovies....

From Goldeneye to Borderlands and Fallout 4, we look at the mods that make video games worth revisiting. JulioNIBsWatch Dogsmod combines both, and its a match struck in high-explosive heaven. Ad content continues below The mod addsWatch Dogs hacking functions with a capital FUN. NOTE:being art doesnt make this simulation even a bit less fun. Video games have always been about having fun by pushing a few buttons. Who knew playing as a character doing the exact same thing would add another layer of awesome?...

I tend to like them a lot. Because there is lots of it. Theres also, though, a breed of article Im decreasingly keen on. Anything that starts with x reasons why this will be that, or why so and so will suck. The content of said articles may be great, but the whole approach tends to put me off. This isnt something restricted to film, of course. Guilty pleasure records, guilty pleasure books, guilty pleasure comics, guilty pleasure TV shows?...

There’s always a devil around when you need one in the new episode of Lucifer. Read our recap… ThisLuciferreview contains spoilers. The concept is simple: Bad guy solves crimes. I fault the writing for a lot of this. Giving Satan a bit of an identity crisis is a good start. So is giving him a bad case of empathy. Is it a supernatural drama? Is it a tongue-in-cheek study in human nature vis-a-vis the lens of evil incarnate?...

It was hella formative. The renewed popularity ofThunderbirdshad led to Matchbox releasing a Tracy Island playset. With supply failing to match demandBlue Peter the BBCs flagship-show-named-after-a ships flag intervened with instructions for making your own. My memory is of large shiny plastic replicas of the Thunderbirds being in shops at this point. These didnt appeal to me because they lacked the requisite weight. Then in 1994 a promotional deal on boxes of Frosties made me aware of an alternative....

Don’t split up. And whatever you do, don’t get too attached to your pets… This article originally appeared onDen of Geek UK. Hearing bumps in the night? Watched a haunted video cassette? Had a phone call from raspy voiced stranger with an eerie warning? Surrounded by flesh eating ex-humans? What youre actually doing is filming a found footage movie. So just do as youre told and stop filming everything. This isnt your subtle, well hidden, film studies jot down of foreshadowing either....

Superman’s imperfect duplicate is coming to the Supergirl TV series. We am not celebrating Bizarro. He am not good. Bizarro am bad character and this history am not interesting. In fact, Bizarro is #1 worst villain of all and has starred in many boring stories. Hey, what would the Bizarro World version ofDen of Geekbe anyway?Den of Suave Sophistication? Anyway, Bizarro is coming to theSupergirlTV series in an episode appropriately titled, well, Bizarro....

The easy armchair psychoanalyst move would be to attribute these growing pains to the showrunners relative inexperience. And Showtime clearly agrees, having recently picked up a season two. But this isnt a review of the entire first season that eventually grows into something interesting and worthwhile. YumTime for the reasons described above i.e. needlessly vulgar, et. Maybe Im just getting confused from Damian Lewis days onHomeland. Lara receives word about the upcoming book and eventually gets an early copy of it....

Is it finished now? Ad content continues below We have a bit to go. And then well be finishing lighting and rendering beyond that. But Id say another two months, roughly. It must be slightly weird doing a round of press talks this early on. I mean, its always good to talk to people and hopefully drum up interest. Actually, that raises an interesting point. A decision you make today might only have an impact several weeks or months down the line....