Syfy’s new “Childhood’s End” could be the perfect show for our quasi-populist, government-hating times – Salon.com

For a lot of people, the Syfy network peaked back when it was still called the Sci-Fi network. That was about a decade ago, when the channel took up a failed, one-season ‘70s project and made it into the smart and elaborately plotted “Battlestar Galactica” we’re more likely to remember now. These days, in some…

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How Orby wound up in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times

myParagraphType: , myParagraphCount: 6 click to enlarge Fun fact: When Tarantino first released Reservoir Dogs in 1992, he wasn’t the acclaimed director he is today. In fact, among the first major press Reservoir Dogs got was a cover story in Detroit’s Orbit Magazine — the now long-defunct culture magazine that graces our cover this week. The…

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Which Fantastic Four Cast Member Told Its Director That His Movie Sucks?

The latest Fantastic Four flick is an abysmal flop of such proportions that multiple outlets have run what-went-wrong-style pieces in its wake. Today’s comes via The Hollywood Reporter and it is utterly delicious. Kim Masters’s “Fantastic Four Blame Game: Fox, Director Josh Trank Square Off Over On-Set ‘Chaos’” tells the story of a spandex-hungry studio…

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