As New York Film Festival selection committee chairman Richard Peña pointed out this past Saturday, October 6th at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade theater, "The Untold History of the United States" might make a good title for a survey of Oliver Stone’s films. Unfortun...
Read More »The first official week of the 2012-13 television season and has come and gone, and Indiewire is offering up some of the highlights from the just-in ratings, where -- gasp -- NBC was the big winner. More and that as well as other winners and losers from premiere week:
Read More »When we last left "Homeland" heroine Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), she was shattered by her investigation into former Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), a rescued POW turned possible terrorist.
Read More »Showtime's serial killer series "Dexter" returned last night to leap right into the fallout from Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) catching her adopted brother (Michael C. Hall) mid-kill.
Read More »"Homeland" returned last night riding high on an Emmy upset that found the new Showtime show picking up awards for actor (Damien Lewis), actress (Claire Danes) and outstanding drama series as AMC's "Mad Men" was shut out for the first time since its launch.
Read More »Most of us don’t know much about counterterrorism – the illusion of peering into a secret world is one of the many enticing elements of Homeland – but we all know something about politics. As it starts its enthralling second season, the Showtime series goes beyond global...
Read More »Showtime's serial killer drama "Dexter" has a deliciously dark premise that has also become a trap over its six year run (the seventh season starts this Sunday, September 30th at 9pm). Dexter (Michael C. Hall) may only murder bad guys, but he enjoys the killing -- the process of stalki...
Read More »After watching the first season of "Homeland," it can be surreal to speak to Navid Negahban over the phone. His performance as Osama Bin Ladin archetype Abu Nazir is both memorably ominous while embodying the shifting sense the Showtime drama gives viewers of complicated villains that coul...
Read More »"Episodes," Showtime's sitcom about a pair of British writers who to Hollywood to remake their own UK TV series for a US audience with less than smooth results, has been renewed for a third season.
Read More »Showtime's justifiably acclaimed thriller "Homeland" returns for a second season on Sunday, September 30th at 10pm, but the network's put the first 20 minutes of the season premiere online and On Demand now to taunt us or, perhaps more likely, to lure in new subscribers.
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