A review of Hulu's limited series, The Act, starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, starting March 20th.
An interview with actor Charlie Day and director Richie Keen about their new comedy, "Fist Fight."
A review of Atom Egoyan's "Remember".
Picks for the best of the 2013-14 television season, in the form of a Dream Emmy ballot.
Dave Bunting's video essay examines the visual style of "Breaking Bad" Season 2. He also spoke with the show's cinematographer, Michael Slovis.
Marie writes: Ever intrepid, club member Sandy Kahn has submitted an intriguing quartet of finds involving a series of Hollywood auctions set to begin at the end of July 2013. Sandy has shared similar things in the past and as before, club members are invited to freely explore the wide variety of collectibles & memorabilia being auctioned LIVE by "Profiles in History". Note: founded in 1985 by Joseph Maddalena, Profiles in History is the nation’s leading dealer in guaranteed-authentic original historical autographs, letters, documents, vintage signed photographs and manuscripts.
Marie writes: There was a time when Animation was done by slaves with a brush in one hand and a beer in the other. Gary Larson's "Tales From the Far Side" (1994) was such a project. I should know; I worked on it. Produced by Marv Newland at his Vancouver studio "International Rocketship", it first aired as a CBS Halloween special (Larson threw a party for the crew at the Pan Pacific Hotel where we watched the film on a big screen) and was later entered into the 1995 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. It spawned a sequel "Tales From the Far Side II" (1997) - I worked on that too. Here it is, below.
Marie writes: behold the power of words, the pen mightier than the sword.