This cable series stirs the characters of the iconic British horror novels of the 19th century into a shadowy world of vampires, witches, demons, and dark magic in Victorian London. Eva Green, Timothy Dalton, and Josh Hartnett star.
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‘Ghost in the Shell’ 2017 on Showtime
The live-action Ghost in the Shell (2017) is both a big-screen adaptation of the long-running Japanese manga (comic book) by Shirow Masume and a remake of the landmark animated 1995 feature from Mamoru Oshii. No matter how you split the difference, the film had a high bar to clear even before the controversy over the […]
TVD: ‘Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series’
Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD) More than 25 years after the original Twin Peaks ended on network TV in 1990, creators David Lynch and Mark Frost were given complete freedom to produce a sequel series for Showtime. Almost every member of the original cast returned to reprise their characters (including a […]
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ on Netflix and Showtime
The Hateful Eight, the eighth feature by Quentin Tarantino, is something strange and audacious even for a filmmaker whose films are rarely short of either. It’s a vivid widescreen western epic that runs nearly three hours yet plays like a chamber piece, largely contained within the intimate quarters of a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard […]
‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’ on Showtime Anytime
David Lynch’s long-awaited return to ‘Twin Peak,’ a TV series like no other, comes to Showtime on Sunday, May 21. It reunites almost the entire original cast to carry on the story over 25 years after the final episode left audiences hanging. To prepare for its return, Stream On Demand revisits the original series and […]
Watch This! Old faces return in Showtime’s ‘Twin Peaks’ revival
Prepare for the return of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks with a look at some familiar faces 25 years later, including Big Ed Hurley (Everett McGill), Carl Rodd (Harry Dean Stanton), Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie), Deputy Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz), Deputy Tommy “Hawk” Hill (Michael Horse), and FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan). Twin Peaks, […]
What to stream: Jason Momoa on the Netflix ‘Frontier,’ ‘Christine’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ on VOD
Jason Momoa, still best known as Khal Drago in Game of Thrones but soon to be the big screen Aquaman, stars in Frontier as a trapper battling the British Hudson’s Bay Company monopoly on the 18th century fur trade. His character, Declan Harp, is part-Irish, part-Native American, all furious renegade ready to declare war on […]
Streaming Showtime – The premium cable channel is now available as streaming service
Showtime, HBO’s primary competitor in the premium channel market, doesn’t have the depth of HBO’s library of original programming. It has, however, been challenging HBO’s supremacy in original series with such critical and popular efforts as Homeland, Masters of Sex, Penny Dreadful, and The Affair. Now it has debuted a streaming service with a range […]
Watch This! See the season two premiere of Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ for free!
Penny Dreadful is currently the most persuasive argument for me to get Showtime. The Gothic horror mystery set in Victorian London takes the premise that the characters and supernatural beings of 19th century horror literature—Victor Frankenstein (and his creature), Dracula, Dorian Gray— all exist in the real world. I saw the entire first series on […]