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TV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode 8 “Grand Guignol” (Season Finale)
“I believe in curses. I believe in demons. I believe in monsters. Do you?” The lines have been uttered before, but it is fitting that the season finale of Penny Dreadful ended with a response to the lines uttered by Vanessa Ives (Eva Green). “Grand Guignol”…
READ MORETV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode 7 “Possession”
“What’s wrong with her?” “She has been possessed by The Devil.” “Oh, f*** me.” Episode seven of Penny Dreadful titled “Possession” begins where last week’s episode left off. Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) arrived back home to Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) and displayed a certain levitation trick.…
READ MOREDIFF Film Review – The Last of Robin Hood
The Last of Robin Hood is based on legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn’s (Kevin Kline) last few years of life and his relationship with actress/dancer Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning). Beverly was fifteen when Errol met her and wooed her into becoming is girlfriend. Errol was in…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Rover (Second Take)
David Michôd’s follow-up to the award-winning Animal Kingdom is The Rover. Like Animal Kingdom, it is also set in Australia, but the film is bleaker and has less characters. The Rover is set ten years after “the collapse.” It is never explained more than that…
READ MORETV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode 6 “What Death Can Join Together”
Coming off last week’s flashback episode, “What Death Can Join Together” returns to the current storyline, but we now have more frame of reference to what both Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) are up to in the search for Mina…
READ MORETV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode Five “Closer Than Sisters”
“Your father loves you very much and would do anything to save you. But I love you in a different way. I love you enough to kill you.”
READ MOREFilm Interview – The Fault in Our Stars Red Carpet Event in Dallas, Texas
On the night of the “Demand Our Stars” event in Dallas, Texas for the upcoming release of The Fault in Our Stars, The MacGuffin was able to interview author John Green and actors Nat Wolff, Ansel Elgort, and Shailene Woodley as they hit the red…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Fault in Our Stars
The young adult genre of books is varied in its subjects, but if you are strictly going off film adaptations, the majority of them involve dystopian societies, supernatural elements, and star-crossed lovers all with a teenage main character. Frankly, it is getting to be tiring…
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