The fifth season of HBO’s Girls – in many ways – raised the bar for the popular but divisive series. Both as a writer and an actress, Lena Dunham cleverly and effectively built on all the aspects of the show that have worked in the past and dropped what didn’t. Efforts by everyone involved helped…
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Now that we are four wonderful episodes into HBO’s Westworld, I’d like to run through some of my thoughts and theories on the last two episodes, “The Stray” and “Dissonance Theory”, as they double down on the mystery and ante-up the violent factor. We lead ever closer to the inevitable take-over of the hosts and…
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The second episode of HBO’s exciting and groundbreaking new series Westworld, “Chestnut” screened on Monday, and despite a few nuances it picks up perfectly where the previous episode dropped us off. We are given two new guests to the park in the form of Logan played by Ben Barnes (Narnia and Stardust) and William played…
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Ahead of the premiere of the new half hour HBO comedy series Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church, we meet Keegan DeWitt, the composer of the series and member of the band Wild Cub. He talks to us about how he came to be a part of the series, we learn a…
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With Foxtel earning the title ‘Home of HBO’, showcasing popular favourites like Game of Thrones, the TV network have managed to free up some time slots for exclusive HBO TV titles, Westworld, Divorce and Quarry. Making its premiere, Westworld will be broadcasted on Mondays from October 3 at 12PM (same time as the U.S). In…
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From the mind of the late Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Andromena Strain) and based on the 1973 film of the same name comes Westworld. Westworld is about a futuristic theme park populated by artificial beings to make the guests feel as if they are back in the Wild West and it’s HBO’s latest entry to add…
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The winners for the 68th annual Creative Arts Emmys have been announced. The first ever two night awards show, which was held on the 10 – 11th of September, recognises achievements in cinematography, make-up, costume design, casting, and sound. HBO lead the way on day one, with popular fantasy series Game of Thrones picking up…
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The pilot for HBO’s new show Vice Principals, “The Principal”, lays the groundwork for a school year’s worth of hijinx and tomfoolery – think lots of phallic jokes, and then some. Behind the camera, Vice Principals finds Danny McBride teaming up again with Eastbound and Down‘s co-creator, Jody Hill. In front of it, McBride’s Neil…
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After Game of Thrones, I really couldn’t last too long without seeing that famous fizz of static that brings about a new episode of HBO TV. I needed something pretty fast. Thankfully it came in the shape of HBO’s The Night Of, which premiered in Australia over the weekend. The Night Of is an eight-part limited series that…
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There was a lot riding on this episode for HBO and Game of Thrones, which inevitably featured Jon Snow finally facing down with Ramsay Bolton as he – along with Sansa and his relatively modest army – sought to wrestle Winterfell from the series’ most despised villain. Traditionally, these kinds of episodes would be the…
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Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis has let slip that his creation Scarlet, is coming to television, on HBO subsidiary Cinemax. Bendis, whose other characters and properties Jessica Jones and Powers have also received the TV treatment, stated that the series is still very early in development. Scarlet follows a young woman who sparks a second…
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“No One” is an episode of Thrones that can’t seem to decide what it wants to be. It isn’t quite clear whether this episode is the spark that sets off the cascading events of the season’s final two episodes or a climax in its own right. Though it offers some closure to the Braavos and Riverlands…
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It has been confirmed True Detective‘s Cary Fukanaga will direct and Steven Spielberg will co- produce Stanley Kubrick’s long term project Napoleon as a miniseries for HBO. We can also get excited that this project will have Kubrick’s long time producer Jan Harlan along for the ride. If you’re not aware, this is something Kubrick spent a great deal of…
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It’s quite clear that Benioff and Weiss are unperturbed about Game of Thrones (mostly) surpassing its source material, and so far it has proved to be more of a blessing than a curse. Now with 4 episodes to show, Season Six has been a solid season of surprising, though rapid, developments that leap forward to…
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Behold, the running gag of the gold chain. This episode sees Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) finally on a salary, treating himself to a delicate gold chain that he drapes around his neck. Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) spots it first and so begins a pun-tastic thirty-minute journey. The Pied Piper boys spare no expense at tearing the poor…
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Every season of Thrones has ended on a moment of great narrative significance. The first season closed with the introduction Dany’s (Emilia Clarke) dragons while the second unveiled the White Walkers and their army of the dead. Most recently, the fifth season ended with the instantly-infamous death of Jon Snow (Kit Harrington). As we make…
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Season 5 of Girls sees the show take more risks than ever before and, when all is said and done, it feels like the show comes out a little more mature – as do its characters. Season 5 picks up a few months after 4, with Hannah (Lena Dunham) having moved on from her relationship with Adam (Adam Driver)…
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HBO’s Game of Thrones will return for it’s sixth season in a matter of weeks now, and following a secret premiere over in the states, it’s just been highlighted with a second – and probably final – trailer, even more intense than the first and giving us a closer look at some of the storylines…
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Co-creator, executive producer and showrunner Terence Winter has been let go from HBO’s music-drama Vinyl over creative differences. HBO said to Deadline in a statement that “As we head into the second season of Vinyl, we have decided it is an appropriate time to make a change in the creative direction of the show”. Feature film…
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It’s a testament to the scope of George R.R. Martin‘s work that Game of Thrones that you can literally lose track of major characters. Throughout the series’ six seasons, people pop in and out of differences places and plotlines constantly. In some cases, viewers are left wondering what happened to so-and-so for seasons at a time. Given the…
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We’re only a month away from the return of HBO’s fantasy epic and the anticipation keeps building in the latest trailer for Season 6 of Game of Thrones. It’s only a short trailer but there’s a lot to see here – from glimpses of a big battle yet to come to Danyarys’ (Emilia Clarke) return…
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With season six of HBO’s Game of Thrones seemingly around the corner, The Iris’ Fergus Halliday sat down with star Alfie Allen to talk Theon Greyjoy, redemption, his favorite scenes, and more of what we can expect from season six. Fergus: So, we’re here to talk about Game of Thrones season five (which releases on DVD and…
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Graphic designer Alasdair Mott has put together some awesome Game of Thrones-style maps of Australia to tie into the DVD and Blu-ray release of the fifth season of HBO’s fantasy epic. Check them out below: Game of Thrones. Season 5 releases on DVD and Blu-ray on March 16th 2016. ———- This content has recently been ported from…
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After a number of behind-the-scenes stills and a teaser or two, the full trailer for the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones is here. As far as trailers go, it’s one of their best. With the series set to overtake the George R. R. Martin‘s books this season, there are a lot of little details…
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Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger‘s rock-and-roll drama Vinyl has been renewed for a second season only a few days after the series’ two-hour debut. The HBO drama stars Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Ato Essandoh, Pax Casella, PJ Byrne, JC Mackenzie and James Jagger and is set in the 1970s. Check out the trailer for Vinyl…
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Leave it to David Simon, the creator of The Wire, to turn a story about housing developments into the one of the richest miniseries television has seen in years. Show Me A Hero is a six-episode miniseries that adapts the real-world story behind the enforcement of federally-mandated public housing in the American city of Yonkers….
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The return-date for Game of Thrones is creeping up on us but in the meantime HBO have released a slew of photos from the upcoming sixth season of the show. Those particularly-wary of spoilers may want to give the photos a miss but for others, check them out below. Game of Thrones returns on the 24th of April….
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Ramsay, Cersei, and Daenerys feature in the very first footage released from Season 6 of Game of Thrones. HBO have released their yearly trailer showcasing what’s in store for the channel next year, and while our look at GoT is very, very brief, we do get to see at least some of the focus of…
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Oh joyous occasion. HBO has announced that the network has just signed a four-year production pact with one of the sharpest, wittiest television personalities of the past few years, Jon Stewart. The deal will have him focusing on short-form digital content for the company’s HBO Go and HBO NOW channels, with the possibility of other…
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When filmmaker and entrepreneur Andrew Jarecki began the years long investigation that would turn into his award winning documentary series The Jinx, he listed his ultimate aim as attempting to gain a sense of “justice, such as we can get in this case”. Real life events show that Jarecki certainly achieved this, but along the…
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