Those of us who love TV often take the standard plot devices known as TV tropes for granted, especially tropes that have been around for a while.Yet, some TV tropes can disappear or nearly disappear, and new ones can emerge with the changing times.Technological changes are often to blame ...
Mindfire Entertainment has announced its plans to turn the popular Eidos video gameFear Effectinto a feature film, with directorStanley Tongin talks to helm the action picture. Mindfire CEO Mark A. Altman (House of the Dead 2,DOA: Dead or Alive) is set to produce with Mindfire chairmanMar...
Movieline The Geek Beat: The State of the Geek It's another quiet week in the land of geek, and the mental effort it cost me to review a book entirely in Regency English has me a little strapped creatively. I'm hoping to bring you some interviews soon, but everyone has been swamped...
Featuring memorable performances from Tim Daly and Colm Feore, this suspenseful miniseries expertly balances horror tropes with thought-provoking questions about human nature and moral choices when faced with unthinkable horrors. Premiered: February 14, 1999 Also ranks #3 on The Best Television ...
The ten episode affair pokes fun at tropes and stereotypes and lampoons systemic racism. And yet despite all the creativity, the show falls short of being something truly dazzling. Yu himself has helmed the screen adaptation of his own work, transplanting the book’s screenplay format into a ...
This tragicomedy invokes tropes from a familiar realm and deconstructs or tailors them to the uniquely poignant circumstances of it's characters.Awkwardly concerned with superficially knowing everyone at school but not truly knowing anyone at all, Greg (Thomas Mann) is a 17-year-old high school ...
With a core cast in their 60s and 70s, Channel 4 says the series “breaks the rules for older characters on screen and flips ageist tropes on their head in a series which promises thrilling twists and turns, irreverent humour and passionate romance.”Walter will play Phil, an ex-senior ...
It was also a place where old tropes were made shiny and new with a modern sheen that intrigued audiences and would produce classics like the hospital drama St. Elsewhere and the crime drama Hill Street Blues.It would be a humdinger of a decade within the genre of mystery and detectives....
but over three nights they eventually find mutual respect. The bulk of the episode’s enjoyment comes from Pemberton and Shearsmith’s sparring and their performances are exemplary. The writing is also impressive as it plays with the tropes of the police procedural genre. Finally, it also sets ...
Instead of adopting modern movie making and storytelling styles and techincal expertises they are blindly following the age old Hollywood story tropes. And it's really funny watching Netflix falling for this types of contents.Watching toothpari is like watching a Hollywood fan film(read series) ...