Episode Aigis, the contentious DLC coming to Persona 3 Reload this September, is going to cost players who own the base game a pretty penny. To be precise it will cost $35. That’s because it will only be available as part of the game’s Expansion Pass, which bundles three pieces of post-release DLC. That means it costs…
Episode Aigis, the contentious DLC coming to Persona 3 Reload this September, is going to cost players who own the base game a pretty penny. To be precise it will cost $35. That’s because it will only be available as part of the game’s Expansion Pass, which bundles three pieces of post-release DLC. That means it costs…
Overwatch 2’s latest collaboration is with the beloved space western anime Cowboy Bebop. The event, which kicked off on March 12, lets five heroes from Blizzard’s team-based shooter cosplay as different characters from the classic ‘90s show. The event follows in the footsteps of other crossover events like the October…
Overwatch 2’s latest collaboration is with the beloved space western anime Cowboy Bebop. The event, which kicked off on March 12, lets five heroes from Blizzard’s team-based shooter cosplay as different characters from the classic ‘90s show. The event follows in the footsteps of other crossover events like the October…
Early last month, a trailer for a bombshell docuseries was released that recounts the shocking behind-the-scenes behavior of Dan Schneider while he ran multiple shows at the Nickelodeon network. Schneider was a former TV star from the show Head of the Class, but he became a producing machine as he cranked out sitcoms for a younger audience on the cable channel. He was responsible for shows like All That, Kenan & Kel, Drake & Josh, iCarly, Zoey 101 and more. The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is set to premiere across two nights on Investigation Discovery on March 17 and March 18.
At the end of the trailer, there was an ominous tease of an empty chair and an interviewer off-camera asking, “Have you ever told your story publicly before?” It has now been revealed that Drake Bell of The Amanda Show and Drake & Josh will be taking that seat in front of the camera. Variety reports that Bell is coming forward about being sexually assaulted by his acting coach Brian Peck, who is of no relation to his Drake & Josh co-star, Josh Peck.
Bell starts his appearance in the third episode of the series as he proclaims, “My name is Drake Bell and I came here today to tell my story.” Bell and his young co-stars would spend a lot of time with Brian Peck at his house and though there were many red flags, both kids and parents would dismiss their instincts and give Peck the benefit of the doubt since nothing had actually happened. Bell would then start to recall one morning when he was fifteen, everything had changed. “I was sleeping on the couch where I would usually sleep. I woke up to him — I opened my eyes, I woke up and he was sexually assaulting me. I froze and was in complete shock and had no idea what to do or how to react, and I have no idea how to get out of this situation.”
The episodes featuring Bell will tell how he was unable to come forward and how the experiences would influence his recent self-destructive behavior. The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is a four-part series that will also interview female employees who worked on Schneider’s many shows. The docuseries is directed by Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz.
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Author Stephen Graham Jones started his Indian Lake Trilogy with the novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw, which has an audiobook version that was read by Cara Gee, who may be best known for her work on the TV shows Strange Empire and The Expanse. The second novel in the series was Don’t Fear the Reaper, and the audiobook for that one had a full cast that included Isabella Star LaBlanc (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) and Jane Levy (Evil Dead 2013). The Indian Lake Trilogy is set to wrap up with The Angel of Indian Lake, which will be published on March 26th – and our friends at Bloody Disgusting have learned that the audiobook for this one is also going to have a full cast, with one of the cast members being the legendary Stephen King! Pre-orders can be made at THIS LINK.
Isabella Star LaBlanc is back for The Angel of Indian Lake, and she and Stephen King are joined in the audiobook’s voice cast by Angela Goethals (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon), Andrew J. Robinson (Hellraiser), and genre icon Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator).
The Angel of Indian Lake has the following description: It’s been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed dramatically. There’s a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there’s one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront… until Jade comes back to town. The curse of the Lake Witch is waiting, and now is the time for the final stand.
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones has crafted an epic horror trilogy of generational trauma from the Indigenous to the townies rooted in the mountains of Idaho. It is a story of the American west written in blood.
Have you been reading Stephen Graham Jones’ Indian Lake Trilogy, and will you be checking out the audiobook version of The Angel of Indian Lake? What do you think of Stephen King being part of the voice cast? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Like a wrestler entering the octagon, Sephiroth’s menacingly iconic “One-Winged Angel” theme song plays almost any time he appears in a Final Fantasy 7 scene. Just mentioning the title likely conjures the track’s first few rhythmic thumps considering just how legendary this tune is. However, it wasn’t an easy number…
Like a wrestler entering the octagon, Sephiroth’s menacingly iconic “One-Winged Angel” theme song plays almost any time he appears in a Final Fantasy 7 scene. Just mentioning the title likely conjures the track’s first few rhythmic thumps considering just how legendary this tune is. However, it wasn’t an easy number…
PLOT: Former tennis coaches Stan and Joy have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door, bringing the excitement they’ve been missing. But when Joy suddenly disappears, her children are forced to re-examine their parents’ so-called perfect marriage as their family’s darkest secrets begin to surface.
REVIEW: Liane Moriarty’s brand of mysteries has become popular in recent years. Starting with the HBO adaptation of Big Little Lies and followed by Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, both featuring Nicole Kidman, Moriarty novels have been prime fodder for limited series on streaming platforms. With large ensemble casts ripe for melodramatic performances from big stars to rising talent, these stories fit neatly into a short run of episodes full of red herrings, sexy misdirections, and subplots aplenty. The latest novel from the author, Apples Never Fall, is now the newest adaptation hitting screens. With a great cast led by Sam Neill, Annette Bening, Jake Lacy, and Alison Brie, Apples Never Fall differs from Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers. With a smaller body count and a larger sense of humor, Apples Never Fall is an atrociously over-the-top story that feels more like material you would expect to debut on Lifetime. An embarrassingly silly story with a nonsensical twist, Apples Never Fall is the type of series that embodies the end of Peak TV.
Apples Never Fall introduces the Delaney family. Stan (Sam Neill) and his wife Joy (Annette Bening) live in Florida with their grown children nearby. The owners of a tennis academy and club, Stan and Joy have sold off their business and are entering retirement. Not sure what to do with their newfound time, the couple bicker and fight, much to the chagrin of their kids. Eldest Troy (Jake Lacy) is a successful businessman with an antagonistic relationship with his father. The second eldest, Amy (Alison Brie), is a hipster bouncing from job to job trying to find her calling. Logan (Conor Merrigan Turner) works at the club and the youngest, Brooke (Essie Randles), is a physical therapist. The siblings are all pretty close to one another and have different relationships with their parents. When a strange young woman named Savannah (Georgia Flood) arrives on the Delaney doorstep on the run from an abusive boyfriend, Joy and Stan take her in and find that having her in the house gives them some purpose. Then, Joy disappears and signs point to Stan as being the potential culprit.
The seven-episode series, of which I have seen the first five, flashes back and forth from the search for Joy to how Savannah’s presence altered the dynamic amongst the Delaneys. With a police investigation looking into Joy’s disappearance and Stan’s potential role in the various lies and secrets the family members have kept from one another, the central mystery remains just what happened to the matriarch of the clan. Each episode focuses on a different member of the family and gives us new perspectives regarding their involvement in the weeks and months before Joy vanished. What we learn is that not only are the Delaneys much more dysfunctional than meets the eye but there are more suspects than just Stan. Each episode reveals new drama in and out of the Delaney home including affairs, money changing hands, and unexpected deaths. What is most shocking is how blase much of the proceedings are and tinged with a sense of humor that ranges from awkward to uncomfortable. There are also multiple twists or attempts at twists that do not work nearly as well as the writers may have hoped. Some I spotted a mile away while others completely undermined the narrative as a whole.
The cast is a mixed bag as well. Annette Bening, hot off her Oscar-nominated turn in Nyad, does her best with minimal screen time while Sam Neill seems bored and barely raises his energy above lukewarm. Jake Lacy, who was excellent in Friend of the Family and The White Lotus, gets to chew the most scenery as the douchy older brother. Alison Brie delivers a performance as the ditzy sister who seems to make her decisions with no context whatsoever. Both Essie Randles and Conor Merrigan Turner have the best performances in this cast of more recognizable talent as does Georgia Flood who plays Savannah in a way that is fascinating, bizarre, and likely to upset many viewers. Overall, the cast seems to be having fun playing in a soap opera-esque tale that takes itself far more seriously than the material deserves, even when the scene seems to be played for laughs.
Directed by Chris Sweeney (The Tourist) and Dawn Shadforth (I Hate Suzie), Apples Never Fall struggles to make sense of source material that itself was wrought with lackluster reviews. A cursory glance at the novel’s reviews will reveal the same underwhelming response to the twists in Apples Never Fall that end up feeling like everything that came before it was a waste. Showrunner Melanie Marnich (Big Love) assembled a big writer’s room which includes six credited scribes across the series. None of these writers can satisfactorily tell the story, even with each episode taking a distinct point of view. The weakness of the novel leads to this series trying to be a mix of pulpy and melodramatic fluff but played seriously. On one hand, we have Katrina Lenk playing a sexy character with her husband played by comedic actor Timm Sharp. When the time comes for an intense plot turn with both actors, Sharp’s performance is meant to be serious but ends up laughable. This problem happens multiple times throughout the series. I have no problem with humor in a serious series, but when it is played like this, it feels haphazard and poorly constructed.
Apples Never Fall is the weakest of Liane Moriarty’s books and has become the weakest adaptation to date. Once you learn the twist, the series has no way to recover any momentum and has you looking back trying to figure out why you just spent multiple hours invested in these characters. It is fun watching bad people get their comeuppance or good people behaving poorly, but there is no rescuing boring characters making incredulous decisions. This cast is far better than the material they are given and as much fun as they likely had to make this series, Apples Never Fall fails to live up to their abilities. If you are curious about what the big twist is, I recommend waiting until all seven episodes have aired and just watching the finale. You will not have missed much.
Apples Never Fall premieres on March 14th on Peacock.
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I’ve been interviewing people for a long time, but as a child of the 80s, one of my bucket list interviews has always been Michael Keaton. Not only was he Batman and Beetlejuice, but he also starred in a whole bunch of childhood favourites of mine, including Johnny Dangerously (coming soon to The Best Movie You Never Saw), The Dream Team, Gung-Ho, and even a drama he did called Clean & Sober, which for some reason I enjoyed as a child.
Keaton’s in the middle of a great career resurgence that began with Birdman. Fresh off his Batman stare-down at the Oscars, Keaton is in theaters this week with his film noir throwback Knox Goes Away. In it, he plays a hitman stricken with early-onset dementia. The fast-moving illness is set to destroy his memory (hence the title) completely, and as if that weren’t bad enough, his estranged son just killed someone and needs his father’s help to cover up the crime.
I actually caught Knox Goes Away at TIFF (read my review) and admired how Keaton, who also directed the film, shoots it in a way that makes Knox an unreliable narrator. He’s confused, and the film is shot in a way that we never really know what’s real and what’s not. It’s really well done and features a standout role from James Marsden, who gets to be highly dramatic here. I was lucky enough to sit down with both Keaton and Marsden to discuss the film. Keaton, in particular, seemed very excited to have audiences discover a film that means a lot to him and told me all about how he got Al Pacino to costar in the film and how blown away he was by all the performances, even if the film, as he admits, was shot very quickly due to the limited budget.
Knox Goes Away comes out on Friday!
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