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Watch Game of Thrones' Seventh Episode a Week Early!
HBO GO unsheathes a special Game of Thrones offer for subscribers that lets users view seventh episode "You Win or You Die" immediately after episode six!
If you're anything like us, the wait in between Game of Thrones episodes, though merely a week, drives us madder than the Mad King himself with anticipation! But no longer!
Once this Sunday, May 22nd's episode "A Golden Crown" rolls its credits, HBO GO has a special offer for subscribers that allows them to immediately view episode seven "You Win or You Die" through the service! And trust us, once you've seen the climax of "A Golden Crown," you're going to need that next episode to avoid early withdrawals!
And if you weren't aware or watching already (which you should, now that season two is in store), the series stars Sean Bean as Ned Stark, and boasts an otherwise impressive cast comprised of Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Mark Addy as King Baratheon, Lena Headey as Queen Cersei, and a host of others all vying for the iron throne of the fictional Westeros.
HBOGo.com also allows access to special features where you'll be able to see "alert feeds" that offer special features as you watch, including commentary from the creators, behind the scenes looks, maps, 3-D costume and item renderings and character guides!
Need more reasons to watch? Check it out, and sign up for HBO GO to watch episode seven after the official press release!
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HBO GO USERS GET EARLY LOOK AT EPISODE SEVEN OF Game Of Thrones STARTING MAY 22
Following the debut of episode six of Game Of Thrones on Sunday, May 22 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET), episode seven of the hit HBO series, entitled “You Win or You Die,” will immediately be available to subscribers on the HBO GO platform. HBO GO can be accessed at hbogo.com or via the HBO GO app – now available for download on Apple’s iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch® and numerous smartphones using Google’s Android™ operating system – and is free of charge to HBO subscribers through participating television providers.
Comic-Con: The Hobbit Just Got a Little Funnier with Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry does it all. He writes, acts, speaks, blogs -- basically, he's putting us all out of jobs. His latest role will be that of an ordinary human, albeit one who gets to hang out with hobbits and dwarves and dragons.
Compared to the The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbitwas always a lighter adventure, a prequel meant for younger readers as a segue into the epic, dark experiences of the Fellowship of the Ring and their quest to Mordor. Keeping with his past trilogy, it's likely that Peter Jackson's upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit will keep the same grim tone, but with recent casting additions, there may be room in the film for a bit more comedy.
Jackson and Fry have a previously relationship, spending a good part of the last decade working together on a remake of the 1955 war film The Dam Busters. Now Jackson's expanded his relationship with Fry, bringing him into theHobbit fold in a role that could be more substantial than the original text would have you believe, now that the source material is being broken into two parts.
For those unfamiliar with Fry, or simply need a reason to love this bit of casting, watch this:
Jackson also updated with a few more casting additions, including relative unknown Ryan Gage as the Master of Watertown's slimy servant Alfrid and Conan Stevens as the orc Azgog. Jackson posted a picture of himself and Stevens on set, to give you an idea how tall this lumbering actor really is (Jackson is aroundn 6'5"). Not someone you want to mess around with.
The Hobbit is a strong contender for a panel at SDCC this year, so keep your eyes peeled for official announcements soon.
Magnet Releasing To Take You Beyond The Black Rainbow
The trippy sci-fi festival favorite from an alternate 1983 lands a distribution partner.
Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow, the only memorable film from this year's Tribeca Film Festival, has landed a distribution partner. And it is the right partner.
Our friends at Magnet Releasing, the sociopaths who brought us Rubber and Hobo With a Shotgun and Black Death and the upcoming Trollhunter, announced the deal the other day at the Cannes Film Festival. It was swallowed by the news of Lars von Trier being a douche but, much like the insidious nature of this otherworldly film, the message has still seeped out.
Beyond the Black Rainbow is an endurance test - an intensely slow movie, focused on eerie tone over plot. It bathes in the aesthetic of late '70s and early '80 science fiction, like a visit to EPCOT on some really bad LSD.
No timetable for VOD or theatrical release has been announced.
Below is the festival trailer. If this doesn't turn you on, then you and I really have nothing to say to one another.
Check out my review of Beyond the Black Rainbow from the Tribeca Film Festival.
10 Greatest Doomed Cinema Romances
10 Greatest Doomed Cinema Romances
Hollywood loves a good romance. What it loves even more is the destruction of a good romance. There are plenty of cinematic love stories that end before the final credits roll. These are the ten most beautifully romantic and, ultimately, tragic on-screen relationships.
This saccharine World War 2 romance, beloved of teen girls of the 21st century, stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple from different social classes who meet in the midst of global warfare. Inevitably, they are torn apart by circumstance and the film is narrated by their regretful elder selves.
Dying for someone you love is a classic Hollywood act of romance. Erasing yourself from existence from just before the moment you met the one you loved is an even grander gesture. Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) stars as a disturbed teen convinced by a guy in a rabbit costume that the world is about to end. The labyrinthine plot of this bizarre, but brilliant, high school time travel movie hinges upon the sweet but doomed teenage romance between Donnie and new girl in town, Gretchen
This tragic tale begins just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. It stars James McAvoy as Robbie, who is courting Celia (Keira Knightley) but is falsely accused of raping her sister. The accusation tears the couple apart and results in Robbie being sent to prison. Cecilia’s sister (Saoirse Ronan) eventually admits to falsely accusing Robbie of the rape of their third sister, Lola (Juno Temple), though the admission comes half a century too late to save Robbie and Cecilia’s doomed romance.
The most successful film of all time, until director James Cameron broke his own record with Avatar, this three hour epic tells the tale of Irish artist Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and English upper class girl Rose (Kate Winslet). They meet aboard the doomed HMS Titanic and fall in love. Naturally, this being set aboard the infamously ‘unsinkable’ Titanic, neither their love nor their trans-Atlantic voyage is destined to last.
This dark film focuses on a couple, Kit (Martin Sheen) and Holly (Sissy Spacek), who travel across America on a kill-crazy rampage. It’s loosely based on the real-life Clark Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate, who engaged in a similar nationwide killing spree. Though their actions make Bonnie and Clyde look tame, Kit and Holly’s love for each other is obvious in this warped romantic classic.
William Shakespeare’s world-renowned play about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families has, unsurprisingly, been the basis for dozens of movies. While most directors opted to recreate the 16th century Verona setting of the original play, in 1996, Baz Lurhman made the bold decision to move the action to Verona Beach, a fictional city formed from fragments of L.A., Miami and Mexico City. Lurhman wisely kept Shakespeare’s original dialogue to create a visually stunning re-telling of the ultimate doomed romance, with Claire Danes playing Juliet and Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo.
Bonnie and Clyde is based on the real-life bank robbing lovers of the title, who gripped American imaginations with their antics during the Great Depression. This film featured envelope-pushing levels of sex and violence that caused quite a stir on its release. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway’s charismatic performances as the titular couple build plenty of sympathy prior to the film’s brutal and tragic final scene.
Alfred Hitchcock was the cinematic master of taut mental manipulation, and Vertigo is his most chilling and haunting film. James Stewart stars as Scottie, a police officer who develops a severe fear of heights after witnessing his friend and partner fall from a rooftop to his death. Scottie’s mental anguish only grows when his fear of heights prevents him from saving the life of his friend’s wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak). The film grows even more chilling as Scottie develops a dangerous and bizarre obsession with Judy Barton (also Novak), a woman he tries to mould into Madeleine’s image.
Rush-released to coincide with the Allied invasion of the titular Moroccan capital, this World War 2 classic stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, a man torn between his attraction to the beautiful Isla (Ingrid Bergman) and his desire to help her resistance fighter husband escape Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. With the beauty of Morocco, and the ugliness of global warfare as its backdrop, Casablanca has proved one of the most iconic romances ever committed to celluloid.
This Civil War epic takes its plot from a novel that many considered un-filmable. Filming it did, indeed, prove difficult, with the producers tearing through a number of directors and screenwriters to get the film made. Despite this, Gone with the Wind blew audiences away and has become a much-loved classic. The success of the film largely hinges upon the bristling, explosive relationship between Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett (Clark Gable). These two icons of American cinema battle and smolder across almost four hours of film, all building towards the infamously heartbreaking moment when Rhett tells Scarlett that, frankly, he couldn’t give a damn.
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