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Watson is a medical mystery crime drama series created by Craig Sweeny. Based on the characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the CBS series follows Dr. John Watson after Moriarty kills Sherlock Holmes. Watson continues his medical practice in Pittsburg, working with a brilliant team of doctors to diagnose unidentifiable illnesses. Watson stars Morris Chestnut, Eve Harlow, Peter Mark Kendall, Inga Schlingmann, Ritchie Coster, and Rochelle Aytes. So, if you loved the thrilling mysteries, medical drama, and compelling characters in Watson, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

House M.D. Credit – Fox

House M.D. is a medical dark comedy-drama series created by David Shore. The Fox series follows Dr. Gregory House, a misanthropic and cynical man who works with a team of brilliant residents to diagnose even the most difficult illnesses. House M.D. stars Hugh Laurie,...

In the context of the psychological thriller American Psycho, Josh Lucas recently revealed a moment that sparkled with genuine warmth during the high-stress filming of this cult classic. Lucas, a rising star at the time, recalled a heartwarming gesture from his seasoned co-star Willem Dafoe, which not only calmed his nerves but also imparted a wise piece of advice that he has carried with him since.

The 2000 genre-defying masterpiece, based on Bret Easton Ellis’ novel & helmed by Mary Harron, is known for its chilling narrative. Still, it’s the remarkable instance of Dafoe’s support—during the making of this horror satire—that showcases the undiminished human spirit behind the scenes.

Christian Bale in a still from American Psycho | Lions Gate Films

With its timeless themes becoming increasingly relevant in today’s digital age, where memes have taken on a life of their own, the film is regarded as aging like fine wine.

Directed by Mary Harron, who also wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner, the 2000 Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho (watch it Here) has come to be known as a cult classic, carried by the incredible performance delivered by lead actor Christian Bale – but during a new interview published by Vanity Fair, Bale’s co-stars Josh Lucas and Chloë Sevigny have admitted that they weren’t blown away by Bale on set. In fact, Lucas thought he was doing some terrible acting, while Sevigny found his process difficult to deal with.

During the interview, Lucas said he didn’t realize exactly what American Psycho was while he was working on it. “I didn’t realize what a subversive comedy it was. I didn’t realize the way that Mary was going to turn it on its head. I don’t know if you felt this way, but I actually truly remember...

Chloë Sevigny is recalling her time filming American Psycho and recently revealed she found Christian Bale’s acting process “very intimidating.”

In a new interview with her other American Psycho co-star, Josh Lucas, the pair reminisced about working with Bale.

“I was trying to respect his process, which I found challenging because I’m very gregarious and silly and goofy, unbeknownst to the general public,” she told Vanity Fair. “When people take themselves so seriously, I kind of shut down, even though I take my work very seriously and I love acting and whatnot.”

Sevigny found it difficult to cope with Bale’s “Method acting,” saying she “was really intimidated by his process and intimidated by him.”

“I wanted a little more generosity to make myself feel more at ease, which is my own ego. It was a really challenging dynamic for me, but I don’t think that I thought he was bad,...

Civil War is a fictional war drama film written and directed by Alex Garland. The A24 film is set in the near future in a dystopian future suffering from a civil war. We follow the story of a group of journalists racing against time to get to Washington D.C. so that they can interview the President before the rebel factions take over the White House and kill the President. Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offernman, Sonoya Mizuno, Jefferson White, Nelson Lee, Evan Lai, Jesse Plemmons, Karl Glusman, Jin Ha, and Juani Feliz starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the war drama and a story about journalists in Civil War here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Madras Cafe (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Viacom 18 Motion Pictures

Madras Cafe is a political action thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar.

It’s the final month of 2023, and Hulu is just saying goodbye not just to the year but also to dozens of its top film titles. This December, the streamer will lose multiple franchise collections, including “Men in Black,” “The Matrix,” the “Bourne” collection.

At the end of the month, Hulu is wasting no time and will also clear out many of the titles in its holiday collection, meaning Dec. 31 will be your last opportunity to watch favorites such as “The Muppet Christmas Carol,” “National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,” and “The Polar Express” on the streamer.

Bid farewell to 2023 by watching The Streamable’s Top 5 picks for what’s leaving the streamer this month, and check out the full list to make sure you catch your favorites one last time before they leave!

30-Day Free Trial $7.99+ / month hulu.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Leaving Hulu in December 2023? “An Education” | Sunday,...

A new episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? video series has just been released, and in this one we’re looking into the making of the 2000 Bret Easton Ellis adaptation American Psycho (watch it Here). To find out all about it, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by Mary Harron, who also wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner, the film has the following synopsis:

Patrick Bateman is a young, handsome, Harvard educated Wall Street success, seemingly perfect with his stunning fiancé and entourage of high-powered friends. But his circle of friends doesn’t know the other Patrick Bateman, the one who lusts for more than status and material things. With a detective hot on his trail and temptation everywhere, Patrick Bateman can’t fight his terrible urges that take him on the pursuit of women, greed and the ultimate crime – murder! Based on the controversial book by Bret Easton Ellis,...

The half-life of radium-226, the toxic isotope touted as a miracle cure-all in the early 20th century and used in phosphorescent paint, is around 1,600 years. That of “Radium Girls,” the David-and Goliath story of a handful of young women taking Big Radium to court in the 1920s, is presumably much shorter.

In the two-and-a-half years since it premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, co-directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s dramatization seems to have lost quite a bit of whatever luster it might have once had. Scrupulously sincere in its approach and well-meaning to a fault in intention, the film aims for inspirational true story, but is sadly uninspired, and its relationship to real history is obscured by the schematic way it is fictionalized.

Playing characters who are an amalgam of the real heroines of the radium scandal, the film stars Joey King and Abby Quinn as sisters Bessie and Josephine Cavallo,...

In the early part of the 20th century, “miracle cures” were all the rage, though no substance captivated Americans quite so much as radium, a mined element that was used in everything from luminescent paints to what was essentially marketed as an early version of an energy drink (one that supposedly cured impotence!). Radium was everywhere, with not just little regard for its inherent radioactive properties and the attendant danger, but even knowledge of how deadly the seemingly wondrous “elixir” really was. Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s “Radium Girls” smartly opens with such information on quick display: archival footage and publications tout radium’s properties, while familiar character actor Adam LeFevre appears as a carnival barker selling “the most beneficial of elements” to an eager crowd.

But while consumers might have been hyped up on radium’s alleged wonders, it was another class altogether that paid mightily for...

Radium Girls Cine Mosaic Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ginny Mohler, Lydia Dean Pilcher Writer: Ginny Mohler, Brittany Shaw Cast: Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd, Susan Heyward, Neal Huff, Collin Kelly-Sordelet Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/28/20 Opens: October 23, 2020 Pity executives in […]

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Steven Soderbergh has revealed a sequel to The Knick is in the works centered on André Holland’s Dr. Algernon C. Edwards character. The original series ended after two seasons on Cinemax in 2015, but was not officially canceled until two years later, in 2017. There had long been speculation about a possible new installment. Clive Owen, who headlined the first two seasons of the medical drama, had said that he was done at the end of the second season, though the network had left the door slightly open for a new season with a new lead actor. (Owen’s character died at the end of Season 2.)

Now in an interview with The Playlist, Soderbergh confirmed a pilot script has been written by The Knick creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, with input from The Knick co-star Holland, who would reprise his role, and filmmaker Barry Jenkins.

“[André and Barry] came up with a really...

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Daniel Orlandi's favourite set pic... amongst the costumes of "The Da Vinci Code"

It's been awhile since The Film Experience has been hijacked for a full day by a super-talented Hollywood player. We figured it was time for another one. In the past we've handed the reins over to visiting embodiments of awesomeness like the rapidly rising writer/director Leslye Headland, and brilliant actor/writer David Dastmalchian, as well as a handful of actresses we deeply love: Missi Pyle, Ann Dowd, Melanie Lynskey, and Cara Seymour.

Our latest overlord for a full day: Costume Designer Daniel Orlandi !  

Daniel with Ewan McGregor on the set of "Down with Love"Orlandi's design gigs include but are not limited to: Cinderella Man (2005), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Saving Mr Banks (2013), Jurassic World (2015), Logan (2017), and three Best Picture nominees Frost/Nixon (2008), The Blind Side (2009), and  Ford V Ferrari (2019).

We don't know exactly...

It's been 20 years since American Psycho hit theaters April 14, 2000.

The satirical psychological horror film follows wealthy New York City investment banking executive Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), who hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends. Throughout the pic he becomes more entangled in his violent and self-indulgent fantasies.

Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Bill Sage, Chloe Sevigny, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner and Reese Witherspoon rounded out the cast of the Mary Harron-directed film. Harron and Turner co-wrote the screenplay, which was based on the novel of the same ...

It's been 20 years since American Psycho hit theaters April 14, 2000.

The satirical psychological horror film follows wealthy New York City investment banking executive Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), who hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends. Throughout the pic he becomes more entangled in his violent and self-indulgent fantasies.

Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Bill Sage, Chloe Sevigny, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner and Reese Witherspoon rounded out the cast of the Mary Harron-directed film. Harron and Turner co-wrote the screenplay, which was based on the novel of the same ...

"I'm not losing my job over this!" Juno Films has debuted a new official trailer for an indie true story drama titled Radium Girls, which originally premiered in 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows two teen sisters who dream of Hollywood as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. They soon discover a corporate cover-up about radiation and, in a radical coming-of-age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. The national sensation following the case of the "Radium Girls" ultimately led to significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity. Starring Joey King and Abby Quinn as the two Cavallo sisters, along with Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd, Susan Heyward, Neal Huff, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, John Bedford Lloyd, and Joe Grifasi. This looks like an important story we've all forgotten about retold again.

America’s favorite psycho is coming to 4K! American Psycho starring Christian Bale is receiving a 4K Ultra HD release thanks to Lionsgate. The 2000 film turned into an instant classic and still holds up as one of the most unique films of all time. The 4K release will include some new special features as well as Blu-ray and digital versions. Get all the full details on the 4K combo pack release below.

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Sit back, relax, and turn on some Phil Collins, because American Psycho: Uncut Version arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital) September 25 from Lionsgate. This groundbreaking thriller based on the acclaimed book by Bret Easton Ellis stars Academy Award® winners Christian Bale, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, alongside Academy Award® nominee Willem Dafoe as well as Justin Theroux and Josh Lucas. Experience four times the resolution of full HD with 4K along with Dolby Vision Hdr,...

This article marks Part 16 of the 21-part Gold Derby series analyzing Meryl Streep at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at Meryl Streep’s nominations, the performances that competed with her at the Academy Awards, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the contenders.

In 1977, the year Meryl Streep made her feature film debut in “Julia,” Nora Ephron was working full-time as a columnist for Esquire, penning memorable pieces on the likes of controversial Boston University President John Silber and the series finale of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

By the time, six years later, Ephron made her own big screen debut as screenwriter of the Streep-headlined “Silkwood” (1983), Streep had two Oscar victories under her belt. The success of “Silkwood” in 1983 set expectations supremely high for their collaboration on “Heartburn” (1986), based on the acclaimed Ephron semi-autobiographical novel – anticipation that would make that picture’s ultimate...

From indie and foreign films to new grindhouse and classics, here is a curated list of home entertainment recommendations. New Indie Are you Team Maggie Siff yet? If not, you’re missing out on one of contemporary film and TV’s most exciting and eclectic actresses. On the heels of her extraordinary work on Mad Men and Billions, and in the sexy indie Concussion – the lesbian one, not the Will Smith one – Siff gets a powerful lead role of her own in A Woman, A Part (Strand Entertainment Home Releasing). It’s a smart exploration of the minefields actresses are forced to navigate in contemporary Hollywood, and Siff (top) is ably backed up a strong ensemble led by John Ortiz and Cara Seymour. Also available: Speaking of powerhouse...

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• Playbill Adorable John Benjamin Hickey, fresh off the revival of Six Degrees of Separation, thinks there should be a fine for people who leave their cel phones on in theaters. Agreed!

• Screen Crush picks the 25 best Lgbt films of the past 25 years. Happy to see Pariah and Bound mixed in with the usual titles like Brokeback Mountain and such. And the past few years have been so good for Lgbt cinema. I mean: Carol, The Handmaiden, Moonlight, Tangerine. #Blessed

• Esquire Fun article by Tyler Coates on how he finally learned to love RuPaul's Drag Race which he had avoided for years and even bad-mouthed in print

• Theater Mania you don't see this often but there's an actual age restriction on the Broadway adaptation of George Orwell's "1984". No one under 13 will be admitted due to its intensity. The show stars Tom Sturridge, Reed Birney, Olivia Wilde, and Tfe fav Cara Seymour (who previously did that lovely guest spot for us). I'm seeing it soon so will report back.

• IndieWire has issues with the "orientalism" of the new Twin Peaks. Add this to the onling Sofia Coppola controversy and... well... People I don't know what to do with all the outrage anymore at everything. There's got to be a line where, as an adult, you're just okay with what you're seeing and discarding the parts that irk you, or filing them under "I don't know about that but whatever" if they're not harmfully intended. Artists will always have their own peculiar obsessions and they'll always draw from a wide variety of influences (at least the good ones will) to craft their own stories and nobody really owns history; pop culture and the arts are giant beautiful melting pots of ideas and aesthetics from all over the world. Oh and also the Laura Dern hairstyle is not proprietarily Asian as the article seems to imply. I know this because I was obsessed with silent film star Louise Brooks as a teenager (Pandora's Box & Diary of a Lost Girl 4ever!). It was originally called the 'Castle Bob,' because Irene Castle (a famous NY dancer) debuted the then-shocking look in 1915. It was a very controversial look but became a sensation in the 1920s with flappers and silent film stars. Hollywood's first popular Asian American actress Anna May Wong, who the article references as an influence on Dern's look, actually had to get her hair cut like that because it was so popular.

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What places are delivering right now? So, in the early ’90s, right around when Pulp Fiction came out, Quentin Tarantino and Mira Sorvino were dating. I always thought Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion was a dumb chick flick, but I caught part of it on cable the other day and there was an ad for Red Apple cigarettes in the background of one of the shots! Do you know about Red Apple cigarettes?...

It looks like the plug's been pulled on The Knick. Deadline reports Cinemax has cancelled the TV series after two seasons.From Steven Soderbergh, the drama was set in a New York City hospital circa 1900. The cast included Clive Owen, Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, and Matt Frewer.Read More…...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

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Elisabeth Subrin’s feature directorial debut, “A Woman, A Part,” is a film about now. The film follows Maggie Siff as actress Anna Baskin, star of a seemingly popular and well-regarded network television series, who has grown increasingly disenfranchised with the work afforded to her by her industry. Fresh off a recent battle with an autoimmune disease and frustrated by a career path that doesn’t value her creative input, Anna takes a break from her show and heads back to the familiar environs of New York City, where she got her start in experimental theater.

Anna’s success on the small screen has alienated her from her friends, including her closest confidants and former performing partners, Kate (Cara Seymour) and Isaac (John Ortiz). When she returns to NYC (and Kate and Isaac), some old wounds are reopened and some hard truths – especially about the intersection of emotion and art – are revealed. “A Woman, A Part” confronts industry-wide sexism head on, making it clear that Anna’s experiences are not unique and dismantling any romantic notions about how Hollywood operates.

Read More: ‘A Woman, A Part’ Captures the Ripples from a Hollywood Actress’ Return to New York

Although the film is Subrin’s narrative feature debut, the visual artist and filmmaker has long used film and video to tell her stories, and it’s not the first story she wanted to turn into a long-form offering. In 2003, Subrin was picked for the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Directing and Screenwriting Labs, where she worked on her first feature-length screenplay, “Up.” The film’s plotline proved to be prescient: The film, about the dotcom bubble, was scrapped because of the American economy went topside in the early aughts. (Subrin, however, is still dedicated to making the film and expects to make it after shooting another experimental short.)

Heartbroken over the fate of “Up,” Subrin backed away from filmmaking for years, until her producer Scott Macaulay encouraged her to channel her professional frustrations and personal pain into a new script. That screenplay eventually became “A Woman, A Part.”

“I kind of put all my personal challenges into it,” Subrin recently told IndieWire. The result is an intimate film with a big message, and a feminist feature that embraces equality in all its forms, both in front of and behind the camera. That it’s also about the industry it actively subverts is just icing on the cake.

Two Women, Two Parts

Siff was Subrin’s first choice for the complicated role of Anna, a part that Siff personally sparked to early on. “I was intrigued and also sort of intimidated by it, because it bears a lot of resemblance to my own life, not so much in whom the character is or what necessarily her psychology and crises are, but the life of the actor and the things that you struggle with and the lifestyle in Los Angeles,” Siff said. “You burn out.”

Having previously worked with Seymour, Subrin knew what she could bring to the also complex demands of playing Kate. “This is a brilliant actor, and she’s not getting big enough parts that reflect everything she can do,” Subrin said of Seymour. “I knew she could sink herself into this.”

“It’s always nice to get something you can really sink your teeth into, and to explore a character with many dimensions,” Seymour said. “I knew it wasn’t just about playing someone who is both sympathetic and angry, or alcoholic and a lesbian, it’s about the spiritual dimension of a character. You think it’s familiar, but it’s not.”

“It’s Just Not the Status Quo”

Another thing that wasn’t familiar? The on-set vibe provided by having not only a female director, but a crew that was evenly split between the genders. “There was a really, really different kind of vibe on set,” Siff said. “It was one of those things that once you’re inside of it, because it’s just not the status quo, you’re like, ‘This is amazing!'”

Subrin’s sensibilities and sensitivities permeated every part of the production, something the filmmaker made clear to her performers early on.

“She said to me, ‘Just so you know, this film is not going to have a male gaze,'” Siff remembered. “Usually, the camera is operated by a guy and it’s something that’s written by a guy and directed by a guy, so of course the camera is the male gaze. When she said that, I was intrigued. She said, ‘I’m not going to fetishize your body. It’s not going to be about you looking sexy. It’s going to be about a woman’s emotional experience of moment. You’re not going to feel objectified.”

For Siff, the end result was an experience like no other and one she’d like to have much more often. “Why can’t 50 percent of my experiences be like this? Why is this one in a hundred? Why isn’t this one out of two?” Siff said.

One obvious impediment to Siff and other performers having this kind of experience is film financing. For Subrin, it wasn’t easy to get the funds to make “A Woman, A Part,” despite her background, her passion and her cast.

Finding Financing

“We went the traditional route first, the usual suspects, who said really nice things about the script, and either wanted bigger name actors or couldn’t connect to it. It’s a very particular film, and we were really prepared for that,” Subrin said.

But despite being “a very particular film,” Subrin admits that “A Woman, A Part” does share some large similarities with other films that have gone before it and that have been both critically and financially successful. But that’s not something that investors connected to.

“One potential investor said, ‘The last thing I’m interested in is a story about a burnt out fortysomething actress who moves to New York and gets in a play to try to find herself,’ and [producer] Scott was just like, ‘Unless it’s a little movie called “Birdman.”‘ It is ‘Birdman’! It is the same film,” Subrin said. “That kind of says it all.”

Subrin, however, remained committed to getting the film made. “We recognized that we needed to find smaller investors and build up the budget, teeny piece by teeny piece,” she said. They did just that, eventually cobbling together the money to make the film, though its production was threatened by Siff and Seymour’s tight schedules on “Billions” and “The Knick,” respectively. Subrin forged ahead.

“We probably had no business going into production when we did. We were like, ‘Do we wait a year?’ and I was like, ‘No way. I’ve waited a decade,'” Subrin said.

The Narrow Ideas of Women

Early in the film, Anna has a breakdown that culminates with her reading through a stack of scripts for potential roles, only to discover that each screenplay is filled with one-dimensional female characters, trope-laden narratives and wooden dialogue. Already on edge, Anna throws each and every script into her pool.

It’s a situation that rang true for both Siff and Seymour.

“There is just an ocean of roles and scripts that you’re sort of reading through that are really trite and redundant. There are a lot of tropes for women you encounter over and over and over again, depending on your type,” Siff said.

“I myself have thrown scripts across the room, and I know many actresses who do. It’s getting better, but it’s unbelievable how we’re asked to represent the narrow [ideas of women],” Seymour said.

“For a long time, I felt like I was getting scripts when I was younger that were sort of like the ‘sardonic bitchy best friend.’ It’s like, ‘Oh, there’s the bitchy best friend again that I have no interest in playing,’ then you graduate to the ‘bitchy ex-wife,'” Siff added. “It kind of goes on from there.”

Parts like that of Anna and Kate in “A Woman, A Part” afforded both actresses the chance to do something more meaningful. “When you read something that’s actually got depth and warmth and feels real, it almost feels like a shock to the system,” Siff said. “‘Oh wait, that feels real, that feels true. That feels like something we’ve never seen before. Why haven’t I ever seen this before?'”

“I feel really excited about the way Maggie and Cara’s performances are being received, because they’re complex characters and they’re not always likable and they’re not twenty-five,” Subrin said.

“Kicking and Screaming”

For Seymour, the possibilities laid out by Subrin’s film (and its unique production) have her excited for the future. “One day, we’ll see it as just hilarious, [how getting parts was] based entirely on what you look like and how fuckable you are and how that defines how much screen time you get and how much you are allowed to express yourself.”

Subrin, however, is a little more restrained when talking about the future.

Read More: 10 Essential Films About Women In Crisis

“I’m not sure I totally agree that things are changing, because I think we’re pretty much at a primordial state in change. The first thing is a lot of kicking and screaming, and we have been doing that forever,” Subrin said. “When I look at what films are in the festivals, when I look at the statistics of what is in the festivals, when I look at the 2016 statistics, it hasn’t changed. I just want to see other stories.”

“A Woman, A Part” is screening at BAMcinemaFest on Sunday, June 19. It is currently seeking distribution.

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With the conclusion of its sophomore season, "This Is All We Are," Cinemax's "The Knick"—one of the best shows on television, and certainly one of the most searingly beautiful—comes to the verge of breaking apart. Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) is dead by his own, arrogant hand; colleagues Everett Gallinger (Eric Johnson) and Algernon Edwards (André Holland) dabble, respectively, in eugenics and dreams; Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance) leaves New York for now, or perhaps forever; Nurse Elkins (Eve Hewson) marries up, Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb) divorces down, and Harriet (Cara Seymour) and Tom (Chris Sullivan) settle in together. Only the sweet, sincere Bertie Chickering (the terrific Michael Angarano) remains more or less steady, though he's just lost his mother and his mentor in quick succession. Where does "The Knick" go from here? Read More: "Why Steven Soderbergh's 'The Knick' Is More Timely, and Better, Than.

Though the first season of The Knick attracted some very positive reviews, the series drew very low ratings. Cinemax brought it back for a second season anyway. Will the numbers go up this time around? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a third season? Stay tuned.

The second season of The Knick continues to follow the troubled professional and personal life of Dr. John W. Thackery (Clive Owen), a physician who works at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York in the early 1900s. The rest of the cast includes Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, Maya Kazan, Leon Addison Brown, Grainger Hines, Zaraah Abrahams, Charles Aitken, Latonya Borsay, Rachel Korine, Tom Lipinski, and Michael Nathanson.

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You may have noticed a change in the byline. This week, I’m taking over “The Knick” recaps from Rodrigo Perez, and will carry you through the end of the season. We’ve both been big fans of the show, and the second season, so you won’t see much of a change in our appraisal. However, I am going to mix up the format slightly, and try and break things down character-by-character, while also adding some broader context. So let’s dive right in. The title says it all for the eighth episode, “Not Well At All.” If Dr. Thackery’s (Clive Owen) near heroic return to medicine and normalcy seemed too good to be true, that’s because it is. If Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb) thought his duplicity wouldn’t be discovered by his wife, he’s wrong. If the domestic bliss experienced by Cleary (Tom Sullivan) and...

The Knick, Season 2, Episode 8 “Not Well at All”

Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax

Wow. That seems to be the only appropriate response to such a well-crafted and invigorating hour of television as The Knick‘s latest, but it bears repeating: wow.

After last week’s less than stellar performance, an episode that culminated in the most ridiculous stunt this generally grounded period drama has ever had the audacity to pull, “Not Well at All” emerges as a fantastic return to form for The Knick, and even in this increasingly surprising season, perhaps the medical drama’s best episode yet.

“Not Well at All” opens with quite a bang, in a double whammy of dramatic impulse which includes one of Thackery’s (Clive Owen) desperate addiction patients hastily killing himself with an embalming fluid overdose, and the invasion...

The Knick, Season 2, Episode 7, “Williams and Walker”

Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax

After four straight weeks of steady quality, it’s not much of a surprise how The Knick flounders away its seventeenth hour, but that doesn’t make it any less disappointing. When compared to the showstopping turn which occupied this same spot during the last season, the magnificent and racially charged “Get the Rope”, “Williams and Walker” becomes even more of a sore spot. If this were merely a recap, it could be summed up in a matter of two paragraphs or less but as it is not, let us dig into the meddling meat of The Knick‘s latest.

The central problem is first and foremost that not a lot happens here, especially considering the 57 minute run time. The Knick has had far better...

You've heard from a few members of our team of their quick lists of gratitude so naturally your host and obsessive ringleader, Nathaniel, must chime in. As you read this I'm surely already stuffing myself but this year I've planned ahead with a big diet and exercize program to commence on November 30th.

I'm thankful for...

..."rug" in Room, steering wheels in Mad Max Fury Road, the train sets in Carol and Ant-Man, and Gerda's evolving portraits of Lili in The Danish Girl

... Grandma's bonobos fixation

... Sarah Paulson's ability to elevate every single project she's in whether said project is awesome (Carol) or, let's say, "challenged" (Ahs: Hotel and Ahs in general for that matter)

... the way 2015's hottest topics kept reminding us of Cate Blanchett's Blue Jasmine speech in 2014

The world is round, people!"

...a tight squeeze, with shimmering bosom, in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth

... bits and...

The Knick, Season 2, Episode 6, “There Are Rules”

Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax

After a veritable barrage of bad news over the last few weeks, The Knick seems to be on a more redemptive arc this week, and it’s a nice change of pace. This season has undoubtedly been stronger than the first, but it’s also been a lot rougher. “There Are Rules”gives us a small break from that kind of punishment, as it mixes in a bit more good to go with the bad.

The episode opens with Thackery (Clive Owen) trying to broaden his horizons at a sort of carnival-bazaar, where he bears witness to the thrills and thralls of hypnosis, as well as the rare medical occurrence of Siamese twins. While the hypnosis track leads to another great comedic touch when Cleary...

The Knick, Season 2, Episode 4, “Wonderful Surprises”

Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax

There couldn’t be a more apt title for the latest episode of The Knick, as “Wonderful Surprises” delivers a bevy of shocks and revelations at every turn this week.

First up is Dr. Mays (Ben Livingston), whose perversions became enough of a distraction as to cause his own demise in a hideous and fiery flash. The accident spells a surprising end for a character who had scarcely arrived. The same can be said for Lucy’s father, another new addition who has disappeared as quickly as he came. Are we to guess that writers Jack Amiel and Michael Beglar had second thoughts about these new characters while in the creative process? Their quick introductions and sudden exits certainly seem to suggest as much.

Dr. Thackery...

The Knick, Season 2, Episode 2, “You’re No Rose”

Written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Airs Fridays at 8pm (Et) on Cinemax

As The Knick entered the second episode of its second season, it seems fitting that this is an hour which barters for the notion of second chances. Most notably in the case of Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen), who makes a (somewhat) triumphant return to the Knick after his unorthodox treatment, but also in the cases of Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) and Cornelia Showalter (Juliet Rylance), the former of which might escape the legal system yet, and the latter of whom has only just returned to New York herself.

However, with all of that said, it is Tom Cleary (Chris Sullivan) who shines best in The Knick‘s sophomore effort. While his idea to upgrade the Knickerbocker’s ambulance service may have initially seemed like a solid one,...

Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.

There’s a scene in the second episode of season 2 of The Knick, returning tomorrow on Cinemax, that features what’s perhaps the series’ most shocking visual to date. With its handsome cast, peerless direction, and the best anatomical props not to be gobbled up by The Walking Dead, any word cloud for The Knick will be riddled with terms like “gorgeous,” “gut-churning,” and “grotesque.” Fear not, entrails enthusiasts, you voyeurs of all things visceral: if you rode high off The Knick’s horror show staged just beneath your skin, you’ll find getting back into the series as easy as coasting downhill on a penny-farthing.

But it’s a simple dissolve, from a wide shot of star Clive Owen to a close-up, that startles you like an ice bath for the eyeballs. It doesn’t matter that The Knick takes place in...

Cinemax's period hospital drama, The Knick, is back for a second season, Friday, October 16, 2015 at 10:00pm Et/Pt. The Knick stars Clive Owen, Andre Holland, Jermey Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, Maya Kazan, Leon Addison Brown, Grainger Hines, and Matt Frewer.

The Knick's second season kicks off with, "Ten Knots." Below, please find Cinemax's description of the season two premiere episode, then scroll down to watch the season two trailer.Read More…...

I spent much of the first season of "The Knick" wondering why Steven Soderbergh had chosen this, of all shows, to be his next passion project. Here was an Oscar-winning director, doing his first TV project in a decade (following HBO's short-lived "K Street"), understandably being given carte blanche by Cinemax to direct, shoot, and edit every episode himself, and he had for some reason picked a show with a relatively novel setting (a New York hospital circa 1900) but filled with stock characters, including a drug-addled anti-hero in Clive Owen's surgeon John Thackery, and other devices familiar from the last 15 years of cable drama. It looked fantastic and had great performances from Owen, Andre Holland (as a black surgeon whose skills aren't properly appreciated in a less enlightened era), and others, but it was hard to shake the feeling that the writing (mainly by creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler...

In just one season, Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) has gone from a highly-regarded surgeon to a drug-addled mess when Cinemax's critically-acclaimed series The Knick returns for Season 2 with the premiere episode Ten Knots, debuting Friday, October 16 at 10 Pm Et. While we wait for the season premiere to arrive in just a few short days, the network has released the first clip from this upcoming episode, which shows that Thackery has become quite unhinged. After a surprise visit by Dr. Everett Gallinger (Eric Johnson), Thackery becomes obsessed with the time.

Set in the year 1901, The Knick faces an upheaval, as Dr. John Thackery's absence (due to his hospitalization for cocaine addiction), a dearth of affluent patients, and financial missteps have led to the board's decision to shutter The Knickerbocker Hospital in favor of a new building uptown. In this world of corruption, invention and progress, everyone is searching for the...

The Knick

Created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler

Returns Friday, October 16th at 10pm (Et) on Cinemax

Premise: In 1900s New York, the Knickerbocker Hospital is at the front of pioneering new medical techniques, headed by the brilliant yet troubled John “Thack” Thackeray (Clive Owen). Dealing with budgetary issues, high mortality rates, racism, and their own personal demons, the staff of the Knick fights to keep their heads above water and create modern medicine in the process.

Where We Are: Season two starts this fall; 10 episodes have already aired

What You Need To Know: Essentially a medical procedural that happens to be set at the turn of the century, The Knick is home to as many dysfunctional individuals, secrets, and prejudices as E.R. or Grey’s Anatomy. Thack balances being a revolutionary surgeon with addictions to cocaine and morphine, as well as a taste for experimental treatments that Dr. House would regard respectfully.

While Steven Soderbergh is a familiar name to film fans, with a filmography that includes Out of Sight, Ocean’s Eleven, and The Informant!, his past few projects have seen the filmmaker return to television after nearly a decade away from the small screen. Soderbergh made a full return to television series with Cinemax’s The Knick, directing all ten episodes of the show’s first season, and Cinemax renewed the show for a second season before it officially made its premiere.

Fans of Soderbergh’s direction were excited to learn that his work helming all episodes of the series would continue on the show’s second season, which would also consist of ten episodes. Emily Kinney and Mackenzie Leigh will be joining the show’s cast, with Clive Owen, Juliet Rylance, and Cara Seymour poised to return to the series. The show’s second season will make its debut on October 16th,...

Created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the Cinemax drama series The Knick showcases The Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City in 1900, when it was the home to groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and stuff who pushed the boundaries of medicine in a time of high mortality rates and no antibiotics. Equal parts brilliant and arrogant, Dr. John Thackery (Clive Owen) is the newly appointed leader of the surgery staff, but his own ambition for medical discovery is almost overshadowed by his addiction to cocaine and opium. While addressing issues of race, sex and class, the show will undoubtedly make viewers grateful for how far we’ve come. During this exclusive phone interview with Collider, actor Chris Sullivan (who plays Tom Cleary, the Irish ambulance driver who can make almost any situation work to his benefit) talked about how he came to be a part of The Knick,...

One of the most delightful characters in Steven Soderbergh’s show The Knick is Tom Cleary, a boozy, foulmouthed, pipe-smoking ambulance driver. Played with aplomb by Chris Sullivan, Cleary engages in some of the more memorable sequences of the show, insulting nuns or stomping rats or trying to weasel more money out of the hospital. But he isn’t a villain, exactly. He may be greedy and selfish, but he’s also willing to help out Sister Harriet (Cara Seymour) with her illegal abortion practice, just so the girls get the care they deserve (well, that and to make a little extra scratch on the side). Sullivan rang up Vulture to discuss the fun of playing Cleary, the fascinating relationship between his character and Sister Harriet, and Cleary’s heroic actions during the riot. [Note: This interview contains spoilers through episode seven of The Knick.]You pulled that ambulance all by yourself in the middle of a riot.Yeah!

Network: Cinemax

Episodes: Ongoing (hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: August 8, 2014 -- Tbd

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Clive Owen, Andre Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, and Matt Frewer.

TV show description:

A period drama, this TV show is set in downtown New York City in 1900. It revolves around the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses, and staff who work there. They push the boundaries of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.

A brilliant surgeon, Doctor John Thackery (Clive Owen) is pioneering new methods in the field, despite nursing his secret and severe addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of physicians that include his protégé Doctor Everett Gallinger...

Early in the new Cinemax drama "The Knick," Dr. John Thackery boasts of "the astonishing modern world in which we live," insisting that "We now live in a time of endless possibility. More has been learned about the human body in the last five years than in the previous 500." What is such an astonishing time to him is a very quaint one for us, since "The Knick" (it premieres Friday at 10) takes place in Manhattan in the year 1900. Viewed through a modern lens, Thackery's surgical techniques seem primitive, even barbarous, but in the context of his time — when a procedure we take for granted like an appendectomy is still considered dangerous and experimental — he and his colleagues are miracle workers. "The Knick" arrives in an era where the possibilities for television drama are as limitless as they were for medicine in 1900. It's a period where a Matthew McConaughey can commit...

Ja from Mnpp here - what with The Film Experience turning its eyes towards the year that was 1973 this month I kind of feel it's my duty as the horror-genre drum-beater in residence to pick up the baton (ahh, delicious scrambled metaphors) and race us over to the brownstones of Georgetown for a hot minute, where a sweet little girl and her mother are busy being dragged through all nine circles of Hell and back for this week's Exorcist-flavored edition of "Beauty Vs. Beast."

Quite a literal round this time: an emphatically most horrible Beast, while our Beauty... well, Ellen Burstyn's Chris MacNeil is maybe even a smidge too amazing as our Beauty? I know most of the film's power comes from the corruption of the sweet relationship she has with her daughter but it always feels a wee bit to me like it strains credibility how much time...

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As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen (Brit Marling), they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

Like director Mike Cahill’s first film, 2011 Sundance Film Festival winner Another Earth, I Origins is a personal and unconventional exploration of the mysteries of the scientific world. To Cahill, scientists are important role models for filmmakers.

“They spend their lives asking the big questions,” he explains. “Why are we here? What are we made of? They...

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A month ahead of its series premiere, Cinemax has seen fit to renew its period medical drama The Knick, from “retired” filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, for a second season of 10 episodes. Excitingly, Soderbergh, who executive-produced and directed all 10 episodes of the first season, will be returning to helm the entire second season as well. News of the pick-up comes just days after Soderbergh revealed that he was planning a second season, so Cinemax likely jumped at the chance to keep him around.

Set in downtown New York at the turn of the twentieth century, The Knick focuses on the doctors, nurses and staff of Knickerbocker Hospital as they push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.

Clive Owen stars in the series as Dr. John W. Thackery, a doctor at Knickerbocker who is forced to make bold medical decisions with his limited resources...

Cinemax has released 11 new posters for Stephen Soderbergh's amazing-looking series The Knick. Ten of them are character posters, and they are meant to remind us that things aren't how they used to be. 

The 10-episode series is set in downtown New York in 1900, and the story centers "on Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics."

The series is sure to be absolutely fascinating. It stars André Holland, Eve Hewson, Juliet Rylance, Jeremy Bobb, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, Maya Kazan, Leon Addison Brown, and Matt Frewer. The Knick premieres Friday, August 8th at 10pm/9c.

Via: Collider...

Cinemax has teased us with several brief looks at Steven Soderbergh's upcoming television series "The Knick", but today they have delivered the first full trailer for the upcoming 1900-set medical drama. Starring Clive Owen in the lead role, the ten-episode first season centers on Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. Soderbergh directed all ten episodes and the ensemble cast includes Andre Holland, Eve Hewson, Juliet Rylance, Jeremy Bobb, Michael Angarano, Chris Sullivan, Cara Seymour, Eric Johnson, David Fierro, Maya Kazan, Leon Addison Brown and Matt Frewer. The first episode arrives on August 8, check out the trailer below. Don't be surprised, but this one looks rather dark and disturbing. sb id="948437" height="360" width="640"...

McC Theater presents Greta Gerwig, with Max Baker, Jason Butler Harner, Lucy Owen, Cara Seymour, and Scott Shepherd, in the American premiere of Penelope Skinner's celebrated play The Village Bike, the final production of McC's 2013-14 Main Stage season. The Village Bike is directed by Sam Gold, who recently directed the much-raved new musical Fun Home and this season's The Realistic Jones on Broadway. The Village Bike is currently in previews at The Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street, NYC, with an official opening tonight, June 10, 2014. Let's see what the critics had to say...

McC Theater welcomes Greta Gerwig, joined by Max Baker, Jason Butler Harner, Lucy Owen, Cara Seymour, and Scott Shepherd, in the American premiere of Penelope Skinner's celebrated play The Village Bike, the final production of McC's 2013-14 Main Stage season. The Village Bike is directed bySam Gold, who recently directed the much-raved new musical Fun Home and this season's The Realistic Jones on Broadway. The Village Bike is currently in previews at The Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street, NYC, with an official opening tonight, June 10, 2014. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights of the cast in action below...