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The first season of “Succession” felt, in ways good and bad, indebted to Sartre’s existentialist play “No Exit.” The characters — centrally, a trio of siblings scrapping for their corner of a family media empire, with various lackeys and hangers-on in their orbit — were miserable creatures, and unwilling to get out of one another’s way. The locations changed, but the condition of being stuck in a war that could not be won, and that could only be waged through vicious bickering, wore on.

What a pleasant surprise, then, that the second season has found a way forward — and has become vastly more interesting in the process. The world of the Roy family has opened up, yielding a meaningful understanding not merely of the lust for power but of what that power can do, and what privileges it strips away.

The arc of the first five episodes concerns the tending...

An experimental film by an Irish playwright, shot in New York with a silent comedian at the twilight of his career? Samuel Beckett’s inquiry into the nature of movies (and existence?) befuddled viewers not versed in film theory; Ross Lipman’s retrospective documentary about its making asks all the questions and gets some good answers.

First there’s the film itself, called just Film from 1965. By that year our high school textbooks had already enshrined Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a key item for introducing kids to modern theater, existentialism, etc. … the California school system was pretty progressive in those days. But Beckett had a yen to say something in the film medium, and his publisher Barney Rosset helped him put a movie together. The Milestone Cinematheque presents the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s restoration of Film on its own disc, accompanied by a videotaped TV production...

[Spoilers for Season 1, Episode 13, “Michael’s Gambit,” follow.]

A lot of philosophers got name-dropped during the first season of “The Good Place,” but it turns out that only one, ultimately, was the real inspiration for the series. That’d be your boy Jean-Paul Sartre, with the classic line from his play “No Exit”: “Hell is other people.”

Those four words underly the biggest revelations we learned during the season finale of Michael Schur’s existential comedy about the afterlife, though there’s plenty to discuss beyond that. “Chapter 13: Michael’s Gambit,” the season finale of “The Good Place,” brought with it two huge discoveries: First, that Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) have actually been in “the bad place” this whole time, followed by the revelation that Ted Danson is capable of being very, very creepy.

Danson has never seemed all that scary to me before, but that...

Tagline: "No Exit.' Sci-fi news and review site QuietEarth.us has posted a trailer for Nathaniel Atcheson's Domain. The film is a blend of sci-fi and horror as a virus forces survivors below ground. Except, in a series of bunkers, something even more sinister has been released amongst the inhabitants. Domain is set for a showing at Other Worlds Austin, in early December. As well, an official trailer for the film has been released and film fans can find it here. For more on the story, a virus has wiped out much of humanity. Survivors wait, alone, below ground, in a series of bunkers. The inhabitants communicate through a video intercom-like system. But soon, people begin to crack under the pressure of isolation. The film is slightly reminiscent of others. Though, the tone of Domain is darker than most. Matt Osterman's slightly average 400 Days (2015) dealt with a...

At one point in Ira Sachs’ Little Men, the young Jake (Theo Taplitz) explains to his parents (played by Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle) how they can avoid evicting their tenant, Leonor (Paulina García), from the store she’d been renting from his late grandfather for years. Jake’s simple economic plan makes the heart ache because of how perfect it is: it calls for empathy, equality, and, without being completely naive, proposes something that could be achievable within the right political system. But his plan is even more heartbreaking because he knows it’s his last chance to salvage his friendship with Tony (Michael Barbieri), Leonor’s adolescent son, who’s become his closest, dearest friend. As the adults stand in disbelief of Jake’s plea, is he addressing their inner child or are they merely getting a preview of the troublesome teenage years ahead? Sachs makes us wonder...

Joseph Kosinksi is no stranger to making trailers to hype up people. And we're not talking about standard trailers you put together once you're actually done with a movie. We're talking about a package put together out of thin air. That's what he did to land the job directing Tron: Legacy. Disney didn't quite know what they wanted to do with the project, so Kosinski begged them to give him just a little bit of resources to put together a test. The resulting footage blew away the studio and the movie got the green light. Since then Kosinski, who unsurprisingly got his start working in computer graphics, has been able to focus full time on his own feature film projects (his next movie is No Exit, a drama about firefighters), but every now and then he dips a...

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“The Twilight Zone” meets “No Exit” in “10 Cloverfield Lane,” a film that spends much of its running time within the close confines of an underground survival shelter. Who’s in there, whether or not they should be, and what’s really happening outside are questions that make up almost all of the plot, and for most of the movie’s 105 minutes, those mysteries are enough to generate tension and suspense amidst the claustrophobia. Even if this tale might have been better served as a 40-minute short than as a full-length movie, first-time feature director Dan Trachtenberg has cast a trio of.

While both Josh Brolin and Miles Teller have been active in their own corners of the Marvel movie game, the two have never had a role in the same film. That's about to change, though not in the way you'd expect, as the two actors have been cast in the dramatic firefighting biopic, No Exit. The subject of No Exit's focus is that of an historic group of Arizona firefighters known as "The Granite Mountain Hotshots." According to Variety, their claim to fame in the history books is a sad one, as their 20 member team fought what would eventually become known as the Yarnell Hill Fire back in 2013. The wildfire claimed the lives of all but one firefighter in the Granite Mountain Hotshot's ranks, and was recorded as the greatest loss of firefighters since September 11, 2001, as well as the greatest incident of firefighter fatalities in a wildfire since 1933. No Exit...

Just a year since the cancer dramedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won big at Sundance, this year’s festival opened with another in the subgenre – albeit without the former’s teen-movie trappings – and it wears Sundance tropes like garlands (death, queer themes, quirky characters). Despite its tendency to fall into familiar characterizations, there’s much to like in its playful storytelling, not least from a winning performance by Jesse Plemons.

He plays David, a struggling comedy writer who returns from New York City to his childhood home in Sacramento after his mother Joanne (a terrific Molly Shannon) is diagnosed with cancer. The pilot he’s recently written has been rejected, his boyfriend (Zach Woods) has left him, and whittling away his time in his home town brings to light Sartre’s adage from No Exit that “hell is other people.”

Debut director Chris Kelly, himself a long-serving writer on Saturday Night Live,...

With the rebooted Tron universe now all but dead over at Disney, director Joseph Kosinski has set his sights on Lionsgate’s No Exit, a real-life drama based on the tragic events that ensued when lightning struck Yarnell Hill in Arizona and ignited a vicious wildfire three years ago.

Best known for his work across Tron: Legacy and Tom Cruise-fronted sci-fi flick Oblivion, Variety reports that Kosinski will partner with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura on the feature film, which will mark the director’s first foray behind the lens to tackle a genre other than science fiction – and what a departure it is.

Working from a script penned by Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down), No Exit is poised to orbit around the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a tight-knit group of firefighters that were left scrambling to control a raging wildfire in 2013 that almost wiped out their entire crew. At its peak,...

Fans of Tron were disappointed to hear that the developing sequel Tron: Ascension was dead at Disney as of last summer. Tron Legacy star Garrett Hedlund hasn’t given up hope, but it sounds like director Joseph Kosinski has moved on for the time being since he’s lined up a new project that could begin production […]

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"Tron: Legacy" and "Oblivion" director Joseph Kosinski is set to leave behind the sci-fi worlds of that film in favor of a new fact-based firefighting drama feature "No Exit" for Black Label Media.

The true story tale deals with one of the worst firefighting disasters in American history - a tragic wildfire in Arizona in 2013 that saw over 600 firefighters tackling a blaze that grew to 8,400 acres.

Due to fast-changing winds and 2,000-degree heat, all but one of a twenty-man wildfire fighting specialist team named Granite Mountain Hotshots perished.

"Black Hawk Down" scribe Ken Nolan is penning the script, while Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mike Menchel, Dawn Ostroff and Jeremy Steckler will produce. Shooting could kick off as early as this Summer.

Source: Variety...

Joseph Kosinski, the director behind Tron: Legacy and Oblivion, is moving away from the sci-fi realm and entering the fire with No Exit, the true story of the tragic wildfire in Prescott, Ariz., that killed almost an entire crew of firefighters in 2013. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is among those producing the project while Ken Nolan, who tackled another mission gone wrong when he penned Black Hawk Down, wrote the script. Molly Smith and her Black Label Media are coming on board to finance the movie, which could begin shooting as early as summer. Known as the Yarnell Hill Wildfire and

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Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 actress and pioneering female film producer. Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 actress was pioneering woman producer, politically minded 'femme engagée' Danièle Delorme, who died on Oct. 17, '15, at the age of 89 in Paris, is best remembered as the first actress to incarnate Colette's teenage courtesan-to-be Gigi and for playing Jean Rochefort's about-to-be-cuckolded wife in the international box office hit Pardon Mon Affaire. Yet few are aware that Delorme was featured in nearly 60 films – three of which, including Gigi, directed by France's sole major woman filmmaker of the '40s and '50s – in addition to more than 20 stage plays and a dozen television productions in a show business career spanning seven decades. Even fewer realize that Delorme was also a pioneering woman film producer, working in that capacity for more than half a century. Or that she was what in French is called a femme engagée...

Constance Cummings: Stage and film actress ca. early 1940s. Constance Cummings on stage: From Sacha Guitry to Clifford Odets (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Flawless 'Blithe Spirit,' Supporter of Political Refugees.”) In the post-World War II years, Constance Cummings' stage reputation continued to grow on the English stage, in plays as diverse as: Stephen Powys (pseudonym for P.G. Wodehouse) and Guy Bolton's English-language adaptation of Sacha Guitry's Don't Listen, Ladies! (1948), with Cummings as one of shop clerk Denholm Elliott's mistresses (the other one was Betty Marsden). “Miss Cummings and Miss Marsden act as fetchingly as they look,” commented The Spectator. Rodney Ackland's Before the Party (1949), delivering “a superb performance of controlled hysteria” according to theater director and Michael Redgrave biographer Alan Strachan, writing for The Independent at the time of Cummings' death. Clifford Odets' Winter Journey / The Country Girl (1952), as...

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This week's Supernatural episode may suffer in comparison with how great the previous one was, but it's still highly entertaining...

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11.5 Thin Lizzie

Thin Lizzie starts as many other episodes of Supernatural have; with a mysterious killer appearing, killing an innocent victim or two with a splash of blood to end it all with before the title card appears. Sam thinks it’s a fairly ordinary haunting as the victims are killed with an axe in the bedroom of infamous alleged killer Lizzie Borden. Dean remains unconvinced, but when they dig a little deeper and more bodies start appearing, the case appears to be in the Winchester wheelhouse after all, though not in the way anyone perhaps expects.

After the traditional episode feel of last week’s fantastic Baby, you could be forgiven for assuming, along with Sam, that Thin Lizzie is going to be another classic-style episode,...

Warning! Spoiler Alert! As you can probably tell from the headline, this is not a story you want to read if you haven't watched last night's gut-wrenching episode of The Walking Dead. This Season 6 episode titled Thank You brought the death of one major character that has been with fans from the vary beginning. Though he has long been dead in the comic books upon which the AMC series is based, Steven Yeun's Glenn finally met his maker in gruesome fashion last night. He literally had his guts torn out as he was eaten alive. The experience of watching this happen to one of the most beloved characters on the show has been quite traumatic for fans. So much so, that some are claiming it didn't actually happen. But did it?

Showrunner Scott M. Gimple had a special message for fans of Glenn who were 'torn up' about the demise of Maggie's husband.

Stephen Fishbach was the runner-up on Survivor: Tocantins and has been blogging about Survivor strategy for People since 2009. This season, he will blog about his experiences in Cambodia as a competitor on Survivor: Second Chance. Follow Stephen on Twitter @stephenfishbach.

"Just because we've said what we're doing, doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen." –Jeff Varner, Survivor: The Australian Outback

"Hell is other people," according to French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre – and probably also Survivor contestant Tasha Fox.

In Sartre's classic play No Exit, three sinners are forced to endure eternity justifying their wickedness to each other. On Wednesday night's episode of Survivor,...

It’s one thing to feel as if you’re being sucked into a film while sitting in a theater, but how about actually becoming one of the participants in a live-action play as it runs in front of you? We had… Continue Reading →

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Been meaning to catch up with Sam and Dean Winchester, but just haven't found the time? Our Supernatural tips for beginners may help...

Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to...

The 11th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) closes today, but film industry professionals will be able to watch many of the Arab films in the selection online for the next nine months.

The Arab titles in the line-up will be available to screen on the Dubai Film Market’s video platform Cinetech for nine months starting from December 18.

“The service is open to all the distributors and sales agents who attended the market,” said Dfm chief Samr Al Marzooqi. “We want these films to continue their sales careers after the market has closed. The Cinetech is the best place to find Arab films.”

Aside from keeping Cinetech live for nine months, the Dfm is also continuing its partnerships with Festival Scope and the Venice Film Festival.

Under the agreement with Festival Scope, the titles in Diff’s Muhr Shorts and Features competitions will be available on the industry platform.

The agreement...

In honor of Supernatural's 200th episode, EW took a quick trip down the road so far. And by quick, we mean that we ranked every episode of Supernatural ever. From Sam and Dean's first battle against the Woman in White to Sam's recent rescue of Demon Dean, we left nothing out, and we're pretty sure it was just as difficult as that one time that Sam and Dean stopped the apocalypse. If you're looking for our Top 40 picks, check out gallery No. 1, and for our Worst 10, head here. For everything in between, scroll down, relive the memories (and...

From The Twilight Zone to Penny Dreadful, Doctor Who and more, Den Of Geek’s writers revisit the TV episodes that truly terrify them…

It’s Halloween! Icicles are glistening from window sills. Chestnuts are roasting on open fires. North Pole elves are… hang on, no. None of that nice, fluffy stuff is happening. At Halloween, demonic creatures hunt for flesh, monsters creep out of their graves, and TV does its level best to freak us all the hell out.

In the spirit of all that, we asked our writers to select and share the TV episodes, horror or otherwise, that have made them whimper with fear. Here they all are, 31 of them, because, well, at Halloween, we like things to add up to 31.

Note that this isn’t a Top 10, or a Best Of, nor is it listed in order of scariness. It’s a collection of the particular...

Sporting a title so long that the average online reader might not even get through it, Discord reconfigures Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit through the filter of Steve Allen’s Emmy-winning 1977-1981 PBS series Meeting of the Minds. Trapped in a locked, baldly-lit white room, three deceased geniuses articulately thrash out their contending views of Scripture as much out of the entrenched stubbornness of their morally compromised egos as their passionate convictions. All three had in their lifetimes enthusiastically applied razor and blue pencil to the St. James Version. Patrician agrarian democrat Thomas Jefferson (Larry Cedar) was not

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No Exit for Pasolini star Willem Dafoe with director Abel Ferrara: "You know concentric circles." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Abel Ferrara's Pasolini stars a divine Willem Dafoe as Pier Paolo Pasolini, with Maria de Medeiros, Riccardo Scamarcio, Adriana Asti, Valerio Mastandrea and Giada Colagrande. Developed by Maurizio Braucci from an idea by Nicola Tranquillino and Ferrara, Pasolini begins and ends on one fatal day.

Willem Dafoe as Pier Paolo Pasolini: "It's one thing to show, it's another thing to do."

Dafoe recently starred in Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man. I asked him if Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation Of Christ prepared him for Pasolini's final day. Ferrara told me what that means to him. Fashion, architecture, research, restaurants, apartments and the power of three, pushed our conversation into Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe's working relationship upon entering Pasolini's world.

Expectations for The Maze Runner, the latest Ya best-seller turned franchise wannabe, seemed low, so much so that critical faint praise suddenly feels like a ringing endorsement. “Don’t let that Ya tag put you off,” says EW’s Chris Nashawaty, in his review. “There isn’t a dying heroine or hunky vampire to be found anywhere in this better-than-average adaptation of the James Dashner bestseller. Just a bunch of confused kids on the run from a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D.”

Based on Dashner’s 2007 post-apocalyptic novel, the first chapter of a trilogy that includes The...

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Is The Vampire Diaries spending too long focusing on boring love stories? Here's Caroline's review of the latest episode...

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5.15 Gone Girl

Is Katherine really gone, or is this just another turn of events bound to come back and haunt Stefan and co. in the future? I’m leaning towards the latter simply because, if the writers had wanted to kill Katherine off for real, they would have done it back in the 100th episode. Even then, if they were really keen to do this doppelganger body-swap storyline first, surely this episode, Gone Girl, would have been her swan song?

Instead, despite Katherine’s spirit being expelled from Elena by the gypsy dagger the gang used to help Matt at the beginning of the season, her spirit lives on presumably in some hell dimension.

This leaves the door open for her...

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5.14 No Exit

The Vampire Diaries would be a much better show if it started to ignore its main selling point, shunning the endless merry-go-round of Petrova/Salvatore love affairs and actually concentrated on its oft-interesting, thoughtful and unique take on the fantastical. But five years in we should all know that it’s never going to do that and, though we do get a smattering of the latter with story threads like the Augustine vampires etc., it’s like a treasure hunt every week to sift through the love triangles/squares/pentagons before we can actually get anywhere. That makes a formerly fast-paced show feel like a slog to get through, and season five has been the worst by far in this regard.

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The Vampire Diaries, Season 5, Episode 14: “No Exit”

Written by Brian Young

Directed by Michael A. Allowitz

Airs Thursdays at 8pm (Et) on The CW

Katherine’s jump into Elena’s body in her dying moments worked to alter the group dynamic at Mystic Falls, as their emotional core had now been replaced with someone they all had an antagonistic relationship with. This was further compounded by Damon’s ambush by Dr. Maxfield and the Travelers last week, and his newfound thirst for vampire blood. This week’s episode continues to explore the ramifications of both Katherine’s undetected presence and Damon’s vampire bloodlust, in an enjoyable episode that adds dimension to a secondary character.

Nadia’s character arc continues to be an intriguing one this week. The parallels between Katherine and Matt’s mother are not coincidental, as the vampire has spent over 500 years...

"The Vampire Diaries" paid tribute to camera assistant Sarah Jones on Thursday (Feb. 27) by dedicating the episode, "No Exit," in her honor.

The beloved crew member, 27, died last week while shooting "Midnight Rider" in Georgia. Jones was hit by a train while filming on the tracks, and her tragic death has inspired her friends and family to create the "Slates for Sarah" campaign, gathering signatures to have her name be included in the 2014 Oscars "In Memoriam" segment on Sunday (March 2).

But closer to home, Jones was honored before Thursday's (Feb. 27) episode of "Tvd" on The CW affiliate in Savannah, Ga., as a photo of Jones and a farewell message appeared onscreen. Watch a clip of the touching tribute below:

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And immediately following the episode, another tribute card flashed onscreen, reading: "In Loving Memory. Sarah Jones. 1986-2014."...

The Vampire Diaries Episode 514

“No Exit”

Written By: Brian Young

Directed By: Michael Allowitz

Original Airdate: 27 February 2014

In This Episode…

Caroline brings Stefan police records from her mom. Looks like Damon has been slashing a Ripper path across the state. Stefan is determined to track his brother down, and “Elena” is determined to go with. You know, to “help.” Naturally, Katherine just wants to seduce Stefan.

Damon and Enzo have been hitting up farmhouses, turning the residents into vampires, then letting Damon feed. They figure that Damon can go about eight hours before he needs to feed again. When he is done with this particular feed, the boys try to head out, only to discover a mess of travelers, led by Wes, chanting to seal the vamps inside the house. This is another one of Wes’ sadistic tests: how long can Damon go before he has to feed on his one food source,...

We so totally called it! Katherine's secret is a secret no more.

The crafty 500-year-old vamp's plan was working on "The Vampire Diaries" -- everyone really and truly thought she was Elena. Nadia was holding Matt hostage to wait for the vervain to get out of his system so she could compel him to forget that he figured out Elena was really Katherine. And Katherine was wearing Stefan down, getting closer to him while pushing Damon away. Things were going her way.

Until she played her hand too far on Thursday (Feb. 27) night's episode, "No Exit," and pushed just a little too hard, and got busted. So what was her fatal mistake? Let's back up a bit.

Ever since Wes injected Damon with the Augustine vampire formula, everyone's been wondering if that meant lights out for Enzo. But Enzo and Damon came up with an extremely clever idea: Turn people...

On tonight's episode of The Vampire Diaries, "No Exit," Caroline and Tyler work together to help Matt. Dr. Wes tracks down Enzo and Damon. Katherine continues her quest to win Stefan's affections. Damon returns home. A secret is uncovered.

Enzo has found a way to keep Damon's new cravings satisfied and keep himself safe--he creates vampires strictly to serve as Lunchables. Damon's not exactly appreciative for Enzo's help or keen on his company, but Enzo plans to stay by Damon's side.

Katherine is pretty comfortable in Elena's body on "The Vampire Diaries," even getting Stefan to help her prep for a big test at school... until someone interrupts them, that is! Check out another clip from this week's Episode 5.14, "No Exit," for a peek at what's ahead.

"The Vampire Diaries" Episode 5.14 - "No Exit" (airs 2/27/14, 8-9pm):

Good News, Bad News — As Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) behavior escalates from destructive to deadly, Stefan (Paul Wesley) begins to regret their last conversation and decides to track Damon down and intervene. For reasons of her own, Elena (Nina Dobrev) volunteers to come along.

Dr. Wes (guest star Rick Cosnett) enlists the Travelers to set a trap that will once again test Damon’s friendship with Enzo (guest star Michael Malarkey).

After a heart-to-heart talk with Nadia (guest star Olga Fonda), Matt (Zach Roerig) enlists Caroline (Candice Accola) and Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) help to protect Elena,...

"The Vampire Diaries" returns on Thursday with Episode 5.14, "No Exit," and here's a look at a big batch of stills that The CW released just in time to help you prep for it.

"The Vampire Diaries" Episode 5.14 - "No Exit" (airs 2/27/14, 8-9pm):

Good News, Bad News — As Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) behavior escalates from destructive to deadly, Stefan (Paul Wesley) begins to regret their last conversation and decides to track Damon down and intervene. For reasons of her own, Elena (Nina Dobrev) volunteers to come along.

Dr. Wes (guest star Rick Cosnett) enlists the Travelers to set a trap that will once again test Damon’s friendship with Enzo (guest star Michael Malarkey).

After a heart-to-heart talk with Nadia (guest star Olga Fonda), Matt (Zach Roerig) enlists Caroline (Candice Accola) and Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) help to protect Elena, leading to a violent confrontation. Later, when Stefan tries to comfort a dejected Caroline,...

New Vampire Diaries season 5,episode 14 second spoiler clip hit the net. Recently, CW served up this new,2nd,sneak peek/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Vampire Diaries" episode 14 of season 5, and it appears to be very interesting as Tyler and Caroline find that Matt has been hanging out with Nadia again, and more. The episode is entitled, "No Exit," In the new clip, Caroline and Tyler seem to be playing nice, sort of. He's not yelling at her for screwing Klaus anymore. They eventually start wondering where the hell Matt it. Then, all of a sudden, Matt walks in, acting pretty weird, and asking why Caroline is there. The clip caps off with Nadia showing up right behind Matt. It appears that Matt and Nadia been hanging out together or something. It should be very intriguing scene. Check it out,below. Episode 14 airs this Thursday night, February 27th at...

Finally next week the Olympics will be over and all our favorite TV shows return to the airwaves. Among them is "The Vampire Diaries," and here's a clip from Episode 5.14, "No Exit," in which Matt was clearly hoping he was returning to an empty house.

"The Vampire Diaries" Episode 5.14 - "No Exit" (airs 2/27/14, 8-9pm):

Good News, Bad News — As Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) behavior escalates from destructive to deadly, Stefan (Paul Wesley) begins to regret their last conversation and decides to track Damon down and intervene. For reasons of her own, Elena (Nina Dobrev) volunteers to come along.

Dr. Wes (guest star Rick Cosnett) enlists the Travelers to set a trap that will once again test Damon’s friendship with Enzo (guest star Michael Malarkey).

After a heart-to-heart talk with Nadia (guest star Olga Fonda), Matt (Zach Roerig) enlists Caroline (Candice Accola) and Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) help to protect Elena,...

New Vampire Diaries season 5,episode 14 official spoilers,plotline revealed by CW. Recently, CW released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Vampire Diaries" episode 14 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "No Exit," and it sounds like things will continue to get quite interesting as the evil Dr. Wes will set another Damon trap, and more! In the new,14th episode press release: As Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) behavior escalates from destructive to deadly, Stefan (Paul Wesley) will begin to regret their last conversation and is going to decide to track Damon down and intervene. For reasons of her own, Elena (Nina Dobrev) is going to volunteer to come along. Dr. Wes (guest star Rick Cosnett) will enlist the Travelers to set a trap that will ,once again, test Damon’s friendship with Enzo (guest star Michael Malarkey). After a heart-to-heart talk with Nadia (guest star Olga Fonda), Matt...

New Vampire Diaries season 5,episode 14 not airing tonight,delayed for a couple weeks. Hey fellow 'Vampire Diaries" peeps. We unfortunately have to tell you guys that the new episode 14 of season 5,labeled, "No Exit," will be missing in action tonight as the show is currently on another break/hiatus until Thursday night, February 27th at 7pm central time, so go ahead and jot that down on your TV calendars. CW did drop a promo/spoiler clip (below) for episode 14, last week, in case you haven't checked it out yet. It reveals that Katherine will want to tag along with Stefan as he tries to locate Damon ,who now needs to feed on vampires. Professor Maxwell gets the upper hand on Damon ,again, by locking him in a house with Enzo, and time is running out before he'll have to pretty much suck Enzo dry. Damon refuses to eat Enzo at first,...

Dark Knight co-star will join Ewan McGregor in The Real Thing revival. Plus, Sting ships maritime musical to the Great White Way and Hugh Jackman to host Tony awards … again

Maggie Gyllenhaal is to make her Broadway debut this year when she joins Ewan McGregor in a revival of Tom Stoppard's comedy The Real Thing.

Gyllenhaal will star as Annie, an actor involved in an extramarital affair with a glib playwright – to be played by McGregor, whose casting was announced in November. The roles were first played on Broadway in 1984 by Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons, who both won Tony awards for their performances.

This is The Real Thing's third outing on Broadway. A Donmar Warehouse transfer in 2000, with Jennifer Ehle and Stephen Dillane, also won several Tony awards. The new revival will be produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, with the acclaimed director Sam Gold at the helm.

Following in the footsteps of his fellow CW star Jensen Ackles, who has directed a few "Supernatural" episodes, Paul Wesley is about to make his directorial debut on "The Vampire Diaries," becoming the series' first actor to helm an episode.

Per Buzzfeed, Wesley will direct Episode 18 of Season 5, airing later this year, and he said the hour is "both nostalgic and suspenseful," adding, "It feels like our world, but something is a bit askew. It feels uneasy. And I respond to that."

Wesley took his time before making this leap. "I had expressed my interest to [executive producer] Julie Plec and the studio early on. They responded positively but also made it clear I had to earn the position if they were to grant it to me. I spent a year shadowing directors, attending meetings, prepping, sitting in the editing room, etc. Even though I have been working in TV for years,...

Sneak Peek new footage, images and synopsis from "The Vampire Diaries" episode "No Exit", written by Brian Young and directed by Michael Allowitz, airing February 27, 2014 on The CW:

"...as the behavior of 'Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) escalates from destructive to deadly, 'Stefan' (Paul Wesley) begins to regret their last conversation and decides to track Damon down and intervene.

"For reasons of her own, 'Elena' (Nina Dobrev) volunteers to come along.

"'Dr. Wes' (Rick Cosnett) enlists the 'Travelers' to set a trap that will once again test Damon’s friendship with 'Enzo' (Michael Malarkey). After a heart-to-heart talk with 'Nadia' (Olga Fonda), 'Matt' (Zach Roerig) enlists 'Caroline' (Candice Accola) and 'Tyler' (Michael Trevino) to protect Elena, leading to a violent confrontation.

"Later, when Stefan tries to comfort a dejected Caroline, their conversation leads to a horrifying realization..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Vampire Diaries: No Exit"...

"The Vampire Diaries" is off now until February 27th, and its return will bring us both good news and bad news plus a horrifying realization. Check out the synopsis and a preview of Episode 5.14, "No Exit," for some clues of what it all means.

"The Vampire Diaries" Episode 5.14 - "No Exit" (airs 2/27/14, 8-9pm): Good News, Bad News — As Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) behavior escalates from destructive to deadly, Stefan (Paul Wesley) begins to regret their last conversation and decides to track Damon down and intervene. For reasons of her own, Elena (Nina Dobrev) volunteers to come along.

Dr. Wes (guest star Rick Cosnett) enlists the Travelers to set a trap that will once again test Damon’s friendship with Enzo (guest star Michael Malarkey).

After a heart-to-heart talk with Nadia (guest star Olga Fonda), Matt (Zach Roerig) enlists Caroline (Candice Accola) and Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) help to protect Elena,...

It wrecks lives – but it has also inspired art from the poetry of Baudelaire to the music of Lou Reed. In Paris and Berlin, Andrew Hussey traces the path of heroin through modern culture

One of the easiest places to find heroin in Paris is in the streets in and around the Gare du Nord, a stone's throw away from the Eurostar terminal. I know about this place partly because I live in Paris and I am a frequent Eurostar traveller, and partly because this is where Google sent me when I typed in the request "Where to find heroin in Paris". Apparently the most popular spot for dealing is the rue Ambroise-Paré which contains a series of entrances to underground car parks where users can shoot up in relative privacy. The place permanently stinks of piss and is under constant police surveillance, as dealers and clients scurry back and forth between their hiding places.

Even though shooting doesn't begin till October, The Crow is it Comic-Con, with the comic's creator James O'Barr and director of the new film F. Javier Gutierrez unveiling a very early poster for the film, drawn by O'Barr. Speaking to ShockTillYouDrop.com, who also gave us the poster, O'Barr went on to explain the reasoning behind the reboot (which in my mind shouldn't happen............I'll stop there before I rant again): "What Javier told me was that he wanted to go back to the source material. Be as faithful as possible which would make it something entirely different. Proyas’ film is stunning and stylized. I mean that in a good way. Nothing negative about it. Going back to the original book and keeping it grounded and realistic and dirty and gritty, it really appealed to me. Even so much as to carrying over the visual metaphors like horses and...

Styd

Here's a piece of teaser art for the upcoming remake of James O'Barr's comic The Crow. Barr recently was hired on as a consultant for the film production, which will star Luke Evans and be directed by F. Javier Gutierrez. With O'Barr on board, hopefully they will be able to give us an awesome new Crow movie. Styd talked to Barr in a recent interview, and he said,

Brandon was a friend and I'd never do anything that hinted at betrayal.  But what Javier told me was that he wanted to go back to the source material.  Be as faithful as possible which would make it something entirely different.  Proyas' film is stunning and stylized.  I mean that in a good way.  Nothing negative about it.  Going back to the original book and keeping it grounded and realistic and dirty and gritty, it really appealed to me.  Even...

Knowing that all young people must be inoculated against incurable ennui, a sixth-grade teacher in France apparently sought to educate his charges in the empty cruelties of life with a screening of Saw, the film that reimagines Jean Paul-Sartre’s No Exit with more mutilation. “This will be your first horror film," Jean-Baptiste Clément reportedly said to his students, presumably meaning that it would also be their first introduction to the horrors of existence—an unfathomable situation in which “free will” is merely the ability to decide how and when you will die, and where the tortures inflicted upon ...

Hear ye, hear ye, Supernatural fans: we've reconvened another edition of the TV Fanatic Round Table.

With just two days remaining until the Supernatural Season 8 finale, staff members Carissa Pavlica and Sean McKenna are joined below by Alice Jester of The Winchester Family Business, as they breakdown their favorite scenes a lot more from "Clip Show."

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What was your favorite scene or quote from the episode?

Alice: I’ll go with favorite scene, which ironically has my favorite quote as well. How funny is it that Castiel takes it upon himself to do a grocery shopping run for Sam and Dean? The elevator music in the background only added to the absurdity of the whole thing. He wants to be helpful, especially since Dean is mad. Good thing he remembered that humans need toilet paper! But the best part was when the store was out of pie (which seems...

German crime writer whose private eye Kemal Kayankaya operated in Frankfurt's seedy underworld

Jakob Arjouni was only 20 when his first bestselling crime novel was published in Germany and was such a literary prodigy that he had managed to create a substantial and durable body of work by the time of his death at the age of 48. This output includes the five pioneering novels featuring Kemal Kayankaya, a Turkish-German private eye, that began with Happy Birthday, Turk! in 1985. An immediate success, it was filmed by the director Dorris Dörrie in 1992.

The final Kayankaya novel, Brother Kemal, which Arjouni wrote against the terrible knowledge of a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, will be published in the UK later this year, alongside reissues of the earlier books in the series, by No Exit Press, the Hertfordshire-based publisher which championed his work in English translation.

Germany had been slower than most other European countries to...

By David Savage

One of the most idiosyncratic and inventive voices of genre filmmaking to emerge in the 1970s was Jeff Lieberman (born 1947), whose three best known films, Squirm (1976) Blue Sunshine (1978) and Just Before Dawn (1981) have become classics of horror and sci-fi. Cited as an influence on such directors as Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino (the latter lists Squirm as an essential viewing if he’s to take you seriously), Lieberman’s filmmaking captures the low-budget resourcefulness of Roger Corman and combines it with a singular point of view -- one that seems both quirky and at times, deliriously demented.

Here at Cinema Retro, these are exactly the types of directors we enjoy tipping our hat to. So I’m excited to announce that I’ve organized a tribute to Lieberman built around these three films with the generous participation and hosting of Anthology Film Archives in New York City,...