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"When you're famous, everybody wants to screw ya." So sayeth Vic Edwards, the faded screen idol portrayed by Burt Reynolds in Adam Rifkin's The Last Movie Star. This former sex symbol has long since passed the "everybody wants to screw ya" stage, his body forever wracked by too many film stunts and eyebrows perpetually levitated from too many facelifts. He spends much of his time bemoaning the wreckage of his life and career, both of which went off the rails decades ago due to a series of poor decisions.

2017 is a weird place to live. Pretty, pretty weird. Just look at what it’s done to ace telly show Curb Your Enthusiasm. Back when it debuted in October 2000, us fresh-faced nice folk were completely different people. Larry David’s fictionalised version of Larry David was a breath of fresh air. Here was a guy who was unafraid to say everything we wanted to say but were just a little too polite and bounded by social graces to actually blurt it out. His awkwardly accurate encounters in coffee shops, waiting rooms and carparks became a weird form of therapy. Larry David was a vent through which all of us could exhale a nice big chorus of ‘Fucking yes, right?!’.

Cut to today and things are very different. Larry’s back on our screens for a so-far stellar ninth season and is as abrasive as ever but his shrewd attitude and...

Stars: Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch, Sanaa Lathan | Written by Stephen Schiff, Michael Finch, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz | Directed by Michael Cuesta

Based on the novel by the late Vince Flynn, and vainly hoping to bridge the gap between the spy thriller and the cold assassin sub-genres, Michael Cuesta’s film has none of the style, substance or fun of its more illustrious peers. It’s closer in quality to a modern-day Steven Seagal effort movie than a Bourne, a Bond or a Hunt.

After a strong opening, reminiscent of No Escape’s shattering holiday resort assault, Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) is left with no living parents and a dead fiancée. Angry as hell, he throws his physical energy into mixed martial arts and gun ranges, and his mental energy into hunting down the terrorist cell responsible for the murder of his muse. Mitch is being watched by the CIA.

For my mind, Saints Row used to be a fun riff on Rockstar’s tried-and-true Grand Theft Auto template, but somewhere around the series’ fourth entry, developer Volition made a fatal mistake: it tried desperately to be different. What was once a good-natured comedy about gangs vying for territory quickly descended into farce. We got an alien invasion replete with bombast ramped up to 11, and jokes forced through clenched teeth. Saints Row stopped being subversive, and started being boring.

Unfortunately, the winds of change have failed to blow. Agents of Mayhem is a spinoff entity that’s rather more latter-day than vintage Saints. It takes place in a futuristic version of Seoul, rebuilt after the end of Gat out of Hell. It’s a gleaming, glistening jewel of a city, with burnished metals and sleek cars inspired by a Philip K. Dick novel. It’s bright – bright ­- with a...

Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard | Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan

On paper, Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Interstellar couldn’t be more different to the puzzle boxes which have defined his movies to date. Here’s a real historic event portrayed in well under two hours, with no room for sci-fi elements or high concept hooks. That it feels, in the end, very much like you’ve watched a Christopher Nolan film is surprising, for reasons both pleasing and not-so-pleasing.

We’re thrown into the nightmare of 1940, when more than 300,000 British Expeditionary Force troops were trapped on the titular beach, with the German hordes moving in. (In one of the film’s many authentic touches, we get to see the German propaganda leaflets promising the Allies’ imminent destruction.)

Three stories – and here’s where the narrative is Nolanised.

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Robb takes us through the impact that alcohol had on his life,

Once again, for this week's Geeks Vs Loneliness, we're eschewing our usual introduction, that you can find on the 100+ other posts in this series (some links can be found further down the page). Instead, we're handing over to Robb, who asked us if he could write a piece entitled 'alchohol, depression and movies: the trilogy of my 20s'). With a fair smattering of film quotes - just in case the context isn't clear - here it is. Huge thanks to you, Robb...

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My life is fantastic. I hate my job, obvs, but I...

After meeting each other for the first time as they exchanged vows on the first season of Kinetic Content’s hit show, Married at First Sight, Doug Hehner, 33, and Jamie Otis, 30, embarked on a journey filled with both love and heartbreak. The newlyweds successfully worked through a difficult first year of marriage, but then lost their first baby, Johnathan Edward, when Otis was four months along. Now blissfully awaiting the arrival of their “rainbow baby,” the couple is blogging exclusively for People about their experience on the show ahead of its season 5 premiere. Follow Jamie on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter,...

We were hungry after Gwyneth Paltrow‘s Goop guide to detoxing — now let’s see how we’ll feel about her fast food guide.

The site revealed their top drive-thru chains, menu hacks and “clean-ish” options for those looking for something healthy and convenient. And don’t worry, Goop kept it real by noting they can’t always choose organic: “We’re also realists who know that sometimes, we’re going to eat fast food.”

The overall winners were Chipotle, Wendy’s and Subway for their salad options.

“A salad bowl, with some brown rice if you’re hungry. Load up on the veggies,...

Chicago – It was an evening to honor the past, current and future brands in TV media at the 53rd Chicago International Television Awards Night on Thursday, March 23rd, 2017. TV advertising creator Joe Sedelmaier, Wgn-tv Entertainment Reporter Dean Richards and Amazon Studios – represented by Development Executive Jill Arthur – were the individual honorees at the ceremony.

Also honored with awards were an array of television commercials and productions. Top prizes in the advertising categories went to Fcb-Chicago, The Martin Agency and mcgarrybowen. The NBC-tv series “Chicago Justice” was awarded the top festival prize, the Gold Hugo, for a Dramatic Program.

Michael Kutza (right) Honors Joe Sedelmaier with the Chicago Legend Award at the Television Festival

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This was the 53rd Chicago International Television Festival, which began as a component of the Chicago International Film Festival, and was spun off into a separate festival in the Spring...

It’s kind of amazing what the marketing folks over at Legendary Pictures have been able to do over the course of the past year. I’m someone who could not have cared any less about the prospect of Kong: Skull Island. Even when they announced the impending mammoth crossover with Godzilla, my interest was only moderately above the “meh” level. However, when San Diego Comic-Con hit last year, and we got our first real taste of the movie, I was intrigued.

In a world full of superheroes and explosions, there has certainly been a lack of more traditional, jungle-laden, high adventure films. Jurassic World was the last one I can remember hitting theaters, but since then, they’ve been largely absent from Hollywood releases. So when I saw what this new movie would have to offer (which included a gargantuan version of King Kong himself), I found myself all the more intrigued.

Browser the Library Cat still has nine lives to give, but one can’t say the same about a politician who wanted to give the popular feline the boot. Former White Settlement, Texas, councilman Elzie Clements, who lost a bid for reelection in a landslide on Nov. 8 after trying to remove Browser from the town’s library this summer, tried again to put an item on the agenda before his last council meeting on Dec. 13th, banning the grey tabby. “We told him, ‘No way — that’s not going to happen,” Mayor Ronald White tells People. “We couldn’t believe...

Mel Gibson turned the Beverly Hills premiere of his new film, Hacksaw Ridge, into a family affair on Tuesday night. After hitting the red carpet with his girlfriend, screenwriter Rosalind Ross, who is pregnant with the actor's ninth child (their first together), Mel met up with his son, Milo, at the after party. Milo, who was born in 1990, is one of Mel's seven children with his ex-wife, Robyn Gibson. In addition to sharing a few laughs, the two also posed for the cameras, proving that Milo is the spitting image of his famous father (sans the beard). And those stunning blue eyes? Forget about it. Since Milo's acting career has only just begun, we can't wait to see a whole lot more of him in the near future. Related:28 Celebrity Moms Who Are Nearly Identical to Their Kids...

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[caption id="attachment_48433" align="aligncenter" width="456"] UnREAL TV show on Lifetime. Season 2 premieres June 6th at 10pm Et/Pt. Photo by A&E Studios. Copyright 2016./caption]

Is real life getting too real? Forget about it and indulge in these new teasers for the second season of the UnREAL TV show, debuting on Lifetime, Monday, June 6, 2016 at 10:00pm Et/Pt. UnREAL season two stars Shiri Appleby as Rachel Goldberg and Constance Zimmer as Quinn King.

The cast of UnREAL also includes Craig Bierko, Josh Kelly, and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman. New to the second season of UnREAL is B.J. Britt, who plays Everlasting's new bachelor, Darius Hill. Ioan Gruffudd recurs as tech billionaire John Booth, a potential love interest for Quinn.

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Tyga's had some problems finding a place to call home – so James Corden offered a not-so-helping hand in securing the rapper new digs.

The "Rack City" artist is currently residing in a $35,000-per-month pad above Los Angeles' Sunset Strip while being sued by a landlord in girlfriend Kylie Jenner's Calabasas, California, neighborhood for $70,000 in unpaid rent.

But the Late Late Show host teamed up with Million Dollar Listing realtor James Harris to show him a sprawling Hollywood Hills mansion during Monday night's episode – and let's just say Corden, 37, should stick to celebrity interviews and singing in his car.

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Tyga's had some problems finding a place to call home - so James Corden offered a not-so-helping hand in securing the rapper new digs. The "Rack City" artist is currently residing in a $35,000-per-month pad above Los Angeles' Sunset Strip while being sued by a landlord in girlfriend Kylie Jenner's Calabasas, California, neighborhood for $70,000 in unpaid rent. But the Late Late Show host teamed up with Million Dollar Listing realtor James Harris to show him a sprawling Hollywood Hills mansion during Monday night's episode - and let's just say Corden, 37, should stick to celebrity interviews and singing in his car.

Tyga's had some problems finding a place to call home - so James Corden offered a not-so-helping hand in securing the rapper new digs. The "Rack City" artist is currently residing in a $35,000-per-month pad above Los Angeles' Sunset Strip while being sued by a landlord in girlfriend Kylie Jenner's Calabasas, California, neighborhood for $70,000 in unpaid rent. But the Late Late Show host teamed up with Million Dollar Listing realtor James Harris to show him a sprawling Hollywood Hills mansion during Monday night's episode - and let's just say Corden, 37, should stick to celebrity interviews and singing in his car.

"Felix and Meira " is Canada's Official Submission in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards. Isa: Udi. U.S. Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories

United by spatial closeness yet separated by an ocean of cultural distance, the two doomed lovers in Maxime Giroux‘s “Felix and Meira” embody a romance caught between the clutches of strict religious mandates and the refreshing air of freedom. Sumptuously intimate and permeated with seductive melancholy, Giroux film follows a secular French Canadian man and a married Hasidic woman as they find comfort, even if temporary, from the quiet turmoil in their lives.

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Felix (Martin Dubreuil) is no longer a young man, but his life is far from being stable. His lack of interest in following his father’s footsteps has turned him into an outcast in our success-driven society. Bound to exist under the shadow of the Hasidic community’s expectations, Meira’s only respite from her duties as a wife are music and her occasional walks around the neighborhood. Once Felix and Meira (Hadas Yaron) cross paths and their tender desperation to be someone else takes over them, her husband, Shulem (Luzer Twersky), becomes the collateral victim. Is it Shulem’s fault that Meira feels trapped? Or are they both victims of the only lifestyle they’ve ever known? Is Felix offering an escape or destroying a family? It’s in the intricate search for these answers that Giroux finds moments of human truth for all the affected parts in this emotional triangle.

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Giroux is not a Jewish man and knew nothing about this community and their faith prior to the making of the film, but living in a community where the secular and the religious shared space but never connected inspired him to dive into the unknown. Though he was fearful of the risk he was taking, the result is elegantly executed and unassumingly affecting. He proves that melodrama rarely has a place where there is truth.

Here is our conversation with Giroux on understanding the Hasidic community he only knew from afar before, on the identity Quebecois people, and why he enjoys making films about things he is against.

Aguilar: Both Felix and Meira's world's coexist without ever touching each other. What prompted you to delve into these parallel lifestyles, in particular that of the Hasidic community, which is foreign to most of us?

Maxime Giroux: I have to say I was a little like Felix, the character. I was a bit naïve about the Hasidic community. I didn’t know anything about it and I was living, like him, in the same neighborhood as the Hasidic people. I don’t know why, but for some reason I wasn’t really interested in them. My community and their community live together, but we don’t talk to them and they don’t talk to us. At one point I was searching for an idea to make a movie. I was outside this cafe everyday and they would walk by in front of me. I talked to my co-writer Alexandre Laferrière and said, “Why don’t we make a film about this community? We don’t know anything about them. We should do research and try to learn more about them. We should try to be in contact with them.”

It was as simple as that. The reason why I made this movie was to get to know them a little bit more. I was naïve because I didn’t know it would be so complex to write a movie about them. The movie is simple in a way. It’s a simple love story or a normal love story, but it was tough to write it because there were things we couldn’t say and there were other things we could say but only in a certain way. We had to be careful. Our goal was to say a lot of things about this community but when we wrote it, I realized that it was too much and that we couldn’t show it all in the movie. It was really difficult. It took like two and a half years to write the script, to rewrite it, and to figure it all out.

What sort of research did you do or what kind of interaction did you have with this community in order to portray them accurately or in an honest manner? You are not part of the community, so in a sense, like Felix, you were an outsider looking at them from afar.

Maxime Giroux: That was the main complexity of making the film. Alex was more into the books. He was reading books about the Hassidic community and Judaism. We are not Jewish, so we were starting to learn from the beginning. We knew nothing. We started to write the script and while he was more into the books, I was more on the field. I was riding my bicycle, walking the neighborhood, going into synagogues and community centers, and talking to them. I discovered that every time I started to talk about how I was going to make a movie about their community they stop talking about the subject of the film. They said, “No, you can’t make a movie about that. Forget about it.” Some people among them were curious and asked me, “What’s your story about?” I would say, “It’s a love story between a French Canadian man and a Hasidic woman. ” They would say, “That’s impossible.” I would asked them, “Why do you say it’s impossible I’ve heard stories?” They would always reply, “No, it’s impossible.” At one point I thought, “Oh my God, it’s going to be impossible for me to make this movie because I need some of these people to help me make it. I can’t do it myself. I don’t know this community.” The only way for me to make the movie was to talk to people who have left the Hasidic community.

How difficult was it to find them and how willing were they to help you tell this story?

Maxime Giroux: I found Luzer, who plays Meira’s husband Shulem, on the Internet. I also found other ex-Hasidic people who lived in New York. I went there to talk to a lot of people who had left the community and all of them told me to go see Luzer. I already knew that I wanted to meet him because I thought he was the best prospect for the role, but everybody in New York confirm it and said, “You should go see this guy, he is amazing and he wants to act in movies.” I met him and he was such a character in real life and then I decided to work with him. He helped us translate the script into Yiddish. It was super important for me to make the film in Yiddish. He also helped us be accurate in terms of the set decorations, the props, and the costumes. He really helped us. Without him it would have been impossible to make the movie.

In the film there are also four other ex-members of the Hasidic community. All of them really helped me. A few months before making the film I thought, “I’m not going to make this film. It’s impossible. I don’t have the key to make this film even if I have the script,” but when I met these people they really helped us. That’s why I think that the ex-Hasidic people who saw the film really liked it because they feel it’s accurate. Just yesterday a guy from the U.K, an ex-member of the community, wrote to me because the film played in London a few days ago. He saw it and said, “Oh my God. It’s like my life.”

When you talked to them what were some of the reasons they gave you for leaving the Hasidic community?

Maxime Giroux: There are a lot of reasons. Just like in every community bad things happen. For example, I heard stories that in Brooklyn there have been cases of boys being sexually abused by adults in the community. Some people want to leave the community because of that. Others just don’t accept this way of living and others just don’t believe in religion. They were born into it but then at 8 or 9-years-old they start asking questions and by 14 they want to quit. There are a lot of different reasons depending on the person.

In your film Meira wants to leave because she wants freedom and she is loves, or at least is interested in Felix. Tell me about writing this beautifully complex character. She a woman living a double life.

Maxime Giroux: For me the main thing is that she wants freedom. We discovered that when you are a Hasidic woman you are first a child and then at 12-years-old instantly you become a woman. At 12-years-old they tell you, “Ok, now you have to learn to be a woman in order to become a mother.” They don’t have teenage years. For me, Meira wants to have those teenage years. She never had them but she wants to live them. She wants that freedom when you have when are teenager and you start to listen to music and to define yourself with art. She wants those years where you find a path for yourself. I think she wants freedom. Is she really in love with Felix? He is there and she is perfect for him. I think love in life is like that most of the time. We fall in love with someone that’s at the same place and the same moment of his or her life. You need that person so you can grow for a certain period of time. Sometimes this growth is for 10, 20 or 30 years, and sometimes it’s only for a few months. So is she really in love with him? Maybe.

The ending is also very ambiguous. It doesn’t give us a straight answer or a perfectly wrapped happy ending. There is uncertainty in both of their faces.

Maxime Giroux: Yes, it was very important for a lot of reasons. Even us, in our society, when we leave someone, like if you have two children and a wife or a husband, we are not sure about doing it. After a few months you might think, “Did I do the right thing? Maybe I was wrong. Maybe my life with my wife and children was wonderful but I fucked it up." There was also the fact that when Hassidic people leave the community they don’t have family anymore, they don’t have friends anymore, they don’t have education anymore.

Are they sort of like the stories we hear about people who leave Scientology or cults?

Maxime Giroux: I don’t know much about scientology, but at least some of those people have something before that and they have an education. Hasidic people don’t have an education, some of them barely speak English. When they leave their community they arrive in this society like if they were an immigrant from another country without a job, without money, without friends, and without family. They have nothing. There is a high suicide rate among them because you can’t quit religion in one day. That’s why the ending of the film is like that. Religion was so strong for 20-something years in Meira's life, so when you try to quit everything you feel lost and you feel alone even if there is someone there. She doesn’t really know Felix and he doesn’t know her. It’s going to be a new life for him too. He will have to take care of her and of a child that he doesn’t know. In turn, Meira's daughter will never see her father again, even if he was a good guy and love both of them. It was impossible for me to write a happy ending.

Through small details we see that when Meira is with Felix, outside of her real life her self-image change. The beauty that she’s been hiding comes out and there is a certain glow about her. She rediscovers herself when she is outside of her religious world.

Maxime Giroux: Yes. Something like this happened to me. I was with a woman for years. She was always a beautiful woman, but when she left me everyone was telling her, “You look great!” It's not that I was a bad guy to her, but we were not happy together at the end of the relationship. Once someone leaves a relationship where he or she feels trapped, there is like a new light about that person. That’s what freedom gives you. Hadas Yaron was perfect for this role. She doesn’t have to say anything. It’s all in her eyes and the way she moves. When she puts jeans on for the first time it’s an incredible moment.

Those moments, which we take for granted and consider mundane, are revelatory experiences for her.

Maxime Giroux: When we wrote the scene with the jeans we didn’t really know what it meant. We wrote it thinking, “Probably for her, since she has never had the chance to wear pants in her life, this will mean something.” Jeans are a symbol of freedom. In the 1950s young people would wear casual jeans as a “fuck you” to their parents. Still today they represent something casual and free. For most Hasidic people, men or women, the first time they put jeans on is one of their most memorable experiences. The first time they wear them is like, “Oh my God, what’s happening!” It’s something they’ve never experienced. Something so tight on their skin. It’s a pretty sensual sensation. We discovered what it meant after we did the film. Hasidic people who watched the film would say, “The scene with the jeans is perfect.” Those are great little details, but without a good actress it would have been impossible.

Tell me about your decision to cast Hadas Yaron. This is a challenging role in terms of the languages spoken and the delicate vulnerability required to play a woman divided between two lives.

Maxime Giroux: As you know she was in film called “Fill the Void,” which is also about the Hasidic community, because of that I didn’t want her in my movie at first. I said, “She already acted in a movie about the Hasidic community, and she doesn’t speak Yiddish or French.” I started doing research here in the U.S. to find an actress. I found a few Hasidic women but they were two tall for my two actors who are short and thin. I didn't really find someone that was good. Then my two producers, who are also Xavier Dolan's producers, without my permission, asked her to audition. I saw the video in my computer and she was speaking French and 15 seconds after I thought, "That's Meira. That's totally her." She is very different from her role in "Fill the Void" where she is more reserved. I said, "Yes she is Meira but she needs to learn Yiddish and French," and she did. She was really good.

Speaking about language, although there is dialogue in the film, this is a very quiet story. Silences and gazes are really powerful between the protagonists.

Maxime Giroux: I think that really represents who I am. Even if I talk a lot with you right now, I'm not a really intellectual person. I'm more introspective. My world is more inside of me. I think this comes from my culture, from the Quebecois culture. We are really instinctive people. We don’t talk much. We are not like French people from France who talk and talk and who are really intellectual when they speak. I think this is one of the reasons why my characters not talk a lot. It’s more about little actions and little details. That’s because of who I am. In a way I see myself in Meira too, even if I didn’t live that life. When I was young I was a little bit like her in way. I was trying to get out of the community I grew up in, which was uneducated and where there was no art. Even if I loved those people I wanted to have more than. I see myself in Meira maybe more than in Felix. I think Felix is more like my co-writer.

Felix is going through his own problems after his father's death. He is a mess. He acts like a young man who hasn’t figured himself out. I feel that's what makes him connect with Meira, the fact that he is also, despite his age, still discovering who he wants to be.

Maxime Giroux: He represents a lot of people I know, but I also think he represents my society, the French Canadian society, which is getting older. We are a new country like the U.S. We are a young country unlike France or Germany. In those terms French-Canadian society is really like a teenager in a way. We are a little bit lost. In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s we decided to remove everything religious. Before that we were a very religious society, but not anymore. We lost our sense of family and community. I think in that sense Felix really represents my community. These are two communities that are living together. One is really about community and family values and the other one is like, “I don’t give a shit about my father, mother or my neighbor.” It’s a bit like in America too. We care about ourselves: the individual. It was really important for us two have these two communities. He is lost in this community because we have to perform. To be a good citizen in our society you need to be successful and make money, and he doesn’t want to do that. His father did that and he was not happy. Felix is more like, “I don’t give a shit about being that.” He doesn’t want to be part of the system and she is not part of the system either.

Does he love Meira?

Maxime Giroux: I think he loves her more than she loves him, but she loves him too in a way too.

Do you think this sense of isolation in your film also comes from the idea that Quebec and French Canadians are an island within Canada?

Maxime Giroux: Yes. Right now we are a little bit lost in terms of who we are. In the 70s and 80s we were like, “Yes, we are French-Canadian! Quebecois!" We were proud of it. Now we are more like, “Yes, we are French-Canadian but at the same we want to make money and we want the same things as other Canadians. We don’t give a shit about who are. We just want to make money. “

Something that really makes the film emotionally poignant is that you don’t make Shulem, Meira’s husband, a villain. He is a man who loves his wife and child but who has chosen to live by the parameters of his faith.

Maxime Giroux: That was incredibly important. I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in religion, but at the same time the goal of the film was to try to understand people who need religion. I didn’t understand them before making this movie. There are so many people who believe in and who need religion. It was important for me to represent them, which is why Meira's husband is very important. We had to see his humanity, not only the religion behind him but also the human. Most humans on this planet are good people. Most of them. I don’t have a number, but everywhere I've traveled most people are good. When you spend time with people you see most of them are good. Society or religion sometimes makes them bad.

In life, I hate police. In Montreal whenever there is a student protest I’m always on the student’s side, not the police. But I know that there are good people in the police force. That’s why I want to make a movie about police at some point, because I don’t like them and I want to like them a little bit more. I want to say to myself at the end of the journey, “You were wrong. There are some fucking good people in the police.”

Is there a reason why you don’t like police?

Maxime Giroux: I don’t like people with that kind of power. I feel like they are often on a power trip. Not all of them, but in my head I generalize them, just like I did with religion. After making “Felix and Meira” I understood that some people need religion and others simply don’t.

It’s very interesting and admirable that you make films about things you don’t understand in order to understand them better.

Maxime Giroux: Not only that I don’t understand, but that at the beginning of the process I’m against. I know that at the end I’ll change my ideas and that's the reason why I’m making a film on the subject. I want to understand those people and I want to prove to myself that humans and life are more complex and more beautiful than I thought.

Shulem is just doing what his religion mandates. It's definitely his choice, but we know that he doesn't have may options.

Maxime Giroux: He is also a victim. It was important for me to show that in the movie even if it’s subtle. Religion can be good, but in this case the problem is that if you don’t act like you are supposed to in that community people will slap your hand. They tell Meira, “You have to be like this. You have to have children and you have to take care of your children.” That’s the bad thing about this religion, and I wanted to show that. This guy is a victim of that because if the community would give women more space and freedom, he would still be with her. He would still be the father of that child and the husband to that woman.

Regarding the film's cinematography, what kind of references or specific styles did you discuss with your Dp? There is a classic, almost tender quality to the images.

Maxime Giroux: I've worked with Sara Mishara, the director of photography, before. I started working with her in university. We don’t have to talk a lot, but the few things we said to ourselves before starting the movie was that we wanted it to look a little bit like the immigrant movies of the 70s. Not “The Godfather” but all those movies about immigrants that took place in Brooklyn. For me Meira is an immigrant living in North America in a sense. We wanted the 70ish look or Gordon Willis-ish. I had the chance to visit some Hasidic households in Brooklyn and Montreal and all of the colors felt like if I was in the 70s. The color palette was really toned down and there were not bright colors. There might be bright colors sometimes in their clothing but not in the house. We decided to get some lenses that are not very good to avoid having a perfectly sharp image. We decided to make a very simple movie in terms of how we were going to shoot it and let the characters talk. We weren’t trying to do too much. We wanted to be humble like the characters and the subject. At the same we didn’t have a big budget, which I think was good for us because Sara didn’t really have the chance to light the scenes so we were playing with the sun and the available light. I think it gives the film a special quality.

The scenes in New York City, particularly those in Time Square, are incredibly beautiful and intimate. You found a very intimate moment between these two people in a crowded place full of lights.

Maxime Giroux: I thought the scene we shot in Time Square could turn out to be really cheesy, but it didn't. We didn’t have a lot of references for that scene, but I found a screen test that Natalie Wood and James Dean did for a movie. In that test they were doing what Felix and Meira do in the film. I don't know why, but I just did the same scene but in Time Square. I decided not to actually show Time Square but let the lights fall on them. We are in their bubble. It's funny because we had the camera but no lights, nobody saw or noticed us shooting there. The camera wasn't too big or high and there were so many people there that nobody thought we were shooting a movie. You can feel it in the scene, that they are in their bubble and the lights are just falling on them. For Meira, the character, this is special. Most Hasidic people in New York or Brooklyn have never gone to Time Square. They don't know what's there. For her is like, "Wow! There is also things like this out in the world," when for us it might like, "It's only Time Square." I think you can feel that for her it's not only Time Square, it's something more. It's something open, a big world has opened for her. I really like that scene and the music on it too.

Now that you mention music, that's one of the things Meira enjoys the most and that is also prohibited. She enjoys these classic pop songs but is not allowed to listen to them.

Maxime Giroux: Yes. She can't listen to that kind of music. Like I said, for me, and I think also for most people, music defines you or shapes you when you are young, especially when you are on your teens. That's why people still listen to U2 at 40-years-old, because when they discovered who they were that music was there. At 40-years-old you still the same person, you'll probably stay the same person all your life, and you still listen to U2. I don't understand that but that's how it is. She defined herself and found herself with this music, which is music by Black American singers from a particular time period. They were probably not slaves, but their mothers were slaves, they might feel like they are also slaves in a different way and they decide to take the fucking guitar and play music in a rebellious way.

Why did you decide to include that particular clip of this Black woman playing the guitar? It's also placed mostly without context within the narrative, a bold decision on your part because it break the cinematic grammar we are used to.

Maxime Giroux: That's the reason. For me this woman took this guitar in a man's world and said, "Fuck you! I'm gonna play the guitar and I'm gonna do whatever I want." That's what Meira wants, to do whatever she wants. At the beginning I was not supposed to put it in the movie but I decided to bring my computer on the set and I said to my Dp, Sara, "Can you film this clip on YouTube?" I started the clip and she started to shoot. Then the entire crew gathered around the computer saying, "Oh my God, what's that? It's so great" I knew it was great, and everyone was amazed by this woman, so I said, "I have to put this in the movie." I didn't know where, but during the editing process I needed a transition. I placed somewhere where you feel like something happened at that moment even if you don't see it. I thought, "Ok, I'm not supposed to do that as a filmmaker. It's a transgression, but I don't give shit. I just love this scene. I'm going to put it in and I know that some people will ask me why and I understand, but most people will like it. They will enjoy watching this big black woman emancipate herself by taking this guitar." Is the same idea during the scene at the Hispanic bar. This woman is dancing and she says to Meira, "Come dance with us." It was important for me that some women embraced Meira.

"Felix and Meira" is a great film, but it's a small. Did the positive reactions around the world surprise you? It did very well in the U.S. for a film its size.

Maxime Giroux: For sure. You are always surprised when you have success. It's not a huge success, but is still a success. The film cost nearly half a million dollars, so we were very surprised. At the same time I knew that the subject was interesting. Every time someone asked me, "What's your next movie?" I would say, "We'll it's a love story between a French Canadian man and a Hasidic woman who is married and has a daughter." Everyone was like, "Oh that's interesting." I knew that before shooting the movie but I was really afraid. I'm not Jewish, and it's difficult to make a movie about this subject. Telefilm Canada gave me money, but the Quebec government didn't give me money. They said, "How can you talk about them? You are not a Jew." I was really afraid and I knew that I had to be careful, but I also knew that people were interested in this story - even if it's a classic story. Also, when you put music like that in the movie you know that people will be easily touched. In cinema you can put a song like that and a plate of fruit on the screen and people will be touched. Let's be honest. Music is the easiest way to manipulate the audience in a movie. The director has to manipulate the audience in a good way, but music is the easiest way to manipulate the audience. You put a David Bowie song and people from that era will be touched because they will remember, "Oh that was the song that I liked when I was 16."

Now that "Felix and Meira" is traveling on its own two feet and is out there in the world, what are you working on next? Another small character study perhaps or something bigger?

Maxime Giroux: My next project will involve music. I was a drummer before and I did a lot of music videos. For my first film I refused to use music because I thought it was too easy. On "Felix and Meira" I said, "Fuck it, I'm doing whatever I want. I'm doing it for me." But the next one is about a female singer who is not very famous but everywhere around the world some people know about her. Sort of like Grimes, she can walk down the street and most people wont recognize her, but everywhere in the world some people do know her. The character is French Canadian but she sings in English. She has some money problems and to solve this problems she is going to do a concert in China with a cover band at a hotel. However, the real reason why she is doing it is to do some industrial spying in China

"Felix and Meira" is now available on DVD and on digital platforms.

Everything you think you knew was true on The Affair? Every theory you've come up with? Forget about it. Of course, that's just the nature of the show, with its four point of views and four storytellers. Details, big and small, change. Memories are adjusted. Secrets are kept...even from the audience. And in tonight's episode, one of the Showtime drama's biggest mysteries was finally answered as the father of Alison's (Ruth Wilson) baby was finally revealed. No, it wasn't her current husband Noah (Dominic West) Or her ex-husband Cole (Joshua Jackson). It was Scotty Lockhart (Colin Donnell), Cole's troublemaker brother whose murder is the show's central mystery. But wait,...

Daniel Craig has officially been James Bond for a decade. Speeding across the Thames on a military boat, he was unveiled to the world's press as the new 007 on October 14, 2005. Since then he's ditched the dodgy suit, sharpened up his haircut and powered the superspy to new highs with more than $2 billion in box office returns.

Prepare to be shaken and stirred with this look back at Daniel Craig's 10 best Bond moments from the past 10 years.

1. Those blue swimming trunks

The Bond series began with a bikini-clad Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in Dr No, but Craig gender-flipped this iconic moment in a pair of sky blue trunks. But did you know it was all completely unplanned?

"It was actually by accident," Craig said back in 2008. "Where we filmed, off the Bahamas, it's just one of those places where there is a sand shelf and the sand shelf happens to be three-feet deep.

Deion Sanders knows what it takes to make a comeback in pro sports ... which is why he's Begging Oscar De La Hoya to Stay Retired ... before he gets seriously hurt.   42-year-old Oscar has been flirting with the idea of returning to the ring ... and told TMZ Sports he wants to fight Triple G -- the most dangerous man in all of boxing.  So, when Prime Time appeared on "The Cruz Show" on Power 106 this morning...

Ladies, if your date to a wedding does this, maybe it's not the best time to have the "where is this going?" talk. Table that discussion until he's not physically throwing himself in front of you to avoid a cheesy wedding tradition that symbolizes essentially nothing. Daniel Bickerdike from London was attending a wedding in Cape Town, South Africa with his girlfriend of five-years, Angie Schultz, which sounds like a really magical date, right? A gorgeous wedding in Cape Town? Forget about it. But when it came time for the wedding bouquet toss, ol' Danny boy's survival instincts must have kicked in because he dives in front of that flowery beacon of commitment that's coming at his girlfriend like a...

With the Oscars this weekend I thought it would be fun to look at movies that were snubbed from them and translate them to video games. When I followed the Oscars closely I noticed movies would be snubbed for such lame excuses. Putting it lightly, if your movie is a big blockbuster event… It will probably be ignored. If it’s action, if it's science fiction, if it’s mainstream, and even if it’s adapted it will have trouble competing. Lord of the Rings somehow fought through it all to win, but for the most part this stands true. So what games would win Game of the Year(Goty), but wouldn’t win an Oscar?

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(For this article, Goty isn’t just from the Vga’s as I feel that is mostly an advertising platform. These games won, or were nominated...

Still almost a year out, rumors continue to swirl practically every day regarding "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" with a big one claiming to spoil much of the film's plot details earlier this week.

Out doing press for "Kingsman: The Secret Service," actor Mark Hamill spoke with The Los Angeles Times about fan anticipation for the film and actually asked fans to cool their jets a bit or otherwise risk disappointment:

"I wish people would just relax. We're not trying to play games with people. We just want to maximize their experience at the movies where it should be seen and not have it leaked over the Internet. Believe me, it will be here before you know it.

Forget about it, that's my advice. Look forward to all the summer movies. I'm telling you, it's just a movie. These people that build it up in their minds like it's going...

People have been going ape-shit over everything Star Wars since Star Wars was first released in 1977. Now we have a series of new films in development that fans have been waiting for for years. To sweeten the pot, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher will be reprising their roles in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is kind of a miracle if you think about it.

The anticipation is building, and we're all so insanely excited about the movie that we can hardly contain it. We still have a few months before the The Force Awakens is released and in a recent interview with the La Times, Hamill spoke about the film, and offered some advice to the fans, telling us to “relax... It will be here before you know it.” He then advises to “forget about it.”

Um, riiiiiiiggght. I can guarantee that's not going to happen,...

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In the world of Doctor Who fandom, the name Steven Moffat lives in infamy – and rightfully so. After all, under his current leadership as the Doctor Who showrunner, the series is practically living in plot holes so big it could tear the fabric of the universe apart. Continuity? Forget about it! The next episode sure did. Watch another TV show. Ain’t getting one here. Not even close. These are the things in the show that non-fans point out every time it’s argued that “Doctor Who sucks!” And it is so true how can we possibly talk back?

The problem is, he is way too ambitious in his stories. He puts way too many big ideas on a canvas that it turns into a cluttered mess. And, as time has gone by, it’s become a cluttered mess he seemingly has no intention of cleaning up.

If you read our ranking of all the songs from Taylor Swift's insanely-successful album 1989, you already know that we put her new single, "Blank Space," in the No. 1 spot. We love it so much because she took her public image as some crazy, obsessive girlfriend and had some fun with it. Ok, she had a lot of fun with it. That pen click sound effect? Forget about it. And in the video for "Blank Space," she takes that image of her as the one scaring off all the men and runs with it. Really runs with it. Like, 26.2 miles runs with it. And we love every ridiculous moment of it. Here are the 16 moments from the video that will make us forever fear the (pretend) wrath of Swifty: 1. When she...

Kids today just don't know how lucky they are, especially when it comes to technology. It wasn't long ago when getting on the Internet meant sitting through the annoying AOL sounds and crossing fingers and toes that we would hear that magical voice say "welcome!" But even before that, the Internet wasn't an option on computers. Our entertainment came in the form of floppy disks. And pointing and clicking with a mouse? Forget about it. We had to type in commands to get our computer to do anything. Keeping all that in mind, YouTube's The Fine Brothers have come out with another video in their "Kids React" series, and you have to watch how today's young folk react when they are given...

Ever watch two movies by your favourite filmmaker back-to-back and get the odd feeling that you might have just seen the same thing twice? You’re not alone. It could be that they like to use the same actors for every film (like David O.Russell) or favour certain shots, but occasionally they’ll re-use entire plots or characters and hope nobody notices (Luc Besson, anyone?).

Being wholly original is hard, especially for filmmakers, who have a wealth of history and time-tested techniques to fall back on and make their movie work as a piece of entertainment. They might pull off something unique once, sure. But twice? Forget about it! Once a director figures out a trick that works for them, you can bet they’ll keep it in their back pocket for safe keeping until the next time they need to use it, either to establish their auteur status...

She’s always up for something strange, and Tina Fey had a blast during her visit to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday (March 5).

The “30 Rock” starlet began, “I know that you are interviewing me here and you’re doing a pretty good job. But I would also like to interview me.”

Fallon fired back, “I think I know what you’re talking about and I have a way to make that happen. It’s time for a ‘Lip Flip.”

One she was ‘speaking’ for Jimmy, Tina declared, “Hey, how you doin. I’m Jimmy Fallon. I brought ‘The Tonight Show’ back to New York. Forget about it! I like to axe people questions. I’m like best friends with Justin Timberlake!”

And later they did a “Lip Flip” version of “Endless Love.” Check the video below!

Review Ron Hogan 25 Nov 2013 - 06:39

Spoilers ahead in Ron's latest review of The Walking Dead as the Governor is back in full force...

This review contains spoilers.

4.7 Dead Weight

The Walking Dead routinely indulges in a game of “What would you do...” with its viewers. Specifically, what would you do to survive in a post-apocalyptic scenario? What would you do if you knew one of the people in your group killed two sick, dying folks who might have been spreading plague around? What would you do if you found two women and a little girl hiding in an apartment building? What would you do to keep your loved ones safe? What would you do to keep yourself safe?

Given the past actions of Philip Blake, The Governor, Brian, whatever you want to call him, we know what he'll do to keep his family safe, and that's pretty much anything.

A little bit of a silly misnomer about me (but a somewhat understandable one considering my line of work) and many of the other folks who write about the awards circuit is that we only care about Oscar contenders and don't look at movies on their own terms. Yes, I make my living mainly writing about the awards season and how certain films will make a play for the Academy Awards but I'm also just a lover of cinema in general. I'm a sucker for a solid Judd Apatow laugh riot or even a good romantic comedy, maybe moreso than top notch promising Oscar players like 12 Years a Slave or the awards-baiting biopics like Lincoln. When it comes to relationship dramedies or straight dramas? Forget about it if they're good, I'm all over them. It doesn't always have to be Blue Valentine; it can just as easily be something comparably lighter like (500) Days of Summer.

So much of the success of Once Upon a Time is based on love and romance, so it doesn't come as a surprise that the same holds true for Once Upon a Time In Wonderland.

As we head into the show's third episode tonight, Alice (Sophie Lowe) and The Knave Of Heart (Michael Socha) are busy trying to find Alice’s love, Cyrus (Peter Gadiot), who just happens to be a genie currently being held captive in a cage.

We were on the Vancouver set of Wonderland recently and sat down with Gadiot to talk about Cyrus’s journey and his experience with the new series...

On getting more of Cyrus’ backstory...

Peter Gadiot: It's been surprising. Basically the surprise is that a lot of the information about Cyrus' back-story actually is going to be held until later in the season. It's an interesting thing. I'm not sure why...

Severe weather, increased heating bills, Christmas carols playing in shops. Let's face it, October is horrible. That's why we're here to give you one less thing to stress about by providing you with tantalising deets about your favourite programme in Tube Talk's Q&A!

This week, we've got news on Misfits, that thing Diana Vickers is in and Fresh Meat (yet again)...

When will Fresh Meat return?

Ah yes, it wouldn't be a proper Tube Talk Q&A without a Fresh Meat series three query from our old chum Kadeem Graham - seriously, Kadeem loves this show like Josie loves booze, like Vod loves parties, like Jp loves "classic bants"....

So, Channel 4 still hasn't confirmed an exact, concrete, honest-to-goodness air date for the new Fresh Meat episodes, but expect real, proper news soon. Like, very soon. Like, 'it might possibly be on next month' soon.

The Misfits final series...

"Eric Bana seems so serious." I've heard a version of this sentence spoken more than a few times over the last 10 years. If only they knew that got his start in Australia as a stand-up comic and on a sketch comedy television program. (Bana's only true comedic role in the U.S. was Judd Apatow's "Funny People.") In fact, Bana is so associated with being funny in Australia that he says people still don't take him seriously back home -- a stark contrast to how he's viewed here in the United States.

Here's the thing, however, about meeting Bana in person: It's impossible not to laugh when he goes off on a rant. He is undoubtedly just a naturally funny man, even if he doesn't necessarily want you to know that.

Bana's latest role is serious once again. He stars in "Closed Circuit" as a London lawyer named Martin Rose...

For The CW, awards show season means the People's Choice Awards and Teen's Choice Awards -- that's it. When it comes to the big juggernaut awards show, the Emmys? Forget about it. 

The younger-skewing network has historically been consistently shut out when it comes to Emmy nominations -- let alone Emmy wins. Even when the network puts forth the effort to campaign for its stars and shows, nothing comes of it. There will be zero CW nominations, which results in zero wins. And that's a shame.

Sure, The CW does have a younger audience, its ratings aren't competitive with other, bigger networks, and most of its shows are genre, but that doesn't mean it lacks quality programming -- and more importantly, quality acting. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite. Case in point: "Arrow" star Stephen Amell.

Last fall, "Arrow" Season 1 shot out of the gate with a bang,...

And they’re only making him stronger!!

Four days after the fact, even the Game of Thrones fans who knew Sunday’s Red Wedding was on the horizon are still trying to recover from seeing it in all its gory glory. As for those who had no idea what was in store for Robb, Catelyn, and Talisa? Forget about it. The reaction videos prove that they may never be the same.

And now the man who single-handedly murdered an entire army has had a chance to see firsthand what his words have wreaked — courtesy of Conan O’Brien.

George, I...

With most of civilization wiped out by an alien invasion, the ensuing nuclear counterattack, and the natural disasters triggered by the aforementioned war, Earth 2077, as imagined in the new Tom Cruise vehicle Oblivion, is a pretty bleak and empty place.

“When Joe first told me the ideas for what this world would look like, I was instantly pulled in,” Tom Cruise told EW on the black carpet at the film’s U.S. premiere last night at the Dolby Theatre. “I thought seeing iconic landmarks retaken by the Earth would be cool visuals and very different than how we normally...

So you all probably know that Jenny McCarthy loves her kids a whole lot, and that she used to date Jim Carrey for a bit, who also loves children. Jenny McCarthy loves her kids so much that she actually wrote a whole entire book about parenting, and that's lovely, right? The thing is, Jenny McCarthy don't want no scrubs -- she wants a man who loves children as much as she does, and when she gets the impression that a man doesn't love children as much as she does? Forget about it -- she'll leave your ass at the dinner table, check and all. Here's what Jenny had to say about a recent blind date experience, where she was so into finding Mr. Right that she flew to an entirely different city to meet this guy, who totally turned out to be a child-hating jerk: "I was set up by a friend.

Here's the thing about being Jennifer Aniston and being in love: The universe is invested. On Feb. 24 the star hit the red carpet in scarlet Valentino, her fiancé, Justin Theroux, by her side. Flashes shimmered, fans roared, and the pair ducked into Hollywood's Dolby Theatre to take in the show. But there, the girl everyone presumes lives next door (who knew we all owned mansions?) was confronted by a friendly but curious employee who boldly asked That Question: Are you pregnant? "No, I'm not!" replied Aniston, laughing politely. But, "I feel great," she told People later that evening. "Wonderful!" And on the outside?...

Telltale Games has released the “Stats” trailer for The Walking Dead Episode 5 – No Time Left, revealing exactly how the decisions you made in the final episode stack up against the choices made by your fellow players.

It goes without saying that the trailer below, along with any discussion after this point, will be filled with spoilers. If you have not yet played all five episodes of Telltale’s The Walking Dead (And for Pete’s sake, you need to hop on that quick like a bunny. The game almost won our Game of the Year awards, it’s beyond fantastic!) it would be best to knock them out and then check out the trailer.

With that out of the way, I was really surprised how many of my decisions in episode 5 lined up with the majority. Most of the choices that players picked seemed like the only reasonable way to go.

Roger Federer is, or at least should be, seen by every fan of the racket as the greatest tennis player of all time. The Swiss great holds a record 17 Grand Slam titles, most number of weeks spent as the world number 1, most this, most that and still even more records. He is the epitome of greatness; coolness personified.

Yet despite all this people have been, and still are, writing Fed’s chances of making it 18 off completely. No one has ever played the game the way Federer has and occasionally still does. Not even a primed Rafael Nadal could have beaten Fed on top of his game. Djokovic and Murray? Forget about it. The Fed express that cruised to 10 Grand Slam finals in succession would have crushed both with, dare I say it, consummate ease.

Here are 5 reasons why no fan of Tennis should be writing off Federer just yet.

The 70th Annual Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning from Hollywood, recognizing the best in film and television. From Nicole Kidman to Tim Burton, read on below for the stars' reactions to their big honors!

Leonardo DiCaprio, nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Django Unchained:

"I'm truly honored to be nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today. Django Unchained was a remarkable experience and I consider myself lucky to work with Quentin and the entire cast on the film. I'm particularly proud to be named alongside my fellow Django nominees."

Damian Lewis, nominated for Best Actor - Drama, Homeland:

"Just so happy to have a really good reason to stop Christmas shopping for a day. Opening a bottle immediately to celebrate my Golden Globe nomination for Homeland. I'm thrilled that Claire and Mandy were also nominated for their performances, and look forward to celebrating with the whole cast in Los Angeles in January. [link...

Listen, okay, your parents like to go to the movies, too. They really do. It’s fun for them. It’s good to get out of the house and sit in a room that they don’t have to clean up when they’re done. Those previews? They’re the tops! Even the commercials are fun! And the popcorn? Forget about it! That Nancy Meyers? What a talent! And here comes a brand new movie that sounds pretty much exactly like a Meyers flick, without a Meyers attachment. What a golden age of cinema!D Deadline Hollywood reports that Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton are set to star together in And So It Goes…, a new project penned by As Good As It Gets scribe Mark Andrus that will be directed by Pj Hogan. Amazingly, as our friends at The Playlist note, Douglas and Keaton have somehow never worked together over the long course of their respective...

Still upset about that RoboCop suit? Forget about it for a second and take a look at these futuristic vehicles – you will hate the whole thing even more! Just kidding, these new set photos are not that bad at all! You will actually have a much better look at that robo-cycle thing, cop-car and… taxi? Never mind, just check it out and tell us what you think!

So, Jose Padilha‘s upcoming sci-fi thriller will center on Alex Murphy – a good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit. But, we’re now in 2029, and when Murphy gets critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp (or if you prefer – the multinational conglomerate at the center of robot technology) utilizes their remarkable science of robotics to save Alex’s life.

So, he soon returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing new abilities,...

Wilfred: 2×09 – Honesty

Stars: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Dorian Brown | Written by Jason Gann | Directed by Randall Einhorn

**Spoilers Lie Beyond Here**

It’s interesting to approach Wilfred from a psychological approach. I mean, yes, it’s a stoner comedy about a guy and a talking dog. But, when you reach down further, you find that this idea could have implications that can reach further and further. I mean, is Wilfred a representation of Ryan’s id, the perpetual beast within? Or is it a brain tumor? There’s obviously one clear answer and it’s going to be a winding road till we get there. Because when you’re the “Lost” of comedies, you keep your cards close to

the vest.

It’s not a big mythology episode but you can feel it winding towards something. Like, most episodes of Wilfred, you find the title character challenging our protagonist.