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Black is Back: ‘Orphan Black’ – Episode 9 ‘Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow’

Orphan Black is a critically acclaimed sci-fi series from BBC America featuring human clones. Its first two seasons garnered rave reviews, and its third season airs Saturday nights at 9/8c on BBC America and SPACE. Our writer, Janna Jeffrey, recaps every episode of the third season here on The Hudsucker. Orphan Black is back!

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Orphan Black’s Kristian Bruun on Character Growth and Tatiana Maslany

Some actors connect with a part immediately—the moment they read a script, it’s love at first sight. For others, a part can grow and develop from something small into something beyond their wildest dreams. Actor Kristian Bruun discovered the latter when he signed on almost four years ago to play Donnie Hendrix on BBC America’s […]

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Movie Review: “Entourage” – The Boys are Back in Town!

Everyone dreams of becoming famous. In 2004, HBO introduced us to Vincent Chase, the lead of the hit series Entourage, which was based in part on the life and career of Mark Wahlberg. Chase is an A–List movie star who brings his older brother, Johnny “Drama” Chase and friends Sal “Turtle” Assante, and Eric “E” […]

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Black is Back: “Orphan Black” – Episode 8 “Ruthless in Purpose and Insidious in Method”

Orphan Black is a critically acclaimed sci-fi series from BBC America featuring human clones. Its first two seasons garnered rave reviews, and its third season airs Saturday nights at 9/8c on BBC America and SPACE. Our writer, Janna Jeffrey, recaps every episode of the third season here on The Hudsucker. Orphan Black is back!

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After The Fact: Why Marvel Needs The Post-Credits Scene

Warning: this article contains spoilers for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As mentioned in my Avengers: Age of Ultron review, one of the most disappointing things about the movie was the lack of a post-credits scene. Those scenes have become somewhat of a signature for Marvel with fans eagerly sitting through the credits waiting for one last tidbit […]

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Film Noir with a Touch of Class: TCM’s “Summer of Darkness” Now in Session!

In mid-May, it was announced that the Peabody Award-winning television network, Turner Classic Movies would collaborate with one of the nation’s best public institutions, Ball State University on the Canvas Network for a free online course studying film noir, open to the general public.

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Black is Back: “Orphan Black” – Episode 7 “Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate”

Orphan Black is a critically acclaimed sci-fi series from BBC America featuring human clones. Its first two seasons garnered rave reviews, and its third season airs Saturday nights at 9/8c on BBC America and SPACE. Our writer, Janna Jeffrey, recaps every episode of the third season here on The Hudsucker. Orphan Black is back!

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Movie Review: What the Future Holds for Disney’s “Tomorrowland”

I have always been fascinated with Disney’s theme park attraction called Tomorrowland. I’ve never actually been to a Disney theme park, but I got my first glimpse of the beautiful, futuristic world in old filmstrip reels in elementary school. I don’t even remember why we were being shown these ancient filmstrips (it was, after all, […]

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On Action and Acting with Tomorrowland’s Fraser Corbett

Disney’s Tomorrowland hit theaters last Friday and for many it is just a movie and a great way to spend a couple of hours escaping reality, but for actor and stuntman Fraser Corbett it is just another moment in the fulfillment of a dream. Growing up on a farm in British Columbia, Corbett always knew […]

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Black is Back – “Orphan Black” – Episode 6 “Certain Agony of the Battlefield”

Orphan Black is a critically acclaimed sci-fi series from BBC America featuring human clones. Its first two seasons garnered rave reviews, and its third season airs Saturday nights at 9/8c on BBC America and SPACE. Our writer, Janna Jeffrey, recaps every episode of the third season here on The Hudsucker. Orphan Black is back! 

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Orphan Black’s Ari Millen on Creating Clones and Season 3’s Twists

For an actor, playing one role on a critically-acclaimed television series is thrilling enough. Playing five roles and counting? That’s enough to make anyone nervous. For Orphan Black actor Ari Millen, however, the nerves are always a part of the responsibility of playing a character. Cast on the show for its second season, he wasn’t […]

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Movie Review: Girls Really Do Run The World in ‘Pitch Perfect 2’

The musical-comedy Pitch Perfect 2 earned $70 million during its opening weekend, making it the biggest movie musical opening of all time. This comes as no surprise considering the original pitch-slapped the world and became a pop culture phenomenon. The song “Cups” became a chart-topping hit, catchphrases were born, and a new spotlight was shone […]

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The FlashBack: ‘The Flash’ – Episode 22 ‘Fast Enough’

The Flash is DC’s television adaptation of the comic book of the same name. It airs Tuesday nights at 8/7 Central on The CW. Our writer, Nicole Drum recaps the series each week updating you on the latest episode here in The FlashBack. All good things must come to an end (until the fall) and […]

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