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SAM REVISITS: True Detective – Season 1

Welcome to a new, semi-regular feature where I look back on some of my personal favorite bits of pop culture. With just under a month to go before its second season, our first revisit is True Detective’s exemplary first season, which originally aired from January to March 2014 on HBO.  The first…

Sam Flynn’s 7: The Week in Pop Culture – May 9-15

The week is long and hard, that’s why every Friday, you can relax and catch up on everything you need to know in Hollywood and beyond with Sam Flynn’s 7, my breakdown and analysis of the week in film and TV. It’s May and that means the end of the networks’…

Sam Flynn’s Summer 7 – Preview

Here are the 7  (and a couple others) you should absolutely give your time to this summer at the cinema and on the home screen of your increasingly varied platform of choice: HONORABLE MENTIONS:  Sense8 on Netflix – June 5, 2015: Returning soon after their original sci-fi actioner Jupiter Ascending…

Sam Flynn’s 7: The Week in Pop Culture – April 17-24

The week is long and hard, that’s why every Friday, you can relax and catch up on everything you need to know in Hollywood and beyond with Sam Flynn’s 7, my breakdown and analysis of the week in film and TV. Big news week, with Cinema Con, where distributors present their…

Sam Flynn’s 7: Mar. 1 – 8

1. Jeremy Renner returns as Hawkeye in Captain America: Civil War, will shoot Story of Your Life this summer I love Jeremy Renner news, mostly because it involves Jeremy Renner. He is a franchise singularity; the underrated and underused Avenger, partner to impossible mission master Tom Cruise, the worthy(?) successor…

Serial: The Results Are In!

In an election that cost only slightly less than what the Koch brothers plan to spend on the 2016 presidential election, we have a serial novel to follow over 2015! Thank you so much everyone who voted. The thing that I realize was missing from my writing was participation; I…