The industry magazine  Entertainment Weekly has released some information about the anticipated return of Larry David to HBO. In its issue out this weekend (#1260 dated 05.24.13) EW’s section titled First Look offers the following picture. Better yet EW has uploaded the following report complete with an Exclusive Trailer from the upcoming HBO Film. NOTE: it announces that CLEAR HISTORY premieres in August! Entertainment Weekly can, of course, obtain exclusive photos and clips because it and HBO are both owned by parent company Waner Bros. Thanks for the news EW!  We can also provide two...

Overview:  HBO’s press release states that Hilary Swank stars as Mary and Brenda Blethyn stars as Martha, an American interior designer and British housewife who have little in common apart from the one thing they wish they didn’t – both have lost sons to malaria. When the two mothers meet in Africa, they bond over their shared loss while struggling with their grief and the strains on their marriages. Forging a deep friendship, they dedicate themselves to the cause of malaria prevention at great personal cost. Enlisting the help of Mary’s estranged father,(played by James Woods) a...

Are you a literary buff, or a Hemingway enthusiast? Are you interested in watching movies based on true events? Well, HBOWatch has been given the opportunity to review, HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN coming out today, April 2nd on Blu-ray and DVD. THE MOVIE HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN is a lush, grand, expansive look at the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, played with electric chemistry by Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman respectively, from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War through their rocky, but passionate marriage.  Philip Kaufman uses real footage from that time,...

Overview: HBOWatch has actually given a good overview of this movie over the past half dozen posts. However, to set up the piece one last time here is the synopsis as taken directly from an HBO press release: Los Angeles, 2007. The trial of music producer Phil Spector (Al Pacino) for the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson is fast approaching. Attorney Linda Kenney Baden (Helen Mirren) arrives at a makeshift command center to meet with a team of defense lawyers, paralegals and assistants presided over by lead attorney Bruce Cutler (Jeffrey Tambor). Kenney Baden, who is battling flu-like...

On 03.24 HBO premieres HBO Films: PHIL SPECTOR starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren. This telepic, under the guidance of David Mamet, brings to light not the whole story of the music mogul but the intense and odd murder trial that he found himself at the heart of in 2007.  The film is Mamet’s exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary Phil Spector (Pacino) and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden (Mirren), who represented Spector during his first trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson. Though HBO as yet to air this movie at the time of this posting it has had a premiere...

You know the drill. In the way productions are promoted around here first comes the Tease and then comes the Trailer. We gave you the Tease for MARY AND MARTHA just the other day now here is the 1:26 Trailer for the HBO film for April. It appears to be a passionate character drama of these two mothers, played by Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn and their goal, which bonds them, to make a difference. This writer will give his usual ‘gut reaction’ review to this HBO Film presentation shortly after it premieres on Saturday,...

HBO Films: PHIL SPECTOR hits the channel on 03.24. To promote that movie HBO released a clip featuring the movie’s writer and director David Mamet. It is not often that an original film gets a behind-the-scenes featurette as they are usually reserved for the big series the channel airs. But here the ulta-insightful Mr. Mamet sets up the movie quite nicely as he almost over analyzes what the themes of PHIL SPECTOR is about. I’ll let him speak for himself. Here it is: HBOWatch will review HBOFilms: PHIL SPECTOR shortly after its premiere on 03.24 at 9:oopm E.T. Are you ready for the...

If you recall both HBO’s Winter Promo and the 2012 Yearender clip they showed us that HBO FILMS: MARY AND MARTHA was coming in the near future. Well, now a date has been announced via the Tease below. What you will see is two different landscapes; they must be North Carolina followed by Africa as these are the main locales in the movie. Take in the little tease and find more information about the HBO Film afterwards. That’s why they call it a Tease; not showing much but hopefully raising interest. Now, how about a bit about the plot, you ask? Well, I’ll  combine a post  I wrote back...

HBO’s adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s PARADE’S END concluded tonight with a beautifully rousing episode that questioned what does one need to be happy.  The episode opened with Christopher Tietjens being sent to the front in punishment for pushing another officer, for entering his wife’s bedroom in the middle of the night. Christopher soon learns that being 2nd in command of the 6th Battalion isn’t what it seems.  The Captain is mentally incapacitated. The Battalion ignores his craziness to protect their own skin.  Christopher takes control of the Battalion and with men under his...

HBO’s adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s gripping series continues with a looming sense of catastrophe. The damaged horse, the broken mirror, the stalking Fish Eagle, the death of Christopher’s mother, the butchered painting – everything in this episode seems to symbolize the coming destruction. The escalating European conflict, however, is not the focus of our attention. Rather, we dive deeper into the psyche of our protagonist, Christopher Tietjens, and his siren wife, Sylvia. And, of course, Christopher’s infatuation with the lovely Valentine. Upon hearing news...