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Move over 'Two Broke Girls,' Ridgewood is now getting its own show

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Two Broke Girls has Williamsburg. Girls has Greenpoint. Now, Quooklyn is the fictional setting for a new comedy on Fox called Weird Loners. It’s not actually going to be shot in Ridgewood, but the Queens nabe will be the setting for this new show about “four single 30-something underdogs who are unexpectedly thrust into one […]

Twin Peaks returns! (But not until 2016)

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It’s confirmed! David Lynch and Mark Frost signed on with SHOWTIME to create nine episodes of Twin Peaks for a new limited series. Production starts in 2015, and the show is set to air in 2016, for the 25th anniversary of the show’s ending on ABC. #damngoodcoffee   More from SHOWTIME:

Midnight Movies 9/26-9/28 Include Escape from New York and You're Next

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The fall horror-binge has begun, and as usual Nitehawk has you covered with some great options. This weekend’s midnight movie is You’re Next, beginning their wonderful “Final Girl” film series.  You’re Next falls pretty squarely in the “fun horror” category, along with Scream and Cabin in the Woods, playing to horror tropes without sacrificing any […]

The Knick…why are you not watching this immediately?!

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Great stories are made of great characters.  Of which, they need fulfill two essential elements: They’re multifaceted and have depth (i.e., not the usual shallow monstrosities you typically see). They have desire. As Vonnegut once said, “Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.” Some of you may recall it […]

Girls Recap: If Keira Knightley Was Lena Dunham

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Last night, HBO premiered its depraved comedy about life in New York’s outer boroughs, Girls — a show as insidious and hotly anticipated as a sexually transmitted disease. Think: Sex and the City for ugly people with a fat chick named Hannah (played by the show’s writer and director, [Keira Knightley]). New York Post. Everything […]