For a character who is at the center of one full-length story, The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade is as iconic as it gets in the world of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett’s book, and John Huston’s 1941 movie adaptation with Humphrey Bogart, loom impossibly large over the gumshoe genre, to the …
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The FX series A Murder at the End of the World reached its conclusion on Dec. 19, finally revealing who’s been responsible for the series of killings at tech billionaire Andy Ronson’s (Clive Owen) remote Icelandic retreat. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Hacker-sleuth Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) discovers that it wasn’t Andy …
Read More »Brit Marling on 'A Murder at the End of the World,' Streaming, and Tech
Brit Marling spent the summer of her junior year at Georgetown University interning at Goldman Sachs, an investment firm that this very publication once called “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” She ended that summer with a cushy job offer — only to reject it and, …
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In the opening scene of the new FX miniseries A Murder at the End of the World, a woman named Darby stands in front of a small bookstore crowd to do a reading from her true crime book The Silver Doe. She is very young, speaks haltingly, and seems determined …
Read More »Clive Owen Would Like to Make One Thing Clear: He's Not Afraid of Badgers
Apparently rumors have been flying around for years that Clive Owen has a deep-seated fear of cute, cuddly badgers. In a new interview with Empire, the actor took the opportunity to clear things up. “Somebody used to post very weird things as if I’d said them – they’d be quotes …
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