Cinemax Brings ‘Quarry’ Novels to Series

The series of novels by Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) about a Marine sniper in 1970s Vietnam who becomes a contract killer when he gets home is coming to Cinemax for an 8-episode first season

The Knick: In Need of a Knickervention

It’s incredibly frustrating when a once-great television show seems to stumble along the way. Last week, The Knick took a step back from its series forward momentum and spent the hour growing the characters and giving us time to wallow in the period detail. This week’s episode, “They Capture the Heat,” takes a similar leisurely …

The Knick: Lights Out

After last week’s attention-grabbing, gory pilot episode, Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick settles into more of a standard routine in its second outing. “Standard” for this show, however, just means they’ve cut back on some of the more intense (re: stomach churning) surgical scenes. The show still retains the brilliant anachronistic touches that Soderbergh employed in …