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CinemaBlend After nearly two months of build-up, The Stand against Randall Flagg has been executed. The new CBS All Access adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand has now reached its big climax in its eighth episode, and audiences can now witness what happens with Glen Bateman, Larry Underwood, and Ray Brentner following their arrival in New Vegas. For the most part, like the rest of the series, the translation of the text is faithful, as most of the major beats are hit dead on – but ...

With the most recent episode of CBS All Accesss The Stand, The Walk, the adaptation of the iconic Stephen King novel sees its story shift to Randall Flaggs New Vegas, bringing Mother Abagails faction face to face with the Dark Man in what will be the ultimate showdown between good and evil. [...]

The Stand: How "The Walk" Differs from Stephen Kings Book The seventh episode of The Stand arrived on CBS All Access on Thursday with "The Walk" seeing the aftermath of both the bomb and Mother Abagails (Whoopi Goldberg) return as well as, as the title of the episode suggests, the departure of Stu Redman (James Marsden), Glen Bateman (Greg Kinnear), Ray Brentner (Irene Bedard), and Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo) for Vegas on foot. While this episode was largely a travel montage as the group mad...

Raised by Wolves S1  The biggest TV series ever shot in South Africa, Raised by Wolves is an HBO sci-fi show which centres on two androids tasked with raising human children on virgin planet Kepler-22b after the Earth was destroyed in a great war. But their idyll is soon threatened.  Ridley Scott, who directed the sci-fi classics Alien, Blade Runner and The Martian, executive produces and directs the first two episodes.  NME says: “Ridley Scott’s AI stunner is on a different planet… on...

Odessa Young as “Frannie,” Jovan Adepo as “Larry,” Whoopi Goldberg as “Mother Abagail,” Ezra Miller, Nat Wolff and so many more. Those locations play a huge part in remaining faithful to King’s work as does the look for the characters, so Below the Line spoke with Production Designer Aaron Haye ( Angelina Kekich ( Aaron Haye (Courtesy of Lumos PR) Haye comes to production design from an interesting avenue, that of visual effects, having started straight out of college at Ind...

CinemaBlend With its sixth episode, The Stand has delivered its most climactic episode yet – a roaring boil following the simmer that was everything building up to it. We finally got our introduction to Ezra Miller as The Trashcan Man, Mother Abigail goes on her pilgrimage, the Boulder Free Zone spy plan completely falls apart, and it all ends with a big bang. “The Vigil” is the most exciting chapter that’s aired thus far – and while most of the action is taken directl...

In last weeks episode of The Stand, Fear and Loathing in New Vegas, viewers finally head into Randall Flaggs take on Sin City, getting to see how the other half lives in the Dark Mans stronghold far from Mother Abagails Boulder Free Zone. But for fans of Stephen Kings book, this take on [...]

The Stand: Amber Heard Explains Why Alexander Skarsgard is the Best Devil Ever" In The Stand, author Stephen King tells what is ultimately a story of good versus evil set against the post-apocalyptic backdrop of a world decimated by a horrifying super flu known as Captain Trips and when it comes to the "evil" side of that battle, thats led by the chilling Randall Flagg. Called the Dark Man or the Man in Black or even the Walkin Dude by different characters, he tries to lure survivors to his fa...

Santa Monicas revered Highways Performance Space presents Film Maudit 2.0, a truly unusual selection of feature, short and experimental films, some that blend performance and cinema, and others with decidedly queer themes. Named after gay art film director/artist Jean Cocteaus term for his 1949 festival of "Cursed Films," the second annual festival spans a wide range of narrative styles and streams January 12-24. The festival is free with registration. With 125 works of cinema from 25 countries...

Channel24's International News Editor, Bashiera Parker recently spoke to James Marsden in a roundtable interview about his role in The Stand.