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Alden Parker's Lily mystery in NCIS seems to be more complicated than first thought. The NCIS season 21 finale introduced Lily, a mysterious hallucination of a young girl that Parker first sees while in distress from an injury. While losing blood, Parker imagines Lily running around while onboard a ship and even calls out to her. However, when Knight asks him about Lily afterward, Parker says he does not remember.

NCIS season 22 has continued the question of Lily, but it has also pushed the theory that the mystery is bigger than it seems, as no one has had any answers yet. As Parker and the other NCIS characters come to terms with his changing mental state, the mystery behind Lily's identity continues to unravel. Fortunately, a recent interview with NCIS showrunner, Steven D. Binder, gave some insight into the new character, and the reveal is stranger than expected.

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NCIS showrunner Steven D. Binder teases a surprising resolution to Alden Parker’s hallucinations of Lily. The CBS procedural continues following the Major Case Response Team, now led by Parker (Gary Cole), who took over when Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) chose to depart the Naval organization. The young character known as Lily first appeared in the NCIS season 21 finale, “Reef Madness,” where she was imagined by a gravely wounded Parker. Lily has since reemerged in NCIS season 22, but her identity and connection to Agent Parker largely remain a secret.

During a recent interview with TV Insider, Binder teased that the NCIS reveal surrounding Lily will be surprising. He explains when audiences finally learn about her background, any ongoing theories, including that she and Parker are siblings, may be disproved. The showrunner/executive producer adds that Parker will uncover more about his family and past occurrences, revealing how much he does or does not know,...

Last month, actor Tom Sizemore passed away from a brain aneurysm at the age of just 61. To pay tribute to him, The Arrow in the Head Show hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance are looking back at a horror film Sizemore starred in back in 1997, The Relic (watch it Here). To find out what they had to say about The Relic, check out the video embedded above.

Directed by Peter Hyams from a screenplay that came from the combined forces of Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver, The Relic was based on a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The film has the following synopsis: Come in – if you dare. The opening-night gala for a new exhibit at Chicago’s natural history museum is under way. But be advised: something terrifying wants to make sure no one ever leaves.

Sizemore is joined in the cast by Penelope Ann Miller,...

NCIS hit a huge milestone this season. The long-running crime drama is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary on CBS, and Rocky Carroll, who plays Leon Vance in the series, recently hinted that Mark Harmon might return for the historic year.

Harmon, who also serves as a producer of NCIS, left the beloved show after season 19. While fans would love to see Harmon back in action, even if it is in a minor role, Carroll isn’t the only one who has teased his potential return to the show.

Rocky Carroll and Mark Harmon | Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images ‘NCIS’ star Rocky Carroll is open to Mark Harmon’s Leroy Gibbs return

Harmon has been an integral part of NCIS ever since the series started way back in 2003. It has only been a year since Harmon’s heartbreaking departure, yet a few of his co-stars haven’t been able to...

Case-cracking becomes a fractious father-son affair in NCIS’s milestone episode after team leader Parker (Gary Cole) takes in his feisty retired Navy dad Roman (Francis Xavier McCarthy), introduced in the Season 19 finale. Seems Pops was kicked out of his assisted living facility for rambunctious behavior. “It’s a worst-case scenario,” says executive producer Steven D. Binder. Then Roman offers to help the team investigate a different nursing home that’s up to shady business! “We’re going to get insight on how [Parker] became the man that he is today,” Binder says. “It’s about heart.” The hour also has its wackiness, with an “eyebrow-raising” love triangle and a ride-share driver who moon-lights as a grandkid-for-hire dying in a car crash. As for what’s coming up after the milestone, expect some high-stakes cases, according to the EP, ...

Hello! It’s been a little while since we’ve had a new Catalog From The Beyond, hasn’t it? To be honest, in a year when it felt like my brain cells were squeezing out of my head like a tube of toothpaste, I had to take a break from some of the workload. But with the dawning of the New Year, I’m ready to hit the reset button and dive back into the Catalog.

I think it only fair to ease into things, however, so the following take won’t be the spiciest one I’ve ever put forth: Ken Foree seems like a pretty cool dude. After winning our hearts as the stoic Peter in George A. Romero’s classic Dawn of the Dead, he’s stayed there pretty much ever since in movies like From Beyond, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Lords of Salem, and...

"These laws are obstacles to our children's aspirations." Focus Features has debuted the second official trailer, and the final Us trailer, for On the Basis of Sex, the gripping film about the early days of iconic Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Felicity Jones plays Rbg, and Armie Hammer plays her husband Marty, in a new film by director Mimi Leder. This trailer comes on the heels of another intense international trailer, and the film's Us premiere, with the first reactions being mostly positive so far. The film's cast also features Justin Theroux, Cailee Spaeny, Kathy Bates, Stephen Root, Jack Reynor, Sam Waterston, and Francis X. McCarthy. Focus will be releasing On the Basis of Sex in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day, so expect a very strong marketing push the rest of the year. This new trailer packs a punch & gets right down to the what the film is all about.

"You must see the opportunity this case represents! For men and women, both." Entertainment One UK has revealed an international trailer for On the Basis of Sex, the gripping film about the early days of iconic Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Felicity Jones plays Rbg, and Armie Hammer plays her husband Marty, in a new film by director Mimi Leder. This film is a compliment to the documentary about her, titled simply Rbg now playing in theaters. The full cast also features Justin Theroux, Cailee Spaeny, Kathy Bates, Stephen Root, Jack Reynor, Sam Waterston, and Francis X. McCarthy. Focus will be releasing On the Basis of Sex in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day, a strong reminder of how important equality and a female voice is in the Supreme Court. Here's the official international trailer for Mimi Leder's On the Basis of Sex, direct from YouTube: You can still...

It's no surprise that the decade that gave us Gordon Gekko and his infamous quote, "Greed is good," would be rife with films unpacking heavy social topics like police brutality, social inequality, ultra-violence, and in the case of Graham Baker's Alien Nation, racial tension, tolerance, and acceptance. Somehow I missed this film, despite it being the topic of conversation in many sci-fi and horror circles, not to mention that it influenced many other movies in the genre, from Neill Blomkamp's District 9 to last year's Bright, directed by David Ayer. It also spawned a number of Alien Nation-related products, including a series of comics and novels, a TV series on Fox by the same name that ran for one season in 1989, and five TV movies. So, without further ado, as the movie poster suggests, prepare yourselves for a dive into a buddy cop sci-fi action movie with a solid cast of characters,...

"Her story made history." Focus Features has debuted the first trailer for On the Basis of Sex, a new dramatic film about the early days of iconic Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Felicity Jones plays Rbg, and Armie Hammer plays her husband Marty, in a new film by director Mimi Leder. The title is a reference to a line from one of (or many of) Rbg's speeches, in which she explained: "the U.S. Constitution is nearly 220 years old and contains no express provision opposing discrimination on the basis of gender." This film is a compliment to the documentary about her, titled simply Rbg now playing in theaters. And it will premiere later this year in line with Justice Ginsburg’s 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court. The cast includes Justin Theroux, Cailee Spaeny, Kathy Bates, Stephen Root, Jack Reynor, Sam Waterston, and Francis X. McCarthy. Take a look.

Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Timothée Chalamet, Francis X. McCarthy, Wes Bentley, William Devane, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, David Gayasi | Written by Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan | Directed by Christopher Nolan

The prospect of reviewing Interstellar is an interesting one. The basic idea of reading a review of a piece of popular culture when boiled down to its fundamentals, is answering the question of whether the thing is with your time and/or money and the eternal problem is that no matter how “trained” someone writing a review is, be it not at all or to the extent that you write for an internationally renowned publication, is that the review itself is primarily down to a subjective opinion. What is one man’s gold is another man’s poop and while there are certain technical aspects which can be talked about objectively, sometimes writing,...

'Interstellar' movie review: 'Ravishing, but overextended mind-bender' (photo: Anne Hathaway in 'Interstellar') There are many intriguing questions raised in director Christopher Nolan's ravishing, overextended mind-bender Interstellar. One of the first: has a theoretical physicist ever received an executive producer credit on a nine-figure, studio movie? Probably not, but if 74-year old Caltech professor Kip Thorne were to find any director willing to tap his intellect for an above-the-line credit, it would be Nolan. His movies are puzzle boxes of plot and theme that have become grander in scope as they've become more opaque in effect. At this point, every Nolan film contains the moment when we ask ourselves if the director himself has completely thought everything through. That's certainly true of Interstellar, where the London-born director and his screenwriter brother Jonathan utilize Thorne's theories on relativity and gravitational physics to bandy about questions as deep...

The story, Gimme Shelter centers on Agnes “Apple” Bailey played by Vanessa Hudgens. The film is based on the true-life story of a sixteen year old living with her drug addict/prostitute mother June Bailey (Rosario Dawson). Apple grows up never knowing her father, moving from foster home to foster home, in and out of the system, dependent upon a mother that cannot keep it together. She holds onto her one and only letter from her rich, Wall Street father Tom Fitzpatrick (Brendan Fraser). Where he refers to his daughter as the apple of his eye, hence she chooses to be called Apple.

Gimme Shelter begins with the audience hearing Apple talking to herself, stating that she is not afraid, she is not scared. She is mustering up the courage to leave her deadbeat mother and is determined to find a better life. She starts this out with an incredible hacking off of her hair.

I came across this superb Polish poster for The Great Escape recently. Though it is by one of my favorite poster artists, the great Wiktor Górka (1922-2004), I had not crossed paths with it before. An eccentric, stylized and yet perfectly apposite distillation of John Sturges’ 1963 WWII prison-camp adventure, this 1967 poster is a stunning piece of graphic design which renders the film, in just two colors, to its essentials: a plane, fleeing figures, stripes to denote the military, and two black circles for Steve McQueen’s motorbike, all surrounding the multi-font, playbill-styled panel for the film’s all-star cast. Górka’s best work is often in this vein: simple, witty and indelible: an ass’s head on a human body for Donkey Skin, a swastika made out of stockinged legs for Cabaret (perhaps his most famous design), and one rather adorable white whale for Moby Dick.

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This week on Poster Friday we’ll be having our martini’s shaken not stirred…hrm, that kind of gives the whole thing away doesn’t it? Oh well I think you got the point.

Click below and lets see what we’ve got, but whatever you do, don’t touch anything!

Our first poster is the teaser poster for Die Another Day by Intralink Film Graphic Design. Before we all realized what a mess the movie would turn out to be, we all thought this poster was rather cool. The design is perfect and so very Bond. Too bad the film turned out to be anything but.

I love this poster for You Only Live Twice by Frank McCarthy in conjunction with Robert McGinnis. It’s just bizarre and impossible but because it’s Bond you just accept that he can stand horizontally on a ladder. Click to embiggen,...

Imaginaerum Trailer. Stobe Harju‘s Imaginaerum (2012) teaser trailer stars Elias Toufexis, Ron Lea, Quinn Lord, Glenda Braganza, and Francis X. McCarthy. Imaginaerum‘s plot synopsis: “Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from [...]

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Maureen O'Hara, one of Ireland's greatest actresses, is to unveil plans for a new film school in Cork it has been announced. The “Quiet Man” star who recently celebrated her 90th birthday is set to outline plans for a film hub in the Cork village of Glengarriff next month. Cork County Council have donated a 1.5 acre site for new project. The Hollywood legend will unveil a billboard on the site in the coming weeks outlining the details of the 15,000 square foot building. Speaking about the project, Frank McCarthy, a local accountant and chief executive of the foundation said. "Our vision is to create this centre, which will be the only film school of its type in Ireland. It will be known as Maureen O'Hara International Film Academy and will house a 120 - seat auditorium. We hope to attract international students to the centre as well as providing workshops given by leading Hollywood actors.

Plenty of people would be keen on stalking Amber Heard, however the young bombshell is turning the tables on them in the thriller "The Applicant".

Screen Daily reports that Heard will play an underage prep school senior obsessed about getting into Yale University. This girl will stop at nothing to get her way, including seducing and ruining the life of an admissions director with connections to a top Yale professor.

Eric Bross will direct from a script by Jeff Rothberg and Francis X. McCarthy. Shooting kicks off early next year.

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus has a new UK poster. Surprisingly, considering the bevy of stars that the film features (most notably the ones filling in for the late Heath Ledger), it is the movie's female lead Lily Cole who takes front an center, nude but for a red ribbon wrapped around her leg. Reminiscent of his animation for Monty Python earlier in his career, the borders of the one sheet are decorated with non sequitur-esque images such as a hand dropping an apple; the head of Christopher Plummer with an elongated tongue; a cobra; and bizarre jellyfish-like creatures swimming under the main picture. In a world of floating heads and various other poster cliches, it is nice to see that the art of the one sheet isn't dead yet. Saul Bass and Frank McCarthy need not roll over in their graves yet.

The art of painted poster art is dying. I think back to all the wonderful movies from my childhood, and every one of them was majestic. I can remember such beautiful art by Drew Struzan, Frank McCarthy, Bill Gold, Jack David, Richard Amsel, Tom Jung, Bob Peak and others. And I don't mean to sound all, "back in my day everything was better..." but the age of photoshop and floating heads has made the art of movie posters a lot less interesting to me. When a beautifully hand-crafted poster comes along, we celebrate it. In the past couple years, Drew Struzan has created some great art for Hellboy II and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and featured many other artists in past editions of Cool Stuff. Today I bring you a poster I've been meaning to feature for a couple weeks now - a poster that...