Some movies, especially in the horror genre, fare better by not revealing too much of the movie’s plot to audiences through their trailers. It looks like “Tone-Deaf” is trying to follow suit.

The trailer finds Olive (Amanda Crew) in a bit of a slump. After being fired from her job, she’s in need of a little R&R. She escapes the city and finds solace in a countryside getaway, owned by the eccentric Harvey (Robert Patrick).

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Now working without one T.J. Miller (who has been laying out ever since sexual assault allegations were revealed against the actor), it doesn’t look like the gang of “Silicon Valley” have missed a step. HBO‘s tech world comedy returns this spring, and Pied Piper might be getting bigger, but they’re still as clueless as ever.

Thomas Middleditch, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Josh Brener, Amanda Crew, Matt Ross, Suzanne Cryer and Jimmy O.

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Did you know there is a new movie premiering at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival that feature the onscreen reunion of “Westworld” stars Ed Harris and Clifton Collins, Jr.?  Hollywood is always full of surprises, isn’t it?

Trevor White’s “A Crooked Somebody” centers on Michael (“Mad Men’s” Rich Sommer), a psychic con artist who becomes entangled with a career criminal (Collins, Jr.) who is haunted by one of his murder victims from 20 years earlier.

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When we last left our merry band of tech innovators, programmers and start up investors the infamous company Pied Piper had taken yet another dramatic pivot. The algorithm company CEO and founder Richard (Thomas Middleditch) had once hoped would revolutionize video compression was pushed to the side for an increasingly popular video chat application developed by Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani). And, if you’ve ever worked even tangentially close to the tech sector it made a lot of sense and in a way that has always been the biggest strength of Mike Judge’s “Silicon Valley.”

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Sure, corporate giant Hooli (think Yahoo having overstayed its welcome) and its incredulously dumb “Chief Innovation Officer” Gavin Benson (Matt Ross) is an increasingly less funny cartoon in the background, but the obstacles Richard, Dinesh, Gilfoye (Martin Starr) and Jared (the show’s secret weapon, Zach Woods) are shockingly real at times.

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