T odd Haynes is, in this writer’s opinion, one of our greatest living filmmakers. Ever since his 1987 film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a moving examination of the singer’s battle with anorexia using Barbie dolls and created while he was at Bard College, his unique voice has enraptured audiences. …
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Sofia Vergara transforms into notorious “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco in the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix limited series Griselda, which also features Karol G in her acting debut. Already the subject of countless documentaries, the “queenpin” drug lord gets the Scarface treatment — right down to the Debbie Harry …
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Very early on in Todd Haynes‘ May December, Julianne Moore is prepping for a BBQ. Her character, Gracie, is a suburban mom in Savannah, Georgia, idly chatting to a neighbor in a spacious, tastefully decorated kitchen. Her husband wanders through, grabbing a beer before going back outside to man the …
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It’s hard to keep track of all the ethical violations depicted in Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, the new three-part Netflix docuseries whose title suggests a straight-to-cable Nineties TV movie. Some of the sins here on display are, literally, mortal: Paolo Macchiarini, an apparent sociopath, a definite conman, and, …
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Although Colman Domingo’s spent three decades in the entertainment industry, with title roles in the theater, he says he’s been sidelined in film and television. He played a trombonist in Chadwick Boseman’s final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; counselor to Zendaya’s troubled Rue in Euphoria; a violent, turn-on-a-dime pimp in …
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The Crown is back. The sixth and final season of Netflix’s royal drama begins with some Big D Energy: It’s all about Diana and Dodi, the young lovers whose whirlwind romance ended tragically in the Paris car crash that became the “Where were you?” moment for a generation. The first …
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The 2006 film The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, dramatizes the immediate aftermath of the death of Princess Diana. Much of the conflict comes from Queen Elizabeth’s reluctance to publicly address the grief of her subjects, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair pleading with her to speak. In the fourth …
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When it was released in 2010, Edgar Wright‘s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was considered a disappointment. It grossed less than $50 million at the box office, on a reported production budget of $85 million. And the reviews, while mostly positive, were less than enthusiastically so. In hindsight, though, Wright’s …
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The 1963 March on Washington did not merely come together on its own via a whim, a wish, and good will. It took years of strategizing, planning, building coalitions, dodging bureaucratic obstacles and opponents both within and outside the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Students and veteran activists worked phone lines, …
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Sofia Boutella is readying for a revolution in the new full trailer for Zach Snyder’s Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire. The sci-fi epic will arrive in select theaters for one week only beginning Dec. 15, before it is released for streaming on Netflix on Dec. 22. …
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