“The Bear,” FX’s half-hour cooking drama, doubles down on that hospitality, then compacts it under the strain of personal loss. Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) is one of the best chefs in the world (at least, according to Eater). He tore through fine dining’s top kitchens to make a name for himself at a young age, only to end up back at the family restaurant in Chicago, sans one family member....
“For a long time, Laz Alonso has wanted payback for wrapping him in a ten foot penis,” Kripke shared in a post to his Twitter followers along with a picture of him wearing the scarf. “Yesterday, he got it. Thanks for the holiday gift, Laz!” “The Boys” Season 2 recently got singled out by Barack Obama for being one of his favorite series of 2020. The former president praised the the comic book show for “turning superhero conventions on their heads to lay bare issues of race, capitalism, and the distorting effects of corporate power and mass media....
“It’s a pure, stark, dictatorship style aesthetic, where nothing frivolous or unnecessary is left, and only propaganda and symbols of the regime are there to be seen by the people to keep them in line,” Williams said. Thus, her world-building became the most ambitious yet for the acclaimed Hulu series, turning the Lincoln Memorial into a headless shambles and the Washington Monument into a white Gilead cross (courtesy of Mavericks VFX)....
A freshly minted English-language Almodóvar melodrama starring Tilda Swinton, “The Human Voice” would be one of the hottest tickets at the Venice Film Festival if it weren’t for the small point that it is just 30 minutes long. Still, it’s not size that counts, but what you do with it, and Almódovar does so much in half an hour that it is bound to be rated as one of the Festival’s highlights, anyway....
The primary issue: “The In Between” seems stuck in between (sorry) two very different stories. There’s the sweet, chemistry-fizzing romance between budding orphan photographer Tessa (King) and trilingual championship rower Skylar (Kyle Allen, soon to be our next He-Man) who meet cute at a screening of “Betty Blue” at their local arthouse (kids these days!) and then try to make a go of it, and what happens after a summer together — cut short when a car accident kills Skylar....
Netflix’s synopsis for “The Life Ahead” reads: “In the colorful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese orphan Momo (Ibrahima Gueye) has ambitions to make his fortune in the underworld of the town’s shady alleyways. One day, he steals a bag of items from the elderly Madame Rosa (Loren), a Holocaust survivor who makes a meagre living raising the children of prostitutes with whom she once shared the streets....
Pixar’s “Soul” was the top animation contender with five nominations, while the feature competition was split between “Project Power,” the Netflix superhero film, Robert Zemeckis’ “The Witches” (which streamed on HBO Max), and Disney’s live-action “Mulan” (which streamed on Disney+), each garnering three nominations. Joining “Project Power” and “The Witches” in the top photoreal feature category were Netflix’s “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” and “The Midnight Sky” (the sci-fi directed by George Clooney), and Christopher Nolan’s time-inversion “Tenet....
Each episode of “The Snoopy Show” consists of three separate stories involving Snoopy and his close companion Woodstock. We watch the pair build a snowman, write their memoirs, and help Charlie Brown (voiced by Ethan Pugiotto) confess his love for the little red-haired girl. Compared to other children’s series where the lesson is front and center, “The Snoopy Show” isn’t particularly preachy. As Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts engage in the plot, morals are subtly discussed, ranging from learning to live with others different than you to finding happiness in the simple things....
It shouldn’t be that audacious, and yet it feels like it is. It also breaks boundaries because of the cross-genre storytelling — it’s both a survival tale and a coming-of-age story — and the fact that many of the characters are forced to deal with intersectional bias in their arcs. The logline is deceptively simple: Nine teenage girls are, ostensibly, headed to a female empowerment retreat in Hawaii. Things go terribly wrong, and the women have to form their own civilization and pecking order on a remote island....
Here’s the official synopsis, lest we don’t give too much away: “With her marriage about to implode, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law. But one evening a tiny slip in judgement leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. Believing her only recourse is to exact revenge, Miriam takes extreme action, but the price of retribution is high, and she is not prepared for the toll it takes as she begins to emotionally and psychologically unravel....
Based on true events and adapted from Justin Fenton’s non-fiction book of the same name, “We Own This City” is developed by “The Wire” creator David Simon and George Pelecanos, also a producer and writer on that series. The limited series, directed by “King Richard” filmmaker Reinaldo Marcus Green, premieres April 25 on HBO. The cast includes Jon Bernthal, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles, and Wunmi Mosaku. “We Own This City” chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), where corruption ran rampant amid policies of drug prohibition and celebrated mass arrests in lieu of detective work....
Where the first season took place in the 1950s, 1980s, and present day, this season sticks firmly in 1949 Los Angeles, a glittering world of glamour — for some. Alma Fillcot (Allison Tolman) is a lonely housewife whose prize possession is her garden. She dreams of joining the Elysian Park Garden Club, but can’t compete with the (thin) women of means, particularly Rita Castillo (Lana Parrilla). Unfortunately, Alma’s life is turned upside down by a revelation from her husband (Nick Frost) that opens up exposing everyone in the city’s secrets....
The news comes more than three months before the thriller series returns for Season 2 on March 26. The series, which comes from creators and married couple Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, proved a breakout success for the premium cable channel when it premiered in November 2021, averaging over five million viewers per episode and getting a Season 2 renewal five episodes into the season. “With ‘Yellowjackets’ runaway success in Season 1 and the pent-up anticipation for Season 2, we wanted to maximize the momentum by fast-tracking Season 3 now,” Showtime President Chris McCarthy said in a statement....
While films like Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” were deemed ineligible due to the organization’s rule to only consider films with a budget below $35 million, prominent awards contenders like “TÁR” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” were recognized in several categories including Best Feature and Outstanding Lead Performance (the awards body removed gendered acting categories last year). The Gotham Awards are meant to honor worthy independent films and series and their writers, directors, producers, and actors, meaning that several TV series like “Abbott Elementary,” “Pachinko,” and “Yellowjackets” were nominated for awards as well....
Netflix Rules It was an event nearly a decade in the making but the streaming service that revolutionized television finally had their moment in the sun. Sunday night at the 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, Netflix won 10 awards, including the prizes for both Outstanding Drama Series (“The Crown”) and Outstanding Limited Series (“The Queen’s Gambit”), the first Series wins for the company and the first time Limited Series has gone to a program from a streaming service....
Three other titles placed on all four charts we follow. (The weekly Spectrum chart has delayed results and “Fatale” is too recent a release; it did not offer “Tenet” on PVOD.) The best overall showing comes from “The Croods: A New Age,” #1 at FandangoNow, and charting in the top five at both Apple and Google. “The War With Grandpa” and “Honest Thief,” both of which are available at standard price, placed across the board with “Honest Thief” taking the top spot at Spectrum....
Ady Barkan was already dying of ALS when he confronted Senator Jeff Flake on a plane in 2018, but the liberal activist’s story had only just started. Barkan’s back-and-forth with the Republican senator, who would soon vote in favor of the Trump Administration’s assaultive tax reform despite Barkan’s pleas, went viral (under the coy hashtag #FlakesonaPlane) before they landed. “Not Going Quietly,” the wrenching and earnest documentary about Barkan’s tireless advocacy for healthcare reform, explains many of the crucial steps that came next....
The reason that “All That Breathes” was picked up by HBO Documentary Films at Sundance 2022 (where it won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize) and included in all the top documentary awards groups’ early voting is that the filmmaker and his cinematographers embraced the tools of big-budget filmmaking: rack focus, pans, dollies, crane shots and long single takes. In short, this movie is so gorgeous that some folks think it should be considered in the Cinematography category, including DOC NYC Artistic Director Jaie Laplante, who selected it for the Oscar-predictive DOC NYC Short List....
ABC’s beloved franchise kicked off 20 years ago today, on March 25, 2002. And while no one quite knew just how massive of a success the reality dating series would be, ABC greenlit a second season before the first one even concluded. Now, two decades and multiple spin-offs later, “The Bachelor” has just wrapped its 26th season. Yet the first “most eligible bachelor in America,” businessman Alex Michel, was supposed to appear on a very different type of show....
