The FX Networks seriesClass of ‘09(which is available to stream at Hulu) is a limited thriller that follows a class of FBI agents at three points in time (in the past, present and future), who must figure out where they fit at the Bureau, what kind of agents they are, and who they are to each other. The lives of Tayo Michaels (Brian Tyree Henry), Ashley Poet (Kate Mara), Hour Nazari (Sepideh Moafi) and Daniel Lennix (Brian J....
While a collection of new titles gets added to Netflix every month, we must also say goodbye to stuff that’s been languishing in your queue for a few years. For April 2017, what immediately jumps out is thatJoss Whedon’s TV shows are saying farewell. On April 1st, the service will loseBuffy the Vampire Slayer,Angel,Firefly, andDollhouse. Hopefully, these will land on another streaming service. Netflix is also losing all of itsSupermanmovies,Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,The Usual Suspects,The Princess Bride,The X-Files,Ally McBeal, andBetter Off Ted....
Wait,what?!What just happened? TheNightflyersfinale was quite the enigma. Inspired by theGeorge RR Martinnovella of the same name, Syfy’s horror series followed a team of daring scientists on a mission to meet a mysterious alien race known as the Volcryn and possibly save Earth in the process – on a space ship that was quite literally haunted by the evil digital presence of the captain’s mother. At last, after icky flesh-covered probes and telepathic communiques, we finally met the Volcryn in the Season One finale, but if their arrival answered some of the series' burning questions, it also opened the door to a whole new batch of mysteries....
Are you not a horror fan, but - nevertheless - love to be shaken? Do you want to watch some movies that keep awake at night, beyond the reaches of bloodlust and jump scares? Well, we’ve got just the list for you. This list has 11 stunning feats of cinema that aren’t within your typical parameters of ghouls, ghosts, and gore – but they will undoubtedly crawl under your skin and stay there....
Ever sinceThe Sopranos,Mad Men, andBreaking Badset the high bar for exciting new avenues of television storytelling, a bevy of TV shows about “bad men” have come our way. Some of these shows misunderstand what made these iconic series so compelling in the first place, while others use the creative freedom of the TV medium to use moral ambiguity as a jumping off point. The Netflix seriesOzarkfalls into the latter category, and while the first season was a bit too stuck inBreaking Bad’s shadow to truly stand apart as its own towering achievement, the show’s second season not only settles into its own unique groove, it digs deeper into what makes a “bad person” through exceptional character work, including giving more texture to the women of the series, all the while the tension ramps up exponentially to result in a compelling yet unrelenting season....
WithPacific Rim Uprisingopening in theaters March 23rd, a few days ago I sat down withCailee Spaenyto talk about the sequel. Unlike most press junkets that take place an at area hotel, Universal and Legendary went all out forPacific Rim Uprisingand built some amazing set ups using props from the movie for the interviews. It was like stepping inside a location from the film. While it’s expensive and time consuming, I wish more studios did stuff like this for their films....
If history tells us anything, it’s that we should be excited forPeter Strickland’sFlux Gourmet. When IFC Films and Strickland have teamed up for past projects likeBerberian Sound StudioandThe Duke of Burgundy, they earned critical acclaim almost immediately. The duo of IFC Studios and Strickland have teamed up yet again, accompanied by producersSerena Armitage(Red Breast Productions) andPietro Greppi(Lunapark Pictures), to create a culinary film. In a provided statement, Strickland said that “Flux Gourmetcame about through a personal frustration with how alimentary disorders or food allergies have been comically portrayed in some films, and without wanting to embark on a finger-wagging mission, I wanted to write something devoted to the disruptions of the stomach whilst attempting to maintain a degree of dignity to deeply private and embarrassing symptoms....
Hot off the release of acharacter featurette about Claire Redfield,Sony Picturesshows fans the other half of the Redfields, with a new behind-the-scenes featurette focused on Claire’s brother Chris inResident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. While Claire’s featurette talked about some of the changes to her character, Chris’ featurette reinforces that this film is trying to be a fateful adaptation of the games — specifically, the first two games in the series that started all the way back in 1996....
The CW’sRingerwasyears ahead of its time, creating a compelling story about identical twin sisters that are caught up in a string of dangerous lies and complex mysteries when one — Bridget Kelley (Sarah Michelle Gellar) — takes her sister Siobhan’s (also played by Gellar) place in her upper-class New York City life after her apparent suicide. Despite only getting one 22-episode season that aired from 2011-12, it pulled off some masterful and satisfying storytelling....
Back in 2014, we reported onGoro Miyazaki, the son ofStudio Ghiblico-founderHayao Miyazaki, preparing to adaptAstrid Lindgren’s Swedish children’s classicRonja the Robber’s Daughterinto a TV series of sorts. Well, that happened, as it turned out and the series debuted in Japan in the fall of 2014 to largely positive reception. It’s surprising that we’ve been waiting around for two years without any North American company attempting to bring the latest Ghibli title to the states - as they did with Goro’s first film,From Up on Poppy Hill- but the wait is seemingly all over now....
Mickey 17seesBong Joon Hocontinuing to explore many of the themes that havecompelled him throughout his career. It is a pro-animal, anti-xenophobia film that touches on the exploitative nature of capitalism, humanity’s reckless impact on our planet, the cruel outcomes of economic inequality,and the increasingly relevant consequences of authoritarianism.There are clear shades of Bong’s two other English-language films—OkjaandSnowpiercer—as well as the Best Picture-winningParasiteinMickey 17. The difference between his prior films and his latest, though, is that Bong, a director often praised for his nuance, approachesMickey 17with a bit of a heavier hand, opting formore overt satireat times....
Netflix’s new period dramaThe Decameronhas just begun shooting at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. The eight-episode series, based on a collection of short stories of the same name written by 14th-century Italian authorGiovanni Boccaccio, will be filming in Italy for the next six months. Chasing the success Netflix found with its hit period dramaBridgerton, the popular streaming service ordered the lavish period soap, which takes place in 1348 as the Black Death descends upon Florence....
Jack Thorne, the creator and co-scripter of Sundance’sThe Last Panthers, which originally premiered in France via Canal, is known for working on shows about growing up, tracing the acts that help form our psychology, perspective, and, ultimately, what kind of adults we become. His very best work was onThis is England,Shane Meadows' tough-minded TV spin-off of his own, excellent film of the same name; Thorne co-wrote the'90,‘88, and'86installments of the series alongside Meadows....
