Tag: hbo
Friday One Sheet: FAYE
Lounging by the pool in a silk robe and stiletto heels at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1977, actress and style icon, Faye Dunaway is shown in a kind of Sunset Boulevard-esque tableaux the morning after she won the Academy Award...
Tribeca 2024 Review: SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY. Deconstruction As an Art Form
Jeremy O. Harris directs a documentary that pulls apart his provocative stage play and then puts it back together.
Review: THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, Love Will Tear Us Apart
Rose Leslie and Theo James star in a beguiling new series from Steven Moffat ('Dr. Who').
Sundance 2022 Review: PHOENIX RISING Breaks Heart-Shaped Glasses
In Amy Berg's documentary miniseries, Evan Rachel Wood goes on the record about her abusive relationship with shock rocker Marilyn Manson.
Review: THE NEVERS, Don't Call It a Comeback, They've Been Here For Years
Joss Whedon’s (Avengers, Firefly, Angel, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer) banishment from public life has been as swift as it has been brutal. By all accounts, Whedon’s fall from professional grace was well-deserved. After the box-office failure and critical drubbing of...
Review: LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Gives HBO Another Genre-Bending Triumph
Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, and Courtney B. Vance star in the series, executive produced by showrunner Misha Green, and now streaming on HBO Max.
Now Streaming: PERRY MASON Meets SCOOB! and DOOM PATROL
Also on HBO Max: Crunchyroll and 'Gone With the Wind,' recontextualized.
Review: DIEGO MARADONA Doco, Director Asif Kapadia's Third Masterpiece
Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy) strikes gold again with the near-perfect biopic of footballer Diego Maradona. The documentary director depicts what many consider ‘the hand of god’ in such a way that highlights both Maradona’s immense skills as a player, and...
Notes on Streaming: MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND Unsettles With Disturbing, Quiet Force
Plus: 'Gentleman Jack' and 'Cobra Kai' meet expectations.
Notes on Streaming: Gregg Araki's NOW APOCALYPSE, Singapore's GRISSE, Turkey's IMMORTALS
We've got it all: young people, historical action, and Turkish vampires.
Notes on Streaming: TRUE DETECTIVE, Jeremy Saulnier Launches Season 3
Jeremy Saulnier directed the first two episodes of the new season on HBO, which immediately makes the series more interesting for me.
TRUE DETECTIVE Season 3 Finds Its Director, GREEN ROOM's Jeremy Saulnier
Well, HBO did it - they made me excited for another season of True Detective. The permium cable company announced today that a third season of Nic Pizzolatto's crime anthology True Detective is happening and it's found its director in Green...
Destroy All Monsters: Thanks, GIRLS!
I'm not going to add much to the discussion of Girls, where other writers have ably carried the conversation, besides returning to a point I made a few years ago: I'm glad this show exists, has existed, did exist; and...
Interview: A New Mother of Dragons? GAME OF THRONES' Ellie Kendrick On Fan Theories and "The Door"
Fans of HBO’s blockbuster Games of Thrones have embraced Ellie Kendrick’s portrayal of the tough as nails Meera Reed, one of the self-appointed protectors of the youngest Stark siblings. Celebrating the release of the show’s sixth season on home video,...
WASTELAND: Quality Television Made in the Czech Republic
HBO Europe rolls out a bleak mystery miniseries Wasteland
Destroy All Monsters: HBO's WESTWORLD and the "Entertainment" of Sexual Violence
Trigger warning, sexual violence (and spoilers too, I guess, if you don't want the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of Westworld spoiled for you): at the end of the Westworld pilot's extended opening fake-out, a human man drags...
The Trailer For VINYL Spins Out Of Control
The brainchild of Martin Scorsese, Terrence Winter and Mick Jagger, the show Vinyl is coming to HBO this January. Today, we've got a whopper of a trailer.Charting the days of proto-punk and early hip-hop in 1970s New York City, Vinyl...
HALFWORLDS: Watch The Trailer For Anwar's Dark HBO Fantasy
Indonesian director Joko Anwar - a long time favorite around these parts - makes the move to television with the upcoming HBO Asia original series Halfworlds. A dark fantasy tale about supernatural creatures living amongst us, Halfworlds hits the air...
DEADWOOD Alive? F-Bombs Away!
Deadwood was buried under its own genius after just three seasons, and a mere 2980 f-bombs! It remains one of the fucking standout TV experiences of my fucking life, and the latest hints at a possible fucking movie are sure to...
VINYL: Watch The Teaser For Scorsese And Jagger's HBO Series
How's this for a dream team for HBO? Martin Scorsese, Terrence Winter - exec producer of Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos - and Mick Jagger putting together what basically boils down to the Madmen of the 70's recording industry starring...
