‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Brings More Chaos to a Cruel, Crazy World
It was a big night for Hulu Wednesday as the streamer dropped the first two episodes of Season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” its acclaimed drama series based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling 1985 dystopian novel of the same name. The small screen adaptation, which initially premiered a year ago, captured the zeitgeist of divisional politics and discrimination against women. It also vaulted Hulu into the top-tier of awards recipients...
The Next Edition of NatGeo ‘Genius:’ Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso
When National Geographic Channel debuted its anthology series “Genius” last year depicting the life of Albert Einstein, it was an ambitious project and a huge roll of the dice for the cable network. But “Genius,” which was NatGeo’s first-ever scripted series, struck chords on many levels, with audiences, with the industry– not surprisingly due to its provenance – with critics and with awards voters. The program was nominated for...
COLCOA Film Fest Lights Up the City of Angels
It’s an event that cineastes of all stripes eagerly anticipate, and the excitement is already building for the 22nd Annual COLCOA Film Festival in Los Angeles, a week-long program of premieres running April 23-30 at the Directors Guild of America headquarters. COLCOA stands for City of Lights, City of Angels which perfectly describes its bringing together of the French and American film industries– with strong industry...
David Hockney’s 82 Portraits and One Still-Life Opens at LACMA
Artist David Hockney himself was among the throngs of excited guests for a private premiere of his exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which opened to the public on Sunday, April 15. The exhibit is comprised of 82 portraits that Hockney painted over a period of several years beginning in 2013 and one still life, called “Fruit On A Bench,” painted only because one of the subjects had to cancel is sitting. Many of the...
GI Jews: World War II Stories of Battling Bigotry Uncovered in New PBS Documentary
GI Jews. Unlike GI Joes, it’s not a term commonly used when speaking about members of the military. But it is the attention-grabbing title of a new feature-length documentary focusing on the more than 550,000 American Jews – men and women – who served their country during World War II. Among those veterans are prominent citizens including comedy legends Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, authors Norman Mailer and J.D. Salinger and former...
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