And the Emmys Go To ‘The Studio,’ ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Severance’ and ‘Adolescense’
New host and new blood at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, held Sunday night at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and televised on CBS and Paramount+. Standup comic Nate Bargatze shepherded the ceremonies in which the night’s biggest story was the scale of The Studio’s triumph, breaking the record for the most wins for a comedy series. The Apple TV+ freshman outing not only claimed Outstanding Comedy Series but went home with a...
Peacock’s ‘The Paper’ Brings Office-Style Comedy to a Local Newsroom
THE PAPER — Episode 103 — Pictured: (l-r) Alex Edelman as Adam, Duane R. Shepard as Barry, Domhnall Gleeson as Ned — (Photo by: Aaron Epstein/PEACOCK) THE PAPER — Episode 107 — Pictured: (l-r) Sabrina Impacciatore as Esmeralda, Tim Key as Ken — (Photo by: John P. Fleenor/PEACOCK) From Scranton to Toledo. When Greg Daniels first turned his lens on the absurdities of office life, he gave the world The...
‘Caught Stealing:’ A Crime Caper That Doesn’t Quite Catch On
The late Nineties. The Lower East Side. A cool dive bar. A hot couple. What could possibly go wrong in Caught Stealing? Director Darren Aronofsky tries—perhaps too eagerly—to capture the chaotic energy of fast‑paced, one‑day thrillers like 24 Hours, setting his film in a graffitied, pre‑gentrified Alphabet City section of 1998 Manhattan. There’s a gritty charm in revisiting that era: the sidewalk grime, pay phones and neon...
Smell ‘The Roses’ and Revel in the Couples’ Comedy
Benedict Cumberbatch is not known for comedy. Neither is Olivia Colman, unless you count her brief turn a few years back as Chef Terry on The Bear. But together as Theo and Ivy Rose in the Searchlight feature film The Roses, they are an unbeatable comedic couple in an eminently watchable two hours. In the adaptation of Warren Adler’s novel The War of the Roses and the 1989 film starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, we first...
The Celebrity Fan Holds All the Power in ‘Lurker’
Everyone who works in the entertainment industry knows someone like this, a person who can best be described as “someone who would step over their dead grandmother to get next to a celebrity.” In the new film Lurker written and directed by Alex Russell, Matthew/Matty (portrayed by Théodore Pellerin) is that person—and ironically he lives with his grandmother, who’s not dead– yet. Matty works at a trendy clothing store on LA’s...
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