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...
‘The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox’ is a True Crime Must-Watch
Grace Van Patten and Giuseppe De Domenico as Amanda and Raffaele Murder victim Meredith Kercher Years after one of the most highly publicized murder cases of the 21st century, Amanda Knox is trying to take her own story back with the new Hulu eight-part series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. I was gripped by the first two episodes, which dramatize her life story before she landed in Perugia, Italy for a year of college study abroad...
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