Living, Loving and Laughing in Hulu’s ‘Mid-Century Modern’
Three gay men living in a house in Palm Springs with one of their moms. Sounds like a great premise for a sitcom, right? That’s what Max Mutchnick and David Kohan (the brains behind Will & Grace) thought as they came up with the concept for Mid-Century Modern, a multi-camera comedy directed by James Burrows and shot in front of a live audience—with 10 episodes now streaming on Hulu. It’s a throwback to the glory days of sitcoms...
The Sweet Charm of ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’
If you enjoyed The Banshees of Inisherin a couple years back, you’re probably going to love the new Focus Features film The Ballad of Wallis Island. Aside from the similarity in the cadence of the titles, both take place on a remote UK island and feature a fractured relationship, a lovable misfit and a movie star. In Banshees, it was Colin Farrell and in Wallis Island, it’s Carey Mulligan. But spoiler alert: there’s no donkey – and no...
It’s De Niro x 2 Notorious Mobsters in ‘The Alto Knights’
A mob boss would have a hit out for someone about this. Robert De Niro’s new gangster picture, The Alto Knights, bombed at the box office during its opening weekend. It pulled in just over $3 million domestically on a $45 million budget. The Warner Bros. film had the proper pedigree in spades. Nicholas Pileggi wrote the screenplay. It’s the latest in his list of acclaimed mob movie credits, starting with Goodfellas, for which he...
Shades of 007 in ‘Black Bag,’ Steven Soderbergh’s New Spy Thriller
Director Steven Soderbergh is teasing audiences with the casting of his new film, Black Bag. The spy thriller stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as married intelligence agents George and Kathryn Woodhouse, alongside Regé-Jean Page, Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris. Brosnan is best known for his portrayal of James Bond in four films from 1995–2002, Harris played Eve Moneypenny in the Bond films Skyfall (2012),...
‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Return for One Last Crazy Comedic Ride
The Righteous Gemstones are raising holy hell one last time on their fourth and sadly their last season on HBO. They’ve got a Capuchin monkey, male pole dancing, a dick double for Baby Billy’s full frontal nudity scenes and an Oscar winner among its guest stars. And that’s just the beginning for the Danny McBride-created comedy featuring John Goodman as the patriarch of a superstar televangelist family whose kids (played by McBride,...
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