From South Korea and now the hottest thing on Netflix, Squid Game is the show for you, if you are into cancelling folk. This is a show about hundreds of have-nots – 456, to be precise – portrayed by a new constellation of global stars, including Lee Jung-jae, HoYeon Jung, and Gong Yoo, who are […]
Inform yourself, calibrate yourself. Modulate. Cut back on your meat consumption, because it works. Like, it won’t save the planet – Earth doesn’t need our “saving,” for its plan we cannot even fathom – but cutting back on meat is one of the healthiest choices we can make at this point in the game, for […]
I wonder if Halston, the upcoming Netflix limited series starring Ewan McGregor about the late It American fashion designer of the ’70s, will succeed with me where Halston, the 2019 documentary about Roy Halston, did not. The doc, which I attempted to watch early days of the pandemic, was too heavy, too familiar. Perhaps, a […]
Rosamund Pike – with whom, I admit, I haven’t revisited since she oh-so-memorably Gone Girld her way to her first Academy Award nomination (I ought to check out A Private War and Radioactive, in which she portrays Marie Curie) – well, she’s back, playing hell-on-heels power caretaker/swindler or the elderly, Marla Grayson, in writer-director J […]
We have considered the 13TH; now, today, let’s learn about the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868. Hosted by One Strange Rock host with the most (and executive producer) Will Smith, Amend: The Fight for America is a new Netflix docu-series that zeroes in on the long slog, ever evolving…often lethal…, toward equal rights in the United […]
Extra! Extra! Read all about it (Captain Phillips Reunion Alert!): These 2020 Christmastimes, Tom Hanks is gonna have some special News of the World. Directed by Paul Greengrass. It’s five years after the end of the Civil War; Hanks will be playing Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the film, a veteran of three wars, who […]
Meanwhile, coming to Netflix is Academy Award winner Viola Davis in a starry turn as Ma Rainey, the woman née Gertrude Pridgett in Georgia in 1886 o.k.a. the Mother of the Blues, in George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of the eponymous 1982 August Wilson play. Set in Chicago during a steamy […]
I guess. Oh, proms. What is a prom, anyway? What is a prom in this culture or that culture or in that one. I know that for me, looking back on it, the concept was muddled; no one meaningfully explained it or gave a proper raison d’être for the event. I feel like the French […]
Selena was some kind of queen. Bidi. Bidi. Bom. Bom. That much I knew growing up in the ’90s down in Lima, and that much sunk in after word that the star had been shot dead at age 23 reached Peru. The date was March 31, 1995, so it wasn’t that along, but this was […]
Coming soon, to Netflix…. I’m pretty sure this was always gonna be the case, though, so, yeah…coming soon, to Netflix, indeed – and in lush black and white 35mm, no less – is Radha Blank’s hot Sundance 2020 title, The Forty-Year-Old Version. Starring, written, and directed by virtual newcomer Blank (a producer of Netflix’s TV-series […]
King of Cups 