In the last two years, Paramount+ has released 13 drama series, six of which have stemmed from “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan. Some are directly tied to the hit cable (and now broadcast) series, like the timestamped prequels “1883” and “1923,” while others merely bear the prolific writer and producer’s name. All have been considered successful by the nascent streamer (if less so by the culture at large), and thus the Taylor Sheridan Television Universe continues expanding.
Its latest, “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” is actually built from both sides of the Dutton family’s ever-expanding fence — or it was, at least. While always about the first Black U.S. Marshall west of the Mississippi River, the seasonal anthology series was originally tied to “1883” before redevelopments set its story apart and Sheridan, who was once attached to direct, ended up solely an executive producer. Through four of the 10 episodes, I can’t...
Its latest, “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” is actually built from both sides of the Dutton family’s ever-expanding fence — or it was, at least. While always about the first Black U.S. Marshall west of the Mississippi River, the seasonal anthology series was originally tied to “1883” before redevelopments set its story apart and Sheridan, who was once attached to direct, ended up solely an executive producer. Through four of the 10 episodes, I can’t...
- 11/3/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
It’s Frasier Week at IndieWire. Grab some tossed salad and scrambled eggs, settle into your coziest easy chair, and join us. We’re listening.
Twenty years have passed since Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) has graced the small screen, but according to the Paramount+ series revival, the beloved sarcastic psychiatrist hasn’t changed a bit…just his surroundings, profession, close friends, and the actor playing his son have.
Where to begin with what fans need to remember about “Frasier” before the revival, premiering October 12? Well, first of all, Frasier is back in Boston, returning to his “Cheers” roots before he made the move to Seattle for a radio show and to be closer to his ailing father, Martin, portrayed by late actor John Mahoney.
Grammer announced the revival series in 2021, saying at the time, “Having spent over 20 years of my creative life on the Paramount lot, both producing shows and performing in several,...
Twenty years have passed since Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) has graced the small screen, but according to the Paramount+ series revival, the beloved sarcastic psychiatrist hasn’t changed a bit…just his surroundings, profession, close friends, and the actor playing his son have.
Where to begin with what fans need to remember about “Frasier” before the revival, premiering October 12? Well, first of all, Frasier is back in Boston, returning to his “Cheers” roots before he made the move to Seattle for a radio show and to be closer to his ailing father, Martin, portrayed by late actor John Mahoney.
Grammer announced the revival series in 2021, saying at the time, “Having spent over 20 years of my creative life on the Paramount lot, both producing shows and performing in several,...
- 10/10/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all? This is the core question of "Spoiler Alert," the queer romantic drama and biographical film, adapted from the memoir "Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies" by Michael Ausiello. Jim Parsons stars as Michael, a dorky TV writer (ouch — I'm in this film and I don't like it) who, thanks to a chance encounter, meets the love of his life, Kit Cowan (Ben Aldridge). As the relationship grows, the two encounter the kinds of problems unique to members of the gay community. It's all very sweet, but there's a catch: The very first scene of the film tells us Kit dies in the end.
The film was directed by Michael Showalter, who is probably best known for writing and starring in "Wet Hot American Summer" and directing "The Big Sick" and last year's "The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
The film was directed by Michael Showalter, who is probably best known for writing and starring in "Wet Hot American Summer" and directing "The Big Sick" and last year's "The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
- 12/7/2022
- by Sarah Milner
- Slash Film
Iman is remembering her late husband David Bowie on what would have been his 74th birthday. On her Instagram, the supermodel shared a post that quoted Alfred Lord Tennyson. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you," the quote reads, "I could walk through my garden forever." She also shared a photo of Bowie performing, along with the hashtag "#BowieForever." Bowie, who rose to fame in the '60s and was named the Greatest Rockstar Ever by Rolling Stone, died after a battle with cancer on January 10, 2016, just two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album Blackstar. The album would go on to win the British Album of the...
- 1/8/2021
- E! Online
Chicago – In this year of morally unique relationship films (“Swiss Army Man”), add the recently released “Captain Fantastic” to the mix. The film, written and directed by Matt Ross, is like a fable of unintended consequences, where a father raises his children to live off the ‘grid,’ away from typical 2016 civilization.
The father in the film is Viggo Mortensen (“Eastern Promises”), and the situation complicates itself when the mother of the six children dies, leaving the father no choice but to bring them back into “civilization” to attend the funeral. Writer/director Matt Ross – who as an actor also portrays Gavin Belson on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” – combines anarchist political philosophy with the extreme survival skills of the family to illustrate a point about our modern society, mostly in the sense that despite all our current abilities to technically communicate with one another, we still remain separated.
Matt Ross Directs...
The father in the film is Viggo Mortensen (“Eastern Promises”), and the situation complicates itself when the mother of the six children dies, leaving the father no choice but to bring them back into “civilization” to attend the funeral. Writer/director Matt Ross – who as an actor also portrays Gavin Belson on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” – combines anarchist political philosophy with the extreme survival skills of the family to illustrate a point about our modern society, mostly in the sense that despite all our current abilities to technically communicate with one another, we still remain separated.
Matt Ross Directs...
- 7/18/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Early on in Penny Dreadful’s third season premiere, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, the Creature and Vanessa appeared to be locked in a competition to see which of them could be the biggest Debbie Downer. Not that you could blame them, really.
Having just laid Sembene to rest, Sir Malcolm was in Zanzibar and eager to be “quit of the filthy place”; Ethan was being escorted across the New Mexico Territory by Rusk and what seemed like an inordinate number of marshals — even for the extradition of a werewolf; the Creature was stuck on a ship that was frozen in place in the Arctic; and,...
Having just laid Sembene to rest, Sir Malcolm was in Zanzibar and eager to be “quit of the filthy place”; Ethan was being escorted across the New Mexico Territory by Rusk and what seemed like an inordinate number of marshals — even for the extradition of a werewolf; the Creature was stuck on a ship that was frozen in place in the Arctic; and,...
- 5/2/2016
- TVLine.com
Chicago – The familiar story of the “star crossed lovers” by William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet,” has been given as many interpretations over the years as there are stars in the sky. The Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the operatic French version, with a bright and venerate staging.
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
There are many duets in this opera, as can be expected, and the two vocalists – Joseph Calleja and Susannah Phillips – are up to the task of portraying the title characters with energetic and purposeful stage personas. The famous couple come to life, and the vocal actors provide them something extra – an authentic sense of true love, and all the fate that this love creates. “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy in the Shakespeare canon, but the Lyric Opera production generates a hopeful sense of “tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all” (kudos to another British poet,...
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
There are many duets in this opera, as can be expected, and the two vocalists – Joseph Calleja and Susannah Phillips – are up to the task of portraying the title characters with energetic and purposeful stage personas. The famous couple come to life, and the vocal actors provide them something extra – an authentic sense of true love, and all the fate that this love creates. “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy in the Shakespeare canon, but the Lyric Opera production generates a hopeful sense of “tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all” (kudos to another British poet,...
- 3/1/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Broken cops, brutal period dramas and a very, very fast man. Here's Michael's take on 2014's television offerings...
If 2013, with its Walter Whites, Hannibal Lecters, Norman Bates and Frank Underwoods, was a year dominated by anti-heroes, then 2014 marked the point at which characters shifted slightly, very slightly, back to the straightforwardness of the law. It would take a sophisticated instrument to spot the difference, but if we are to train our microscopes on the leading dramatic figures of the year, we might start by looking at how damaged they are.
Moral ambiguity remained the order of the day but for the most part, it manifested itself as a response to pain rather than as late-blooming arrogance or inherent evil. Rust Cohle, the Louisiana cop who was one of this year’s most significant memetic breakout stars, was memorably described by his portrayer as "a man who had lived longer than he hoped". The story,...
If 2013, with its Walter Whites, Hannibal Lecters, Norman Bates and Frank Underwoods, was a year dominated by anti-heroes, then 2014 marked the point at which characters shifted slightly, very slightly, back to the straightforwardness of the law. It would take a sophisticated instrument to spot the difference, but if we are to train our microscopes on the leading dramatic figures of the year, we might start by looking at how damaged they are.
Moral ambiguity remained the order of the day but for the most part, it manifested itself as a response to pain rather than as late-blooming arrogance or inherent evil. Rust Cohle, the Louisiana cop who was one of this year’s most significant memetic breakout stars, was memorably described by his portrayer as "a man who had lived longer than he hoped". The story,...
- 12/22/2014
- by michaeln
- Den of Geek
Polly Bergen dead at 84: ‘First woman president of the U.S.A.,’ former mistress of Tony Soprano’s father Emmy Award-winning actress Polly Bergen — whose roles ranged from the first U.S.A. woman president in Kisses for My President to the former mistress of both Tony Soprano’s father and John F. Kennedy in the television hit series The Sopranos — died from "natural causes" on September 20, 2014, at her home in Southbury, Connecticut. The 84-year-old Bergen, a heavy smoker for five decades, had been suffering from emphysema and other ailments since the 1990s. "Most people think I was born in a rich Long Island family," she told The Washington Post in 1988, but Polly Bergen was actually born Nellie Paulina Burgin on July 14, 1930, to an impoverished family in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father was an illiterate construction worker while her mother got only as far as the third grade. The family...
- 9/20/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Dead Dunes notwithstanding, much of what we've seen from "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy Xiii" has taken place in urban environments. In her most recent Gamescom trailer, though, Lightning borrows a line from Alfred Lord Tennyson (of all people) and heads into the Wildlands.
Despite some of "Lightning Returns"'s radical departures from the "Final Fantasy" status quo, this trailer strikes me as relatively traditional: there are Chocobos and Moogles (each with their trademark musical hooks), a magical forest to explore, and an enormous double-horned Behemoth to slash.
Sazh and his constant Chocobite companion make a cameo as well, as does some shaggy-maned blonde guy that might be familiar if I were up on my "Final Fantasy Xiii" lore. It's speaks to the series' legacy and the intriguing prospect of a pure action title that someone with such a limited knowledge of the "Final Fantasy Xiii" saga (that would be...
Despite some of "Lightning Returns"'s radical departures from the "Final Fantasy" status quo, this trailer strikes me as relatively traditional: there are Chocobos and Moogles (each with their trademark musical hooks), a magical forest to explore, and an enormous double-horned Behemoth to slash.
Sazh and his constant Chocobite companion make a cameo as well, as does some shaggy-maned blonde guy that might be familiar if I were up on my "Final Fantasy Xiii" lore. It's speaks to the series' legacy and the intriguing prospect of a pure action title that someone with such a limited knowledge of the "Final Fantasy Xiii" saga (that would be...
- 8/21/2013
- by Joseph Leray
- MTV Multiplayer
One point of discussion after watching Lawless not involving violence, morals or hairstyles, has been the simple item of clothing worn by Tom Hardy as Forrest Bondurant. It seems that his rudimentary knitwear has caused head-scratching and amusement for some cinemagoers. Yet there is nothing odd in Forrest’s choice of attire, in fact historically speaking for the early 1930s in rural America it is spot-on accurate, not to mention perfectly in tune with his character; a gruff man, comfortable in his own skin, who cares about as much for fashion as he does money.
This contrast between the man and his clothing provides an ironic twist. The knitted cardigan is soft to the touch and not especially hard wearing; Forrest is neither of these things, and thus the assertion that ‘we are what we wear’ does not apply. Unless we consider that garments cannot express meaning away from the...
This contrast between the man and his clothing provides an ironic twist. The knitted cardigan is soft to the touch and not especially hard wearing; Forrest is neither of these things, and thus the assertion that ‘we are what we wear’ does not apply. Unless we consider that garments cannot express meaning away from the...
- 9/21/2012
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
The director's new epic is a fitting testament to the thousands of horses that served and fell during the first world war
War Horse has had an extraordinary career. It started in 1982, with Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy called Albert and his horse, Joey, who is sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of France in the first world war. The book was short, accomplished and moving, but barely acknowledged until, in 2007, it was turned into a play.
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's National Theatre production – still stabled at the West End – entranced audiences with its uncanny, life-sized horse puppets. The story became today's Black Beauty, a sentimental education, a must-read classic, a global hit. And that might have been glory enough – except that War Horse was also, always, a film waiting to happen. Now, in Steven Spielberg's hands, the story has become epic. Early signs...
War Horse has had an extraordinary career. It started in 1982, with Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy called Albert and his horse, Joey, who is sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of France in the first world war. The book was short, accomplished and moving, but barely acknowledged until, in 2007, it was turned into a play.
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's National Theatre production – still stabled at the West End – entranced audiences with its uncanny, life-sized horse puppets. The story became today's Black Beauty, a sentimental education, a must-read classic, a global hit. And that might have been glory enough – except that War Horse was also, always, a film waiting to happen. Now, in Steven Spielberg's hands, the story has become epic. Early signs...
- 1/9/2012
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
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