Plot: John Sugar is an American private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secrets; some very recent, others long-buried.
Review: Detective stories and noir films are iconic genres in film and literature. Who doesn’t love a grizzled private eye who saves the girl and beds the femme fatale? From The Maltese Falcon to Chinatown, detectives have a long and storied history on screen. With the new series Sugar, Colin Farrell adds another great character to the list. A suave, calm, and skilled investigator, John Sugar is an idealized hero straight off the silver screen. And, like any number of great cinematic detectives, he has a weakness. Having seen the full eight episodes of Sugar, audiences will love or hate John Sugar’s weakness,...
Review: Detective stories and noir films are iconic genres in film and literature. Who doesn’t love a grizzled private eye who saves the girl and beds the femme fatale? From The Maltese Falcon to Chinatown, detectives have a long and storied history on screen. With the new series Sugar, Colin Farrell adds another great character to the list. A suave, calm, and skilled investigator, John Sugar is an idealized hero straight off the silver screen. And, like any number of great cinematic detectives, he has a weakness. Having seen the full eight episodes of Sugar, audiences will love or hate John Sugar’s weakness,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Colin Farrell headlines detective drama Sugar for Apple TV+, and the first trailer has landed: more on it here.
Colin Farrell hasn’t been on our screens for a couple of years, after a barnstorming 2022 saw him reunite with Brendan Gleeson and writer and director Michael McDonagh for bleak comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin, don prosthetics to become unrecognizable as The Penguin opposite Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and star alongside Viggo Mortensen and Joel Edgerton in Ron Howard’s survival drama Thirteen Lives.
He now takes a rare television role, leading the cast of Sugar, a detective drama, for Apple TV+. The synopsis reads as follows:
Sugar is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture and television history: the private detective story. Oscar nominee Colin Farrell stars as John Sugar, an American private investigator on the heels...
Colin Farrell hasn’t been on our screens for a couple of years, after a barnstorming 2022 saw him reunite with Brendan Gleeson and writer and director Michael McDonagh for bleak comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin, don prosthetics to become unrecognizable as The Penguin opposite Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and star alongside Viggo Mortensen and Joel Edgerton in Ron Howard’s survival drama Thirteen Lives.
He now takes a rare television role, leading the cast of Sugar, a detective drama, for Apple TV+. The synopsis reads as follows:
Sugar is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture and television history: the private detective story. Oscar nominee Colin Farrell stars as John Sugar, an American private investigator on the heels...
- 3/6/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers.
Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 6
The first season of Snowpiercer, when you dug through all the sci-fi trappings, was a simple mash-up of a standard dystopian end-of-the-world society and a film noir, with Daveed Diggs playing both the speechifying revolutionary and the hard-boiled, world-weary detective all at once. He has seen it all, he is over it all, and he is ready to shake everything up and give something new a try. One way or the other, he was over the status quo. However, one film noir trope that Snowpiercer did not really indulge in was the unreliable narrator. First codified as a genre trope in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in “The Rhetoric of Fiction:, the unreliable narrator is a familiar element in fiction no matter its form.
When it comes to film noir books, movies, and other media, the unreliable narrator tends to fall into the...
Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 6
The first season of Snowpiercer, when you dug through all the sci-fi trappings, was a simple mash-up of a standard dystopian end-of-the-world society and a film noir, with Daveed Diggs playing both the speechifying revolutionary and the hard-boiled, world-weary detective all at once. He has seen it all, he is over it all, and he is ready to shake everything up and give something new a try. One way or the other, he was over the status quo. However, one film noir trope that Snowpiercer did not really indulge in was the unreliable narrator. First codified as a genre trope in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in “The Rhetoric of Fiction:, the unreliable narrator is a familiar element in fiction no matter its form.
When it comes to film noir books, movies, and other media, the unreliable narrator tends to fall into the...
- 3/2/2021
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers.
Snowpiercer Episode 7
The cold opening to this week’s Snowpiercer opens up with none other than Lj Folger (Annalise Basso) discussing human nature. Specifically, how to her one of the core tenets of human behavior is to be self-involved, and how the individual person is never the most important person in the world, no matter what they might think. That’s easy for someone like Lj to say, because she’s only important because her family is important. But what about someone like Melanie (Jennifer Connelly)? In the world of Snowpiercer, she’s the person on the train with real, ultimate power, and that’s why she is involved in every plot, scheme, and silly little game; when you’re one exposed lie away from getting your head stuck out a porthole by your enemies, you tend to take those things seriously.
However, at a...
Snowpiercer Episode 7
The cold opening to this week’s Snowpiercer opens up with none other than Lj Folger (Annalise Basso) discussing human nature. Specifically, how to her one of the core tenets of human behavior is to be self-involved, and how the individual person is never the most important person in the world, no matter what they might think. That’s easy for someone like Lj to say, because she’s only important because her family is important. But what about someone like Melanie (Jennifer Connelly)? In the world of Snowpiercer, she’s the person on the train with real, ultimate power, and that’s why she is involved in every plot, scheme, and silly little game; when you’re one exposed lie away from getting your head stuck out a porthole by your enemies, you tend to take those things seriously.
However, at a...
- 6/29/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Andrew Knight.
An episode of Jack Irish scripted by Andrew Knight and the series opener of Mystery Road by Michaeley O’Brien have been nominated for Edgar Awards.
Named in honour of Edgar Allan Poe, the awards are presented by the Mystery Writers of America (Mwa), a non-profit organization which represents writers of books, short stories, plays and screenplays as well as publishers, editors, agents, librarians and booksellers plus aspiring writers and others devoted to crime writing.
The awards are not restricted to Us works but to qualify nominees must have been published, produced or screened for the first time in the Us during calendar 2018.
Knight’s screenplay of the season 2 premiere of the Easy Tiger-produced ABC drama starring Guy Pearce and O’Brien’s script for Bunya Productions’ ABC crime drama starring Aaron Pedersen and Judy Davis are nominated for best TV episode teleplay. They are eligible because both...
An episode of Jack Irish scripted by Andrew Knight and the series opener of Mystery Road by Michaeley O’Brien have been nominated for Edgar Awards.
Named in honour of Edgar Allan Poe, the awards are presented by the Mystery Writers of America (Mwa), a non-profit organization which represents writers of books, short stories, plays and screenplays as well as publishers, editors, agents, librarians and booksellers plus aspiring writers and others devoted to crime writing.
The awards are not restricted to Us works but to qualify nominees must have been published, produced or screened for the first time in the Us during calendar 2018.
Knight’s screenplay of the season 2 premiere of the Easy Tiger-produced ABC drama starring Guy Pearce and O’Brien’s script for Bunya Productions’ ABC crime drama starring Aaron Pedersen and Judy Davis are nominated for best TV episode teleplay. They are eligible because both...
- 1/24/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Eleven female and minority writers have been named this year's honorees of the WGA West's TV Writer Access Program. Now in its eighth year, the goal of the program is to "promote diversity and foster inclusiveness in the entertainment industry." Honorees in the one-hour drama category are: Rachel Feldman – Kinks Adrian A. Cruz – Irwindale Sharon Hoffman – The Doubling Peter Hume – Righteous Texas Donald Joh – Mulberry Tonya Kong – Skin Deep Zak Shaikh – Runaways Mollie…...
- 3/1/2017
- Deadline TV
Plus: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross to score ‘Patriots Day’
Sundance Institute has announced the 11 original spec projects selected for its third annual Episodic Story Lab.
Selected artists and projects are: Devil’s Due (Connie O’Donahue and Jeremy Nielsen); Dmv (Marlena Rodriguez); Illegal (Rafael Agustin); Lovely Women (Eboni Freeman); and Marfa (John McClain).
Rounding out the participants will be: The North (Donald Joh); The Olympians (Colin McLaughlin); Tales Below Dixie (Mike Flynn); Winterovers (Nilanjana Bose and Jakub Ciupinski); The Wolfman Of Pacoima (Calvin Lee Reeder); and Your Majesty (Hilary Helding).
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whose credits include The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl, will compose the score for Patriots Day Mark Wahlberg reunites with his Deepwater Horizon director on the Boston Marathon bombing drama alongside John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, J.K. Simmons and Michelle Monaghan...
Sundance Institute has announced the 11 original spec projects selected for its third annual Episodic Story Lab.
Selected artists and projects are: Devil’s Due (Connie O’Donahue and Jeremy Nielsen); Dmv (Marlena Rodriguez); Illegal (Rafael Agustin); Lovely Women (Eboni Freeman); and Marfa (John McClain).
Rounding out the participants will be: The North (Donald Joh); The Olympians (Colin McLaughlin); Tales Below Dixie (Mike Flynn); Winterovers (Nilanjana Bose and Jakub Ciupinski); The Wolfman Of Pacoima (Calvin Lee Reeder); and Your Majesty (Hilary Helding).
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, whose credits include The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl, will compose the score for Patriots Day Mark Wahlberg reunites with his Deepwater Horizon director on the Boston Marathon bombing drama alongside John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, J.K. Simmons and Michelle Monaghan...
- 10/2/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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