Halston review – sex, cocaine and Ewan McGregor | Television & radio
[ad_1] Ewan McGregor had not heard of Halston before he agreed to play him, and he may not be alone. This elegant Netflix miniseries is the latest to give a fashion designer the biopic treatment – and in this case, Roy Halston’s glamorous life and spectacular fall gives McGregor plenty of meat to gnaw on. […]
Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo: ‘People sneer at the things women and girls love’ | Leigh Bardugo
[ad_1] When Leigh Bardugo first came face to face with her characters, she wept. In a video that was uploaded everywhere from YouTube to TikTok, the author stepped on to the Budapest set of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone and embraced her heroine, Alina – or rather, the actor Jessie Mei Li in costume. “You guys […]
Halston: the almost forgotten icon now getting a Netflix biopic | Netflix
[ad_1] From Bianca Jagger’s dresses at Studio 54 to Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat and Liza Minnelli’s stage outfits, the fashion designer Roy Halston – or simply Halston – was the last word in American glamour in the late 1960s and 70s. Now, with the Netflix series Halston telling his story, that name is set to […]
Watch to Watch Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, and More: April 2021
[ad_1] Zack Snyder goes from superheroes to zombies, Angelina Jolie fights fire with fire, and Emma Stone explores the outrageous origins of a Disney villainess in May’s top streaming picks. What to Watch on Netflix: May 2021 After the redemptive success of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (aka “The Snyder Cut”), director Zack Snyder […]
Monster review – Kelvin Harrison Jr anchors wrenching Netflix drama | Drama films
[ad_1] Although it screened back at the 2018 Sundance film festival, stark Harlem-set drama Monster about a black teen swallowed up by a cruel legal system, remains just as timely in 2021, a story of a grim predicament that would probably feel similarly relevant in another three or even six years down the line. Strange […]
‘I want people to understand what really happened’: did the Son of Sam serial killer act alone? | Documentary
[ad_1] The arrest of David Berkowitz on 10 August, 1977 brought to an end the largest manhunt yet in the New York City police department’s (NYPD) history and the city’s notorious “summer of fear”. The city was at the mercy of the the so-called Son of Sam serial killer who terrorized the city with random […]
Netflix shuffle: is the new ‘play something’ feature worth it? | Culture
[ad_1] If you log on to Netflix any time soon, you’re likely to see the words “play something” dangling below the profile icons on the menu screen. Click these words and you’ll be taken directly to the platform’s latest experiment in home entertainment: force feeding. Everyone, at some point or another, has suffered from Netflix’s […]
‘You’ll be whooping from your sofa!’ 25 hilarious standup sets to make everything better | Comedy
[ad_1] French comic Fary Lopes caused a stir at the Molière theatre awards in 2019 by addressing the crowd with “Salut les blancs!” (Hey, white people!). I love that his comedy is politically charged and cheeky; with Hexagone, he calls out the ridiculousness of everyday racism, the struggle of not quite fitting in back “home” […]
Things Heard and Seen review – moody Netflix thriller fails to haunt | Amanda Seyfried
[ad_1] To the annals of Bad Movie Husbands, let us add George Claire, the contemptible academic assayed by James Norton in the starchy new Netflix joint Things Heard and Seen. He checks every box on the list of tropes associated with silver-screen college professors: bookishly handsome, sure, but also self-absorbed, pretentious, entitled, condescending to his […]
‘What if Superman was your dad?’ Comics legend Mark Millar on Jupiter’s Legacy | Superhero TV
[ad_1] Mark Millar is remembering one of the best bits of advice he ever came across, something he read as a teenager that was said by Alan Moore, the legendary creator of such milestones in comics as Watchmen and V for Vendetta. “Never believe that you’re a genius,” quotes Millar, himself the creator of such […]
