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TV Recap: ‘The Staircase’ Episodes Episode 1 – 3 Unraveling of the Family
Spoilers Below INTRODUCTION Antonio Campos and Maggie Cohn created The Staircase miniseries based on a true-crime docu-series of the same name. The miniseries Episode One “911”, Episode Two “Chiroptera,” and Episode Three “The Great Dissembler” feature a family slowly falling apart after Michael Peterson (Colin Firth) finds his wife, Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette), dead at […] More
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TV Recap: ‘Julia’ Season 1 Episode 8 – “Chocolate Souffle” – New Chapter
Spoilers Below INTRODUCTION In Julia‘s eighth episode, “Chocolate Souffle,” directed by Scott Ellis, Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) almost decides to cancel The French Chef because of her disagreeable encounter with Betty Friedan (Tracee Chimo Pallero). WGBH President Hunter Fox (Robert Joy) starts the episode feeling invigorated by the cooking program’s fame. He hands the reign […] More
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Interview: An Insightful Conversation with ‘Raised By Wolves’ Actor Abubakar Salim
Spoilers Below Awards Radar recently got to sit down with British actor Abubakar Salim, who plays Father in the critically acclaimed HBO Max show Raised by Wolves, created by Aaron Guzikowski. Raised by Wolves centers around two androids named Mother and Father raising human children, the future leaders of atheist humankind, on an alien planet. […] More
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TV Recap: ‘Julia’ Season 1 Episode 7 – “Foie Gras” – Questions of Ethics
Spoilers Below INTRODUCTION In Julia Season One Episode Seven, ” Foie Gras,” directed by Jenee LaMarque, Julia Child’s (Sarah Lancashire) bubble is burst by Feminist icon Betty Friedan (Tracee Chimo Pallero) during a New York-based gala honoring The French Chef. Julia takes her husband Paul Cushing Child (David Hyde Pierce), best friend Avis DeVoto (Bebe […] More
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Warner Bros. Could Release ‘Batgirl’ in Theaters
The film is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and stars Leslie Grace, J.K. Simmons, Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton. More
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TV Recap: ‘Julia’ Season 1 Episode: 6 “Bread vs. Sweetbreads” – Julia’s Community of Women
Spoilers Below INTRODUCTION In Julia Season One Episode Six, ” Bread vs. Sweetbreads,” directed by Melanie Mayron, Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) re-shoots an episode of The French Chef. The French Chef staff starts the week excited about their time off. During a review of an edit of the next The French Chef episode, Director Russ […] More
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Watch the Opening Sequence from ‘The Batman’
The Batman is, undisputedly, one of the year’s biggest success stories, so far. Warner Bros has seen their new incarnation of the superhero do huge business at the box office, receive critical acclaim (including this rave review from our own Joey Magidson), and maybe even position itself for an awards campaign down the road. So, […] More
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TV Recap: ‘Julia’ Season 1 Episode 5: “Crepes Suzette” – Golden Gate Adventures
Spoilers Below INTRODUCTION In Julia Season One Episode Five,” Crepe Suzette,” directed by Jenee LaMarque, Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) travels to San Francisco with director Russ Morash (Fran Kranz), her husband Paul Cushing Child (David Hyde Pierce), and book editor Judith Jones (Fiona Glascott) to promote The French Chef. Julia starts to love her newfound […] More
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TV Recap: ‘Julia’ Season 1 Episode 4 – ” Petit Fours” – Downside of Fame
Spoilers Below INTRODUCTION In Julia Season One Episode Four, directed by Erica Dunton, Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) struggles to figure out how to deal with fame as a woman in the early 1960s. At the same time, associate producer Alice Naman (Brittany Bradford) attempts to broadcast The French Chef in markets outside of Boston. The […] More
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TV Recap: ‘Julia’ Season 1 Episode 1-3: Launch of Cooking Icon
Spoilers Below INTRODUCTION Today, HBO Max launched the first three episodes of Julia Season One, created by and written by co-executive producer Daniel Goldfarb. The other executive producer of this American biographical comedy-drama detailing the rise of Julia Child’s The French Chef is Christopher Keyser. In Episode One, ” Omelet,” directed by Charles McDougall, both […] More
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Interview: Rhys Darby on Playing a Gentleman Pirate in ‘Our Flag Means Death’
New Zealand native Rhys Darby is a very talented and funny performer, best known for playing hapless band manager Murray Hewitt on HBO’s Flight of the Conchords. Now, Darby is back on television and collaborating with fellow Kiwi Taika Waititi, following their work together on What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the […] More
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Interview: The Cast of ‘Minx’ Talk About Capturing the 70’s Era
HBO Max’s comedy television show Minx Season One executive produced by showrunner/creator Ellen Rapoport, Paul Feig, and Dan Magnante, takes place in 1970s Los Angeles. Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest young feminist reporter, reluctantly joins forces with low-rent erotic publisher Doug (Jake Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women. Doug’s right-hand woman Tina […] More