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[jailennard]

Season 2 of @thesinnerusa has ended but I’m glad my shoot with the amazingly talented @iamnataliepaul is still going strong 💪🏽💋 Now in @nextbigthingmag ✨📖✨ #thesinner #nataliepaul (at Øutpost Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpCIi5Ulsxq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i5lp7vs3g1rd

[kiradurbin]

Super Short Reviews: Summer tv part 2

The Outpost (CW) -- Reign meets the Shannara Chronicles?  Why do people in bad fantasy shows always have bad English accents?  If this had been made campy it could have been fun, like Xena was back in the day.  Unfortunately, I have no idea what they were going for here.

Burden of Truth (CW) -- The great thing about this show is that after the first episode they show you everything else thats going to happen - so you don’t have to watch it anymore.  I’m so impressed by how Kristen Kreuk looks exactly the same as she did when Smallville started 20 years ago.  She’s a walking talking Restylane ad!!

The Sinner (USA) -- ok ok so technically this is not a new show but the storyline has nothing to do with last year, so you should watch it even its only new to you.  Bill Pullman is weird and great and Carrie Coon is weird and great and Natalie Paul is not weird but still great and somehow they got Tracy Letts and  David Call in the mix too.  Its SO GOOD.

Making It (NBC) -- When I saw the ad with Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, I thought it was going to be a sendup - mockumentary style but a contest show.  (think something like Best In Show.)  It would have been soooooooooo funny if thats what it was!!  That’s not what it was.  

Lodge 49 (AMC) -- Where is this going?  What’s going to happen??  Nowhere and Nothing are the answers in the first 2 episodes.  uuuuuggggggghhhhhh

Carter (WGNAmerica) -- Is there a WGN Europe?  Or WGN Asia?  Or WGN Russia?  Why is this channel called WGN America???  Anyway...  Jerry O’Connell is back baby!!!  Did anyone miss him?  Probably not.  But here’s the catch of this show -- 1.  Donnie from Orphan Black (his real name is Charles Kristian Bonnycastle Bruun) is beloved by us alllllllll...  2. Brenda Kamino (who you probably don’t know) is hilarious... and 3.  From the first second this show starts, it makes fun of itself in all the right ways.  So guess what?  It’s fun.  And summer tv should be fun.  Even if it’s silly fun.  We all need a little more silly and fun.   So there.

[kiradurbin]

Super Short Reviews: Awards Season 2018 part three

(Awards season came and went - what movies should you actually see?)

Beatriz at Dinner -- The trailer for this makes it seem like a comedy.  Even the DVD box makes it seem like a comedy.  It’s NOT a comedy.  Beautiful performance from Selma Hayek, but super depressing film.

Victoria & Abdul -- Who knows how much of this story is true (the source material is Abdul’s journals), but it sure is fun and entertaining.  A must see for any Anglophile... surprising there wasn’t more recognition for Judi Dench’s second outing as Queen Victoria.  

Blade Runner 2049 -- Absolutely stunning visual effects and cinematography.  Story wise?  Menh.

Battle of the Sexes -- If you’re old enough, you will remember watching Billie Jean King on tv.  So the problem here is that while Steve Carrell comes off in an uncanny resemblance to Bobby Riggs, Emma Stone looks NOTHING like Billie Jean King.  Which bothered me way too much.  Also a homosexual relationship would have been a big deal at that time, but i never saw the emotional struggle from the performers.  Disappointing.

Boss Baby -- I’m not sure the premise of Alec Baldwin as a man-baby was strong enough to sustain me for 90 minutes... but I’m also definitely not the intended audience.  I laughed when he threw money.

The Lovers -- This one drove me nuts.  It wanted to be a sweet little indie movie about messy adult relationships... but the characters do such strange things, you’ll find it hard to relate to anyone.  Also no one who cant stand in turn out should ever teach ballet.  Ever!!  aaarrrrgggghhhhh

Crown Heights -- Lakeith Stanfield strikes again.   I was completely unfamiliar with this true heartbreaking story with a (somewhat) happy ending.  The director, Lakeith, and the excellent supporting cast do their best to make you feel 20 long years of true events in a short 94 minutes.  

Ingrid Goes West -- I loved this.  There are so many people in SoCal that are actually like this.  Sad and scary and real and hilarious all at the same time.  Aubrey Plaza is genius, and O’Shea Jackson Jr. is adorable.  Adorable!

Good Time -- oh hey there, Robert Pattinson can act now!  I guess he got that training he was talking about getting.  Benny Safdie, one of the co-directors gives a wonderful performance as well.  A solid, gritty indie.

Lady Mac**** -- (i don’t even like to write it) -- A solid, gritty, British indie.  Hard to watch as it’s such a realistic class reflection of 19th Century rural England.  (One imagines; I’m not actually that old.)  Florence Pugh and Cosmo Jarvis are wonderfully raw and remarkable.  One hopes one sees a lot more form them.

Patti Cake$ -- The feel good underdog movie of the year.  A truly brilliant diverse cast.  Plus New Jersey!  Plus hip hop!  The weirder it gets, the more it works.  See it!!

Murder on the Orient Express -- a vanity project for Kenneth Branagh for sure... there’s so much star power that’s completely wasted. i.e. Olivia Coleman barely even speaks.  But the art direction and costume design (as well as the opening location) of this period piece will take your breath away.  

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