Naomi Watts in director Małgorzata Szumowska’s Infinite StormPhoto: Bleecker Street Joel and Ethan Coen definitely understood the impact upon an audience of telling them, as they subversively did with 1996’s Fargo, that what they were about to watch is “based on a true story.” The use of those words helped set and frame has certain […]
Pablo Schreiber in HaloPhoto: Paramount+ A couple of years back—that is, when the casting new first broke—The AV Club ran a Newswire headline summing up the paradox inherent to the series that would eventually become Paramount+’s Halo: “Interesting actor Pablo Schreiber to play boring hero Master Chief.” Three years later, those words have turned at […]
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