“Steven had really transormed into Jacob, and I remember truly understanding the weight that my father had, and I thought, ‘What he is doing right now is very magical,’” said Lee Isaac Chung, who drew upon his own immigrant childhood growing up in Arkansas to write the script. Steven Yeun turned to his own memories of his father leaving behind a life as an architect in Seoul to come to the United States....
“Audiences around the world need let @netflix know that there is a real interest & demand for Season 3 of @MINDHUNTER_ if you make enough noise, It might actually happen…. #DavidFincher #mindhunter,” the “Amy” filmmaker wrote on Twitter. See below. Other directors on the series executive produced by Fincher included Tobias Lindholm, Andrew Dominik, and Carl Franklin. Back in 2020, Fincher said, “Listen, for the viewership that it had, it was an expensive show....
Eleanor, Karl Marx’s youngest daughter and one of his closest confidants, lived a life worthy of a Sub Pop soundtrack. She liked to play in her father’s office while he wrote “Das Kapital” and became his secretary at 16. Around the same time, the family took in Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray, a journalist who was exiled from France for his participation in the Paris Commune. At 17, Eleanor fell in love with the 35-year-old Lissagaray, who continued living with the Marx family for nearly a decade despite the family’s initial disapproval of the match....
The two certainly had a flirtatious bond, but a relationship could affect Eliza’s desire for a career, given William’s disdain for Eliza’s work. And in the second season premiere, which aired Sunday on PBS, it seemed like the pair were together. Then abruptly, William and Eliza realize a relationship isn’t in the cards for them and break up. The direction is certainly an interesting, if frustrating, move for the first episode of a new season....
Given the film’s bent toward the most literal of cinematic tropes and tricks — Steve tries to dream his way out of his horrible predicament by frequently pretending it’s all just a screenplay he’s writing in his head — it’s not the most shocking of choices, but it’s certainly a blunt one. While that storytelling conceit likely made more sense in the story’s original form, as a well-regarded 1999 novel by Walter Myers that was partially written as an actual screenplay, on the screen, it feels like yet another cheap way through a story demanding much more nuance....
Critics have panned the movie, which stars Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, a doctor who accidentally gives himself the powers of a vampire when he attempts to treat himself for a rare blood disease. “Morbius” appears to be failing with both fans and critics, as the film currently has a 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 67% is slightly better, but still low for a comic book film....
It’s August 3, 2007. We’re standing on the precipice of the most dire financial crisis since the Great Depression, but no one seems to know it yet. Good things are happening. A young senator named Barack Obama is sparking a new breed of American hope. “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” are about to open within a few weeks of each other. The iPhone has just been invented....
