If you re ever thirsty on Long Island, look for a dive bar called The Dickens. It s a nice place, from all accounts. There are books everywhere, a group of sweet,
The HBO limited series “Mare of Easttown” concluded its seven-episode run on Sunday night, drawing the family murder mystery to a close in a twisty finale that remained focused on the human element at the center of the drama. If you’ve now got a “Mare”-sized hole in your viewing schedule, fear not, there’s plenty more to stream from the makers and stars of the series.
Queen of the South,
I Am Legend, and her breakout performance in
City of God, and will be appearing next
The Suicide Squad, starring alongside Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, and Viola Davis.
Hypnotic is due to start filming on
September 20, 2021, restarting production that was delayed from its initial start date in April 2020. But while plenty of movies that were delayed due to the pandemic were able to get things rolling again late last year and early this year,
Hypnotic faced a few other hurdles that led to this late start.
Back in September 2020, the producers of
Hypnotic filed a lawsuit accusing their insurance company of refusing to extend their policy to account for the pandemic. Per Variety, the producers had purchased a cast insurance policy from Chubb National worth $58 million, which would be paid out in the event that Affleck or Rodriguez became ill or died, making them unavailable during production. But the policy had an expiration date of October 28,
Patricia Highsmith at 100: the best film adaptations Guy Lodge
Graham Greene famously declared Patricia Highsmith “the poet of apprehension” in the foreword to her 1970 short story collection
Eleven. There’s no better way to describe the American writer, whose psychological thrillers meld gliding literary cool with a jangling morass of nerves – a combination, in turn, that film-makers have been trying to translate since the middle of the last century. This coming Tuesday marks the centenary of Highsmith’s birth, and her allure to screenwriters remains undimmed in 2021. A glossy new Ben Affleck-starring film of her novel
Deep Water, the first film from Adrian Lyne in 19 years, is scheduled for August, while a TV version of