Review: A New âMosquito Coast,â This Time With Narcos
An Apple TV+ series radically reimagines the Paul Theroux novel, even though it stars his nephew Justin.
Justin Theroux and Melissa George in “The Mosquito Coast,” a new (and very loose) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel.Credit.Apple TV+
April 29, 2021
The television series called âThe Mosquito Coastâ that premieres Friday on Apple TV+ has so little in common with the best-selling 1981 novel of that name that comparison doesnât get you far. This is true even though the novelist, Paul Theroux, is an executive producer of the show and his nephew Justin Theroux is the star.
Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and ideas and their response to the contemporary world – a civilization in crisis that they sought to describe or explore in depth from within. From Pier Paolo Pasolini’s