In the U.S., the miniseries format is undergoing a revival; internationally, it never went away. Here are a few stand-out miniseries you might've missed.
The Ending Of Identity Explained
The Ending Of Identity Explained Sony Pictures Releasing
By Leo Noboru Lima/May 19, 2021 8:27 pm EDT
Loosely adapted from Agatha Christie s And Then There Were None, 2003 s Identity exemplifies the ability of director James Mangold to keep up with the Hollywood times. Before refining the star-studded music biopic to its platonic ideal with Walk the Line and proposing a new kind of movie for the superhero era with Logan, he made arguably the most defining entry in the paranoia thriller resurgence of the 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s.
Like many of those nerve-racking movies, Identity starts with a simple enough premise: 11 strangers are stranded in a hotel during a rainstorm, and an unknown killer begins to kill them off one by one. But, again like all movies of its ilk, there s a complicating factor. We follow, in parallel, the hearing of a man convicted of multiple murders, whose execution may or may not be stayed on th
Why Royal From The Underground Railroad Looks So Familiar
Why Royal From The Underground Railroad Looks So Familiar Amazon Prime Video
By Leo Noboru Lima/May 10, 2021 5:11 pm EDT
Co-writing and directing the most critically acclaimed drama of the decade, beating the odds to win a historical Academy Award for Best Picture with it, following it up with another incredible Oscar-winning film, and making the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world will usually do wonders for your career. It s no surprise that Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenkins is at the top of the industry right now, and his latest work, The Underground Railroad, further demonstrates that.