The Underground Railroad (10 episodes) is on Amazon Prime from 14 May.
Following his work with Damien Chazelle (on Whiplash, 2014), Steve McQueen (on 12 Years a Slave, 2013), Adam McKay (on The Big Short, 2015; Vice, 2018; and Succession, 2018-), and especially Barry Jenkins, for whom he scored Moonlight (2016), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and now The Underground Railroad, 40-year-old Nicholas Britell has become one of the most sought-after contemporary film composers.
Britell’s collaborations with Jenkins have been especially close, with the two typically spending long hours together in the studio. On The Underground Railroad, that intimate process was initially disrupted by the pandemic, with Britell on the East Coast and Jenkins in Los Angeles, before Britell flew out and lived in a ‘production bubble’ with Jenkins and the crew.
National Media Reacts To Medina Spirit Scandal With Skepticism, Outrage Sponsored by:
As the situation surrounding Medina Spirit s positive betamethasone test has evolved through the course of this week, racing and mainstream media have covered the story extensively. The revelation that the 2021 Kentucky Derby winner failed an initial post-race drug test has also garnered op/eds from industry and non-industry publications. Most of those headlines express little patience for trainer Bob Baffert s explanation of the drug s presence.
In the interest of understanding how racing and its issues are viewed in the broader, non-racing world, the Paulick Report staff has compiled a sampling of those opinion and analysis pieces here, along with observations therein that we found particularly interesting. We encourage you to click the underlined links to read the full op/eds.
Apr 29, 2021
Shown is a house with broken windows caused by a hail storm that hit Norman Wednesday. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
Wednesday nightâs catastrophic hailstorm added to the list of damaging and severe weather events Norman has experienced over the past six months.
The damage done Wednesday night was extensive, residents said. With hail bigger than golf balls ripping through the city and destroying windows, cars and homes, residents described the events of Wednesday night as surreal and frightening.
âIt was so disorientating,â Ward 3 city councilor Alison Petrone said. âThere was this loud vibration of the roof getting pelted with enormous hail. Because it was so loud I assumed that it was a tornado, [so we] went into the storm shelter until it passed.â