Tag: Netflix
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Is Alex Honnold Today’s American Houdini?
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent For those of us who watched Netflix Sports SKYSCRAPER LIVE last week on Sunday, Jan. 25, that being the live climb of the Taipei 101 building by FREE SOLO phenom climber Alex Honnold, staring at the screen was an exercise in itself. Full disclosure, even with Netflix’s 10 second…
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Hwood 2025: The Year of the Cat… in the Hat?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent On the night of Dec. 14, 2025, by about 8:44 pm on that fateful Sunday night before Hanukkah, 99% of Hollywood knew or believed that Rob Reiner had been a victim of parricide. Texts have been flying since. But in those crucial hours post-slaying, in a small town like…
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Director Rachel Feldman on LILLY, Patricia Clarkson, Netflix debut
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Imagine you’re a rookie film director, you land Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson with her unmistakable New Orleans guile plus a very fine cast including actors John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski for a movie about one of America’s unsung, true-life, gutsy working women? Director Rachel Feldman did just…
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STUTZ is Jonah Hill’s free gift for your brain from his therapist Phil on Netflix
Phil Stutz nails the point with “you have to give somebody the feeling they can change right now… you’re giving out the signal to the world ‘I need you because I can’t do this by myself. Take action, no matter how frightened you are… this is such a great moment right now.”
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THE LOST DAUGHTER’s Gotham Awards sweep ignites Award Season lift-off
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Most popularly known for that face-off with the Joker in smash hit THE DARK KNIGHT as “Batman’s girlfriend,” Maggie Gyllenhaal has come so very far from the bat cave. While Gyllenhaal’s first feature THE LOST DAUGHTER just swept the Gotham Awards, including top gongs for best screenplay and director…
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Startling THE STARLING is Melissa McCarthy at her dramatic best for you
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent As if there is not enough drama and sorrow on the world stage right now, two-time Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy plays Lilly Maynard, a mother with a great loss that she shares with broken husband Jack Maynard (Chris O’Dowd also from BRIDESMAIDS) and a flock of angry birds in…
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Why Amy Adams’ THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is very watch-worthy
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, and Anthony Mackie is in some ways the Perfect Pandemic Panacea. Even though this movie was delayed a full year because of COVID-19, it has finally arrived this month from 20th Century Fox on Netflix. And this film is…
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Ted Sarandos headlines at BANFF’s World Media Fest Summit set for Summer
Curated by Screenmancer Staff BANFF, CANADA: The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) is proud to announce Netflix’s Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos is set to speak in a virtual keynote as part of the Festival’s renowned Summit Series lineup. The session is scheduled on the Festival’s opening day Monday, June 14th. “Over the…
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Screenmancer’s Best Picture is The TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
by Screenmancer Staff We were late to view THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 from Netflix, the political party powerhouse picture penned by Aaron Sorkin, but we will not overlook the reality that it is Best Picture of the Year. We loved MANK, also a Netflix project which displays the craftsmanship and hallmarks of a…
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Amanda Seyfried’s Marion Davies nabs storied Montecito Award at SBIFF
Curated by Screenmancer Staff Amanda Seyfried will receive the Montecito Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Seyfried will be honored on Friday, April 9th and will be recognized for her impressive career and performance in David Fincher’s MANK from Netflix, for which she recently received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations.…
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Kristen may be a Stewart after all, or former Windsor, as Lady Diana in SPENCER
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Zeitgeist moments happen with movies, and Pablo Larrain’s upcoming Netflix release SPENCER starring Kristen Stewart may just be that spark that brings back the power of Lady Diana into the world. Forgive the hyperbole. With the House of Windsor fractured, meaning Prince Harry in California and HRH Prince William as…
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Award Season’s first salvo is Gary Oldman’s Oscar-worthy MANK
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “Times are changing, Mr. Mankiewicz,” says GOT’s Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst in the Gary Oldman starrer MANK, but have they really changed? Hearst is TPTB or the powers that be, paying half the salary of CITIZEN KANE screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz without his knowledge. And that’s the…
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Not Tarantino, Sarantinos from Creative Screenwriting touts Ozark Showrunner, Gigs, Contests
by Screenmancer Staff Just in time to relieve your writing-related depression… Notice how close the word relieve is to relive? Digression aside, the editor-in-chief of “Creative Screenwriting” is here to throw you a lifeline back to happiness. Or relative almost-happiness, given the MyCorona, riots, wild fires, you name it. For a Monday, this actually cheered…
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Omertà not so much in FEAR CITY: NEW YORK vs. THE MAFIA coming July 22
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If you grew up in any major East Coast metro area in the 1970’s, you kind of knew which streets were safe, or in the case of Boston’s North End, which were La Cosa Nostra (our cause). Say restaurants and shops fronted by Gennaro “Jerry” Anguilo of the Anguilo…
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DA 5 BLOODS Director Knows More About Movies Than You Do, Watch It
by Screenmancer Staff You’re going to watch Netflix’s presentation of Spike Lee’s New Joint DA 5 BLOODS. which was released on June 12, right? So here’s the Top 5 Things you should know beforehand. Number one? Spike Lee knows more than you do about filmmaking so don’t bitch about the kooky structure, the Jurassic Park…
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