TV Review: 'Tell Me Lies'
►"More than a guilty pleasure." THR TV critic
Angie Han reviews Hulu's
Tell Me Lies. Based on the novel by Carola Lovering, the series traces the toxic relationship between Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White) over eight years, from college to young adulthood.
The review. —
"Bad, but brief." THR's chief TV critic
Dan Fienberg reviews Peacock's
Last Light. Lost star Matthew Fox returns to TV as an oil scientist in a five-part environmental thriller series.
The review. —
"Worth almost every penny." THR film critic
Leslie Felperin reviews Walter Hill's
Dead for a Dollar. Playing out of competition in Venice, the 80-year-old action veteran's western features Christoph Waltz, Rachel Brosnahan, Willem Dafoe, Warren Burke, Brandon Scott and Benjamin Bratt.
The review. —
"Didn't need all the horror do-dads." Leslie reviews Joanna Hogg's Venice competition entry
The Eternal Daughter. Tilda Swinton plays both mother and daughter in what is effectively a third episode in the
Souvenir series.
The review. —
"A poignant tribute to a filmmaking family." THR critic Stephen Farber reviews Chris Smith's
Sr. The film incorporates revealing interviews with family members and famous friends like Norman Lear and Alan Arkin in this portrait of Robert Downey Sr. that premiered at Telluride.
The review. —
"Uneven but involving." THR's chief film critic
David Rooney reviews Gianni Amelio's Venice competition entry
Lord of the Ants. Luigi Lo Cascio plays a public intellectual whose sexuality made him an inquisition target in late 1960s Rome, with Elio Germano as a reporter determined to tell his story fairly, in this Venice competition entry.
The review. In other news... —Jordan Peele’s stop-motion horror fantasy
Wendell & Wild gets delightfully wicked trailer —Ben Kingsley to
receive Zurich Film Festival lifetime achievement honor —Steven Spielberg’s
The Fabelmans to close AFI Fest —Colin Farrell
to be honored at Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS —WWE promotes
“Triple H” Paul Levesque to content chief, Frank Riddick to additional role of president —Cara Sheppard
named president of Picture Shop —Fox Entertainment and Gordon Ramsay’s
Studio Ramsay makes first key exec hire —Fremantle bosses
to give Mipcom keynote What else we're reading... —Lucas Shaw reports that Comcast is lining up $1b in budget cuts at its TV networks [
Bloomberg]
—Heather Somerville reports that disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, incredibly, is seeking a new trial [
WSJ]
—Shirley Li reflects on "minor miracle"
Rogue One ahead of the release of Disney+
Star Wars series
Andor [
Atlantic]
—With the final season of
The Good Fight debuting this week, Maureen Dowd profiles the always great Christine Baranski [
NYT]
—Interesting Delia Cai piece on the death of the professional try-hard as we all return to the office life [
VF]
Today... Today's birthdays: Evan Rachel Wood (35),
Jonathan Majors (33), Jodie Turner-Smith (36), Leslie Jones (55), Hannah John-Kamen (33), Toby Jones (56), Alex Kurtzman (49), Dario Argento (82), Devon Sawa (44), Shannon Elizabeth (49), Benjamin Hollingsworth (38), Dean-Charles Chapman (25), Athena Karkanis (41), J. Smith-Cameron (65), Oliver Hudson (46), Michael Emerson (68), Diane Farr (53), Tom Everett Scott (52), David Dawson (40), Julie Kavner (72), Angie Everhart (53), Chrissie Hynde (71)