The hit novel, Sweetbitter, makes its way to the small screen, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. Writer Stephanie Danler is a writer and producer on the new Starz series so the feel of the novel translates well. It’s 2006, and Tess (Ella Purnell) arrives in New York City in her beat-up car with no ambition and nothing but a few trash bags to her name. The only ambition she had was the drive to leave her Midwest home behind for something better. Needing a way to pay rent, she
Writer-director Melissa Miller Costanzo’s feature film debut, All These Small Moments, is an exploration of the moments that define what a person is. Teenager Howie (Brendan Meyer) is trying to get through his parents will they-or-won’t they divorce dance as best he can. His father, Tom (Brian d’Arcy James), still loves his wife but bumbles around wondering how they have lost their youthful passions. His mother, Carla (Molly Ringwald), has emotionally checked out of their marriage but is attempting how to keep their family working. Howie mostly tries to make everyone
Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith are the creative masterminds behind The CW’s Life Sentence, a dramedy about a young woman, Stella (Lucy Hale), who discovers her terminal cancer has been cured and must learn to live with all the choices she made when she thought she was dying. It’s the pair’s second show for the network—the first being Significant Mother back when The CW went by WB. And with each project, the duo has proven they know how to craft characters and storylines that resonate with audiences, and in 2013, they were recognized at the
Disobedience is Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s first English language film. He’s the 2017 winner of Best Forieng Language Film (for A Fantastic Woman) so the film itself is really well done, visually and stylistically. The film (based on the book by Naomi Alderman) begins with the death of a London Orthodox Jewish community’s Rav (Anton Lesser)–a super respected Rabbi–as he is preaching. His sole living family member is his estranged daughter Ronit (Rachel Weisz). Ronit left the community years ago and has been living in New York as a photographer. Feeling