Netflix’s new catch: Shonda Rhimes
Netflix has been busy competing with TV networks and other on-demand providers by partnering up with some big names lately. Perhaps the most exciting of them is TV mastermind Shonda Rhimes, producer of hits Scandal
HBO is ‘Insecure’ in the hands of anonymous hacker
More leaks of HBO data occurred on Sunday, including the latest episode of Issa Rae’s Insecure and episodes from the upcoming season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, not set to air until October. “We are not in
‘Good Time’, ‘Ingrid Goes West’, ‘The Nile Hilton Incident’
Do date night right this weekend with Film Daily's picks. Embark on a twisted odyssey in ‘Good Time’, starring Robert Pattinson in the lead.
We watched it so you don’t have to: ‘Landline’
Logline: Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie) tries to save soporific, nostalgic 90s coming-of-age dramedy in which sisters find out their father is cheating. Verdict: Jenny Slate (Obvious Child) has a voice that could strip paint. With such
We watched it so you don’t have to: ‘To The Bone’
Logline: Lily Collins (Okja) and her epic eyebrows suffer from poor little white girl syndrome while battling anorexia. Verdict: This movie of the week has most of the hallmarks of its genre, but with the added bonus
We watched it so you don’t have to: ‘Gypsy’
Logline: Bored psychologist (Naomi Watts) has terminal case of poor little rich white girl syndrome as she begins to blur the ethical line by getting involved in her patients’ lives. Verdict: Although it’s not quite as
‘Some Freaks’, ‘It’s Not Yet Dark’, ‘Wind River’
Do date night right this weekend with Film Daily's picks. Meet a one-eyed high school teenager in ‘Some Freaks’, a coming-of-age story with a twist.
‘Ozark’ faces more than one darkness in “Tonight We Improve”
One of the defining traits of Ozark is its embrace of darkness, not merely in regards to character but also in a literal sense. So many of the show’s pivotal scenes take place as shadows
‘A Boy Called Po’: Cloying, cliched magical autism
Hollywood studios love to treat autism as a condition rife with not only difficulties but magical abilities, usually of the mathematical sort. Filmmakers rarely have real experience with autism, and it’s easier for people ascribe
High school life, blemishes and all, in superb ‘Some Freaks’
Most people’s high school experiences don’t involve magical makeovers into popular kids or Diablo Cody-scripted witty banter. Chances are your high school experience was more awkward and clumsy: zits and mumbled pouting instead of CW-ready