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Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne Star in the Visually Beautiful but Narratively Mediocre Amazon Prime Series

Carnival Row Beautifully Stumbles into Its First Season

August 30, 2019 Cortland Jacoby Television, Television Reviews

Ever since the ending of the tumultuous final season of Game of Thrones, networks and streaming sites have been scrambling to find a replacement for it in the culture. HBO is trying to keep its hat in the ring with the Game of Thrones prequel, a Watchman series based on the comic, and the fantasy adaption of the His Dark Materials series. Netflix has the upcoming The Witcher, and Amazon Prime now has Carnival Row, premiering on the streaming platform this Labor Day weekend. If you are like me, you have a white walker sized hole in your television loving heart and while Carnival Row doesn’t fit the frame perfectly, it does its best to satisfy the craving, while making something new.

Jialing Zhang Discusses China’s One Child Policy in New Doc

August 15, 2019 Dean Rogers Interviews, Movies

On this edition of INTERVUE, a new documentary uncovers the fascinating untold history of China’s One-Child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment. The documentary is One Child Nation from Amazon Studios. I sat down with the movie’s co-director Jialing (Lynn) Zhang to discuss this powerful film.

Movie Revue "Suspiria"

Unsuccessful Reimagining of Suspiria

November 2, 2018 Derrick Dunn Movie Reviews, Movies

From Amazon Studios comes director Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 horror classic Suspiria. Patricia Hingle (Chloe Grace Moretz), a student at Markos Dance Academy, makes an appointment with Dr. Josef Klemperer (Lutz Ebersdorf) to control some paranoia she is experiencing. Naturally, Dr. Klemperer thinks that Patricia is just delusional, however after Patricia disappears, the doctor realizes that the young girl was telling the truth. Patricia’s disappearance sets our plot in motion as it creates an opening for Ohio native Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) at the studio.

Washington DC Red Carpet Premiere of Transparent

September 14, 2016 Renita Clarke Arts & Entertainment

The cast of Transparent at the Naval Memorial in DC (l to r: Trace Lysette, Jeffrey Tambor, Amy Landecker & Kathryn Hahn) Photo credit: Renita Clarke

Washington DC was rolling out the red carpet for the season three premiere of Amazon Studios’ Transparent. Transparent is about a family that splinters into disparate journeys on their continued path of self-discovery.

Chi-Raq’s Teyonah Parris and Spike Lee

November 29, 2015 Dean Rogers Interviews

This Friday, the newest Spike Lee’s joint Chi-Raq will open up in theaters. Based on the classic Greek comedy, Lysistrata, this modern day adaptation tells the story of Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) who tries to persuade other frustrated women to abstain from sex until their men agree to end the senseless cycle of violence in Chicago. I recently sat down with actress Teyonah Parris and director Spike Lee, as part of a media roundtable, to talk about this exciting movie.