By Iain Blair
Reasonable Doubt, from executive producer and director Kerry Washington, is a new crime drama from Hulu and Onyx Collective. The series is centered on a high-powered female criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, Jax Stewart (Emayatzy Corinealdi), who uses her questionable moral compass to guide her through the policies and laws in the LA legal system.
Netflix’s Keep Breathing is a character drama that deals with emotional struggle as well as mental health issues all wrapped in a survival series. It’s about a strong female lawyer, Liv, lost in the woods after her small plane goes down in the Canadian wilderness.
It was shot on a Sony Venice with Zeiss Supreme Prime Radiance lenses by DP Alicia Robbins,
Born in Communist Poland and now living in the United States, DP Anka Malatynska has worked on everything from shorts to episodics. Her recent projects include HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer and four episodes of Hulu’s Monsterland.
If you are of a certain age, the TV series Saved by the Bell likely played a role in your adolescence. The show was so beloved that Peacock brought it back for a reboot in 2020, and it featured some of the same beloved characters (looking at you, Zack) as the original.
Cinematographer Tom Magill,
By Randi Altman
There are just a few shows that are instantly recognizable, and Netflix’s Ozark is one of them. That familiar blue hue highlighting the darkness of the storyline.
Well, sadly, it was time for the story of the money-laundering power couple, Marty and Wendy Byrde, to come to an end.
Born in France but now living in Los Angeles, DP Johanna Coelho has worked on a variety of projects, including narrative films, music videos and episodics. Her last feature, And Then There Was Eve, won the Jury Award at the LA Film Festival. Her recent television work includes Killer Siblings on Oxygen and ABC’s The Rookie.
By Randi Altman
Netflix’s comedy Grace and Frankie is coming to an end with its seventh and final season. Initially focused on how two women deal with their longtime husbands leaving them for each other, the series has evolved to be so much more. The audience gets a deep dive on how this modern-day Odd Couple deals with friendship between women,
Cinematographer Brian Rigney Hubbard recently finished work on the musical feature Beau, a film adaptation of the musical of the same name. The feature involved the combined efforts of acting and craft talent from the worlds of Broadway and film.
It was directed by Josh Rhodes,
By Randi Altman
Some people took up knitting, making bread or drinking lots of wine during the pandemic. Others (OK, me) became obsessed with British crime dramas. One of those shows is Shetland, which is now streaming Season 6 on BritBox in the US.
The show takes place on Shetland,
The film Asking For It follows Joey, a young woman from a small town in the South who is sexually assaulted by an old friend. Her life then spirals out of control, and things appear hopeless until she links up with a gang of female vigilantes hell-bent on enacting their own brand of justice and accountability.
Last October, Fox Entertainment’s Tubi entered into the original content arena and announced it would be airing 140 hours of programming across its assortment of services. After seeing success with its “Terror on Tubi” campaign from last year, the streamer has been expanding its horror library, most recently premiering the possession tale Unborn,
The Hand of God, which has was nominated for an Oscar in the Best International Feature category, was written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, The Great Beauty, The Young Pope). The film tells the story of Fabietto Schisa, a teen growing up in Naples in the 1980s.
By Randi Altman
Apple TV+’s The Afterparty is a murder-mystery-comedy that focuses on a murder at a high school reunion’s after-party, and everyone is a suspect. Each episode focuses on a different character’s point of view as they are questioned by a detective. Their stories are told in a variety of ways,
Stoker Hills, directed by Benjamin Louis, has a fantastic horror film plot: Three college students set off to shoot a scary movie in an isolated town but are kidnapped by a serial killer. Worst. Nightmare. Ever. Their only hope is a pair of detectives using the left-behind footage to find them.
John Orphan was director of photography on the film,
By Iain Blair
Director Joe Wright and director of photography Seamus McGarvey have collaborated on several award-winning films, including Atonement and Anna Karenina. Their latest project is Cyrano, a new version of the classic love story “Cyrano de Bergerac,” shot entirely on location in Sicily.
By Iain Blair
Academy Award-winning writer/director Aaron Sorkin and cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, ASC, first worked together on the David Fincher-directed film The Social Network. Now Sorkin and Cronenweth have reteamed on Being the Ricardos, Sorkin’s behind-the-scenes comedy/drama starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (both Oscar-nominated for their roles),