Tag: High Fidelity
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This Week In Trailers: The Climb, Jamtara, The Truth, High Fidelity, Journeys Through French Cinema
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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‘High Fidelity’ Teaser: Zoe Kravitz Counts Down Her Most Memorable Heartbreaks
It’s all about 808s and heartbreak for Zoe Kravitz, who stars in the Hulu’s High Fidelity series, based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. But this a new High Fidelity for a modern age, taking only loose inspiration from the 1995 Hornby novel, which is likely best known by the John Cusack…
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TV Bits: ‘High Fidelity’, ‘Pennyworth’, ‘The Forever House’, ‘Jack Ryan’, and More
In this edition of TV Bits: New photo from Hulu’s female-fronted spin on High Fidelity The Forever House, a new anthology series from Hellboy creator Mike Mignola Amazon’s Jack Ryan gets a new showrunner for its third season The original cast of Lizzie McGuire is returning for the Disney+ sequel series Pennyworth has been renewed…
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‘State of the Union’: Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd to Lead Nick Hornby Short Form Comedy
SundanceTV and Sundance Now have picked up ten episodes of “State of the Union,” a comedy series starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd, from “High Fidelity” team Stephen Frears and Nick Hornby. Pike and O’Dowd play a married couple in therapy; Each ten-minute episode takes place at their local pub during the moments before their…
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Modern Life Is Rubbish review – flaccid 90s-era romdram
Clearly inspired by Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, this story of the glorious beginning of an affair and its grim end lacks real spark‘Modern” isn’t exactly the word; this is a well-meaning but flaccid and cliched 90s-style relationship dramedy clearly inspired by Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity and the resulting Stephen Frears movie with a…
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Disney plots High Fidelity TV series with female lead
A new version of Nick Hornby’s romcom will focus on a female record-store owner chronicling her past relationships and will be shown on the studio’s streaming serviceDisney is reportedly planning a gender-flipped television adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity. The book was made into a movie by Stephen Frears in 2000, with John…