Tag: Kings
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Sebastian Stan and Ian McShane Made This One-Season Drama a Must-Binge
Way back when the 2007 WGA Strike was looming over the network’s heads, one last show made it through NBC’s greenlighting round. Said show was simply titled Kings, contrasting greatly with the ambitious scope it would eventually display. Created by Michael Green, who by that time had worked on Smallville, Everwood, and Heroes, the series…
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TV, Interrupted: Kings Was A Contemporary Biblical Retelling That Never Got Its Day Of Judgment
(Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.)I usually avoid watching TV shows that were prematurely canceled. I like stories to have resolution and don’t want to invest when I know I won’t…
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‘Birds of Passage’s’ Cristina Gallego Produces Laura Mora’s Next (Exclusive)
Cristina Gallego, producer-director of 2018 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit “Birds of Passage,” is set to produce “Kings of the World,” the second feature by Colombia’s Laura Mora. Mora’s “Killing Jesus” marked one of the most notable of recent Latin American debuts.Shooting this month in Medellin and Bajo Cauca, Colombia, “Kings” is set up at Gallego’s…
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‘The American Sector’ Speaks Volumes About Freedom With Eloquent Silence [Berlin Review]
“And on the pedestal these words appear:/‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;/Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!’/Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare.”Percy Bysshe Shelley’s iconic poem, “Ozymandias,” since its publication in 1818, has endured as a tribute to the diminishing power of empires and the insubstantiality…
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Forbidden Romance ‘Disobedience’ Soars at Specialty Box Office
Thanks to two stars named Rachel — Weisz and McAdams — “Disobedience” led a batch of new films from arthouse auteurs this weekend. This story of forbidden love in a London synagogue setting, like director Sebastián Lelio’s Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman,” deals with gay characters fighting for their right to love despite societal taboos. It…