Tag: The Resident

  • This Is Still the Weirdest Medical Drama Illness

    This Is Still the Weirdest Medical Drama Illness

    Television shows have never shied away from exploring the strange and unusual, and nothing exemplifies this better than medical dramas. The Resident, Grey’s Anatomy, New Amsterdam, House, and Nurse Junkie are just some of the many shows that have featured weird illnesses. Yet among the myriad of peculiar medical conditions depicted onscreen, there exists one…

  • Every Ti West Movie, Ranked Worst To Best

    Every Ti West Movie, Ranked Worst To Best

    Horror director Ti West came up through the world of micro-budget filmmaking. His early efforts were bankrolled by the likes of Larry Fessenden. He was also involved in the mumblecore movement thanks to a friendship with Joe Swanberg: They’ve even acted in each other’s movies. He has directed episodes of television shows as varied as “The Resident” and “Wayward Pines,” and…

  • ‘7 Days’: A Sweet-Natured & Empathetic Rom-Com For The Covid Era [Tribeca Review]

    ‘7 Days’: A Sweet-Natured & Empathetic Rom-Com For The Covid Era [Tribeca Review]

    Using the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic as a backdrop for a quarantine-style romantic comedy, Roshan Sethi’s directorial debut, “7 Days,” which pushes two ideologically opposed young Indian-American characters together during shelter-in-place, is a compact, empathetic wonder that only occasionally dips into overtly broad comedy. Co-written by Sethi, a co-creator of the popular Fox…

  • Film News Roundup: ‘Girls Trip’ Director Malcolm D. Lee Boards ‘The Spoils’

    Film News Roundup: ‘Girls Trip’ Director Malcolm D. Lee Boards ‘The Spoils’

    In today’s film news roundup, Malcolm D. Lee is developing an action comedy, a Steve McQueen biopic is in the works and the Meet the Press Film Festival is set for Oct. 7.Project Launches“Girls Trip” director-producer Malcolm D. Lee is developing the action comedy “The Spoils” for Lionsgate to produce through his Blackmaled Productions.The studio…

  • Bruce Greenwood, ’24’s Leslie Hope To Star In ‘Exposure’

    Bruce Greenwood, ’24’s Leslie Hope To Star In ‘Exposure’

    Bruce Greenwood (The Post, The Resident), Leslie Hope (24, Crimson Peak), and Jeff Kober (Sully, Sons of Anarchy) will topline the indie drama, Exposure, directed by Jerry Ciccoritti. The story centers around Melanie (Hope), who is many years sober and contentedly married to Frank (Greenwood) until a sudden terminal diagnosis leads her to leave everything…

  • Melina Kanakaredes To Co-Write & Produce Film Based On Life Of ‘On Death & Dying’ Author Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    Melina Kanakaredes To Co-Write & Produce Film Based On Life Of ‘On Death & Dying’ Author Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    Melina Kanakaredes (The Resident) has teamed with Das Films for an indie feature on the life of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, inspired by Kübler-Ross’ book The Wheel of Life: A Memoir Of Living and Dying. Kanakaredes will co-write the project, with Immortals scribes Vlas and Charley Parlapanides, and will produce via her Melpa Productions shingle. Kanakaredes acquired…