Tag: Uncorked

  • ‘Uncorked’ Director Prentice Penny and Star Mamoudou Athie Talk Wine, Barbecue and Family Expectations

    ‘Uncorked’ Director Prentice Penny and Star Mamoudou Athie Talk Wine, Barbecue and Family Expectations

    It’s easy to feel intimidated by wine. All those hard-to-pronounce names, so many vineyards to remember. That’s the world Elijah, played by Mamoudou Athie, wants to enter in the new Netflix movie “Uncorked,” about a young man who dreams of taking the brutally difficult master sommelier exam instead of taking over his family’s Memphis barbecue…

  • Courtney B. Vance Talks, ‘Uncorked,’ Wine Tasting with Angela Bassett & ‘Lovecraft Country’

    Courtney B. Vance Talks, ‘Uncorked,’ Wine Tasting with Angela Bassett & ‘Lovecraft Country’

    Courtney B. Vance has been one of the best of the best for a while now, but rather than coast on his experience, he much prefers to go back to the beginning on every project. As he puts it, “It doesn’t matter if you’ve had all the experience or no experience, you still have to…

  • ‘Uncorked’: Film Review

    ‘Uncorked’: Film Review

    “Uncorked” kicks off on a delicious note of culture clash. As hectoring hip-hop pounds over the opening credits, the movie cuts back and forth between the owner of a Southern barbecue joint preparing the day’s fixins — grilling the pork ribs, stirring the tangy red sauce — and California vintners working their chem-lab alchemy to…

  • Apple and Netflix Cancel on SXSW as Coronavirus No-Shows Grow

    Apple and Netflix Cancel on SXSW as Coronavirus No-Shows Grow

    Coronavirus fears have impacted SXSW Film with Apple’s decision to pull out of SXSW entirely, a move that will preclude the premieres of the Spike Jonze’s documentary “Beastie Boys Story” as well as screenings of “Central Park” from “Bob’s Burgers” creator Loren Bouchard and the docuseries “Home.” Sources close to the situation said that the…