By Anne Brodie What does the moment of peak human performance feel like? Apple TV+’ six-part, short doc series The Greatness Code helps us understand in conversations with some of the world’s greatest athletes, LeBron James, Tom Brady, Alex Morgan, Usain Bolt, Shaun White, Katie …
Siobhan Finneran: from Wicked Lady’s Maid to Comic Seductress in The Other One
By Anne Brodie Siobhan Finneran was scheming lady’s maid O’Brien in Downton Abbey, an unforgettable performance in a classic series. And her career is on fire. Finneran has played the gamut of roles and characters and goes for broke as the saucy grieving mistress in Acorn TV’s The Other One. …
Gotham Chopra on Transformative Greatness
By Anne Brodie Documentary filmmaker Gotham Chopra, the son of Deepak Chopra, wanted to know what happens to athletes at their moments of peak performance, so he asked the world’s greatest. LeBron James, Tom Brady, Alex Morgan, Usain Bolt, Shaun White, Katie Ledecky, and Kelly Slater share the …
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Queen Beyoncé, The Umbrella Academy Even Better S2, Nic Cage and the Stellan Skarsgård Keep On Truckin’ Against the Odds
By Anne Brodie Black is King is Beyoncé’s long awaited and stirring visual album, a reimagining of the music of The Lion King traces African roots, lineage, history, culture and music. It’s aimed at “young kings and queens in search of their own crowns” and was shot over a year in New York, Los …
The Umbrella Academy’s Emmy Raver-Lampman’s Strange Coincidence
By Anne Brodie Season Two of Netflix’ The Umbrella Academy debuts this week and fans couldn’t be more excited. I’ve had a peek and will say this season exceeds the excellent first series oin its scope and imagination. OK so Sir Reginald Hargreeves is dead and the superhero children he adopted …
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