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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 …
Continue Reading about The Umbrella Academy’s Emmy Raver-Lampman’s Strange Coincidence
By Anne Brodie Longtime ABC News anchor, war correspondent and investigative reporter Bob Woodruff was sidelined from a stellar career when an Iraqi roadside bomb struck, leaving him with serious brain injuries. He worked his way back to health, and in order to help his son Mack face the …
Continue Reading about Father and Son Face Fears in Disney+’ Rogue Travels
By Anne Brodie J.J. Abrams produces a wonderfully analog series about a girl in New York, a voice and a dream starring Brittany O'Grady. Hers is anything but a Little Voice but she needs to find her way. "Bess' is always taking care of others, her autistic brother, father, backup band, …
Continue Reading about Brittany O’Grady Shines in Apple TV+’ New Series Little Voice.
By Anne Brodie Dave Franco does himself proud with The Rental, a horror film he wrote and directs starring Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Sheila Vand and Jeremy Allen White. Franco’s original take on the old couples-trapped-in-a remote-house trope is startling, authentic and psychologically …
Václav Marhoul's dark odyssey The Painted Bird follows a young orphan boy wandering through an identified Eastern European country in the closing days of World War II. The boy's episodic adventures are appalling, poignant and defy the idea of human goodness, he looks for food and a place to rest. …
Continue Reading about Udo Kier’s Unnerving and Brutal in The Painted Bird
