TV series
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After two disappointing films, will it be 3rd time lucky for the legendary HALSTON
Will it be 3rd time lucky for Halston? One of the most successful fashion designers who was such a phenomenon in the 197Os has so far been so badly served by two less-than-adequate. First Ultrasuede : In Search of Halston in 2013 and then in 2019 Frédéric Tcheng disappointing and rather clumsy Halston. …
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Kate Winslet shines in HBO’s Mare of Easttown
Unlike other film actresses in her age group Oscar winner Kate Winslet has not suddenly started re-focusing her career onto playing roles in TV series. Even though her very first one Mildred Pierce potted her a Golden Globe in 2012. Winslet, recently seen on the Big Screen in Francis Lee’s glorious sophomore movie Ammonite,…
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Naked and Invisible
How do you get naked in public without being arrested? Double world body painting champion Carolyn Roper camouflages people to disappear in public places. Then they pounce! In a series for UK’s Channel 4 Roper shows how her provocative art attracts the attention of surprised and delighted passersby. None more so than when her…
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Black Hats are The New Black
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy the thoroughly entertaining award-winning Israeli award winning series The New Black , but it does help. Set in an upscale Yeshiva in Jerusalem, the story is about four young ‘shababnicks’. This we soon learn is a term for a young ultra-Orthodox person who leaves his or…
