TV Review: 'Ms. Marvel'
►"Another win for Marvel's hero-minting factory." THR TV critic
Angie Han reviews Disney+'s
Ms. Marvel. Marvel's latest superhero origin story centers on Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a 16-year-old Pakistani American Muslim — and Captain Marvel superfan — growing up in New Jersey.
The review. —
Casting news. Coda star Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy have nabbed lead roles in producer Sofia Coppola’s
Fairyland adaptation for American Zoetrope. The film is based on Alysia Abbott’s
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father — widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott — amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.
The story. —
Industry reckoning. Japanese auteur and Cannes favorite Naomi Kawase has been accused of violent behavior towards her staff and crew, including an assault that left an employee’s face swollen.
THR's
Gavin Blair reports that Kawase's Summer Olympics film
Tokyo 2020 Side A, which recently premiered at Cannes, bombed on its opening weekend in Japan after following the revelation that the filmmaker assaulted an assistant director and an employee.
The story. In other news... —Netflix drops
first trailer for mystery series 1899 from creators of Dark —Boy Scouts doc
trailer Leave No Trace explores alleged century-long sexual abuse cover-up —
Resident Evil:
Netflix series trailer unveils more monsters —
Entertainment Tonight hosts
Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner to emcee Daytime Emmys —Warner Bros. Discovery
launches comedic voices program —Top Toronto Film Fest programmer
Steve Gravestock steps down —A+E Networks promotes
Juliana Stock to chief marketing and brand officer —Annapurna Interactive taps
Solar Ash game director to helm internal development studio What else we're reading... —Martin Scorsese's beautiful tribute to the late Ray Liotta [
Guardian]
—Dave Itzkoff's great profile of the MCU's newest star,
Ms. Marvel's Iman Vellani [
NYT]
—Adam Nayman interviews David Cronenberg on body horror and his new film
Crimes of the Future [
New Yorker]
—Perri Nemiroff interviews DeWanda Wise who reveals why she had to give up a plum part in
Captain Marvel [
Collider]
—Josef Adalian on why the overwhelming amount of new and returning TV content this spring wasn't good for anyone [
Vulture]
Today... ...in 1985, Richard Donner's
The Goonies hit the big screen. The 109-minute film, featuring a story by Steven Spielberg and exec produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, was a box office and critical hit and would go on to become an enduring family favorite.
The original review. Today's birthdays:
Tom Jones (🎂82🏴 ), James Ivory (94), Emily Ratajkowski (31), Karl Urban (50), Liam Neeson (70), Marisol Padilla Sánchez (49), Michael Cera (34), Bill Hader (44), Anna Torv (43), Daniel Scheinert (35), Dave Filoni (48), Lance Reddick (59), Larisa Oleynik (41), Helen Baxendale (52), Lyndon Smith (33), William Forsythe (61), Amy Nuttall (40), Tom McCarthy (56), Adam Buxton (53), Dave Navarro (55), Ellen Wroe (34), Amrita Rao (41)
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