Latest news with #Caught
Sydney Morning Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Watched everything? Here are seven hidden gems you might have missed
So many options but nothing that floats your boat? Can't find anything new and exciting to dive into? Despite the monthly drops of titles from the band of streamers, wading through the hype and the home pages can be oddly frustrating and frequently unrewarding. So here are some suggestions, recent drama series that you might've missed that could fit the bill and warm the winter nights. Or at least keep you happily absorbed through the chills. Toxic Town (Netflix) Jack Thorne wrote Adolescence, one of the year's standout drama series. Here he tackles a different social issue in a four-part drama based on an actual case in the UK. In 2009, a group of mothers from the Northamptonshire town of Corby took legal action against a local steelworks, claiming its harmful waste had caused limb deformities in their babies. In the mould of Mr Bates vs The Post Office, this quietly powerful drama chronicles an historic legal action in which working-class litigants, initially unprepared for the entrenched opposition they're facing, refuse to give up the fight. Directed in low-key style by Minkie Spiro, its top-drawer cast is headed by Jodie Whittaker (Dr Who, One Night) as feisty Susan McIntyre, who meets the more reserved Tracey Taylor (Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus, Sex Education) in a hospital labour ward. Key supporting roles are capably filled by Brendan Coyle, Robert Carlyle and Rory Kinnear. Caught (Netflix) Over the past decade, novelist Harlan Coben has become a TV darling involved in a host of crime thrillers, some adapted from his books and others original screenplays. His fast-moving, deftly plotted mysteries (including Fool Me Once, Stay Close, Safe, Just un regard and The Five) make for ideal TV fodder, although the quality of the productions varies. Loading Most have smart set-ups, so it's easy to get hooked, but some quickly fade into the forgettable category. This one (original title Atrapados), based on his novel, is set in the Argentinian lakeside town of Bariloche and focuses on hard-charging investigative journalist Ema Garay (Soledad Villamil). She hosts a true-crime show online and has built an admiring following, in part because she live-streams her capture of culprits. Now she's hot on the trail of a rapist who grooms teenagers using a popular video game to establish relationships. But things get messy when she publicly outs a suspect and it emerges that she might be mistaken. Caught raises questions about citizen journalists and the rules that they play by, as well as the impact that their work can have. The Stolen Girl (Disney+) Given the title, it's not a spoiler to reveal that a child disappears early in this five-part drama, shattering her distraught parents, Elisa (Denise Gough, Andor) and Fred (Jim Sturgess). Elisa impulsively agrees to an invitation from another school mum (Holliday Grainger) for her nine-year-old, Lucia (Beatrice Campbell), to have her first sleepover. But when she returns to collect her daughter, the house is empty. It's a nightmare scenario played at a melodramatic pitch as Elisa becomes increasingly frantic and frustrated by what she sees as a lack of progress in the police investigation. As questions pile up in the twisty thriller developed by writer Catherine Moulton from Alex Dahl's novel, it emerges that the past is an important player and little is as it initially seems. La Palma (Netflix) This compact, four-part Norwegian series, built around the 2021 volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands, initially views the calamitous event from a tightly focused pair of perspectives. Fredrik and Jennifer (Anders Baasmo and Ingrid Bolso Berdal) are struggling with marital tensions when they arrive for their summer holiday with their sensitive teenage daughter (Alma Günther) and autistic son (Bernard Storm Lager). Meanwhile, a keen trainee (Thea Sofie Loch Naess), who has joined the local geological research team, identifies disturbing shifts in the areas being monitored, spurring a debate between the scientists about the implications of the discovery and the need to alert authorities. The tale subsequently opens out to include local officials concerned about sounding alarm bells at the height of the tourist season and the foreign affairs department in Oslo responsible for assisting its citizens. The build-up is handled with skill, and when nature unleashes its devastating power, the impact is suitably shocking and spectacular. Think Jaws with a volcano rather than a shark. Zero Day (Netflix) Loading Robert De Niro's first starring role in a TV series casts him as a respected former US president summoned from retirement after the country suffers a devastating cyberattack. The incumbent president (Angela Bassett) appoints him to lead a commission investigating the cause of the attack, identify its perpetrators and protect the nation from another one. His unit is given unprecedented powers to arrest, detain and question suspects. De Niro resembles an ageing lion, a once-esteemed king of the jungle now plagued by cognitive problems that he's endeavouring to conceal. Series creators Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael Schmidt use the country-under-siege set-up as a springboard to explore how panic and pragmatism can drive a political agenda, and how that fear can be exploited, which seems an especially timely topic. The supporting cast is loaded with talent, including Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Kaplan, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, Joan Allen and Gaby Hoffman. Paradise (Disney+) Writer-producer Dan Fogelman and actor Sterling K. Brown worked together on the beautifully crafted family drama This is Us. Here, they venture into different territory with an eight-part series that introduces Brown as Xavier Collins, a dedicated secret-service agent assigned to protect the US president (James Marsden). He's also the devoted dad of two children, the fate of their mother emerging in flashback as the drama unfolds. A murder on Xavier's watch casts suspicion on the highest levels of government but, beyond that, this is a series where the less you know about the plot, the better. One teaser should be enough: a zinger of a twist ends the first episode. Marsden is well-cast as a Kennedy-esque POTUS, as is Julianne Nicholson as an icily controlling powerbroker. Prime Target (Apple TV+) This eight-part thriller intriguingly ponders whether scientists and mathematicians can be held responsible for the ways in which their discoveries are deployed. Gifted Cambridge mathematician Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall) is obsessed with his study of prime numbers and it emerges that his work has the potential to cause chaos: he could unearth a code that can crack any digital system. Loading It's a significant threat to a range of entities that come gunning for him. Taylah Sanders (a magnetic Quintessa Swindell), an American government agent, comes to his aid and their partnership creates an odd-couple-on-the-run scenario, with Ed as a tunnel-vision academic and Taylah a gutsy tech wiz who can run like an athlete, shoot like a pro and hotwire a car. They're a dynamic, if perpetually vulnerable, duo. What TV shows have you watched recently that you think deserve extra recognition? Please let us know in the comments below.
The Age
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
Watched everything? Here are seven hidden gems you might have missed
So many options but nothing that floats your boat? Can't find anything new and exciting to dive into? Despite the monthly drops of titles from the band of streamers, wading through the hype and the home pages can be oddly frustrating and frequently unrewarding. So here are some suggestions, recent drama series that you might've missed that could fit the bill and warm the winter nights. Or at least keep you happily absorbed through the chills. Toxic Town (Netflix) Jack Thorne wrote Adolescence, one of the year's standout drama series. Here he tackles a different social issue in a four-part drama based on an actual case in the UK. In 2009, a group of mothers from the Northamptonshire town of Corby took legal action against a local steelworks, claiming its harmful waste had caused limb deformities in their babies. In the mould of Mr Bates vs The Post Office, this quietly powerful drama chronicles an historic legal action in which working-class litigants, initially unprepared for the entrenched opposition they're facing, refuse to give up the fight. Directed in low-key style by Minkie Spiro, its top-drawer cast is headed by Jodie Whittaker (Dr Who, One Night) as feisty Susan McIntyre, who meets the more reserved Tracey Taylor (Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus, Sex Education) in a hospital labour ward. Key supporting roles are capably filled by Brendan Coyle, Robert Carlyle and Rory Kinnear. Caught (Netflix) Over the past decade, novelist Harlan Coben has become a TV darling involved in a host of crime thrillers, some adapted from his books and others original screenplays. His fast-moving, deftly plotted mysteries (including Fool Me Once, Stay Close, Safe, Just un regard and The Five) make for ideal TV fodder, although the quality of the productions varies. Loading Most have smart set-ups, so it's easy to get hooked, but some quickly fade into the forgettable category. This one (original title Atrapados), based on his novel, is set in the Argentinian lakeside town of Bariloche and focuses on hard-charging investigative journalist Ema Garay (Soledad Villamil). She hosts a true-crime show online and has built an admiring following, in part because she live-streams her capture of culprits. Now she's hot on the trail of a rapist who grooms teenagers using a popular video game to establish relationships. But things get messy when she publicly outs a suspect and it emerges that she might be mistaken. Caught raises questions about citizen journalists and the rules that they play by, as well as the impact that their work can have. The Stolen Girl (Disney+) Given the title, it's not a spoiler to reveal that a child disappears early in this five-part drama, shattering her distraught parents, Elisa (Denise Gough, Andor) and Fred (Jim Sturgess). Elisa impulsively agrees to an invitation from another school mum (Holliday Grainger) for her nine-year-old, Lucia (Beatrice Campbell), to have her first sleepover. But when she returns to collect her daughter, the house is empty. It's a nightmare scenario played at a melodramatic pitch as Elisa becomes increasingly frantic and frustrated by what she sees as a lack of progress in the police investigation. As questions pile up in the twisty thriller developed by writer Catherine Moulton from Alex Dahl's novel, it emerges that the past is an important player and little is as it initially seems. La Palma (Netflix) This compact, four-part Norwegian series, built around the 2021 volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands, initially views the calamitous event from a tightly focused pair of perspectives. Fredrik and Jennifer (Anders Baasmo and Ingrid Bolso Berdal) are struggling with marital tensions when they arrive for their summer holiday with their sensitive teenage daughter (Alma Günther) and autistic son (Bernard Storm Lager). Meanwhile, a keen trainee (Thea Sofie Loch Naess), who has joined the local geological research team, identifies disturbing shifts in the areas being monitored, spurring a debate between the scientists about the implications of the discovery and the need to alert authorities. The tale subsequently opens out to include local officials concerned about sounding alarm bells at the height of the tourist season and the foreign affairs department in Oslo responsible for assisting its citizens. The build-up is handled with skill, and when nature unleashes its devastating power, the impact is suitably shocking and spectacular. Think Jaws with a volcano rather than a shark. Zero Day (Netflix) Loading Robert De Niro's first starring role in a TV series casts him as a respected former US president summoned from retirement after the country suffers a devastating cyberattack. The incumbent president (Angela Bassett) appoints him to lead a commission investigating the cause of the attack, identify its perpetrators and protect the nation from another one. His unit is given unprecedented powers to arrest, detain and question suspects. De Niro resembles an ageing lion, a once-esteemed king of the jungle now plagued by cognitive problems that he's endeavouring to conceal. Series creators Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael Schmidt use the country-under-siege set-up as a springboard to explore how panic and pragmatism can drive a political agenda, and how that fear can be exploited, which seems an especially timely topic. The supporting cast is loaded with talent, including Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Kaplan, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, Joan Allen and Gaby Hoffman. Paradise (Disney+) Writer-producer Dan Fogelman and actor Sterling K. Brown worked together on the beautifully crafted family drama This is Us. Here, they venture into different territory with an eight-part series that introduces Brown as Xavier Collins, a dedicated secret-service agent assigned to protect the US president (James Marsden). He's also the devoted dad of two children, the fate of their mother emerging in flashback as the drama unfolds. A murder on Xavier's watch casts suspicion on the highest levels of government but, beyond that, this is a series where the less you know about the plot, the better. One teaser should be enough: a zinger of a twist ends the first episode. Marsden is well-cast as a Kennedy-esque POTUS, as is Julianne Nicholson as an icily controlling powerbroker. Prime Target (Apple TV+) This eight-part thriller intriguingly ponders whether scientists and mathematicians can be held responsible for the ways in which their discoveries are deployed. Gifted Cambridge mathematician Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall) is obsessed with his study of prime numbers and it emerges that his work has the potential to cause chaos: he could unearth a code that can crack any digital system. Loading It's a significant threat to a range of entities that come gunning for him. Taylah Sanders (a magnetic Quintessa Swindell), an American government agent, comes to his aid and their partnership creates an odd-couple-on-the-run scenario, with Ed as a tunnel-vision academic and Taylah a gutsy tech wiz who can run like an athlete, shoot like a pro and hotwire a car. They're a dynamic, if perpetually vulnerable, duo. What TV shows have you watched recently that you think deserve extra recognition? Please let us know in the comments below.
Time Out
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Parsons Dance
Photograph: Courtesy Rachel Neville | Parsons Dance: The Hunt David Parsons and his lively company return to the Joyce with a mixed bill that features four pieces by Parsons—a world-premiere solo for company veteran Zoey Anderson as well as In the End (set to music by the Dave Matthews Band), the Mozart-themed Wolfgang and company favorite Caught —as well as Robert Battle's fierce quartet The Hunt and the world premiere of Rena Butler's Sheep's Gothic , a collaboration with composer Darryl J. Hoffmans. Wed, May 21, 2025 Thu, May 22, 2025 Fri, May 23, 2025 Sat, May 24, 2025 Sat, May 24, 2025 By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. 🙌 Awesome, you're subscribed! Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Discover Time Out original video
New York Post
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Pitch Perfect' star Anna Camp confirms romance with stylist Jade Whipkey: ‘I'm dating a woman, and it's great'
Anna Camp is feeling aca-awesome. The 'Pitch Perfect' star, 42, revealed that she is dating on-set stylist Jade Whipkey by soft-launching their relationship on social media on Tuesday. Camp reshared a photo from a recent date night with Whipkey to her Instagram Story in which Whipkey wrote, 'Her smile is a poem, her eyes are roses, her laugh is music for dancing.' 8 Anna Camp shared a photo with her new girlfriend, Jade Whipkey, on Tuesday. Instagram/therealannacamp 8 Camp and Whipkey in another photo together from earlier this year. Instagram/therealannacamp The sweet snap comes days after the 'You' actress shared another photo via the platform on May 3 that showed her partner sipping wine. Camp tagged Whipkey in the picture and captioned it, 'Date Night.' A TikTok video from February has also resurfaced following the news of Camp and Whipkey's relationship. Camp, who played Aubrey Posen in all three 'Pitch Perfect' movies, discussed her dating history in the clip and revealed that she was 'dating a woman.' 8 The 'Pitch Perfect' star revealed she was 'dating a woman' back in February. Todd Williamson/JanuaryImages/Shutterstock 8 Camp also shared this photo of Whipkey, captioned 'Date Night,' earlier this month. 'I left a date once because a guy was like 45 minutes late and I stayed and waited,' she explained in the TikTok on Feb. 12. 'Then he said that I was prettier in a movie than I was in person, because I'm an actor and I was like, 'OK, bye!'' 'I don't expect anything,' Camp added when asked what she expected from a guy on a first date. 'Not anymore. Because I'm dating a woman, and it's great.' The Post has reached out to Camp's reps for comment. 8 The 'You' actress was previously married to her 'Pitch Perfect' co-star, Skylar Astin, from 2016 to 2019. Michael Buckner 8 Camp filed for divorce from Astin in April 2019 after less than three years of marriage. Barry King Before dating Whipkey, the 'Caught' actress was married to actor Michael Mosley, 46. They divorced in 2013. Camp then tied the knot with her 'Pitch Perfect' co-star Skylar Astin, 37, in 2016. They separated in April 2019 after less than three years of marriage. Their divorce was finalized that August. The 'Perfect Harmony' star opened up about her split from Astin, and having to find herself after the sudden 'life change,' during the 2019 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour. 8 Camp as Aubrey Posen in 'Pitch Perfect 3.' ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection 'It's been really scary and liberating at the same time,' she said during the event, per E! News. 'I've had some life changes go on, and I feel more me than I ever, ever have.' 'It's a vulnerable place to be, but it's also really empowering,' Camp acknowledged. 'I just feel really grounded and that the decisions I've been making have been for the best. So, that's good.' 8 Camp as Reagan Lockwood in Season 5 of 'You.' CLIFTON PRESCOD/NETFLIX The 'Bride Hard' star added that she was trying to 'remain positive' and 'be better' in the wake of her divorce from Astin. 'I think that I've learned that you can go through a life change and remain positive and also remain kind and friendly, and things happen for a reason,' she said. 'I've also learned that, in the face of a challenge, I can rise out above it and even be better for it,' Camp concluded. Besides reuniting with her 'Pitch Perfect' co-star Rebel Wilson, 45, in 'Bride Hard' (out next month), Camp is also set to hit the big screen in next year's 'Scream 7.'
Chicago Tribune
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Column: Next weekend, a confluence of dance events you definitely should see
Three upcoming, monumental dance events, all with deep ties to Chicago, are on a collision course with your calendar. But it is possible to see the Joffrey Ballet, Twyla Tharp and Parsons Dance next weekend — and you should. Parsons Dance David Parsons launched his dance company in 1985. Three years later, he opened the season at Columbia College Chicago. 'For some reason, they gave us a white limousine,' Parsons said in a recent phone interview. 'I remember that gig. And I've done a lot of gigs.' Born in Rockford and raised in Kansas City, Parsons credits Chicago with putting wind in the sails of a company that went on to international acclaim. 'Chicago is a major city in the United States,' he said. 'You start getting that stuff on your resume, it's the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. You're on your way.' Since the city's early endorsement, Parsons Dance has toured 30 countries and five continents, but it has been 30 years since Parsons Dance has been back. That changes on April 12, when they perform for one night only at the Auditorium. Howell Binkley, Parsons Dance co-founder and lighting designer, is prominently featured, lighting all but two of the pieces on the program. Binkley died in 2020; among his many accolades are two Tony Awards for 'Jersey Boys' and 'Hamilton.' 'He lit every work I did,' Parsons said of Binkley, beginning with 'Caught' in 1982. 'Lighting is my muse. Light is the thing that gets me going.' Parsons was dancing with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the time. 'Caught' uses a flashbulb effect to catch its single dancer in mid-air, and has become a signature work of the company. 'If I didn't do 'Caught,' I wouldn't be talking to you today,' he said. 'It's just one of those things.' The piece is second to last on Saturday's program, which opens and closes with ensemble works from the aughts: 'Wolfgang,' an homage to ballet set to the soundtrack from 'Amadeus,' and 'Shining Star,' set to music by Earth, Wind & Fire. A newer tour de force, 'Balance of Power' (2020), and an older one, 'Nascimento' (1990), complete the bill's repertory by Parsons, with the 2024 work 'Juke,' by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater resident choreographer Jamar Roberts, completing the program. 7:30 p.m. April 12 at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive; tickets $30-$120 at 312-341-2300 and Twyla Tharp Dance Twyla Tharp Dance hasn't been here in a while, either, not since her 2017 lecture demonstration on some of her earliest works called 'Minimalism and Me' visited the Museum of Contemporary Art. Now, Tharp brings something brand new to the Harris Theater as part of her company's 60 th anniversary season. 'Slacktide,' which premiered last year, is set to music by Philip Glass, realized and played on stage live by Third Coast Percussion and Constance Volk, all from Chicago. 'The Glass is a piece of music I've admired for a while in a different format,' Tharp said. 'When I was introduced to Third Coast and saw that they could make something old new again—that was very attractive.' It's the first time Tharp has used the composer's music since 'In the Upper Room,' which premiered in 1986 at Ravinia Festival before it had a title. Tribune critic Richard Christiansen called it a 'breathtaking, big buster of a dance.' Indeed, 'In the Upper Room' has long been considered one of Tharp's greatest dances. 'Slacktide' begins where it left off. The front half of the program is taken up by Tharp's 1998 work 'Diabelli,' set to Beethoven's theme and variations of the same name. 'Theme and variation is a natural form, in that it makes a statement and then it examines the breadth, depth and issues around the theme,' she said, 'which provides a natural dramatic unity. It's both contrast and similarity, and that's a very attractive thing.' Tharp wrote a theme 'as simple and useful' as composer Anton Diabelli wrote for Beethoven, took it apart, examined it, and put it back together every which way. Unlike Mozart's one-upping of Antonio Salieri in the film 'Amadeus' (which Tharp choreographed), Beethoven wasn't cynical in his approach, she said. 'There is a lot of humor,' she said. 'He does do parodies. But he's always respectful of the material.' She's talking about Beethoven, but the sentiment is easily extrapolated to Tharp's decades of dancemaking. 'The juxtaposition of what's old and what's new is always a pretty thorny problem,' she said. 'It becomes kind of meaningless: Old, new, used or not used, A.I., fresh, original — all things that I've always had a kind of sense of the mortality of this concept.' April 10-12 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St.; tickets $74-$225 at 312-334-7777 and CSO x Joffrey Ballet Lest you think that's enough dance for one weekend, don't sleep on the Joffrey Ballet's two world premieres performed alongside the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Harry Bicket. It is the third such collaboration — an unconventional challenge involving an assigned piece of music and an atypical dance space on the CSO's home turf. At first, Joffrey rehearsal director Nicolas Blanc was taken aback by his selection: Darius Milhaud's 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' (literally translated from French to mean 'the cow on the roof'). 'Despite the fact that it's written by a French composer, I didn't know the piece,' said Blanc, a Frenchman himself. 'To be frank, when I listened to the piece, I thought, this is really fun, but I'm not sure it's corresponding to my personality. I've been more doing serious works like ' Under the Trees Voices,' more nostalgic, more lyrical. It became a lot of fun, actually, to do my research.' The result is 'Les Boeufoons' (pronounced like 'buffoons, a theatrical tribute to the piece's origin story. Milhaud intended 'Le Boeuf' to be incidental music in a Charlie Chaplin film. Chaplin didn't want it. Neither did Serge Diaghilev, the impresario overseeing the wildly popular Ballet Russes in 1920s Paris. Choreographer Jean Cocteau, who had pitched 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit,' premiered his ballet without Diaghilev's help. Blanc employs references to Cocteau, the famous Ballet Russes ballet 'Parade' and the haute couture of the era. It's fun and hedges on ridiculous, without crossing the line into farce. That is miles away from Amy Hall Garner's work 'Second Nature' with visualizes music by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, an American composer whose connection to dance is concretized in the score to Alvin Ailey's 'For Bird with Love.' For Blanc, it's been a welcome project that has pushed him outside his comfort zone — particularly with dancers he sees every day. 'I'm really excited this project is happening,' he said. 'It's not been easy to conceive. I'm hoping all my hours of research and thinking and brainstorming are fruitful for what's going to be presented to the audience. But I do think that in the particular context we live in at the moment, a lighthearted piece is very welcome.' April 10-13 at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; tickets $55-$399 at 312-294-3000 and Also of note: In her newest piece, Praize Productions artistic director Enneréssa LaNette Davis suggests a slow-down in this work-obsessed chaotic world. Called 'Complexions,' the multi-disciplinary piece features dance made by Davis, former Deeply Rooted Dance Theater co-founder Kevin Iega Jeff and two former powerhouse Chicago dancers, Dominique (Atwood) Hamilton and Monique Haley, who have found their choreographic sea legs since leaving the stage. Musicians Junius Paul and Isaiah Collier join for the multimedia performance.
