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2 days ago
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Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz head Apple TV+ Lars Kepler adaptation
May 29 (UPI) -- Apple TV+ announced casting for its series based on Lars Kepler's books on Thursday. Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham will star while Schreiber and Beetz also executive produce. Schreiber will play Jonah Lynn, a Philadelphia homicide detective who moves to Western Pennsylvania. There, Lynn ends up investigating a serial killer (Graham) with the help of his adopted FBI agent daughter (Beetz). Lars Kepler writes a series of novels about Swedish police officer Joona Linna. Kepler is the pen name of authors of Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril. The serial killer plot comes from their fourth book, The Sandman. The series will be 10 episodes written by Rowan Joffe, who showruns with John Hlavin. Tim Van Patten will direct the first two. Schreiber recently starred in The Perfect Couple and A Small Light after his seven season run on Ray Donovan. Beetz starred in Atlanta, several sketches in History of the World: Part II and the Black Mirror episode "Mazey Day." Graham recently played a boxer on A Thousand Blows and the father of a school boy who stabbed a classmate in Adolescence.
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2 days ago
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Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz head Apple TV+ Lars Kepler adaptation
1 of 6 | Liev Schreiber, seen at the 2024 premiere of "The Perfect Couple" in Los Angeles, will star in and executive produce a new series for Apple TV+. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo May 29 (UPI) -- Apple TV+ announced casting for its series based on Lars Kepler's books on Thursday. Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham will star while Schreiber and Beetz also executive produce. Schreiber will play Jonah Lynn, a Philadelphia homicide detective who moves to Western Pennsylvania. There, Lynn ends up investigating a serial killer (Graham) with the help of his adopted FBI agent daughter (Beetz). Lars Kepler writes a series of novels about Swedish police officer Joona Linna. Kepler is the pen name of authors of Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril. The serial killer plot comes from their fourth book, The Sandman. The series will be 10 episodes written by Rowan Joffe, who showruns with John Hlavin. Tim Van Patten will direct the first two. Schreiber recently starred in The Perfect Couple and A Small Light after his seven season run on Ray Donovan. Beetz starred in Atlanta, several sketches in History of the World: Part II and the Black Mirror episode "Mazey Day." Graham recently played a boxer on A Thousand Blows and the father of a school boy who stabbed a classmate in Adolescence.
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3 days ago
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- The Advertiser
Sirens will have you engaged, even if you don't know what it's trying to say
Given her recent TV and film track record, it's amazing that Nicole Kidman doesn't star in Sirens. The soapy dark comedy feels like it belongs in the The Perfect Couple, Babygirl, A Family Affair realm of rich white people doing rich white people things. But it's a different Oscar-winning redhead in this series: Julianne Moore. The show, based on the play Elemeno Pea by Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler (also in charge here), follows sisters Simone (Aussie Milly Alcock, House of the Dragon) and Devon (Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus), and Simone's boss Michaela (Moore) on an exclusive New England island of Port Haven. Devon, the older sister, has arrived on the island with a serious bone to pick with her sister. Simone, who she hasn't seen for about a year, has been working as an assistant to Michaela, and is refusing to head back to Buffalo where Devon is taking care of their ailing father, Bruce (Bill Camp, The Queen's Gambit). Simone and Michaela have a very strange, symbiotic relationship and Devon struggles to reconcile the doting, pastel-wearing woman before her with the sister she helped raise. There's definitely a whiff of cultishness in the air on Port Haven, and Devon is determined to extract her sister from Michaela's bejewelled clutches. It's not very clear what the point of Sirens is (maybe something about class divides, or the sacrifices people make for security?), but the five-episode series is entertaining enough for a weekend binge. The performances are good, especially Fahy's, and the costuming is almost a character of its own. A quirky supporting cast helps build out this Stepford-esque world, with the likes of Kevin Bacon, Glenn Howerton, Felix Solis, Josh Segarra and Trevor Salter as the delightful Captain Morgan. You won't really know why you watched this show, but you also won't regret putting the time in. If you're a millennial still trying to fill that One Tree Hill-shaped hole in your life, may we suggest Motorheads? While not as angsty or well-cast as the seminal 2000s high school show, Motorheads shares a lot with One Tree Hill - not least of which is creator John A. Norris, who was a writer on the earlier series. Twins Caitlyn (Melissa Collazo, Freaky) and Zac (Michael Cimino, Never Have I Ever) move to their mum's small, semi-rural childhood hometown to move in with their uncle (on their dad's side) for a fresh start. Coming from the hustle-bustle of New York, their new home of Ironwood, Pennsylvania is a definite change of pace. But this town has something that Caitlyn is very excited about - a thriving car race culture among the youth. She's been a 'motorhead' for years and has purportedly changed hundreds of tyres, despite being in only her late teens. Zac cares less about the mechanics of the cars, but does long for the glory of racing - especially as their dad was a celebrated (and criminal) street racer. Their sage yet flawed uncle Logan (Ryan Phillippe, Cruel Intentions) is a mechanic (very Keith Scott-coded for the OTH fans) who has some shady crime connections himself, but is trying to walk on the straight and narrow despite limited funds. Both the twins have romantic interests from the moment they step into town in classic teen drama style. And just in case the parallels in plot weren't enough to sell you on the OTH connection, the series opens with a shot of a bridge very similar to that one Lucas Scott walks over in the pilot/opening credits. Very intentional. The show also uses plenty of popular music, with tracks from the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Noah Kahan. The Amazon money put to good use. There are also plenty of flashbacks, where the twins' father is played as a teen by Deacon Phillippe (real life son of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon), and the songs in this time period are iconic OTH-era jams like Fall Out Boy's This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race and M.I.A.'s Paper Planes. There must be two Guy Ritchies running around these days, because the director is producing an awful lot of work. Since 2023, he's released Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Covenant, The Gentlemen (the series version), The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, MobLand (he directed the first two episodes, but was not involved in writing) and now Fountain of Youth. This latest film doesn't have the classic twisty Ritchie-esque feel to it, as it wasn't written by the Brit, but by Zodiac, Murder Mystery and Scream VI scribe James Vanderbilt (who built his own great-grandfather Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt into the script). A classic adventure romp, Fountain of Youth sees Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) convince his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) to help him find the fabled water source in a quest funded by billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson). The mission will take them across several contintents with lots of fun action along the way. Meanwhile the mysterious Esme (Eiza Gonzalez) and Interpol agent Jamal Abbas (Arian Moayed) are hot on the crew's tail. The secret to uncovering the fountain lies in a series of Renaissance-era paintings, so there's more than a little art theft on this journey.l Luke is equal parts Indiana Jones, Ben Gates and Rick O'Connell, and the film owes a lot to The Last Crusade, National Treasure and, to a lesser extent, The Mummy. Fountain of Youth lacks some of the heart of these iconic adventure films, and certainly could do with some more engaging score. The music really plays a big part in an adventure movie, and this one is let down on that front. If you're a sucker for adventure, especially history-based adventure, then Fountain of Youth is going to hit the spot, even if you're not itching to watch it again right away. Nicole Kidman might not have been in Sirens, but you can catch her in the second season of Prime Video's Nine Perfect Strangers. This time the action is moved from the sunny climes of Byron Bay to the decidedly frostier Austrian Alps. Joining Nicole for this season are fellow Aussie Murray Bartlett, Henry Golding, Mark Strong, Christine Baranski and Annie Murphy, among others. Also on Prime you'll find the fourth instalment of former Top Gear guru Jeremy Clarkson's reality farming series, Clarkson's Farm, and four-part documentary series about NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, called, inventively, Earnhardt. Over on Netflix you can dive into Fear Street: Prom Queen, a spin-off of the 2021 trilogy based on the R.L. Stine novels. This one is set in 1988 and while it takes a little time to find its rhythm, ends up being a blast. You can also catch Tyler Perry's latest comedy series She the People (Perry's the only person in Hollywood busier than Nicole Kidman and Guy Ritchie), and docuseries Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders on Netflix. Meanwhile on Binge there's another entry in the Librarians franchise, which has spanned several films and four seasons of TV. Now there's another spin-off, The Librarians: The Next Chapter. Given her recent TV and film track record, it's amazing that Nicole Kidman doesn't star in Sirens. The soapy dark comedy feels like it belongs in the The Perfect Couple, Babygirl, A Family Affair realm of rich white people doing rich white people things. But it's a different Oscar-winning redhead in this series: Julianne Moore. The show, based on the play Elemeno Pea by Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler (also in charge here), follows sisters Simone (Aussie Milly Alcock, House of the Dragon) and Devon (Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus), and Simone's boss Michaela (Moore) on an exclusive New England island of Port Haven. Devon, the older sister, has arrived on the island with a serious bone to pick with her sister. Simone, who she hasn't seen for about a year, has been working as an assistant to Michaela, and is refusing to head back to Buffalo where Devon is taking care of their ailing father, Bruce (Bill Camp, The Queen's Gambit). Simone and Michaela have a very strange, symbiotic relationship and Devon struggles to reconcile the doting, pastel-wearing woman before her with the sister she helped raise. There's definitely a whiff of cultishness in the air on Port Haven, and Devon is determined to extract her sister from Michaela's bejewelled clutches. It's not very clear what the point of Sirens is (maybe something about class divides, or the sacrifices people make for security?), but the five-episode series is entertaining enough for a weekend binge. The performances are good, especially Fahy's, and the costuming is almost a character of its own. A quirky supporting cast helps build out this Stepford-esque world, with the likes of Kevin Bacon, Glenn Howerton, Felix Solis, Josh Segarra and Trevor Salter as the delightful Captain Morgan. You won't really know why you watched this show, but you also won't regret putting the time in. If you're a millennial still trying to fill that One Tree Hill-shaped hole in your life, may we suggest Motorheads? While not as angsty or well-cast as the seminal 2000s high school show, Motorheads shares a lot with One Tree Hill - not least of which is creator John A. Norris, who was a writer on the earlier series. Twins Caitlyn (Melissa Collazo, Freaky) and Zac (Michael Cimino, Never Have I Ever) move to their mum's small, semi-rural childhood hometown to move in with their uncle (on their dad's side) for a fresh start. Coming from the hustle-bustle of New York, their new home of Ironwood, Pennsylvania is a definite change of pace. But this town has something that Caitlyn is very excited about - a thriving car race culture among the youth. She's been a 'motorhead' for years and has purportedly changed hundreds of tyres, despite being in only her late teens. Zac cares less about the mechanics of the cars, but does long for the glory of racing - especially as their dad was a celebrated (and criminal) street racer. Their sage yet flawed uncle Logan (Ryan Phillippe, Cruel Intentions) is a mechanic (very Keith Scott-coded for the OTH fans) who has some shady crime connections himself, but is trying to walk on the straight and narrow despite limited funds. Both the twins have romantic interests from the moment they step into town in classic teen drama style. And just in case the parallels in plot weren't enough to sell you on the OTH connection, the series opens with a shot of a bridge very similar to that one Lucas Scott walks over in the pilot/opening credits. Very intentional. The show also uses plenty of popular music, with tracks from the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Noah Kahan. The Amazon money put to good use. There are also plenty of flashbacks, where the twins' father is played as a teen by Deacon Phillippe (real life son of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon), and the songs in this time period are iconic OTH-era jams like Fall Out Boy's This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race and M.I.A.'s Paper Planes. There must be two Guy Ritchies running around these days, because the director is producing an awful lot of work. Since 2023, he's released Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Covenant, The Gentlemen (the series version), The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, MobLand (he directed the first two episodes, but was not involved in writing) and now Fountain of Youth. This latest film doesn't have the classic twisty Ritchie-esque feel to it, as it wasn't written by the Brit, but by Zodiac, Murder Mystery and Scream VI scribe James Vanderbilt (who built his own great-grandfather Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt into the script). A classic adventure romp, Fountain of Youth sees Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) convince his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) to help him find the fabled water source in a quest funded by billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson). The mission will take them across several contintents with lots of fun action along the way. Meanwhile the mysterious Esme (Eiza Gonzalez) and Interpol agent Jamal Abbas (Arian Moayed) are hot on the crew's tail. The secret to uncovering the fountain lies in a series of Renaissance-era paintings, so there's more than a little art theft on this journey.l Luke is equal parts Indiana Jones, Ben Gates and Rick O'Connell, and the film owes a lot to The Last Crusade, National Treasure and, to a lesser extent, The Mummy. Fountain of Youth lacks some of the heart of these iconic adventure films, and certainly could do with some more engaging score. The music really plays a big part in an adventure movie, and this one is let down on that front. If you're a sucker for adventure, especially history-based adventure, then Fountain of Youth is going to hit the spot, even if you're not itching to watch it again right away. Nicole Kidman might not have been in Sirens, but you can catch her in the second season of Prime Video's Nine Perfect Strangers. This time the action is moved from the sunny climes of Byron Bay to the decidedly frostier Austrian Alps. Joining Nicole for this season are fellow Aussie Murray Bartlett, Henry Golding, Mark Strong, Christine Baranski and Annie Murphy, among others. Also on Prime you'll find the fourth instalment of former Top Gear guru Jeremy Clarkson's reality farming series, Clarkson's Farm, and four-part documentary series about NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, called, inventively, Earnhardt. Over on Netflix you can dive into Fear Street: Prom Queen, a spin-off of the 2021 trilogy based on the R.L. Stine novels. This one is set in 1988 and while it takes a little time to find its rhythm, ends up being a blast. You can also catch Tyler Perry's latest comedy series She the People (Perry's the only person in Hollywood busier than Nicole Kidman and Guy Ritchie), and docuseries Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders on Netflix. Meanwhile on Binge there's another entry in the Librarians franchise, which has spanned several films and four seasons of TV. Now there's another spin-off, The Librarians: The Next Chapter. Given her recent TV and film track record, it's amazing that Nicole Kidman doesn't star in Sirens. The soapy dark comedy feels like it belongs in the The Perfect Couple, Babygirl, A Family Affair realm of rich white people doing rich white people things. But it's a different Oscar-winning redhead in this series: Julianne Moore. The show, based on the play Elemeno Pea by Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler (also in charge here), follows sisters Simone (Aussie Milly Alcock, House of the Dragon) and Devon (Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus), and Simone's boss Michaela (Moore) on an exclusive New England island of Port Haven. Devon, the older sister, has arrived on the island with a serious bone to pick with her sister. Simone, who she hasn't seen for about a year, has been working as an assistant to Michaela, and is refusing to head back to Buffalo where Devon is taking care of their ailing father, Bruce (Bill Camp, The Queen's Gambit). Simone and Michaela have a very strange, symbiotic relationship and Devon struggles to reconcile the doting, pastel-wearing woman before her with the sister she helped raise. There's definitely a whiff of cultishness in the air on Port Haven, and Devon is determined to extract her sister from Michaela's bejewelled clutches. It's not very clear what the point of Sirens is (maybe something about class divides, or the sacrifices people make for security?), but the five-episode series is entertaining enough for a weekend binge. The performances are good, especially Fahy's, and the costuming is almost a character of its own. A quirky supporting cast helps build out this Stepford-esque world, with the likes of Kevin Bacon, Glenn Howerton, Felix Solis, Josh Segarra and Trevor Salter as the delightful Captain Morgan. You won't really know why you watched this show, but you also won't regret putting the time in. If you're a millennial still trying to fill that One Tree Hill-shaped hole in your life, may we suggest Motorheads? While not as angsty or well-cast as the seminal 2000s high school show, Motorheads shares a lot with One Tree Hill - not least of which is creator John A. Norris, who was a writer on the earlier series. Twins Caitlyn (Melissa Collazo, Freaky) and Zac (Michael Cimino, Never Have I Ever) move to their mum's small, semi-rural childhood hometown to move in with their uncle (on their dad's side) for a fresh start. Coming from the hustle-bustle of New York, their new home of Ironwood, Pennsylvania is a definite change of pace. But this town has something that Caitlyn is very excited about - a thriving car race culture among the youth. She's been a 'motorhead' for years and has purportedly changed hundreds of tyres, despite being in only her late teens. Zac cares less about the mechanics of the cars, but does long for the glory of racing - especially as their dad was a celebrated (and criminal) street racer. Their sage yet flawed uncle Logan (Ryan Phillippe, Cruel Intentions) is a mechanic (very Keith Scott-coded for the OTH fans) who has some shady crime connections himself, but is trying to walk on the straight and narrow despite limited funds. Both the twins have romantic interests from the moment they step into town in classic teen drama style. And just in case the parallels in plot weren't enough to sell you on the OTH connection, the series opens with a shot of a bridge very similar to that one Lucas Scott walks over in the pilot/opening credits. Very intentional. The show also uses plenty of popular music, with tracks from the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Noah Kahan. The Amazon money put to good use. There are also plenty of flashbacks, where the twins' father is played as a teen by Deacon Phillippe (real life son of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon), and the songs in this time period are iconic OTH-era jams like Fall Out Boy's This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race and M.I.A.'s Paper Planes. There must be two Guy Ritchies running around these days, because the director is producing an awful lot of work. Since 2023, he's released Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Covenant, The Gentlemen (the series version), The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, MobLand (he directed the first two episodes, but was not involved in writing) and now Fountain of Youth. This latest film doesn't have the classic twisty Ritchie-esque feel to it, as it wasn't written by the Brit, but by Zodiac, Murder Mystery and Scream VI scribe James Vanderbilt (who built his own great-grandfather Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt into the script). A classic adventure romp, Fountain of Youth sees Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) convince his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) to help him find the fabled water source in a quest funded by billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson). The mission will take them across several contintents with lots of fun action along the way. Meanwhile the mysterious Esme (Eiza Gonzalez) and Interpol agent Jamal Abbas (Arian Moayed) are hot on the crew's tail. The secret to uncovering the fountain lies in a series of Renaissance-era paintings, so there's more than a little art theft on this journey.l Luke is equal parts Indiana Jones, Ben Gates and Rick O'Connell, and the film owes a lot to The Last Crusade, National Treasure and, to a lesser extent, The Mummy. Fountain of Youth lacks some of the heart of these iconic adventure films, and certainly could do with some more engaging score. The music really plays a big part in an adventure movie, and this one is let down on that front. If you're a sucker for adventure, especially history-based adventure, then Fountain of Youth is going to hit the spot, even if you're not itching to watch it again right away. Nicole Kidman might not have been in Sirens, but you can catch her in the second season of Prime Video's Nine Perfect Strangers. This time the action is moved from the sunny climes of Byron Bay to the decidedly frostier Austrian Alps. Joining Nicole for this season are fellow Aussie Murray Bartlett, Henry Golding, Mark Strong, Christine Baranski and Annie Murphy, among others. Also on Prime you'll find the fourth instalment of former Top Gear guru Jeremy Clarkson's reality farming series, Clarkson's Farm, and four-part documentary series about NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, called, inventively, Earnhardt. Over on Netflix you can dive into Fear Street: Prom Queen, a spin-off of the 2021 trilogy based on the R.L. Stine novels. This one is set in 1988 and while it takes a little time to find its rhythm, ends up being a blast. You can also catch Tyler Perry's latest comedy series She the People (Perry's the only person in Hollywood busier than Nicole Kidman and Guy Ritchie), and docuseries Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders on Netflix. Meanwhile on Binge there's another entry in the Librarians franchise, which has spanned several films and four seasons of TV. Now there's another spin-off, The Librarians: The Next Chapter.
Indian Express
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Sirens review: Hilarious and horrifying, Julianne Moore's Netflix show is a cult hit in the making
The Caravan reported in 2024 that Nita Ambani hired choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant during the inauguration of the NMACC, which was attended by everyone from Zendaya to Gigi Hadid. Merchant, known for choreographing iconic songs such as 'Kajra Re,' was reportedly with Mrs Ambani, telling her 'how to smile, now to fold hands, say namaste.' This is the sort of detail about how the other half lives that would elicit gasps of disbelief from the likes of you and I. Sirens, the new dark comedy mini-series on Netflix, offers an exaggerated glimpse inside the lives of the one percent. Julianne Moore plays Michaela, the wife of a billionaire, who is joined at the hip with her assistant Simone, played by Milly Alcock. Simone's sister, Devon, is rattled when she doesn't respond to frantic messages about their father's declining health. He has early onset dementia, and needs constant care. Devon is forced to deal with it all by herself, while Simone is living the high life with Michaela on a private island. Played by Meghann Fahy, Devon hops onto a ferry and shows up at the island, only to learn that her little sister has seemingly been indoctrinated into some kind of cult. 'Hey hey,' Michaela says to her comical coven of followers, whom she lectures about birds and animal conservation. She has her own Vantara on the island; it takes up most of her time and energy. In fact, Devon shows up at a rather inopportune moment; Michaela is putting together a fund-raiser for the birds in a couple of days, and her entire staff, including Simone, is busy putting things in order. Also read – The Perfect Couple review: Phony and farcical, Netflix murder mystery doesn't deserve Ishaan Khatter and its incredible cast Simone wants nothing to do with her past life — she grew up working class, and miraculously found herself with a seat at Yale. Her early life was marked by unspeakable trauma, which is revealed in the show's stand-out fourth episode. There are five in total; all tightly wound and written with a richness that is so rare in this day and age of ambient 'content'. Simone ran away the first chance that she got, and essentially remodelled herself into a different person after being taken under the wing by Michaela — think of her as a version of Sobhita Dhulipala's character from Made in Heaven. Devon, on the other hand, was left to deal with her family's fragility with zero support. When we meet her, she has just been released from jail, following an all-night bender. The several other addictions that she is battling manifest through the course of the show, inviting nothing but sympathy. Devon is hanging by a thread, and she didn't think that the one person she could count on to lend a hand would have joined a cult. Determined to break her out, she parks herself on the island, and gets a good look at the madness Michaela and her minions are up to. Every staff member, she discovers, has been made to sign non-disclosure agreements. The entire property is overseen by a state-of-the-art personal assistant named Zeus. The domineering Michaela exists in a cuckoo-land, while her husband Pete, played by a deceptively demure Kevin Bacon, appears to have retreated into a corner. In a memorable conversation that he has with Simone and Devon's dad Bruce in the fourth episode, they discuss the merits of wealth. While Bruce is certain that he'd have been happier with a little more cash in his pocket, Pete tells him that even his endless wealth couldn't help him reconcile with his estranged children. Both middle-aged men are living in regret, of mistakes made, relationships abandoned, and time wasted. Meanwhile, Simone and Devon have their own heart-to-heart about the horrors they experienced as kids. By this time, it becomes clear that Sirens isn't as farcical as it had initially let on; in fact, it's surprisingly complex. And writer Molly Smith Metzler knows exactly what she's doing. By hitting all the buzzwords in her premise — Cults! Murder! Money! — she is able to sneakily introduce hefty ideas about the class divide, about family ties, about survival. Because that is what each of these people is doing. They're surviving. The children are surviving despite their parents; the women are surviving despite the men; the men are surviving despite each other. Sirens wants to lure you in with the promise of scandal and sleaze, but this is merely a trick. The show sheepishly apologises to the audience for doing this, via Devon, of course. Read more – Saltburn movie review: Barry Keoghan delivers jaw-dropping performance in the most provocative movie of the year Speaking of Fahy, what she pulls off here is nothing short of incredible. It isn't easy to find dramatic depth when you're sheathed in satire. The first couple of episodes are especially silly; this is when the show is pretending to be a The White Lotus rip-off; it's when Fahy is supposed to roll her eyes loudly and trip over herself. It speaks to her skills as a performer that she's able to inject heart-wrenching pathos into scenes that would've played more broadly in the hands of a lesser actor. Ditto for Moore and Alcock; they're doing a performance within a performance, which is always the most difficult kind of acting to pull off. It's like Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog, playing a character who's playing another character. Sirens is like an unputdownable novel; the sort of summer read that you shred over a weekend. It's a show about cults that's destined to become a cult show. Sirens Creator – Molly Smith Metzler Cast – Meghann Fahy, Julianne Moore, Milly Alcock, Kevin Bacon, Glenn Howerton Rating – 4/5
Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Ishaan Khatter says he never tried to shine in brother Shahid Kapoor's light, calls him a tough act to follow: ‘His parents were actors, but he's a movie star'
Ishaan Khatter was widely known as Shahid Kapoor's brother, before he made his debut with Majid Majidi's 2017 film Beyond the Clouds. Since then, Ishaan has proved his worth with projects like Dhadak, A Suitable Boy, Pippa, The Perfect Couple, and most recently, Homebound, which premiered at the 78th Cannes Film Festival last week. 'When my brother got married is the first time that there was media and paparazzi. That thing had started to get blown up, along with social media. I was clicked, and after that, I was spotted and recognized at a few places. At least in my case, it wasn't by design. But obviously, you're known as someone's brother,' said Ishaan. In the interview with Zoom, Ishaan pointed out how the situation was different in his and Shahid's case. 'His parents were working actors and professionals, but none of them were movie stars, right? I had an elder brother whose act to follow would be… like he's a movie star! But I never tried to shine in his light because everyone wants to be known for their own personality, right?' 'I'm proud I'm his brother. If people click and know me because I'm his brother, that's obvious because I haven't done anything they know me by. So my focus was to just work. I anyway have to tread my own path and make my own life. I'm totally fine with it being slow and steady. I'm in no rush to show people this is who I am. I'd much rather show it with my work,' added Ishaan. Ishaan recalled how despite working with Shahid as a child actor in Mahesh Manjrekar's 2005 fantasy comedy Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! and working as an assistant director on Shahid's 2016 film Udta Punjab, his brother didn't know whether Ishaan was a good actor or not. The first time Shahid realised that was when he watched Beyond the Clouds. At a special screening, Shahid insisted he wants to sit separately, instead of with Ishaan, while watching the film. 'When the film finished, I turned around, and his body language was like this (relaxed). And then I went and sat next to him, he just put his arm around me and said, 'Wow yaar, tu toh actor hai! Ab mujhe jhooth nahi bolna padega! (You're an actor! Now, I won't have to lie that you are one).' It's my favourite memory,' said Ishaan. Also Read — 'I slapped Ishaan Khatter so hard, he called me a…': Vihaan Samat on his favourite The Royals scene when the set went quiet Both Shahid and Ishaan are the sons of veteran actor and classical dancer Neelima Azim. While she was first married to Pankaj Kapur and gave birth to Shahid then, she later divorced and married Rajesh Khattar, after which she had Ishaan. Neelima and Rajesh also went separate way subsequently, when Ishaan was quite young.
