In Michael Curtiz’s hands, James M. Cain’s novel Mildred Pierce became a suburban noir, but Todd Haynes spins a more class-conscious tale in this HBO miniseries. The Depression is in effect when Mildred (Kate Winslet) breaks with her unfaithful husband, Bert (Brían F. O’Byrne), leaving the Glendale housewife to support her daughters as a waitress […]
Top of the Lake: The Series
Director: Jane Campion Year of Release: 2013 Top of the Lake begins with a mystery as Tui, a 12 year-old girl, walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a South Island lake in New Zealand. She is five months pregnant and won’t say who the father is. The girl’s family are an unsavory bunch. […]
True Detective: The Series
HBO premieres a new drama series, True Detective, this season focusing on Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) and “Rust” Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), two detectives and former partners who worked in Louisiana’s Criminal Investigation Division in the mid-1990s.In 2012, for reasons not immediately revealed, the two are interviewed separately by investigators about their most notorious case: the […]
Battlestar Galactica: The Series
The second war against the Cylons is over and The Twelve Colonies have been destroyed. Now Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galatica and President Laura Roslin lead a ragtag fleet of refugees in a supposed search for the fabled lost thirteenth colony, Earth. However, the dangers they face are many which compound an already difficult […]