[ Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel (Netflix) is a BBC-produced documentary that originally appeared in 2022. Narrated by Lolly Adefope – aka noblewoman Katherine “Kitty” Higham on the original British version of Ghosts – and featuring appearances from filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, Ron Howard, Stephen Frears, Barry Levinson, and Gore Verbinski, Hollywood Rebel sketches … Read more
[ When I sat down to watch the finale of The Regime I had no idea what to expect. That’s not hyperbole, that’s not a figure of speech, that’s legit. Time and again I’d failed to predict the show’s wild changes of direction. What would it do for an encore? Elena Vernham and Herbert Zubak … Read more
[ I greatly admire The Regime’s adamant refusal to be predictable. Take its male lead, for example. Herbert Zubak is a working-class grunt tossed into the nightmare world of the authoritarian elite. No, Herbert Zubak is wannabe strongman who’s crazier than his beloved boss the Chancellor, who worships the ground he walks on. No, Herbert … Read more
[ Okay, now I’m really paying attention. For the second time, The Regime has bucked my expectations of what The Regime would be about. The premiere made it seem that Corporal Herbert Zubak was going to be our audience identification character, the comic everyman, the fish out of water dumped into the absurdist aquarium of … Read more
[ The acquisition and hoarding of wealth and power should be understood as a mental illness. Period, point blank, deadass. At the very least it’s a cognitive impairment on par with getting spike piledrivered onto your noggin in a wrestling ring for several decades running. This is in no way a joke. Access to the … Read more
[ We never learn the name of the country Kate Winslet‘s Chancellor Elena Vernham rules over in HBO‘s new Sunday drama, The Regime, but her palace sure feels strangely familiar. Omnipresent leopards aside, the stately architecture of Elena’s palace evokes the opulence of old Europe and that region’s struggle to retake political prominence after the … Read more
[ The Regime is the third series Kate Winslet has done for HBO. In Mildred Pierce, she was a Depression-era divorcee and restauranteur. In Mare Of Easttown, she was a police detective in a working class town in Southeast Pennsylvania. Now, she plays the increasingly paranoid and unhinged dictator of a country somewhere in Central … Read more
