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Amy Ryan Joins Emilia Jones In Netflix Drama Series ‘The Retrievals’ From Molly Smith Metzler

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Ryan (Birdman) is set to star opposite Emilia Jones in The Retrievals, Netflix’s third series from Maid and Sirens creator/executive producer Molly Smith Metzler. Inspired by the Peabody-winning NYT podcast by Susan Burton, The Retrievals follows an unlikely community of IVF patients who come together to crusade against Yale University after they are […]

DeadlineDeadline•Nellie Andreeva11 Sept

‘Beef’ Creator Lee Sung Jin Pitched Charles Melton on the Show Over Dinner: ‘By the Third Appetizer He Said Yes’

Gold House celebrated its third annual One House Toast to the Emmys, honoring the achievements of Asian Pacific and multicultural creatives in entertainment. The man of the hour was “Beef” showrunner Lee Sung Jin, whose genre-bending Netflix anthology earned 16 nominations for its second season — the most of any limited or anthology series this year. […]

VarietyVariety•Jazztangcay11 Sept

Being Heumann review – Coda director’s disability rights drama is well-intentioned but clunky

Toronto film festival: the rousing story of Judith Heumann makes for obvious dramatic fodder and at times this biopic finds a rebellious groove but too much feels cut-and-paste On my way to Toronto, I wheeled my suitcase toward the taxi that would take me to the airport, finding the curb cut in the sidewalk so that my luggage could roll seamlessly down to the street. What a nice convenience provided by municipal governments all over the United States, one that so many of us take wholly for granted. But there was a fierce struggle for their existence, once deemed a radical, far too costly alteration to the nation’s infrastructure. (The same was argued about ramps and other means of accessibility.) They now exist ubiquitously across the country largely because of the tireless efforts of disability rights activists like Judith Heumann, one of the most prominent leaders of that cause from the 1970s until her death in 2023. Those who’ve seen Heumann in the Netflix documentary Crip Camp will remember her wit and tartness and zeal. That spark has now been bluntly captured in writer-director Sian Heder’s Being Heumann, a biopic covering the first major political act of Heumann’s long war on government indifference. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Richard Lawson in Toronto11 Sept