Category: Review
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Billions Is Back, and It’s More Billions Than Ever – May 3, 2020
Season 5 Interview with Co-Creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien by Sam Schube | GQ | May 3, 2020 If it seems like the verbal acrobatics on Billions could only have come from a kind of writerly mind-meld, that’s because they do. Co-creators and showrunners David Levien and Brian Koppelman met at 15, and have…
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Billions Returns to Old Conflicts and Alliances, While Adding New Foes – May 1, 2020
Psychological Warfare: All Smiles Through Gritted Teeth by Brian Lowry | CNN | May 1, 2020 “Billions” has shuffled allegiances so many times it’s tough to keep track without a scorecard. But the bottom line is that Showtime’s high-stakes drama remains enormously entertaining, making its return more than welcome, even if the show’s latest creative…
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Billions Review: Money’s the Root of All the Delicious Evil – May 1, 2020
Backstabbing and Frontstabbing by Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun Times | May 1, 2020 Everyone is awful. We’ve known that for quite some time about virtually all the major players (and many of the supporting ones as well) in Showtime’s addictive money-drenched drama “Billions,†but never has it been more evident than in the first…
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Wall Street Journal Review: Spy Wars With Damian Lewis – March 19, 2020
Espionage in the Spotlight by Dorothy Rabinowitz | The Wall Street Journal | March 19, 2020 Smithsonian Channel’s series tells shockingly true stories of the clandestine variety. In 1968, a loyal officer of the KGB is so shaken by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that he becomes an operative for British and American intelligence—one, “Spy…
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How Accurate is Run This Town – March 6, 2020
Fact or Fiction? A Comparison. by Courtney Shea | Toronto Life | March 6, 2020 It’s been 10 years since Rob Ford rode his gravy train all the way into the mayor’s office. From the start, his reign was mired in scandals and stupors, but things reached international-talk-show-punchline levels with rumours of a video that…
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LA Times Review of Run This Town – March 5, 2020
‘Run This Town’ Runs the Table in a True Tale of Mayoral Malfeasance in Toronto by Kenneth Duran | Los Angeles Times | March 5, 2020 Smart, ambitious and impressive, “Run This Town†is the best kind of feature directing debut, a film that entertains and makes you look forward to what will come next.…
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New York Times Review of Run This Town – March 5, 2020
What Happens When the Mayor Smokes Crack? by Ben Kenigsberg | New York Times | March 5, 2020 “Run This Town,†a jagged, snappy procedural that splits its time between a downsizing newspaper and a dysfunctional city government, is a fictionalized account of an actual scandal. In 2013, The Toronto Star and Gawker both said…
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Run This Town Review – March 2, 2020
Damian Lewis is Exceptional as Ford by Hannah Hoolihan | Screen Rant | March 2, 2020 In May of 2013, a video surfaced that appeared to show Toronto’s former mayor, Rob Ford, smoking crack. It was hardly the first time his name had come up in relation to controversy, but it was the rock big…