The new pandemic thrillers – too close for comfort?
3 years, 11 months ago

The new pandemic thrillers – too close for comfort?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The film’s director, Adam Mason, and screenwriter Simon Boyes, devised the idea last March, when Hollywood first came crashing to a standstill due to the pandemic. And it’s the old Department of Sanitation – now gun-wielding enforcers of quarantine – who play the role of moustache-twirling villains, as their boss froths at the mouth and yells things like “Disobedience is spreading like a tornado!” How can a film pass itself off as light entertainment when it buys so wholeheartedly into the vast, toxic misinformation campaigns that fuel anti-lockdown rhetoric? Five years would pass before the first major films about 9/11 trickled into cinemas – Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center and Paul Greengrass’s United 93 – each greeted with a distinct sense of apprehension. Host, Rob Savage’s lo-fi horror from last year, ingeniously exploits the way in which Zoom is now part of the daily fabric of people’s lives – the video calling service gets a supernatural twist when a group of friends, stuck in lockdown, decide to host an online seance.

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Review: In a lockdown that resembles recent history, ‘Coup!’ stages a revolution born of pandemic
5 months, 1 week ago

Review: In a lockdown that resembles recent history, ‘Coup!’ stages a revolution born of pandemic

LA Times  

As early as the end of 2020, a wave of films began to speak to the COVID-19 pandemic, either explicitly or unintentionally via the limits of their production. One of the film’s antiheroes, Floyd, speaks plainly as to what the 2020 pandemic taught us when he tells his employer’s wife, Julia, “Nature has a way of creeping into the modern …

Craig Tate on shooting amid pandemic: We are in a state of flux
2 years, 11 months ago

Craig Tate on shooting amid pandemic: We are in a state of flux

Hindustan Times  

Hollywood actor Craig Tate, known for his performances in 12 Years A Slave, Greyhound, and King Richard, among others, says though he has been continuously working amid the pandemic, he hasn’t got used to the new normal yet. Craig Tate was last seen in horror film, Black as Night “I don’t even know how to or if I would even …

I’m mentally prepared for another lockdown: Mrunal Thakur
2 years, 11 months ago

I’m mentally prepared for another lockdown: Mrunal Thakur

Hindustan Times  

On January 1, actor Mrunal Thakur revealed she tested positive for Covid-19. I can’t wait to bounce back to work.” Mrunal Thakur’s Jersey was supposed to release in theatres on December 31, 2021 Thakur shares that she received backlash for testing positive after attending a party, a rumour she slams. Ask her if she’s ready for another lockdown and she …

To pandemic or not? How TV writers choose whether to include the harsh reality
3 years, 7 months ago

To pandemic or not? How TV writers choose whether to include the harsh reality

LA Times  

In spring 2020, those in the “black-ish” writers’ room faced a conundrum: To pandemic or not to pandemic? But quickly the choice — a decision made in writers’ rooms across Hollywood — became clear: They had to work the ever-changing real world into the “black-ish” universe. We’re grounded in the real world, the world of current events.” “A lot of …

COVID-19 Stories: How the pandemic made me appreciate life away from the city
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19 Stories: How the pandemic made me appreciate life away from the city

Hindustan Times  

Nithya Krishnan is a culinary and Zumba instructor and food blogger. When the first news of the ’Wuhan’ virus hit my small valley town in New York there was barely a flutter in daily lives. We managed to meander our way through the days and coped with a shelter in place life, finding peace in simple things like watching a …

Pandemic woes create tough outlook for Hollywood and FilmLA
3 years, 11 months ago

Pandemic woes create tough outlook for Hollywood and FilmLA

LA Times  

It has been a tumultuous year for Paul Audley, who for more than a decade has led the film permitting group FilmLA. So they’re trying to adjust to locations that are, for the most part, locations that are less likely to raise any kind of public concern even though they have extraordinarily strict safety protocols in place for the film …

Review: ‘Locked Down’ mirrors our quarantine experiences
3 years, 11 months ago

Review: ‘Locked Down’ mirrors our quarantine experiences

Associated Press  

Doug Liman’s “Locked Down,” one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is, like our own quarantine experiences, erratic, a little absurd and sporadically delightful. This, not a small difference, is crucial in “Locked Down,” an energetic romantic comedy-slash-heist movie that makes a game entry into the emerging genre of COVID-19 movies. …

The pandemic is changing Hollywood, maybe forever
4 years, 1 month ago

The pandemic is changing Hollywood, maybe forever

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — “No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding. Last month, the Walt Disney Co. experimented with the $200 million “Mulan” as a premium buy on its fast-growing streaming service, Disney+ — where the Pixar film “Soul” will also …

Coronavirus Outbreak: Writers and creators weigh in on how the pandemic will shape the stories Bollywood tells
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Writers and creators weigh in on how the pandemic will shape the stories Bollywood tells

Firstpost  

For months now, the world has been staring into an abyss of uncertainty. “We are living through a time when we are aware of how many people are dying every day of the pandemic; when we see poor migrants walking hundreds of kilometers bare feet; and everyone is learning to live with ’less’. That doesn’t mean that they would be …

TV in the time of COVID-19: Why we flock to stories of pandemics and other disasters
4 years, 7 months ago

TV in the time of COVID-19: Why we flock to stories of pandemics and other disasters

LA Times  

Heroes can save the day on television as opposed to the uncertainty of actual crises. And while indulging in end-of-the-world scenarios might seem tasteless in the middle of a real-life pandemic, audiences actually began flocking to these topics as the novel coronavirus took hold: In late March, Netflix’s top titles included films like “Contagion” and TV series like “Containment.” Exactly …

A Netflix series predicted a global pandemic. It was dismissed as ‘a show about the flu’
4 years, 9 months ago

A Netflix series predicted a global pandemic. It was dismissed as ‘a show about the flu’

LA Times  

Not if but when. It’s the rallying cry uttered over and over again by the doctors, scientists, humanitarian workers and public health officials profiled in “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak.” Structured like a globe-trotting thriller, the Netflix documentary series follows dedicated men and women on the front lines of the battle against the next devastating disease to ravage the …

28 inspiring regional films to stream during coronavirus quarantine
4 years, 9 months ago

28 inspiring regional films to stream during coronavirus quarantine

India Today  

The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought cities around the world to a virtual standstill and forced millions to work from home in order to contain the spread. Though we are living in scary times, people are likely to be stuck at home with a fair amount of time at hand. Luckily, there’s an abundance of entertainment to stream online and …

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