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I'm just not sure there's ever been a television story more custom-tailored for me than "a chess prodigy is so good at chess that she loses her freaking mind and it's styled like a surreal prestige thriller". Sound good to you, too? Good. Then feast your eyes on the official trailer for Netflix's limited series The Queen's Gambit. [caption id="attachment_923993" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] Based on the novel by Walter Tevis (whose The Hustler series of books have also yielded sharp screen works on gifts versus obsessions), Anya Taylor-…

The HBO special presentation Coastal Elites might be about this strange new 2020 we find ourselves in, but much like 2020 itself, it wasn't supposed to be like this. Paul Rudnick's screenplays for films like Addams Family Values and Jeffrey (if you've never seen the 1995 film starring Steven Weber and Patrick Stewart, do yourself a favor and fix that) have confirmed him as a master of wit, both for the screen and the stage. It was the latter for which he began writing a series of monologues well before the onset of the pandemic, themed largely …

Esme Creed-Miles is standing in a seemingly abandoned building in the heart of Budapest, Hungary. Behind her is a makeshift table featuring an assortment of snacks and drinks for the crew of Amazon's upcoming series Hanna. It's day 2 of Collider's set visit to Eastern Europe, and while Creed-Miles looks ready to tussle with any evil CIA thugs that come her way, it becomes evident that she's enjoying the break she's taken to talk to this small group of press. Basically, she's putting everything she's got into this role. "I did … The post ‘Hanna’ Star Esme Creed-Miles on Walking a Line Between Violence & Vulnerability in Amazon’s Series appeared first on Collider.