TV Review: 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'
►"An appealing, if inconsistent, throwback." THR's chief TV critic
Dan Fienberg reviews Paramount+'s
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet's new
Star Trek series focuses on the USS Enterprise under Captain Pike, Captain Kirk's predecessor.
The review. —
"So much more than a one-hit wonder." THR TV critic
Angie Han reviews season two of Peacock's
Girls5eva. Reunited girl group members Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Summer (Busy Philipps), Gloria (Paula Pell) and Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry) race to put out a new album in the second season of the comedy created by Meredith Scardino.
The review. —
"A fine distillation, intoxicating and sobering." THR film critic
Sheri Linden reviews Juan Pablo González's
Dos Estaciones. Natural disasters and multinational corporations threaten the survival of an independent tequila company in the Mexico-set drama, a selection of New Directors/New Films and an award winner at Sundance and True/False.
The review. In other news... —Amid Elon Musk takeover effort,
Twitter pitches new content partnerships —TikTok to launch ads on top videos,
offer revenue share for creators —BTS reveals
new album is an anthology, with three new tracks —Lucy Maud Montgomery’s
The Blue Castle film adaptation in the works —Camerimage:
Stephen Burum to receive lifetime achievement award —Cannes:
Sally Phillips comedy How to Please a Woman sells to U.S., U.K. —Geena Davis’
Bentonville Film Festival sets jury —Julia Louis-Dreyfus
to be honored at Natural Resources Defense Council’s L.A. comedy benefit —Abraham Popoola
signs with APA What else we're reading... —Charles Bethea reports on the spate of Atlanta movie-set robberies in the last 18 months that has seen $3m worth of equipment stolen, and asks whether they are an inside job [
New Yorker]
—Scott Rosenberg on Facebook/Meta's "fail fast" culture after it shut down its podcast efforts, and looks back at the various "pivot to..." moments that have gone wrong for the company (there are a lot of them) [
Axios]
—Lisa Wong Macabasco on how movies with abortion scenes, like Audrey Diwan’s
Happening, are becoming more graphic, and more vital [
VF]
—With the success of
CODA,
Everything Everywhere All at Once and
Abbott Elementary, Charles Bramesco writes about rise of 'nicecore' films and TV [
Guardian]
—Nardine Saad and Deborah Vankin write that textile conservators and fashion curators are appalled that Kim Kardashian donned Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Jean Louis gown for the Met Gala [
LAT]
Today... ...in 2000, Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe unveiled their R-rated Roman epic
Gladiator in theaters nationwide. The film claimed five Oscars at the 73rd Academy Awards, including best picture.
The original review. Today's birthdays: Adele (34), Henry Cavill (39),
Richard E. Grant (65), Danielle Fishel (41), Brian Williams (63), Kurt Sutter (62), Virginie Efira (45), Lance Henriksen (82), John Rhys-Davies (78), Vincent Kartheiser (43), Zach McGowan (42), Michael Lindsay-Hogg (82), Santiago Cabrera (44), Clark Duke (37), Peter Howitt (65), Chelsea Clark (24), Tina Yothers (49), Ian Michael Smith (35)