This looks like a repeat of the Underbelly series.
Underbelly: The Golden Mile (2010) Main article: Underbelly: The Golden Mile Season 3 is the sequel to A Tale of Two Cities - and hence the prequel to the first series - and focuses on events that stemmed from the Kings Cross nightclub scene in Sydney between the years 1988 to 1996
This looks like a repeat of the Underbelly series.
Underbelly: The Golden Mile (2010) Main article: Underbelly: The Golden Mile Season 3 is the sequel to A Tale of Two Cities - and hence the prequel to the first series - and focuses on events that stemmed from the Kings Cross nightclub scene in Sydney between the years 1988 to 1996
Last King of the Cross review – true crime series too polished for its own good
You know the drill: a hungry upstart sets out to make a name for themselves in a competitive industry, building networks and battling the old guard. It’s a hallmark of the entrepreneurial narrative, repeated for the umpteenth time in the 10-part series Last King of the Cross, with an Underbelly-ish twist – in that the protagonist associates with various shadowy personalities. The series was inspired by the memoir of John Ibrahim, a nightclub owner whose brothers Sam and Michael are underworld figures, though John (an executive producer of the show) has never been accused of any crimes related to his brothers’ offences.
The show stars Lincoln Younes as Ibrahim and, in an early scene, dramatises the subject’s 1995 appearance at the Wood royal commission into New South Wales police corruption. It’s one of several short titbits the writers crowbar into the show’s introductory moments, seemingly unsure where to begin.
Killers Of The Flower Moon is hailed a 'triumph' by critics as they brand Martin Scorsese's first Western 'one of the best EVER made' following its nine-minute standing ovation in Cannes
Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon received a rapturous nine-minute standing ovation when it premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night. And as early reviews for the three and a half hour epic roll in, it's safe to say the iconic director's first ever Western will go down as a 'triumph'. A wide array of film critics have already given the Leonardo DiCaprio led movie five stars across the board, with one even hailing it as the best of its genre.
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON REVIEWS ROUND UP The Guardian
Rating:
'Scorsese presents a remarkable story, with an audacious framing device of a briskly insensitive 'true crime' radio show featuring Osage characters crassly played by white actors. This is an utterly absorbing film, a story that Scorsese sees as a secret history of American power, a hidden violence epidemic polluting the water table of humanity.'
The Indepedendant
Rating:
'DiCaprio, with a mouth full of rotted teeth, offers us a man who is loving and weak and ugly deep down in his soul, a man whose cheek twitches when he lies, and whose body deteriorates from guilt faster than any poison. But it's Gladstone who provides the film's centre of gravity. She gives one of the most extraordinary performances by a woman in any of Scorsese's movies. She is serene but not saintly; a figure of tragedy with a fire in her belly.'
The Times
Rating:
'The script, from Forrest Gump's Eric Roth, begins to meander badly, dropping in and out of the murder narrative and ultimately saddling us with a villain in De Niro who's not nearly villainous enough and a protagonist in DiCaprio who's a borderline moron. They are dreary company for 206 minutes.'
The Evening Standard
Rating:
'60 year-old Quentin Tarantino says he's quitting the directing game because he doesn't want to become 'this old man who's out of touch.' What a plonker. Killers of the Flower Moon suggests film-makers should keep on keeping on. I'd even put my cowboy boot on the line and declare this (Scorsese's first foray into the genre) one of the best Westerns ever made and almost certainly the best film of 2023 so far.'
Deadline
'Whatever the reported $200 budget, it is all on the screen in the kind of big-screen epic tale Hollywood has been shying away from. Apple stepped up to ensure Scorsese's vision and this could be a game-changer in terms of theatrical distribution and streaming coming together.'
The Hollywood Reporter
'To some degree, this is a classic Scorsese crime narrative transposed to prairie territory in the script co-authored by the director and Eric Roth. And there are darkly amusing moments of anger in which De Niro's colourful performance recalls his hall-of-fame wise guys.
'But the shift into historical Americana breathes a soulfulness into the material that feels distinct from most of the director's output. This is a film as richly atmospheric as it is character-driven, heightened by the somber colours of Rodrigo Prieto's cinematography and the evocative details of Jack Fisk's customarily scrupulous period production design.'
Variety
'In its present form, “Killers” is still a compelling true story, one that Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth shifted from being a standard white-savior detective yarn to a more morally thorny look at how the white culprits plotted and carried out the murders. Stylistically, this feels like a young man’s movie. It’s engrossing from the get-go, the palpable tension methodically echoed by Robbie Robertson’s steady-heartbeat score. But it keeps going and going until everyone we care about is dead, dying or behind bars, with nearly an hour still in store.'
Indie Wire
That sepia-toned saga of slow-poisoned self-denial is sustained by the best performance of Leonardo DiCaprio’s entire career. The former matinee idol has never been shy about playing low-lifes and scum-bums, but his nuanced and uncompromising turn as the cretinous Ernest Burkhart mines new wonders from the actor’s long-standing lack of vanity.
This looks like a repeat of the Underbelly series.
Underbelly: The Golden Mile (2010) Main article: Underbelly: The Golden Mile Season 3 is the sequel to A Tale of Two Cities - and hence the prequel to the first series - and focuses on events that stemmed from the Kings Cross nightclub scene in Sydney between the years 1988 to 1996
This looks like a repeat of the Underbelly series.
Underbelly: The Golden Mile (2010) Main article: Underbelly: The Golden Mile Season 3 is the sequel to A Tale of Two Cities - and hence the prequel to the first series - and focuses on events that stemmed from the Kings Cross nightclub scene in Sydney between the years 1988 to 1996
Six of the seven series of Underbelly are still available on STV on demand, and definitely worth a watch. Series three is the one that covers the above story.
This looks like a repeat of the Underbelly series.
Underbelly: The Golden Mile (2010) Main article: Underbelly: The Golden Mile Season 3 is the sequel to A Tale of Two Cities - and hence the prequel to the first series - and focuses on events that stemmed from the Kings Cross nightclub scene in Sydney between the years 1988 to 1996
Six of the seven series of Underbelly are still available on STV on demand, and definitely worth a watch. Series three is the one that covers the above story.
Everything We Know About Jodie Foster’s ‘True Detective’ Season 4
What’s the big idea? As per the previous series, there’s a bunch of murders that need solving and this time it’s up to Foster, who plays Detective Liz Danzers and Reis, who stars as Detective Evangeline Navarro, to step up.
It looks like it might be the most extreme of all the franchise so far, not least because it’s set in the wild expanse of Alaska at a point in the year where most of the day is shrouded in darkness.
As for the crime? Well, Danzers and Navarro - who, yes, appear to hate each other at the start - will be investigating the disappearances of six men from the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska.
The trailer shows that their disappearance is supposed to be because the team were observing a “weather event” but after a gaggle of abandoned boots are found out in the cold dark snow outside, one character points out: “How scared do you have to be to run out in the ice without any shoes?” We now have a murder case on our hands, people.
The official synopsis goes deeper, saying the two women “must confront their pasts and the dark truths lying underneath the Arctic ice”. Chilling, indeed.
Who else is starring in it? Look out for the familiar faces of Deadwood‘s John Hawkes who plays policeman-with-a-grudge Hank Prior, Doctor Who‘s Christopher Eccleston playing Ted Corsaro, a regional head of police and Killing Eve’s Fiona Shaw as Rose Aguineau, an intriguing survivalist.
Additionally, Finn Bennett, Anna Lambe, Aka Niviâna, Isabella Star Lablanc, and Joel D. Montgrand are all set to appear.
Issa López is the showrunner on this outing, and she’s joined by the inimitable talents of Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins as one of the executive producers, alongside Foster and the original creator Nic Pizzolatto.
When’s it due out? Later in 2023 is all we’ve been told so far, but don’t worry, we’re on the case to uncover more.
I loved the first 3 series of Succession. But thought the 4th season was a massive disappointment
I have only watched 4 episodes of PokerFace, enjoying it though. Also enjoyed Mobile 101, and Steeltown Murders. I only watched the first two series of Succession. Maryland definitely wasnt a crime thriller. Looking forward to True Detective 4, and Reacher 2. I gave up on A Town Called Malice. As I said earlier I thought Underbelly was better than The Last King Of The Cross, although I thought it was ok. I havent started on White House Plumbers yet. I cant get tempted by Sister Boniface Mysteries.
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Underbelly: The Golden Mile (2010)
Main article: Underbelly: The Golden Mile
Season 3 is the sequel to A Tale of Two Cities - and hence the prequel to the first series - and focuses on events that stemmed from the Kings Cross nightclub scene in Sydney between the years 1988 to 1996
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Underbelly The Golden Mile SNEAK PEEK.
You know the drill: a hungry upstart sets out to make a name for themselves in a competitive industry, building networks and battling the old guard. It’s a hallmark of the entrepreneurial narrative, repeated for the umpteenth time in the 10-part series Last King of the Cross, with an Underbelly-ish twist – in that the protagonist associates with various shadowy personalities. The series was inspired by the memoir of John Ibrahim, a nightclub owner whose brothers Sam and Michael are underworld figures, though John (an executive producer of the show) has never been accused of any crimes related to his brothers’ offences.
The show stars Lincoln Younes as Ibrahim and, in an early scene, dramatises the subject’s 1995 appearance at the Wood royal commission into New South Wales police corruption. It’s one of several short titbits the writers crowbar into the show’s introductory moments, seemingly unsure where to begin.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/16/last-king-of-the-cross-review-true-series-too-polished-for-its-own-good
https://www.mamamia.com.au/last-king-of-cross-true-story/
https://video.dailymail.co.uk/preview/mol/2023/05/21/7284851966727701982/636x382_MP4_7284851966727701982.mp4
Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon received a rapturous nine-minute standing ovation when it premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night. And as early reviews for the three and a half hour epic roll in, it's safe to say the iconic director's first ever Western will go down as a 'triumph'. A wide array of film critics have already given the Leonardo DiCaprio led movie five stars across the board, with one even hailing it as the best of its genre.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12107579/Killers-Flower-Moon-hailed-triumph-critics.html
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON REVIEWS ROUND UP
The Guardian
Rating:
'Scorsese presents a remarkable story, with an audacious framing device of a briskly insensitive 'true crime' radio show featuring Osage characters crassly played by white actors. This is an utterly absorbing film, a story that Scorsese sees as a secret history of American power, a hidden violence epidemic polluting the water table of humanity.'
The Indepedendant
Rating:
'DiCaprio, with a mouth full of rotted teeth, offers us a man who is loving and weak and ugly deep down in his soul, a man whose cheek twitches when he lies, and whose body deteriorates from guilt faster than any poison. But it's Gladstone who provides the film's centre of gravity. She gives one of the most extraordinary performances by a woman in any of Scorsese's movies. She is serene but not saintly; a figure of tragedy with a fire in her belly.'
The Times
Rating:
'The script, from Forrest Gump's Eric Roth, begins to meander badly, dropping in and out of the murder narrative and ultimately saddling us with a villain in De Niro who's not nearly villainous enough and a protagonist in DiCaprio who's a borderline moron. They are dreary company for 206 minutes.'
The Evening Standard
Rating:
'60 year-old Quentin Tarantino says he's quitting the directing game because he doesn't want to become 'this old man who's out of touch.' What a plonker. Killers of the Flower Moon suggests film-makers should keep on keeping on. I'd even put my cowboy boot on the line and declare this (Scorsese's first foray into the genre) one of the best Westerns ever made and almost certainly the best film of 2023 so far.'
Deadline
'Whatever the reported $200 budget, it is all on the screen in the kind of big-screen epic tale Hollywood has been shying away from. Apple stepped up to ensure Scorsese's vision and this could be a game-changer in terms of theatrical distribution and streaming coming together.'
The Hollywood Reporter
'To some degree, this is a classic Scorsese crime narrative transposed to prairie territory in the script co-authored by the director and Eric Roth. And there are darkly amusing moments of anger in which De Niro's colourful performance recalls his hall-of-fame wise guys.
'But the shift into historical Americana breathes a soulfulness into the material that feels distinct from most of the director's output. This is a film as richly atmospheric as it is character-driven, heightened by the somber colours of Rodrigo Prieto's cinematography and the evocative details of Jack Fisk's customarily scrupulous period production design.'
Variety
'In its present form, “Killers” is still a compelling true story, one that Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth shifted from being a standard white-savior detective yarn to a more morally thorny look at how the white culprits plotted and carried out the murders. Stylistically, this feels like a young man’s movie. It’s engrossing from the get-go, the palpable tension methodically echoed by Robbie Robertson’s steady-heartbeat score. But it keeps going and going until everyone we care about is dead, dying or behind bars, with nearly an hour still in store.'
Indie Wire
That sepia-toned saga of slow-poisoned self-denial is sustained by the best performance of Leonardo DiCaprio’s entire career. The former matinee idol has never been shy about playing low-lifes and scum-bums, but his nuanced and uncompromising turn as the cretinous Ernest Burkhart mines new wonders from the actor’s long-standing lack of vanity.
Series three is the one that covers the above story.
I watched this today.
Enjoyed it.
A pleasant change from what I usually watch.
What’s the big idea?
As per the previous series, there’s a bunch of murders that need solving and this time it’s up to Foster, who plays Detective Liz Danzers and Reis, who stars as Detective Evangeline Navarro, to step up.
It looks like it might be the most extreme of all the franchise so far, not least because it’s set in the wild expanse of Alaska at a point in the year where most of the day is shrouded in darkness.
As for the crime? Well, Danzers and Navarro - who, yes, appear to hate each other at the start - will be investigating the disappearances of six men from the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska.
The trailer shows that their disappearance is supposed to be because the team were observing a “weather event” but after a gaggle of abandoned boots are found out in the cold dark snow outside, one character points out: “How scared do you have to be to run out in the ice without any shoes?” We now have a murder case on our hands, people.
The official synopsis goes deeper, saying the two women “must confront their pasts and the dark truths lying underneath the Arctic ice”. Chilling, indeed.
Who else is starring in it?
Look out for the familiar faces of Deadwood‘s John Hawkes who plays policeman-with-a-grudge Hank Prior, Doctor Who‘s Christopher Eccleston playing Ted Corsaro, a regional head of police and Killing Eve’s Fiona Shaw as Rose Aguineau, an intriguing survivalist.
Additionally, Finn Bennett, Anna Lambe, Aka Niviâna, Isabella Star Lablanc, and Joel D. Montgrand are all set to appear.
Issa López is the showrunner on this outing, and she’s joined by the inimitable talents of Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins as one of the executive producers, alongside Foster and the original creator Nic Pizzolatto.
When’s it due out?
Later in 2023 is all we’ve been told so far, but don’t worry, we’re on the case to uncover more.
I loved the first 3 series of Succession. But thought the 4th season was a massive disappointment
Also enjoyed Mobile 101, and Steeltown Murders.
I only watched the first two series of Succession.
Maryland definitely wasnt a crime thriller.
Looking forward to True Detective 4, and Reacher 2.
I gave up on A Town Called Malice.
As I said earlier I thought Underbelly was better than The Last King Of The Cross, although I thought it was ok.
I havent started on White House Plumbers yet.
I cant get tempted by Sister Boniface Mysteries.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/the-gallows-pole-bbc-two-review-shane-meadows-swaps-polemic-for-folk-horror/ar-AA1bXpp5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6b9209fabbdf44019b54a836d5f161ee&ei=77
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/poker-face-review-natasha-lyonne-is-more-mesmerising-than-ever-in-this-superfun-detective-show/ar-AA1bI25u?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6b9209fabbdf44019b54a836d5f161ee&ei=101
Definitely a final warning, and definitely an opening scene.
Reacher fans would probably enjoy Justified @TheEdge949
Justified: City Primeval | Official Trailer
Raylan's Final Warning - Scene | Justified | FX
Raylan Takes Down a Mobster - Scene | Justified | FX
He had his chance.