Johanna Schneller
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True-crime series American Hostage poses questions we still wrestle with today (opens the original)
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On Feb. 8, 1977, an Indianapolis resident named Tony Kiritsis, about to be bankrupted by his mortgage company’s predatory practices, wrapped a wire attached to a shotgun around the neck of his mortgage broker, Richard Hall, then held him hostage in his apartment for three days. Throughout, he reached out to a trusted local radio newsman, Fred Heckman, who conveyed his message to the world, turning Kiritsis into a folk hero in real time. His story posed a question we’re still wrestling with today
Meet the women who shattered the Canadian film industry’s glass ceiling (opens the original)
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It’s the kind of change that happens slowly, then feels like all at once. As of June, most of the distribution chiefs at the major studios and production companies in Canada are now women: Sarah Brown at Sony. Hilary Hart at Game Theory. Jennifer Kolber at Paramount. Marie-Hélène Lamarche at Immina Films. Chantale Pagé at Maison 4:3. Claire Peace-McConnell at VVS. Sandy Power at Warner Bros. Sarah Timlick at Amazon MGM. It is a remarkable moment in an industry with an historically shatterproof g
Sterling Point is one of summer’s most talked-about shows (opens the original)
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Sterling Point, the Prime series that Megan Park created, wrote and directed, about a group of teenagers in Ontario cottage country sharing an indelible coming-of-age summer, had only been streaming for a week when Park and I got on a video call together. But the internet was already in raptures about it; the Closet Scene in particular had been dubbed “iconic.” If you’ve watched the show, you know the moment: Ellis (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie), a local who works as a pilot and mechanic at his father
Hulu’s Furious is an excellent detective thriller about abuse, anger and sexual assault (opens the original)
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The ancient Greeks had separate words for different types of anger, a female FBI agent explains in Furious, the new Hulu on Disney+ series that shines a chilling light on the sex trafficking of preteen girls: There’s ménis, the moral anger of a society; thumos, the violent anger that makes you fight (and often makes you a hero); and then there’s orgē – that’s the slow, quiet anger that builds up in you until you finally decide to do something about it. Orgē burns in me when I read on canadasmiss
Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis take on the 1980s in The Shards (opens the original)
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Two forces are stalking the snooty, decadent prep-school seniors of 1981 Beverly Hills in the new FX series The Shards: a serial killer dubbed the Trawler, and Bret Easton Ellis’s ego. (The show premieres Aug. 5 on Hulu on Disney+.) Co-created by Ellis, the author and screenwriter best known for American Psycho, and the prolific Ryan Murphy (Love Story, American Horror Story) – and based on Ellis’s 2023 fictionalized memoir of the same name – The Shards is the latest series to meet this summer’s
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