Hunters, which premiered Friday on Amazon Prime Video, has many things going for it. For one, Al Pacino. The Oscar-winner stars as a Jewish holocaust survivor-turned-Nazi hunter named Meyer Offerman who organizes a band of eclectic helpers determined to track down surviving members of Hitler’s Third Reich. The series is set in New York in
The 2020 Television Critics Association press tour has been a great place to test out an app that has changed my life: The Google Recorder app. As demonstrated in the above video, this free (yes, free) app takes seconds to download and helps writers escape the time-consuming task of transcribing. On press tours, where there
Al Pacino was asked at Tuesday’s Amazon Prime TCA panel about adjusting to the rigors of TV series work. “It’s just a different environment for one thing,” said Pacino, before TV critics to help promote the upcoming Amazon drama Hunters. “Every week or every two to three weeks, you get a new director. Shall I say
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” is a three-and-a-half hour argument that Marvel superhero movies are indeed not cinema. The 77-year-old director is the champion of great, intimate, actors engaged in exploring the human condition, often in times of extreme and dangerous circumstances. He is not interested in recreating roller coaster rides. He’s more interested in jolting
Getting under somebody else’s skin is nothing new for Al Pacino. He did it in “Serpico,” and several times in HBO projects, including searing portrayals of Jack Kevorkian and Phil Spector. He plays another controversial and complex real life character this month on HBO and HBO Canada in Paterno. This is, of course, a movie about