Ben Travers
TV Critic and Deputy Editor at IndieWire
@IndieWire Critic & Deputy Editor, TV • @OfficialTCA • @AMillionScreens • He/Him • Ann Dowd calls me “honey” (and don't tell me if she calls everyone that).
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indiewire.com | Ben Travers
Hwang Dong-hyuk wraps up his blunt evisceration of capitalism with a fittingly grim final season.
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indiewire.com | Ben Travers
“George Clooney figured it this way: If he was going to come back to television, he might as well do something different.”That’s not my lede; that intro belongs to Hilary De Vries. She wrote it for The New York Times in April 2000 when Clooney first returned to television. Just a year after he left the cast of “E.R.,” the former Doug Ross convinced CBS president Leslie Moonves to mount a live production of “Fail Safe,” one of the actor’s favorite films.
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flipboard.com | Ben Travers
9 hours agoI just discovered this forgotten Netflix survival thriller movie — and I’m kicking myself for missing it the first timeWhen it comes to new Netflix movies, I consider myself pretty on the ball.
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3 weeks ago |
indiewire.com | Ben Travers
“I never actually made tooth-to-Emmy-winner contact. I did not bite.”That’s co-creator and actor Paul W. Downs denying — to the best of his recollection — ever clamping down on Emmy-winner Julianne Nicholson’s hand while lunging to bite her during their “frantic” scene in “Hacks” Season 4. “I think that’s the only take where you pretended to [bite her], actually,” co-creator Lucia Aniello said. “She would’ve been fine with it. She’s so game, if Paul bit her hand, she would’ve gone with it.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Ben Travers
How ‘Hacks’ Found Comedy in Every Prop, Light, and GestureGenerate Key Takeaways“I never actually made tooth-to-Emmy-winner contact. I did not bite.”That’s co-creator and actor Paul W. Downs denying — to the best of his recollection — ever clamping down on Emmy-winner Julianne Nicholson’s hand while lunging to bite her during their “frantic” scene in “Hacks” Season 4.
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