Manuel Betancourt
Critic, Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer/critic for hire 📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!) 📚 The Male Gazed (2023) 📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020) 🏰 Writer on @thecardboardk Rep @MichaelBourret
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2 weeks ago |
avclub.com | Manuel Betancourt
Skip to the content The premise of Netflix’s latest limited series, Sirens, rests on a truth universally acknowledged: There are few people as beguiling as Julianne Moore. The Oscar-winning actor has long been able to create intriguing women whose warmth can be intoxicating even if— and sometimes precisely because—it’s quite fraught and fragile.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Manuel Betancourt
From the moment Michael Cimino heard about “Motorheads,” a new coming-of-age drama set in a small town against the backdrop of street racing, he knew he had to be a part of it. The young actor, best known as the lead in Hulu’s “Love, Victor,” had long been looking for something just like it. “Literally, since I first signed with CAA [Creative Artists Agency],” Cimino shares excitedly over Zoom.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Manuel Betancourt
From the moment Michael Cimino heard about “Motorheads,” a new coming-of-age drama set in a small town against the backdrop of street racing, he knew he had to be a part of it. The young actor, best known as the lead in Hulu’s “Love, Victor,” had long been looking for something just like it. “Literally, since I first signed with CAA [Creative Artists Agency],” Cimino shares excitedly over Zoom.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Manuel Betancourt
Looking back, casting Diego Luna in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” may well prove to be the single most consequential decision in that storied franchise’s history. Hearing Luna’s Mexican accent in a galaxy far, far away was not only refreshing. It was radical.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Manuel Betancourt
In “Overcompensating,” Prime Video’s newly released comedy series, everyone is doing too much. That’s what Benito Skinner, the creator and star of the A24-produced show, experienced in college in the mid-2010s, and why it felt like a perfect backdrop to tell a heightened version of his own coming out story.
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