Since his Emmy-winning role on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” Terence Winter has been considered a great crime writer, whether as the creator of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” the screenwriter of “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” or the head writer of his current series, the Paramount+ gangster comedy “Tulsa King.” The origin […]
A choreographed dance on the beach is not exactly the opening sequence you would expect from a glossy crime thriller starring Nicole Kidman. But for director Susanne Bier (“Bird Box”) there was no other way to open “The Perfect Pair,” the six-part adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s novel. “I was so bored with title sequences,” Bier […]
“Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” the eight-episode miniseries (currently streaming on Peacock), documents two important events in Atlanta’s history. While Muhammad Ali was celebrating his comeback as a professional boxer with a win over Jerry Quarry at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium on October 26, 1970, a group of gangsters robbed the Black Mafia of more […]
