Robin Wright has said she resonated with a story about “human resilience” as she was looking for her first film to direct.
The House Of Cards star, 55, plays a woman dealing with life-altering loss and grief who decides to remove herself from society to embark on a solitary existence living off-grid in the remote mountain wilderness of Wyoming in the movie Land, which is also her feature directing debut.
The actress said she was looking for new material as the political drama, in which she played Claire Underwood, the wife of Kevin Spacey’s scheming politician Frank Underwood, came to an end.
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The heroine of The Bold Type is everybody’s ideal boss. Now, only if we could take her out from Netflix into our workspaces
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TBT is centred around a trio of millennial women, working at a women’s magazine in New York who juggle their careers, romance, friendships and big-city life while finding their own voices. You can call it ‘Not Sex in the City’, but that would give your age away.
Actually, Political TV Shows Can Be Unflatteringly Accurate About U.S. Government
House of Cards or character-driven comedies like
VEEP giving us a fictional look into the inner workings of actual governmental systems. While most are blown wildly out of proportion, like
Scandal (although based on real fixer Judy Smith), others can still teach us a thing or two the about the actual inner workings of government. Let’s get into some of our favorite TV shows to see how they depicted the government more accurately than we might have thought.
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The fictional 99th precinct in Brooklyn, led by Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher), also stars Andy Samberg as Detective Jake Peralta. In the 19th episode of the first season, titled “Tactical Village,” the nine-nine unit executes drills using high-powered weapons and military-grade machinery. And while it was serious training, the team was thrilled to play with these “toys,” as they c
If Bojo’s post-Covid roadmap is to be believed (if the latest infection figures are anything to go by, it is), over the next few weeks we’re going to be making the final push back towards normal life. Indeed, if everything goes fully to plan we ll be eating inside restaurants – no more grubby fleece blankets and freezing fingers, huzzah – come 17 May and with any luck, society’s full unleashing will be just around the corner after that.
And while that means there’s plenty to get excited about this summer, it also means we need to start thinking long and hard about the clothes we’re going to wear when we’re back out in the world.