Krista Ayne as Maya: Moved to New York City following her best friend and college roommate Sophie.Sophie is a financial analyst for an online poker player. Mary LeGault as Sophie Beale: A college graduate who has moved to New York City and is living with her older sister Bella.Heather Vandeven as Bella Marie: A successful erotic model for "life on top" and Sophie's older sister.
In 2015, Life on Top was featured in Under the Gun Theater's performance of Porn Minus Porn, a comedy show where actors parody softcore porn by cold reading scripts. A map of Romania can be seen in Season 1, Episode 2 and the vast majority of the supporting cast shown in the end credits is Romanian. Īlthough it is heavily implied to be Manhattan, principal photography was in Bucharest, Romania over five weeks, with the help of production company Castel Film Romania.
It aired on Cinemax from 2009–2011 with 26 episodes focusing on young corporate professionals with four women as the de facto main characters.
The film is such fun to watch, the two leads constantly bickering back and forth in a choppy, mid-'50s cadence, and the mystery at the center of it all is a thrilling, playful return to a cozy, antique way of storytelling when the nighttime was full of endless possibilities.Life on Top was an American softcore drama series based on the novel of the same name by Clara Darling. When Everett asks his listeners to call in if they recognize the sound, the two uncover a global conspiracy involving the military, disappearances, and what some might call alien abduction. Two high school youngsters, switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and late-night radio host Everett (Jake Horowitz), stumble upon a strange interference one night that doesn't seem to be coming from any known source. policies that spares no one.Įqual parts would-be Twilight Zone episode and old-fashioned sci-fi radio drama, Andrew Patterson's debut feature The Vast of Night takes us back in time to Cayuga, New Mexico in the late 1950s, when technology promised us a future Space Age and the rascally Soviets could be hiding around every corner.
Driver lends Jones sober-minded compassion for his task, while Annette Bening is a dead ringer for Senator Dianne Feinstein. Though it sometimes slides into book report territory, the level of talent on screen keeps it fascinating. Burns has made an enthralling film about Daniel Jones (Adam Driver), who authored the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the inhumanity and inefficiency of the CIA's torture tactics in the wake of 9/11, offering an exacting play-by-play of his work, from its inception to the attempted suppression of the information he uncovered. But the value of The Report is not just cinematic in-fighting.
Seven years later, The Reportis calling bullshit on that aspect of Kathryn Bigelow's film. When Zero Dark Thirty came out in 2012, controversy erupted whether or not it was accurate in claiming that American torture practices played a role in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. going head-to-head, representing two viewpoints in stark opposition. But those concerns fade away when you're mesmerized by Ben-Adir and Odom Jr. Sure, at times the film can feel a bit static it is, after all, mostly about four men sitting in a room and talking often about sweeping philosophical topics. As they celebrate the victory by Clay-soon to be Muhammad Ali-the four luminaries joke, bond, and debate how best to deal with the racism plaguing their country. Adapted from a play by Kemp Powers, the film allows audiences in on the conversation that happened between Cassius Clay (Goree), Malcolm X (Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Odom Jr.) the night in 1964 after Clay beat Sonny Liston. King does not appear in One Night in Miami. herself, but she coaxes out marvelous work from her cast as she documents a fictional account of one of the most legendary conversations in history.
Regina King, a woman responsible for putting incredible performances onto big and small screens, makes her directorial debut with a movie that features some of the best acting of 2020.