Hulu’s “La Máquina” Delights with Campy Darkness | TV/Streaming

What you need to know about Hulu’s, Spanish-language “La Máquina” is that Diego Luna is downright hilarious in it. The six-part show follows old friends (and “Y Tu Mamá También” co-stars many years ago) Gael García Bernal and Luna as boxer Esteban “La Máquina” and his agent Andy. Is García Bernal totally convincing as an … Read more

Director Maureen Bharoocha on Rita Moreno’s Two Requests Before Signing on for Campy Horror The Prank, Watching the EGOT Winner Break Bad | Features

As a viewer, perhaps the biggest joy of the schoolyard-hijinks-gone-wrong film is that the 92-year-old actress seemed to be having so much fun being bad. “And she’s never played anything like this,” Bharoocha continued. “I was thinking, maybe if we can get her the script, she’d be like, ‘Oh, I want do something that I’ve … Read more

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans is a Campy and Heartfelt Delight | TV/Streaming

Based on Laurence Lemer’s 2021 novel Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, this new installment of “Feud” (produced by Murphy but written by Jon Robin Baitz) focuses on one of the greatest and most controversial American writers of the 20th century. Famously adored for his fiction and … Read more