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‘We’re trying to turn the magnet towards optimism’: Cate Blanchett on her new climate crisis podcast

In Climate of Change, old friends actor Cate Blanchett and clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy aim to offer ordinary people real-life solutions to environmental disaster

The Guardian - UK

Prince William and Adam McKay join star-studded lineup for Audible climate podcast

Prince William and filmmaker Adam McKay will join a star-studded line-up for Audible’s Climate of Change podcast series.

Evening Standard

‘People don’t disappear into thin air’: behind shocking docuseries The Invisible Pilot

The series recounts the 1977 disappearance of an Arkansas family man mired in drug smuggling and international scandal

The Guardian - US

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Karla Peterson: In HBO's new docuseries 'The Invisible Pilot,' truth gets the fiction treatment

Before you commit to watching "The Invisible Pilot," HBO's new documentary series about the eventful life and strange disappearance of pilot Gary Betzner, consider the words of former Arkansas sheriff Mike Grady.

Tribune News Service

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty review – Adam McKay’s basketball drama lacks magic

This big, fun, quickfire series shows a team transcending their sport to become an entire cultural epoch. So why does it feel sluggish?

The Guardian - UK

Winning Time review: John C Reilly imbues Dr Buss with a manic positive energy and bohemian flair

Super stellar glamour, exquisite Seventies and Eighties production design and vibrant machismo make this a wildly watchable show

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Adam McKay’s cool LA Lakers drama debuts on Sky Atlantic

John C Reilly stars in a new drama focused on one of the most revered teams in sport. Plus: Panorama investigates the shocking rape statistics in the UK. Here’s what to watch today

The Guardian - UK

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Oscar winners 2022: CODA, Jane Campion, Will Smith and Jessica Chastain win big but Nicole Kidman and Kodi Smit-McPhee miss out

This year's best films and performances have been named at the Academy Awards with Coda taking out Best Picture while Will Smith and Jessica Chastain also won big. Here are the winners in every category.

ABC News

Don’t Look Up: Why Adam McKay’s divisive doomsday satire should win the Oscar for Best Picture

Critics and audiences were split over the A-lister-packed disaster movie, but Kevin E G Perry argues it deserves to take home the Academy’s biggest prize for finding cathartic laughter in the dark

The Independent UK

From Bernie Sanders speeches to screenplays: The unlikely journey of an Oscar nominee

Bernie Sanders’ former staffer feels like a ‘fish out of water’ in Hollywood after a career in politics, he tells Sheila Flynn - but the Oscar nominee for Don’t Look Up is on a mission to save the planet

The Independent UK

Adam McKay says he ‘f***ed up’ Dick Cheney biopic Vice by not ‘blaming’ Democrats

Film was criticised for its ‘baffling’ tone

The Independent UK

Oscars 2022: Final predictions in all 23 categories

LOS ANGELES — This year's Oscars are all about wild swings. At least that's how the show's producer, Will Packer, is putting it, and who am I to argue with the guy who dares to move eight Oscars off Sunday's live telecast to make room for ... well ... who…

Los Angeles Times

Don’t Look Up: Why Adam McKay’s divisive doomsday satire should win the Oscar for Best Picture

Critics and audiences were split over the A-lister-packed disaster movie, but Kevin E G Perry argues it deserves to take home the Academy’s biggest prize for finding cathartic laughter in the dark

The Independent UK

Farewell Villanelle: Jodie Comer signs up for her first post-Killing Eve TV role

The Emmy-winning actress is set to star in a new TV series from director Adam McKay

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Elizabeth Holmes set for prison: Why Hollywood can’t get enough of Silicon Valley stories

The jaw-dropping stories of Silicon Valley’s biggest successes - and biggest failures - make for thrilling TV

The Guardian - UK

Why Don’t Look Up should win the best picture Oscar

By laying bare the roots of human folly, Adam McKay’s fun parable shows how entertainment can generate enlightenment

The Independent UK

Don’t Look Up director offers to get arrested with climate crisis protesters

‘If you guys need me, I’m there,’ Adam McKay says

Tribune News Service

What to stream: Basketball documentaries to watch with 'Winning Time'

Writer/director/producer Adam McKay can’t stop, won’t stop. With his apocalyptic satire “Don’t Look Up” crashing into the Oscars with a nod for Best Picture, and the financial family dramedy “Succession” on which he serves as an executive producer snapping up trophies at every awards show it enters, McKay is riding…

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Chicago Tribune

‘Winning Time’ review: Gratuitous nudity, the Showtime Lakers and Magic Johnson get the TV treatment from Adam McKay

Early in the first episode of HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” soon-to-be team owner Jerry Buss, played in all his tacky-huckster glory by John C. Reilly, is reclining on a water bed at the Playboy mansion. A female companion is curled up asleep in the crook…

The Guardian - US

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty review – over-stretched basketball drama

Adam McKay and John C Reilly join forces for a look back at the rise of the Lakers but strong performances can’t quite paper over a messy structure

Tribune News Service

Review: HBO's 'Winning Time' will even have fans of other teams rooting for the Lakers

"Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" will go down as the project that sunk one of Hollywood's most fruitful relationships.

Tribune News Service

Review: Actors, writers, directors shoot and score in HBO’s ‘Winning Time’

It sounds messy, the reported falling out between business partners Adam McKay and Will Ferrell.

Los Angeles Times

‘Nightmare Alley,’ ‘CODA,’ ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ and more nab 2022 WGA screenplay nominations

LOS ANGELES — Twisty noir “Nightmare Alley” by Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan, eco-satire “Don’t Look Up” from Adam McKay and documentary “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres” by Suzanne Joe Kai are among the nominees for the 2022 Writers Guild Awards, the guild…

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