Barcelona-based studio Filmax has scooped international rights to “Just One Small Favor,” the new film from Zeta Studios, which is behind Netflix smash hit “Elite” and HBO Max Spanish banner title “García!”
Released in Spain by Universal on Nov. 10, “Favor” will receive its market premiere at this week’s American Film Market.
Directed by Juana Macías (“We Are Pregnant”), the acerbic screwball family comedy is set at the swanky summer home of the well-off Gallardos, cared for meticulously by Amparito, a second mother to the three children.
In her dying wish, she asked to be buried in the family vault. When the Gallardos refuse, they receive letters from Amparito, revealing skeletons in the closet and damaging home truths, turning their lives upside down.
“‘Just One Small Favor,’ is a screwball, situation comedy, with acerbic wit and a good dose of bad blood,” said Macías.
“The whole story plays out over one,...
Released in Spain by Universal on Nov. 10, “Favor” will receive its market premiere at this week’s American Film Market.
Directed by Juana Macías (“We Are Pregnant”), the acerbic screwball family comedy is set at the swanky summer home of the well-off Gallardos, cared for meticulously by Amparito, a second mother to the three children.
In her dying wish, she asked to be buried in the family vault. When the Gallardos refuse, they receive letters from Amparito, revealing skeletons in the closet and damaging home truths, turning their lives upside down.
“‘Just One Small Favor,’ is a screwball, situation comedy, with acerbic wit and a good dose of bad blood,” said Macías.
“The whole story plays out over one,...
- 11/1/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Largely known as a film editor for having worked with partner Carlos Reygadas on 2007 masterwork Silent Light and with further collaborations with the likes Amat Escalante, Daniel Castro Zimbrón and Lisandro Alonso, it’s after several years in development (film market murmurs it was known as Supernova), Natalia López Gallardo unveiled her sensory-filled feature debut Robe of Gems (Manto de Gemas) at the 2022 Berlinale — where she walked away with the Jury Prize Silver Bear.
Per our review – Gallardo “focuses on how class, privilege and social status tend to evaporate when the women connecting her narrative dare to employ any real sense of agency, highlighting their often chilling relationship to a power structure which demands their complicity.…...
Per our review – Gallardo “focuses on how class, privilege and social status tend to evaporate when the women connecting her narrative dare to employ any real sense of agency, highlighting their often chilling relationship to a power structure which demands their complicity.…...
- 9/18/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
This post contains spoilers for season 2 of "Perry Mason."
Season 2 of HBO's gritty reboot of "Perry Mason" wrapped up with the titular lawyer (Matthew Rhys) behind bars after one of his two clients is set free. It wasn't exactly the perfect ending, but then that's the whole point of this show — to peer beneath the glamorous veneer of 1930s Los Angeles to reveal its imperfect underbelly.
And in the show's view of depression-era Los Angeles, everyone's got something to hide, whether it's Juliet Rylance's closeted lesbian Della Street or Chris Chalk's Paul Drake, whose emotional season 2 arc saw him commit all sorts of morally questionable acts in pursuit of the truth. What's more, the whole reason Rhys' Mason ends up in jail is that he's literally hiding something — the gun used to kill Brooks McCutcheon (Tommy Dewey).
It's this murder that's at the heart of season 2's mystery.
Season 2 of HBO's gritty reboot of "Perry Mason" wrapped up with the titular lawyer (Matthew Rhys) behind bars after one of his two clients is set free. It wasn't exactly the perfect ending, but then that's the whole point of this show — to peer beneath the glamorous veneer of 1930s Los Angeles to reveal its imperfect underbelly.
And in the show's view of depression-era Los Angeles, everyone's got something to hide, whether it's Juliet Rylance's closeted lesbian Della Street or Chris Chalk's Paul Drake, whose emotional season 2 arc saw him commit all sorts of morally questionable acts in pursuit of the truth. What's more, the whole reason Rhys' Mason ends up in jail is that he's literally hiding something — the gun used to kill Brooks McCutcheon (Tommy Dewey).
It's this murder that's at the heart of season 2's mystery.
- 5/13/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
If you watched the entirety of "Perry Mason" season 2 and couldn't quite figure out where it was all going in the moment, well, you're not the only one.
The HBO noir series flipped the script on us in surprising fashion this time around. In the first season, Matthew Rhys' eponymous detective-turned-lawyer had no choice but to get to the bottom of the gruesome killing of Emily Dodson's (Gayle Rankin) infant son in an attempt to clear her name ... though, in the end, he only managed to secure a Pyrrhic victory of a hung jury. In season 2, we learn relatively quickly that the two unfortunate clients who Perry has to defend this time around, the Gallardo brothers accused of murdering Los Angeles civil servant Brooks McCutcheon (Tommy Dewey) and subjected to a virulently racist public trial, actually were responsible for pulling the trigger. But the overarching conflict of the story...
The HBO noir series flipped the script on us in surprising fashion this time around. In the first season, Matthew Rhys' eponymous detective-turned-lawyer had no choice but to get to the bottom of the gruesome killing of Emily Dodson's (Gayle Rankin) infant son in an attempt to clear her name ... though, in the end, he only managed to secure a Pyrrhic victory of a hung jury. In season 2, we learn relatively quickly that the two unfortunate clients who Perry has to defend this time around, the Gallardo brothers accused of murdering Los Angeles civil servant Brooks McCutcheon (Tommy Dewey) and subjected to a virulently racist public trial, actually were responsible for pulling the trigger. But the overarching conflict of the story...
- 5/13/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for "Perry Mason" season 2.
"Perry Mason" season 2 wrapped up with a bittersweet finale that saw the titular lawyer locked up for his indiscretions, having gotten just one of his clients off the hook. The ultimate episode of what was a stellar season also saw the conniving Camilla Nygaard (Hope Davis)'s scheming revealed, Lydell McCutcheon (Paul Raci) trapped in Japan, and most importantly, the Gallardo brothers spared the noose — even though Mateo (Peter Mendoza) was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
But what about arguably the two standout characters this season, Juliet Rylance's Della Street and Chris Chalk's Paul Drake? Well, things work out relatively well for them, considering the episodes seemed to be building towards some kind of breaking point for both — especially Drake, whose emotional season 2 arc promised to deliver a full-on meltdown that never materialized. Instead, Street manages to stay a closeted...
"Perry Mason" season 2 wrapped up with a bittersweet finale that saw the titular lawyer locked up for his indiscretions, having gotten just one of his clients off the hook. The ultimate episode of what was a stellar season also saw the conniving Camilla Nygaard (Hope Davis)'s scheming revealed, Lydell McCutcheon (Paul Raci) trapped in Japan, and most importantly, the Gallardo brothers spared the noose — even though Mateo (Peter Mendoza) was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
But what about arguably the two standout characters this season, Juliet Rylance's Della Street and Chris Chalk's Paul Drake? Well, things work out relatively well for them, considering the episodes seemed to be building towards some kind of breaking point for both — especially Drake, whose emotional season 2 arc promised to deliver a full-on meltdown that never materialized. Instead, Street manages to stay a closeted...
- 5/6/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
Well, that was disappointing.
Perry and the team compromised with the prosecution on Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 8, making the episode feel like a major compromise.
Being the season finale, some expectations were in order about the episode and direction the show would to take, especially in bringing a satisfying end to the story.
While most of it went according to expectations, the biggest didn't, making for an anticlimactic end to the season.
But before we dive into how the episode was a disappointment, some developments shifted the show's tone.
Everything turned personal after some discoveries were made.
Della felt betrayed by Camila. She felt stupid for having trusted Camila while Camila had been using her all along. She was in denial even when the evidence was so glaring.
It's always aggravating when you learn that someone is not who you had always thought them to be.
A conversation with Thomas...
Perry and the team compromised with the prosecution on Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 8, making the episode feel like a major compromise.
Being the season finale, some expectations were in order about the episode and direction the show would to take, especially in bringing a satisfying end to the story.
While most of it went according to expectations, the biggest didn't, making for an anticlimactic end to the season.
But before we dive into how the episode was a disappointment, some developments shifted the show's tone.
Everything turned personal after some discoveries were made.
Della felt betrayed by Camila. She felt stupid for having trusted Camila while Camila had been using her all along. She was in denial even when the evidence was so glaring.
It's always aggravating when you learn that someone is not who you had always thought them to be.
A conversation with Thomas...
- 4/25/2023
- by Denis Kimathi
- TVfanatic
This post contains spoilers for the season two finale of "Perry Mason."
Over the course of two seasons, HBO's "Perry Mason" has taken the classic legal series to places the books, radio series, and golden age TV show that came before it never could. With a noir sheen and a bleeding heart, the show has captured 1930s Los Angeles as a place of deep injustice and corruption — but also a place worth saving. In the second season finale, the show took Mason (Matthew Rhys) himself to someplace new, too: behind bars for evidence tampering.
The show's decision to end season 2 with its titular haunted hero serving time is a surprising one, but it also fits the ethos of a series about doing the right thing no matter how much it sucks. Mason can't stop the oil scheme going on under the Da's nose or end the racism that made the...
Over the course of two seasons, HBO's "Perry Mason" has taken the classic legal series to places the books, radio series, and golden age TV show that came before it never could. With a noir sheen and a bleeding heart, the show has captured 1930s Los Angeles as a place of deep injustice and corruption — but also a place worth saving. In the second season finale, the show took Mason (Matthew Rhys) himself to someplace new, too: behind bars for evidence tampering.
The show's decision to end season 2 with its titular haunted hero serving time is a surprising one, but it also fits the ethos of a series about doing the right thing no matter how much it sucks. Mason can't stop the oil scheme going on under the Da's nose or end the racism that made the...
- 4/25/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Exclusive: “I’ve always boiled it down to there’s something very simplistic to Mason,” Perry Mason star Matthew Rhys admits about the iconic and haunted lawyer he portrays on the HBO prequel series. “It’s not necessarily his sense of justice but sense of right and wrong,” the Emmy winner adds. “What is right and wrong, and how he goes about righting that, righting that wrong, is, at times, very questionable. But fundamentally, his sense of pure form justice is so strong that everything else becomes very difficult, and the playing of that was just magic.”
With the Season 2 finale of the series now steered by Michael Begler and Jack Amiel as showrunners and Team Downey set to drop tonight on the premium cabler and HBO Max, the Americans alumni finds his character in some dramatic territory in and out of court in Depression-era Los Angeles.
Defending the Gallardo...
With the Season 2 finale of the series now steered by Michael Begler and Jack Amiel as showrunners and Team Downey set to drop tonight on the premium cabler and HBO Max, the Americans alumni finds his character in some dramatic territory in and out of court in Depression-era Los Angeles.
Defending the Gallardo...
- 4/24/2023
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
This is now shaping up to be the Perry Mason we know.
The Gallardo brothers' trial commenced on Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 5, with the prosecution and defense making their opening statements, and each went in for the kill.
A central element of Perry Mason is the courtroom sessions, where each is a mindblowing moment as hidden truths come to light.
Both sides, armed with their strategy, argued their case. The strategy each used was the only card they had under their sleeves.
For the prosecution, it was painting Brooks as an important community member who the savages had killed. For the defense, it was to show Brooks' hidden side and why there must have been other people with a motive to kill him.
This trial was already peculiar due to the race dynamics involved but became even more sensational when the media got involved.
There is always much noise surrounding the media,...
The Gallardo brothers' trial commenced on Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 5, with the prosecution and defense making their opening statements, and each went in for the kill.
A central element of Perry Mason is the courtroom sessions, where each is a mindblowing moment as hidden truths come to light.
Both sides, armed with their strategy, argued their case. The strategy each used was the only card they had under their sleeves.
For the prosecution, it was painting Brooks as an important community member who the savages had killed. For the defense, it was to show Brooks' hidden side and why there must have been other people with a motive to kill him.
This trial was already peculiar due to the race dynamics involved but became even more sensational when the media got involved.
There is always much noise surrounding the media,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Denis Kimathi
- TVfanatic
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