Posts by Chris Ryan
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The Hollywood Prospectus Emmys Preview
The Emmys! They are tonight! You want to sound informed about the nominees!
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Keep It Like a Secret: The Elegant Wonder of ‘The Honorable Woman’
Sundance Channel’s ‘The Honorable Woman’ moves in triangles. And as with soccer, you can find yourself getting lost, appreciating the elegance with which the story moves along, without worrying all that much about where it’s going.
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Men, Women, Children, Jennifer Garner, and a Sad-Face Emoticon
No, this is not a scene from the worst Black Mirror never made. It’s the saddest Elektra, in GIF form, from the trailer for Jason Reitman’s upcoming film, Men, Women, and Children. Garner, who plays a woman with a phone, stars along with Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt, Judy Greer, and Ansel Fault-Bro. Could this be a return to form for […]
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The Hollywood Prospectus Emmys Preview Special
In a six-part preview series, Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald break down a handful of the Emmy categories and make their predictions.
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NBA After Dark Podcast: Summer Rumors Roundup
Juliet Litman and Chris Ryan discuss all the NBA summer rumors.
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The Hollywood Prospectus Podcast Binge-Watch Guide
If you are reading this website, or at all familiar with Andy’s TV criticism or our podcast, you are probably watching a lot of TV. But are you watching the right TV? Behold, the Hollywood Prospectus Binge-Watch Guide.
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: ‘The Knick,’ ‘The Strain,’ and TV Stars at the Movies
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald talk The Knick, The Strain, and TV stars making it big in the movies.
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Hollywood Prospectus Special: The Soderpod
Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey tracked the staggering career arc of Steven Soderbergh. Here they are, in podcast form, talking about the films of Soderbergh.
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ ‘The Knick,’ and Spoon’s New Album
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald talk ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ ‘The Knick,’ and the new album from Spoon.
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The Minor Miracle of John le Carré’s ‘A Most Wanted Man’
My favorite line from any John le Carré novel (at the moment, at least; it changes all the time) is from ‘Little Drummer Girl’: “Somewhere in every bomb explosion there is a miracle.” He was writing about an investigation into an explosion at an Israeli diplomat’s home in Germany. It’s one of the few explosions I can recall taking place in his novels, even though most of them are set during the Cold War or the lukewarm-to-radioactive conflicts that followed it. Never mind the lack of explosions, though; his writing is full of miracles.
