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I love when Jake Gyllenhaal goes unhinged. I love the intensity of Janicza Bravo's directorial style. And I love stories about unreliable central figures crafting obsessive webs of lies. Lucky me, then, that Bravo is writing and directing a TV show for Gyllenhaal to star in that features all of this and more! Via Deadline, the duo are teaming up on the sure-to-be-provocative A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions. Based on a New Yorker article from Ian Parker, the series will detail the bonkers real life story of suspense novelist Dan Mallory, who wrote the …
Zola is why I love movies. I love it when movies take me to places I would never go. This is what we expect from great storytelling, but when telling stories set in the real world, especially stories focused on people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, there’s a concern about using other people’s misery for our entertainment. Director and co-writer Janicza Bravo masterfully threads the needle by taking us on a wild journey through the underbelly of Tampa while never losing empathy for her imperiled characters. The film’s biggest failing that it may take …