Candice Frederick

Director Ben Stiller has assembled an all-star cast for "Escape at Dannemora," a wild-but-true story of an upstate New York prison break that premieres Nov. 18 on Showtime.
The seven-episode limited series is inspired by the 2015 case of convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat, who broke out of Clinton Correctional Facility with the help of prison employee Joyce Mitchell. While their names may not be familiar to the average viewer, the actors playing them should be — Benicio Del Toro...

Widows cast on its strong female characters, How it confronts corrupt politics
Leave it up to Steve McQueen to revitalize the heist movie in such a way that it moves beyond the shoot-‘em-up, grand theft business to tell a story about Chicago’s dirty politics, social and economic corruption, and moral ambiguity through the eyes of its dubious main characters played by Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Cynthia Erivo, and Colin Fa...

If you caught last week’s episode of All American, the CW’s new drama following Spencer (Daniel Ezra), a black high school football star struggling to reconcile his streetwise Crenshaw upbringing with his new Beverly Hills lifestyle, there’s one harrowing scene that might have struck a chord. While driving around the city in a fancy red sports car, Spencer and his fellow black teammate Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) are pulled over by the police. But while Spencer deliberately stays calm a...

If you told me during Season 1 that Kevin would be the Pearson to uncover Jack’s backstory, I would not have believed you. He was so self-consumed, I didn't think he’d ever be able to face a reality outside his own. But here we are, following Kevin’s post-therapy journey as he boldly tries to piece together the fragments of his late father’s history—and forge a strong bond with Zoe.
But he's not the only character whose story has reached a surprising turning point. The relationships between K...

I wanted to be able to give Prudence depth and not just have her be an everyday mean girl."

For this week's review on the Next Best Picture Podcast, I am joined by two guests, Candice Frederick & Erik Anderson from Awards Watch. Together, the three of us do our best to disect, discuss and decipher Luca Guadagnino's remake of "Suspiria" also titled "Suspiria" and we quickly find out that this new version is very much Luca's own vision with its own distinctive qualities and themes.
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It’s hard for me to describe my reaction when I learned last week that Jason Blum, megaproducer of the horror movie empire Blumhouse, told Polygon, “There are not a lot of female directors period, and even less who are inclined to do horror.” I actually think I saw Ida Lupino rise from her grave to give him the coldest, darkest glare imaginable.
I could rattle off a bevy of female horror filmmakers—Mary Harron, Kasi Lemmons, and Ana Lily Amirpour, for starters—whose credits swiftly and easily...

How Jovan Adepo handles his rising stardom

I find it interesting that This is Us followed up last week’s “Vietnam” narrative, which centered the elusive Jack Pearson, with this week’s equally crushing unveiling of Toby’s story. The show has put both men on pedestals as genuinely good souls with hardly a problematic bone in either, yet as we learned last week, Jack’s image was very intentionally self-made. This week we learn that Toby’s was as well, as his tragic backstory comes barreling to the forefront.
Here, the most important reve...

For the four years since the rise of Donald Trump, a lot has been asked of the American people—particularly women. We’ve been asked to accept toxic masculinity. We’ve been asked to accept a president who’d rather send Twitter rants in the middle of the night than hold a press conference. We’ve been asked to pardon powerful men who’ve been accused of sexual assault. We’ve been asked to accept that racism and homophobia are going nowhere soon. And we’ve been asked to continue accepting that wom...

It’s taken three seasons, but This Is Us has slowly begun to unravel the mystery behind the series’ most elusive character: Jack Pearson. Throughout the series, we’ve only spent time with him through the eyes of his children, which has provided a very limited perspective on who exactly he was. All we really know is that he was great man—a superhero to them, as they’ve continued to say—and then he died. But tonight, the writers dig further into his story than ever before in his first one-off e...

Ava DuVernay, Lupita Nyong’o and Tiffany Haddish are leading the next wave of Black women who are transforming film and TV. Is Hollywood ready for its #BlackGirlMagic moment?

The 1920s saw Black writers, artists and musicians bring the dazzle of Black life to the forefront of America culture with the Harlem Renaissance. Today, we may be on the cusp of a new Black creative Golden Age, this time headed by filmmakers, actors and writers who are challenging themselves and inspiring each other to ...

The lonely and restless wife is a common trope in film. We've seen it in Unfaithful, Revolutionary Road, and Notes on a Scandal, to name a few examples. But while these characters are often bored, their stories are almost never boring. She usually spends her idle time participating in activities that straddle the line between unbridled fun and criminal activity. In The Kindergarten Teacher, it is most certainly the latter. In this film, however, the protagonist's worst crime is the exploitati...

For the past two seasons, This Is Us has built its foundation on the role grief plays in the everyday lives of the Big Three. But on tonight’s episode, aptly titled “Katie Girls,” the show digs a little deeper, exploring how each sibling's dreams and ambitions have been bolstered—or hampered—by Jack's influence on their lives.
Twenty-something Rebecca planned to live a bold, feminist life—and then she met Jack.
We’ve spent so much time with mama Rebecca that we’ve neglected who the woman was ...

I was about 10 years old when my mom had “the talk” with me about the police. We were in her car when she suddenly turned to me and said, “If the police ever stop and ask you questions, you say you don’t know anything and didn’t see anything.” Just like that, with no pretext. It wasn’t until some years had passed that I started to reflect on what she'd said and realized that in the eyes of the police, my skin color not only makes me automatically suspicious but a potential criminal, and any m...