Image Source: João Henriques
Not everything is quite what it seems in Netflix's latest series, "Pieces of Her." Based on Karin Slaughter's 2018 novel of the same name, the eight-episode thriller follows Bella Heathcote's character, Andy, as she sets out to uncover the truth about her mother Laurie's (Toni Collette) dark past after a shooting in their small town puts their lives in danger. The series also stars Jacob Scipio, who plays Michael Vargas, a mysterious stranger on Andy's trail that eventually turns into the only person she can trust.
You might recognize the 29-year-old actor from some of his previous roles, which include Sgt Justin Gallegos in 2019's "The Outpost" and Armando Aretas in 2020's "Bad Boys For Life." He's also set to star in the upcoming "Expendables 4" film and "Batgirl" alongside Leslie Grace, but right now, he's celebrating the release of "Pieces of Her," which...
Not everything is quite what it seems in Netflix's latest series, "Pieces of Her." Based on Karin Slaughter's 2018 novel of the same name, the eight-episode thriller follows Bella Heathcote's character, Andy, as she sets out to uncover the truth about her mother Laurie's (Toni Collette) dark past after a shooting in their small town puts their lives in danger. The series also stars Jacob Scipio, who plays Michael Vargas, a mysterious stranger on Andy's trail that eventually turns into the only person she can trust.
You might recognize the 29-year-old actor from some of his previous roles, which include Sgt Justin Gallegos in 2019's "The Outpost" and Armando Aretas in 2020's "Bad Boys For Life." He's also set to star in the upcoming "Expendables 4" film and "Batgirl" alongside Leslie Grace, but right now, he's celebrating the release of "Pieces of Her," which...
- 3/5/2022
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
Netflix's latest drama series will make you question everything you ever thought you knew. Based on Karin Slaughter's 2018 novel, "Pieces of Her" tells the story of a mother named Laura Oliver (Toni Collette), whose life starts to unravel after a mass shooting forces her daughter, Andy (Bella Heathcote), to leave town and go into hiding. As Andy sets out on a journey across America, she soon discovers that her mother is not who she claims to be. Not only that, but it turns out that everyone in Andy's life has been lying to her, too.
Confused and afraid, Andy is hellbent on getting to the bottom of what's going on, and by the end of the series, she does just that. Not only does she finally figure out her mother's true identity, but she also uncovers way more than she bargained for. So, does this mean "Pieces of Her...
Confused and afraid, Andy is hellbent on getting to the bottom of what's going on, and by the end of the series, she does just that. Not only does she finally figure out her mother's true identity, but she also uncovers way more than she bargained for. So, does this mean "Pieces of Her...
- 3/4/2022
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
In 1965 singer Rubén Guevara got his big break on national TV, performing on the ABC musical variety series Shindig! There was just one catch. He had to drop his real name in favor of an acceptably anglo one: Jay P. Mobey.
There he was on black and white TV, primetime, shaking his groove thing with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley, commanding the stage, under a name that erased his Mexican-American identity.
“I didn’t want to change my name,” Guevara remembers in the new documentary Con Safos. “I was torn about it, but I was young and I wanted to make a name for myself. I just never imagined I’d have to do it with a made up one.”
The documentary, directed by Michael Vargas and Moni Vargas, premieres Wednesday night on Kcet, as the first episode of the PBS station’s new season of Artbound. The film recounts...
There he was on black and white TV, primetime, shaking his groove thing with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley, commanding the stage, under a name that erased his Mexican-American identity.
“I didn’t want to change my name,” Guevara remembers in the new documentary Con Safos. “I was torn about it, but I was young and I wanted to make a name for myself. I just never imagined I’d have to do it with a made up one.”
The documentary, directed by Michael Vargas and Moni Vargas, premieres Wednesday night on Kcet, as the first episode of the PBS station’s new season of Artbound. The film recounts...
- 10/12/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Barden (End of the F***ing World), David Wenham (Lion), Joe Dempsie (Game Of Thrones), Jacob Scipio (Bad Boys for Life) and Omari Hardwick (Power) have been set as leads opposite Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote in Pieces of Her, we can reveal.
Netflix’s dramatic thriller series is based on the 2018 book by bestselling crime author Karin Slaughter.
The eight-episode series comes from an all-female creative team led by Charlotte Stoudt, Bruna Papandrea, Lesli Linka Glatter and Minkie Spiro, who will direct the season.
Written by Stoudt, who serves as showrunner, Pieces of Her is set in a sleepy Georgia town where a random act of violence sets off an unexpected chain of events for 30-year-old Andy Oliver (Heathcote) and her mother Laura (Collette). Desperate for answers, Andy embarks on a dangerous journey across America, drawing her towards the dark, hidden heart of her family.
2020-21 Netflix Pilots & Series Orders
Barden plays Jane,...
Netflix’s dramatic thriller series is based on the 2018 book by bestselling crime author Karin Slaughter.
The eight-episode series comes from an all-female creative team led by Charlotte Stoudt, Bruna Papandrea, Lesli Linka Glatter and Minkie Spiro, who will direct the season.
Written by Stoudt, who serves as showrunner, Pieces of Her is set in a sleepy Georgia town where a random act of violence sets off an unexpected chain of events for 30-year-old Andy Oliver (Heathcote) and her mother Laura (Collette). Desperate for answers, Andy embarks on a dangerous journey across America, drawing her towards the dark, hidden heart of her family.
2020-21 Netflix Pilots & Series Orders
Barden plays Jane,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The upcoming Netflix series “Pieces of Her” has added five to its cast, Variety has learned.
Jessica Barden, Omari Hardwick, Joe Dempsie, David Wenham, and Jacob Scipio have all been cast opposite previously announced stars Toni Collette and Bella Heathcoate.
The series is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Karin Slaughter. In a sleepy Georgia town, a random act of violence sets off an unexpected chain of events for 30-year-old Andy Oliver (Heathcoate) and her mother Laura (Collette). Desperate for answers, Andy embarks on a dangerous journey across America, drawing her towards the dark, hidden heart of her family.
Barden will star as Jane, a piano prodigy and the only daughter of a Getty-like billionaire. At first sheltered, she starts to break away from her controlling father as she begins to realize the depth of her hunger for love and freedom. Barden’s past credits...
Jessica Barden, Omari Hardwick, Joe Dempsie, David Wenham, and Jacob Scipio have all been cast opposite previously announced stars Toni Collette and Bella Heathcoate.
The series is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Karin Slaughter. In a sleepy Georgia town, a random act of violence sets off an unexpected chain of events for 30-year-old Andy Oliver (Heathcoate) and her mother Laura (Collette). Desperate for answers, Andy embarks on a dangerous journey across America, drawing her towards the dark, hidden heart of her family.
Barden will star as Jane, a piano prodigy and the only daughter of a Getty-like billionaire. At first sheltered, she starts to break away from her controlling father as she begins to realize the depth of her hunger for love and freedom. Barden’s past credits...
- 1/28/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
“This isn’t the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother’s face if she could see our honeymoon hotel.”
Touch Of Evil screens Wednesday May 10th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ Crime & Noir film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.
Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) is a Mexican detective who gets caught up in the strange case of a car being blown up in an America-Mexico border town. Not only does the ethical Vargas have to deal with criminal factions in the area, he must butt heads with the domineering Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), a celebrated police detective. Vargas must prove that Quinlan isn’t the hero that others make him out to be,...
Touch Of Evil screens Wednesday May 10th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ Crime & Noir film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.
Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) is a Mexican detective who gets caught up in the strange case of a car being blown up in an America-Mexico border town. Not only does the ethical Vargas have to deal with criminal factions in the area, he must butt heads with the domineering Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), a celebrated police detective. Vargas must prove that Quinlan isn’t the hero that others make him out to be,...
- 5/8/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Unforgettable is definitely the wrong title for a movie you want to erase from your memory the second it ends. Times are hard for women filmmakers, so it's troubling news when talented producer Denise Di Novi (Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Crazy Stupid Love) chooses to make her directing debut with a film that recycles every Psycho Barbie cliché in the Hollywood handbook. On TV's Feud, Ryan Murphy created an FX series to show how male executives manufactured a war between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford to sell tickets to Whatever Happened...
- 4/20/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Simon Kassianides is dishing on his role in the upcoming thriller Unforgettable.
The film, which finds the 37-year-old British actor co-starring alongside Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl, Geoff Stults and Isabella Rice, centers around a scorned ex-wife's obsession with ruining her former husband's new relationship.
Related: Katherine Heigl Has It Out for Rosario Dawson in Stirring 'Unforgettable' First Look
Heigl plays the ex-wife, Tessa Connover, while Dawson portrays her ex-husband's new love, Julia Banks.
Kassianides, who plays the nefarious Michael Vargas, couldn't help but gush about working on a film with "strong" and "powerful women."
"I think that I've been lucky to have worked with two names up there that, you know, when it's a certain level of professionalism, it always comes down to the work and actually always falls back to that theatrical rehearsal space for me," Kassianides tells Et's Jennifer Peros. "Where you’re free to explore ideas, and people...
The film, which finds the 37-year-old British actor co-starring alongside Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl, Geoff Stults and Isabella Rice, centers around a scorned ex-wife's obsession with ruining her former husband's new relationship.
Related: Katherine Heigl Has It Out for Rosario Dawson in Stirring 'Unforgettable' First Look
Heigl plays the ex-wife, Tessa Connover, while Dawson portrays her ex-husband's new love, Julia Banks.
Kassianides, who plays the nefarious Michael Vargas, couldn't help but gush about working on a film with "strong" and "powerful women."
"I think that I've been lucky to have worked with two names up there that, you know, when it's a certain level of professionalism, it always comes down to the work and actually always falls back to that theatrical rehearsal space for me," Kassianides tells Et's Jennifer Peros. "Where you’re free to explore ideas, and people...
- 4/19/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Willow Smith is back … but she ain’t whippin’ her hair! Will and Jada’s daughter just released her latest music video for "F Q-c #7" (pronounced Frequency Number 7), which she directed alongside with Mike Vargas. In the video, the 14-year-old sings about climbing trees and skipping class while playing an array of instruments and dancing around with tribal face paint. She says the tune also introduces fans to her four Chakras. "Yellow is self-confidence, Blue is my voice (song), Red is my survival instinct, and Black is a combination of everything (the true me)," Smith tells The Fader. "Girlpool, tUnE-yArDs, and Cree Summer really were the women who inspired me to make this song." Willow also wrote and produced the song herself. What do you think of her unique music video? Tell toofab in the comment section below & click "Launch Gallery" to see more celebrity offspring! Read more...
- 5/7/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Jaden Smith is already well-known as a precocious actor ("The Pursuit of Happyness"), but now it appears he's serious about joining the other family business.
Will Smith's 14-year-old son dropped a video for "The Coolest" on YouTube, a rap track in the style of Lil B (if Lil B was PG'd out a bit). The song appears on The Cool Cafe, an upcoming mixtape. In the video, Jaden channels his seemingly endless self-confidence (this is the young man who once said he taught his father everything he knows about acting) into a slow flow heavy on word play ("It's the coolest of the coolest, it's the smoothest of the smoothest, it's the crudest and the rudest of the stupid kids.") There's also a fair amount of bragging about "taking older women" and some uncomfortable talk of mistresses.
Meanwhile, Willow Smith's rap career -- built on the smash hit...
Will Smith's 14-year-old son dropped a video for "The Coolest" on YouTube, a rap track in the style of Lil B (if Lil B was PG'd out a bit). The song appears on The Cool Cafe, an upcoming mixtape. In the video, Jaden channels his seemingly endless self-confidence (this is the young man who once said he taught his father everything he knows about acting) into a slow flow heavy on word play ("It's the coolest of the coolest, it's the smoothest of the smoothest, it's the crudest and the rudest of the stupid kids.") There's also a fair amount of bragging about "taking older women" and some uncomfortable talk of mistresses.
Meanwhile, Willow Smith's rap career -- built on the smash hit...
- 9/26/2012
- by Kia Makarechi
- Huffington Post
Eureka Video: The Masters of Cinema Series
USA | 111 min.
1.37:1 + 1.85:1 ratios
By Adrian Smith
Orson Welles liked to relate the tale of how one evening he headed home after a long day directing Touch of Evil, whilst also playing corrupt cop Hank Quinlan, to find his wife was throwing a dinner party. Still in his full costume and make-up, looking bloated, haggard and on the point of collapse, guests who had not seen Welles for some time remarked, “Orson, it's great to see you looking so well!” Hank Quinlan does not look like a well man. He's an American trying to solve a bombing in a small Mexican border town. He seems to be tired of police work. He just wants to get the job done, and he is not above manipulating the truth or faking evidence. After all, the guy is probably guilty anyway. Reluctantly he is aided...
USA | 111 min.
1.37:1 + 1.85:1 ratios
By Adrian Smith
Orson Welles liked to relate the tale of how one evening he headed home after a long day directing Touch of Evil, whilst also playing corrupt cop Hank Quinlan, to find his wife was throwing a dinner party. Still in his full costume and make-up, looking bloated, haggard and on the point of collapse, guests who had not seen Welles for some time remarked, “Orson, it's great to see you looking so well!” Hank Quinlan does not look like a well man. He's an American trying to solve a bombing in a small Mexican border town. He seems to be tired of police work. He just wants to get the job done, and he is not above manipulating the truth or faking evidence. After all, the guy is probably guilty anyway. Reluctantly he is aided...
- 3/26/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.