Serial killer thrillers are comfort food for television. We know the rhythm by now: a brilliant investigator, a methodical killer, a trail of bodies, a race against time. Furious begins by inviting us into exactly that kind of story, only to reveal that it has something far more confronting on its mind. Created by Elizabeth…
On paper, Furious sounds like a familiar crime thriller. Emmy Rossum plays FBI agent Alice Black, a former NYPD detective hunting Catherine (Lola Petticrew), a calculating serial killer who targets powerful men. But creator Elizabeth Meriwether (The Dropout, Dying for Sex) is far less interested in asking who committed the crimes than why these women…
The FIFA World Cup has finished up (congrats Spain!), and we can all finally get a full night’s sleep. Helping ease you back into a normal body clock, we’ve added ten new tracks to our Discovery Playlist, available on Spotify and Apple Music, including one we premiered right here on the AU earlier in the…
There are certain films that feel as though they’re speaking directly to you. Test is one of them. On paper, Sam McConnell‘s drama could easily be dismissed with a glib elevator pitch: the gay bodybuilding movie. But reducing it to that does both the film and its creator a disservice. Yes, bodybuilding is its world….
On its surface, Test is about bodybuilding: the relentless pursuit of physical perfection, the sacrifices demanded in chasing a professional career, and the dangerous temptations that can accompany that ambition. But beneath its sculpted physiques and competition stages lies something far more intimate. Director Sam McConnell and writer-star Brock Yurich use the sport as the…
