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Jon Bernthal, 40, is having a career
moment. He had a big supporting role
in this summer’s surprise hit Baby
Driver, and now he has another big-
gish supporting role in Wind River,
a thriller that opens on Friday, Aug.
4. Elizabeth Olsen plays a rookie FBI
agent who teams up with a local game
tracker (Jeremy Renner) to investigate
and solve the murder of a local girl
on a Native American reservation.
You might know Bernthal from play-
ing Frank Castle (AKA “The Punisher)
in the hit Netflix series The Daredevil
(2015-2016). A sequel called The
Punisher — starring Bernthal — is set
to be streamed on Netflix sometime
later in 2017.

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August 3 • 2017

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On Friday, July 21, Netflix began
streaming the first 10-episode sea-
son of Ozark. It stars Jason Bateman
as Marty Byrde, a Chicago financial
adviser who, we quickly learn, has
been laundering money for a Mexican
drug cartel. The cartel discovers
Marty’s partner has been skimming
their money and plans to kill both of
them. Marty comes up with a plan
that persuades them to let him live.
He’ll move with his wife (Laura Linney)
and his kids to the Ozarks, far away
from prying Feds, and launder a ton of
money for them.
Reviews are mixed-to-quite good.
Most critics say what makes it a pretty
good show is the interesting support-
ing characters. Singled out in those
roles are Julia Garner, 23 (The Perks
of Being a Wallflower), Jordana Spiro,
39, and Harris Yulin, 79. Garner plays
the 19-year-old leader of a “white
trash” gang who thinks they can get
money out of Marty. Spiro plays the
owner of a bar that Marty invests in.
Yulin plays, in the words of the Los
Angeles Times: “The unhurriedly dying
old man who comes with the house
the Byrdes buy.”
You may not know Yulin’s name, but
you know his face. He’s been a sup-
porting player in more than 100 films
and TV shows since 1970. He was
born in Los Angeles, the son of immi-
grant parents. His original last name is
Goldberg.

ROB AND HIS SONS

The Lowe Files, a nine-episode real-
ity/travel series, began airing on AMC
on Wednesday, Aug. 2 (10 p.m.). The

Garner

Rob Lowe and sons

series stars veteran actor Rob Lowe,
53, and his sons Matthew, 23, and
John Owen, 21 (John is called Johnny
by his father and brother). Matthew
and Johnny were raised Jewish, the
faith of Rob’s wife of 26 years, make-
up artist Sheryl Berkoff, 50ish. They
both had a bar mitzvah.
Rob, we are told, has always had
an interest in the weird and paranor-
mal. Among the stories the Lowes
will investigate include reports of
an underwater alien base off the
coast of Malibu, and Preston Castle,
the abandoned boys’ reformatory
near Sacramento that has long been
rumored to be haunted.
Rob and his sons appeared last
week on the Tonight Show. His sons, I
was pleased to see, have their father’s
easy charm and nice sense of humor.
So this series, I think, may be more
interesting and fun than it might
sound. •