38 May 2 • 2019
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AT THE MOVIES
Opening on May 3 is Long Shot, a
romantic comedy/drama starring Seth
Rogen, 36, and Charlize
Theron. Rogen plays Fred
Falarsky, a brash reporter
for a liberal alt-weekly. He
loses his job and, short-
ly thereafter, runs into
Charlotte (Theron), his old
babysitter, who is now
the Secretary of State.
Fred charms her with his
self-deprecating humor and
his memories of her youthful
idealism. She decides to run
for president and hires Fred
to punch up her speeches.
They begin a romantic affair
that threatens to torpedo her
campaign. Advance reviews
are very good. Most say the
leads have real chemistry
and that makes their film
romance plausible.
Also opening May 3
is The Samuel Project.
Emmy and Tony winner
Hal Linden, star of the
hit series Barney Miller,
stars as Samuel, a Jewish
grandfather who connects
with his teen grandson
for the first time when the
grandson makes Samuel the
subject of his senior year
art project. Samuel tells
his grandson of his narrow
escape from capture in
Nazi Germany when he was
a boy. His grandson turns
the story into a very good
short animated film. (Plays
Birmingham 8 Theater for
one week. Also screens at
1 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at
the Lenore Marwil Detroit
Jewish Film Festival, JCC).

NETFLIX OFFERINGS
Bonding is a seven-episode
comedy series that began streaming
on Netflix on April 23. Peter, a young
gay man, acts as a bodyguard/assistant
for a friend of his, a grad student who
moonlights as a dominatrix. Tiff, the
dominatrix, is played by Zoe Levin, 25.


Levin was born in Chicago and went
to a Chicago Jewish day school through
the fourth grade. Her family then moved
to Glencoe, a heavily Jewish suburb.
She began performing at the nearby
Skokie Jewish Community Center at
age 8. In 2014, she got her first nota-
ble TV role in Red Band
Society, a short-lived Fox
series about a group of
seriously ill teenagers.
Bonding is Levin’
s first
starring role. She told the
New York Post that her
transformation into a dom-
inatrix wasn’
t complete
until she was fitted for an
all-black, body-hugging
costume: “I felt like a com-
pletely different person.
The boots and the heels
and the corset — it’
s like
her armor; she’
s ready to
go into battle.” Levin also
learned how to crack a
bullwhip.
This is not a show for
everyone. The script, the
Post reports, has Tiff (Levin)
“barking orders at sub-
missive clients who pay to
be humiliated in all sorts
of creative, surprising and
visually eye-popping sce-
narios.”
Ed Asner, 89, has a
supporting role in Dead to
Me, a 10-episode series
that begins streaming May
3. Christina Applegate plays
Jen, a sardonic widow set
on solving her husband’
s
recent hit-and-run murder.
She bonds with Judy (Linda
Cardenalli), an upbeat per-
son she meets at a support
group. Judy holds back on
telling Jen something that
would rock Jen’
s already
shaky world.
Also starting on May 3
is The Last Summer, an
original Netflix film. The
plot is familiar: High school
grads wrestle with love and
friendship during their final summer
together before heading off to college.
Halston Sage, 25, has a large role as
Erin, one of the grads. Sage co-starred
as Alara Kitan in the first two seasons of
The Orville, a Fox sci-fi series. ■

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