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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