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Trailer: Hulu’s ‘UnPrisoned’ [Starring Kerry Washington, Delroy Lindo]
EMMY-nominated actress and director Kerry Washington is showing off her funny bone in ‘Unprisoned‘ – the forthcoming comedy about “a messy but perfectionist relationship therapist and single mom whose life is turned right-side-up when her dad gets out of prison and moves in with her and her teenage son.”
Coming as Washington’s first gig as lead in a comedy series, ‘Unprisoned’
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Hulu’s new docuseries ‘Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawerence’ is based on a horrifying true story
Hulu’s new docuseries Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawerence brings the story of Larry Ray’s manipulation and exploitation of a group of Sarah Lawerence students to the small screen.
The story was brought to light in 2019 in a New York Magazine feature story which led to an FBI investigation resulting in Ray being sentenced to 60 years in prison for sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy, and forced labor last month. The three-part docuseries features first-hand accounts of Ray’s abuse that spanned a decade. Here’s the true story behind the documentary:
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Who are the victims?
Ray first met the group of sophomores at Sarah Lawerence through his daughter Talia, herself a student at the New York liberal arts college. After his release from prison in the fall of 2010, Ray moved into Talia’s dorm, inserted himself into her friends’ lives, and gained their trust through “therapy sessions” he conducted. Ray’s victims included Talia’s boyfriend at the time, and her roommates Santos Rosario, Daniel Levin, Isabella Pollok, and Claudia Drury. Later Rosario introduced Ray to his sisters Felicia Rosario and Yalitza Rosario, who also fell under his influence.
After becoming a confidant of the young people, he convinced Talia and her friends to move into a one-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side of New York where his relationship with the students escalated. He mentally and physically tortured them, coerced them into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit through sleep-derivation, verbal abuse, and sexual humiliation, and extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from them and their families. He forced one young woman into sex work and pocketed the hundreds of thousands of dollars she earned from it.
Who is Larry Ray?
Ray’s sphere of influence and expert manipulation extended beyond the Sarah Lawerence students. Prior to his involvement with them, the Brooklyn native became close to former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik, a connection that lead to a stint as an FBI informant for a pump-and-dump stock scheme operated by a capo in the Gambino family.
“Larry Ray is a psychotic con man who has victimized every friend he’s ever had. It’s been close to 20 years since I last heard from him, yet his reign of terror continues,” said Kerik in the New York Magazine article.
FBI reports revealed that Ray was an unreliable informant and may have in fact used the role to cover his own complicity in the Gambino stock fraud scheme. In 2000, he was charged for his involvement in the scheme and was sentenced to five years’ probation. By 2007, Ray would again serve time due to a child custody dispute, which prosecutors argued was a violation of his parole. It was upon his release from that charge that he preyed upon the Sarah Lawerence students.
Where is everybody?
According to New York Magazine, it was Levin who first put the pieces together that Roy’s treatment of the group was characteristic of a cult. By 2016, Yalitza and Levin had escaped from Roy’s control, but the others remained under his dominance until his arrest in 2020. What began as a normal college experience ended in unimaginable horror for this group of students.
The creators of Hulu’s Koala Man flip the adult animation script with sincerity
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Hulu’s completely unhinged ‘Koala Man’ trailer promises glorious chaos
There’s Marvel and DC superheroes. And then, there’s Koala Man.
Hulu dropped the trailer for its upcoming animated series on Tuesday, and folks: It’s truly, madly, deeply unhinged.
Created by Australian animator and voice of the titular hero Michael Cusack, Koala Man follows the exploits of Kevin, a man determined to wipe out petty crime in his hometown of Dapto. That means rescuing cats from trees, cracking down on people not picking up their dog’s poop, and measuring people’s overgrown lawns. And like it or not, his family’s along for the ride, with Succession‘s Sarah Snook as his wife Vicky and comedian Demi Lardner as their daughter Alison. (Cusack also voices Alison’s twin brother Liam.)
Detective Pikachu writers Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez are at the helm as showrunners, and Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland is executive producing the project, which came about following Cusack’s completely batshit 2018 Rick and Morty parody Bushworld Adventures.
Cusack’s joined by a stellar cast with guest appearances from national treasures of Australia and New Zealand, including Hugh Jackman as Kevin’s boss Big Greg, alongside Jemaine Clement, Rachel House, Hugo Weaving, and Jarrad Wright.
An Ordinary Schmo Tries to Save the World in Hulu’s Koala Man
Watch the rise of a hero from Down Under in Koala Man, which stars creator Michael Cusack (Smiling Friends) along with Hugh Jackman in his animated series debut. The series comes from Cusack’s eccentric brain, with Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites) and Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (both writers on…
Hulu’s unsettling ‘Gannibal’ trailer shows 2022’s cannibal screen trend ain’t done yet
Hulu‘s trailer for dark Japanese horror-thriller Gannibal will have you rather on edge.
Based on Masaaki Ninomiya’s hit manga and directed by Siblings of the Cape‘s Shinzô Katayama, the series hinges around the fictional rural Japanese village of Kyokamura, where the formidable Goto family run the show. Police officer Daigo Agawa (Hokusai star Yûya Yagira) arrives as the village’s newest Chuzai (residential police) with his wife Yuki (Riho Yoshioka) and daughter Mashiro — yes, the previous Chuzai went mysteriously missing — and needs to uncover the village’s horrendous truths.
Folks, we’re just gonna say it. Cannibals, the year’s hottest screen trend.
Gannibal has been adapted from the manga by screenwriter Takamasa Oe and produced by Teruhisa Yamamoto, both of whom brought us the wondrous Oscar-winner Drive My Car. Yep, it’s a slight pivot in genre.
The final shots of this trailer? YIKES.
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Welcome to Chippendales anchors itself to Kumail Nanjiani, not the women behind the success
Hulu’s Hellraiser Reboot Has So-So Sights to Show You
Hulu’s Hellraiser, Werewolf by Night, and every other movie you can stream from home this weekend
We have such sights to show you on streaming and VOD this weekend