#mystery-thriller

#mystery-thriller

Since his time at the site, Goldman has taken on a number of very cool jobs (including one that helped bring Jamie Lee Curtis into his orbit, more on that one to come), but he has long been dedicated to pursuing his primary passion: filmmaking. He's directed seven shorts and written eight of them, and this weekend, he will premiere his first feature at SXSW, 'Sender.'

Paradise is a good show. I have to get that out of the way early, because I do think that it's fun and well-plotted and knotted with enough twists to sustain a strong momentum throughout its eight-episode seasons. The premise is simple enough, though doled out slowly throughout the first episode: President Cal Bradford (played with charm by James Marsden) is murdered, and Secret Service agent Xavier Collins (a sometimes-bored, sometimes-transcendent Sterling K. Brown) is trying to figure out whodunit.

Coralie Fargeat's no-holds-barred satire about the tyranny of female beauty standards and the perceived horrors of ageing features an inspired bit of casting in Demi Moore, who plays a role with echoes of her own career. More than holding her own amid a splurge of wince-inducing makeup effects, Moore is Elisabeth, a 50-year-old film star reduced to doing an aerobics show on TV.