Exclusive: Netflix has announced that Big Guy, its first hour-long special from comedian Rachel Feinstein, will premiere globally on the streamer on Tuesday, May 21st. Check out a first look clip above.
In her new special, dedicated to firefighter families, Feinstein invites us into her delightfully chaotic life as the wife of a firefighter, a mother, and a stand-up comic. In the words of her three-year-old daughter, “my daddy’s a hero and my mommy’s sarcastic.”
Feinstein explores her marriage to a first responder who is also married to his firehouse family and unpacks what it’s like to navigate emotional intimacy with someone whose job it is to save people’s lives. Chock full of her signature impersonations, Big Guy endears us to the loveable collection of clashing characters in Feinstein’s world including a sea of fellow fire wives named Gina, her aggressively liberal mother, and her husband,...
In her new special, dedicated to firefighter families, Feinstein invites us into her delightfully chaotic life as the wife of a firefighter, a mother, and a stand-up comic. In the words of her three-year-old daughter, “my daddy’s a hero and my mommy’s sarcastic.”
Feinstein explores her marriage to a first responder who is also married to his firehouse family and unpacks what it’s like to navigate emotional intimacy with someone whose job it is to save people’s lives. Chock full of her signature impersonations, Big Guy endears us to the loveable collection of clashing characters in Feinstein’s world including a sea of fellow fire wives named Gina, her aggressively liberal mother, and her husband,...
- 5/10/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Southern Rites, which premieres May 18 on HBO, is a timely documentary. And if it had been released on any May 18 in the cable network’s history, it would have been just as timely. Director/photographer Gillian Laub’s film explores the entrenched racism that is still present in some American communities, and the continued double standards of a legal system that so firmly marginalizes African-Americans. It is a documentary that could feel redundant due to how often these issues and themes continue to permeate through some sections of American society, but Southern Rites is still urgent and impassioned, if somewhat disjointed, filmmaking.
When Laub first covered issues of prejudice in the Georgian county of Montgomery, it was as a photographer for the New York Times Magazine. In 2009, the community decided to have two proms on consecutive nights: the first night was for white students, the second night for their black classmates.
When Laub first covered issues of prejudice in the Georgian county of Montgomery, it was as a photographer for the New York Times Magazine. In 2009, the community decided to have two proms on consecutive nights: the first night was for white students, the second night for their black classmates.
- 5/19/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Photographer Gillian Laub made waves in a small Georgia county in 2009 when she published a series of photographs she had taken that shined a national spotlight on a high school's segregated proms.
Her photographs caused such public outcry that Montgomery County officially ended the practice of segregating dances the next year.
When Laub returned to document Montgomery County High School's first integrated prom, she was threatened and kicked out. She then stumbled across the story of Justin Patterson – a 22-year-old black man who was killed by Norman Neesmith, a 62-year-old white man.
Patterson and his 18-year-old brother, Sha'von, had been...
Her photographs caused such public outcry that Montgomery County officially ended the practice of segregating dances the next year.
When Laub returned to document Montgomery County High School's first integrated prom, she was threatened and kicked out. She then stumbled across the story of Justin Patterson – a 22-year-old black man who was killed by Norman Neesmith, a 62-year-old white man.
Patterson and his 18-year-old brother, Sha'von, had been...
- 5/18/2015
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- People.com - TV Watch
HBO has announced the May 18th premiere of "Southern Rites," an insightful and thought-provoking documentary that tells the story of 2 neighboring towns in Southeast Georgia entrenched in racial tension. Directed by acclaimed photographer Gillian Laub, and executive produced by John Legend, Troy Carter and Mike Jackson, the 90-minute film examines race relations, a segregated prom, politics and the killing of an unarmed young black man that will forever bind the residents of these 2 small towns together. Montgomery County, Ga first gained notoriety when Laub visited the small town of 9,000 residents in 2009 to document...
- 5/8/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
HBO has announced the May 18th premiere of "Southern Rites," an insightful and thought-provoking documentary that tells the story of 2 neighboring towns in Southeast Georgia entrenched in racial tension. Directed by acclaimed photographer Gillian Laub, and executive produced by John Legend, Troy Carter and Mike Jackson, the 90-minute film examines race relations, a segregated prom, politics and the killing of an unarmed young black man that will forever bind the residents of these 2 small towns together. Montgomery County, Ga first gained notoriety when Laub visited the small town of 9,000 residents in 2009 to document...
- 5/6/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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