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What to watch on OTT: Cover Up, Americana, Goodbye June and more | Web-series News

What to watch on OTT: Cover Up, Americana, Goodbye June and more | Web-series News

What to watch on OTT: The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Cover Up, and Blue Moon, which reunites Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater. See the full list here Cover UpNetflixShortlisted for the Oscar in the Documentary Feature Film category, Cover-Up depicts Seymour Hersh’s half-century of reporting and exposing what Hersh believes is a pattern of impunity within the US military and intelligence agencies, told through stacks of Hersh’s own meticulous notes, primary documents, and archival footage. The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist has exposed some of the most unconscionable events that were covered up by the US government, including the My Lai massacre of women, children, and the elderly during the Vietnam War, and the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Directed by Academy Award winner Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) and Emmy Award winner Mark Obenhaus (Steep) it will be available for streaming on December 24. AmericanaPrime VideoThe movie, written and directed by Tony Tost, follows a gallery of dynamic characters who clash over the possession of a rare Native American artifact in this modern-day western. After the artifact …

Ethan Hawke had a long wait to star in Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ | Hollywood

Ethan Hawke had a long wait to star in Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ | Hollywood

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray Ethan Hawke had a long wait to star in Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ BERLIN, – U.S. actor Ethan Hawke recalled on Tuesday how he had to wait more than a decade for director Richard Linklater to decide he was old enough to star in his new music movie “Blue Moon”. The film, which is competing for the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, follows lyricist Lorenz Hart, one half of the legendary U.S. songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart, on the opening night of the musical “Oklahoma!” The Broadway hit marked the first time Hart’s partner Richard Rodgers collaborated with another lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he went on to create several successful musicals. Hawke told Reuters the Oscar-nominated director had sent him the script for the first time about 12 years ago, and he loved it. “I called him up: ‘Let’s make this movie.’ And he said, ‘No, we have to wait a little while’,” Hawke said. Linklater is famous for his patience. His 2014 coming-of-age drama “Boyhood”, …