Single mom Kate Winslet deals with haughty daughter Evan Rachel Wood in Todd Haynes' five-part miniseries, beginning Sunday. By Tim Goodman Everything was aligned for HBO and director Todd Haynes ...

TV REVIEW: HBO’s miniseries of the classic trades noir for melodrama. By Tim Goodman Kate Winslet as Mildred Pierce is seduced by rich slacker Monty, played by Guy Pearce. Everything was aligned ...

The marriage that opens ‘Mildred Pierce’ is one that nobody wants to ... But it’s not the external spaces that are the focus: it’s Mildred’s misery. We see her again and again in ...

“When you’re playing Mildred Pierce and you know that someone utterly ... “Because it does take place during the Depression, there is such a focus on class and money that she obsesses ...

See About archive blog posts. If part of the frustration with ‘Mildred Pierce’ is that it’s too slow, it may be that we’ve been strangely conditioned for story arcs to take place in a ...

Which is why the opening minutes of Mildred Pierce (Saturday ... left the room and the camera zoomed through an open window to focus on the back of Veda’s precocious little head.

The 1945 film version of "Mildred Pierce" features one of the most iconic ... does take place during the Depression and there's such a focus on class and money. It just gets to her in this way ...

“Mildred Pierce” gave us a classic Winslet performance in an instant-classic miniseries. Watching her embody the eponymous entrepreneur for five brilliant hours of perfectly crafted television ...

Kate Winslet is the reigning queen of the HBO miniseries. She redefined an iconic heroine in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce and disappeared behind the grimace of an embattled small-town detective ...