In an executive housing complex near a Druidic stone, two middle-class couples meet for a dinner party to eat, drink wine and – hopefully – sign papers which will secure one of the pairs owning their new home. But as the evening draws on, with New Age drumming nearby, relationships unfurl to […]
A crowded field of screenwriters, including several newcomers, will duke it out for five slots. (Constantly updated.)
Oscars 2022: Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions
With so many films coming out this year, we never know which one is good and which one will disappoint us. In certain cases, it hurts when you anticipate bigger but get less than that. Because the director either fails to convey the message, actors were not in sync, […]
Film Review: “Last Night in Soho” (2021)
The seventies really were, in my opinion, one of the best decades for film. For better or worse it really changed the way films were being made and brought in a new generation of inspiring and challenging filmmakers. It was also a great decade for horror and a lot of my favourite films are from […]
Hypnotic has an unsettling premise that may have you rethinking your next therapy session, but does Kate Siegel do enough to make this film worthy of your next watch? Let’s find out…
Spoiler-Free Review of “Hypnotic” on Netflix: Kate Siegel is beyond Intense!
The picture follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales, not realizing they are about to eat their last supper.
Rating: 9.8/10 Mangaka: Haro Aso Synopsis: Feeling unsettled about the future, high school student Ryouhei Arisu often escapes the reality of life. After hanging out at a bar, Arisu and his best friends, Daikichi Karube and Chouta Segawa, wait for the first train to arrive in the morning. Suddenly, a colorful array of fireworks set […]
Alice in borderland : Raison D’etre
Synopsis: Seong Gi-hun, a divorced and indebted chauffeur, is invited to play a series of children’s games for a chance at a large cash prize. Accepting the offer, he is taken to an unknown location where he finds himself among 455 other players who are also deeply in debt. The players are made to wear […]
So, I started watching Squid Game and…
Fortune favors the bold as Sony Pictures releases the official trailer for their upcoming video game film adaptation of Uncharted. View trailer below. Based on one of the best-selling, most critically acclaimed video game series of all time, Uncharted introduces audiences to the young street-smart Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) and showcases his first treasure hunting […]
Wes Anderson is back, this time taking his unique brand of avant-garde comedy even further. There is so much to digest in his ode to great expat journalists whose work in the mid 20th century flourished in The New Yorker Magazine. Anderson has assembled a huge […]
New from Al and Linda Lerner on Movies and Shakers: The French Dispatch
Halloween Kills brings the terror back to Haddonfield in the sequel to 2018’s Halloween – the true sequel to the 1978 classic of the same name. Like the 1981 sequel, this story picks up the same night the events of 2018’s terror took place. We last saw Michael Myers trapped in a burning basement of […]
At four reels, THE PILGRIM isn’t quite a short and doesn’t seem quite a feature, but the IMDb classes it as one. Excitingly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, not all the way through. Chaplin is recycling the escaped convict routine from THE ADVENTURER and having another go at the mistaken identity gag from […]
The Sunday Intertitle: Pilgrim Versus the World
I was curious about Errol Morris’ AMERICAN DHARMA, about Trump advisor and Breitbart exec Steve Bannon, but not apparently curious enough to see it when it was new. I finally checked it out. Essentially, it conforms to the conclusions I’ve already drawn about Morris’s filmmaking. When he was making documentaries about ordinary people, he had […]
Treatment of mental illnesses has never been straightforward. Through prescribed medicines, it keeps the insane mind in control, but only temporarily, until the sanity goes away completely. There is always the question, whether doctors do everything possible to help the patients before releasing them back to society, or it’s […]
Film Review: “The Mad Women’s Ball” (2021)
The notion that a first-time filmmaker could blend the rugged, depressive existence of scrappy children struggling to get by in one of Glasgow’s most oppressive neighborhoods with a bizarre dream sequence that includes a mouse tied to a balloon flying to the moon and becoming part of a mouse colony is just as staggering today […]
‘Ratcatcher’: Trauma Never Fades
Only a few filmmakers can deliver a heavy concept and an intelligent story using a humoristic approach. Whether it’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr Fox, Isle of Dogs, or The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson has created a unique collection of films with a peculiar approach to storytelling – […]
Film Review: “The French Dispatch” (2021)
The Many Saints of Newark Starring Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Vera Farmiga, Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi, John Magaro, Samson Moeakiola, Alexandra Intrator, Joey Diaz, Nick Vallelonga, Daryl Edwards, Gabriella Piazza, Chase Vacnin, Lesli Margherita, Mattea Conforti and the voice […]
The Many Saints of Newark (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
What does it take to become famous? How to maintain fame that can be toxic at times? Should one be down to earth or behave like the planet revolves around him or her? France de Meurs (Léa Seydoux) is an ego-centric, self-centred narcissist who happens to be a […]
2021 Eoin Macken Natalie zea Zyra Gorecki Nicholas Gonzalez rohan mirchandaney jack martin john seda chikè okonkwo For those looking to get, or for the next Lost…I think we’ve found it. It has the Feel of lost… And the logo reminds me of stranger things upside down . While the ‘above’ world tries to figure out […]
