Apple TV

Alfonso Cuarón’s Journey to Adapting ‘Disclaimer’ into a Limited Series

Alfonso Cuarón adapted Renée Knight’s novel Disclaimer into a seven-part series due to its complexities. The story revolves around journalist Catherine Ravenscroft, whose life changes after receiving a mysterious book. With high production values, the show explores themes of truth and narrative, challenging viewers’ perceptions and inviting deeper engagement with the characters.

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Festivals&Academy

TIFF 2024: Heretic Review

This will be one of many reviews during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, to keep up with our latest coverage, click here. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are names that should be mentioned more often in discussions regarding modern horror, especially for their contributions to A Quiet Place. While John Krasinski has deservedly earned…

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Documentary

Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul – Uniting Modernity and Tradition in Turkish Music

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews Fatih Akin’s documentary Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul.  Turkish music is irresistibly intoxicating. The more you listen to it, the more it binds you inside. Once you begin to indulge in its soothing pleasure, it engages you to endless entrapment. Here, modernity cohabits with tradition as in the historic city…

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Movie Reviews

Aftersun (2022) Review

Paul Mescal as Calum Paterson Frankie Corio as Sophie Paterson Director: Charlotte Wells Twenty years after their last holiday at a fading vacation resort, Sophie reflects on the rare time spent with her loving and idealistic father Calum. At 11-years-old, as the world of adolescence creeps into Sophie’s view, Calum struggles…

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Amazon Prime Video

Encounter

There’s few things more annoying than the cinematic bait and switch; setting up the idea of one movie in the minds of an audience, then delivering something else. Sometimes it’s because film-makers or studios change their minds, or sometimes the product doesn’t fit the marketplace; delivering a trailer for Sweeney Todd that provided no hint…

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Drama

Hereditary (2018)

When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited. This is a film that had always been on the edge of my awareness especially as reviews came up when the film […]

Hereditary (2018)

ShortFilm

Short Film: HOLD ON, 3min., USA, Dance

A powerful new short dance film, soundtracked by Gil Scott-Heron’s “Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams),” featuring Jo’Artis “Big Mijo” Ratti protesting via Krumping within feet of the LAPD at a recent Black Lives Matter protest. Says Big Mijo, one of the founders of the South Central-born Krumping movement and a professional dancer for +10 […]

Short Film: HOLD ON, 3min., USA, Dance

Festivals&Academy

First Cow (2019): Bozuk Süt

‘’Kuşa bir yuva, örümceğe bir ağ, insana dostluk.’’ William Blake’in Cennet ile Cehennemin Evliliği adlı eserinin “Cehennem Meselleri” kısmından yapılan yukarıdaki alıntı, Kelly Reichardt‘ın 70. Berlin Film Festivali’nde ana yarışmada yer alan First Cow filminin açılışında karşılıyor izleyenlerini. Reichardt’ın sinemasında nostaljik bir yolculuğa çıkan yapıt, iki dost üzerinden, yönetmenin alışıldık nahif diliyle kurduğu anlatısını; kapitalizm ve…

First Cow (2019): Bozuk Süt