By Divina Sethi Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly’s Dream) is a 2013 Turkish romantic drama. It is based on the tragic true story of struggling poets Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rüştü Onurx, played by (the gorgeous) Kivanc Tatlitug (Kuzey Guney, Ask i memnu, Kurt Seyit ve Sura) and Mert Firat (The Water Diviner, Baska Dilde Ask) […]
Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly’s Dream)
With yet another year of movies behind us, it’s never too early to start looking ahead to next awards season! The 2022-23 season is already chock-full of big-name directors and actors vying for Academy Awards. What are some films we can expect to see in the conversation next year? Will any of these films be […]
40 Films to Watch for the 2023 Oscars
Close (2022) is a Belgian drama film from writer-director Lukas Dhont. It stars Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele as two best friends who begin to drift apart when their classmates begin to question how intimate they’ve become with one another. It debuted at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it tied for the Grand […]
Foreign Film Fridays: “Close” (Belgium, 2022)
In a remote religious community, the women have finally had enough. Enough of what? The men. And their violence. Their savage beatings. Rape. No one is safe from them, not even their own little children. So a group of women gather in a hay loft to discuss what to do about it. Do they do […]
Women Talking
By C.J. Hirschfield (January 17, 2023) Two years ago, an extraordinary documentary on Russian opposition party leader Alexei Navalny was recorded. The film has just been released; he has not. Having been charged with everything from fraud to having created an extremist group “with the purpose of inciting hatred toward officials and oligarchs,” he currently […]
Navalny: An Ongoing Thriller
Das Orchester wird im Kinofilm “TÁR” zum Hollywood-Star Es ist das Must See dieses Jahres! Die Dresdner Philharmonie in der Rolle der Berliner Philharmoniker im Hollywood-Streifen “TÁR”. Der Film mit Cate Blanchett und Nina Hoss in den Hauptrollen (Foto: Screenshot) läuft seit Donnerstag (2.3.) auch in den deutschen Kinos. Er erzählt die Geschichte der Dirigentin […]
Dresdner Philharmonie auf der Leinwand
It’s a movie that you’ll be happy to get up and walk away from, simply for the astounding freedom of being able to get up and walk. Darren Aronofsky’s film, The Whale, takes morbid obesity to its most realistic, destructive level. It’s cringy, it’s sad, it’s unyielding, but more than anything it’s honest. With a […]
The Whale
Inisherin is a (fictional) island off the coast of Ireland. It is 1923. The civil war (“A bad do, that.”) can be heard but, on the island, there is nothing to do but toddle off down the pub or gossip in the general store, saving up the details for confession. And, in this world, Colm, […]
Film Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Martin McDonagh is one of our greatest living playwrights, with his work being widely produced, from the sacred stages of Broadway to the smallest public theatres in Asia, and everywhere in between, his penchant for darkly comical morality tales being the source of many fascinating discussions under the direction of a range of artists who […]
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
I have the fondest memories of watching Top Gun back in 1986. It was a great year, I was in my second year in Junior College and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was just living in the moment and hanging around with friends every chance I got. My […]
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Listening to a Russian oligarch and an American luxury yacht captain drunkenly exchange clichés about socialism versus capitalism over the ship’s PA system strikes me as farce without tragedy — and the joke is that it’s Woody Harrelson as the captain whose aggressive about socialism and the Russian who sounds like an OAN reporter. Good […]
Ship of fools: ‘Triangle of Sadness’
Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is a hilariously tragic social commentary like I’ve never seen before. In three acts, it centers on a young couple of British models, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean). The opening scene shows us male models in a documentary setting, being interviewed and asked among many questions, how they […]
Triangle of Sadness
I haven’t discussed television much at all on this blog. This is mainly because I don’t watch TV that much. I’m not the type of person to binge-watch a show on the weekend anymore. There’s nothing wrong with that; your free time is your free time. I just prefer to watch it in intervals when […]
My Current Favorite Shows
My university was in the small town of Socorro, New Mexico. We had one small theater called the Loma, which usually showed movies a few months after their release. In the autumn of 1987, I went with a group of friends to see the Joel Schumacher film, The Lost Boys, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, […]
Finding the Lost Boys
Many of us have read posts and articles pertaining to predictions and rankings. Because of BAFTA and SAG results, most claim to know how Oscar night will pan out tonight for the winner of Best Film. Why do the classic winners seem so much better than winners in recent years? How far back do you […]
Oscar Best Films
Did you catch the premiere of Showtime’s mini-series on George Jones and Tammy Wynette this weekend? Turns out a LOT of us did. Episode one of “George & Tammy” aired Sunday on Showtime, Paramount+, and CMT, and pulled in 3.3 million combined viewers. According to Showtime, that makes it their most-watched premiere ever. The fact that it aired right after “Yellowstone” probably didn’t hurt. […]
“George & Tammy” Was Showtime’s Most-Watched Premiere Ever
Sinema ve televizyondaki en düzgün performansların değerlendirildiği SAG (Screen Actors Guild – Ekran Oyuncuları Birliği) Mükafatları dün akşam düzenlenen merasimle sahiplerini buldu. Bu yıl 29.’uncusu düzenlenen SAG Ödülleri’nde gecenin kazananı, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ sineması oldu. Sinemanın oyuncuları Michelle Yeoh ve Jamie Lee Curtis, En Güzel Bayan ve En Yeterli Yardımcı Bayan Oyuncu mükafatlarını kucakladı. Sinemanın başka oyuncusu Ke Huy Quan, SAG’da En Güzel Yardımcı Erkek Oyuncu mükafatını kazanan birinci Asyalı oldu. Rolü için 270 kilo alan Brendan Fraser da En Yeterli Erkek Oyuncu seçildi. İşte SAG Ödülleri’ni kazananlar ve bu yılın birincileri…
2023 Ekran Oyuncuları Birliği (SAG) Ödülleri sahiplerini buldu
George Jones and Tammy Wynette were a country music power couple. Their story is a real country love song. They loved each other more than anything. Even between the alcohol and the number one songs they loved each other more than life itself. They were made for each other. Showtime will tell their story in […]
George Jones And Tammy Wynette Are Country Music’s Best Told Love Story
Superhero movies have gone all in on “universe building” of late, that “Avatar” model that pushes the notion “If we show them strange, ‘new’ and wondrous places, they will come.” So the latest “Ant-Man” is basically “‘Avatar’ with Ants…and some jokes.” Trapped in the multi-verse mania that has been a hallmark of post-“Avengers” comic book […]
Movie : “Ant-Man and The Wasp” get lost in “Quantumania”
The latest US hit crime drama arrives in the UK. How far would you go to save your child? That’s the compelling tagline for Your Honor, the latest US hit show to make it’s way over to the UK. Described as a ‘limited series’ (which at 10 episodes stretches that definition somewhat – more of […]
BOXSET REVIEW Your Honor (S1)
