If someone said Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot were starring in a globetrotting heist comedy…you would probably be intrigued. It’s a film idea that has blockbuster written all over it. You’d have to work really hard for this film to be bad. Unfortunately, Netflix loves a challenge. The plot for Red Notice is […]
Review: Red Notice
Kulüp (The Club)
Son günlerde Türk dizi yapımlarıyla arası bozuk olanlar için Netflix’den sevecen bir el uzandı: Kulüp. İlk bölümü 5 Kasım 2021 tarihinde yayımlanan; Seren Yüce ve Zeynep Günay Tan ikilisinin yönetmenliğini yaptığı; Aysin Akbulut, Rana Denizer ve Necati Şahin üçlüsünün senaryosunu kaleme aldığı dizi konusu, atmosferi ve oyunculuk performansları ile bu küslüğü bitirecek düzeyde. Zira ağalı paşalı, raconlu dövüşlü, […]
Kulüp, Ladino ve Yasmin | Hande Çiğdemoğlu
‘Red Rocket’
I will admit I do have some bias towards Red Rocket. Growing up in Texas and visiting the Galveston and Houston area as a kid made me nostalgic when the opening credits rolled with the refineries in the backdrop. However, what drew me in more than the refineries was the song that plays over the […]
‘Red Rocket’ Review: “Bye, Bye, Bye”
Mars Attacks (1996)
Mars Attacks (1996) Released: December 13th, 1996 Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy Director: Tim Burton Writers: Len Brown, Woody Gelman, Wally Wood, Norman Saunders, Bob Powell (trading card series) Jonathan Gems (Screenplay) Cast: Jack Nicolson, Martin Short, Jim Brown, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, Tom Jones, Michael J. Fox, Natalie Portman, Rob Stieger, Pam […]
Retro Review: Mars Attacks (1996) Flash Review
RUSHMORE (1998)
Directed by Wes Anderson Written by: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson Produced by: Barry Mendel, Paul Schiff Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray, Brian Cox, Seymour Cassel, Mason Gamble, etc. *** CONTAINS SPOILERS *** Having recently written positively about my favourite films of Wes Anderson I was spurred […]
MEMORABLE FILM CHARACTERS #6 – MAX FISCHER – RUSHMORE (1998)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
A pretty popular student, Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) cannot go on a date until her ill tempered sister Katarina (Julia Stiles) gets a date too, and that responsibility falls to mysterious Patrick (Heath Ledger). I had only seen Ledger in his role of William in the film Knight’s Tale, so when this film popped up on […]
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. It opens with sex: Explicit, hardcore sex in the bedroom. The woman before the camera is Emilia (Katia Pascariu), a teacher at a local private school. The man holding the camera is Eugene (Stefan Steel), Emilia’s husband. Looking to spice up a regular evening of rumpy-pumpy, they pull out […]
BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
The Fireman’s Ball (1967)
The Fireman’s Ball (Horí, má panenko) Czechoslovakia (1967) Dir. Milos Forman “Never underestimate people.” Local communities need to come together in order for them to thrive and make the people feel like they belong. It’s a case of you get out of it what you put into it, but like most ideologies, they are open […]
Movie Review – The Fireman’s Ball
Sing 2 Official Trailer
Get ready to “make your mark” as Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment releases the second official trailer for the upcoming animated sequel Sing 2. View trailer below. Buster (Oscar® winner Matthew McConaughey) has turned the New Moon Theater into a local hit, but Buster has his eyes on a bigger prize: Debuting a new show […]
Sing 2 Official Trailer 2
Gender-switch comedy from Colombia — “Lokillo (Mi Otra Yo)”
“Lokillo,” aka “Lokillo en: Mi Otra Yo” is a Colombian comedy about a sexist TV chat show host forced to dress as a woman and hide out in prison after he crosses a Colombian drug lord. This “Around the World with Netflix” offering is seriously malnourished as comedy. There’s barely a chuckle in it, at […]
Netflixable? Gender-switch comedy from Colombia — “Lokillo (Mi Otra Yo)”
The French Dispatch
Sometimes things just click: Cookies and milk, peanut butter and jelly, a burger and fries. Yet somehow it took this long to finally realize the commonalities and perfect pairing that is Wes Anderson and The New Yorker — it feels almost too perfect. They certainly share some sensibilities; call it an appreciation of the finer […]
The French Dispatch – Movie Review
The French Dispatch
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
The Sunday Intertitle: Pilgrim Versus the World
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
“The French Dispatch” (2021)
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)
“France” (2021)
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 […]
Film Review: “France” (2021)
Truth Seekers (2020)
Truth Seekers is a comedy horror series laden with intrigue and witty delivery.
Truth Seekers (2020) Review
Three Floors
One building in Rome, 3 apartments, 3 families each with their own stories. Yet their stories are about to collide, quite literally in the beginning, and then figuratively though no less forcefully after that. The entitled son of two upright judges swerves the car he’s driving drunkenly in order to avoid hitting his pregnant neighbour […]
Three Floors
Muppets Haunted Mansion
Among the new crop of family-oriented Halloween fare on Disney Plus is this little piece of amusement park magic. Now, if you’re any kind of Disney World fan, you already know that the Haunted Mansion is not just a beloved, 51 year old ride at Magic Kingdom, it’s got its own cult following. In the […]
Muppets Haunted Mansion
The Starling
There isn’t much funny about this film billed as a comedy, even with a great cast including Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd and Kevin Klein. The film has some sweet moments but it is more depressing than anything else. The one thing this film can provide is the […]
New from Al and Linda Lerner on Movies and Shakers: The Starling
An American Werewolf in London
Something of a blast, John Landis’ 1981 horror comedy is one of these few films that gets just about everything right. Written in the 60’s, after an experience while working on WWII action movie Kelly’s Heroes, Landis had shelved the result while his own stature grew via hits like Kentucky Fried Movie, Animal House and […]
An American Werewolf in London