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…

TIFF 2024: Heretic Review

Drama

SATICI (THE SALESMAN)

Yepyeni bir öneriyle sizlerleyim. Evet sizin de bildiğiniz gibi dünyaca ünlü yönetmen Asghar Farhadi filminden bahsediyoruz. Neredeyse iki yıl arayla çektiği filmlerle ve başarısıyla bilinen Farhadi aynı zamanda bu filmin senaristliğini de yapmıştır. Farhadi filmlerine bakacak olursak genelde aynı oyuncularla film yapmayı tercih eder. Bu da oyuncuyu ne kadar iyi tanıdığını ve yaptığı bu seçimlerle […]

SATICI (THE SALESMAN)

Crime

Longlegs

Most of the horror community loves a good serial killer story. As morbid as it is, there are hundreds of thousands of hours of true crime podcasts, TV series, and films that either recount the true events of innocent people being dispatched by a depraved mind or take inspiration from these murders to create fictional […]

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Adventure

TV Review – Shogun Season One

Shogun Season One (2024)Written by Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, Shannon Goss, Nigel Williams, Emily Yoshida, Matt Lambert, Maegan Houang, and Caillin PuenteDirected by Jonathan van Tulleken, Charlotte Brändström, Frederick E.O. Toye, Hiromi Kamata, Takeshi Fukunaga, and Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour I must confess that of all the Japanese media, the stories surrounding this historical period typically leave […]

TV Review – Shogun Season One

Drama

Movie Review: The Outrun

By John Corrado Saoirse Ronan takes on the role of a young alcoholic in The Outrun. It’s a role that allows the actress to deliver an incredible performance showcasing her full depth and range, as the drama depicts the addiction and recovery process as an ongoing journey. It’s based on author Amy Liptrot’s memoir of […]

Movie Review: The Outrun

Comedy

Bill Hader, ‘Barry’ Writer Working on New HBO Comedy Series!!

After the success of Barry, Bill Hader is headed back to HBO. According to Variety, Hader and Barry writer Duffy Boudreau are teaming up to develop a new comedy series at HBO. Hader and Boudreau will serve as co-writers and executive producers on the project. What is Bill Hader’s HBO Comedy About? The logline per…

Bill Hader, ‘Barry’ Writer Working on New HBO Comedy Series!!

Comedy

The Delinquents (2023) Movie Review

Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents is not a heist film, but it does begin with an elaborate bank robbery. It is not exactly a thriller, either, though it borrows from plenty of the tropes you’d find in an exciting thriller film with a heist as its centerpiece. Elaborate planning, blackmail, prison politics, uneasy partnerships, paranoia of…

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Comedy

Burn After Reading – Precious Bodily Fluids

One feels that thinking on a film by the Coen brothers, especially a comedy, is a fruitless exercise. Those guys design their work in such a way that it’s not merely immune to navel-gazing, it actually mocks the navel-gazers. And bless their hearts for it. As David Bazan has sung: You’re so creative With your…

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Crime

Movie Review: Purple Noon

This is the first post in The Cinematic Mr. Ripley, a series for the MovieThoughts category of my blog that considers moral themes in Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels and the film adaptations of those books. This post looks at Purple Noon, the 1960 French adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Alain Delon. It…

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