The Last Days Of Emma Blank (De laatste dagen van Emma Blank) Netherlands (2009) Dir. Alex van Warmerdam Bosses seem to take the purview of employment to ludicrous levels in what they ask of their staff because “they are paying them” whilst acting as a law unto themselves, then can’t understand why they are not […]
The Last Days Of Emma Blank (De laatste dagen van Emma Blank)
They called them “B-Movies:” genre films (westerns, noir, horror, sci-fi, etc.) made on shoestring budgets with leads played by actors, not stars; directors who were journeymen, not auteurs. The 1950s were their heyday, and they played great on a rainy Saturday afternoon. They looked disposable then but watching them now is like discovering a cultural […]
Thanks to my parents I watched my fair share of epic films growing up. The big three that we would watch at least once a year were Ben-Hur (1959), The Ten Commandments (1956) and Spartacus (1960). The latter is set out as a (very loose) retelling of the story of Spartacus (a real person by […]
My Thoughts on: Spartacus (1960)
We all have our guilty movie pleasures, and cheesy, ridiculous thrillers certainly check that box for many people. But while “Fatale,” a new thriller from director Deon Taylor and writer David Loughery (the pair who also helmed 2019’s “The Intruder”), does the bare minimum to hold the audience’s attention, it doesn’t commit to the genre […]
It seemed like it should have been the perfect vacation. Savannah (Claire van der Boom), her husband Brad (Todd Lasance), and their daughter Aria (Molly Wright) travel to an island resort off the coast of Australia. It’s the resort that Savannah used to vacation at when she was a child and this is a chance […]
Lifetime Film Review: Kidnapped in Paradise (dir by Vic Sarin)
Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista) (1955) Death of a Cyclist is a Spanish-language film that was the winner of the FIPRESCI Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Juan Antonio Bardem (Main Street (1956)), this social realist film tells of a couple of secret, privileged lovers residing in Madrid who are involved […]
Every moment he felt that … he was drawing nearer and nearer to what terrified him. —Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston) is one of those Hollywood agents that earn enough to afford a home in the hills, but not a palatial one. Parties enough to have a reputation, but not hard […]
As TCM’s Women Make Film series winds to a close this Wednesday, it seemed fitting to revisit a conversation I had with Colorado native, now Los Angeles-based, filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith. We chatted back in 2015, when her debut feature, The Midnight Swim, played Boulder’s Boedecker Theater. Smith has since directed Buster’s Mal Heart and a handful of […]
Anthony (Jamie Dornan) likes flowers. He also likes Rosemary (Emily Blunt) but has a hard time telling her so. He has a hard time telling her about the flowers, too. There’s a lot that Anthony and Rosemary don’t say—to each other, to themselves—that’s painfully obvious to anyone within eyesight. Not that they’re ever very far […]
Natalie was an architect who hated PG-13 romantic comedies. Along with her low self-esteem prevented her from meeting her someone special. So despite her best friend telling her that her work buddy had a crush on her, she doubted it. One day, she was mugged at the subway station and woke […]
Movie Review: Isn’t It Romantic?
Sinemasıyla adından söz ettiren ve auteur yönetmen olarak anılan Abbas Kiarostami filmidir Kirazın Tadı. Film 1997 yılının Tahran topraklarında arabasıyla dolaşan orta yaşlı bir adamın hikayesini anlatır. Deneysel sinemanın önde gelen isimlerinden Abbas Kiarostami bu filminde intihar olgusuna yaklaşımıyla doğrudan seyircisini hedef alır ve bireyin hayat ile ölüm arasındaki çekişmenin neresinde durduğuna ayna tutar. Öldüğünde […]
KİRAZIN TADI (TASTE OF CHERRY)
Here’s my review of Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg’s 2013 directorial debut, THIS IS THE END, where actors play themselves in this apocalyptic comedy!
‘This Is the End (2013)’: Throwback Review- DC’s Take
What successes and failures matter most to Netflix, Disney+, and others moving forward? Here’s an early look at 2021 after a landmark 2020.
Every Major Streaming Service’s Key Original Series of 2020 — and 2021
Merhabalar, uzun bir aradan sonra başka bir filmle tekrar birlikteyiz. Bu sefer çok uzağa gitmiyoruz. Komşumuz Yunanistan’dan bir film hakkında konuşacağız. Theo Angelopoulos’un 1988 yapımı Puslu Manzaralar veya Sisli Manzara. Film, on bir yaşındaki Voula ve onun küçük erkek kardeşi Aleksandros’un babalarının Almanya’da yaşadığını annelerinden öğrendikten sonra, onu bulmak üzere evden kaçmalarını ve […]
Puslu Manzaralar (Landscape In The Mist) – 1988 (Theo Angelopoulos)
Yeni yıla Covid-19 nedeniyle hepimiz evde girmek zorundayız. Bu süre içerisinde ailenizle kaliteli vakit geçirmek isterseniz size önerebileceğimiz 6 adet biyografi tarzı filmler bulunmaktadır. 6- Theory of Everything Stephen Hawking’i tanımayanımız yoktur diye düşünüyorum, kendisi çok iyi bir fizikçiydi. Bir gün parti düzenledi ve davetiyeleri partiden sonraki gün dağıttı ama kimse partiye katılmadı çünkü kimsenin […]
Yılbaşında İzlenebilecek Filmler
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Bol ödüllü ABD yapımı bir ‘İran’ filmi. Masalsı ve minimal bir anlatımı olan siyah beyaz filmimiz İran’da küçük ve ücra bir petrol kasabasında geçiyor. Film, bu kasabadaki daha çok gece yaşayan birkaç öteki üzerine odaklanıyor. Kötüleri cezalandıran genç vampir kadın ile ‘Amerikan’ tarzı yakışıklı gencin aşklarının arka […]
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Disturbing Behavior (1998) (Sürpriz bozabilir) Yine doksanlardan hiç fena olmayan bir bilimkurgu gerilim filmi. Film her ne kadar Otomatik Portakal’ın bir bakıma popüler bir biçimde ticari sinemaya evrilmesi de olsa sırf bu yüzden türünde iyi bir film olmayı başarıyor bana kalırsa. Bu defa devletin ehlileştirmek istediği kişiler sadece şiddete meyilli psikopatlar değil bütün ergenler. Bu […]
Hem romantizmden hem de sanattan hoşlanan insanlar için kesinlikle izlenmesi gereken bir aşk hikayesi.Film, Kanada’lı ressam Maud Lewis’in hayatını konu alıyor.Başrollerde ise usta oyuncular Sally Hawkins ve Ethan Hawke yer alıyor. Maudie Filminin Konusu : Çocukluk yıllarından beri Romatoid artrit hastası olan Maud Dowley (Sally Hawkins), babasını ve annesini kaybettikten sonra dünyada tek yakını olan […]
SANATSAL BİR AŞK HİKAYESİ : MAUDİE
If you loved Jamie Foxx as a blue guy in Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Tina Fey playing against a blue guy in Megamind… Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover back in May, when ruminating on our family’s adoption process for new streaming services: Our family prides itself on not being early adopters of new technology or […]
Yes, There’s a Moment after the “Soul” End Credits
