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Action

Review: Red Notice

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

Drama

Succession and the hidden injuries of the neoliberal subject

At no point does Succession suggest these characters are sociopathic, as unlikable as they are. What makes it so powerful is how vividly we see the emotional damage which this over-saturation of strategic conduct does to them. The points at which they want to reach out, to find comfort through closeness, only to realise they’re imprisoned by the logic of a situation in which they’re in a zero-sum competition for succession with those closest to them.

Succession and the hidden injuries of the neoliberal subject

Fantasy

Nosferatu: A Bold Vision of a Familiar Story

A story become too familiar? After almost a century of Dracula narratives, whether they are adapted directly from the Bram Stoker novel or not, the character and his arc feels as familiar as a family heirloom, passed down the generations. This is part of why F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is the adaptation of the

story I come back to more often than any other- Murnau’s film feels like an oddity, like that weird uncle you don’t really want to talk about. And yet, it still has a place in the family, because the DNA remains constant.

Nosferatu: A Bold Vision of a Familiar Story

Horror

Dead Silence

There doesn’t seem to be much love in the world for killer doll movie Dead Silence. The film-makers (Leigh Whannell, James Wan) went on to bigger and better things, and disowned this early effort as mangled by studio interference, but while the creative forces may not have been satisfied with the end product, Dead Silence […]

Dead Silence

Comedy

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

Crime

Malignant

Yikes! One of the unexpected fallers in 2021’s race for the drastically reduced box-office prizes on offer was James Wan’s return to the horror territories that he’d previously made his own. After the promising Dead Silence, the Insidious and Conjuring movies made Wan a brand, even if both franchises fizzled out in terms of appeal. […]

Malignant

Apple TV

CODA

Apple TV + hasn’t exactly established itself as the go-to place for new movies; Ted Lasso is probably the biggest draw to date. But they certainly made a splash paying $25 million at Sundance for CODA, writer and director Sian Heder’s slight but utterly charming film about a fishing family living with deafness. CODA is […]

CODA

Drama

Aloners

Korean cinema goes from strength to strength; the successes, including Parasite, are well-known, but the sheer breadth of quality films that have emerged over the last decade mark out Korean films as one of the most booming film-cultures. Aloners is a first time feature, but doesn’t feel like it; Hong Sung-eun’s film is something of […]

Aloners

Drama

“Belfast” takes us back to the City’s “Bad Old Days”

A film of consequence and warning, Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” takes us back to the beginning of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland and lets us see them through the eyes of a little boy. A very personal story equal parts pathos and warmth, it sentimentalizes the region’s “Bad Old Days” even as it reminds us and […]

Movie Review: “Belfast” takes us back to the City’s “Bad Old Days”

Movie News

Jake Gyllenhaal In Talks To Star In Doug Liman’s ‘Road House’ Reboot

Jake Gyllenhaal is one of the busiest working actors in Hollywood today. After appearing in recent hits like Spider-Man: Far From Home and Netflix’s The Guilty, the actor is apparently circling another big starring role. As first reported by Deadline, Gyllenhaal is in talks to star in a remake of the cult classic Road House…

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