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Festive Movie Marathon 2020
BoJack Horseman Christmas Special: Sabrina’s Christmas Wish (2014). While this is slightly cheating with the formula I utilise for this Christmas blogging series, I felt this episode needed to be noted. Also my BoJack-mad sister suggested I review this episode. It’s a pretty standard BoJack episode but just centered around Christmas. Todd (Aaron Paul) and […]
Festive Movie Marathon 2020 (#1)
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That Time Madonna Stuck Her Tongue Out At Kevin Costner And The Resolution Years Later
Let Him Go ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The title of Kevin Costner’s most recent movie is apt to this post, only exchanging the pronoun for “her” instead of him. I resisted the urge to use the headline: That Time Madonna Gave Kevin Costner The Tongue. It just sounded like a little too much, despite the double entendre, but […]
That Time Madonna Stuck Her Tongue Out At Kevin Costner And The Resolution Years Later
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The Lighthouse (2019)
Two lighthouse keepers, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert Pattinson) try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. My sister recommended me this film and insisted I watched it when it popped up on Amazon Prime. I’d heard about how much attention this […]
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HBO Touts ‘The Undoing’ as First Original Series to Grow Ratings Each Week
“The Undoing” finale was the television event of the year so far for HBO. The premium cabler’s parent company announced the show’s Nov. 29 finale drew the biggest audience for an HBO series since July 2019. WarnerMedia stated that “The Undoing” finale garnered 3 million viewers across all platforms, which makes the show the most-watched…
HBO Touts ‘The Undoing’ as First Original Series to Grow Ratings Each Week
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The Sunset Film Circle Honors Promising Young Woman
So, as we all know, December is typically the start of Awards Season but this year, things are up in the air. With the Academy extending the eligibility window (don’t even get me started on how annoyed I am about that), a lot of critics groups have also pushed back their selection date. For instance, […]
The Sunset Film Circle Honors Promising Young Woman
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Pieces of a Woman: An Excellent Film That Explores Grief, Loss and Sadness
Thoughts – Adapted from their 2018 stage play, Director Kornél Mundruzcó and writer Kata Wéber make an excellent English language debut with Pieces of a Woman. Grade – A Releasing on Netflix in January 2021, the film focuses on the fallout of a complicated home birth that ends tragically. The majority of the press will […]
Pieces of a Woman: An Excellent Film That Explores Grief, Loss and Sadness
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The Undoing
And I’m sure my wife, our youngest son, a neighbor, and a random jogger are as well. We just watched the finale of HBO’s wonderful whodunit, The Undoing. The Undoing Is a six-part murder mystery starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland that totally captivated our family and apparently many others around the country. […]
I’m glad I didn’t bet money on who I thought did it!
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Amy Adams Reacts to Negative ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Reviews by Saying the Film ‘Transcends Politics’
“Hillbilly Elegy” has garnered some of the worst reviews of 2020 (the film’s MetaCritic score sits at 39), with several film critics condemning the Ron Howard-directed drama for how it portrays its Appalachian setting and characters. NME critic Richard Phippen wrote the film “betrays the very people it’s trying to celebrate” by “failing to acknowledge…
Amy Adams Reacts to Negative ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Reviews by Saying the Film ‘Transcends Politics’
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Uncle Frank (2020)
Beth (Sophia Lillis) is an impressionable young woman starting college in New York City, which is just about as far as she can get, both physically and mentally, from her hometown, the small working-class hamlet of Creekville, South Carolina, where the spectre of the past still lingers, despite being well into the 1970s. As a […]
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SABRINA (1954)
Audrey Hepburn wears the crown as golden age actress of class from her era. In every role, she carries herself with the ethereal grace of a princess. Even in her quintessential black leggings and flats, she remains the icon of fashion, elegance, and simplicity. In Sabrina, she plays the innocent chauffeur’s daughter in love with […]
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Inferno (1980)
MY CALL: Despite being a practically witchless witch movie with clunky storytelling, much of Argento’s unique style reserves a place in the halls of classic horror film appreciation. As far as “witch movies” go, I’d consider this the weakest of his Three Mothers trilogy. MOVIES LIKE Suspiria: Well, there’s the original Suspiria (1977) and its […]
John’s Horror Corner: Inferno (1980), another of Argento’s ‘style over substance’ classics about a witch.
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Come True (2020)
Come True (2020) Director (and screenplay): Anthony Scott Burns Cast: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Tedra Rogers, Chantal Perron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams. – IMDB Dreams, […]
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First Cow (2019): Bozuk Süt
‘’Kuşa bir yuva, örümceğe bir ağ, insana dostluk.’’ William Blake’in Cennet ile Cehennemin Evliliği adlı eserinin “Cehennem Meselleri” kısmından yapılan yukarıdaki alıntı, Kelly Reichardt‘ın 70. Berlin Film Festivali’nde ana yarışmada yer alan First Cow filminin açılışında karşılıyor izleyenlerini. Reichardt’ın sinemasında nostaljik bir yolculuğa çıkan yapıt, iki dost üzerinden, yönetmenin alışıldık nahif diliyle kurduğu anlatısını; kapitalizm ve…
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İtalyan Kültür Merkezi Film Festivali Başladı! (27 Kasım – 3 Aralık 2020)
Sinema, müzik ve daha birçok sanat dalıyla ilgili ses getiren etkinlikleri programından hiç eksik etmeyen İstanbul İtalyan Kültür Merkezi, “İtalyan Sinemasıyla Buluşma” başlıklı film festivali için kapılarını 11. kez takipçilerine açıyor. Bu sene pandemi nedeniyle ilk kez online olarak düzenlenen festival, 27 Kasım – 3 Aralık 2020 tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecek. Bu da elbette söz konusu […]
İtalyan Kültür Merkezi Film Festivali Başladı! (27 Kasım – 3 Aralık 2020)
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“Kapan”a roma’dan iki ödül birden
Yönetmenliğini Seyid Çolak’ın yaptığı TRT ortak yapımı “Kapan” filmi, İtalya’nın başkenti Roma’da düzenlenen Uluslararası Rieti Sabina Film Festivali’nde “En İyi Film” ve “En İyi Erkek Oyuncu (Onur Dilber)” ödüllerini kazandı. Yönetmenliğini ilk uzun metrajına imza atan Seyid Çolak’ın yaptığı bol ödüllü Kapan filmine bir ödül de İtalya’dan geldi. Film, Roma’da yaklaşık 300 filmin başvurusuyla düzenlenen Uluslararası Rieti Sabina Film […]
“kapan”a roma’dan iki ödül birden
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
The world of art has often made a point of exploring the concept referred to as a “national novel”, which is defined as a work of literature that embodies every aspect of that country, encompassing both its history and present culture, and touching on many issues that are faced by their citizens, condensing them into […]
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The Christmas Chronicles 2
A year ago, I was pleasantly surprised by The Christmas Chronicles. Here was Kurt Snake Plisskin Russell as an uber cool Santa and they weren’t buying him. I didn’t think he’d make a very good Santa Claus and was wrong. So, here we are a year later and Netflix is delivering a sequel with Mrs. […]
FIRST LOOK: The Christmas Chronicles 2 – Netflix
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A Rainy Day in New York (2019) Movie Review By D.M. Anderson
While nobody thinks Woody Allen has another Annie Hall in him, A Rainy Day in New York is a dull and forgettable film by a director still in love with the persona he’s now too old to perform himself. Like an aging classic rocker, he seems content to pay the bills by playing the hits with a backup band who weren’t even born during his prime.
A Rainy Day in New York (2019) Movie Review By D.M. Anderson
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This Boy’s Life
This Boy’s Life is probably one of my top ten favorite movies. I’ve seen it several times, including again just recently. It certainly has an all-star cast, featuring Robert De Niro, a very young Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ellen Barkin. This Boy’s Life is the movie version of writer Tobias Wolff’s book of the same name, […]
