Hannah Arendt is a biopic about the political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, among other scholarly works. It’s not a study of her whole life, however, or even close to it; at least 90% of the film concerns Arendt’s aforementioned book […]
Hannah Arendt [subtitled in part]
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel Black Beauty, which was written from the perspective of a horse and had an animal rights message that was revelatory for its time, is one of the biggest selling books of all time and has been adapted for the screen a number of times […]
Netflix’in Türkiye şubesinde ilk sıralarda yer alan, Ferdi Özbeğen’i yeniden canlandırmaya çalışan fenomen dizi Bir Başkadır, çok yakın bir zamanda yayınlandı. Birbirinden ünlü oyuncu kadrosu, ilgi çeken noktalardan biri. “Masum” dizisi ile dijital platform dizilerini şaha kaldıran Berkun Oya, ne iş yapsa da izlesek dediğimiz anda herkesi telefona, bilgisayara hatta televizyona kilitlemeye yemin edercesine başardı. […]
GREAT FILM ENDINGS! What makes a great film ending? Well, it helps to have an amazing cinematic story before it, building to an incredible twist, memorable shock or emotionally cathartic moment. In the latest effort in my occasional series Six of the Best, I have chosen six films with […]
SIX OF THE BEST #27 – GREAT FILM ENDINGS!
Ziggy Stardust is David Bowie’s alter ego for his 1972 album of the same name and subsequent tour, a fictional androgynous bisexual rock star alien sent to Earth as a saviour of sorts before an impending apocalyptic disaster. Singing about politics, sex, drugs, and the superficiality of rock and roll, Ziggy easily seduced everyone he […]
Its taken a while to wrap up the Festival du Nouveau Cinema coverage but we’re in the final double feature. Both a romance in their own regards is a Canadian film, Sin La Habana and a French movie, Poissonsexe. Both having a romance wrapped up in highlighting a bigger plot and both carrying a different […]
FNC 2020: Sin La Habana (2020) & Poissonsexe (2020)
Whether or not it can stick the landing, “The Flight Attendant” offers plenty of style, rapid fun, and first-class service from its ebullient star.
‘The Flight Attendant’ Review: Kaley Cuoco Soars in Kooky Thriller from HBO Max
I’m not sure what any of us expected from Hillbilly Elegy, but if it was a good film, it seems to have been something of a tall order, and one that simply could not be met in any conceivable way by a film that seems, more than anything else, entirely unnecessary to begin with. Naturally, […]
Radioactive (2019) Pioneer. Genius. Rebel. Director Marjane Satrapi’s, Persepolis (2007), film Radioactive is an unbalanced and ultimately bland portrayal of Marie Curie, perhaps the best-known female scientist of all time. Through her pioneering work in the field of discovering the elements Radium and Polonium, she was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, an […]
Freaky (2020) Basic switch. Killer new look. It’s hard to believe that it’s taken us this long to get a body-swap slasher movie. Similar to what filmmaker Christopher Landon and producer Jason Blum did with their ghoulish re-working of Groundhog Day (1993), with the one-two punch of Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day […]
Fatman is a unique hybrid that blends ultra-violence, cheeky world building and dark comedy – and it mostly works. It’s a wild film that introduces us to a world in which Chris Cringle (Mel Gibson) and his wife Ruth (Marianne Ruth-Bapiste), take on Military contracts during off-months, and children hire hitmen […]
Fatman: A Unique Thriller About Santa Claus Battling a Hitman
Following in the footsteps of his father, the iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg, writer and director Brandon Cronenberg dabbles in the ‘body horror’ sub-genre that his old man pioneered for his grisly sophomore feature Possessor. Revered hitwoman Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is at the centre of the sci-fi thriller, working for an organisation that uses brain-implant […]
The Scott Frank-created limited series was reportedly watched by 62 million households over its first 28 days.
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Breaks Netflix Record as Chess Interest Explodes on Google and eBay
Ashley Avis’ Disney+ adaptation of the classic story pulls at the heartstrings, but its episodic feel keeps it from galloping along with ease.
‘Black Beauty’ Review: Kate Winslet Voices Beloved Horse in Family-Friendly Take on Classic Tale
A lot is simmering below the surface of Proxima, the daring space drama (which doesn’t actually show the proverbial “final frontier” at all, one of several fascinating directorial decisions made in the creation of this film) from Alice Winocour, who plucks a number of timely, incredibly relevant themes and throws them together into what can […]
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Director – David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) Cast – William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa Plot – A group of British and American POW’s during WW2 find themselves helping the Japanese forces build a giant bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway as the fiercely […]
Classic Review – The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The power of The Force was found in my in-law’s basement where my brother-in-law made room for everyone to team-assemble his latest LEGO set – the Mos Eisley Cantina: I helped build the central bar where Luke had a little tiff with a local. “I’m a collector,” he said as he opened the gigantic box […]
The Power of The Force Was Found in My In-Law’s Basement
Güzel bir anın hemen öncesinin tadına varmak istediğiniz zamanlarda izlenmesi gereken bir film. Miles Raymond, bütün hayatı bir yazar olabilme hayalleriyle geçmiş, ama evliliğindeki gibi mesleğinde de başarısız olmuş, bir İngilizce öğretmenidir. En yakın arkadaşı Jack ise, hiç kimse tarafından tanınmayan bir televizyon oyuncusudur ve evlenmek üzeredir. Miles’ın son yazarlık denemesi de başarısızlıkla sonuçlanınca en […]
SIDEWAYS ( ALEXANDER PAYNE, 2005)
When composing the canon of great American films, there is one in particular that occupies a very strange space – Elmer Gantry is a film mostly remembered for the dynamic performance given by Burt Lancaster, who was already one of the industry’s most interesting leading actors, and very little else. Richard Brooks was a filmmaker […]
Artistically, war comes in many different forms. There are the rousing battlefield films that show the harrowing conditions of warfare, the intimate chamber dramas that attempt to show the machinations that go into some of history’s most definitive moments, and the general psychological thriller that situates itself on the outskirts of the most prominent moments, […]
