Toronto film festival: the director goes back to his childhood for an endearing, if overlong, film with an Oscar-tipped Michelle Williams as his mother
TV Review: “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Season 15 – LaughingPlace.com
The Gang is back in season 15 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” trying to prove themselves woke while demonstrating that they’re still hilariously terrible people.
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‘Succession’ Season 4 Premiere Recap: Many Happy Returns – The New York Times
The Roy family is back for a fourth and final season, and everyone came out swinging. Let the humiliations begin.
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Kiefer Sutherland returns to series TV with thriller ‘Rabbit Hole’
What does it take for Kiefer Sutherland, indelibly and eternally intrepid Jack Bauer in the real time series “24,” to tackle something new like “Rabbit Hole”?
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Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly’s Dream)
By Divina Sethi Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly’s Dream) is a 2013 Turkish romantic drama. It is based on the tragic true story of struggling poets Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rüştü Onurx, played by (the gorgeous) Kivanc Tatlitug (Kuzey Guney, Ask i memnu, Kurt Seyit ve Sura) and Mert Firat (The Water Diviner, Baska Dilde Ask) […]
Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly’s Dream)
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40 Films to Watch for the 2023 Oscars
With yet another year of movies behind us, it’s never too early to start looking ahead to next awards season! The 2022-23 season is already chock-full of big-name directors and actors vying for Academy Awards. What are some films we can expect to see in the conversation next year? Will any of these films be […]
40 Films to Watch for the 2023 Oscars
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Foreign Film Fridays: “Close” (Belgium, 2022)
Close (2022) is a Belgian drama film from writer-director Lukas Dhont. It stars Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele as two best friends who begin to drift apart when their classmates begin to question how intimate they’ve become with one another. It debuted at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it tied for the Grand […]
Foreign Film Fridays: “Close” (Belgium, 2022)
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Women Talking
In a remote religious community, the women have finally had enough. Enough of what? The men. And their violence. Their savage beatings. Rape. No one is safe from them, not even their own little children. So a group of women gather in a hay loft to discuss what to do about it. Do they do […]
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Navalny: An Ongoing Thriller
By C.J. Hirschfield (January 17, 2023) Two years ago, an extraordinary documentary on Russian opposition party leader Alexei Navalny was recorded. The film has just been released; he has not. Having been charged with everything from fraud to having created an extremist group “with the purpose of inciting hatred toward officials and oligarchs,” he currently […]
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The Whale
It’s a movie that you’ll be happy to get up and walk away from, simply for the astounding freedom of being able to get up and walk. Darren Aronofsky’s film, The Whale, takes morbid obesity to its most realistic, destructive level. It’s cringy, it’s sad, it’s unyielding, but more than anything it’s honest. With a […]
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Film Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Inisherin is a (fictional) island off the coast of Ireland. It is 1923. The civil war (“A bad do, that.”) can be heard but, on the island, there is nothing to do but toddle off down the pub or gossip in the general store, saving up the details for confession. And, in this world, Colm, […]
Film Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Martin McDonagh is one of our greatest living playwrights, with his work being widely produced, from the sacred stages of Broadway to the smallest public theatres in Asia, and everywhere in between, his penchant for darkly comical morality tales being the source of many fascinating discussions under the direction of a range of artists who […]
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
I have the fondest memories of watching Top Gun back in 1986. It was a great year, I was in my second year in Junior College and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was just living in the moment and hanging around with friends every chance I got. My […]
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Ship of fools: ‘Triangle of Sadness’
Listening to a Russian oligarch and an American luxury yacht captain drunkenly exchange clichés about socialism versus capitalism over the ship’s PA system strikes me as farce without tragedy — and the joke is that it’s Woody Harrelson as the captain whose aggressive about socialism and the Russian who sounds like an OAN reporter. Good […]
Ship of fools: ‘Triangle of Sadness’
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Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is a hilariously tragic social commentary like I’ve never seen before. In three acts, it centers on a young couple of British models, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean). The opening scene shows us male models in a documentary setting, being interviewed and asked among many questions, how they […]
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My Current Favorite Shows
I haven’t discussed television much at all on this blog. This is mainly because I don’t watch TV that much. I’m not the type of person to binge-watch a show on the weekend anymore. There’s nothing wrong with that; your free time is your free time. I just prefer to watch it in intervals when […]
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Finding the Lost Boys
My university was in the small town of Socorro, New Mexico. We had one small theater called the Loma, which usually showed movies a few months after their release. In the autumn of 1987, I went with a group of friends to see the Joel Schumacher film, The Lost Boys, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, […]
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Oscar Best Films
Many of us have read posts and articles pertaining to predictions and rankings. Because of BAFTA and SAG results, most claim to know how Oscar night will pan out tonight for the winner of Best Film. Why do the classic winners seem so much better than winners in recent years? How far back do you […]
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“George & Tammy” Was Showtime’s Most-Watched Premiere Ever
Did you catch the premiere of Showtime’s mini-series on George Jones and Tammy Wynette this weekend? Turns out a LOT of us did. Episode one of “George & Tammy” aired Sunday on Showtime, Paramount+, and CMT, and pulled in 3.3 million combined viewers. According to Showtime, that makes it their most-watched premiere ever. The fact that it aired right after “Yellowstone” probably didn’t hurt. […]
“George & Tammy” Was Showtime’s Most-Watched Premiere Ever
