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)
It’s hard to keep track of all the TV shows available to us, but 2020 did treat us to some gems. This post won’t necessarily be highlighting shows released solely in 2020 but shows that caught my attention throughout the year. Here are the best TV shows I watched in 2020. The Boys (Season 2): […]
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 […]
It’s likely that Frida Kahlo’s face is better known than her paintings. Then again, the same could be said of many public figures. Surely more people own some form of paraphernalia with Marilyn Monroe plastered on it than have seen her movies. Images of Ruth Bader Ginsburg are common, but how well known are the […]
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 […]
The Crawleys go to Duneagle Castle to celebrate Christmas with the MacClares. Unfortunately, when the Crawleys return, tragedy strikes. This was a feature length Christmas special episode that wrapped up series 3 back in 2012 and was also Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens)’s final episode. Watching this show back again after seeing the original run feels […]
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 […]
Summer comes early this year thanks to Noé and his new, eight-minute film for the fashion house.
Gaspar Noé Directs Charlotte Rampling in a Darkly Chic Short for Saint Laurent — Watch
Now’s your chance to bask in all three hours of the troubled 2011 film starring Anna Paquin and hailed by many as a masterpiece.
Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Margaret’ Extended Cut Now Streaming on HBO Max
Netflix starts 2021 with a couple of Scorsese classics and a grab bag of awards contenders like “Pieces of a Woman” and “The White Tiger.”
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking. I should admit that, despite the title of this post, I’m not really […]
Can you believe I watched this for the first time this year? What attracted many has kept me away: the spectre of actor Brandon Lee’s actual death. Brandon Lee, son of Bruce, was filming a scene like almost any other in the movie. It was a film about vigilante justice, heavy on violence. Michael Massee, […]
Every year, the American Legion hosts a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas and has them build a representative government from the ground up. Every state but Hawaii does the same or similar, but this particular documentary is hanging around Austin, Texas, to witness their particular experience. High schools nominate which students will be sent, ostensibly […]
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!
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 […]