An irreverent and comedic alt-history of the Lazy Susan (that spinning thing on the table at Chinese restaurants), and how one lazy lazy woman changed the restaurant industry forever. Susan’s family restaurant is in trouble: a competing restaurant, Soup Station, moves in next door and, powered by its ingenious innovation (self-serve soup!) business is slow. How can their traditional Chinese restaurant compete? From this humble beginning, the legend of Susan is born.
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, […]
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…
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)
“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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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
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, […]
Hannah Arendt
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 […]
Black Beauty
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 […]
Bir Başkadır
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!
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 […]
Stardust
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 […]
Sin La Habana (2020) & Poissonsexe (2020)
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 […]
‘The Flight Attendant’ Review: Kaley Cuoco Soars in Kooky Thriller from HBO Max
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
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
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)
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)
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: A Unique Thriller About Santa Claus Battling a Hitman
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