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 […]
“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
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
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
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!
“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’
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Desperate to find the man of her dreams, sweet and plain Ava tries a last ditch effort, speed dating. But the absurd cast of characters she encounters makes her wonder if being single is not so bad after all.
Connor, secretly in love with his best friend Rach, has gotten her an amazing birthday present – something that’s sure to knock her off her feet.
A LITERALLY uplifting short from Closer Productions.
Must watch for anyone expecting a baby, especially those of us who aren’t actually the pregnant one.
A dark comedy about the unintended consequences of chasing after the next big thing…
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) 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, […]
‘’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…
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
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 […]
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
