I sometimes wonder: does Charlie Kaufman actually believe that anyone outside his mind is real? His main characters definitely seem to have their doubts. At times they seem to think that they’re the only real people in the world – and they’re not even sure of that. These characters also tend to b the Charlie […]
Headspace Oddity: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) Creator: Mike Flanagan Cast: Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve, T’Nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Tahirah Sharif, Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Henry Thomas, Carla Gugino, Alex Essoe, Roby Attal, Kate Siegel, Katie Parker, Martn McCreadie After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry hires a young American nanny to […]
TV Binge: The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Dear friends Affleck and Matt Damon broke out big time with Good Will Hunting List Compiled by Eddie on 23/10/2020 To say Ben Affleck has had an up and down career would be a severe understatement. From Oscar high’s with Good Will Hunting/Argo to dare we even mention it, starring roles in films such as […]
Movie review I don’t review every movie that I see, only those that I have a strong reaction to, good or bad. Had I seen The Painted Bird in 2019 when it was first released, it would have jumped to the top of my Top 10 list. As it stands, it is very high on […]
Drowsy City (Thanh Pho Ngu Gat, 2020) Director (and writer): Dung Luong Dinh Cast: Hien Le Thuy, Toan Nguyen Quoc, Tue Ta Xuan, Tri Vu Minh A young man who works as a slaughterman is forced to take revenge on three strangers that brutally attack his simple life. – IMDB Drowsy City is an interesting […]
FNC 2020: Drowsy City (Thanh Pho Ngu Gat, 2020)
Dün yazılmış ama benim bugün okuduğum bir eleştiri vardı. “Bu yazdıkların dizi veya film incelemesi değil olsa olsa twit olabilir.” yazmış bir arkadaş. Bu haklı eleştiriyi alarak bu ve bundan sonra yazacağım yazıları daha geniş perspektifler üzerinde yazacağımı belirteyim. Bundan sonra ilk başladığım dönem de olduğu gibi bu kadar uzun yazımı olur diye küfür etmeyin. […]
ŞİKAGO YEDİLİSİNİN YARGILANMASI – NETFLİX FİLM İNCELEMESİ
We’re running at the final third of this Halloween Movie Marathon month and as much as planning as I try to put into it, plans change and I started changing my movie selections around and that’s how I’ve randomly ended up doing a Joey King horror double feature for Wish Upon and Slender Man that […]
Double Feature: Wish Upon (2017) & Slender Man (2018)
Your handy one-stop-shop for film news, interviews, articles, and videos from the week that was. There was much talk in industry publications at the start of this week about China’s box office being poised to overtake North America’s. (And pieces were continuing to appear at week’s end.) At the same time, the fine folks at […]
After the gigantic success that was Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda was a star, and not just in France. So what did she do next? Why, she pushed the envelope again of course. But this time, it wasn’t by playing with cinema’s form. That would’ve be too easy. Instead, Varda set her sights […]
Viewing Varda Part Four: ‘Le Bonheur’
From baffled store owners to New York’s disgraced former mayor, here’s our definitive guide to the most shocking moments in Sacha Baron Cohen’s sequel sensation.
‘Borat 2’: The 17 Craziest Pranks, Ranked and Investigated
Four young adults are hiking in the mountains and cross a bridge that we expect to collapse, sending them to their deaths, but that’s just […]
In the desolate aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a family of three attend a hotel to see what they believe to be a stage play that will allow them to provide some escapism from the real world. However, […]
Two young friends (Hardy and McCormack) accidentally find themselves involved in a drug heist that has gone very wrong and was planned by Pixie (Cooke) – a girl from their village in West Ireland. Now the three of […]
Freewheeling slacker Kun (Zhou You) is the proud new owner of a smoking, broken-down mess of a Jeep, his spirit animal in vehicular form. Whilst the car is a direct representation of Kun as a person at this moment in his life, the journey that he takes in it also works well as a metaphor […]
Striding Into the Wind Review (BFI London Film Festival 2020)
“I’m scared that I won’t ever get a role like this again,” Chung said.
‘Lovecraft Country’: Jamie Chung Wants to Spark Conversation Among Asian Americans
Netflix distributed Oscar-winning “Icarus” and Emmy-nominated “The Keepers,” but international politics made Ryan White’s “Assassins” and Bryan Vogel’s “The Dissident” too much of a risk.
How Award-Winning Filmmakers Make Dangerous Documentaries That No Major Distributor Will Touch
Scott Frank’s second Netflix limited series tells a refined coming-of-age story about a prodigious chess player struggling with addiction and despair.
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Review: Beyond an Impeccable Anya Taylor-Joy, Netflix’s Tricky Ploy Pays Off
This was a remake of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic of the same name. The original movie was the movie adaptation of the English paranormal novel by Daphne Du Maurier. SummaryA lady’s companion met and fell in love with a handsome aristocrat, Maxim de Winter. His wife, Rebecca, had passed away […]
Dragging another bit of Halloween mess out of the archives… 1. If you have stupidly stored an important item in a basement where the light flickers, you just need to forget about it and buy a new one. 2. If the hotel clerk hands you the registration book for you to sign, and the page […]
40 Important Life Lessons We’ve Learned from Horror Movies
One of our watch party gang requested westerns, and another didn’t like westerns, so I tried to find two westerns that weren’t. Jacques Tourneur’s STARS IN MY CROWN is set in a small western town but doesn’t really have any of the expected action and Joel McCrea plays a parson. It’s wonderful, though. WINCHESTER ’73 […]
