The Haunting of Bly Manor is releasing today and I can’t be more excited. The first installment of The Haunting series, The Haunting of Hill House was terrific, making the release of the next one more anticipated by people around the globe. So I thought of making a list of horror flicks you can watch […]
13 Horror Flicks To Watch This Halloween Month!
So I admit I was not as big on the last season of The Crown as the first two but we got a trailer for season 4 today and oh… I’m excited all over again!
It’s October 2020, which means that it’s been a full decade. At this very moment, ten years ago, the whole world was watching Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. The two young actors were starring in a story that transfixed a generation. How much of it was true? How much of it was fiction? It hardly […]
The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Social Network Press Tour
Director: Jeremy Gardiner Starring: Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant, Justin Benson Review Author: Tony Synopsis: Hank (Jeremy Gardner) has found himself in a rut. He’s unkept, his house is becoming a pigsty, his friends are worried for him, and a monster keeps tormenting him every night. The cause of Hank’s torment other than the nocturnal creature is the recent […]
“Set in a suburban fantasy world, the film follows two elf brothers who set out on a quest to find an artifact that will temporarily bring back their deceased father.” My Disney Plus subscription is ending soon, so I decided to start watching Onward, Pixar’s latest film that came out back in March. It was […]
An unusual, black-and-white Episode 8 may not be overtly Lynchian, but its implications prove equally integral to what the finale has to say.
‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’: The Ending, Ghosts, and Memories That Matter — Spoilers
I felt a sort of historic obligation to see TENET since it positioned itself as the Great Return to Cinema — its writer-director seemed eager to create a series of super-spreader screenings and, like his Russian supervillain, bring his medium of expression (arms dealing, cinema) to […]
A reimagined version of the Peter Pan tale as young girl Wendy (France) and a collection of her childhood friends find themselves on a mysterious island where time and aging […]
The Perfect Candidate Saudi Arabia (2019) Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour Women in the Middle East have few freedoms as we know, but one of the worst things to hinder them is a lack of voice. It would take a very brave woman to stand up and want to be counted among her male peers to represent […]
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I know it’s not Halloween yet, but it really is because all of October is spooky season for me, so we’re kicking off celebrations in the best possible way ever: Tim Burton. He is, for me, the father of all things spooky, and the reason that I started to look into more nontraditional […]
Hi all! Welcome to my first Top 10 post for this month. I thought we should start with horror films because they are the most iconic and recognised by all. If you’re new to horror, I would recommend my list below. Here are my ten favourite scary movies of all time. Let’s get into it! […]
My Top 10 Favourite Horror Movies…
85 YAZI: François Ozon’dan Gençlik Draması (Filmekimi Özel) François Ozon’un yazıp yönettiği ve Aidan Chambers’ın Dance On My Grave romanına dayanan 85 Yazı 39. İstanbul Film Festivali kapsamında 12 Ekim Pazartesi günü seyirciyle buluştu. Başrollerinde genç yıldızlar Benjamin Voisin ve Felix Lefebvre’nin bulunduğu film seyirciye bir gençlik draması sunuyor. İzleyiciyi 1985 yazının Normandiya sahillerinde küçük […]
85 Yazı: François Ozon’dan Gençlik Draması (Filmekimi Özel)
MABEL AT THE WHEEL (still 1914!) marks an interesting, indeed key point in Chaplin’s career. He’d been at least somewhat quarrelsome with his directors up to this point. On this film, he simply refused to play a scene the way his director and lead actor Mabel Normand saw it, and production ground to a halt. […]
The Sunday Intertitle: Mabel Gets the Push
Time to wrap up Romero’s Dead franchise as we look as the last two films with 2007’s found footage, Diary of the Dead and then 2009’s Survival of the Dead. Let’s check it out! Diary of the Dead (2007) Director (and writer): George A. Romero Cast: Joshua Close, Michelle Morgan, Shawn Roberts, Joe Dinicol, Todd […]
Double Feature: Diary of the Dead (2007) & Survival of the Dead (2009)
As I have been intrigued about the history of Queen Victoria, this movie poster attracted my attention. Themes 1) racial prejudice: Because of his skin colour and religion, Abdul was looked down by everyone in the royal household, including the staff. The more they looked down and excluded him, the more […]
Movie Review: Victoria And Abdul
I am usually attracted to any film starring Rachel Weisz. Not only is she very nice to look at, she can act too. The second thing that appealed to me about this film is its North London setting, in the Jewish Orthodox area that I know quite well from my life in London. Weisz plays […]
Film Review: Disobedience (2017)
An evening of Laurel without Hardy and Hardy without Laurel sounded uncertain — I was reminded of the cheap tapes and DVDs that would package together whatever low-quality public domain bits they could scrape together and publish, without a shred of honest, as “The Best of Laurel and Hardy.” But, viewing as an amateur historian, […]
The Sunday Intertitle: Before Comedy was King
Hi, and welcome to the 100th remake of The Wicker Man. In this version from 2006, our victim is played by Jeremy Sisto. He’s a good actor but he’s no Nicolas Cage. He played Steve Kady, who works for the U.S. Census Bureau so let’s all take a moment to boo the federal government. Booooo! […]
Horror Film Review: Population 436 (dir by Michelle McLaren)
*deep breath* I did it. I’m scared out of my mind but I did it, I watched the original Halloween from beginning to end without stopping. I should explain: I’ve had a fixation with horror/slasher movies for years, by which I mean I’m fascinated by them but I’ve always been too scared to watch them […]
My Thoughts on: Halloween (1978)
Director: Bill Senese Starring: Shane Carruth, Jeremy Childs, Poorna Jagannathan Review Author: Tony Synopsis: A body arrives to the morgue covered in deep wounds over their body, the result of a vicious or clumsy suicide. When an assistant goes to check on the cadaver he finds only an empty slab. Meanwhile, the psych ward in the same hospital […]
