Phil’s choice this week was Official Secrets (2019). Directed by Gavin Hood, and is a docudrama regarding the whistleblower Katherine Gun, portrayed here by Kiera Knightly. The basic plot – can it be called a ‘plot’ when it’s actually the truth of something? Not sure, anyway I digress. Shaddap Fraggle and tell’em what it’s about. […]
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)
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’
Bu akşam repliğinden alıntısını yaptığım film olan ‘Her şeyin Teorisi’ ya da orijinal adıyla ‘ The Theory of Everything ‘ filminden bahsetmek istiyorum. Film vizyona 2014 yılında girmiş ancak şu an bile hala o güncelliğini koruyor. Film tam bir dram-biyografi filmi. Filmin genel konusuna bakacak olursak eğer Stephen Hawking’in hayatı anlatılıyor. Ancak bu film monoton […]
Bazı filmler vardır duygusuyla, müzikleriyle sizi ele geçirir. Eleni Karaindrou’nun By The Sea melodisi ile karşılaşarak bu filmle tanıştım yani benimki biraz ters oldu. Filmde ölüme 1 kala yaşanmışlıklar,pişmanlıklar,yaşama ve ölme isteği arasında kalmış amansız hastalığa yakalanmış bir adamın Alexandre’nin hikayesi anlatılıyor. Hastalığının son demlerinde kendine yeni bir kimlik kazandırmanın savaşını veriyor. İlk adımı ise […]
Alright, you beautiful and complete strangers, I’m going to try something a little different around here since I’ve been slacking in this department for quite a while now. Because I haven’t been reviewing movies lately — mostly due to a severe lack of free time — I thought I would start doing a monthly round-up […]
The Aftermath: Reviews for The Devil All the Time, The Owners, Baba Yaga, and Alone
Film is about two brothers who tries to make a bank robbery even though they make the robbery successfully one of the brothers gets caught and the other brother Connie tries to save his mentally disabled […]
English Film Reviews 1: Good Time