Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
HALLOWSTREAM Series Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House is a classic work of horror literature. Eerie, atmospheric, and poignant, this ghost story has been adapted on more than one occasion with varying degrees of success: the 1963 film The Haunting is a mostly faithful adaptation and a classic in its own right, …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
To say social media is addictive is really putting it mildly. Even as someone who's relatively new to social media (I've actually opened a personal Facebook account just three years ago when I made my first short film), it's impossible to refute the impact of social networking. Gone are the days when we actually use our …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Social Dilemma (2020)
Directed by: Alessio Liguori Written by: Daniele Cosci In Shortcut, five students (Jack Kane as Nolan, Zak Sutcliffe as Reggie, Sophie Jane Oliver as Bess, Zander Emlano as Karl, and Molly Dew as Queenie) are thrown into a nightmare when, after their bus is highjacked my an escaped criminal (David Keyes), they break down at the entrance …
Before the superhero genre dominated the box office, super cop action thrillers were the blockbusters of the 80s and most of the 90s. Films such as Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and Beverly Hills Cop spawned several sequels and earned millions back in the days. 21 Bridges tried to bring that genre back to the big …
If you've been reading my blog long enough, you know that Christopher Nolan is one of those filmmakers whose films I always anticipate. Even if I don't end up loving the film (*cough* Interstellar *cough*), I still consider his film release as an 'event' and this one is no different. The repeated delays–it was supposed …
Continue reading Musings on Christopher Nolan’s TENET (2020)
I had been wanting to see this since this film came out last Fall in the UK. Its US release was supposed to be in May this year, but of course it was delayed due to Covid-19. Well, it was well worth the wait! Confession: I’m actually not that familiar with this Charles Dickens’ classic (the …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020)
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines centigrade as “relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point 10°.” So this definition made sense when …
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