©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Released in 2021, the first The Black Phone was a remarkable horror movie because the director Scott Derrickson, adapting together with C. Robert Cargill a (quite forgettable) short story by Joe Hill, made it personal. He wanted to talk about the social-economical environment in which he was raised, and show how…
Anyone even remotely familiar with Broadway musicals is probably well aware of the collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein that led to massive hit musicals, such as Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music, and so many more. Fewer people might be aware of Rodgers’ partnership with Lorenz Hart,…
©Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Thousands of horror fans gathered on the Empire Stage last Friday at 5pm for the BlumFest, one of the most celebrated panels at the New York Comic-Con 2025. On the anniversary of the 15th year of BlumHouse foundation, celebrated with the publication of the book Horror’s New Wave, Jason Blum himself…
©Courtesy of FX Network The underground conspiracies and myths that drive such seemingly wholesome Middle American cities as Tulsa are finally infiltrating mainstream culture. The new neo-noir television series, The Lowdown, is the latest project that explores the myths that have shaped the society of Oklahoma’s second largest city. Oklahoma-based filmmaker, Sterlin Harjo created and…
©Photo by COURTESY OF NETFLIX – © 2023 Netflix, Inc. Netflix has unveiled data about the time users spent watching its titles, as well as how wide its global reach was, during the second half of 2023. The apocalyptic psychological thriller, Leave the World Behind, was the most-watched film, while the anime-inspired live action show One…
©Courtesy of Oscilloscope The best compliment I can give to the heartbreaking biopic directed by Ethan Hawke is that five seconds after the ending titles started I was already researching the short stories and novels published by Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964). From the Queens Public Library, I borrowed her first book Wise Blood by the way. …
Sam Esmail, best known for directing Mr. Robot, has the distinguishing trait of tackling the themes of alienation and American society. In his latest psychological thriller, Leave the World Behind, he adapts the eponymous novel by Rumaan Alam and brings it to the screen with gyrating visuals and piercing social critique. The story focuses on…
Authors write from a place of experience, or at the very least insert pieces of their own lives, consciously or unconsciously, into their work. That may be truer for some than others, and there can be greater depths uncovered years after a writer has lived and died within their writings. Ethan Hawke steps behind the…
Maya Hawke, besides having cinematic parents like Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, and having an outbursting career as an actress in TV series Stranger Things or teen dramas like Do Revenge, is a talented singer-songwriter. Her alternative-indie genre and intimate storytelling reminisces the style of the artists she considers her inspirers like Leonard Cohen, Patti…
Synopsis : Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers in a new Rian Johnson whodunit. This fresh adventure finds the intrepid detective at a lavish private estate on a Greek island, but how and why he comes to be there is only the first of many puzzles. Blanc soon meets a distinctly disparate group of…
Netflix has officially dropped the second trailer for Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” the first of two planned sequels to his celebrated 2019 update of the Agatha Christie murder mystery formula. Daniel Craig reprises his role as a detective Benoit Blanc and the film also star Kathryn Hahn, Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton, Dave…
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