Andrew Scott delivers a magnetic performance as Ripley, a charming conman in this haunting, slow-burn thriller with exquisite black & white photography. Ripley is based on Tom Ripley; Patricia Highsmith’s creation that first showed up in her book The Talented Mr. Ripley. Some of you may have read the book and some may have seen […]
A dark, suspenseful police procedural where an FBI agent (Mendelsohn) and a rookie cop (Woodley) race against time to stop a mysterious killer terrorizing Baltimore. The most delightful aspect of watching movies is when you play a movie with no expectations and it turns out to be fantastic. I love police procedurals. And since the
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3 Body Problem is a mind-bending series perfect for fans of thought-provoking sci-fi like ‘Arrival’ and ‘Interstellar’. In 1977, an astrophysicist, Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng), saw her father being beaten to death in a violent public demonstration during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. As if this wasn’t enough, she was branded as a traitor and sent
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A whimsical fantasy/comedy, Poor Things is filled with exceptional performances showcasing female empowerment in a dazzling alternate world. Poor Things is a fantasy/comedy movie that combines a fairy-tale-like plot with the realities of living in human society with its complex web of relationships, structures and systems. At the 96th Academy Awards, it won 4 awards
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Jake Gyllenhaal gets ripped for a mindless action fix, directed by Doug Liman, but the new movie lacks the heart of the original. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Dalton, a character made popular by Patrick Swayze in his heyday in 1989, in a movie with the same name. Doug Liman, the director of some amazing movies
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Kubrick’s satirical masterpiece turns nuclear war into a darkly comic nightmare. Peter Sellers delivers an iconic comedic performance. In the thick of the Cold War, Stanley Kubrick created a work of art to reflect the state of human society in arguably the most absorbable form; a satire. As the great Sun Tzu said, all wars
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Fassbender shines in this dark, subversive thriller that breaks action movie tropes & explores a methodical assassin’s quest for revenge. Multiple viewings recommended! Art is subjective, but the creative process is not. The process is laborious, intuitive and in the case of filmmaking, collaborative. David Fincher is a master at storytelling in movies who has
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Looking for a fun, lighthearted crime series with a touch of British flair? Guy Ritchie’s new Netflix series, The Gentlemen, delivers. The supremely stylish Guy Ritchie introduced a new TV series on Netflix called The Gentlemen in early 2024. Starting from a plot point in the third act of The Gentlemen (2019), this series introduces
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Scorsese’s epic saga of murder, greed and injustice against the Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma is a poignant and disturbing masterpiece starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone. Based on true events, the film opens with the Osage people discovering oil on their land. From the deals made with the oil companies, they
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