Don’t Worry Darling

Victory, California, is a perfect 1950s community built in the desert where the men work for a secret project and their wives take care of the home… but there are…

Assault on Precinct 13: Standoff at Anderson

Photo: Turtle Releasing Organization After writing Dark Star (1974) together with John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon found his friendship with the director deteriorating. He detected a coolness in Carpenter’s attitude that…

Last Night in Soho

Fashion student Ellie Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) moves to London and begins having strange, realistic dreams that transport her back to the Swinging Sixties. Edgar Wright pulls you into the charm…

Death on the Nile

In 1937, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) finds himself on a steamer on the Nile, trying to figure out whom among the passengers is a murderer. Branagh donned the elaborate Poirot…

Dexter: New Blood

When Dexter ended its seven-year run, critics and audiences were far from happy, so this limited series was a second chance to get things right. Reconnecting with the last scene…

The Unlikely Murderer

On a late winter evening in 1986, a graphic designer (Robert Gustafsson) becomes the unlikely murderer of Sweden’s Prime Minister. What was initially presented in 2020 by the prosecutor in…

Sherlock: The Adventures of a Modern Detective

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Photo: BBC There’s a moment in ”A Scandal in Belgravia”, the first episode of the second season of Sherlock, that made me laugh. Sherlock Holmes…

Blue Velvet: Quite an Earful

Photo: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group In his annual movie guide, Leonard Maltin expresses amazement at how Blue Velvet was a critically lauded film. Roger Ebert wrote about how Isabella Rossellini was degraded,…

El Camino 

The long-awaited movie sequel to Breaking Bad (2008-2013) picks up where the show ended, with Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) on the run from the police, getting in touch with old…

Joker: Birth of a Clown Prince

Joaquin Phoenix. Photo: Warner As it is about to premiere, Joker has become a controversial film. For the Twitter crowd, director Todd Phillips’s explanation why he decided to make the…