Book vs. TV: Daisy Jones and the Six
In the leap from book to television, Daisy Jones and the Six retains its original format as a series of interviews, now taking the form of a mockumentary. The first…
Review: Halloween Ends
When thinking about a reboot of an old franchise, the most important question to ask is “why?” What was the point in digging up the corpse of an old film,…
Licorice Pizza Review
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Los Angeles: the kingdom of the stars, and those trying to make it, too. A place that today has beautiful beaches, beautiful people, and endless sprawling roads with…
Cruella review: Two Emmas for the price of one
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Orphaned in London the young Estella, not yet Cruella, meets her sidekicks for the rest of the film, the street thieves Jasper and Horace. She, along with her…
Born in the wrong fashion generation
In these challenging times, it is an unsurprising (if not instinctual) reaction to long for a different reality. Naturally, we find ourselves looking nostalgically to the past and dreaming about…
The Kitchen
Based on its story, The Kitchen fits perfectly into the feminist narrative. Three housewives of the 1970s, played by Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss, face a hard financial…
Mindhunter
Netflix continues to cash in on the recent craze around crime and punishment (Making a Murderer, The Confession Tapes) with Mindhunter as the latest installment in this saga, produced by…
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange was controversial to say the least when it was published in 1962, with an equally controversial film adaptation from Stanley Kubrick following nine years…