It’s already been six months since this eventful year began. Can you even believe it? I sure can’t. If not for the wonderful guys at Netflix and other streaming platforms, we couldn’t have managed it this far. Anyway, we are almost in July 2020 and here is a list of everything coming to Netflix in […]
Since February this year, the streaming giant Netflix started introducing daily top lists of its most popular titles. While the criteria for this list has been dubious ever since it was modified to suit we dont know whose interests. But this week, “The Last Days of American Crime” was the top movie on Netflix despite […]
A thriller makes a spying hotel clerk who happens to be bordering autistic, its prime suspect in a murder. The Sheridan plays a young man with Asperger’s syndrome who accidentally witnesses a murder in Michael Cristofer’s latest thriller. The film also features Ana de Armas, John Leguizamo, and Helen Hunt. 1. Quick Review The Night […]
Director Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods is a 2018 American crime thriller film. It draws drama from the underground economy in which the prescription drug crisis thrives. It showcases the perpetual state of emergency lived by residents of formerly booming towns now faded into ghost towns. 1. Quick review DaCosta drops us inside the lives of […]
Great art isn’t just about expressing oneself but having something to say. Okay, so that is not an original thought but a borrowed one with which I agree a hundred percent. (Read more here.) Netflix’s latest sci-fi thriller The Last Days of American Crime, has nothing useful to say. With its glorified police highhandedness and […]
The Last Days of American Crime takes place in a fascist America. It showcases a dystopian world where the government has implemented a system designed to detect and eliminate crime, much like Minority Report, but without Steven Spielberg. Poorly written and ineptly directed, the only thing notable about The Last Days of American Crime is that it made it […]
Most Anurag Kashyap films derive their power through a distinct voice. Sometimes it’s literal: dialogue, songs, background score. Sometimes metaphorical: postmodernist whims, absurd humor, gore. His films are feverish and busy, always up for a trick or two. His latest release is Choked is now streaming on Netflix. The film is definitely an outlier. 1. […]
On May 13, it was announced that the Broadway rage Hamilton was going to arrive on Disney+, 15 months ahead of its scheduled theatrical release on July 3, 2020. A strange feat even by standards of the production giant Disney. The brilliant Broadway experience is going to meet technology and be broadcast as a […]
This documentary from Netflix is a real heart-soother. Directed with tremendous sensitivity and intimacy by Chris Bolan, it is a love story about two women now in their 90s. A Secret Love tells the stories of two women, Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel, who have been together since the 1940s. 1. Quick Review For decades, […]
A bold and young independent woman falls prey to a rich, feisty, powerful man who gives her 365 days (365 dni) to fall in love with him. To be followed by a string of thrilling adventures, spersed with both pain and pleasure. Ring any bells? Well, it’s not Fifty Shades of Grey, and the guy […]
Looking for new things to watch this weekend? Here is a list of everything coming to your favourite streaming portals from June 5 to 7. Before that, we have some highlights though. The first weekend of any new month is important for all streaming websites. While Netflix has a bunch of originals premiering this first […]
Ellie Chu is a small-town Cyrano, but with a twist. Netflix’s acclaimed original The Half of It could well be the most literary high school movie to come along to its adolescent audience. Not just because writer-director Alice Wu was inspired by a 19th-century French play, but because it loves language. It relishes reading, respects writing, and […]