A Year in review: a review of 2023 2023 was another great year for television. Among other great shows we watched (and I reviewed) this year were Gen V (outrageous spin-off of The Boys), One Piece (excellent live-action version of a rather dumb anime), a new BBC remake of War of the Worlds, an engaging …
Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Peter Tam Lee Starring Michelle Yeoh Stephanie Hsu Ke Huy Quan Jenny Slate Harry Shum Jr. James Hong Jamie Lee Curtis Cinematography Larkin Seiple Edited by Paul …
Directed by Gerard Johnstone Screenplay by Akela Cooper Story by Akela Cooper & James Wan Produced by Jason Blum & James Wan Starring Allison Williams Jenna Davis Violet McGraw Cinematography Peter McCaffrey Edited by Jeff McEvoy Music by Anthony Willis Production companies Blumhouse Productions, Atomic Monster, Poductions, Divide/Conquer Distributed by Universal Pictures Haunted doll type …
White Noise Directed by Noah Baumbach Screenplay by Noah Baumbach Based on White Noise by Don DeLillo Produced by Noah Baumbach, David Heyman & Uri Singer Characters Adam Driver as Prof. Jack Gladney Greta Gerwig as Babette Gladney Don Cheadle as Prof. Murray Siskind Raffey Cassidy as Denise Sam Nivola as Heinrich May Nivola as …
Glass Onion Directed by Rian Johnson Written by Rian Johnson Produced by Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson Starring Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a detective Edward Norton as Miles Bron, a New York billionaire Janelle Monáe as Helen and Andi Brand Kathryn Hahn as Claire Debella, the governor of Connecticut, Leslie Odom Jr. as Lionel Toussaint, …
Nope Directed by Jordan Peele Written by Jordan Peele Produced by Jordan Peele & Ian Cooper Starring Daniel Kaluuya Keke Palmer Steven Yeun Michael Wincott Brandon Perea Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema Edited by Nicholas Monsour Music by Michael Abels Production company Monkeypaw Productions Distributed by Universal Pictures Nope opens with two vignettes that at first …
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant Produced by Frédéric Doniguian, Richard Grandpierre Starring Isabelle Nanty as Françoise Elsa Zylberstein as Alice Claude Perron as Monique Stéphane De Groodt as Max Youssef Hajdi as Victor Claire Chust as Jennifer François Levantal as Yonyx leader Alban Lenoir as Greg Marysole Fertard as Nina …
I Think We’re Alone Now Directed by Reed Morano Written by Mike Makowsky Produced by Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fernando Loureiro, Roberto Vasconcellos, Peter Dinklage, Mike Makowsky Starring Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Paul Giamatti, Charlotte Gainsbourg One Tuesday afternoon, everyone on Earth dropped dead. For Del (Dinklage) this is mildly annoying. All those bodies around …
Eve of Deconstruction: a review of The Adam Project Directed by Shawn Levy Written by Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin Produced by David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds Cinematography Tobias Schliessler Edited by Dean Zimmerman, Jonathan Corn Music by Rob Simonsen Production companies Skydance Media, Maximum Effort, 21 …
Jury Duty Peter Cawdron 289 pages, Kindle Edition First published May 28, 2021 Antarctica has always had a special fascination for me. I grew up with the tales of Shackleton and Amundsen, and followed the exploits of Peary. I watched all the nature specials on the place, including, of course, Attenborough’s. More recently I was …