“Seven Seconds” Unfolds Complex Realities from a Simple Incident
A careless driver receiving a call from the hospital about his pregnant wife, hits a teenager riding on a bike
Read moreA careless driver receiving a call from the hospital about his pregnant wife, hits a teenager riding on a bike
Read moreKingdom is a mixture of drama and sport series that is swinging between male-dominance competitions and fragile relationships of its characters. Unlike most series with this theme, Kingdom prefers to explore characters in situations rather than telling stories. This approach leads the series to be character-centered instead of relying on one long story or episodic stories.
Read moreIf you are going to watch the movie because you like comedies played by Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems is not your cup of tea. But if you like to watch another dark and bitter movie made by Safdie brothers, you’ll get what you expected.
Read moreAltered Carbon is a post-modern series that doesn’t follow the norms of popular series. You may be surprised and sometimes disturbed by what happens to characters. Like many other post-modern stories, the story-line is not the important part and sometimes fragments of episodes have more to say than expected.
Read moreOzark is not a Breaking Bad but it reminds us of how the situation can change people and how they try to reverse the course of events. Even though Marty Byrde is not at the edge of death like Walter White in Breaking Bad, he accepts the risk of dealing with a drug cartel to improve his family’s financial condition. A whirlpool that pulls Marty and his family to deep ocean of crimes.
Read moreBlack Mirror is a surprise on Netflix. Most of the stories in this anthology are remarkably creative and the ideas are very new. Even though some episodes are at a lower level, the whole series is still a must-watch.
Read moreEli, for some viewers and critics, may sound like a cheat because the ending of the movie tells an opposite story. However, it is very successful to reveal the details of the story little by little from Eli’s view.
Read morePeaky Blinders is one the most stylized series on Netflix.
Read moreThe Alienist has follows the cliché of Sherlock Holmes. An intelligent doctor-detective, a male friend-assistant and a few female characters, but its atmosphere and characters are deep, bitter, brutal and dark. There is no room for jokes and funny surprises like what we see in Sherlock. Instead, there are hideous scenes and vicious characters around victims who are young boys.
Read moreUsually remaking a movie or series can’t make the same success as the original one. And again usually using the same characters and actors is a desperate effort to repeat a success. But Better Call Saul did both and the result is still remarkable.
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