Month: February 2019

True Detective Season 3–Whodunit…or Not?

Written by diana on February 27, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on True Detective Season 3–Whodunit…or Not?

For armchair sleuths, the latest season of True Detective will probably not fit neatly into the category of cops-and-killers genre, buddy-cop, film noir, or police procedural. Surprisingly,True Detective’s latest season has elements of all four. True Detective Season 3 Set in the Ozarks in the ‘80s (with virulent Jim Crow traditions), the ‘90s, and the recent past (probably 2015 or 2016), True Detectives focuses on one haunted Vietnam War veteran, detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali), as he investigates the disappearance of a little girl, and the death of...

Narcos, Narcos Mexico and El Chapo–Cinema Verité

Written by diana on February 19, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound. No Comments on Narcos, Narcos Mexico and El Chapo–Cinema Verité

Three Netflix series -- Narcos, Narcos Mexico and El Chapo-- are gritty, raw, and bingeable. Each chronicles the most powerful drug lord and his cartel at the rise of cocaine and marijuana production in Colombia, Mexico, and other parts of the world.

Velvet Buzzsaw–Art Can Be Dangerous

Written by diana on February 12, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound. No Comments on Velvet Buzzsaw–Art Can Be Dangerous

In this grisly art-world satire, Velvet Buzzsaw opens with a renowned art critic, Morf Vandewalt (the sensational Jake Gyllenhaal), in his designer sunglasses, turning his pompous, gimlet eye on artwork at the highly hyped Art Basel Miami show. Pontificating about what he considers worthy or unworthy, Morf has the power to punish or reward. Everything starts conventionally with the cocktail circuit of groveling artists’ representatives, but soon it turns grisly. Velvet Buzzsaw relishes in satirizing the pompous art-world, blending horror inside an...

The Favourite–A Compelling Menage à Trois

Written by diana on February 4, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on The Favourite–A Compelling Menage à Trois

Nominated for ten Academy Awards including best picture, The Favourite is perhaps one of the best revenge thrillers of 2018. Reminiscent of Downton Abbey with its opulent settings and costumes, The Favourite is also an historical drama. In the early 18th century court of Queen Anne, we see a mentally fragile and damaged queen (the sublime Olivia Colman), facing the usual suspects vying to seize the growing power of an emerging empire. The queen’s closest advisor and friend, Lady Sarah Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), governs the country behind the scenes through manipulating...

Month: February 2019

True Detective Season 3–Whodunit…or Not?

Narcos, Narcos Mexico and El Chapo–Cinema Verité

Velvet Buzzsaw–Art Can Be Dangerous

The Favourite–A Compelling Menage à Trois

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