El Marginal—No Boundaries
A tortuous viscous and extremely violent Argentine prison drama: well-crafted and attention-getting.
Month: July 2022
“Shining Girls”—A Time Machine
Shining Girls, an Apple TV+ thriller series, is based on the 2013 novel The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. Totaling eight episodes, Shining Girls (released on April 29 of this year) also can be classified under the science-fiction genre.
In the opening scene a little girl, sitting on the front stoop...
“The Staircase”—Entryway into Murder?
The Staircase (HBO Max released May 2022), loosely based on the 2004 French documentary by the same name, (see my October 2017 review of the Netflix documentary mini-series) dramatizes the death of wife Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette), and the subsequent indictment and conviction for her murder by her husband, the novelist...
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”–Full Exposure
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, (Hulu, released on June 17), a two-actor comedic drama set in a hotel room, tells their story while having sex. There’s nothing fussy, nothing to distract. Human interaction of the most intimate kind–emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, and sensually– is the main...