Author: Diana Paul

Stranger (Season 1)–Let the sleuthing begin

Written by Diana Paul on June 5, 2023. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on Stranger (Season 1)–Let the sleuthing begin

Stranger is a Korean crime thriller in two seasons (2017-2020) and was included on the New York Times 2017 list of Best TV Shows. Prosecutor Hwang Si-mok (Cho Seung-woo) underwent surgery as a child removing part of his cerebral cortex so that he would not suffer from the excruciating pain of hearing...

The Diplomat–Tact Needed

Written by Diana Paul on May 28, 2023. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on The Diplomat–Tact Needed

In this new Netflix series, The Diplomat is part comedy, espionage, politics, combined with a troubled marriage thrown into an action-packed eight-episode drama. The drama takes place mainly in British embassies and cabinet offices with plenty of tense negotiations and suspicious deaths in both England and the US. The opening scene...

The Glory—Forgiveness vs Revenge?

Written by Diana Paul on May 21, 2023. Posted in Television reviews.

The Glory is a sixteen-episode Korean revenge drama about high school bullying and associated trauma. Eighteen years later an elaborate, convoluted plot is conceived by the beautiful, scarred victim, Moon Dong-eun. Her obsession is to destroy the two girls and two guys who brutalized her and caused her to drop out of high...

Crimson Rivers–”Silent Witness” meets “Engrenages”

Written by Diana Paul on May 14, 2023. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on Crimson Rivers–”Silent Witness” meets “Engrenages”

Crimson Rivers (“Les Rivières Pourpres”-2018-2022), a twenty-four episode French detective series, has three seasons of two-episode crimes which special investigator Pierre Niémans (Olivier Marchal) and his protégée, Lieutenant Camille Delauney (Erika Sainte) are obsessed to solve. The much-younger Camille Delauney, intrepid to a...

Holy Spider—A Web of Horror and Mayhem

Written by Diana Paul on May 8, 2023. Posted in movie reviews.

Holy Spider, based on a true story and a graphic novel, retells the harrowing battle of a fearless woman journalist, Rahimi (Cannes Film festival award winner for best actress, Zar Amir- Ebrahimi) who investigates a brutal murderer nicknamed “Spider Killer”. Sixteen young prostitutes in the religiously conservative Iranian...

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) –A Classic

Written by Diana Paul on May 1, 2023. Posted in movie reviews.

This legendary thriller marked its sixtieth anniversary last year. Yet so many young viewers have yet to witness this masterpiece of film-making: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. This Robert Aldrich-produced film stands the test of time. An unforgettable descent into chaotic madness is exquisitely...