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Sentimental Value –Home Is Where the Heart Is

Written by Diana Paul on April 27, 2026. Posted in movie reviews.

The multiple Academy Award -winning film, Sentimental Value, directed by Joachim Trier, opens in Oslo. In their beautiful airy home, sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), are grieving over the death of their beloved mother. They are distressed by the return of their long-estranged father, Gustav (...

DTF St. Louis–A Bromance

Written by Diana Paul on April 20, 2026. Posted in Series.

This seven-episode HBOmax mini-series, DTF St. Louis, opens with St. Louis weatherman Clark Forrest (Jason Bateman of “Ozark”) covering a cyclonic storm alongside ASL interpreter, Floyd Smernitch (David Harbour of “Stranger Things”). The camera rolls as Floyd saves Clark from certain decapitation by yanking him out of the path of a...

Detective Hole (2026)–Burrowng Underneath

Written by Diana Paul on April 13, 2026. Posted in Series.

The Netflix Scandi-noir series, Detective Hole, is adapted from master Norwegian detective author, Jo Nesbø’s The Devil’s Star. A dual plot unfolds with a gruesome serial killer as one crime and a drug/weapons smuggling network of heists as the second. In the opening scene, set in Oslo, a disastrous car crash...

Occupied–No Time Left

Written by Diana Paul on April 6, 2026. Posted in Series.

In Occupied, a complicated three-season Norwegian series (Okkupert: 2015-2019) inspired by the masterful author of thrillers, Jo Nesbø, no one wins. In the near future, there is a pending crisis: climate change may be at the point of no return. Norwegian Prime Minister, Jasper Berg (Henrik Mestad) of the Green...

The Roses–Scenes from a Marriage

Written by Diana Paul on March 30, 2026. Posted in movie reviews.

An adaptation of Warren Adler’s novel The War of the Roses, The Roses, produced by Danny DeVito, is the first remake since the 1989 film starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. The main theme chronicles the dissolution of a marriage once felt to be idyllic, now transmuting into poison. The Roses opens with a consultation in the...

Tehran– Foreshadowing Today’s US Headlines

Written by Diana Paul on March 26, 2026. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

In this exciting edge-of-your-seat spy thriller, we see the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) and Mossad in a fierce, white-knuckle fight-to-the-death, cat-and-mouse battle. Tehran’s main character is Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), a death-defying martial-arts skilled undercover Mossad spy who enters Tehran to neutralize...