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“Promising Young Woman” –Breaking Over and Over Again

Written by Diana Paul on March 15, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “Promising Young Woman” –Breaking Over and Over Again

Promising Young Woman, written and directed by Emerald Fennell, is a revenge thriller on a brutal topic–Don’t let the title mislead you. Cassie (Carey Mulligan), a 30-year old former medical student, is now a barista living with her parents In the opening scene we see a very inebriated Cassie barhopping and wandering the...

“The Life Ahead” –And Then the End

Written by Diana Paul on March 7, 2021. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on “The Life Ahead” –And Then the End

This 2020 Italian drama stars Sophia Loren in an adaptation of the Romain Gary novel, The Life Before Us. Directed by Sophia Loren’s son, Edoardo Ponti, The Life Ahead is the third film based on Gary’s novel. The Life Ahead has two main characters: Madame Rosa, an octogenarian ex-prostitute and...

“The Accident”–Unexpected Trauma

Written by Diana Paul on February 28, 2021. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on “The Accident”–Unexpected Trauma

The Accident , a four-part British series, plunges into a Welsh community’s fight for justice after an explosion on a construction site kills several local teenagers. The town of Glyngolau, Wales is comparable to many Appalachian coal mine and steel mill towns. Most have lost their main...

“Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”–Dissembling the American Dream

Written by Diana Paul on February 22, 2021. Posted in Film Festivals, movie reviews. 1 Comment on “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”–Dissembling the American Dream

Toni Morrison (1931-2019), the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, was a complex artist who did not hold back from confronting the worst of human history. The documentary, Toni Morrison: Pieces I Am, is a historical panorama of a slice of history dating from the 1930’s until the conclusion of the film in...

Ragnarok–Thor on Steroids

Written by Diana Paul on February 14, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews. 1 Comment on Ragnarok–Thor on Steroids

Ragnarok, a Norwegian fantasy series, takes place in the fictional town of Edda, in Hordaland, the home of the mythological Norse god of thunder, Thor. This modern day Ragnarök follows the story of the Norse mythology of the god Thor. Ragnarok stands for the end of the world and the twilight of the gods,...

The Spanish Princess–An Imperial Royal Highness

Written by Diana Paul on February 8, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews.

The Spanish Princess is a ShowTime limited series based on the novels The Constant Princess (2005) and The King’s Curse (2014) by Philippa Gregory. This is a drama about the teenage Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope who played Ramsay Boulton’s lover...